# Cortex OS CTO

This workspace holds child-local planning for a Cortex OS CTO product surface.

The current thesis:

```text
Cortex governs.
Hermes controls.
CTO routes.
Case executes.
Harness proves.
Target repo stays owned.
Evidence records.
Core promotes only through SOT route.
```

## Status

This workspace is registered as a child-local planning workspace. Registration does not grant Core authority.

## Layout

```text
.
|-- AGENTS.md
|-- README.md
|-- WORKBOARD.yaml
|-- .sot/
|   |-- 00-START/
|   |   `-- CTO-WORKSPACE-INTENT.md
|   `-- 03-PROTOCOLS/
|       |-- CTO-CASE-BACKEND-BRIEF.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-CANDIDATE-BACKEND-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-CANDIDATE-BACKEND-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-HARNESS-EVIDENCE-INTERFACE-CONTRACT.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-SOURCE-ADMISSION-RECORD.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-ADAPTER-CONTRACT.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-FAILURE-FIXTURE-MATRIX.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-STAGED-PROOF-GATES.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-STAGE1-GATED-ENGINE-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-STAGE1-GATED-ENGINE-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-STAGE2-ARTIFICIAL-FIXTURE-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-STAGE2-ARTIFICIAL-FIXTURE-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-STAGE3-COPIED-REPO-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-STAGE3-COPIED-REPO-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-STAGE4-DISPOSABLE-SANDBOX-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-STAGE4-DISPOSABLE-SANDBOX-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-STAGE5-OWNED-NONCRITICAL-REPO-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-STAGE5-OWNED-NONCRITICAL-REPO-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-STAGE5-TARGET-REPOSITORY-ADMISSION-TEMPLATE.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-STAGE5-TARGET-REPOSITORY-ADMISSION.json
|       |-- CTO-CASE-STAGE6-CANDIDATE-DEFAULT-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-STAGE6-CANDIDATE-DEFAULT-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-PROVIDER-ADMISSION-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-PROVIDER-ADMISSION-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-PROVIDER-BUILD-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-PROVIDER-BUILD-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-MODEL-PROVIDER-ADMISSION-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-MODEL-PROVIDER-ADMISSION-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-LOCAL-PROVIDER-ROUTE-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-LOCAL-PROVIDER-ROUTE-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-PROVIDER-DECISION-PACKET-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-PROVIDER-DECISION-PACKET-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-PROVIDER-DECISION-RECORD.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-MODEL-PROVIDER-ADMISSION.openai-codex-gpt-5.5.json
|       |-- CTO-CASE-MODEL-PROVIDER-ADMISSION.qwen-local-qwen3.6-35b-a3b.json
|       |-- CTO-CASE-SPARK-ENDPOINT-CONFIG-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-CASE-SPARK-ENDPOINT-CONFIG-ISSUES.md
|       `-- CTO-CASE-AGENT-PROTOCOL-BLOCKER.md
`-- tools/
    `-- validate_cto_child.py
```

## Local Validation

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