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2026-10-22-name-babul
Decisionacceptedverified 2026-10-22
DECISION.2026-10-22.NAME-BABULThe product is Babul (babul.dev)
Context
"Trunk" was a working name. The owner chose Babul — the acacia tree — and a logo of a tree whose branches are git branches, each a different colour.
Decision
- The product, the packages (
@babul/*), the CLI (babul), the MCP server (babul-mcp), the project file (babul.json) and the environment variables (BABUL_*) are Babul. The site is babul.dev. - The logo is
designs/brand/mark.svg(option A of the candidates, which were deleted on 2026-10-23). - Kept as they are for now, because they name real infrastructure: the
database names and roles (
trunk,trunk_app,trunk_worker), the Vercel projecttrunk-staging, the GitHub reporitvi-apps/trunkand the folder~/git/products/trunk. Each is renamed on its own, with the owner.
Consequences
- Decision records before this one keep the old name; they are history.