# Policies

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