CAERIUS200 — AutoContracts manifest is missing

Severity: Error Category: CaeriusNet.AutoContracts

Cause

AutoContracts is enabled, but the project does not have exactly one canonical v3 caerius.contracts.json manifest available as an AdditionalFiles item during compilation.

How to fix

Install CaeriusNet.Contracts and let its opt-in AutoContracts MSBuild integration create the manifest.

dotnet add package CaeriusNet.Contracts

Set Pull mode for an intentional refresh:

<PropertyGroup>
  <CaeriusContractsMode>Pull</CaeriusContractsMode>
  <CaeriusContractsConnectionName>DefaultConnection</CaeriusContractsConnectionName>
</PropertyGroup>

Then build:

dotnet build

The default manifest path is $(ProjectDir)caerius.contracts.json. Override CaeriusContractsOutput only when the file intentionally lives elsewhere.

After the v3 manifest exists and is committed, use Verify mode in CI. Do not hand-create a v2 file: run a new Pull so server features, zero-based ordinals, facets/collations and semantic hashes are complete.