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id: appendix-validator-conformance-v1
title: Appendix - Third-Party Validator Conformance
description: Pointer to the CTS-owned validator conformance guidance for AEON-family validators.
family: appendices-v1
group: AEOS and Profiles
path: specification/appendices/appendix-validator-conformance-v1
---

# Appendix — Third-Party Validator Conformance

Status: pointer to CTS-owned document

The operational conformance guidance for third-party validators now lives with `aeonite-org/aeonite-cts`.

This appendix remains in the spec tree only to record the boundary:

- AEOS and AEON specs define the normative semantic requirements
- `aeonite-cts` owns the public validator conformance guidance and verification-facing contract surface

If validator guidance conflicts with the AEOS spec line, the AEOS spec line wins.