# Deferred Design Template

A design for work that is agreed but not yet scheduled. Use this template only
when `.stdd/config.json` keeps `projectLog.enabled` set to `true`. It lives as
a **dated entry** in the project log (e.g. `docs/project/`), never as a spec
file next to canonical docs. When the policy is disabled, keep the design
outside the tracked tree instead. Delete the entry when the work ships or is
abandoned.

The frontmatter is mandatory: it is the machine-readable marker that keeps
agent retrieval authority-aware — canonical docs never carry
`authority: non-canonical`, project-log entries always do.

```markdown
---
authority: non-canonical
status: deferred
---

# <Title>

Last updated: <YYYY-MM-DD>

- Status: Deferred | Decision needed | Ready | Blocked
- Priority: High | Medium | Low

## Problem

<What hurts and who it hurts. Impact if never done.>

## Agreed direction

<The design, as rules precise enough to implement from. Note explicitly that
this describes FUTURE behavior — canonical docs still describe the present.>

## Why deferred

<The reason it is not being done now.>

## Resume condition

<The concrete trigger that should restart this work.>

## Acceptance criteria

<How we will know it is done.>
```