Governance and Stewardship · Area
Contract change
Synchronized updates across prose, schemas, diagnostics, fixtures, implementations, and evidence.
Points in this Area
5 PointsChecks govern writing, not authority
Active required Checks make project policy part of the reviewed contract chain rather than an informal convention.
HEAD carries one coherent contract
Only the aligned HEAD contract governs current changes; historical models stay outside runtime behavior.
Publication selection is fail-closed
Changing profile meaning is a semantic contract change, while implementing a compiler is separate product work.
The repository contract chain changes atomically
Every semantic representation must match the exact revision evaluated by the release gates.
Semantic changes update the whole contract chain
A meaning change must update every normative and executable representation that exposes that meaning.