Change Principles

Changes in bijux-canon-index should make retrieval behavior easier to explain, easier to replay, or easier to trust. If a change makes search more opaque, it is moving in the wrong direction.

Change Rules

• prefer changes that improve replay, provenance, and explicit retrieval contracts
• update schemas, examples, and tests when caller-visible search behavior changes
• reject changes that hide search semantics inside adapters or downstream assumptions

Stop Rule

Stop the change if the best explanation is “the backend works that way.”

Bottom Line

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