E.19:10 - Rationale

Patterns are both teaching publications and normative guidance publications. A specification that grows without explicit quality gates can become a patchwork: locally good, globally inconsistent. A profile-based gate combines a short common baseline with depth selected for the live risk and pattern kind.

The baseline profile protects cross-pattern comparability and editorial sanity. Risk-selected profiles keep depth where it matters: norms, SoTA claims, cross-context reuse, terminology changes, staleness refresh, and reader fit. A pattern that is admissible in package terms but speaks to the wrong reader is still a review defect.