# Overview

## Intent

The Core pages state what every LiteSpec project shares: the principles, the record layers, the records that hold intent and behavior, and the rules for agents, writing, and releases. Read them in the order below when starting a project, then load only the pages each task touches.

## Reading Order

- [Principles](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/principles.md): the founding rules that settle choices no narrower page covers.
- [Model](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/model.md): the record types, their links, and what the builder computes.
- [Record Language](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/language.md): the grammar for every field name, value, record name, finding code, and tool name a project writes or reads.
- [Writing](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/writing.md): the prose standard for every record value, title, explanation file, documentation page, comment, changelog, and decision record a project writes.
- [Layers](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/layers.md): the four record layers and the translation rules between them.
- [Intent](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/intent.md): where a project states its business intent and in what form.
- [Behavior](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/behavior.md): the overview of the five Behavior pages and the mapping from records to design.
- [Domain Model](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/domain-model.md): the modules, glossary, aggregates, rules, and domain events inside the bounded context.
- [Use Cases](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/use-cases.md): the commands, queries, results, scenarios, and settings.
- [Automation](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/automation.md): the reactions and jobs that run without a request.
- [Edges and Screens](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/edges.md): the integration events, notifications, entry points, screens, and external systems.
- [Privacy and Retention](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/privacy.md): the data classes and the retention schedule.
- [Access](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/access.md): the actors, roles, permissions, entry points, and external systems that govern who may do what and how it is reached.
- [System](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/system.md): what LiteSpec coordinates and the parts it combines.
- [Release](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/release.md): what a release ships and what its evidence shows.
- [Authoring](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/authoring.md): page styles, provision contracts, identifiers, and prose style; what `litespec-maintain validate` checks.
- [Agent](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/agent.md): how agents select context, resolve standards, and report completion.
- [Scope](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/scope.md): the one size, one shape, and stacks each project selects.
- [Stacks](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/stacks.md): what selecting a stack applies, and what each stack folder holds.
- [Provision Scopes](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/scopes.md): the stack, layer, artifact, and strength each provision carries, and the scope block each page declares.
- [Maintaining](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/core/maintaining.md): the maintainer manual for provision lifecycle, renames, citations, and releases.