# Cortex OS CTO Endgoal

## Pickup

Route: `cto` at `/home/svrnty/workspaces/cortex-os/cto`.
Endgoal: maintain child-local CTO planning that can route governed execution work without becoming Core authority, a Runtime, or a backend owner.
Stage: CLEAN after `python3 tools/validate_cto_child.py` passes.
Clean score: 100.
Authority boundary: child-local CTO planning workspace only; not Core authority, Runtime authority, Host Runtime authority, backend owner authority, vendor-source authority, external developer repo authority, execution-backend authority, or readiness authority.
Validator: `python3 tools/validate_cto_child.py`.
Legacy-work relation: old CTO planning, adapter design, transportability, Case/Hermes/Pi/Codex/backend, and validation scaffold work is reference-only unless `docs/LEGACY-INGEST.md` admits the intention. Distill route and planning contracts; do not import vendor source, backend state, runtime behavior, or implementation mass because they exist.

Read `docs/LEGACY-INGEST.md` before broad cleanup, restart, or old-work ingestion. It captures the intention behind mature CTO clusters and rejects implementation mass that does not serve the current endgoal.

This workspace is a child-local planning workspace for the Cortex OS CTO product line.

It is not Cortex OS Core authority. It is not a Runtime. It is not a Host Runtime.

## Authority Order

1. `/home/svrnty/workspaces/cortex-os/core` active SOT.
2. `/home/svrnty/workspaces/cortex-os/core/AGENTS.md`.
3. This file.
4. `README.md`, `WORKBOARD.yaml`, local `.sot/`, and local tools.
5. Chat/session memory.

## Workspace Classification

Use this workspace for child-local CTO planning, adapter design, transportability briefs, and validation scaffolds.

Do not claim Core authority from this workspace. Promotion into Core requires a governed Core route.

## Editing Rule

Before editing, classify the work and keep it inside this workspace unless Core explicitly routes promotion.

After editing, run:

```bash
python3 tools/validate_cto_child.py
```

For governance text, follow Core caveman prose discipline.

## Protected Boundaries

- Do not mutate `../core/` from this workspace.
- Do not mutate vendor source.
- Do not mutate external developer repositories.
- Do not create Runtime behavior without a Core-approved route.
- Do not treat Case, Hermes, Pi, Codex, or any execution backend as Cortex OS authority.