THE CONTRACT FINGERPRINT — sha256 over the canonical contract, derived at boot, never stored.
This is the entity tag the console serves on the entity index and on every row's OPTIONS
(2026-07-31-rest-entity-map.md, Amendment 2026-09-16), and the same value the browser
computes from the core its own bundle was built with. Equal means the two are speaking about
one contract; different means they are not, and says nothing more than that.
THE CONTRACT FINGERPRINT — sha256 over the canonical contract, derived at boot, never stored.
This is the entity tag the console serves on the entity index and on every row's
OPTIONS(2026-07-31-rest-entity-map.md, Amendment 2026-09-16), and the same value the browser computes from the core its own bundle was built with. Equal means the two are speaking about one contract; different means they are not, and says nothing more than that.