# ConfigKit Integration

Notarius uses the public root package
[`gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit`](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit)
at v0.5.0 for version 5 configuration acquisition, imports, overlays, explicit
overrides, native sibling inheritance, diagnostics, and safe inspection
rendering. ConfigKit composes source precedence and inheritance before typed
decoding; Notarius does not perform a second inheritance merge.

Notarius owns the typed document, domain defaults and validation, runtime
conversion, catalog-dependent pipeline resolution, source-aware configured
paths, and command discovery. It uses only ConfigKit's public path, result,
diagnostic, and resolution-source APIs. Upstream documentation owns general
ConfigKit semantics; [Configuration](../config.md) owns Notarius's file and
operator contract. See the pinned upstream [v0.5.0 release notes](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/commit/dc09959cca4e105f49ec316c6d4ba585bd2340bd/docs/releases/v0.5.0.md)
and [configuration contract](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/commit/dc09959cca4e105f49ec316c6d4ba585bd2340bd/docs/config.md).

See the canonical [ConfigKit attribution](../oss/attribution.md#configkit) for
its license and notices.