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- Add tools/validate.py: validates packages, and with --correction runs
  proposed corrections through the gate against a package without
  writing anything (spec/11 §11.4). The gate now refuses a proposal that
  fails the correction schema, rule correction.schema.
- tools/load.py validates every package before loading, and with
  --bundle --built-from builds a scienting-bundle/1 with the FTS5 search
  index and bundle_meta (spec/13 §13.5). Search rows are defined per
  unit (sentence, cell, equation outside a sentence, figure-text) with
  the parent kind as context.
- Roster keys carry a role, and a key with the role owner may revoke any
  receipt (spec/08 §8.7, spec/20); roster schema, store table and the
  fixture roster updated. The checker signs a trial revocation to prove
  the rule both ways.
- A qa: receipt raises the nodes it sampled except those in its errors
  (spec/08 §8.2); the example paper's fidelity counts become 27 F3,
  13 F2, 4 F1 and 1 F0.
- The destination chooses the keyed scheme, not the text policy:
  hmac-team between the team's machines, hkdf-pages outside the team
  (spec/05 §5.8, spec/12 §12.5).
- A TextQuoteSelector must repeat the anchor's plain quote and is absent
  for hashed or keyed anchors (spec/18 §18.3).
- Add fixtures/records/suspect.json, a scienting-suspect/1 record.
- Oracle: hashes are kept incrementally and checked after every
  correction against a full recomputation; load and write refuse unsafe
  manifest paths; Ed25519, HKDF and schema validation come from the
  cryptography and jsonschema packages; canonical JSON uses the built-in
  encoder with an exact RFC 8785 fallback.
- The tools need Python 3.14 with cryptography and jsonschema; the py310
  CI environment is dropped and the workflow runs the default only.
- Resolve every [CHECK] note in the docs, READMEs and context; add
  CONTRIBUTING.md; every tool answers --help and refuses unknown options.

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# Guides
These guides explain manuspec to someone meeting it for the first time.
They serve three readers: a newcomer who has not seen the problem before, an implementer who will write a reader, writer, converter or checker, and an expert who knows the neighboring standards.
The [specification](../spec/README.md) says exactly what each format is.
The guides say what each format is for, with examples drawn from the fixtures.
| Guide | For |
| --- | --- |
| [Overview](overview.md) | What manuspec is, who it serves, and how its parts fit together. |
| [Concepts](concepts.md) | The ideas behind the formats, one at a time, each with a real example. |
| [Walkthrough](walkthrough.md) | One paper, from a flawed first reading to a corrected, reviewed and signed document. |
| [Examples](examples.md) | Things to run: checking hashes by hand, reading a package with a few lines of Python, querying a database. |
| [Rationale](rationale.md) | Why the formats look the way they do, and the questions they leave open. |
| [Comparison](comparison.md) | How manuspec compares with JATS, TEI, W3C Web Annotation and other schemas. |
| [*FAQ*](faq.md) | Short answers to the questions people ask first. |
| [Glossary](glossary.md) | Every term, in a sentence. |
## Reading orders
**Newcomer.** Spend a first afternoon on the overview, then the walkthrough with the fixture open beside it, then the examples.
Read the concepts when a term in the walkthrough needs more than the glossary gives.
**Implementer.** Start with the [specification's reading paths](../spec/README.md#reading-paths), which list the chapters to read for a reader, a converter, a store and a validator.
Chapters 0, 1, 3, 4 and 5 are needed for any of them.
Next, run the section "Test your implementation against a vector" in the examples.
Check your work against the [vectors](../vectors/README.md) and the [fixtures](../fixtures/README.md).
Chapter 22 of the specification defines conformance.
**Expert.** Read the overview for scope and for what manuspec is not, then the comparison for how it differs from existing standards.
After that, read the rationale for the reason behind each rule and the questions it leaves open.
It ends with a list of limits.
Section 0.4 of the specification and [registry/formats.json](../registry/formats.json) give the status of each format: the version is 0.1.0, and each format is `candidate` or `provisional`.