Governance
Governance
Apothem governance — the internal quality-governance registries and policies that every emitted artifact, release, and badge surface answers to.
This section documents the project's internal quality governance: the mandate registries that define what every emitted artifact must satisfy, the gate that checks artifacts before they ship, the inquiry categories that separate what the tooling may decide from what it must ask, and the policies that govern releases, badges, and the project's positioning.
These pages are normative for maintainers and for the automated checks in the repository. Day-to-day usage guides live under Guides, and the schemas and conventions they cite live under Reference.
Pages
| Page | Description |
|---|---|
| Cross-cutting mandates | The ecosystem-internal mandate registry (CM-1–CM-28) governing all interactions and pipeline operations. |
| Outward conformity registry | The fifteen-mandate registry (M1–M15) every artifact generated in a host project must satisfy. |
| Pre-emission gate registry | The mandatory fifteen-bar conformity check run before any emission of meaningful scope. |
| Authoritative inquiry registry | The required inquiry categories and auto-decision carve-outs: what is asked versus decided. |
| Badge policy | Dynamic and static badge sources for the README and how each badge stays truthful. |
| Release-engineering policy | Versioning, release tagging, deprecation cycles, breaking changes, and rollback procedures. |
| Positioning | How Apothem frames itself: artifact-ratification governance for assistant-driven development. |