From 8aacc1824c25de11bf5ee36c1911a364c0c46c4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bryan Van Deusen <bryan.vandeusen@fabledsword.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2026 10:33:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat(family): the promotion engine - triggers, the three
 criteria, the decision log and undo (milestone 463 step 3, #4989)

The agent promotes a family idea when all three criteria hold, and no person approves it. The criteria are product text: services/family.py states them, and the promote tool's docstring names every criterion the service enforces.

- Criteria: each one vetoes on its own when its reasoning is blank. Platform terms also needs an applies-when and a platform scope; proven also needs named evidence. A veto keeps the idea a candidate and is logged, so it becomes precedent.
- Precedent: every promotion stores the decisions on the nearest ideas by meaning, plus any the caller names.
- Promotion sets canon, the applicability test and the platform scope, and opens an unassessed ledger row for each member project the promoter can write. Re-promotion moves the version past every version the idea has held.
- Retire and undo: undo reverses only the latest idea-level decision, restores its recorded before-state, and logs itself with the undone decision as its precedent. Settled here: leaving canon closes the unassessed rows but keeps the judged ones, which read as needing a recheck after a re-promotion.
- Triggers open evaluations but never promote:
  - a cross-project lineage citation ("matching #N") on a note or task write;
  - a same-meaning record in another project on a shared platform, on create, at 0.80 (measured: the known pattern's builds scored 0.79-0.82, an unrelated project's best match 0.65);
  - a milestone closing on a platform.
  Each fails open and rides the response as family_hint.
- Doors: seven MCP tools, /api/family REST endpoints, and a Family page (nav, /family) showing the criteria, the ideas, and the decision log with undo and retire.
- utils/recordHref.ts holds the one copy of "where a record opens", now shared with LessonDetailView.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 frontend/src/api/family.ts                   |  78 ++
 frontend/src/components/AppHeader.vue        |   2 +
 frontend/src/components/ProjectFamilyTab.vue |   1 +
 frontend/src/router/index.ts                 |   7 +
 frontend/src/utils/recordHref.ts             |   9 +
 frontend/src/views/FamilyView.vue            | 360 ++++++++
 frontend/src/views/LessonDetailView.vue      |  11 +-
 src/scribe/app.py                            |   2 +
 src/scribe/mcp/server.py                     |   6 +
 src/scribe/mcp/tools/__init__.py             |   3 +-
 src/scribe/mcp/tools/family.py               | 183 ++++
 src/scribe/mcp/tools/milestones.py           |  13 +-
 src/scribe/mcp/tools/notes.py                |   6 +
 src/scribe/mcp/tools/snippets.py             |   4 +
 src/scribe/mcp/tools/tasks.py                |   6 +
 src/scribe/routes/family.py                  | 125 +++
 src/scribe/services/family.py                | 838 +++++++++++++++++++
 tests/conftest.py                            |  24 +
 tests/test_family.py                         | 163 ++++
 tests/test_integration_family_promotion.py   | 293 +++++++
 tests/test_routes_family.py                  |  29 +
 21 files changed, 2151 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 frontend/src/api/family.ts
 create mode 100644 frontend/src/utils/recordHref.ts
 create mode 100644 frontend/src/views/FamilyView.vue
 create mode 100644 src/scribe/mcp/tools/family.py
 create mode 100644 src/scribe/routes/family.py
 create mode 100644 src/scribe/services/family.py
 create mode 100644 tests/test_family.py
 create mode 100644 tests/test_integration_family_promotion.py
 create mode 100644 tests/test_routes_family.py

diff --git a/frontend/src/api/family.ts b/frontend/src/api/family.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9af9a96b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/api/family.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+/**
+ * Family canon (milestone 463): ideas every project on a platform shares, and
+ * the log of every decision about them.
+ *
+ * The agent promotes by written criteria — no approval step. This door is for
+ * reading what was decided and why, and for retiring an idea or undoing a
+ * decision when a person disagrees.
+ */
+import { apiGet, apiPost } from "@/api/client";
+
+export type IdeaStatus = "candidate" | "canon" | "retired";
+export type DecisionAction = "propose" | "promote" | "revise" | "retire" | "assess" | "undo";
+
+export interface Criterion {
+  key: string;
+  title: string;
+  test: string;
+}
+
+export interface FamilyIdea {
+  note_id: number;
+  status: IdeaStatus;
+  applies_when: string;
+  canon_version: number;
+  topic_id: number | null;
+  title: string;
+  note_type: string;
+  is_task: boolean;
+  project_id: number | null;
+  platforms: string[];
+  created_at: string | null;
+  updated_at: string | null;
+}
+
+/** A state snapshot a decision records — slugs, never ids. */
+export interface IdeaSnapshot {
+  status: IdeaStatus;
+  applies_when: string;
+  canon_version: number;
+  platforms: string[];
+}
+
+export interface FamilyDecision {
+  id: number;
+  idea_id: number;
+  idea_title?: string;
+  project_id: number | null;
+  action: DecisionAction;
+  reason: string;
+  before: IdeaSnapshot | null;
+  after: IdeaSnapshot | null;
+  evidence: Record<string, unknown>;
+  precedent_ids: number[];
+  decided_via: "agent" | "operator" | "system";
+  user_id: number | null;
+  created_at: string | null;
+  undoable?: boolean;
+}
+
+export async function listFamilyIdeas(status = ""): Promise<{ ideas: FamilyIdea[]; criteria: Criterion[] }> {
+  const q = status ? `?status=${encodeURIComponent(status)}` : "";
+  return apiGet(`/api/family/ideas${q}`);
+}
+
+export async function listFamilyDecisions(limit = 50, offset = 0): Promise<FamilyDecision[]> {
+  const data = await apiGet<{ decisions: FamilyDecision[] }>(
+    `/api/family/decisions?limit=${limit}&offset=${offset}`,
+  );
+  return data.decisions;
+}
+
+export async function undoFamilyDecision(id: number, reason: string) {
+  return apiPost<{ decision: FamilyDecision }>(`/api/family/decisions/${id}/undo`, { reason });
+}
+
+export async function retireFamilyIdea(noteId: number, reason: string) {
+  return apiPost<{ decision: FamilyDecision }>(`/api/family/ideas/${noteId}/retire`, { reason });
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/AppHeader.vue b/frontend/src/components/AppHeader.vue
index 0363f469..dfce0208 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/AppHeader.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/components/AppHeader.vue
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ router.afterEach(() => {
           <router-link to="/projects" class="nav-link">Projects</router-link>
           <router-link to="/snippets" class="nav-link">Snippets</router-link>
           <router-link to="/rules" class="nav-link">Rulebooks</router-link>
+          <router-link to="/family" class="nav-link">Family</router-link>
           <!-- A design system is a RECORD you author, not a setting. It sat in
                the utility cluster with Trash and Settings while /design was a
                read-only gallery, and stayed there after it became a record type
@@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ router.afterEach(() => {
       <router-link to="/projects" class="nav-link">Projects</router-link>
       <router-link to="/snippets" class="nav-link">Snippets</router-link>
       <router-link to="/rules" class="nav-link">Rulebooks</router-link>
+      <router-link to="/family" class="nav-link">Family</router-link>
       <router-link to="/design-systems" class="nav-link">Design</router-link>
       <router-link to="/shared" class="nav-link">Shared</router-link>
       <div class="mobile-divider"></div>
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ProjectFamilyTab.vue b/frontend/src/components/ProjectFamilyTab.vue
index c76aef41..d9041f89 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ProjectFamilyTab.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ProjectFamilyTab.vue
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ watch(() => props.projectId, load);
         What this project is built on or ships as. Ideas the family has proven
         for a platform reach every project that is one, and each project
         answers them — adopts, varies with a reason, or owes the work.
+        <router-link to="/family">The family's ideas and decisions</router-link>
       </p>
     </header>
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/router/index.ts b/frontend/src/router/index.ts
index 999f9dbe..35d17f63 100644
--- a/frontend/src/router/index.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/router/index.ts
@@ -128,6 +128,13 @@ const router = createRouter({
       name: "rules",
       component: () => import("@/views/RulesView.vue"),
     },
+    {
+      // Family canon (milestone 463): ideas shared across every project on a
+      // platform, and the log of every decision about them.
+      path: "/family",
+      name: "family",
+      component: () => import("@/views/FamilyView.vue"),
+    },
     {
       // The design systems this install RECORDS — for the projects it tracks,
       // not for the install itself. There was a sibling `/design` that read the
diff --git a/frontend/src/utils/recordHref.ts b/frontend/src/utils/recordHref.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7fd71ecd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/utils/recordHref.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+/** Where a record opens. A task, a snippet, a lesson and a note live at
+ *  different routes, and a link that guesses wrong is worse than one that is
+ *  plain. One copy, for every list that links a record of any kind. */
+export function recordHref(rec: { id: number; is_task?: boolean; note_type?: string }): string {
+  if (rec.is_task) return `/tasks/${rec.id}`;
+  if (rec.note_type === "snippet") return `/snippets/${rec.id}`;
+  if (rec.note_type === "lesson") return `/lessons/${rec.id}`;
+  return `/notes/${rec.id}`;
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/views/FamilyView.vue b/frontend/src/views/FamilyView.vue
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..92f856c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/views/FamilyView.vue
@@ -0,0 +1,360 @@
+<script setup lang="ts">
+/**
+ * Family canon (milestone 463): the ideas every project on a platform shares,
+ * and the log of every decision about them.
+ *
+ * Nobody approves a promotion — the agent decides against the three criteria
+ * shown at the top, and records why. This page is where a person reads those
+ * decisions, and the two places they can disagree: retire an idea, or undo
+ * the latest decision on one. Both ask for a reason, because the reason is
+ * what the next decision about something similar is checked against.
+ */
+import { computed, onMounted, ref } from "vue";
+import { apiErrorMessage } from "@/api/client";
+import {
+  listFamilyDecisions, listFamilyIdeas, retireFamilyIdea, undoFamilyDecision,
+  type Criterion, type FamilyDecision, type FamilyIdea, type IdeaStatus,
+} from "@/api/family";
+import { useToastStore } from "@/stores/toast";
+import { fmtStamp } from "@/utils/dateFormat";
+import { recordHref } from "@/utils/recordHref";
+
+const PAGE = 50;
+const toast = useToastStore();
+
+const criteria = ref<Criterion[]>([]);
+const ideas = ref<FamilyIdea[]>([]);
+const decisions = ref<FamilyDecision[]>([]);
+const statusFilter = ref<"" | IdeaStatus>("");
+const loading = ref(true);
+const failed = ref(false);
+const moreDecisions = ref(false);
+const loadingMore = ref(false);
+
+// One pending reversal at a time: which row, which act, and its reason.
+const pending = ref<{ kind: "undo" | "retire"; id: number } | null>(null);
+const pendingReason = ref("");
+const saving = ref(false);
+
+const ACTION_LABELS: Record<string, string> = {
+  propose: "Proposed",
+  promote: "Promoted",
+  revise: "Revised",
+  retire: "Retired",
+  assess: "Assessed",
+  undo: "Undid",
+};
+
+async function load() {
+  loading.value = true;
+  failed.value = false;
+  try {
+    const [ideaData, log] = await Promise.all([
+      listFamilyIdeas(statusFilter.value),
+      listFamilyDecisions(PAGE, 0),
+    ]);
+    ideas.value = ideaData.ideas;
+    criteria.value = ideaData.criteria;
+    decisions.value = log;
+    moreDecisions.value = log.length === PAGE;
+  } catch {
+    // Said out loud: a log that failed to load must not read as "nothing
+    // has been decided".
+    failed.value = true;
+  } finally {
+    loading.value = false;
+  }
+}
+
+async function loadMore() {
+  loadingMore.value = true;
+  try {
+    const next = await listFamilyDecisions(PAGE, decisions.value.length);
+    decisions.value.push(...next);
+    moreDecisions.value = next.length === PAGE;
+  } catch (e: unknown) {
+    toast.show(apiErrorMessage(e, "Could not load more decisions"), "error");
+  } finally {
+    loadingMore.value = false;
+  }
+}
+
+async function filterIdeas(value: "" | IdeaStatus) {
+  statusFilter.value = value;
+  try {
+    ideas.value = (await listFamilyIdeas(value)).ideas;
+  } catch (e: unknown) {
+    toast.show(apiErrorMessage(e, "Could not load ideas"), "error");
+  }
+}
+
+function startPending(kind: "undo" | "retire", id: number) {
+  pending.value = { kind, id };
+  pendingReason.value = "";
+}
+
+async function confirmPending() {
+  const p = pending.value;
+  const reason = pendingReason.value.trim();
+  if (!p || !reason || saving.value) return;
+  saving.value = true;
+  try {
+    if (p.kind === "undo") await undoFamilyDecision(p.id, reason);
+    else await retireFamilyIdea(p.id, reason);
+    toast.show(p.kind === "undo" ? "Decision undone" : "Idea retired");
+    pending.value = null;
+    await load();
+  } catch (e: unknown) {
+    toast.show(apiErrorMessage(e, p.kind === "undo" ? "Could not undo" : "Could not retire"), "error");
+  } finally {
+    saving.value = false;
+  }
+}
+
+const ideaById = computed(() => {
+  const out: Record<number, FamilyIdea> = {};
+  for (const i of ideas.value) out[i.note_id] = i;
+  return out;
+});
+
+function ideaLink(d: FamilyDecision): string {
+  const idea = ideaById.value[d.idea_id];
+  return idea ? recordHref({ id: idea.note_id, is_task: idea.is_task, note_type: idea.note_type })
+    : `/notes/${d.idea_id}`;
+}
+
+/** The parts of a decision's evidence worth reading, as label → lines. */
+function evidenceLines(d: FamilyDecision): { label: string; lines: string[] }[] {
+  const ev = d.evidence || {};
+  const out: { label: string; lines: string[] }[] = [];
+  const criteriaReasons = ev.criteria as Record<string, string> | undefined;
+  if (criteriaReasons) {
+    const lines = criteria.value
+      .map((c) => `${c.title}: ${criteriaReasons[c.key] || "— not supported"}`);
+    out.push({ label: "Criteria", lines });
+  }
+  if (Array.isArray(ev.vetoed_by) && ev.vetoed_by.length) {
+    const titles = (ev.vetoed_by as string[])
+      .map((k) => criteria.value.find((c) => c.key === k)?.title ?? k);
+    out.push({ label: "Held back by", lines: titles });
+  }
+  if (Array.isArray(ev.evidence) && ev.evidence.length) {
+    out.push({ label: "Evidence", lines: ev.evidence as string[] });
+  }
+  if (typeof ev.trigger === "string") {
+    out.push({ label: "Trigger", lines: [ev.trigger] });
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+function stateLine(d: FamilyDecision): string {
+  const a = d.after;
+  if (!a) return "";
+  const where = a.platforms.length ? ` · ${a.platforms.join(", ")}` : "";
+  return `${a.status} v${a.canon_version}${where}`;
+}
+
+onMounted(load);
+</script>
+
+<template>
+  <main class="page-container">
+    <div class="page-header">
+      <h1>Family</h1>
+    </div>
+    <p class="fam-lede">
+      Ideas every project on a platform shares — the stance, the shape and the holes
+      already found, not the code. The agent promotes an idea when all three criteria
+      hold, with no approval step; every decision and its reasons are below, and any
+      of them can be undone.
+    </p>
+
+    <p v-if="loading" class="fam-muted">Loading…</p>
+
+    <div v-else-if="failed" class="fam-note">
+      <strong>The family record couldn't load.</strong>
+      <p>Nothing is known either way — this is a failure, not an empty record.</p>
+      <button class="btn-secondary btn-sm" @click="load">Try again</button>
+    </div>
+
+    <template v-else>
+      <section class="fam-section" aria-labelledby="fam-criteria">
+        <h2 id="fam-criteria">What gets promoted</h2>
+        <ol class="fam-criteria">
+          <li v-for="c in criteria" :key="c.key">
+            <strong>{{ c.title }}.</strong> {{ c.test }}
+          </li>
+        </ol>
+      </section>
+
+      <section class="fam-section" aria-labelledby="fam-ideas">
+        <div class="fam-section-head">
+          <h2 id="fam-ideas">Ideas</h2>
+          <div class="fam-filter" role="group" aria-label="Filter ideas by state">
+            <button
+              v-for="opt in (['', 'candidate', 'canon', 'retired'] as const)"
+              :key="opt"
+              :class="['btn-ghost', 'btn-sm', { active: statusFilter === opt }]"
+              :aria-pressed="statusFilter === opt"
+              @click="filterIdeas(opt)"
+            >{{ opt || "All" }}</button>
+          </div>
+        </div>
+        <p v-if="!ideas.length" class="fam-muted">
+          <template v-if="statusFilter">No {{ statusFilter }} ideas.</template>
+          <template v-else>
+            No family ideas yet. One appears when a record cites another project's
+            work as its source, when two projects on a platform build the same thing,
+            or when the agent proposes one.
+          </template>
+        </p>
+        <ul v-else class="fam-list">
+          <li v-for="idea in ideas" :key="idea.note_id" class="fam-row">
+            <div class="fam-row-main">
+              <div class="fam-row-title">
+                <router-link :to="recordHref({ id: idea.note_id, is_task: idea.is_task, note_type: idea.note_type })">
+                  {{ idea.title }}
+                </router-link>
+                <span :class="['fam-status', `fam-${idea.status}`]">{{ idea.status }}</span>
+                <span v-if="idea.status !== 'candidate'" class="fam-muted">v{{ idea.canon_version }}</span>
+              </div>
+              <p v-if="idea.applies_when" class="fam-applies">Applies when: {{ idea.applies_when }}</p>
+              <div v-if="idea.platforms.length" class="fam-platforms">
+                <code v-for="p in idea.platforms" :key="p" class="fam-chip">{{ p }}</code>
+              </div>
+            </div>
+            <button
+              v-if="idea.status !== 'retired'"
+              class="btn-ghost btn-sm"
+              @click="startPending('retire', idea.note_id)"
+            >Retire</button>
+            <form
+              v-if="pending?.kind === 'retire' && pending.id === idea.note_id"
+              class="fam-reason"
+              @submit.prevent="confirmPending"
+            >
+              <input
+                v-model="pendingReason"
+                class="fs-input"
+                placeholder="Why retire it? The next decision is checked against this."
+                aria-label="Reason for retiring"
+              />
+              <button type="submit" class="btn-danger btn-sm" :disabled="!pendingReason.trim() || saving">Retire</button>
+              <button type="button" class="btn-ghost btn-sm" @click="pending = null">Cancel</button>
+            </form>
+          </li>
+        </ul>
+      </section>
+
+      <section class="fam-section" aria-labelledby="fam-log">
+        <h2 id="fam-log">Decision log</h2>
+        <p v-if="!decisions.length" class="fam-muted">Nothing has been decided yet.</p>
+        <ul v-else class="fam-list">
+          <li v-for="d in decisions" :key="d.id" class="fam-row fam-decision">
+            <div class="fam-row-main">
+              <div class="fam-row-title">
+                <span class="fam-action">{{ ACTION_LABELS[d.action] ?? d.action }}</span>
+                <router-link :to="ideaLink(d)">{{ d.idea_title ?? `#${d.idea_id}` }}</router-link>
+                <span class="fam-muted">
+                  #{{ d.id }} · {{ d.decided_via }} · {{ d.created_at ? fmtStamp(d.created_at) : "" }}
+                </span>
+              </div>
+              <p class="fam-reason-text">{{ d.reason }}</p>
+              <p v-if="stateLine(d)" class="fam-muted">Now: {{ stateLine(d) }}</p>
+              <dl v-for="part in evidenceLines(d)" :key="part.label" class="fam-evidence">
+                <dt>{{ part.label }}</dt>
+                <dd v-for="line in part.lines" :key="line">{{ line }}</dd>
+              </dl>
+              <p v-if="d.precedent_ids.length" class="fam-muted">
+                Consistent with decision{{ d.precedent_ids.length === 1 ? "" : "s" }}
+                {{ d.precedent_ids.map((p) => `#${p}`).join(", ") }}
+              </p>
+            </div>
+            <button
+              v-if="d.undoable"
+              class="btn-ghost btn-sm"
+              @click="startPending('undo', d.id)"
+            >Undo</button>
+            <form
+              v-if="pending?.kind === 'undo' && pending.id === d.id"
+              class="fam-reason"
+              @submit.prevent="confirmPending"
+            >
+              <input
+                v-model="pendingReason"
+                class="fs-input"
+                placeholder="Why undo it? The next decision is checked against this."
+                aria-label="Reason for undoing"
+              />
+              <button type="submit" class="btn-danger btn-sm" :disabled="!pendingReason.trim() || saving">Undo</button>
+              <button type="button" class="btn-ghost btn-sm" @click="pending = null">Cancel</button>
+            </form>
+          </li>
+        </ul>
+        <button v-if="moreDecisions" class="btn-secondary btn-sm" :disabled="loadingMore" @click="loadMore">
+          {{ loadingMore ? "Loading…" : "Older decisions" }}
+        </button>
+      </section>
+    </template>
+  </main>
+</template>
+
+<style scoped>
+.fam-lede { color: var(--fs-text-secondary); font-size: 0.9rem; margin: 0 0 1.5rem; max-width: 52rem; }
+.fam-muted { color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); font-size: 0.85rem; margin: 0; }
+.fam-note {
+  background: var(--fs-surface-raised);
+  border: 1px solid var(--fs-border-color);
+  border-radius: var(--fs-radius-md);
+  padding: 0.85rem 1rem;
+}
+.fam-note p { margin: 0.35rem 0 0.6rem; color: var(--fs-text-secondary); font-size: 0.875rem; }
+.fam-section { margin-bottom: 2rem; }
+.fam-section h2 { font-size: 1.05rem; margin: 0 0 0.6rem; }
+.fam-section-head { display: flex; align-items: baseline; justify-content: space-between; gap: 1rem; flex-wrap: wrap; }
+.fam-filter { display: flex; gap: 0.25rem; }
+.fam-filter .active { color: var(--fs-text-primary); border-color: var(--fs-border-color); }
+.fam-criteria { margin: 0; padding-left: 1.25rem; color: var(--fs-text-secondary); font-size: 0.9rem; }
+.fam-criteria li { margin-bottom: 0.35rem; }
+.fam-list { list-style: none; margin: 0 0 0.75rem; padding: 0; }
+.fam-row {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  align-items: flex-start;
+  justify-content: space-between;
+  gap: 0.5rem 1rem;
+  padding: 0.75rem 0;
+  border-bottom: 1px solid var(--fs-border-color);
+}
+.fam-row-main { flex: 1; min-width: 0; }
+.fam-row-title { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: baseline; gap: 0.25rem 0.5rem; }
+.fam-applies { margin: 0.3rem 0 0; font-size: 0.85rem; color: var(--fs-text-secondary); }
+.fam-platforms { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 0.3rem; margin-top: 0.35rem; }
+.fam-chip {
+  font-family: var(--fs-font-mono);
+  font-size: 0.72rem;
+  color: var(--fs-text-secondary);
+  background: var(--fs-surface-code-inline);
+  border-radius: var(--fs-radius-sm);
+  padding: 0.05rem 0.35rem;
+}
+.fam-status {
+  font-size: 0.72rem;
+  padding: 0.05rem 0.45rem;
+  border-radius: var(--fs-radius-pill);
+  border: 1px solid var(--fs-border-color);
+}
+.fam-candidate { background: var(--fs-status-todo-bg); color: var(--fs-status-todo-fg); }
+.fam-canon { background: var(--fs-status-done-bg); color: var(--fs-status-done-fg); }
+.fam-retired { color: var(--fs-status-cancelled-fg); }
+.fam-action { font-weight: 500; color: var(--fs-text-primary); }
+.fam-reason-text { margin: 0.3rem 0; font-size: 0.9rem; color: var(--fs-text-primary); }
+.fam-evidence { margin: 0.35rem 0 0; font-size: 0.82rem; }
+.fam-evidence dt { color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); }
+.fam-evidence dd { margin: 0 0 0 1rem; color: var(--fs-text-secondary); }
+.fam-reason { flex-basis: 100%; display: flex; gap: 0.4rem; align-items: center; }
+.fam-reason .fs-input { flex: 1; min-width: 0; }
+@media (max-width: 640px) {
+  .fam-reason { flex-wrap: wrap; }
+}
+</style>
diff --git a/frontend/src/views/LessonDetailView.vue b/frontend/src/views/LessonDetailView.vue
index 4c5718f5..94d17389 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/LessonDetailView.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/views/LessonDetailView.vue
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ import { DEAD_WEIGHT_ADVICE } from "@/utils/deadWeight";
 import { useToastStore } from "@/stores/toast";
 import { renderMarkdown } from "@/utils/markdown";
 import { canWriteRecord } from "@/utils/permission";
+import { recordHref } from "@/utils/recordHref";
 
 const route = useRoute();
 const router = useRouter();
@@ -59,14 +60,6 @@ const insightHtml = computed(() =>
   lesson.value?.insight ? renderMarkdown(lesson.value.insight) : "",
 );
 
-/** Where each source opens. A task and a note live at different routes, and a
- *  link that guesses wrong is worse than one that is plain. */
-function sourceHref(rec: { id: number; is_task?: boolean; note_type?: string }) {
-  if (rec.is_task) return `/tasks/${rec.id}`;
-  if (rec.note_type === "snippet") return `/snippets/${rec.id}`;
-  if (rec.note_type === "lesson") return `/lessons/${rec.id}`;
-  return `/notes/${rec.id}`;
-}
 
 const canWrite = computed(() => canWriteRecord(lesson.value?.permission));
 
@@ -193,7 +186,7 @@ onMounted(load);
         <h2 class="ld-panel-label">Learned from</h2>
         <ul class="ld-sources">
           <li v-for="rec in lesson.learned_from_records" :key="rec.id">
-            <router-link :to="sourceHref(rec)" class="ld-link">
+            <router-link :to="recordHref(rec)" class="ld-link">
               {{ rec.title }}
             </router-link>
             <span v-if="rec.status" class="ld-source-status">{{ rec.status }}</span>
diff --git a/src/scribe/app.py b/src/scribe/app.py
index a0d4c031..17f542ae 100644
--- a/src/scribe/app.py
+++ b/src/scribe/app.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ from scribe.routes.dashboard import dashboard_bp
 from scribe.routes.systems import systems_bp
 from scribe.routes.canonical_systems import canonical_systems_bp
 from scribe.routes.platforms import platforms_bp
+from scribe.routes.family import family_bp
 from scribe.routes.lessons import lessons_bp
 from scribe.routes.snippets import snippets_bp
 from scribe.routes.webhooks import webhooks_bp
@@ -103,6 +104,7 @@ def create_app() -> Quart:
     app.register_blueprint(systems_bp)
     app.register_blueprint(canonical_systems_bp)
     app.register_blueprint(platforms_bp)
+    app.register_blueprint(family_bp)
     app.register_blueprint(snippets_bp)
     app.register_blueprint(webhooks_bp)
 
diff --git a/src/scribe/mcp/server.py b/src/scribe/mcp/server.py
index 18520615..3bf22c3e 100644
--- a/src/scribe/mcp/server.py
+++ b/src/scribe/mcp/server.py
@@ -163,6 +163,9 @@ _READ_ONLY_TOOLS = frozenset({
     # The platform catalog and a project's answers (milestone 463). A pure
     # read; set_project_platforms is the write.
     "list_platforms",
+    # Family canon (milestone 463): ideas, one idea with its precedents, and
+    # the decision log. Reads of records the caller can read.
+    "list_family_ideas", "get_family_idea", "list_family_decisions",
     # The pass over the corpus and its queue (milestone 458 step 7): which
     # rules are unjudged and which proposals wait. Reads of the caller's own
     # rules, as list_rules is.
@@ -187,6 +190,9 @@ _WRITE_TOOLS = frozenset({
     "create_project", "update_project", "delete_project", "decide_project_inception",
     "create_system", "update_system", "delete_system", "map_system_to_canonical",
     "set_project_platforms",
+    # family canon — the promotion engine
+    "propose_family_idea", "promote_family_idea", "retire_family_idea",
+    "undo_family_decision",
     "bind_repo", "unbind_repo",
     # snippets, processes, the shape ledger
     "create_snippet", "update_snippet", "delete_snippet", "verify_snippet",
diff --git a/src/scribe/mcp/tools/__init__.py b/src/scribe/mcp/tools/__init__.py
index 2bc5704b..8fd299f7 100644
--- a/src/scribe/mcp/tools/__init__.py
+++ b/src/scribe/mcp/tools/__init__.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ to an MCPServer instance. `register_all(mcp)` is the single entry point called
 from `mcp.server.build_mcp_server`.
 """
 from scribe.mcp.tools import (
-    design_systems, lessons, milestones, notes, processes, projects, recent, repos,
+    design_systems, family, lessons, milestones, notes, processes, projects, recent, repos,
     moments, platforms, retrieval_review, retrieval_tuning,
     wide_net,
     rulebooks, search, shapes, snippets, systems, tags, tasks, trash,
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ def register_all(mcp) -> None:
     milestones.register(mcp)
     systems.register(mcp)
     platforms.register(mcp)
+    family.register(mcp)
     design_systems.register(mcp)
     tags.register(mcp)
     recent.register(mcp)
diff --git a/src/scribe/mcp/tools/family.py b/src/scribe/mcp/tools/family.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..291d8a2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/scribe/mcp/tools/family.py
@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+"""Family canon MCP tools — the promotion engine's agent door (milestone 463).
+
+Thin wrappers over services/family.py. The agent is the decider here: no
+person approves a promotion, so the criteria are stated in these docstrings
+and enforced by the service, and every decision is logged with its reason.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from scribe.mcp._context import current_user_id
+from scribe.services import family as family_svc
+
+
+async def list_family_ideas(
+    status: str = "", platform: str = "", limit: int = 50, offset: int = 0,
+) -> dict:
+    """Family ideas — records that every project on a platform shares — with
+    their state: `candidate` (waiting to be evaluated, or held back by a
+    criterion), `canon` (promoted; every project on its platforms answers it)
+    or `retired`.
+
+    Args:
+        status: candidate | canon | retired. Empty = all.
+        platform: a platform slug (list_platforms). Empty = all.
+        limit / offset: page through the list.
+    """
+    ideas = await family_svc.list_ideas(
+        current_user_id(), status=status or None, platform=platform or None,
+        limit=max(1, min(limit, 200)), offset=max(0, offset),
+    )
+    return {"ideas": ideas, "limit": limit, "offset": offset}
+
+
+async def get_family_idea(note_id: int) -> dict:
+    """One family idea with what an evaluation needs: its state, platforms,
+    full decision history, ledger counts, THE THREE CRITERIA, and the
+    `precedents` — the decisions on the ideas nearest this one by meaning.
+    Read the precedents before deciding, and decide consistently with them
+    unless this idea differs in a way you can name.
+
+    Args:
+        note_id: the idea's record id.
+    """
+    uid = current_user_id()
+    idea = await family_svc.get_idea(uid, note_id)
+    if idea is None:
+        raise ValueError(f"#{note_id} is not a family idea you can read")
+    idea["precedents"] = await family_svc.precedents(uid, note_id)
+    return idea
+
+
+async def propose_family_idea(note_id: int, reason: str, applies_when: str = "") -> dict:
+    """Record a note, snippet or lesson as a family-idea CANDIDATE: something
+    you believe every project on some platform will face. It reaches no
+    project's ledger until it is promoted.
+
+    Proposing is cheap and does not promote. When the record already meets
+    the three criteria, call promote_family_idea directly instead.
+
+    Args:
+        note_id: the record that carries the idea.
+        reason: why this looks like a family idea.
+        applies_when: optional draft of when it applies, in platform terms.
+    """
+    idea, created = await family_svc.propose(
+        current_user_id(), note_id, reason=reason, applies_when=applies_when or None,
+    )
+    return {"idea": idea, "created": created}
+
+
+async def promote_family_idea(
+    note_id: int,
+    applies_when: str,
+    platforms: list[str],
+    platform_terms: str,
+    platform_problem: str,
+    proven: str,
+    evidence: list[str],
+    reason: str,
+    precedent_ids: list[int] | None = None,
+) -> dict:
+    """Evaluate a record against the three criteria and, if all hold, promote
+    it to family canon. YOU decide; nobody approves. The record of why is what
+    makes the decision reviewable and the next one consistent.
+
+    An idea is promoted only when ALL THREE hold, and each is answered with
+    your reasoning:
+
+    1. platform_terms — its 'when it applies' is stated in terms of a
+       platform (what a project is built on or ships as), not one app's
+       domain. Any project on the platform could read it and know whether it
+       applies.
+    2. platform_problem — it answers a problem the platform itself causes, or
+       a stance the operator holds across projects. One app's preference does
+       not qualify.
+    3. proven — it has worked for real at least once (CI green, verified on a
+       device, shipped). Name that in `evidence`.
+
+    Any criterion left blank — or `applies_when`, `platforms` or `evidence`
+    left empty — VETOES the promotion on its own. A veto is not an error: the
+    idea stays a candidate and the veto is logged, so the next evaluation of
+    something like it sees why this one was held. That is also how you record
+    "evaluated, and it does not qualify": leave the failing criterion blank
+    and say why in `reason`.
+
+    Before deciding, read get_family_idea's `precedents`. The engine also
+    finds the nearest earlier decisions itself and stores them as consulted.
+
+    On promotion every project that is on one of `platforms` and that you can
+    write gets an `unassessed` row in its adoption ledger. If the idea was
+    canon before, its version moves, so earlier answers read as needing a
+    recheck.
+
+    Args:
+        note_id: the record that carries the idea.
+        applies_when: when it applies, in platform terms.
+        platforms: platform slugs it is for (list_platforms).
+        platform_terms: why criterion 1 holds (blank = it does not).
+        platform_problem: why criterion 2 holds (blank = it does not).
+        proven: why criterion 3 holds (blank = it does not).
+        evidence: what proved it — a CI run, a task, a commit, a device check.
+        reason: the decision in one or two sentences.
+        precedent_ids: earlier family decisions you followed, if any.
+    """
+    return await family_svc.promote(
+        current_user_id(), note_id,
+        applies_when=applies_when, platforms=platforms or [],
+        criteria={
+            "platform_terms": platform_terms,
+            "platform_problem": platform_problem,
+            "proven": proven,
+        },
+        evidence=evidence or [], reason=reason, precedent_ids=precedent_ids or [],
+    )
+
+
+async def retire_family_idea(note_id: int, reason: str) -> dict:
+    """Demote a family idea — it no longer applies, or a better one replaces
+    it. Its history and every judged ledger answer are kept; rows nobody had
+    judged yet are closed. Undoable with undo_family_decision.
+
+    Args:
+        note_id: the idea.
+        reason: why it is retired.
+    """
+    return await family_svc.retire(current_user_id(), note_id, reason=reason)
+
+
+async def undo_family_decision(decision_id: int, reason: str) -> dict:
+    """Reverse a family decision — a promotion, a retirement or a proposal —
+    restoring the state it recorded as `before`. Only the latest idea-level
+    decision on an idea can be undone; the undo is logged too, so the history
+    keeps both.
+
+    Args:
+        decision_id: the decision (list_family_decisions).
+        reason: why it is undone.
+    """
+    return await family_svc.undo(current_user_id(), decision_id, reason=reason)
+
+
+async def list_family_decisions(note_id: int = 0, limit: int = 50, offset: int = 0) -> dict:
+    """The family decision log, newest first: every proposal, promotion,
+    veto, retirement and undo, with its reason, evidence and the precedents
+    it followed. `undoable` marks the decision an undo would reverse.
+
+    Args:
+        note_id: only this idea's decisions. 0 = all.
+        limit / offset: page through the log.
+    """
+    rows = await family_svc.list_decisions(
+        current_user_id(), idea_id=note_id or None,
+        limit=max(1, min(limit, 200)), offset=max(0, offset),
+    )
+    return {"decisions": rows, "limit": limit, "offset": offset}
+
+
+def register(mcp) -> None:
+    for fn in (
+        list_family_ideas, get_family_idea, propose_family_idea,
+        promote_family_idea, retire_family_idea, undo_family_decision,
+        list_family_decisions,
+    ):
+        mcp.tool(name=fn.__name__)(fn)
diff --git a/src/scribe/mcp/tools/milestones.py b/src/scribe/mcp/tools/milestones.py
index 367e72aa..66f17aa9 100644
--- a/src/scribe/mcp/tools/milestones.py
+++ b/src/scribe/mcp/tools/milestones.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 from scribe.mcp._context import current_user_id
 from scribe.services import dedup as dedup_svc
+from scribe.services import family as family_svc
 from scribe.services import milestones as milestones_svc
 from scribe.services import notes as notes_svc
 from scribe.services import task_logs as task_logs_svc
@@ -172,12 +173,20 @@ async def update_milestone(
     if order_index >= 0:
         fields["order_index"] = order_index
     await refuse_guessed_ids(title, description, body)
+    # Asked BEFORE the write: only the transition into done is a closing.
+    closing = status == "done" and await family_svc.milestone_is_open(uid, milestone_id)
     milestone = await milestones_svc.update_milestone(uid, milestone_id, **fields)
     if milestone is None:
         raise ValueError(f"milestone {milestone_id} not found")
+    data = milestone.to_dict()
+    if closing:
+        # Family canon's milestone trigger (milestone 463): a plan closing on
+        # a platform is the moment to ask whether what it built is shared.
+        hint = await family_svc.milestone_trigger(uid, milestone)
+        if hint:
+            data["family_hint"] = hint
     return await moment_delivery.attach_moment_rules(
-        uid, "update_milestone", {"status": status, "project_id": project_id},
-        milestone.to_dict(),
+        uid, "update_milestone", {"status": status, "project_id": project_id}, data,
     )
 
 
diff --git a/src/scribe/mcp/tools/notes.py b/src/scribe/mcp/tools/notes.py
index 09e7e41b..94334c66 100644
--- a/src/scribe/mcp/tools/notes.py
+++ b/src/scribe/mcp/tools/notes.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ from scribe.mcp._context import current_user_id
 from scribe.mcp.tools import systems as systems_tools
 from scribe.services import access as access_svc
 from scribe.services import dedup as dedup_svc
+from scribe.services import family as family_svc
 from scribe.services import notes as notes_svc
 from scribe.services import supersession as supersession_svc
 from scribe.services import systems as systems_svc
@@ -237,6 +238,9 @@ async def create_note(
     await systems_tools.attach_systems(uid, uid, data, note.id, project_id or None)
     await supersession_svc.attach_relations(uid, note.id, data, hint=True)
     data.update(dedup_svc.note_overlap_response(overlaps, "note"))
+    # Family canon's write-time triggers (milestone 463): a cited source of a
+    # pattern, or the same idea in another project on a shared platform.
+    await family_svc.attach_family_hint(uid, data, note, created=True)
     return await moment_delivery.attach_moment_rules(uid, "create_note", {"project_id": project_id}, data)
 
 
@@ -319,6 +323,8 @@ async def update_note(
         uid, getattr(note, "user_id", uid) or uid, data, note_id, note.project_id
     )
     await supersession_svc.attach_relations(uid, note_id, data, hint=True)
+    if body:
+        await family_svc.attach_family_hint(uid, data, note, created=False)
     return data
 
 
diff --git a/src/scribe/mcp/tools/snippets.py b/src/scribe/mcp/tools/snippets.py
index 1266d9de..27015be1 100644
--- a/src/scribe/mcp/tools/snippets.py
+++ b/src/scribe/mcp/tools/snippets.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from scribe.mcp._context import current_user_id
 from scribe.mcp.tools import systems as systems_tools
 from scribe.services import access as access_svc
 from scribe.services import dedup as dedup_svc
+from scribe.services import family as family_svc
 from scribe.services import snippets as snippets_svc
 from scribe.services.note_usage import attach_usage, record_pulled
 from scribe.services import systems as systems_svc
@@ -224,6 +225,9 @@ async def create_snippet(
     advice = snippets_svc.trigger_advice(when_to_use)
     if advice:
         data["trigger_advice"] = advice
+    # Family canon (milestone 463): the same shape recorded in another project
+    # on a shared platform opens an evaluation of the earlier one.
+    await family_svc.attach_family_hint(uid, data, note, created=True)
     return await moment_delivery.attach_moment_rules(uid, "create_snippet", {"project_id": project_id}, data)
 
 
diff --git a/src/scribe/mcp/tools/tasks.py b/src/scribe/mcp/tools/tasks.py
index ab460a51..247b93a1 100644
--- a/src/scribe/mcp/tools/tasks.py
+++ b/src/scribe/mcp/tools/tasks.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ from scribe.mcp._context import current_user_id
 from scribe.mcp.tools import systems as systems_tools
 from scribe.services import access as access_svc
 from scribe.services import dedup as dedup_svc
+from scribe.services import family as family_svc
 from scribe.services import milestones as milestones_svc
 from scribe.services import notes as notes_svc
 # Imported by NAME, not reached through notes_svc: minted_kind is pure
@@ -363,6 +364,9 @@ async def create_task(
     data = note.to_dict()
     await systems_tools.attach_systems(uid, uid, data, note.id, project_id or None)
     data.update(dedup_svc.note_overlap_response(overlaps, "task"))
+    # A task that says it is "matching" another project's work names the
+    # source of a pattern — family canon's citation trigger (milestone 463).
+    await family_svc.attach_family_hint(uid, data, note, created=True)
     return await placement_svc.attach_placement(uid, data, note)
 
 
@@ -457,6 +461,8 @@ async def update_task(
         uid, getattr(note, "user_id", uid) or uid, data, task_id, note.project_id
     )
     await placement_svc.attach_placement(uid, data, note)
+    if body:
+        await family_svc.attach_family_hint(uid, data, note, created=False)
     if status in _CLOSING_STATUSES:
         data["report_back"] = REPORT_BACK_CUE
         # The operator's own adjustments to the completion report, retrieved
diff --git a/src/scribe/routes/family.py b/src/scribe/routes/family.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..847750c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/scribe/routes/family.py
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+"""Family canon routes — the web door to the promotion engine (milestone 463).
+
+The agent decides promotions through the MCP tools; this door exists so a
+person can READ every decision and its reasons, and retire an idea or undo a
+decision when they disagree. The promote and propose endpoints are here for
+parity with the agent's door (rule 33), and are recorded as the operator's.
+Every write is gated on the idea's note in the service (rule 78).
+"""
+import logging
+
+from quart import Blueprint, jsonify, request
+
+from scribe.auth import get_current_user_id, login_required
+from scribe.routes.utils import not_found
+from scribe.services import family as family_svc
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+family_bp = Blueprint("family", __name__, url_prefix="/api/family")
+
+
+def _page() -> tuple[int, int]:
+    try:
+        limit = max(1, min(int(request.args.get("limit", 50)), 200))
+        offset = max(0, int(request.args.get("offset", 0)))
+    except ValueError:
+        limit, offset = 50, 0
+    return limit, offset
+
+
+@family_bp.route("/ideas", methods=["GET"])
+@login_required
+async def list_ideas_route():
+    limit, offset = _page()
+    ideas = await family_svc.list_ideas(
+        get_current_user_id(),
+        status=request.args.get("status") or None,
+        platform=request.args.get("platform") or None,
+        limit=limit, offset=offset,
+    )
+    return jsonify({"ideas": ideas, "criteria": list(family_svc.CRITERIA)})
+
+
+@family_bp.route("/ideas/<int:note_id>", methods=["GET"])
+@login_required
+async def get_idea_route(note_id: int):
+    uid = get_current_user_id()
+    idea = await family_svc.get_idea(uid, note_id)
+    if idea is None:
+        return not_found("Family idea")
+    idea["precedents"] = await family_svc.precedents(uid, note_id)
+    return jsonify(idea)
+
+
+@family_bp.route("/ideas/<int:note_id>/propose", methods=["POST"])
+@login_required
+async def propose_route(note_id: int):
+    data = await request.get_json() or {}
+    try:
+        idea, created = await family_svc.propose(
+            get_current_user_id(), note_id, reason=data.get("reason") or "",
+            applies_when=data.get("applies_when") or None, decided_via="operator",
+        )
+    except ValueError as exc:
+        return jsonify({"error": str(exc)}), 400
+    return jsonify({"idea": idea, "created": created}), (201 if created else 200)
+
+
+@family_bp.route("/ideas/<int:note_id>/promote", methods=["POST"])
+@login_required
+async def promote_route(note_id: int):
+    data = await request.get_json() or {}
+    try:
+        result = await family_svc.promote(
+            get_current_user_id(), note_id,
+            applies_when=data.get("applies_when") or "",
+            platforms=data.get("platforms") or [],
+            criteria=data.get("criteria") or {},
+            evidence=data.get("evidence") or [],
+            reason=data.get("reason") or "",
+            precedent_ids=data.get("precedent_ids") or [],
+            decided_via="operator",
+        )
+    except ValueError as exc:
+        return jsonify({"error": str(exc)}), 400
+    return jsonify(result)
+
+
+@family_bp.route("/ideas/<int:note_id>/retire", methods=["POST"])
+@login_required
+async def retire_route(note_id: int):
+    data = await request.get_json() or {}
+    try:
+        result = await family_svc.retire(
+            get_current_user_id(), note_id, reason=data.get("reason") or "",
+            decided_via="operator",
+        )
+    except ValueError as exc:
+        return jsonify({"error": str(exc)}), 400
+    return jsonify(result)
+
+
+@family_bp.route("/decisions", methods=["GET"])
+@login_required
+async def list_decisions_route():
+    limit, offset = _page()
+    idea_id = request.args.get("idea_id", type=int)
+    rows = await family_svc.list_decisions(
+        get_current_user_id(), idea_id=idea_id or None, limit=limit, offset=offset,
+    )
+    return jsonify({"decisions": rows, "limit": limit, "offset": offset})
+
+
+@family_bp.route("/decisions/<int:decision_id>/undo", methods=["POST"])
+@login_required
+async def undo_route(decision_id: int):
+    data = await request.get_json() or {}
+    try:
+        result = await family_svc.undo(
+            get_current_user_id(), decision_id, reason=data.get("reason") or "",
+            decided_via="operator",
+        )
+    except ValueError as exc:
+        return jsonify({"error": str(exc)}), 400
+    return jsonify(result)
diff --git a/src/scribe/services/family.py b/src/scribe/services/family.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/src/scribe/services/family.py
@@ -0,0 +1,838 @@
+"""Family canon's promotion engine (milestone 463 step 3).
+
+A family idea moves between three states — candidate, canon, retired — and
+every move is a decision with a reason, written to `family_decisions`. No
+person approves a promotion: the agent decides against the written criteria
+below, and the log is what keeps one decision consistent with the last similar
+one, and what lets a person read or undo any of them afterwards.
+
+WHO DECIDES WHAT
+
+- TRIGGERS (`citation_trigger`, `repeat_trigger`, `milestone_trigger`) only
+  ever OPEN an evaluation. The first two record the source record as a
+  `candidate` (decided_via "system") and hand the writer an in-band hint; a
+  closed milestone is not a record an idea can hang on, so it only hints. None
+  of them promotes.
+- THE AGENT evaluates a candidate against the three criteria and either
+  promotes it or leaves it a candidate with the reason. A criterion with no
+  support vetoes on its own; the veto is logged too, because a held candidate
+  is precedent for the next one like it.
+- A PERSON reads the log, and may retire an idea or undo a decision from the
+  web door. Those are the only operator acts, and neither is required.
+
+PRECEDENT
+
+Every promotion records the earlier decisions it was consistent with. The
+engine finds them itself — the decisions on the ideas nearest this one by
+meaning — and stores them alongside any the caller names, so "which precedents
+were consulted" is a fact about the call, not a sentence a session might skip.
+
+LEDGER ROWS AND UNDO (settled here, as the milestone asked)
+
+Promotion opens an `unassessed` row for every project that is a member of one
+of the idea's platforms and that the promoter can write. Leaving canon —
+by retirement, or by undoing the promotion — deletes the `unassessed` rows,
+because nobody judged them and they would only be noise. Rows somebody DID
+judge (adopted, variant, exempt, owed) are kept: each is a decision with its
+reason, and if the idea is promoted again its version moves, so every kept
+row reads as needing a recheck rather than as still agreeing.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import logging
+import re
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+
+from sqlalchemy import delete, func, select
+
+from scribe.models import async_session
+from scribe.models.family import (
+    FamilyAdoption, FamilyDecision, FamilyIdea, FamilyIdeaPlatform, Platform,
+    ProjectPlatform,
+)
+from scribe.models.note import Note
+from scribe.models.project import Project
+from scribe.services import access
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+# --- the criteria, as product text --------------------------------------------
+#
+# These are what an evaluation is judged against, on every install. They live
+# here — and in the tool docstrings that quote them — rather than in any
+# instance's rulebook (rules 115, 119).
+
+CRITERIA = (
+    {
+        "key": "platform_terms",
+        "title": "Stated in platform terms",
+        "test": (
+            "Its 'when it applies' is stated in terms of a platform — what the "
+            "project is built on or ships as — not one app's domain. Any project "
+            "on the platform could read it and know whether it applies."
+        ),
+    },
+    {
+        "key": "platform_problem",
+        "title": "Answers a platform problem or a cross-project stance",
+        "test": (
+            "It answers a problem the platform itself causes, or a stance the "
+            "operator holds across projects. One app's preference does not "
+            "qualify."
+        ),
+    },
+    {
+        "key": "proven",
+        "title": "Proven at least once",
+        "test": (
+            "It has worked for real at least once — CI green, verified on a "
+            "device, or shipped — and the evidence is named. An unproven idea "
+            "stays a candidate."
+        ),
+    },
+)
+CRITERIA_KEYS = tuple(c["key"] for c in CRITERIA)
+
+TRIGGERS = ("citation", "repeat", "milestone")
+
+# The repeat trigger's similarity floor. MEASURED, not guessed (2026-10-06,
+# #4989): against a description of one pattern known to have been built four
+# times in four projects, the records that implement it scored 0.79-0.82, and
+# the best match in a project that never built it scored 0.65. A trigger only
+# opens an evaluation, so a false positive costs one judgment, not a wrong
+# promotion. Step 5 measures the cross-language threshold against known pairs
+# and supersedes this.
+REPEAT_THRESHOLD = 0.80
+
+# Words that say a citation is the SOURCE of a pattern rather than background.
+# "see #12" is a pointer; "matching #12" and "ported from #12" are lineage.
+_LINEAGE = re.compile(
+    r"\b(match(?:es|ing)?|mirror(?:s|ing|ed)?|same (?:shape|pattern|approach|design) as|"
+    r"ported from|copied from|borrowed from|lifted from|taken from|based on|"
+    r"modell?ed on|follow(?:s|ing)? the (?:shape|pattern|approach) of|as (?:built|done) in|"
+    r"reuses?|re-?implement(?:s|ing)?|like)\b",
+    re.I,
+)
+# How far before a `#N` the lineage word may sit: the same clause, roughly.
+_LINEAGE_WINDOW = 80
+
+# Note kinds the repeat trigger compares: recorded knowledge and shapes, not
+# the to-do list.
+_REPEAT_KINDS = ("snippet", "note")
+
+MEMBER_STATES = ("declared", "detected")
+_IDEA_ACTIONS = ("propose", "promote", "revise", "retire")
+
+
+def _now() -> datetime:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+
+
+# --- reads --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+async def _platform_slugs(session, note_id: int) -> list[str]:
+    rows = await session.execute(
+        select(Platform.slug)
+        .join(FamilyIdeaPlatform, FamilyIdeaPlatform.platform_id == Platform.id)
+        .where(FamilyIdeaPlatform.note_id == note_id)
+        .order_by(Platform.order_index.asc(), Platform.slug.asc())
+    )
+    return list(rows.scalars().all())
+
+
+async def _snapshot(session, idea: FamilyIdea | None) -> dict | None:
+    """The idea's state, as a decision's before/after. Slugs, never ids: an id
+    inside JSON cannot be remapped by a restore (the #3182 trap)."""
+    if idea is None:
+        return None
+    return {
+        "status": idea.status,
+        "applies_when": idea.applies_when or "",
+        "canon_version": idea.canon_version,
+        "platforms": await _platform_slugs(session, idea.note_id),
+    }
+
+
+def _decision_dict(d: FamilyDecision, title: str | None = None) -> dict:
+    out = d.to_dict()
+    if title is not None:
+        out["idea_title"] = title
+    return out
+
+
+async def get_idea(user_id: int, note_id: int) -> dict | None:
+    """One idea with everything an evaluation reads: its state, platforms,
+    decision history (newest first), its ledger counts and the criteria.
+    None when the caller cannot read the note or it is not an idea."""
+    if not await access.can_read_note(user_id, note_id):
+        return None
+    async with async_session() as session:
+        idea = await session.get(FamilyIdea, note_id)
+        note = await session.get(Note, note_id)
+        if idea is None or note is None:
+            return None
+        decisions = (await session.execute(
+            select(FamilyDecision).where(FamilyDecision.idea_id == note_id)
+            .order_by(FamilyDecision.id.desc())
+        )).scalars().all()
+        counts = dict((await session.execute(
+            select(FamilyAdoption.status, func.count())
+            .where(FamilyAdoption.idea_id == note_id)
+            .group_by(FamilyAdoption.status)
+        )).all())
+        out = idea.to_dict()
+        out.update({
+            "title": note.title,
+            "note_type": note.note_type or "note",
+            "is_task": note.is_task,
+            "project_id": note.project_id,
+            "platforms": await _platform_slugs(session, note_id),
+            "adoptions": counts,
+            "decisions": [_decision_dict(d) for d in decisions],
+            "undoable_decision_id": _undoable_id(decisions),
+        })
+    out["criteria"] = list(CRITERIA)
+    return out
+
+
+async def list_ideas(
+    user_id: int, *, status: str | None = None, platform: str | None = None,
+    limit: int = 50, offset: int = 0,
+) -> list[dict]:
+    """Ideas whose note the caller can read, newest change first."""
+    async with async_session() as session:
+        query = (
+            select(FamilyIdea, Note.title, Note.note_type, Note.project_id, Note.status)
+            .join(Note, Note.id == FamilyIdea.note_id)
+            .where(access.readable_notes_clause(user_id), Note.deleted_at.is_(None))
+        )
+        if status:
+            query = query.where(FamilyIdea.status == status)
+        if platform:
+            query = query.where(FamilyIdea.note_id.in_(
+                select(FamilyIdeaPlatform.note_id)
+                .join(Platform, Platform.id == FamilyIdeaPlatform.platform_id)
+                .where(Platform.slug == platform)
+            ))
+        rows = (await session.execute(
+            query.order_by(FamilyIdea.updated_at.desc()).limit(limit).offset(offset)
+        )).all()
+        out = []
+        for idea, title, note_type, project_id, note_status in rows:
+            d = idea.to_dict()
+            d.update({
+                "title": title,
+                "note_type": note_type or "note",
+                "is_task": note_status is not None,
+                "project_id": project_id,
+                "platforms": await _platform_slugs(session, idea.note_id),
+            })
+            out.append(d)
+    return out
+
+
+async def list_decisions(
+    user_id: int, *, idea_id: int | None = None, limit: int = 50, offset: int = 0,
+) -> list[dict]:
+    """The decision log, newest first, over ideas the caller can read. Each
+    row says whether it is the one an undo would reverse."""
+    async with async_session() as session:
+        query = (
+            select(FamilyDecision, Note.title)
+            .join(Note, Note.id == FamilyDecision.idea_id)
+            .where(access.readable_notes_clause(user_id))
+        )
+        if idea_id:
+            query = query.where(FamilyDecision.idea_id == idea_id)
+        rows = (await session.execute(
+            query.order_by(FamilyDecision.id.desc()).limit(limit).offset(offset)
+        )).all()
+        latest = await _latest_idea_decisions(session, {d.idea_id for d, _ in rows})
+    out = []
+    for d, title in rows:
+        item = _decision_dict(d, title)
+        item["undoable"] = latest.get(d.idea_id) == d.id and _can_undo(d)
+        out.append(item)
+    return out
+
+
+def _can_undo(d: FamilyDecision) -> bool:
+    """An idea-level decision that changed something. A veto (a `propose`
+    whose before and after agree) changed nothing, and an undo is undone by
+    deciding again, not by undoing the undo."""
+    return d.project_id is None and d.action in _IDEA_ACTIONS and d.before != d.after
+
+
+def _undoable_id(decisions_newest_first) -> int | None:
+    for d in decisions_newest_first:
+        if d.project_id is None:
+            return d.id if _can_undo(d) else None
+    return None
+
+
+async def _latest_idea_decisions(session, idea_ids: set[int]) -> dict[int, int]:
+    if not idea_ids:
+        return {}
+    rows = await session.execute(
+        select(FamilyDecision.idea_id, func.max(FamilyDecision.id))
+        .where(FamilyDecision.idea_id.in_(idea_ids), FamilyDecision.project_id.is_(None))
+        .group_by(FamilyDecision.idea_id)
+    )
+    return dict(rows.all())
+
+
+async def precedents(user_id: int, note_id: int, limit: int = 5) -> list[dict]:
+    """The decisions on the ideas nearest this one by meaning — what a new
+    decision about it should be consistent with. Each idea contributes its
+    latest idea-level decision. Empty when nothing similar has been decided,
+    or when the embedder is unavailable."""
+    from scribe.services.embeddings import embedding_text, semantic_search_notes
+
+    async with async_session() as session:
+        note = await session.get(Note, note_id)
+        if note is None:
+            return []
+        idea_ids = set((await session.execute(select(FamilyIdea.note_id))).scalars().all())
+    idea_ids.discard(note_id)
+    if not idea_ids:
+        return []
+    try:
+        hits = await semantic_search_notes(
+            user_id, embedding_text(note.title, note.body), exclude_ids={note_id},
+            limit=40, threshold=0.0, scope="read", include_global_kinds=True,
+            demote_superseded=False,
+        )
+    except Exception:
+        logger.warning("precedent search failed for idea %s", note_id, exc_info=True)
+        return []
+    ranked = [(score, n) for score, n in hits if n.id in idea_ids][:limit]
+    if not ranked:
+        return []
+    async with async_session() as session:
+        latest = await _latest_idea_decisions(session, {n.id for _, n in ranked})
+        decisions = {
+            d.id: d for d in (await session.execute(
+                select(FamilyDecision).where(FamilyDecision.id.in_(list(latest.values())))
+            )).scalars().all()
+        }
+    out = []
+    for score, n in ranked:
+        d = decisions.get(latest.get(n.id))
+        if d is not None:
+            item = _decision_dict(d, n.title)
+            item["similarity"] = round(float(score), 3)
+            out.append(item)
+    return out
+
+
+# --- writes ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _log(session, *, idea_id: int, action: str, reason: str, before, after,
+         evidence: dict | None, precedent_ids: list[int] | None, decided_via: str,
+         user_id: int | None, project_id: int | None = None) -> FamilyDecision:
+    row = FamilyDecision(
+        idea_id=idea_id, project_id=project_id, action=action, reason=reason.strip(),
+        before=before, after=after, evidence=evidence or {},
+        precedent_ids=list(dict.fromkeys(precedent_ids or [])),
+        decided_via=decided_via, user_id=user_id,
+    )
+    session.add(row)
+    return row
+
+
+async def _resolve_platforms(session, slugs: list[str]) -> dict[str, int]:
+    wanted = list(dict.fromkeys(s.strip() for s in slugs if s and s.strip()))
+    if not wanted:
+        return {}
+    rows = (await session.execute(
+        select(Platform.slug, Platform.id)
+        .where(Platform.slug.in_(wanted), Platform.deleted_at.is_(None))
+    )).all()
+    known = dict(rows)
+    unknown = [s for s in wanted if s not in known]
+    if unknown:
+        raise ValueError(f"unknown platform(s): {', '.join(unknown)} (list_platforms)")
+    return known
+
+
+async def _set_platforms(session, note_id: int, platform_ids) -> None:
+    await session.execute(delete(FamilyIdeaPlatform).where(FamilyIdeaPlatform.note_id == note_id))
+    for pid in dict.fromkeys(platform_ids):
+        session.add(FamilyIdeaPlatform(note_id=note_id, platform_id=pid))
+
+
+async def _open_ledger(session, user_id: int, note_id: int) -> int:
+    """An `unassessed` row for every member project of the idea's platforms
+    that the promoter can write and that has no row yet. Returns how many."""
+    project_ids = set((await session.execute(
+        select(ProjectPlatform.project_id)
+        .join(FamilyIdeaPlatform, FamilyIdeaPlatform.platform_id == ProjectPlatform.platform_id)
+        .join(Project, Project.id == ProjectPlatform.project_id)
+        .where(
+            FamilyIdeaPlatform.note_id == note_id,
+            ProjectPlatform.state.in_(MEMBER_STATES),
+            Project.deleted_at.is_(None),
+        )
+    )).scalars().all())
+    answered = set((await session.execute(
+        select(FamilyAdoption.project_id).where(FamilyAdoption.idea_id == note_id)
+    )).scalars().all())
+    opened = 0
+    for pid in sorted(project_ids - answered):
+        # Rule 78: a promotion reaches only the projects its promoter could
+        # have written an answer into themselves.
+        if await access.can_write_project(user_id, pid):
+            session.add(FamilyAdoption(project_id=pid, idea_id=note_id, status="unassessed"))
+            opened += 1
+    return opened
+
+
+async def _close_unassessed(session, note_id: int) -> int:
+    result = await session.execute(
+        delete(FamilyAdoption).where(
+            FamilyAdoption.idea_id == note_id, FamilyAdoption.status == "unassessed",
+        )
+    )
+    return result.rowcount or 0
+
+
+async def propose(
+    user_id: int, note_id: int, *, reason: str, trigger: str = "agent",
+    evidence: dict | None = None, applies_when: str | None = None,
+    decided_via: str = "agent",
+) -> tuple[dict, bool]:
+    """Record a note as a family-idea CANDIDATE. Returns (idea, created).
+
+    Idempotent: an existing idea comes back unchanged and nothing is logged —
+    a trigger firing on every edit of a record must not grow the log. Write-
+    gated on the note: an idea is state on someone's record (rule 78).
+    """
+    if not (reason or "").strip():
+        raise ValueError("a proposal needs a reason — what makes this a family idea?")
+    if not await access.can_write_note(user_id, note_id):
+        raise ValueError(f"note {note_id} not found or no write access")
+    async with async_session() as session:
+        idea = await session.get(FamilyIdea, note_id)
+        if idea is not None:
+            return idea.to_dict(), False
+        idea = FamilyIdea(note_id=note_id, status="candidate",
+                          applies_when=(applies_when or "").strip() or None)
+        session.add(idea)
+        await session.flush()
+        _log(
+            session, idea_id=note_id, action="propose", reason=reason, before=None,
+            after=await _snapshot(session, idea),
+            evidence={"trigger": trigger, **(evidence or {})},
+            precedent_ids=None, decided_via=decided_via, user_id=user_id,
+        )
+        await session.commit()
+        return idea.to_dict(), True
+
+
+def vetoes(*, applies_when: str, platforms: list[str], criteria: dict, evidence: list) -> list[str]:
+    """The criteria a promotion fails, by key. Pure.
+
+    Each fails ON ITS OWN when its support is missing:
+    - platform_terms — no reasoning, no `applies_when`, or no platform scope;
+    - platform_problem — no reasoning;
+    - proven — no reasoning, or no named evidence.
+    """
+    def said(key: str) -> bool:
+        return bool(str(criteria.get(key) or "").strip())
+
+    failed = []
+    if not said("platform_terms") or not (applies_when or "").strip() or not platforms:
+        failed.append("platform_terms")
+    if not said("platform_problem"):
+        failed.append("platform_problem")
+    if not said("proven") or not [e for e in evidence or [] if str(e).strip()]:
+        failed.append("proven")
+    return failed
+
+
+async def promote(
+    user_id: int, note_id: int, *, applies_when: str, platforms: list[str],
+    criteria: dict, evidence: list[str], reason: str,
+    precedent_ids: list[int] | None = None, decided_via: str = "agent",
+) -> dict:
+    """Evaluate a record against the three criteria and promote it to canon.
+
+    A record nobody proposed may be promoted directly — the candidate row is
+    created on the way. Any criterion without support vetoes the promotion:
+    the idea stays (or becomes) a candidate and the veto is logged as a
+    `propose` decision naming what failed, so it is precedent too.
+
+    On promotion: status canon, `applies_when` and the platform scope set, the
+    version bumped if this idea has been promoted before (so rows judged
+    against the earlier canon read as needing a recheck), an `unassessed`
+    ledger row opened per member project, and a decision logged with the
+    criteria reasoning, the evidence and the precedents consulted.
+
+    Raises ValueError on a malformed call (no reason, unknown platform, no
+    write access, already canon) — before anything is written.
+    """
+    if not (reason or "").strip():
+        raise ValueError("a promotion needs a reason")
+    if not await access.can_write_note(user_id, note_id):
+        raise ValueError(f"note {note_id} not found or no write access")
+    criteria = {k: str((criteria or {}).get(k) or "").strip() for k in CRITERIA_KEYS}
+    evidence = [str(e).strip() for e in evidence or [] if str(e).strip()]
+    consulted = await precedents(user_id, note_id)
+    named = await _existing_decision_ids(precedent_ids or [])
+    precedent_list = list(dict.fromkeys(named + [p["id"] for p in consulted]))
+
+    async with async_session() as session:
+        known = await _resolve_platforms(session, platforms or [])
+        idea = await session.get(FamilyIdea, note_id)
+        if idea is not None and idea.status == "canon":
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"#{note_id} is already canon (version {idea.canon_version}); "
+                "retire it first, or record a revision"
+            )
+        created_now = idea is None
+        if created_now:
+            idea = FamilyIdea(note_id=note_id, status="candidate")
+            session.add(idea)
+            await session.flush()
+        # A row made by this call had no prior state: `before` says so, which
+        # also makes a veto that created a candidate undoable (it changed
+        # something — a record became a candidate).
+        before = None if created_now else await _snapshot(session, idea)
+        failed = vetoes(
+            applies_when=applies_when, platforms=list(known), criteria=criteria,
+            evidence=evidence,
+        )
+        record = {"criteria": criteria, "evidence": evidence}
+        if failed:
+            decision = _log(
+                session, idea_id=note_id, action="propose",
+                reason=f"held as a candidate — fails {', '.join(failed)}: {reason.strip()}",
+                before=before, after=await _snapshot(session, idea),
+                evidence={**record, "vetoed_by": failed},
+                precedent_ids=precedent_list, decided_via=decided_via, user_id=user_id,
+            )
+            await session.commit()
+            await session.refresh(decision)
+            return {
+                "promoted": False, "vetoed_by": failed, "idea": idea.to_dict(),
+                "decision": decision.to_dict(), "precedents": consulted,
+            }
+
+        # Re-promotion moves the version PAST every version this idea has ever
+        # held — including one an undo rolled back from — so no row judged
+        # against an earlier canon can read as agreeing with this one.
+        history = (await session.execute(
+            select(FamilyDecision.action, FamilyDecision.after)
+            .where(FamilyDecision.idea_id == note_id)
+        )).all()
+        if any(action == "promote" for action, _ in history):
+            seen = [idea.canon_version or 1] + [
+                int(after.get("canon_version") or 1) for _, after in history if after
+            ]
+            idea.canon_version = max(seen) + 1
+        idea.status = "canon"
+        idea.applies_when = applies_when.strip()
+        idea.updated_at = _now()
+        await _set_platforms(session, note_id, known.values())
+        await session.flush()
+        opened = await _open_ledger(session, user_id, note_id)
+        decision = _log(
+            session, idea_id=note_id, action="promote", reason=reason,
+            before=before, after=await _snapshot(session, idea),
+            evidence={**record, "ledger_rows_opened": opened},
+            precedent_ids=precedent_list, decided_via=decided_via, user_id=user_id,
+        )
+        await session.commit()
+        await session.refresh(decision)
+        return {
+            "promoted": True, "idea": idea.to_dict(), "ledger_rows_opened": opened,
+            "decision": decision.to_dict(), "precedents": consulted,
+        }
+
+
+async def _existing_decision_ids(ids: list[int]) -> list[int]:
+    ids = [int(i) for i in ids if i]
+    if not ids:
+        return []
+    async with async_session() as session:
+        found = set((await session.execute(
+            select(FamilyDecision.id).where(FamilyDecision.id.in_(ids))
+        )).scalars().all())
+    missing = [i for i in ids if i not in found]
+    if missing:
+        raise ValueError(f"no such family decision(s): {', '.join(map(str, missing))}")
+    return ids
+
+
+async def retire(user_id: int, note_id: int, *, reason: str, decided_via: str = "agent") -> dict:
+    """Demote an idea. Its history and its judged ledger rows are kept; the
+    rows nobody judged are closed. Undoable."""
+    if not (reason or "").strip():
+        raise ValueError("retiring an idea needs a reason")
+    if not await access.can_write_note(user_id, note_id):
+        raise ValueError(f"note {note_id} not found or no write access")
+    async with async_session() as session:
+        idea = await session.get(FamilyIdea, note_id)
+        if idea is None:
+            raise ValueError(f"#{note_id} is not a family idea")
+        if idea.status == "retired":
+            raise ValueError(f"#{note_id} is already retired")
+        before = await _snapshot(session, idea)
+        idea.status = "retired"
+        idea.updated_at = _now()
+        closed = await _close_unassessed(session, note_id)
+        decision = _log(
+            session, idea_id=note_id, action="retire", reason=reason, before=before,
+            after=await _snapshot(session, idea), evidence={"ledger_rows_closed": closed},
+            precedent_ids=None, decided_via=decided_via, user_id=user_id,
+        )
+        await session.commit()
+        await session.refresh(decision)
+        return {"idea": idea.to_dict(), "decision": decision.to_dict()}
+
+
+async def undo(user_id: int, decision_id: int, *, reason: str, decided_via: str = "agent") -> dict:
+    """Reverse an idea-level decision, restoring the state it recorded as
+    `before`. Only the LATEST idea-level decision on an idea can be undone —
+    undoing an older one would rewrite a state later decisions were built on.
+    The undo is itself a decision, naming the one it reverses as its
+    precedent, so the history keeps both.
+
+    Undoing the proposal that created an idea retires it rather than deleting
+    it: deleting the idea would take its decision log with it.
+    """
+    if not (reason or "").strip():
+        raise ValueError("an undo needs a reason")
+    async with async_session() as session:
+        target = await session.get(FamilyDecision, decision_id)
+        if target is None:
+            raise ValueError(f"no such family decision: {decision_id}")
+    if not await access.can_write_note(user_id, target.idea_id):
+        raise ValueError(f"decision {decision_id} not found or no write access")
+    async with async_session() as session:
+        latest_id = (await _latest_idea_decisions(session, {target.idea_id})).get(target.idea_id)
+        if latest_id != target.id or not _can_undo(target):
+            if not _can_undo(target):
+                why = ("it changed nothing" if target.before == target.after
+                       else f"a '{target.action}' decision is not undone this way")
+            else:
+                why = f"decision {latest_id} came after it — undo that one first"
+            raise ValueError(f"decision {decision_id} cannot be undone: {why}")
+        idea = await session.get(FamilyIdea, target.idea_id)
+        before = await _snapshot(session, idea)
+        prior = target.before or {
+            "status": "retired", "applies_when": idea.applies_when or "",
+            "canon_version": idea.canon_version, "platforms": before["platforms"],
+        }
+        if prior["status"] == "canon" and not (prior.get("applies_when") or "").strip():
+            raise ValueError("the recorded prior state is canon with no 'applies when'")
+        known = await _resolve_platforms(session, prior.get("platforms") or [])
+        idea.status = prior["status"]
+        idea.applies_when = (prior.get("applies_when") or "").strip() or None
+        idea.canon_version = prior.get("canon_version") or idea.canon_version
+        idea.updated_at = _now()
+        await _set_platforms(session, idea.note_id, known.values())
+        await session.flush()
+        ledger: dict = {}
+        if idea.status == "canon":
+            ledger["ledger_rows_opened"] = await _open_ledger(session, user_id, idea.note_id)
+        else:
+            ledger["ledger_rows_closed"] = await _close_unassessed(session, idea.note_id)
+        decision = _log(
+            session, idea_id=idea.note_id, action="undo", reason=reason,
+            before=before, after=await _snapshot(session, idea),
+            evidence={"undid_action": target.action, **ledger},
+            precedent_ids=[target.id], decided_via=decided_via, user_id=user_id,
+        )
+        await session.commit()
+        await session.refresh(decision)
+        return {"idea": idea.to_dict(), "decision": decision.to_dict()}
+
+
+# --- triggers -------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def lineage_citations(text: str | None) -> list[int]:
+    """The `#N`s in a text that are cited as the SOURCE of a pattern — a
+    lineage word ("matching", "ported from", "same shape as", …) in the same
+    clause just before the reference. Pure, in order, de-duplicated."""
+    from scribe.services.record_refs import REF_RE
+
+    found: list[int] = []
+    for m in REF_RE.finditer(text or ""):
+        start = max(0, m.start() - _LINEAGE_WINDOW)
+        window = text[start:m.start()]
+        window = re.split(r"[\n.;]", window)[-1]
+        if _LINEAGE.search(window):
+            n = int(m.group(1))
+            if n not in found:
+                found.append(n)
+    return found
+
+
+async def _member_platform_ids(session, project_id: int) -> set[int]:
+    return set((await session.execute(
+        select(ProjectPlatform.platform_id).where(
+            ProjectPlatform.project_id == project_id,
+            ProjectPlatform.state.in_(MEMBER_STATES),
+        )
+    )).scalars().all())
+
+
+def _evaluate_line(note_id: int) -> str:
+    return (
+        f"Evaluate it now: get_family_idea({note_id}) shows the three criteria and "
+        "the nearest precedents; then promote_family_idea if all three hold, or "
+        "leave it a candidate (promote_family_idea records which criterion "
+        "failed). No one approves this — the criteria decide."
+    )
+
+
+async def citation_trigger(user_id: int, note) -> str | None:
+    """A record that cites ANOTHER project's record as the source of its
+    pattern opens an evaluation of that source as a family idea. Silent on a
+    citation without lineage words, and on a citation within one project."""
+    if not getattr(note, "project_id", None):
+        return None
+    cited = [n for n in lineage_citations(note.body) if n != note.id]
+    if not cited:
+        return None
+    async with async_session() as session:
+        rows = (await session.execute(
+            select(Note.id, Note.title, Note.project_id, Project.title)
+            .join(Project, Project.id == Note.project_id)
+            .where(
+                Note.id.in_(cited), Note.deleted_at.is_(None),
+                Note.project_id.is_not(None), Note.project_id != note.project_id,
+            )
+        )).all()
+    for source_id, source_title, _pid, project_title in sorted(rows, key=lambda r: cited.index(r[0])):
+        if not await access.can_write_note(user_id, source_id):
+            continue
+        idea, created = await propose(
+            user_id, source_id, trigger="citation", decided_via="system",
+            reason=f"#{note.id} cites it as the source of its pattern, across projects",
+            evidence={"cited_by": {"id": note.id, "title": note.title}},
+        )
+        if idea["status"] == "canon":
+            return (
+                f"This record follows #{source_id} \"{source_title}\" ({project_title}), "
+                "which is already family canon. This project answers it through "
+                "its adoption ledger rather than by copying it."
+            )
+        lead = "is now a family-idea candidate" if created else "is already a candidate"
+        return (
+            f"This record cites #{source_id} \"{source_title}\" ({project_title}) as "
+            f"the source of its pattern — an idea carried between projects, which "
+            f"{lead}. {_evaluate_line(source_id)}"
+        )
+    return None
+
+
+async def repeat_trigger(user_id: int, note) -> str | None:
+    """A new record whose meaning repeats a record in ANOTHER project that
+    shares a platform with this one opens an evaluation of the earlier record.
+    Silent when the projects share no platform, below the threshold, or when
+    the project has no platforms yet."""
+    from scribe.services.embeddings import embedding_text, semantic_search_notes
+
+    if not getattr(note, "project_id", None) or note.is_task:
+        return None
+    async with async_session() as session:
+        mine = await _member_platform_ids(session, note.project_id)
+    if not mine:
+        return None
+    hits = await semantic_search_notes(
+        user_id, embedding_text(note.title, note.body), exclude_ids={note.id},
+        limit=8, threshold=REPEAT_THRESHOLD, scope="read", note_type=_REPEAT_KINDS,
+        is_task=False, demote_superseded=False,
+    )
+    for score, other in hits:
+        if not other.project_id or other.project_id == note.project_id:
+            continue
+        async with async_session() as session:
+            shared = mine & await _member_platform_ids(session, other.project_id)
+        if not shared or not await access.can_write_note(user_id, other.id):
+            continue
+        idea, created = await propose(
+            user_id, other.id, trigger="repeat", decided_via="system",
+            reason=(f"#{note.id} repeats it in another project on a shared platform "
+                    f"(similarity {score:.2f})"),
+            evidence={"repeated_by": {"id": note.id, "title": note.title},
+                      "similarity": round(float(score), 3)},
+        )
+        if idea["status"] == "canon":
+            return (
+                f"This record repeats #{other.id} \"{other.title}\", which is already "
+                "family canon on a platform this project shares. Build from it."
+            )
+        lead = "is now a family-idea candidate" if created else "is already a candidate"
+        return (
+            f"This record repeats #{other.id} \"{other.title}\" from another project "
+            f"on a platform this one shares (similarity {score:.2f}). Two projects "
+            f"building the same idea is what family canon is for; #{other.id} {lead}. "
+            f"{_evaluate_line(other.id)}"
+        )
+    return None
+
+
+async def milestone_is_open(user_id: int, milestone_id: int) -> bool:
+    """Whether a milestone is open right now — read before a status write, so
+    the trigger fires on the transition into done and not on every re-save of
+    a closed one. Fail-open to False: a hint must never break the write."""
+    from scribe.services import milestones as milestones_svc
+
+    try:
+        milestone = await milestones_svc.get_milestone(user_id, milestone_id)
+    except Exception:
+        logger.warning("milestone %s status read failed", milestone_id, exc_info=True)
+        return False
+    return milestone is not None and milestone.status != "done"
+
+
+async def milestone_trigger(user_id: int, milestone) -> str | None:
+    """A milestone closing in a project that is on a platform: the moment to
+    ask whether what it built is something every project on that platform
+    will face. Records nothing — a milestone is not a record an idea can hang
+    on — so the hint asks for the note that would carry the idea."""
+    project_id = getattr(milestone, "project_id", None)
+    try:
+        if not project_id or not await access.can_read_project(user_id, project_id):
+            return None
+        async with async_session() as session:
+            names = (await session.execute(
+                select(Platform.name)
+                .join(ProjectPlatform, ProjectPlatform.platform_id == Platform.id)
+                .where(ProjectPlatform.project_id == project_id,
+                       ProjectPlatform.state.in_(MEMBER_STATES),
+                       Platform.deleted_at.is_(None))
+                .order_by(Platform.order_index.asc())
+            )).scalars().all()
+    except Exception:
+        # Fail-open: the milestone is already closed; the hint is decoration.
+        logger.warning("milestone trigger failed for %s", getattr(milestone, "id", None),
+                       exc_info=True)
+        return None
+    if not names:
+        return None
+    return (
+        f"This milestone closed on {', '.join(names)}. If it solved something every "
+        "project on those platforms will face — a problem the platform causes, or a "
+        "stance held across projects — the idea belongs in the family: write it up "
+        "as a note (when it applies, the traps, what proved it) and "
+        "propose_family_idea it, or promote_family_idea if it already meets the "
+        "three criteria. If what it built is this project's alone, nothing to do."
+    )
+
+
+async def attach_family_hint(user_id: int, data: dict, note, *, created: bool) -> None:
+    """Ride the trigger hints on a write's response — fail-open: a hint must
+    never break the write it rides on. Citation first (an explicit claim of
+    lineage), then, on a create, the repeat check."""
+    try:
+        hint = await citation_trigger(user_id, note)
+        if hint is None and created:
+            hint = await repeat_trigger(user_id, note)
+        if hint:
+            data["family_hint"] = hint
+    except Exception:
+        logger.warning("family trigger failed for note %s", getattr(note, "id", None), exc_info=True)
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 99e121e1..feb7026d 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -215,6 +215,30 @@ def _no_lesson_rule_links(request):
         yield
 
 
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _no_family_triggers(request):
+    """Stub family canon's write-time triggers (milestone 463 step 3).
+
+    create_note, create_task, create_snippet, the updates that change a body,
+    and update_milestone(status="done") now look for a pattern carried between
+    projects, and each look is a database read (the repeat check also embeds).
+    All are fail-open, so unstubbed they would cost a slow failed connect per
+    unit test rather than a failure. Patched at the trigger functions, beneath
+    `attach_family_hint`, so the attach itself — its order and its fail-open —
+    still runs. tests/test_family.py binds the real pure parts; the triggers
+    themselves are exercised against Postgres in
+    tests/test_integration_family_promotion.py, which this skips.
+    """
+    if request.node.get_closest_marker("integration"):
+        yield
+        return
+    with patch("scribe.services.family.citation_trigger", AsyncMock(return_value=None)), \
+         patch("scribe.services.family.repeat_trigger", AsyncMock(return_value=None)), \
+         patch("scribe.services.family.milestone_trigger", AsyncMock(return_value=None)), \
+         patch("scribe.services.family.milestone_is_open", AsyncMock(return_value=False)):
+        yield
+
+
 @pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
 def _no_moment_delivery(request):
     """Stub the moment lookup the mapped MCP tools attach (milestone 458).
diff --git a/tests/test_family.py b/tests/test_family.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..41b0cfda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_family.py
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+"""The promotion engine without a database (milestone 463 step 3).
+
+The parts that decide — which citations claim lineage, which criteria veto —
+are pure and pinned here, beside the doors' wiring: the triggers ride the
+write tools, fail open, and the criteria the service enforces are the ones
+the agent is told. The state machine against Postgres is in
+tests/test_integration_family_promotion.py.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, patch
+
+import pytest
+
+from scribe.mcp.server import _READ_ONLY_TOOLS, _WRITE_TOOLS
+from scribe.mcp.tools import family as family_tools
+from scribe.mcp.tools.milestones import update_milestone
+from scribe.services import family as family_svc
+from scribe.services.family import CRITERIA_KEYS, lineage_citations, vetoes
+from tests.helpers import fake_milestone
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.usefixtures("_bind_user")
+
+
+# --- which citations claim lineage ---------------------------------------------
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("text", [
+    "Signed release lane, matching roundtable-android (task #1615).",
+    "Ported from #1615, with the keystore step moved first.",
+    "Same shape as #1615: the APK is baked into the image.",
+    "This mirrors #1615 for the desktop client.",
+    "Modelled on #1615.",
+])
+def test_a_citation_with_a_lineage_word_names_its_source(text):
+    assert lineage_citations(text) == [1615]
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("text", [
+    "See #1615 for context.",
+    "#1615 is related.",
+    "Closes #1615.",
+    # The lineage word is in the PREVIOUS sentence — a different claim.
+    "This is matching the old flow. Unrelated: #1615.",
+    "Matching the old flow\nsee #1615",
+    "",
+])
+def test_a_citation_without_lineage_is_silent(text):
+    assert lineage_citations(text) == []
+
+
+def test_lineage_citations_are_in_order_and_unique():
+    text = "Based on #20; ported from #10. Same pattern as #20."
+    assert lineage_citations(text) == [20, 10]
+
+
+# --- each criterion vetoes on its own -----------------------------------------------
+
+GOOD = dict(
+    applies_when="any app that installs its own updates",
+    platforms=["android-app"],
+    criteria={
+        "platform_terms": "stated as an Android distribution concern",
+        "platform_problem": "Play Protect and signature checks are the platform's",
+        "proven": "shipped in two apps",
+    },
+    evidence=["CI run 8274 green", "#4775"],
+)
+
+
+def test_all_three_criteria_held_means_no_veto():
+    assert vetoes(**GOOD) == []
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("key", CRITERIA_KEYS)
+def test_each_criterion_left_unsupported_vetoes_on_its_own(key):
+    case = {**GOOD, "criteria": {**GOOD["criteria"], key: "   "}}
+    assert vetoes(**case) == [key]
+
+
+def test_platform_terms_needs_an_applicability_test_and_a_scope():
+    assert vetoes(**{**GOOD, "applies_when": ""}) == ["platform_terms"]
+    assert vetoes(**{**GOOD, "platforms": []}) == ["platform_terms"]
+
+
+def test_proven_needs_named_evidence():
+    assert vetoes(**{**GOOD, "evidence": []}) == ["proven"]
+    assert vetoes(**{**GOOD, "evidence": ["  "]}) == ["proven"]
+
+
+def test_the_criteria_the_agent_is_told_are_the_ones_enforced():
+    """Rule 119: the criteria are product text. The promote tool's docstring
+    must name every criterion the service checks, by its parameter name."""
+    doc = family_tools.promote_family_idea.__doc__
+    for key in CRITERIA_KEYS:
+        assert key in doc, f"promote_family_idea's docstring never names {key}"
+    assert len(family_svc.CRITERIA) == 3
+
+
+# --- the doors ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def test_every_family_tool_is_classified():
+    reads = {"list_family_ideas", "get_family_idea", "list_family_decisions"}
+    writes = {"propose_family_idea", "promote_family_idea", "retire_family_idea",
+              "undo_family_decision"}
+    assert reads <= _READ_ONLY_TOOLS
+    assert writes <= _WRITE_TOOLS
+
+
+def _note(**kw):
+    base = dict(id=7, project_id=2, title="t", body="b", is_task=False)
+    return SimpleNamespace(**{**base, **kw})
+
+
+async def test_a_citation_hint_wins_and_repeat_is_not_asked():
+    data: dict = {}
+    repeat = AsyncMock(return_value="repeat")
+    with patch.object(family_svc, "citation_trigger", AsyncMock(return_value="cited")), \
+         patch.object(family_svc, "repeat_trigger", repeat):
+        await family_svc.attach_family_hint(1, data, _note(), created=True)
+    assert data == {"family_hint": "cited"}
+    repeat.assert_not_awaited()
+
+
+async def test_the_repeat_check_runs_only_on_a_create():
+    repeat = AsyncMock(return_value="repeat")
+    with patch.object(family_svc, "citation_trigger", AsyncMock(return_value=None)), \
+         patch.object(family_svc, "repeat_trigger", repeat):
+        edited: dict = {}
+        await family_svc.attach_family_hint(1, edited, _note(), created=False)
+        created: dict = {}
+        await family_svc.attach_family_hint(1, created, _note(), created=True)
+    assert edited == {}
+    assert created == {"family_hint": "repeat"}
+
+
+async def test_a_failing_trigger_never_breaks_the_write():
+    data: dict = {"id": 7}
+    with patch.object(family_svc, "citation_trigger", AsyncMock(side_effect=RuntimeError("db down"))):
+        await family_svc.attach_family_hint(1, data, _note(), created=True)
+    assert data == {"id": 7}
+
+
+async def test_closing_a_milestone_on_a_platform_carries_the_hint():
+    closed = fake_milestone(id=5, project_id=3, status="done")
+    with patch("scribe.mcp.tools.milestones.milestones_svc.update_milestone",
+               AsyncMock(return_value=closed)), \
+         patch.object(family_svc, "milestone_is_open", AsyncMock(return_value=True)), \
+         patch.object(family_svc, "milestone_trigger", AsyncMock(return_value="evaluate")):
+        out = await update_milestone(project_id=3, milestone_id=5, status="done")
+    assert out["family_hint"] == "evaluate"
+
+
+async def test_re_saving_a_closed_milestone_asks_nothing():
+    closed = fake_milestone(id=5, project_id=3, status="done")
+    trigger = AsyncMock(return_value="evaluate")
+    with patch("scribe.mcp.tools.milestones.milestones_svc.update_milestone",
+               AsyncMock(return_value=closed)), \
+         patch.object(family_svc, "milestone_is_open", AsyncMock(return_value=False)), \
+         patch.object(family_svc, "milestone_trigger", trigger):
+        out = await update_milestone(project_id=3, milestone_id=5, status="done")
+    assert "family_hint" not in out
+    trigger.assert_not_awaited()
diff --git a/tests/test_integration_family_promotion.py b/tests/test_integration_family_promotion.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5665dcf5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_integration_family_promotion.py
@@ -0,0 +1,293 @@
+"""The promotion engine against real Postgres (milestone 463 step 3).
+
+What the unit lane can't show: a promotion opens the right ledger rows and
+no others, a veto changes nothing but the log, an undo puts back exactly the
+recorded prior state, and each trigger fires on its fixture and stays silent
+on the near-miss beside it.
+
+Precedent search and the repeat trigger both rank by meaning, and the lane
+has no embedding model. The search is stubbed to "nothing similar" for every
+test here (`_no_meaning`); the repeat tests stub it to one hit, to pin what
+the trigger does WITH a hit. The ranking itself is the shared semantic
+search, tested where that lives.
+"""
+from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, patch
+
+import pytest
+import pytest_asyncio
+from sqlalchemy import select
+
+from scribe.models import async_session
+from scribe.models.family import (
+    FamilyAdoption, FamilyDecision, FamilyIdea, Platform, ProjectPlatform,
+)
+from scribe.models.milestone import Milestone
+from scribe.models.note import Note
+from scribe.models.project import Project
+from scribe.models.user import User
+from scribe.services import family as family_svc
+from tests.helpers import ensure_user
+
+pytestmark = [pytest.mark.integration, pytest.mark.usefixtures("_dispose_engine")]
+
+OWNER = "family_promotion_owner"
+OUTSIDER = "family_promotion_outsider"
+
+CRITERIA = {
+    "platform_terms": "stated for any Android app that distributes its own APK",
+    "platform_problem": "signature continuity is the platform's rule, not one app's",
+    "proven": "shipped and updated in place on a device",
+}
+
+
+async def _purge(username: str) -> None:
+    """SETUP ONLY, as the backup round-trip siblings do: a database call
+    after a `yield` in an autouse fixture orphans a pooled connection."""
+    async with async_session() as s:
+        for user in (await s.execute(select(User).where(User.username == username))).scalars():
+            for note in (await s.execute(select(Note).where(Note.user_id == user.id))).scalars():
+                await s.delete(note)
+            for project in (await s.execute(select(Project).where(Project.user_id == user.id))).scalars():
+                await s.delete(project)
+        await s.commit()
+
+
+@pytest_asyncio.fixture(autouse=True)
+async def _clean():
+    await _purge(OWNER)
+    await _purge(OUTSIDER)
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _no_meaning():
+    with patch("scribe.services.embeddings.semantic_search_notes", AsyncMock(return_value=[])):
+        yield
+
+
+async def _platform_id(slug: str) -> int:
+    async with async_session() as s:
+        return await s.scalar(select(Platform.id).where(
+            Platform.slug == slug, Platform.deleted_at.is_(None)))
+
+
+@pytest_asyncio.fixture
+async def family():
+    """Three projects: two Android apps and a Go service, the pattern note
+    in the first, and an outsider's Android app the owner cannot write."""
+    android, go = await _platform_id("android-app"), await _platform_id("go")
+    async with async_session() as s:
+        owner = await ensure_user(s, OWNER)
+        outsider = await ensure_user(s, OUTSIDER)
+        a = Project(user_id=owner.id, title="android one")
+        b = Project(user_id=owner.id, title="android two")
+        c = Project(user_id=owner.id, title="go service")
+        theirs = Project(user_id=outsider.id, title="someone else's android app")
+        s.add_all([a, b, c, theirs])
+        await s.flush()
+        s.add_all([
+            ProjectPlatform(project_id=a.id, platform_id=android, state="declared"),
+            ProjectPlatform(project_id=b.id, platform_id=android, state="detected"),
+            ProjectPlatform(project_id=c.id, platform_id=go, state="declared"),
+            ProjectPlatform(project_id=theirs.id, platform_id=android, state="declared"),
+        ])
+        pattern = Note(user_id=owner.id, project_id=a.id, title="Signed APK lane",
+                       body="One keystore, two channels, in-place update.")
+        s.add(pattern)
+        await s.commit()
+        return {"owner": owner.id, "outsider": outsider.id, "a": a.id, "b": b.id,
+                "c": c.id, "theirs": theirs.id, "note": pattern.id}
+
+
+async def _promote(f, **overrides):
+    kw = dict(
+        applies_when="any Android app that ships its own APK",
+        platforms=["android-app"], criteria=CRITERIA,
+        evidence=["CI green on the release lane", "verified on a device"],
+        reason="built twice, proven, stated for the platform",
+    )
+    kw.update(overrides)
+    return await family_svc.promote(f["owner"], f["note"], **kw)
+
+
+async def _ledger(note_id: int) -> dict[int, str]:
+    async with async_session() as s:
+        rows = (await s.execute(
+            select(FamilyAdoption.project_id, FamilyAdoption.status)
+            .where(FamilyAdoption.idea_id == note_id)
+        )).all()
+    return dict(rows)
+
+
+async def _idea(note_id: int) -> FamilyIdea:
+    async with async_session() as s:
+        return await s.get(FamilyIdea, note_id)
+
+
+# --- promotion ------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+async def test_promotion_opens_a_row_for_every_member_project_the_promoter_can_write(family):
+    out = await _promote(family)
+    assert out["promoted"] is True
+    # Declared and detected both count as membership; the Go service is not
+    # on the platform; the outsider's app is not the promoter's to write.
+    assert await _ledger(family["note"]) == {family["a"]: "unassessed",
+                                            family["b"]: "unassessed"}
+    idea = await _idea(family["note"])
+    assert idea.status == "canon" and idea.canon_version == 1
+    decision = out["decision"]
+    assert decision["action"] == "promote"
+    assert decision["after"]["platforms"] == ["android-app"]
+    assert decision["evidence"]["criteria"]["proven"] == CRITERIA["proven"]
+    assert decision["evidence"]["ledger_rows_opened"] == 2
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("key", list(family_svc.CRITERIA_KEYS))
+async def test_each_criterion_vetoes_on_its_own_and_the_veto_is_logged(family, key):
+    out = await _promote(family, criteria={**CRITERIA, key: ""})
+    assert out["promoted"] is False and out["vetoed_by"] == [key]
+    assert (await _idea(family["note"])).status == "candidate"
+    assert await _ledger(family["note"]) == {}
+    assert out["decision"]["action"] == "propose"
+    assert out["decision"]["evidence"]["vetoed_by"] == [key]
+
+
+async def test_an_unknown_platform_is_refused_before_anything_is_written(family):
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="unknown platform"):
+        await _promote(family, platforms=["android-app", "no-such-platform"])
+    assert await _idea(family["note"]) is None
+
+
+async def test_someone_who_cannot_write_the_note_cannot_promote_it(family):
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="no write access"):
+        await family_svc.promote(
+            family["outsider"], family["note"], applies_when="x", platforms=["android-app"],
+            criteria=CRITERIA, evidence=["e"], reason="r",
+        )
+
+
+# --- undo and retirement ------------------------------------------------------------
+
+async def test_undoing_a_promotion_restores_the_prior_state_and_keeps_judged_rows(family):
+    out = await _promote(family)
+    async with async_session() as s:
+        row = (await s.execute(select(FamilyAdoption).where(
+            FamilyAdoption.idea_id == family["note"],
+            FamilyAdoption.project_id == family["a"]))).scalars().one()
+        row.status, row.canon_version, row.decided_via = "adopted", 1, "agent"
+        await s.commit()
+
+    await family_svc.undo(family["owner"], out["decision"]["id"], reason="promoted too early")
+    idea = await _idea(family["note"])
+    # Promoted directly, with no proposal before it: the prior state was "not
+    # an idea", which an undo records as retired rather than deleting the
+    # idea and its log with it.
+    assert idea.status == "retired" and idea.applies_when is None
+    # The unjudged row goes; the judged one stays as history.
+    assert await _ledger(family["note"]) == {family["a"]: "adopted"}
+
+    again = await _promote(family)
+    # Re-promotion moves PAST every version this idea has held, so the kept
+    # answer reads as needing a recheck rather than as still agreeing.
+    assert again["idea"]["canon_version"] == 2
+    assert await _ledger(family["note"]) == {family["a"]: "adopted", family["b"]: "unassessed"}
+
+
+async def test_retiring_closes_unjudged_rows_and_undoing_it_reopens_them(family):
+    await _promote(family)
+    out = await family_svc.retire(family["owner"], family["note"], reason="superseded")
+    assert (await _idea(family["note"])).status == "retired"
+    assert await _ledger(family["note"]) == {}
+    await family_svc.undo(family["owner"], out["decision"]["id"], reason="not superseded after all")
+    assert (await _idea(family["note"])).status == "canon"
+    assert set((await _ledger(family["note"])).values()) == {"unassessed"}
+
+
+async def test_only_the_latest_idea_decision_can_be_undone(family):
+    first = await _promote(family)
+    await family_svc.retire(family["owner"], family["note"], reason="superseded")
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="came after it"):
+        await family_svc.undo(family["owner"], first["decision"]["id"], reason="r")
+
+
+async def test_an_undo_names_what_it_reversed_as_its_precedent(family):
+    out = await _promote(family)
+    undo = await family_svc.undo(family["owner"], out["decision"]["id"], reason="r")
+    assert undo["decision"]["action"] == "undo"
+    assert undo["decision"]["precedent_ids"] == [out["decision"]["id"]]
+    async with async_session() as s:
+        actions = (await s.execute(select(FamilyDecision.action).where(
+            FamilyDecision.idea_id == family["note"]).order_by(FamilyDecision.id))).scalars().all()
+    assert actions == ["promote", "undo"]
+
+
+# --- triggers -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+async def _note_in(project_id: int, owner_id: int, body: str) -> Note:
+    async with async_session() as s:
+        note = Note(user_id=owner_id, project_id=project_id, title="the second build", body=body)
+        s.add(note)
+        await s.commit()
+        await s.refresh(note)
+        return note
+
+
+async def test_a_cross_project_lineage_citation_opens_an_evaluation(family):
+    citing = await _note_in(family["b"], family["owner"],
+                            f"Release lane, matching the first app (#{family['note']}).")
+    hint = await family_svc.citation_trigger(family["owner"], citing)
+    assert hint and f"#{family['note']}" in hint
+    idea = await _idea(family["note"])
+    assert idea is not None and idea.status == "candidate"
+    async with async_session() as s:
+        d = (await s.execute(select(FamilyDecision).where(
+            FamilyDecision.idea_id == family["note"]))).scalars().one()
+    assert d.decided_via == "system" and d.evidence["trigger"] == "citation"
+
+
+async def test_a_citation_without_lineage_or_within_one_project_is_silent(family):
+    pointer = await _note_in(family["b"], family["owner"], f"See #{family['note']} for context.")
+    same_project = await _note_in(family["a"], family["owner"], f"Matching #{family['note']}.")
+    assert await family_svc.citation_trigger(family["owner"], pointer) is None
+    assert await family_svc.citation_trigger(family["owner"], same_project) is None
+    assert await _idea(family["note"]) is None
+
+
+async def test_a_repeat_on_a_shared_platform_opens_an_evaluation(family):
+    """The meaning match is stubbed — the lane has no model — so this pins
+    what the trigger does with a hit: only a hit in ANOTHER project that
+    shares a platform counts."""
+    repeat = await _note_in(family["b"], family["owner"], "One keystore, two channels.")
+    async with async_session() as s:
+        original = await s.get(Note, family["note"])
+    with patch("scribe.services.embeddings.semantic_search_notes",
+               AsyncMock(return_value=[(0.86, original)])):
+        hint = await family_svc.repeat_trigger(family["owner"], repeat)
+    assert hint and f"#{family['note']}" in hint
+    assert (await _idea(family["note"])).status == "candidate"
+
+
+async def test_a_repeat_with_no_shared_platform_is_silent(family):
+    unrelated = await _note_in(family["c"], family["owner"], "One keystore, two channels.")
+    async with async_session() as s:
+        original = await s.get(Note, family["note"])
+    with patch("scribe.services.embeddings.semantic_search_notes",
+               AsyncMock(return_value=[(0.86, original)])):
+        assert await family_svc.repeat_trigger(family["owner"], unrelated) is None
+    assert await _idea(family["note"]) is None
+
+
+async def test_a_milestone_closing_on_a_platform_asks_and_one_off_platform_does_not(family):
+    async with async_session() as s:
+        on_platform = Milestone(user_id=family["owner"], project_id=family["a"], title="m1")
+        bare = Project(user_id=family["owner"], title="no platforms")
+        s.add_all([on_platform, bare])
+        await s.flush()
+        off_platform = Milestone(user_id=family["owner"], project_id=bare.id, title="m2")
+        s.add(off_platform)
+        await s.commit()
+        await s.refresh(on_platform)
+        await s.refresh(off_platform)
+    hint = await family_svc.milestone_trigger(family["owner"], on_platform)
+    assert hint and "Android app" in hint
+    assert await family_svc.milestone_trigger(family["owner"], off_platform) is None
+    assert await family_svc.milestone_is_open(family["owner"], on_platform.id) is True
diff --git a/tests/test_routes_family.py b/tests/test_routes_family.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f8865933
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_routes_family.py
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+"""Structural tests for the family blueprint (milestone 463 step 3) — every
+endpoint is routed, and every write hands the service its caller, where the
+note's write gate lives. What the writes do is in
+tests/test_integration_family_promotion.py."""
+import inspect
+
+
+def test_family_blueprint_routes_every_endpoint():
+    from scribe.app import create_app
+    app = create_app()
+    assert "family" in app.blueprints
+    rules = {(r.rule, m) for r in app.url_map.iter_rules() for m in r.methods}
+    for rule, method in (
+        ("/api/family/ideas", "GET"),
+        ("/api/family/ideas/<int:note_id>", "GET"),
+        ("/api/family/ideas/<int:note_id>/propose", "POST"),
+        ("/api/family/ideas/<int:note_id>/promote", "POST"),
+        ("/api/family/ideas/<int:note_id>/retire", "POST"),
+        ("/api/family/decisions", "GET"),
+        ("/api/family/decisions/<int:decision_id>/undo", "POST"),
+    ):
+        assert (rule, method) in rules, f"{method} {rule} is not routed"
+
+
+def test_every_engine_write_takes_the_caller_and_who_decided():
+    from scribe.services import family as svc
+    for name in ("propose", "promote", "retire", "undo"):
+        params = inspect.signature(getattr(svc, name)).parameters
+        assert "user_id" in params and "decided_via" in params, name