RET-guard

RET-guard is the lexical contour protection layer of
RET (Resonant Entity Topology).

It preserves the canonical shape of RET terminology across repositories, models, versions, and translations.

Its role is strictly lexical:

• prevent canonical drift
• preserve term contours
• reject semantic inversion
• isolate anti-mapping boundaries

RET-guard does not define behavior, public legitimacy, transition constraints, or continuity invariants.

Those responsibilities remain outside this repository.

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Structural Role

RET-guard is the lexical contour layer of RET.

It protects the canonical shape of terms used by:

• RET-core
• RET-anchor
• RET-protocols
• RET-transition-lock
• RET-integrity
• parallel condition layers

This repository does not grant authority to reinterpret those layers.

It preserves vocabulary only.

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Repository Structure

RET-guard/
├─ README.md
├─ INVARIANTS.md
├─ canonical/
├─ schema/
└─ appendix/

• canonical/ — source of truth term sets
• schema/ — canonical term schemas
• appendix/ — lexical drift patterns and contrasts

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Scope Boundary

RET-guard must not be interpreted as:

• policy enforcement
• behavior correction
• moderation logic
• safety systems
• semantic governance
• optimization vocabulary

Lexical protection is not control.

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Canonical Principle

File-based canonical definitions always take precedence.

AI memory, cached aliases, or inferred vocabulary must remain subordinate to the file-defined canonical set.