import-beliefs-parser-is-forward-compatible

IN premise

Unknown `- ` metadata lines in belief markdown are silently skipped via a `pass` branch, making the parser forward-compatible with new export format fields.

Summary

The markdown import parser won't break if new metadata fields are added to the export format in the future. Any line it doesn't recognize gets quietly ignored, so older versions of the parser can still read files produced by newer versions of the exporter.

Dependents

These beliefs depend on this one:

system-tolerates-evolution-at-all-boundaries — The system handles format and schema evolution gracefully at every external boundary: derive output parsers support two format versions with automatic fallback, belief import silently skips unknown metadata fields, and storage tolerates missing tables from older database schemas via exception handling

Details

Source

entries/2026/04/29/reasons_lib-import_beliefs.md