Core

The single brand-agnostic, technology-silent source of truth that defines what every reusable piece of a design system is — its values, structure, content shape and approved compositions — without any brand's actual values or any platform's code

A specification, not an implementation. It holds tokens, component schemas, content models, patterns and the governance metadata over them; brand instances and adapters consume it and are not part of it. This repository's architecture notes call it the canonical contract layer; cwds calls it the Component Contract records and the authored token layer. One idea, three names.