Normative rule index

Carve has one normative language contract. These views filter that contract by implementation responsibility; they do not define conformance profiles or make any rule optional.

View	Rules	Responsibility
Parsing	111	Input normalization, layout, block and inline recognition, attributes, and lexical boundaries.
Resolution and rendering	36	Document-wide resolution, core semantic behavior, and HTML serialization.
AST interchange	36	The core serialized tree shape, source positions, and cross-implementation AST guarantees.
Canonical writing	42	Canonical Carve source, Markdown and plain-text targets, round trips, and escaping.
Imports, security, and extensions	24	Optional and host-facing behavior, importer contracts, security limits, diagnostics, and extension surfaces.

Together the views cover all 249 active rules exactly once. The source metadata lives in resources/spec/rules.json.

Retired rule IDs

Retired IDs are never reused. Their replacement points to the document that now owns the contract.

Rule	Last title	Replacement
CARVE-P9-028	THE ENGINE'S OWN WORDS ARE A RENDER OPTION	CARVE-P9-063
CARVE-PRE-001	THE EXECUTABLE ARTIFACTS DECIDE NOTHING	.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#what-settles-a-question
CARVE-PRE-002	A GOLDEN IS NORMATIVE ONCE COMMITTED, NOT ONCE GENERATED	.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#what-settles-a-question
CARVE-PRE-003	A CHECKER THAT DISAGREES WITH A COMMITTED GOLDEN IS WRONG UNTIL A CLAUSE SAYS OTHERWISE	.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#what-settles-a-question