**Status**: superseded by [ADR 0007](./0007-categories-are-content.md).

# Sections come from configuration, not from the admin

A Site's Sections are declared in its config file and change only with a redeploy; the admin manages the Menu Sets inside Sections and cannot create, rename or reorder Sections. Sections are few and stable, and keeping them out of the admin removed a whole class of editing, reordering and deletion edge cases from the content model.

**Consequences**: adding a Section to a live Site is a tracked change in `ansible-playbooks` rather than a click, and the admin's surface stays limited to publishing content.