Appendix D: Index of subjects

Numbers are chapters and letters are appendices; both stay put across editions, which page numbers do not. The locations below are found in the text on every build, so the index cannot drift from the book.

adversarial review · Preface, 7, 10, 15, B

agent, coding · Preface, 1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 14, 17

autonomy and delegation · 1, 2, 3, 6, 14, 15, B

byte preservation · 2, 6, 7, 11, 13, 15

caret · 2, 3, 11

checklist · 3, 10, A, C

completion harness · 1, 4, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16, B

contract, executable · Preface, 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, A

design gate · Preface, 6, 13

differential testing · 3, 4, 13, 14, 17, C

documentation · Preface, 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, A, C

equivalence · 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 15

evidence bundle · 6, 15

fallback · 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, A, B

figure, generated · 5, 9, 12, 16

flaky · 8, B

golden file · 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 12, B

guardrail · 3, 7, 10, 16, A

integration · Preface, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, A, B, C

memory, durable · 10, 15, C

preservation of user data · Preface, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, B

profiler · 5, 7, 8, 14, 17

provenance · 5, 12, 16, B, C

ratchet · 3, 12, 15, 17

release · Preface, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, A, B, C

reproduction · 4, 8, 15, 16, 17, A, B

reversibility · 4, 5, 6, 9, 15, 17, B

review, independent · Preface, 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, B

taste, machine-checked · Preface, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14

test the tester · 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, A, B, C

truth, canonical · 2, 3, 6, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, A, C

verification · Preface, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, B, C

witnesses · Preface, 17

worktree · 9, 15