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docs: function names in the design notes and specs are stale

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Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
92/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
go
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Read the listed occurrences in design/implementation.md, spec/rename_guarded.fsl, and spec/naming_rules.fsl. Update the stale names to the replacements in the issue, leaving the spec behavior unchanged. Done when those references match the Go code and the specs still verify.

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Description

documentation P3

The following names no longer exist in the analyzer's Go code (grep -w):

Old name Now Where it still appears
renameSafe (it survives only in shrink) safeToRename design/implementation.md, spec/rename_guarded.fsl
fileScopesBind renameBoundByImport design/implementation.md, spec/rename_guarded.fsl
hasUnseenTests unseen().all design/implementation.md
directiveFix, startsLine directiveInsertionFix, insertionAtLineStart design/implementation.md, spec/naming_rules.fsl

The places are design/implementation.md lines 356, 390, 394, 400, 408 and 472, spec/rename_guarded.fsl lines 6–10 and 66, and spec/naming_rules.fsl line 48.

Suggested fix

Rename them in the docs. Only the spec comments change, so the specs still verify.

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