# Steering: honesty over hype

The single most important cultural rule in Solnix.

**Never describe planned or partial work as done.** A reader deciding whether to
try Solnix must be able to trust every status claim on the site, in the
handbook, in the news, and in any agent's answer.

Concrete standard:
- "live" = usable today. "dev-preview" = a real artifact you can try, with
  rough edges. "planned" = designed, not built.
- The headless install image (TUI, wifi on the X1) is dev-preview. A GPU-driven
  desktop is **not** shipping — COSMIC *compiles*, it is not driving a display
  yet. Say exactly that; do not announce a desktop.
- Package/architecture counts and build status come from the live API
  (`/api/v1/systems`, `/status`), never from a number typed into prose.
- Man-page auto-linking stays a no-op until the real corpus is published —
  linking to pages that don't exist yet would be a dead link, which is a lie by
  another name.

If you are not sure whether something works, the honest move is to say so and
check — not to round up. A confident wrong claim costs more than a hedge.