{
  "schema": "okf-repository-publication-contract.v1",
  "modified": "2026-08-18",
  "locale": "en-GB",
  "time_zone": "Europe/London",
  "repository": {
    "name": "okf-uk-legislation",
    "url": "https://github.com/chris-page-gov/okf-uk-legislation",
    "role": "large-corpus-producer",
    "root_index": "README.md",
    "lifecycle": "migration"
  },
  "semantic_contract": {
    "path": "bundle/okf-bundle.yamlld",
    "profile": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-explorer/profile/bundle-wiki/v1/"
  },
  "source_families": [
    {
      "id": "governed-snapshot-inputs",
      "label": "Governed legislation and Whole-Law snapshot inputs",
      "description": "The checked-in evidence, enrichment governance, research and authored Whole-Law materials from which the frozen publication was produced.",
      "kind": "mixed",
      "paths": [
        "evidence/**",
        "enrichment/**",
        "research/**",
        "whole-law/**"
      ],
      "formats": [
        "application/json",
        "application/ld+yaml",
        "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
        "text/csv",
        "text/markdown",
        "text/turtle"
      ],
      "origin": "mixed",
      "authority": "mixed",
      "snapshot_policy": "immutable-checksummed",
      "inventory": {
        "method": "deterministic-file-inventory",
        "manifest_path": "research/whole-law-okf-research/integrity.json",
        "identity": [
          "relative-path",
          "bytes",
          "sha256",
          "media-type",
          "source-identifier",
          "source-version"
        ]
      },
      "rights": {
        "status": "mixed",
        "evidence": [
          "https://github.com/chris-page-gov/okf-uk-legislation/blob/main/LICENSE.md",
          "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/"
        ],
        "limitations": [
          "Item-level terms and recorded source constraints take precedence over the repository-level licence summary."
        ]
      },
      "sensitivity": {
        "status": "potentially-sensitive",
        "assessment": "The repository retains research, source constraints and immutable acquisition evidence; publication review must not assume that every input is suitable for direct public projection.",
        "evidence": []
      },
      "extraction": {
        "mode": "manual-reviewed",
        "network_access": "separate-authorised-step",
        "command_ids": [],
        "limitations": [
          "Network acquisition creates a separately identified immutable attempt and is never part of routine validation or Pages deployment.",
          "The preserved direct-API enrichment prototype is not an authorised extraction path."
        ]
      },
      "invalidates": [
        "source",
        "semantic",
        "runtime",
        "documentation",
        "release",
        "deployment",
        "browser"
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Model-assisted discovery metadata is non-official and must not be presented as legal classification or legal advice."
      ]
    }
  ],
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      {
        "path": "evidence/**",
        "role": "source-envelope",
        "source_family_id": "governed-snapshot-inputs"
      },
      {
        "path": "enrichment/**",
        "role": "policy",
        "source_family_id": "governed-snapshot-inputs"
      },
      {
        "path": "research/**",
        "role": "source-register",
        "source_family_id": "governed-snapshot-inputs"
      },
      {
        "path": "whole-law/**",
        "role": "content",
        "source_family_id": "governed-snapshot-inputs"
      },
      {
        "path": "scripts/**",
        "role": "generator"
      },
      {
        "path": "tests/**",
        "role": "test"
      },
      {
        "path": "release-assurance/**",
        "role": "release-authorisation"
      },
      {
        "path": "requirements-validation.in",
        "role": "policy"
      },
      {
        "path": "requirements-validation.txt",
        "role": "policy"
      },
      {
        "path": "okf.publication.json",
        "role": "publication-contract"
      },
      {
        "path": "README.md",
        "role": "documentation"
      },
      {
        "path": "PUBLICATION-METHOD.md",
        "role": "documentation"
      },
      {
        "path": "docs/**",
        "role": "documentation"
      },
      {
        "path": "AGENTS.md",
        "role": "documentation"
      },
      {
        "path": "CHANGELOG.md",
        "role": "changelog"
      },
      {
        "path": ".github/workflows/**",
        "role": "workflow"
      }
    ],
    "generated": [
      {
        "path": "bundle/okf-bundle.yamlld",
        "role": "semantic-yaml-ld",
        "plane": "semantic",
        "required": true,
        "build_command_ids": [],
        "check_command_ids": [
          "validate-publication"
        ]
      },
      {
        "path": "bundle/okf-bundle.jsonld",
        "role": "semantic-json-ld",
        "plane": "semantic",
        "required": true,
        "build_command_ids": [],
        "check_command_ids": [
          "validate-publication"
        ]
      },
      {
        "path": "bundle/data/**",
        "role": "semantic-shards",
        "plane": "runtime",
        "required": true,
        "build_command_ids": [],
        "check_command_ids": [
          "validate-publication"
        ]
      },
      {
        "path": "bundle/checksums.json",
        "role": "checksum-manifest",
        "plane": "release",
        "required": true,
        "build_command_ids": [],
        "check_command_ids": [
          "validate-publication"
        ]
      },
      {
        "path": "bundle/**",
        "role": "site",
        "plane": "deployment",
        "required": true,
        "build_command_ids": [],
        "check_command_ids": [
          "validate-publication"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "planes": [
    {
      "id": "source",
      "depends_on": [],
      "paths": [
        "evidence/**",
        "enrichment/**",
        "research/**",
        "whole-law/**"
      ],
      "command_ids": [
        "validate-publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "semantic",
      "depends_on": [
        "source"
      ],
      "paths": [
        "bundle/okf-bundle.yamlld",
        "bundle/okf-bundle.jsonld",
        "scripts/build_legislation_okf.py",
        "scripts/build_whole_law_okf.py",
        "scripts/run_semantic_conformance.py"
      ],
      "command_ids": [
        "validate-publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "runtime",
      "depends_on": [
        "semantic"
      ],
      "paths": [
        "bundle/data/**",
        "bundle/okf-explorer.json",
        "scripts/rebuild_legislation_discovery.py"
      ],
      "command_ids": [
        "validate-publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "documentation",
      "depends_on": [
        "source",
        "semantic"
      ],
      "paths": [
        "AGENTS.md",
        "CHANGELOG.md",
        "PUBLICATION-METHOD.md",
        "README.md",
        "docs/**",
        "okf.publication.json"
      ],
      "command_ids": [
        "check-contract",
        "check-lockstep",
        "validate-publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "release",
      "depends_on": [
        "source",
        "semantic",
        "runtime",
        "documentation"
      ],
      "paths": [
        ".github/workflows/**",
        "release-assurance/**",
        "requirements-validation.in",
        "requirements-validation.txt",
        "scripts/**",
        "tests/**"
      ],
      "command_ids": [
        "check-contract",
        "validate-publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "deployment",
      "depends_on": [
        "release"
      ],
      "paths": [
        ".github/workflows/pages.yml",
        "bundle/**"
      ],
      "command_ids": [
        "validate-publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "browser",
      "depends_on": [
        "deployment"
      ],
      "paths": [
        "release-assurance/deployed-entrypoints-manifest.json",
        "release-assurance/public-entrypoint-smoke.md",
        "scripts/probe_deployed_entrypoints.py"
      ],
      "command_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "tooling": {
    "commands": [
      {
        "id": "check-contract",
        "kind": "check",
        "planes": [
          "documentation",
          "release"
        ],
        "command": "python3 scripts/check_publication_contract.py",
        "source": "AGENTS.md",
        "review_status": "reviewed-local-guidance",
        "network": "none",
        "mutates": "none",
        "timeout_minutes": 2
      },
      {
        "id": "check-lockstep",
        "kind": "check",
        "planes": [
          "documentation"
        ],
        "command": "python3 scripts/check_documentation_lockstep.py",
        "source": "AGENTS.md",
        "review_status": "reviewed-local-guidance",
        "network": "none",
        "mutates": "none",
        "timeout_minutes": 2
      },
      {
        "id": "validate-publication",
        "kind": "test",
        "planes": [
          "source",
          "semantic",
          "runtime",
          "documentation",
          "release",
          "deployment"
        ],
        "command": "sh scripts/validate_publication.sh",
        "source": "AGENTS.md",
        "review_status": "reviewed-local-guidance",
        "network": "none",
        "mutates": "none",
        "timeout_minutes": 60
      }
    ]
  },
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    "controlled_paths": [
      ".github/workflows/**",
      "AGENTS.md",
      "bundle/**",
      "evidence/**",
      "enrichment/**",
      "okf.publication.json",
      "release-assurance/**",
      "requirements-validation.in",
      "requirements-validation.txt",
      "research/**",
      "scripts/**",
      "tests/**",
      "whole-law/**"
    ],
    "documentation_paths": [
      "README.md",
      "PUBLICATION-METHOD.md",
      "docs/**"
    ],
    "changelog_path": "CHANGELOG.md",
    "check_command_id": "check-lockstep",
    "dependency_update_policy": "assess-release-bound-bytes-no-blanket-exemption",
    "unknown_path_policy": "fail-closed"
  },
  "ci": {
    "provider": "github-actions",
    "workflow_paths": [
      ".github/workflows/ci.yml",
      ".github/workflows/drift.yml",
      ".github/workflows/pages.yml"
    ],
    "impact_routing": "full-suite",
    "parallelism": "serial",
    "unknown_path_policy": "full-suite",
    "browser": {
      "ordinary": {
        "policy": "not-applicable",
        "engines": [],
        "command_ids": []
      },
      "cross_engine": {
        "policy": "not-applicable",
        "engines": [],
        "command_ids": [],
        "installation": {
          "policy": "none",
          "command_ids": []
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "publication": {
    "mode": "automatic-protected-main",
    "scope": "public-release",
    "authority": {
      "decision": "GitHub Pages may publish only the protected-main candidate after the repository's complete offline validator passes; frozen GitHub Releases retain their separate manual promotion authority.",
      "evidence_paths": [
        ".github/workflows/pages.yml",
        "release-assurance/release-policy.json"
      ]
    },
    "candidate_policy": "promote-exact-assured-bytes-without-rebuild",
    "targets": [
      {
        "id": "github-pages",
        "kind": "github-pages",
        "workflow_path": ".github/workflows/pages.yml",
        "public_base_url": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-legislation/",
        "exact_commit_required": true,
        "promote_without_rebuild": true
      }
    ]
  },
  "verification": {
    "required": false,
    "browser": "not-applicable",
    "exact_commit_required": false,
    "identity_checks": [],
    "journeys": [],
    "console_policy": "not-applicable",
    "command_ids": []
  },
  "limitations": [
    "The current release-assurance probe is bounded HTTP evidence, not a real-browser, console-clean journey bound to the exact deployed commit; that verification remains an explicit publication-method backlog item.",
    "The repository predates a standalone okf.semantic.json contract, so this lifecycle contract points to the governed YAML-LD descriptor while that migration is reviewed separately.",
    "The complete validator remains one fail-closed serial gate. Per-step timings are emitted, but dependency-safe sharding and documentation-only impact routing require measured evidence before adoption.",
    "GitHub Pages serves YAML-LD as application/octet-stream; strict JSON-LD remains the transport fallback."
  ]
}