The ArcKit Book

Source and research for The ArcKit Book — a comprehensive guide to the ArcKit Enterprise Architecture Governance & Vendor Procurement Toolkit.

Extracted from the main tractorjuice/arc-kit repository on 2026-04-20 so the book can evolve on its own release cadence.

Contents

• docs/book/ARCKIT-BOOK.md — the book itself (Markdown, ~4,000 lines, 18 embedded Mermaid diagrams).
• docs/book/images/ — rendered SVG diagrams and their Mermaid sources.
• docs/book-research/ — research notes that feed the book: origin story, architecture, key milestones, command reference, UK Government compliance, hints and lessons, community and contributors, security architecture, Claude Code platform evolution, article index, and statistics.
• docs/book-research/deepwiki-diagrams/ — 826 Mermaid diagrams extracted from DeepWiki, 18 curated and audited for inclusion in the book.
• docs/superpowers/plans/2026-04-20-book-restructure.md — 20-task plan for restructuring the book into a 4-part, 20-chapter layout organised around the governance lifecycle.

Relationship to ArcKit

This repository describes ArcKit. The toolkit itself lives at tractorjuice/arc-kit. When ArcKit changes in ways that affect the book (new commands, renamed paths, version bumps, framework corrections), the book is updated here.

The commit history in this repository preserves the book-specific changes from arc-kit — 16 commits going back to the book's original introduction in tractorjuice/arc-kit#286.

Reading the book

The book is published as a single Markdown file. GitHub renders the embedded Mermaid diagrams automatically. For PDF / print output, the Mermaid blocks can be pre-rendered with @mermaid-js/mermaid-cli.

License

Same license as tractorjuice/arc-kit.