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“Which one is right?” The same fact, three files, three answers.

Duplicate a fact for convenience and you've scheduled a future disagreement.

✓ what worked
01 · the learning

What I set out to add

I'd copied the same fact into a few places because it was handy at the time. Then they drifted, and I couldn't tell which copy was true. The discipline that fixed it: a storage-ownership model — every kind of fact has exactly one home, and everything else points at it.

02 · the test

The thing I actually tried

I tested mapping where each kind of information is allowed to live and running an audit that flags the same fact showing up in two homes.

storage-audit.shSTORAGE-MAP.md
03 · the frustrations

Where it bit

"Which one is right?" The same fact, in three files, no longer agreeing with itself.
04 · the verdict

What worked, what didn't

✓ worked

One fact, one home. No copy to drift, nothing to reconcile, no 'which one is right.'

✗ didn't

Convenience-duplicating. Every copy is a fork waiting to disagree.

the durable rule

One fact, one home. The second copy isn't a backup — it's a future bug.

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