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keep-why-maintenance

Use when contradictions, revisit conditions, or duplicates appear in knowledge entries. Not for remote, credential, publish, deploy, or irreversible changes.

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# Keep why maintenance

## Contract

| Field | Bound contract |
|---|---|
| Trigger | Contradiction found between entries, an entry's Revisit-when condition fires, entries conflict or duplicate, or a topic file grows too large. |
| Authority | Reversible local: writes only named topic files; rollback is version control. No remote mutation. |
| Side effect | Status flips, superseded markers ('> Superseded <date>: see below') instead of deletion, duplicate merge, file split proposal. |
| Done | No silent historical overwrite; superseded content retained with marker; splits proposed rather than unbounded growth; maintenance changes get the same scrutiny as new entries. |

## Inputs

- Topic file (required): the knowledge file containing the entry or entries that triggered maintenance.