Empty, NUL and unreadable paths, malformed UTF-8 and lone surrogates refuse
with the command's exit 1. The manifest is bounded (1 MiB, 1000 ships) and
duplicate JSON properties are refused. Titles refuse format, line and
paragraph separator characters and edge whitespace. Naming an already
retired key is a recorded no-op, so a rerun converges.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>