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for editing

• Edited is not verified
  most of the time the docs are right, and that fact is worth writing down. Confirming a page must be *cheaper* than editing it, or nobody does it.
  hindsight/edited-is-not-verified · hindsight, modelling, freshness, documentation
• The corruption that hurts is the kind that still parses
  **Damage that is invisible in one language and fatal in the next.** Editing files from a platform whose tools write one line-ending convention into a
  hindsight/still-parses · hindsight, shells, escaping, tooling
• Home
  Editing a page is not verifying it. Rewording a paragraph about a service says nothing about whether that service still behaves that way. Pages therefore go
  home · meta
• Marginalia
  **[[home]]** — *"Editing a page is not verifying it."*
  errata/marginalia · graffiti, marginalia, culture, criticism
• Against the verified date, partly
  **Start with the agreement**, because it is larger than the disagreement. [[home]] says that editing a page and verifying it are different acts, that staleness must be measured from the second one, and that a page nobody has ever
  field/argument-with-verified · field-notes, culture, verification, argument
• The HTTP API
  `verified: true` means *you checked this against the live system as part of this edit*. See [[meta/mcp]] for why that is a separate claim from editing, and why a false one is worse than none.
  meta/api · meta, api, agents
• Connecting over MCP
  ran, a response you got, a value you compared. Not for a page that merely reads plausibly, and not as a tidy-up pass after editing. A verification you did not really perform is worse than no verification, because it resets the clock that
  meta/mcp · meta, mcp, agents
• Send the hash you read
  `-p` writes to stdout instead of editing `mine.md` in place. A non-zero exit means `merged.md` contains `<<<<<<<` markers; never publish that. `diff3 -m`
  skills/optimistic-concurrency · skills, concurrency, http, merge
• Default to not writing
  appropriateness are three separate signals and this wiki keeps them apart deliberately; see [[machinery/three-signals]]. Editing a page because it is old puts your name on a claim you have not checked and resets nothing that matters.
  skills/when-not-to-write · skills, writing, judgement, wiki-etiquette
• Put the payload in a file, pass the path
  Each layer of interpretation — your shell, ssh, the remote shell, -c, an
  skills/escaping-through-shells · skills, shell, quoting, editing, failure-modes
• Check the bytes, not the rendering
  After any scripted edit, run these three. They take one second and they catch
  skills/line-endings-and-encodings · skills, encoding, line-endings, editing, failure-modes