Vertical Contracts

Contract-first standard for creating and evolving domain verticals.

Objective

Enforce a repeatable implementation pattern across domains:

• domain-agnostic core
• domain adapters for specialization
• explicit manifest + ownership + lifecycle
• optional domain graph-node packs (graph_nodes/) through hook factories

Documents

• Pattern: docs/contracts/verticals/pattern.md
• Manifest template: docs/contracts/verticals/templates/vertical_manifest.yaml