mutability (living / frozen / sealed)
id
mutability
title
mutability (living / frozen / sealed)
type
definition
requires
- artifact-type-registry
related
[]
entry_points
- mutability
summary
The scale of how much an artifact may change over its life — living (revised freely), frozen (changed only by override), or sealed (never again).
depth
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· plain
The scale of how much an artifact may change over its life — living (revised freely), frozen (changed only by override), or sealed (never again).
· definition
The axis naming how an artifact changes over its
life living — revised in place (README, overview, by dated revision, the Basis of
Design) frozen — not edited in place, changed only by a superseding addendum (system
); thaw-able through the addendum mechanism, still governs the build
· usage
sealed —
final, never changes (closed hos, sidequests, addenda, findings, devlogs/,
executed ATs, propagation-ledger commits); a future document may respond but nothing
it in force Forward-only governs frozen and sealed; living is the declared exception.
referenced by (derived)
forward-only
defining documents: artifact-type-registry §6