RFD promotion inserts back-links inside a multi-line Summary field

• Status: Todo
• Kind: Bug
• Authors: jp
• Date: 2026-09-28
• Label: domain=tooling
• Label: type=bug

Promoting RFD 114 added Extended by to RFD 072 and Required by to RFD 113 in the middle of their metadata Summary field, which spans two lines:

- **Summary**: Standalone command plugins communicate with JP via JSON-lines
- **Extended by**: [RFD 114](114-plugin-workspace-scope-and-addressing.md)
  protocol to extend subcommands across languages.

Why it matters

• The Summary is split: the index and priority board show half a sentence, and the second half reads as a continuation of the back-link.
• Summary is no longer the last field, which RFD 001 requires.
• The link is written inline instead of in the reference style every RFD uses, with its definition at the bottom.

Fix

The back-link writer (used by rfd-promote, and likely by rfd-extend and rfd-require) has to treat a metadata field as the field line plus its indented continuation lines, insert new fields before Summary, and write a reference-style link with a matching definition.

Both headers were corrected by hand.

Verifying

A fixture RFD whose Summary wraps onto a second line gains an Extended by through promotion: the field lands above Summary, Summary is intact, and the link definition is appended to the reference list.