# Quality Criteria Registry

`acceptance-quality-criteria.v1.json` is the active reviewable criteria registry
for candidate characteristics. It defines criteria that deterministic gates may
use to reject, downgrade, invalidate, flag, merge, or require review.

The registry is intentionally not an approval policy. Approval belongs to human
reviewers or trusted agentic reviewers that inspect evidence and record a
rationale.

List the active registry from the CLI:

```bash
repo-scoping list-quality-criteria --format markdown
```

The same registry is available from the API at `GET /quality-criteria`.