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+# docs.dig.net — repo operating notes
+
+The DIG Network documentation site (Docusaurus). Most pages are ordinary Markdown you
+can edit freely. The one load-bearing exception is the machine-spec drift gate below —
+read it before touching the error catalog or the RPC method tables, or an innocent-looking
+one-line docs edit will fail the build with an error that points nowhere obvious.
+
+## The machine-spec drift gate (READ before editing error codes or RPC methods)
+
+**These files are a single unit and MUST move together in the same commit:**
+
+| File | Role |
+|------|------|
+| `scripts/dig-spec.mjs` | **Source of truth** — the data module for the ecosystem's cross-surface machine specs (dig RPC methods + the error catalog across every surface). |
+| `docs/support/error-codes.md` | The human-facing **prose** error table (per surface: `dig-rpc`, `digstore-cli`, `dighub`, `dig-loader`). |
+| `docs/rpc/methods.md`, `docs/rpc/streaming.md` | The human-facing prose RPC spec. |
+| `static/openrpc.json`, `static/openrpc-node.json`, `static/error-codes.json`, `static/knowledge-graph.json` | **Generated** artifacts consumed by every other module (dig-store, hub, dig-sdk, the extension, the browser). Never hand-edit. |
+
+**The gate:** `scripts/gen-machine-specs.mjs` renders the JSON from `dig-spec.mjs` **and**
+drift-checks it against the prose tables — `driftGate()` parses each surface's first-column
+codes out of `error-codes.md` and `assertSetEqual`s them against the catalog, throwing
+`error-codes drift for <surface> — only in error-codes.json: … / only in error-codes.md: …`
+on any divergence. `npm run gen` runs that check, and it is wired into every build and dev
+start via `prebuild`/`prestart` (`package.json`). So a throw here **fails the build**.
+
+**What this means in practice:**
+
+- Editing the error table in `docs/support/error-codes.md` **alone** (adding, removing, or
+  renumbering a code) makes `error-codes.md` and `dig-spec.mjs` disagree → the next
+  `npm run build` (or `npm start`) fails in `prebuild → gen`, not in a place that mentions
+  your `.md` edit. The failure message is the pointer: it names the surface and which side
+  has the extra code.
+- **The fix is never to weaken the gate.** Make the change in `scripts/dig-spec.mjs` too, run
+  `npm run gen` in the **same commit** so the `static/*.json` artifacts regenerate and match,
+  and commit all three together (source + prose + regenerated JSON).
+- Adding a brand-new error code: add it to `dig-spec.mjs`'s catalog **and** the matching
+  surface table in `error-codes.md`, then `npm run gen`.
+
+Proven load-bearing: delete a row from `error-codes.md` and run `npm run gen` — the generator
+rejects the orphaned entry rather than silently emitting a stale catalog.
+
+**General pattern (not unique to this repo):** any surface generated from a canonical source
+plus a prose mirror carries a regen ceremony, and if that ceremony isn't documented where the
+editor looks first, the first symptom is an unexplained build failure. The ecosystem records
+this pattern in the superproject `frontend-baseline` skill.
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 {
   "name": "docs-dig-net",
-  "version": "0.7.0",
+  "version": "0.7.1",
   "private": true,
   "scripts": {
     "docusaurus": "docusaurus",