Redacted excerpt; full evidence withheld. $ cd && ls -la && id -u && python3 --version && (git status 2>&1 | head -3); cat README.md 2>/dev/null | head -150 exit: 0 question — does this value belong — and to it `Any` admits every value, exactly as `anything` does. They are the same schema and obey the same laws; what you wrote is kept for `repr`, not for the algebra. - **Check, don't parse.** `validate`/`is_valid` never copy or coerce; the proof is about the object you keep, not a reconstructed copy. `ensure` is the separate, explicit value-returning mode. - **Typing-first.** Standard annotations are the primary notation, read through the typing spec's own introspection. Union has the operator typing already uses, `|`; intersection and complement stay spelled out because typing has no [excerpt truncated]