# ARC Reference Index — Legacy Pointer **Status / authority:** Legacy compatibility pointer **Effective date:** 2026-08-05 **Dependencies:** `LEGANT_METHOD_REFERENCE.md`; `Direction/Four Narrative Constraints.md`; published Legant Method page; frozen ARC release **Supersedes:** The pre-migration mixed client/internal Reference Index at this path ARC was the former name of the methodology now governed as **the Legant Method**. For current client-readable methodology: 1. Read `LEGANT_METHOD_REFERENCE.md` for the detailed method map, framework inventory, applied protocols, evidence status, and source lineage. 2. Read `LEGANT_METHOD_REFERENCE.md` and its supporting architecture detail for current architecture: hypothesis, aim, principles, six steps, five alignments, glossary, and evidence boundary. 3. For the current replacement for Focus Line, read `LEGANT_METHOD_REFERENCE.md` §§2–3: the nine-question Operating Manual's "What I choose" answers. `Direction/Four Narrative Constraints.md`, the intermediate replacement, is now legacy. For exact historical interpretation or recovery, the maintainer retains a frozen ARC release dated 2026-07-29. It preserves the complete pre-migration ARC Reference Index and `ARC Methodology.docx` with checksums, but it is not included in the public share because it contains private material. The public `ARC Methodology.docx` is an access notice at the historical filename. Historical client artifacts retain the terminology they actually used. ARC remains a searchable compatibility alias; it is not the name of new canon.