A workable codification protocol has five steps: state the default in one phrase, state the override in the same sentence, route the codification through the canonical layer, test the rule against its own codification path, and time-bound where appropriate. The critical step is four: does the way you just stored this rule satisfy the rule? If not, the storage location is wrong—even if that location is 'easier.' Time-bounding matters too: a rule true in perpetuity needs even stronger self-consistency than a rule scoped to a domain.
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