Developer builds self-expiring claims registry to stop marketing pages going stale
A developer has published a methodology for stamping expiry dates on every public product claim, using a file called CLAIMS.md that requires each claim to link to a versioned result file and a last-verified date. Any claim older than 90 days automatically triggers a 'verification pending' banner in the documentation until it is refreshed. The system also bans unverifiable adjectives such as 'battle-tested' or 'production-grade' since no benchmark suite can produce such outputs, meaning they cannot earn a registry row and cannot ship in docs. The author applied the approach across two product lines — a serverless plugin and an ESLint tool — and used it to withdraw a precision-recall claim that could not be reproduced from its cited result file. The methodology is described as language-agnostic and transferable to any product page that makes measurable claims.
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