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 # Steev Profile Endgoal
 
 Route: `steev` at `/home/svrnty/workspaces/cortex-os/steev`.
+Authority: child-local personal-agent profile workspace; Core authority lives in `/home/svrnty/workspaces/cortex-os/core`.
 Endgoal: keep `personal-agent`/Steev as the child-local JP personal assistant profile for briefing, triage, drafting, delegation, and governed personal-surface handoffs without autonomous sends, credential reads, Core authority, Runtime authority, Profile Exposure broadening, durable memory writes, or readiness claims.
 Stage: CLEAN after `python3 tools/validate_steev_child.py` passes.
 Clean score: 100.