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# Contributing

Contributions must improve the public explanation without reproducing internal sources or adopting candidates.

## Before editing

1. Verify the claim against its current owning source.
2. Determine its disclosure class and coarse maturity.
3. Publish only the abstraction required to explain what and why.
4. Check composition risk with other public pages.
5. Apply substantive changes in German and English together.
6. Run disclosure, structure, link, and formatting checks.

Diagrams follow [`MERMAID.md`](/unitera-docs/mermaid.md) and show roles and conceptual relationships, not reconstructable implementation topology.

Claims about authority, external effect, production maturity, security, compliance, or certification require particular care.


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