# GovOPlaN Audit Codex Guide

## Scope

This repository owns durable audit records, audit administration surfaces, retention behavior, and the transactional platform-event outbox.

## Documentation Contract

- Treat documentation as part of every behavior change. Update this module's manifest-driven `DocumentationTopic` contributions for affected user and administrator behavior.
- Keep feature content here; `govoplan-docs` projects it without importing Audit internals.
- Maintain a static user/admin baseline and run `/mnt/DATA/git/govoplan/tools/checks/check-manifest-shapes.py` after behavior or manifest changes.

## Boundaries

- Store bounded evidence and trace context, not arbitrary feature payloads.
- Preserve transactional recording, retention, redaction, and retry guarantees.