# The minimum code below: what changed in v1.2.0, sgit.ai > The changes to the article "The minimum code below" in v1.2.0, paragraph by paragraph. *Source: · sgit.ai v0.7.87 · this file is generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift. Every page on this site has a `.md` twin; internal links below point at them.* --- [Home](../../../index.md) / [Articles](../../index.md) / [The minimum code below](../../the-minimum-code-below.md) / [Versions](../the-minimum-code-below.md) / v1.2.0 # The minimum code below: what changed in v1.2.0 From v1.1.0 (2026-10-18, `de821285d`) to v1.2.0 (2026-10-27, `db67c5ce1`), paragraph by paragraph. 0 paragraphs added, 0 removed, 3 changed in place, 52 unchanged. About 0 words added and 116 removed. Insertions are marked like this, deletions like this; unchanged runs are folded to one line; figures appear as their file names. [← v1.1.0](v1.1.0.md) · [all versions](../the-minimum-code-below.md) 2 unchanged paragraphs !shot mq-layers.webp | images/ | Top down, one question at every layer: what is the minimum code below this that the layer above needs? From a user story, through the workflow, modules and functions, to the dependencies, the language runtime and the operating system. Projected from the top, derived from the code; derived and not projected is code nobody asked for. | architecture 22 unchanged paragraphs, under In short {#in-short}, Bottom up, and where it stops {#bottom-up}, Top down: the minimum code below {#top-down}… !shot mq-measured.webp | images/ | One use case, measured.measured: sgit 0.21.0 and its dependencies,dependenciesrunbeforeunderandcoverageafterfor a CI-style use case, then run again from a tree holdingkeeping only the files that ran: 1,500 files down to 428, Python source from 4.72 MB to 1.98 MB, compiled code unchanged at 14.78 MB. Inside the kept files 38% of the statements ran; commands outside the use case failed; coverage missed a compiled module the tests caught.ran. | comparison 14 unchanged paragraphs, under What the measurement also showed {#limits-measured}, It did not scale before, and now it can {#scale}, Who does what today {#landscape} !shot mq-landscape.webp | images/ | Three ways to get to less code.code:Bottombottom up and hardened, as Chainguard does; runtime minimisation, as SlimToolkit and RapidFort do; and top down by use case, proposed here, which starts from what the application is for and ties every remaining line to a reason.case. | comparison 14 unchanged paragraphs, under The business model: certify what is left {#certify}, What this does not claim {#limits}, Where this comes from {#sources} [← v1.1.0](v1.1.0.md) · [all versions](../the-minimum-code-below.md) --- *[Site index for agents](../../../llms.txt) · [HTML version](https://newsroom.sgit.ai/articles/versions/the-minimum-code-below/v1.2.0.html)*