speckit-constitution

To maintain a living project constitution and keep dependent templates synchronized, provide initial principles or confirm existing values to automatically merge governance updates and apply changes across all dependent artifacts.

Placeholder resolution in governance documentation works by scanning the project constitution for frontmatter requirements and replacing all placeholders with concrete values, ensuring consistent governance documentation across the project.

The best way to apply versioning to a project constitution is to use an automated tool that merges principle updates, resolves placeholders, and maintains a clear change history alongside consistent dates across all synchronized artifacts.

Yes, you can update project governance principles from interactive user input or supplied values by running a constitution tool that converts the inputs into a coherent governance document and synchronizes dependent artifacts.

No, you do not need to manually update dependent artifacts when changing governance principles because the system automatically synchronizes templates and dependent artifacts across the project after applying principle updates to the constitution.

Your project constitution still has unresolved placeholders after updating governance because the synchronization process may not have fully completed frontmatter requirements or failed to replace all placeholders with concrete values.