# Maintenance
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## 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.
