sdd-constitution

Project governance through a formal constitution enforces consistent decision-making using MUST/SHOULD language, ensuring strict versioning, compliance, and change-management workflows across all software specifications, plans, and tasks.

You enforce semantic versioning by implementing a frontmatter-based skill entry that defines strict versioning rules and change-management procedures, applying structured governance templates to your project plans and tasks.

Yes, template-driven governance provides standardized procedures and MUST/SHOULD enforcement language specifically designed to facilitate audit compliance, standardize decision-making, and onboard new teams to project principles.

The best way to formalize project principles is creating a structured constitution with frontmatter-defined metadata that documents governance procedures, enforces semantic versioning, and applies consistent templates across artifacts.

No specific dependencies or components are required to set up a project constitution; it relies on frontmatter-based skill entries with name and description fields to define and enforce governance procedures natively.

A formal constitution is not ideal for projects lacking strict compliance requirements or those needing rapid, flexible iteration, as its MUST/SHOULD governance language and rigid change-management workflows enforce strict versioning control.