Canon Management
Preserving and evolving authoritative truth.
Programs drift: what they do and what they claim diverge over time. Canon Management prevents drift by making a program's truth explicit, governed, and changeable only through visible decisions.
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Core tasks
Canonicalization
Turn a decision, definition, or architectural choice into a canonical document — with version, owner, and links.
Canon review
Periodically examine existing canon for internal contradiction, drift from behavior, and link integrity.
Decision capture
Write a decision record for every structural choice, linked into the canon it governs.
Glossary maintenance
Keep terminology definitions current, unambiguous, and consistent across the canon.
Cross-reference verification
Ensure every canonical document correctly references its upstream authorities and downstream governed artifacts.
From knowing to running
Knowing SPEED and running it are two different things. When you're ready to practice the methodology inside a program that runs it, the implementor path is where you begin.
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