speckit-constitution

To synchronize project governance, you can update the central constitution template and automatically propagate those changes to all dependent specification artifacts, ensuring documentation alignment and preventing drift across templates.

A constitution template is a centralized document for maintaining project-wide principles and governance rules. You need it when adding or amending engineering principles to ensure changes are tracked and validated against existing templates.

Manage semantic versioning for project principles by applying strict version tracking and ratification dates to the constitution template, ensuring that every amendment to governance rules is validated and version-controlled.

Yes, operating within the .specify directory structure enables automated template syncing by maintaining alignment between memory files and operational templates, ensuring compliance and consistency across the project.

The best way to validate new principles is to use template-based validation during the constitution update process, which automatically checks for alignment and generates a sync report to identify any documentation drift.

Documentation drift occurs when governance rules are updated in isolation without propagating changes to dependent specification and task templates, a problem solved by synchronizing updates from the central constitution.