Question
Can the Lab grow its knowledge archive by extracting principles that are already demonstrated by its projects?
Method
Compare project architecture, constraints, verification boundaries and design lessons. Record only patterns that recur across more than one system or are strong enough to stand as a reusable engineering rule.
Result
The approach produced durable themes around authority boundaries, durable state, independent verification, bounded complexity and disposable derived views.
Boundary
This is not a content-generation pipeline. The repository remains the source of truth, and a principle belongs in the knowledge archive only when it can be traced back to actual engineering work.
Lesson
The archive should grow from engineering evidence outward, not from a quota for publishing inward.