# Christopher Alexander — the trace table

*Source: <https://influences.sgit.ai/register/christopher-alexander/trace/index.html>*

| Pattern from the anchor | Where the estate implements it | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code as a space developers inhabit — judge it by navigability and comfort | The Designer role definition's review criteria | — | implemented |
| A *language* of patterns — named solutions that compose, each referring to the ones above and below it | Nowhere. The estate has conventions and a house style; it has no pattern language, and the two are not the same thing | — | absent |
| Patterns discovered from use rather than designed in advance | Nowhere recorded. The estate's conventions were derived by counting the code on [the coding sibling](https://coding.sgit.ai), which is the same method — but it was not done in Alexander's name and the connection is this site's inference | — | absent |

Row sources:

- Code as a space developers inhabit — judge it by navigability and comfort — `team/roles/designer/ROLE.md`, quoted in 02__ §D1
- A *language* of patterns — named solutions that compose, each referring to the ones above and below it — absence across the corpus; the role definition names the lineage without building one
- Patterns discovered from use rather than designed in advance — this site's own reading; flagged as inference rather than evidence

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