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name: merge-docs
description: |
Compare and merge two design docs for the same feature into a single source of truth.
Use when you have competing or complementary design/implementation docs (e.g. from separate design runs) that need reconciling into one unified document.
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# Merge Design Documents
**Goal: Produce a single, unified set of feature docs from two separate designs for the same feature.**
## Conventions
- **Read capy knowledge base conventions** at [shared-capy-knowledge-protocol.md](shared-capy-knowledge-protocol.md).
## When to Use
You have two feature directories under `/docs/wip/` for the same feature — each with its own design, implementation plan, and task list — and you need to combine them into one coherent set of docs.
## Workflow
**Mandatory order — grounding before merging.** The flow below is strictly sequential. Do not categorize sections, surface contradictions, or write merged content until you have read both feature directories fully and built a codebase-grounded mental model. Merging without grounding produces decisions based on prose clarity rather than codebase reality — the wrong tiebreaker.
See [merge-process.md](./merge-process.md) for the detailed steps.