The Tree (Living Snapshot)

Current state of the lossless-monorepo pseudomonorepo and its descendants. This is a living doc — update it when the tree changes, when a child’s intent shifts, or when reality drifts from intent.

Important: Most pseudomonorepos here are imperfectly maintained. The tables below describe intent and rough state, not guarantees of completeness or freshness.

The Anchor


Name	`lossless-monorepo`
Repo	https://github.com/lossless-group/lossless-monorepo
Local path	`~/code/lossless-monorepo/` (varies per collaborator)
Status	Active, root-level imperfectly maintained
Role	Anchor pseudomonorepo for The Lossless Group

The root has its own context-v/, plus children. Some children are themselves pseudomonorepos (nesting).

Rank-ordered children

Ordered by current importance / activity, not alphabetically.

1. `ai-labs/`


Path	`~/code/lossless-monorepo/ai-labs/`
Intent	Work where we monkey with AI + Agents on complex workloads
Reality	Active. Where this skills repo originated. Multi-agent orchestration experiments live here (e.g., `investment-memo-orchestrator/`).
Likely a pseudomonorepo?	Yes — has multiple sub-projects. Check for nested `context-v/`.

2. `astro-knots/`


Path	`~/code/lossless-monorepo/astro-knots/`
Intent	The family of websites — feature-rich, opinionated, following the Astro Knots conventions (see `astro-knots` skill)
Reality	Active. ~10+ sites at varying maturity. New sites added at ~1 every few weeks.
Likely a pseudomonorepo?	Yes — each site is its own repo.

3. `content-farm/`


Path	`~/code/lossless-monorepo/content-farm/`
Intent	Tools and infrastructure for content development
Reality	Currently almost entirely Obsidian plugins — Obsidian is the team’s content authoring environment.
Likely a pseudomonorepo?	Yes — multiple plugin repos.

4. `tidyverse/`


Path	`~/code/lossless-monorepo/tidyverse/`
Intent	Tools, libs, scripts for cleaning up other things
Reality	Active but lower-volume than the top three.
Likely a pseudomonorepo?	Maybe — depends on how many child tools have grown into their own repos.

Other directories at the root

The lossless-monorepo root has many other directories beyond the four named children — including individual project repos, shared data/, docs/, flake-modules/, scripts, and dotfiles. They are not pseudomonorepo children in the formal sense, but they may still have context-v/ worth checking.

When unsure whether a sibling dir is a pseudomonorepo: apply the identifier from anatomy.md (.git + context-v/ = yes).

Maintenance & root-level helpers

Useful scripts that already exist at ~/code/lossless-monorepo/:

reattach-all-submodule-remotes.sh
switch-all-to-development-branch.sh
switch-all-to-master-branch.sh

When working with submodules across the tree, check these first before writing your own.

How to update this doc

When the tree changes:

Bump semantic_version per the four-part scheme
Update date_modified
Add or remove a child entry
If a child’s “intent” or “reality” shifts meaningfully, edit those rows
If a brand-new tree level appears (deep nesting), document it here

This is a context-v/-style living doc, even though it lives in a skill. Same discipline applies.