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 Keep the feature deferred until its consumer value and full lifecycle design
 justify reconsidering the sequence-merging exclusion. A correct final sequence
 alone would not establish correct inspection or disclosure behavior.
+
+## 2. Required version declarations for selected sources
+
+Status: deferred. PromptKit requested a way to require version declarations on
+a selected subset of source files while permitting other fragments to omit them.
+
+### Motivation and proposed behavior
+
+PromptKit could require each collection's root file (for example,
+`collection.yml` or `meta.yml`, with naming still undecided) to declare an
+accepted specification version. Other files would use the existing
+[check-when-present behavior](../config.md#shared-source-version-checks).
+This would enforce a rule that otherwise remains a documentation convention.
+
+All declarations would use the same application-owned `Definition.Version`
+path and acceptance policy. The proposal concerns where declarations are
+required; it does not introduce independently versioned collections or subtrees.
+A root declaration would not prove that headerless descendants declare a
+compatible version or replace final configuration validation.
+
+### Questions to resolve before implementation
+
+- **Selection API:** should callers mark explicit inputs, select sources by
+  path or predicate, or annotate imports? An input-level requirement is simpler,
+  but cannot by itself select a root reached only through an import.
+- **Scope:** does a requirement apply only to the selected document or also to
+  its imports? Applying it only to that document best fits PromptKit's request;
+  imported fragments could still declare versions checked by the shared policy.
+- **Mode interaction:** how should selection interact with disabled source
+  checks? Require an enabled mode, or activate checking for selected sources?
+  Selection would strengthen check-when-present behavior and add no requirement
+  beyond the load-wide required mode.
+- **Source handling and evidence:** how should selection work across file,
+  reader, byte, and mapping inputs, glob matches, and repeated imports? Define
+  behavior for absent optional inputs and preserve source-local diagnostics,
+  inspection evidence, and existing sensitivity handling.