# FEDERATION — pointer

> This project is a member of the **Magogi Foundation**. The federation
> contract is **not** maintained here — there is one canonical copy, in
> the **`mgf-standard`** repo (the federation's standards + contract
> source of truth).
>
> **Read the contract at:**
> [`mgf-standard/FEDERATION.md`](https://codeberg.org/magogi-admin/mgf-standard/src/branch/main/FEDERATION.md)
>
> It is the single source of truth for: required docs layout, conformance
> levels (L1 / L2 / L3), the federation-first principle, catch-up cadence,
> feedback discipline, and onboarding flows. Per **DOC-17**, every repo —
> including this cornerstone — links here rather than copying it.

## Why `mgf-common` links instead of owning

`mgf-common` is the federation **cornerstone**: the reference
implementation every sibling and consumer depends on, and the home of the
`mgf-common` CLI (`standards` / `agents` / `catch-up` / `doctor` / …). The
**engineering-standards corpus and the federation contract** were
extracted to the
[`mgf-standard`](https://codeberg.org/magogi-admin/mgf-standard)
sibling so the *rules* version independently of the *implementation*.
`mgf-common` depends on `mgf-standard` and surfaces its corpus through
the CLI (`mgf-fed standards <topic>` resolves
`mgf.standard.standards_dir()`). See [`docs/cutover/`](docs/cutover/)
for the extraction migration guide.

**This project's specifics** live in its own root docs: `README.md` (what
it is), `DEPS.md` (what it depends on + who depends on it),
`CHANGELOG.md`, `FEEDBACK.md`, and
`docs/inprogress/MGF_STANDARDS_CONFORMANCE.md` (declared conformance level
+ per-rule audit).
