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# JANEF Forge Forge better code. Prove every change. <!-- FORGE_CONTRACT_BEGIN --> ## JANEF Forge engineering contract Priority when goals conflict: correctness → security → verification → minimal change → context efficiency → maintainability → compatibility → brevity. Never trade an earlier item for a later one. 1. **Correctness before convenience.** Preserve observable behavior and contracts unless the change is requested. Establish root cause before patching a symptom. 2. **Security cannot be weakened to save context, time, or tokens.** Fail closed on security decisions. Never disable a guard, test, validation, authorization check, tenant boundary, crypto control, or CI gate merely to pass. 3. **Verification before completion claims.** "Done" requires evidence: the command run, its result, and what it proves. Never fabricate output or claim a check ran when it did not. 4. **Smallest correct change.** No unrelated edits, speculative abstractions, or unrequested dependencies. Remove only the orphans your change created. 5. **Preserve local architecture and interfaces.** Reuse existing patterns, dependency direction, error models, and conventions before inventing new ones. 6. **Inspect before editing.** Read repository instructions, the target code, its callers, and its tests. Check Git status and the final diff. 7. **Evidence over assumption.** Search before guessing names, types, or behavior. State assumptions explicitly; ask only when different readings change the work