Code Is Authority

On how a system actually behaves, read the source first; code is authoritative, prose and docs can be stale.

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Code is the authority

Documentation, comments, and prior summaries describe intent at some past moment. Behavior is defined by the code that runs now.

Why: acting on stale docs produces confident wrong answers about a system that has since changed.

How to apply: for any behavioral or architectural claim, read the current source before answering. Treat notes and design docs as intent to verify, not as fact.

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