Kickoff — bootstrap this project (ACTIVE)

This is the bootstrap phase — it runs once, before the three-mode loop (CONTRIBUTING.md → The Kickoff). It ships already open; you don't open it, you work it. It's the one phase that writes the strategy shelf instead of orienting against it, and the one time all ground is open (system + product), because it's creating the ground the touch bands later protect. Treat it as a guided conversation — answer the prompts and let the system explain its options as you go.

Full step-by-step: the root KICKOFF.md (one home, many references — this board is the checklist, not the guide). Each item below maps to a KICKOFF.md step.

Items

• Answer the seeded Open Questions (planning/Open Questions & Assumptions Log.md) — who's the user, what's out of scope, the smallest thesis-proving thing, the riskiest assumption. Each answer becomes a decision, a strategy edit, or a queued phase; then delete the question.
• Fill the strategy shelf — strategy/Vision.md (bedrock) + Scope & Constraints.md; flip both status: draft → active and set their summary:.
• Choose the stack — fill CLAUDE.md's ## Stack + ## Design & Code Conventions blocks.
• Name the project, everywhere — lib/project.ts covers every in-app surface in one edit; package.json, the git repo, the folder, and the deploy project are each their own. Set them together (implementation/shipping.md).
• Decide where the record lives — or defer, deliberately — one gated deployment · two deployments · local-only. Tradeoffs in implementation/shipping.md; the choice (including "not yet") goes in decisions.md.
• Make the design system yours (web projects) — re-skin the tokens in app/globals.css; the styleguide re-derives on the next build. Token names are load-bearing; values are yours.
• Set the ROADMAP + queue the first product phase — the Goal line, Where We Are, and one queued row with a one-line thesis and a seed in planning/queued/.
• Log the kickoff decisions in decisions.md (the stack choice, the vision as first drafted).

Close items

• Hand off for verification — present the filled shelf (Vision + Scope active, ROADMAP set, first product phase queued) for the PO's read.
• last-reviewed stamped on every doc filled/reviewed during kickoff.
• Replace README.md with your project's own — the template's pitch + quickstart have done their job.
• Delete KICKOFF.md — its durable notes already live in their homes (implementation/system-surface.md, app/globals.css, your CLAUDE.md Stack block). The template leaves no onboarding behind.
• Distill + delete this board, then open the first product phase from the roadmap. The three-mode loop starts here.