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

Cortex OS use is child-local and refs-only by default: this repo preserves CTO planning, execution-routing contracts, adapter design, transportability briefs, staged proof gates, approval packets, evidence interfaces, and validation scaffolds as child-local material. It is not Core truth, Runtime authority, Host Runtime authority, backend ownership, vendor-source authority, external developer repo authority, execution-backend authority, provider authority, target-repo mutation authority, Profile Exposure authority, product readiness, release authority, production readiness, or permission to activate Case, mutate target repos, call providers, read secrets, publish, deploy, or release.

Status

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

Legacy Ingest

Read docs/LEGACY-INGEST.md before broad cleanup or old-work ingestion. The file records which older CTO clusters are still useful by intention and which implementation mass stays out.

Layout

.
|-- AGENTS.md
|-- README.md
|-- WORKBOARD.yaml
|-- docs/
|   `-- LEGACY-INGEST.md
|-- .sot/
|   |-- 00-START/
|   |   `-- CTO-WORKSPACE-INTENT.md
|   `-- 03-PROTOCOLS/
|       |-- CTO-CASE-BACKEND-BRIEF.md
|       |-- CTO-ARCHITECTURE-BRIEF-CLOSEOUT-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-ARCHITECTURE-BRIEF-CLOSEOUT-ISSUES.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-CORE-PROMOTION-DECISION-PACKET-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-CORE-PROMOTION-DECISION-PACKET-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-CORE-PROMOTION-DECISION-RECORD.md
|       |-- CTO-CORE-PROMOTION-DECISION-PACKET-CLOSEOUT.md
|       |-- CTO-CORE-ROUTE-ADMISSION-GUARD-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-CORE-ROUTE-ADMISSION-GUARD-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-CORE-ROUTE-ADMISSION-GUARD.md
|       |-- CTO-CORE-ROUTE-ADMISSION-GUARD-CLOSEOUT.md
|       |-- CTO-HERMES-CONTROL-SURFACE-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-HERMES-CONTROL-SURFACE-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-FIRST-REAL-GOVERNED-WORKFLOW-PRD.md
|       |-- CTO-FIRST-REAL-GOVERNED-WORKFLOW-ISSUES.md
|       |-- CTO-FIRST-REAL-GOVERNED-WORKFLOW-APPROVAL-PACKET.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

python3 tools/validate_cto_child.py