Change Principles

Changes in bijux-canon-ingest should make prepared input easier to explain, easier to verify, or harder to misuse. Anything else is likely noise, drift, or boundary creep.

Change Rules

• tighten preparation logic when it removes ambiguity visible to downstream packages
• change docs, artifacts, and tests in the same series when package behavior changes
• reject changes that enlarge ingest only because a neighbor would rather not own its own complexity

Stop Rule

Stop the change if the best argument for it is that ingest is “close enough.”

Bottom Line

A good change leaves the package easier to defend after the diff than before it.