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- requires-python is >=3.14,<3.15: 3.14 is the only Python with the
  Unicode 16.0 data the specification pins (3.13 has 15.1, 3.15 has 17.0).
- `import paperspec` raises ImportError unless unicodedata reports
  paperspec.UNICODE_VERSION (16.0.0), so a source checkout or an install
  that bypasses requires-python cannot compute values on other data.

Commands
- tools/{check,build,validate,load,stress,site}.py move with history to
  src/paperspec/cli/ and install as paperspec-check, -build, -validate,
  -load, -stress and -site; each also runs as `python -m paperspec.cli.X`.
- paperspec.cli.require() exits with "install paperspec[tools]" when
  cryptography or jsonschema is missing; paperspec.cli.checkout() finds
  the repository the check, build, stress and site commands work on (the
  editable install's own checkout, else the one around the current
  folder) and exits with a message outside one. tools/__init__.py is gone.
- validate and load read the schemas and SQL through the new
  paperspec.resources.path(), which finds them in a wheel and in an
  editable install alike, so they work anywhere the package is installed.
- check runs the rebuild as `python -m paperspec.cli.build`.
- build still writes the provenance tool label "paperspec tools/build.py":
  it is part of every hashed and signed fixture.
- pixi tasks and the check workflow run the commands; tools/README.md
  documents them, and the other docs name the commands instead of paths.

License
- LICENSE.md gives `src/` Apache-2.0 alongside `tools/`. Since the
  previous commit moved the code to src/, no row had covered it.

pixi run check passes (run as `python -m paperspec.cli.check` with src/ on
the path, since this environment cannot install the entry points); the
byte-for-byte rebuild matches, so no fixture or vector changed.
pixi.lock still needs `pixi lock`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# 22. Conformance
## 22.1 The suite
| Path | Holds | A conforming implementation |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `vectors/*.jsonl` | Inputs and expected outputs, one case per line. | Computes every expected output from its input. |
| `fixtures/packages/` | Valid packages: a converted chemistry paper with corrections, receipts, a multi-level-header table and a dataset; its checks-only export; an open-access paper with two witnesses; a Typst draft; a tiny document, as a folder and as the zip of [12.2](12-package.md#122-paths). | Accepts each, and recomputes every value it contains. |
| `fixtures/records/` | A valid record of every other format that is a JSON file of its own; the stage requirements and stamp rules are in `registry/`, and a bundle is built by `paperspec-load --bundle`. | Accepts each. |
| `fixtures/invalid/` | Invalid packages, each with `expect.json` naming the rule it breaks. | Refuses each, and SHOULD name that rule. |
| `fixtures/keys/` | The test keys that signed the fixtures and the team secret of the checks-only export. | Never uses them for anything else. |
All fixture text is synthetic and dedicated to the public domain; license fields inside fixtures describe the fictional works.
Each part's CI runs this suite against its own implementation, so the parts cannot drift apart silently.
## 22.2 Validating a package
A validator checks, in order, and reports each failure as `path:line: rule: message`:
1. The manifest: present, valid, sorted, every listed file present with its hash and size, nothing unlisted, paths safe and no symbolic links, required files present.
2. Every file in canonical form, byte for byte, and every record against its schema.
3. The tree ([3](03-nodes.md)), runs and references between nodes, the counts, and the keys ([2.4](02-model.md#24-work-and-document-keys)).
4. The policy and hashing scheme ([12.5](12-package.md#125-text-policies)).
5. The five values of every node, the root and `meta_hash`, when the text is present and the key, if any, is known.
6. The ID table, the corrections and the history root, the witnesses, pages, locations and references, and every file's order.
7. Receipts: IDs, roots, documents, node order, signatures against the package's roster, spot-check keys, seeds and samples, and the fidelity distribution.
## 22.3 Schemas
Schemas use draft 2020-12, restricted to the keywords `$schema`, `$id`, `$ref`, `$defs`, `$comment`, `title`, `description`, `examples`, `default`, `deprecated`, `type`, `enum`, `const`, `properties`, `required`, `additionalProperties`, `patternProperties`, `propertyNames`, `minProperties`, `maxProperties`, `dependentRequired`, `items`, `prefixItems`, `minItems`, `maxItems`, `uniqueItems`, `contains`, `minLength`, `maxLength`, `pattern`, `format`, `minimum`, `maximum`, `exclusiveMinimum`, `exclusiveMaximum`, `oneOf`, `anyOf`, `allOf`, `not`, `if`, `then` and `else`.
Patterns avoid `\d`, `\w`, `\s`, `\b` and lookbehind, whose meaning differs between regular-expression dialects.
A schema checks shape; the chapters' rules, such as the five values, are checked by validators.
## 22.4 Rules
[registry/rules.json](../registry/rules.json) lists every rule ID with its meaning.
Rule IDs are stable: a rule's meaning never changes, and a retired rule's ID is never reused.
| Prefix | Covers |
| --- | --- |
| `package.` | The manifest, paths, files and schemas. |
| `doc.tree.`, `doc.node.`, `doc.run.`, `doc.table.` | The tree, node content and runs. |
| `doc.hash.` | The five values, the root and the metadata hash. |
| `doc.id.`, `doc.order.` | The ID table and file order. |
| `doc.policy.` | Text policies and keyed hashing. |
| `doc.key.`, `doc.counts`, `doc.history` | The keys, the counts and the history root of `document.json`. |
| `doc.correction.`, `correction.` | A package's corrections, and the gate. |
| `doc.receipt.`, `doc.qa.`, `doc.fidelity.` | Receipts, spot-checks and levels. |
| `doc.witness.`, `doc.page.`, `doc.location.`, `doc.reference.` | Witnesses and geometry. |
| `grade.` | Grading. |
## 22.5 Stability
Within a major version of a format, a valid file stays valid, and every value the chapters define is computed the same way.
Rule IDs, enumeration values and format identifiers are never reused with another meaning.
A `candidate` format changes only with a recorded reason and a new or changed vector; a `provisional` one may change more freely, and says so in [registry/formats.json](../registry/formats.json).