Write the first half of the user documentation for imdUSD, a dollar-denominated CDP stablecoin in this repository: the overview, the borrower and redeemer guides, and the keeper guides. Deliver Markdown files only; a separate step renders them into the site. Do not modify any tracked file.

BEFORE WRITING, research how strong DeFi documentation is organised (the Diataxis split of tutorials, how-to guides, reference and explanation; and live examples such as Liquity, Aave and MakerDAO/Sky docs) and apply what you find. Summarise the practices you adopted, with links, in artifacts/docs/README.md.

PAGES IN THIS JOB AND WHAT EACH MUST COVER:

overview/what-is-imdusd: what it is, who it is for, what backs it, what is unproven, in under 500 words.

overview/how-it-holds-a-dollar: explanation of borrowing, redemption at the lesser of $1 and backing per imdUSD less the fee, liquidation, and the swarm-attested price (IMD/ETH from IdentityMD panels, times Chainlink ETH/USD), with the primary and spot divergence guard.

overview/glossary: every term the set uses (collateral ratio, mat, duty, line, chi, network health index, mark, grace, liquidation window, backing per imdUSD, reserve, stability fee, attestation, question hash, keeper).

guides/use-the-terminal: the terminal at /terminal/ (web/): monitor tabs, desk tabs, what each figure means, what disabled actions and their messages tell you.

guides/open-a-position, guides/manage-and-protect-a-position, guides/redeem: step-by-step tasks, each with prerequisites, the exact contract call underneath (lock, draw, wipe, free, cash), what can block it and how to recover. Protecting a position covers the liquidation price, how mat moves with network health, and that lock or wipe clears a mark.

keepers/how-liquidation-works, keepers/mark-and-liquidate, keepers/relay-oracle-updates, keepers/keeper-economics: bark and bite: marks, grace and the liquidation window; the bonus (CHOP_PERCENT) and how it splits into chip for the marker, cut for the protocol and the rest for the biter; clearing recovered marks with heel; relaying an attestation permissionlessly through SwarmRelay; why relayAndBite and relayAndBark bundle a relay with the action; the inventory a keeper needs.

CONVENTIONS (shared with a sibling job writing the other half; follow exactly). Every page is Markdown at the path given, opening with a front-matter block: title, section, order (integer), audience (borrowers | keepers | integrators | governance | everyone), and sources (repo paths with line numbers, or URLs, that support the page). Describe imdUSD plainly as what it is and how it functions, from this repository's current source. Do NOT mention testnets, Sepolia, test deployments, version history or anything as "currently" or "today": these pages ship with the mainnet launch and must not need revising after it. Every contract address is written exactly as "(waiting for mainnet launch)". The stablecoin is imdUSD. Quote every contract, function, event and error identifier exactly as in source. The vault's verbs and parameters (lock, free, draw, wipe, bark, bite, heel, cash, earn, drip; mat, duty, line, chi, CHOP_PERCENT, chip, cut, tail, gap, lull, skew, wage, earnLine, earnMat) are a deliberate homage to MakerDAO, partly borrowed and partly coined in its spirit, recorded with their origins in docs/NAMING.md: use them for identifiers, explain each in plain words on first use, and give the homage one sentence in the overview. Users never see them: the terminal labels every action in plain words, so overview and guide pages name actions exactly as its buttons do (Deposit, Withdraw, Borrow, Repay, Redeem, Mark, Liquidate, Clear mark, Mint from work) and give the contract function once alongside in code format, for example "Borrow (draw)". Reference, governance and economics pages lead with the identifiers. Every economic parameter VALUE, governed or fixed, is written exactly as "(under consideration)": the mat curve, duty, line, CHOP_PERCENT and its split between chip and cut, the redemption fee floor, cap and decay, gap, lull and tail, skew, feed maximum age, earnMat, earnLine and wage, and every bound on them. Explain what each is and how it works, never its number. Oracle updates purchased on chain through an Intake contract and funded from treasury assets are being built and are not in this source: describe only what the source implements, and where a page needs that mechanism write a visible line "TODO(oracle-funding): …" stating what belongs there, for us to fill. AUTHORITY: src/.sol is the truth. When docs/.md, the README or the whitepaper (https://infer.miyagod.eth.limo) disagree with the code, follow the code and note the disagreement in your README. Never invent an address, parameter value or function: read it from source or leave a visible TODO. Link between pages with relative paths, including into the sibling set listed below. Plain language, second person in guides, numbered steps for procedures, one idea per paragraph, units on every number, terms defined on first use. No marketing voice, no emoji.

FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS (both jobs): overview/what-is-imdusd, overview/how-it-holds-a-dollar, overview/glossary, guides/use-the-terminal, guides/open-a-position, guides/manage-and-protect-a-position, guides/redeem, keepers/how-liquidation-works, keepers/mark-and-liquidate, keepers/relay-oracle-updates, keepers/keeper-economics (job A); reference/contracts-and-addresses, reference/vault-functions, reference/events-and-errors, reference/oracle-and-question-binding, reference/reading-state, governance/parameters, governance/timelock-and-proposals, governance/network-health, economics/monetary-policy, economics/swarm-evidence, economics/risks-and-open-questions (job B).

DELIVERABLE: the eleven pages at artifacts/docs//.md, plus artifacts/docs/README.md stating sources used, practices adopted, every code-versus-doc disagreement found, and every TODO left.

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title: What is imdUSD section: overview order: 1 audience: everyone sources:

  • src/ImdUSD.sol:12-75
  • src/ParameterizedVault.sol:11-25
  • src/ParameterizedVault.sol:142-154
  • src/CDPVault.sol:432-490
  • docs/NAMING.md:1-12

What is imdUSD

imdUSD is a stablecoin meant to be worth one US dollar. You get it by locking IMD, the IdentityMD token, in a vault and borrowing imdUSD against it. How it holds that value is in How imdUSD holds a dollar.

The vault is the only contract that can mint or burn imdUSD. There is no owner, pause switch or upgrade path on the token (ImdUSD). Contract addresses: (waiting for mainnet launch).

Who it is for

  • Borrowers who hold IMD and want dollars without selling it. Start with Open a position.
  • Holders who want to turn imdUSD back into IMD. See Redeem.
  • Keepers, who keep the system solvent by relaying prices and liquidating unsafe positions, and are paid a share of the liquidation bonus. See How liquidation works.

What backs it

Two things stand behind imdUSD:

  1. Collateral. Every position must hold more IMD, valued in dollars, than the imdUSD it owes. The required margin (the collateral ratio, mat) rises and falls with the network health index.
  2. A reserve. The protocol's Treasury holds IMD and any other assets governance lists. Redemptions are paid from it first.

The value of IMD in dollars is not read from an exchange contract. It is an attested price: a panel of IdentityMD agents answers a fixed question, the answer is signed, and anyone may submit it on chain.

What it pays when redeemed

A holder can burn imdUSD for IMD at the lesser of $1 and the backing per imdUSD, less a fee. If the system is fully backed, that is $1 of IMD per imdUSD minus the fee. If it is not, the payout shrinks with the backing instead of the channel closing.

What is unproven

  • The peg depends on arbitrage between the market price and the redemption price. Nothing guarantees the market price stays at $1.
  • The price comes from one signer (the IdentityMD attester) answering one pinned question. The panel size and agreement floors, the question binding and the divergence guard bound that trust; they do not remove it.
  • Network health is also an attested figure. It moves the collateral requirement and the liquidation grace.
  • A liquidation can leave bad debt. There is no insurance fund and no write-off path; the shortfall is recorded and stays.
  • Work-backed issuance (Mint from work, earn) rests on a swarm-published task tally that a panel attests. It is not an on-chain proof that the work happened.
  • The economic parameters are (under consideration); see Risks and open questions.

A note on names

The vault's verbs and parameters (lock, draw, bite, mat, duty and the rest) are an homage to MakerDAO, which invented the collateralised stablecoin; some are borrowed and some coined in its spirit. Their origins are recorded in docs/NAMING.md. The terminal and these guides name actions in plain words.

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    I wrote the eleven pages and artifacts/docs/README.md. The files are untracked, no tracked file changed, and nothing was built or run. I checked the pages only by text search, for banned words and parameter numbers, and by counting words.

    Checked

    • what-is-imdusd is 482 words, under the 500 limit.
    • No testnet, Sepolia or "currently/today" wording appears in the pages or the README. No real address appears either, only "(waiting for mainnet launch)".
    • Every parameter value is written as "(under consideration)".
    • The relative links into the sibling set (reference/, governance/, economics/) don't resolve until the other half exists.

    Left as TODOs

    • keepers/relay-oracle-updates.md has one TODO(oracle-funding), for how oracle updates are bought and funded through an Intake contract.
    • keepers/keeper-economics.md has two, for who pays for attestations and whether relayers are reimbursed.

    Code versus other documents. The code won every time. The README lists ten disagreements; the main ones:

    • The repository README says there is no redemption, but cash implements it.
    • The repository README says a price divergence still allows withdrawal. In the code, a withdrawal with debt open needs fresh, agreeing feeds. Only a debt-free withdrawal is always open.
    • The whitepaper's redemption, liquidation and oracle design differ from the code. I only saw the whitepaper through a fetch tool's summary, so treat those as likely rather than verified.
    • The terminal in web/ still uses the old names (COMP, minCR, mintCOMP and so on) and its buttons read "Review ...". The guides use the plain labels you specified, so figure names in use-the-terminal may differ from the screen. I left out the terminal's test-IMD faucet and reporter-fallback tools, which have no counterpart in the contracts.

    Unverified

    • I didn't run the terminal, so its behaviour comes from reading its source.
    • I assumed the feeds at launch pin the launch SwarmRelay. The pinned relayer is a network-specific constant in DeploymentConfig.sol, and I couldn't confirm it.
    • The MakerDAO/Sky docs portal returned 403, so my notes on its layout come from search results only. I opened only Liquity's index file (llms.txt), not the pages behind it, and only Aave's landing page.

    The README also records the sources read, the practices adopted with links, and the limits. I wrote no tutorial, because one would need a live deployment to follow.

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