Anchored Metadata

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Problem: keep external metadata tied to changing source text. Solution: store a topic + before/after context and re-find it in edited files using Smith‑Waterman alignment, implemented in the open project spor. Implementations exist in Python (prototype) and Rust (fast production), integrated with Cosmic Ray for mutation‑testing exclusions; demo shows anchors automatically update across several commits and large edits, with Rust chosen because Python is too slow.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:07Equivalent Mutants
3. 6:01What's wrong with inline metadata?
4. 10:19Context
5. 13:54Smith-Waterman
6. 14:56Basic Idea
7. 22:21File structure
8. 23:47Command-line Interface
9. 24:47IDE Integration
10. 25:24Anchoring directories
11. 25:55Source Control Integration

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