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 # Cortex OS CTO Endgoal
 
 Endgoal: Maintain child-local CTO planning for governed execution routing, adapter design, transportability, and validation scaffolds without Core authority, Runtime authority, backend ownership, vendor-source authority, execution-backend authority, or readiness claims.
+Authority: child-local CTO planning workspace; Core authority lives in `/home/svrnty/workspaces/cortex-os/core`.
 
 ## Universal Cortex OS Agent Contract