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docs(scripts): check-role-word's --update moves the baseline in both directions #10065

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12 changes: 9 additions & 3 deletions scripts/check-role-word.mjs
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// node scripts/check-role-word.mjs [--update]
// node scripts/check-role-word.mjs --self-test # verify the checker's own rules
//
// `--update` expands the baseline, which is the shrink-only direction of this
// ratchet — the NEW-use message marks that path `⛔ MAINTAINER-ONLY` per the
// #8435 convention, and the self-test holds the marker in place.
// `--update` rewrites the baseline from the current tree — it never reads the
// old ledger (see the `update` branch at the bottom) — so it moves whichever
// way the tree moved: shrinking where the word is gone, EXPANDING where it is
// new. Only policy tells those apart. The baseline is shrink-only, so
// ratcheting down is the author's own remedy, while expanding WEAKENS the gate
// and is a maintainer's call: the NEW-use message marks that path
// `⛔ MAINTAINER-ONLY` per the #8435 convention, and the self-test holds the
// marker in place. Both pin the WORDING, not the act — the flag takes either
// direction from whoever runs it.
//
// Scope: content/docs (hand-written; references/ is generated from spec and
// excluded — the spec source is the fix site there) and skills/. File and
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