Maintaining truthful docs over time: how to keep security claims honest

Series: Start here · Part 1 · Part 2 · Part 3 · Part 4 · Part 5 · Part 6 · Part 7 · Part 8 · Part 9 · Part 10 This post is Part 10 in a Dev.to series grounded in the open-source Pain Tracker repo. Not medical advice. Not a compliance claim. This is about preventing doc drift from turning into false security promises. If you want privacy-first, offline health tech to exist without surveillance funding it: sponsor the build → https://paintracker.ca/sponsor Doc drift is inevitable — unless you design against it Every repo accumulates drift: features change, docs don’t defaults change, READMEs don’t “temporary” flags become permanent old screenshots live forever like fossils In most projects, drift is annoying. In privacy/security contexts, drift is worse than outdated. It becomes misinformation. So the goal isn’t “write perfect docs.” The goal is simpler (and harder): keep docs anchored to things you can verify Because a doc that can’t be verified eventually turns into storytime. The tric