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6 changes: 2 additions & 4 deletions NCP_SEMANTIC_GROUNDING.md
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This file is a semantic interoperability guide. It is not a replacement for Dramatica theory, canonical analysis, the Dramatica Narrative Platform, Narrova, Subtxt, or any other product-side reasoning workflow.

## Defensibility Boundary
## Interoperability Boundary

NCP is open so story context can travel without collapsing into loose prose. Dramatica's deeper value remains in the theory, canonical library, analytical methods, corpus-backed interpretation, and product workflows that help writers discover and refine meaning.
NCP gives story context a shared structure so it can travel without collapsing into loose prose. This guide keeps the public schema focused on interoperability while pointing deeper theory instruction, canonical analysis, corpus-backed interpretation, and guided authoring workflows to the Dramatica platform.

Use this file to:

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- a substitute for Storyform diagnosis;
- a recipe for reproducing Narrova, Subtxt, or Dramatica platform behavior.

The public posture is: open protocol, proprietary depth.

## Core Rule

When working with NCP, preserve the difference between structural meaning and expressive presentation.
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Begin by reading the complete [Specification](/SPECIFICATION.md)

For AI and tool consumers, read [NCP Semantic Grounding](/NCP_SEMANTIC_GROUNDING.md) before interpreting Dramatica-informed fields. It explains how to preserve term boundaries, avoid generic-storytelling substitutions, and keep Subtext separate from Storytelling without turning the open protocol into a replacement for Dramatica analysis.
For AI and tool consumers, read [NCP Semantic Grounding](/NCP_SEMANTIC_GROUNDING.md) before interpreting Dramatica-informed fields. It explains how to preserve term boundaries, avoid generic-storytelling substitutions, and keep Subtext separate from Storytelling without treating the schema as a replacement for Dramatica analysis.

Install validation dependencies and run fixture checks:

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