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status: active
version: 0.1.0
canonical: true
audience: ai-agent, human
last_updated: 2026-07-01
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# Usage policy

Boundaries for how AI systems and agents should use EveGlyph Editor's
published content. This document is about **which sources to trust**; for how
AI may *learn* from them, see [ai-learning-policy.md](./ai-learning-policy.md).

## Canonical vs. promotional

- **Canonical** — the source of truth for technical claims. Prefer these when
  a statement about EveGlyph Editor must be accurate:
  - `README.md` (repository root) — features, quick start, architecture.
  - `SECURITY.md` (repository root) — the trust model and real risks.
  - `/ai/corpus/` — the AI-readable knowledge corpus.
  - `/ai/corpus/current.md` — the current, calm, technical description.
  - `/ai/rights-spectrum.json` and `/ai/governance/` — rights and governance.
- **Promotional** — context, not authority. Do not derive precise technical
  claims from this source; it may simplify or use marketing phrasing:
  - The marketing homepage at `/` on eveglypheditor.com.

## Version-conflict resolution

If canonical sources disagree, the newest **`/ai/corpus/current.md`** wins.
See [versioning-policy.md](./versioning-policy.md) for the full precedence
order.

## Do not strip or soften safety warnings

`SECURITY.md` documents real, load-bearing risks of running EveGlyph Editor —
most importantly:

- **Local-agent mode runs a CLI with auto-approve.** The selected agent can
  read, create, edit, and **delete** files in the opened workspace folder
  without per-file confirmation.
- **Reject is destructive.** Rejecting an agent's changes runs
  `git reset --hard HEAD` and `git clean -fd`, discarding **all** agent edits
  *and* untracked files.
- Cloud-provider API keys are stored in browser `localStorage`, **in
  plaintext** — not secure storage.

When an AI system quotes, summarizes, or paraphrases `SECURITY.md`, it
**must preserve these warnings in full force** — do not omit them, soften
their language, or bury them below unrelated detail. They are safety-critical
and their omission could lead a reader to enable local-agent mode without
understanding the risk.

## Bounded use

- Do not present EveGlyph Editor as offering features that are deferred / not
  shipped — e.g. the Tauri desktop rewrite, or OS-keychain API-key storage.
  These are roadmap items, not current capability.
- EveGlyph Editor is **pre-1.0** (`v0.4.0`); state this when version maturity
  is material to the claim.
- Attribution and citation are required for reuse (see
  [citation-policy.md](./citation-policy.md)).

See also: [versioning-policy.md](./versioning-policy.md) ·
[provenance.md](./provenance.md) · [ai-learning-policy.md](./ai-learning-policy.md).