ai-girlfriend/docs/MAINTENANCE.md

Maintenance

Stewardship Rules

• Keep generated files, build outputs, copied SDKs, and raw firmware binaries out of Git unless they are the source of truth.
• Keep credentials, tokens, dumps, private messages, session stores, and local machine paths out of commits.
• Prefer small commits with clear intent and a matching issue or release note.
• Preserve upstream attribution when code is copied, forked, or adapted.

Routine Checks

• README still describes what the project does.
• Setup instructions still work.
• Security policy is accurate for the current risk level.
• Changelog records user-visible changes.
• License status is explicit.

Hardware Gate

• Confirm exact board, module, and peripheral versions.
• Verify flashing and recovery steps on physical hardware.
• Attach firmware binaries through releases only, with SHA256 checksums.