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 ## Deliberately deferred (scope discipline)
 
-- **Time-tracking / users / the 3,000-line dashboard** — these serve a
-  project-management identity, not the "context for AI" job. Not cut, but no
-  further investment until the wedge is proven. Open question: which core job
-  does time-tracking serve?
-- **True semantic search** (embeddings) — violates zero-dependency; revisit only
-  as an optional extra.
+- **Time-tracking / users — FROZEN (maintenance-only)** as of 2026-06-11. The
+  open question is resolved: they are kept and supported but get no new
+  investment; team assignment lives on GitHub via `aim github`. See
+  [ADR 0001](decisions/0001-freeze-time-tracking-and-users.md). (Issue #12)
+- **True semantic search / contradiction detection** — shipping as the optional
+  `pip install aim-cli[semantic]` extra (embeddings); the core stays
+  zero-dependency. (Issue #11)
+
+## Status (2026-06-11)
+
+All roadmap phases shipped (v1.0.0 → v1.8.0). Backlog from the AIM Roadmap
+project: #7 (two-way sync), #8 (Project status sync), #9 (Health tab), #10
+(task renumber) are done; #11 (semantic extra) is in progress; #12 (this
+freeze decision) is recorded above.
 
 ## Comparable tools (landscape reference)
 
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+# ADR 0001 — Freeze time-tracking and user management (maintenance-only)
+
+- **Status:** Accepted
+- **Date:** 2026-06-11
+- **Resolves:** AIM Roadmap issue #12
+
+## Context
+
+AIM's positioning is the **living context layer** for AI coding assistants —
+keeping project context (rules, tasks, memory, docs) trustworthy and synced
+across tools. Two existing surfaces sit at the edge of that mission:
+
+- **Time tracking** (`aim time start/stop/status/log/report`)
+- **User / assignee management** (`aim user ...`)
+
+Both are project-management features. They overlap with what teams already get
+from GitHub (now that `aim github` projects tasks onto Issues/Projects), and
+investing further in them pulls AIM toward competing with Jira/GitHub rather
+than deepening the context-layer wedge.
+
+## Decision
+
+**Freeze** time-tracking and user management as **maintenance-only**:
+
+- Keep them working and supported — no removal, no breaking changes, no
+  deprecation warnings. Existing users and data are unaffected.
+- Do **not** invest in new features there. New product energy goes to the
+  context layer (doctor/freshness, sync, GitHub integration, spec-driven flow).
+- Assignment/ownership for teams is expected to live on GitHub via `aim github`,
+  not in bespoke AIM PM features.
+
+This is deliberately **not** a deprecation: we considered removing them at 2.0
+and rejected it as needless churn for current users.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- The roadmap's "Deliberately deferred" section is updated to record this.
+- Bug fixes to `cmd_time` / `cmd_user` are still welcome; feature PRs there will
+  be declined unless they serve the context-layer mission.
+- Revisit only if usage data or user demand clearly justifies reinvestment.