codex-game-studio/docs/standards/default-principles.md

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Default Principles

Scope

This is a bootstrap standards baseline for repositories that adopt Truthmark.

Reusable Defaults

• Authority order should be explicit.
• Committed repository artifacts are the durable source of truth.
• Each document should have one primary responsibility.
• Each class of fact should have one canonical source.
• Architecture docs describe system structure, module boundaries, runtime topology, persistence boundaries, cross-cutting contracts, generated-surface ownership, and architecturally relevant runtime views.
• Do not put ordinary feature behavior in architecture docs; use architecture flow guides only for cross-cutting runtime scenarios, branching logic, failure paths, and traceability back to bounded truth docs.
• Verification should be explicit, and skipped checks should state why.
• Missing, stale, broad, overloaded, or unrouteable documentation topology should be repaired through AI-native structure workflow before agents create more generic truth docs.
• Installed repository workflows should remain usable from committed files even when the Truthmark CLI is unavailable.