The five-gate publishing contract that keeps Claude-written READMEs defensible

When Claude writes your README, every claim in it becomes a hostage to fortune. An interviewer opens the repo. An ATS scanner parses the bullets. A recruiter AI drills into a link from your resume. If any sentence in there points at a file, a command, or a capability that does not actually behave as advertised, your credibility collapses in the 90 seconds it takes them to notice. The fix is not to stop using Claude for public artifacts. The fix is a pre-push contract — five gates in a bash scrip