Documentation rots; CI does not

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Domain

Pipeline Design

Difficulty

medium

Problem

Documentation rots; CI does not. A contract that lives as a YAML file in a wiki page is fiction within six months because the producer evolves and the wiki does not. The section's mechanism is a versioned contract checked into the producer's repo and validated in CI on every change so violations cannot ship. The contract names schema (primary key, fields, types, nullability), guarantees (operational SLA, quality SLA), and evolution policy. Author the contract by adding a CI runner node on the producer side that validates the contract on every PR, and an ingestion-gate quality check on the pipeline side that enforces the same contract on real events.

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