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Summary

Closes the final documentation-policy slice of #51.

Decision

• English documentation is the single authoritative source.
• README.it.md and docs/it/ are retained as derived Italian presentation.
• Repository decision: KEEP existing Italian documentation.
• REGENERATE rejected: bulk regeneration would create review churn without proving semantic equivalence.
• CONSOLIDATE rejected: removing the Italian tree would discard useful public documentation without demonstrated maintenance benefit.

Maintenance contract

• semantic/normative changes are authored in English first;
• Italian counterparts are updated in the same change when practical;
• untranslated/stale Italian never blocks or overrides authoritative English;
• conflict resolution always favors English;
• commands, IDs, schemas, paths, numbers and machine-readable values remain unchanged unless canonical English changes them.

Audit evidence

The September 2026 audit found real drift, including stale CLI-tool counts and missing newer multi-year update behavior in README.it.md. The policy therefore explicitly classifies Italian docs as derived snapshots rather than parallel authority.

Included

• new docs/documentation-localization-policy.md;
• English docs index authority notice;
• Italian docs index derived-status notice;
• docs/localization-contract.md updated to reflect completed dynamic GiadaWare AI integration and completed documentation-policy migration.

No runtime, CLI, GUI, domain, application, or structured-data behavior changes.

Refs #51