stale.version-pin

heuristicunmeasuredseverity: low

A behavioral claim we believe and have not measured. Labeled unmeasured in every reporter line, excluded from the chaff score, and never fails a build by default.

Claim

A pinned build/version string sits in resident prose. Version pins go stale silently and then mislead.

Rationale

A version in prose ("2.1.220") is a fact with an expiry date and no expiry marking. Believed harmful; not yet measured.

Fix

State the behavior, not the build number, or move the pin into a lockfile/config the tooling owns.

chaff explain stale.version-pin: same registry, offline, from the CLI.