Two directions Shipped
Reverse-engineering demands source fidelity; drafting from intent demands the opposite discipline.
From code, the rule is source fidelity first: the recipe describes what the code actually does, including the parts that are awkward, because a recipe that quietly improves its subject is fiction. From intent, there is no source to be faithful to, so the discipline moves to the template — the artifact has to be complete against its own structure before it is useful to anyone.
Why the review pipeline has a recipe scope
Because cookbook artifacts are code-adjacent and reviewable: template conformance and source fidelity are both things a specialist can check. The recipe scope exists so a recipe gets reviewed by the same machinery as the code it describes.