Three-Lane Framework Proposed to Prevent AI from Silently Editing Critical Docs

A software documentation framework called 'extract, draft, sign' has been proposed to prevent AI models from inadvertently overwriting critical content during README or doc regeneration. The core problem is that current pipelines treat entire markdown files as a single token stream, allowing AI rewrites to silently alter security contacts, SLO numbers, or legal clauses alongside routine prose updates. Under the proposed system, deterministic tools own the 'extract' lane for auto-generated content, AI models are confined to the 'draft' lane for narrative prose, and named humans must approve anything in the 'sign' lane that carries policy or contractual weight. A supporting lanes.yaml config file and directory structure help CI pipelines enforce which writers are permitted in each lane. The framework does not replace legal or audit controls but aims to make the boundary between AI-generated and human-approved content explicit and machine-checkable.