D015 - No vendor trademarks in prose or in our own API

decided · 2026-08-19

Not concealment: what this targets is obvious from the first paragraph of any file, and that is fine. The goal is a low profile - nothing here is advertised, so there is no reason to repeat brand names, and a project that reads like marketing invites attention it has no use for. Glossary in CLAUDE.md principle 2.

The one exception: literal symbol and library strings inside guest_module! declarations are ABI identifiers the guest imports by, and the NID is computed from them. Renaming them stops the tool working. Invented placeholders in tests and docs use vendor-free names (libTest, libExample).