Keeping AI Documentation Clean With the Narrowest-Scope Rule
Abstract: This paper formalizes the “Narrowest-Scope Rule” (NSR), a governance principle for maintaining the integrity of the contract-style-comments (CSC) Triumvirate. NSR provides a deterministic heuristic for artifact selection during system updates, ensuring that operational data, architectural invariants, and teleological reasoning remain logically decoupled to prevent documentation rot and “contextual drift.” :::tip This is Part 3 of my contract-style-comments (CSC) series. Part 2: CONTRACT.md: A Case for Root-Level Contracts in Agentic Software Workflows Part 4: Why Agentic Software Development Needs Documentation Stewardship ::: […]