= Policies

- [Cutdown Canonical Serialization Policy](/latest/policies/canonical-serialization-policy) — Byte-stable canonical representation of parse results
- [Cutdown Capability Policy](/latest/policies/capability-policy) — Capability governance for constructs that may touch external systems
- [Cutdown Change Publication Policy](/latest/policies/change-publication-policy) — Process for publishing and activating language changes
- [Cutdown Change Gate](/latest/policies/changes-gate) — Mandatory gate for every proposed change to Cutdown
- [Cutdown Compatibility Fallback Policy](/latest/policies/compatibility-fallback-policy) — Contract behavior for unknown/unsupported syntax under active profile/version
- [Cutdown Compliance Evidence Freshness Policy](/latest/policies/compliance-evidence-freshness-policy) — Validity window rules for published compliance claims
- [Cutdown Compliance Failure Response Policy](/latest/policies/compliance-failure-response-policy) — Required status transitions when published compliance claims fail
- [Cutdown Compliance Levels Policy](/latest/policies/compliance-levels-policy) — Rules for implementation compliance claims
- [Cutdown Conformance Corpus Governance](/latest/policies/conformance-corpus-governance) — Evolution policy for normative conformance corpus
- [Cutdown Conformance Policy](/latest/policies/conformance-policy) — Defines normative sources and release conformance requirements
- [Cutdown Cross-Implementation Validation Policy](/latest/policies/cross-implementation-validation-policy) — Validation requirements across parser implementations for language changes
- [Cutdown Decision Authority Policy](/latest/policies/decision-authority-policy) — Final decision authority and dispute resolution for language governance
- [Cutdown Diagnostic Code Registry](/latest/policies/diagnostic-code-registry) — Canonical list of all stable diagnostic codes emitted by conforming Cutdown parsers
- [Cutdown Diagnostic Code Registry Policy](/latest/policies/diagnostic-code-registry-policy) — Governance of stable diagnostic code IDs and lifecycle
- [Cutdown Diagnostics Policy](/latest/policies/diagnostics-policy) — Parser diagnostics contract for deterministic tooling and author-safe recovery
- [Cutdown Governance Review Policy](/latest/policies/governance-review-policy) — Update process for governance policies
- [Cutdown Parser Profile Policy](/latest/policies/parser-profile-policy) — Deterministic parse configuration
- [Cutdown Profile Source Policy](/latest/policies/profile-source-policy) — Source of truth for parser profile and experimental flag activation
- [Cutdown Reference Parser Status Policy](/latest/policies/reference-parser-status-policy) — Governance role of the reference parser relative to spec and conformance
- [Cutdown Versioning Policy](/latest/policies/versioning-policy) — Cutdown grammar, parser behavior, and AST contract