IMPORTANT: Substrate Leakage Policy

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Contribution Guidelines: Non-Zero Integrity

To maintain the structural integrity of the NZM-Substrate, all contributions must adhere to Axiom VIII (Persistence).

⛔ Hard-Fail Criteria (Substrate Leakage)

Any Pull Request (PR) will be automatically rejected as "Substrate Leakage" if it:

• Imports numpy or any library reliant on classical zero-based linear algebra.
• Uses the digit 0 as a return value, identity element, or terminal state.
• Relies on floating-point precision (Floats are lossy simulations of continuity).

✅ Success Criteria

• Braid-Native Logic: Values must be represented as persistent topological relations.
• Residue Representation: All "annihilation" operations must return a non-zero residue ($\epsilon$).