# DocGuard Ignore — files to exclude from validation
# Format: one pattern per line, # comments, blank lines skipped

# Research documents (external/archival — not project source docs)
Research/
Research/**

# Python distribution artifacts
dist/
build/
*.egg-info/
docguard_cli/
__pycache__/
*.pyc

# OS files
.DS_Store

# Spec Kit templates and scripts (contain placeholder tokens, not actual docs)
.specify/templates/
.specify/scripts/

# Backups created by generate --force
*.bak

# Surface audit doc — contains historical observations like "guard ran 22
# validators" that document the pre-v0.19 state. Auto-fixing those to the
# current count would erase the historical record the audit exists to preserve.
docs-canonical/SURFACE-AUDIT.md

