[developer-docs] Developer Documentation Consolidation - 2026-06-13

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Summary

• Files scanned: 72 (63 scratchpad/ spec files + 9 specs/ files)
• Tone adjustments: 2 (both in specs/)
• scratchpad/ status: clean (0 tone issues)
• Diagrams added: 0 (dev.md already contains the established Mermaid set)
• scratchpad/dev.md: v9.16 to v9.17
• Status: done

The developer instructions document is mature and well-maintained (Document History runs from v1.0 to v9.17). This weekly run found scratchpad/ fully clean and corrected two non-normative tone issues in the specs/ security architecture documents that the v9.16 specs pass missed.

Critical Information

No blocking issues. All changes are word-level removals of subjective qualifiers; no structural, code-block, heading, or link edits were made. Normative RFC-2119 language and defined conformance-level names were deliberately preserved.

Tone Adjustments Made

specs/security-architecture-spec.md (line 1909)

• Before: "Included comprehensive appendices with examples and best practices"
• After: "Included appendices with examples and best practices"
• Rationale: Revision-summary bullet; subjective qualifier removed. Directly parallels the v9.16 fix in security-architecture-spec-summary.md ("8 comprehensive appendices" to "8 appendices").

specs/security-architecture-spec-validation.md (line 539)

• Before: "The specification provides an accurate and comprehensive formalization of the security architecture that can be confidently used for:"
• After: "The specification provides an accurate formalization of the security architecture that can be used for:"
• Rationale: Editorial assessment conclusion. Removed the subjective "comprehensive" and the hedge "confidently" while keeping the verifiable "accurate" claim, which the preceding "All major security claims are verifiable" list supports.

Deliberately Left for Spec Owners

• Production-ready security (security-architecture-spec.md:144, -summary.md:22) — a defined conformance-level name in the RFC-2119 taxonomy, not prose.
• comprehensive input sanitization in the IS-04..IS-09 MUST requirements (security-architecture-spec-validation.md:84,149) — carries normative meaning that scopes the required coverage; should be revised only by a spec owner.

These match the v9.16 hands-off decisions and are flagged for human review rather than auto-edited.

scratchpad/ Scan Result (0 issues)

All marketing-term matches in scratchpad/ are either:

1. Inside dev.md's own Document History (records prior fixes; not a violation), or
2. Legitimate technical usage — code identifiers (id: "simple"), code comments, engine descriptions ("Custom | Simple, focused"), URLs (https://pypi.org/simple), and "only"-sense uses of "just".

No prose tone violations remain in scratchpad/.

Consolidation Statistics

Metric	Value
Files scanned	72
scratchpad/ spec files	63
specs/ files	9 (+1 fixture README excluded)
Tone adjustments	2
Diagrams added	0
Version	9.16 to 9.17

Notes and Limitations

• Cache-memory at /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/ was not accessible from the analysis sandbox this run; historical context was reconstructed from the dev.md Document History.
• The shallow git checkout collapses history into a single commit, so source-file recency could not be derived from git; the dev.md changelog coverage counts were used as the source of truth instead.

Recommendations / Next Steps

1. Review the companion pull request that applies these edits.
2. Spec owners should decide whether the preserved normative "comprehensive" usages (IS-04..IS-09) warrant rewording within the RFC-2119 requirements.
3. No further consolidation needed this cycle — the document is current and the source directories are clean.

References: run 27468847670

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