Maintainer vocabulary¶
This is a pragmatic glossary for maintainers. The normative vocabulary lives in docs/spec/vocabulary.md.
- Contract drift: code and spec disagree.
- Artifact drift: output JSON changes without versioning.
- Spec drift: docs/spec claims behavior not implemented.
- Replay validation: checking a trace satisfies the contract (not rerunning models).
- Canonicalization: stable JSON serialization used for hashing/fingerprints.