---
title: "Carrying CREED in another package | CREED docs"
description: "How PROCTOR, Booster and Rollcall carry a generated copy of the reader under their own namespace, and how bin/export.php keeps the copies in step."
url: https://creed.apps.wayne.edu/docs/guides/carrying-creed.html
llms: https://creed.apps.wayne.edu/llms.txt
generator: Squire agent-ready
---

# Carrying CREED in another package[#](https://creed.apps.wayne.edu/docs/guides/carrying-creed.html#carrying-creed-in-another-package)

This page explains who carries a copy of CREED's reader and policy, what the copy is, and how `bin/export.php` generates it and checks it.

## Who carries a copy[#](https://creed.apps.wayne.edu/docs/guides/carrying-creed.html#who-carries-a-copy)

- PROCTOR, Booster and Rollcall each carry a generated copy of the reader and policy under their own namespace, made by `bin/export.php`, so two tools in one app never fight over a class name.
- ADVISOR carries CREED's policy and handbook as a data bundle instead, in its `data/`.
- HELMET can read a `policy.json` at runtime, and apps and the stack's front-page deploys install `waynestate/creed` from Packagist.

## Why the copies began[#](https://creed.apps.wayne.edu/docs/guides/carrying-creed.html#why-the-copies-began)

The copies began because CREED was not on Packagist. It is now (`waynestate/creed` 0.1.3), so each copy can become a real `require`, one consumer at a time; until a consumer switches, its copy stays.

## Generating and checking the copy[#](https://creed.apps.wayne.edu/docs/guides/carrying-creed.html#generating-and-checking-the-copy)

CREED owns the generator and the check:

```
php bin/export.php --namespace=Waynestate\Proctor\Creed --to=vendor/creed-copy
php bin/export.php --check --namespace=Waynestate\Proctor\Creed --to=vendor/creed-copy
```

The copy is the reader with the namespace rewritten and `bundled()` repointed at its own `policy.json`; `--check` fails when the copy drifts from the source. Creed Bratton would have a form for this.

## Related[#](https://creed.apps.wayne.edu/docs/guides/carrying-creed.html#related)

- [The handbook](https://creed.apps.wayne.edu/docs/guides/handbook.html)
- [Reading the policy from PHP](https://creed.apps.wayne.edu/docs/guides/reading-the-policy.html)
- [Install](https://creed.apps.wayne.edu/docs/install.html)