Freeze the Export Surface Before a Messy Refactor: A Manifest Gate in Python
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The smallest safe change is a measurable claim. Most refactors fail because nobody defined "small." A rename here. A default flipped there. Six weeks later an import breaks in a repo you forgot existed. The fix is not more discipline. It is a machine-checked baseline of what your package exposes, t…
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Freeze the Export Surface Before a Messy Refactor: A Manifest Gate in Python