📖 [Docs]: Repository Standard replaces Repository Defaults and aligns with MSX

[Marius Storhaug (MariusStorhaug)]

The PSModule module-repository page is now the organization's Repository Standard. It states plainly that it applies to the PSModule organization and is the standard for PowerShell module repositories, and that it operates at the same altitude as the MSX Enterprise Repository Standard: MSX sets the enterprise-wide default, and this standard adds to and adjusts that default for PowerShell module repositories. The required-files list is corrected to match that layering, so repositories are no longer told to carry files that are no longer part of the baseline.

Changed: The page is now the Repository Standard

The page previously titled "PowerShell module repository defaults" is now "Repository Standard". Its scope and intro say it is the PSModule organization's standard for PowerShell module repositories, and a new layering statement links to the MSX Enterprise Repository Standard so readers know which rules are inherited from MSX and which this standard adds or overrides. The file was renamed from Repository-Defaults.md to Repository-Standard.md, and every navigation entry and cross-page link now points to the new page.

Changed: Required baseline files align with the MSX standard

The required-files tables no longer list .github/copilot-instructions.md, .github/release.yml, or the linter configuration files (.github/linters/.markdown-lint.yml, .github/linters/.powershell-psscriptanalyzer.psd1) as required baseline files. Module-specific files stay required, including .github/PSModule.yml, and the agent onboarding files AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md. The descriptions for .github/pull_request_template.md, .gitattributes, .gitignore, and .github/dependabot.yml are reworded to explain what each file does for a PowerShell module repository.

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Technical details

• Renamed src/docs/Modules/Repository-Defaults.md → src/docs/Modules/Repository-Standard.md with git mv (100% similarity, history preserved).
• Updated references in src/zensical.toml (nav label + path), src/docs/Modules/index.md, src/docs/Modules/Module-Types.md, and src/docs/Modules/Process-PSModule/module-build-validation.md.
• Rewrote the H1, scope, and added the altitude/layering statement; reconciled the prior "initiative implementation" framing with the MSX-altitude framing.
• Edited both the "Default repository layout" table and the "Required common files" table per the required-files changes.
• Delivered as three micro-commits (no conventional-commit prefixes): (a) rename + references, (b) title + scope + layering, (c) required-files table edits.

Changed surface	Standards checked	Framework docs checked	Result
src/docs/Modules/** (docs)	MSX Repository Standard, PR Format	PSModule module docs	Aligned
src/zensical.toml (nav)	Documentation Model	Zensical nav	Aligned

Relevant issues (or links)

• Fixes 📖 [Docs]: Rename Repository-Defaults to Repository Standard and align with MSX #95

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