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+# Deployment-Managed Cache Permissions
+
+Status: proposed
+
+## Summary
+
+Stop treating cache access permissions as application policy. Notarius should
+create chunk-plan and checkpoint state through conventional Unix filesystem
+semantics and leave the effective owner, group, and access policy to the
+operator's provisioned directories, process umask, setgid inheritance, and
+default ACLs.
+
+Notarius continues to own safe paths, symlink rejection, atomic publication,
+cache validation, and recovery. It does not decide whether a configured cache
+is private to one account, shared by a trusted group, or readable under some
+other deployment policy.
+
+## Motivation And Current Problem
+
+The current cache implementations enforce a policy that was stronger than the
+application requires:
+
+- the chunk-plan store creates and repeatedly converges cache directories to
+  `0700` and atomic files to `0600`; and
+- the checkpoint recorder supplies `0700` directory and `0600` file modes to
+  the shared confined writer, which explicitly applies the file mode during
+  atomic publication.
+
+This prevents an administrator from using ordinary Unix provisioning to share
+one cache between a service account and trusted operator accounts. Adding a
+second Notarius-specific `private` or `group` configuration policy would solve
+that immediate symptom, but it would preserve the underlying ownership error:
+Notarius would still decide access policy instead of respecting the deployment.
+
+Routine Notarius operation does not require an application-enforced private
+cache. Cache records can contain source-derived data, so operators must be told
+what they are storing, but sensitivity does not imply that Notarius should
+override a deliberately configured filesystem policy. API credentials remain
+outside cache payloads and continue to follow their existing configuration and
+redaction boundaries.
+
+## Target Policy
+
+The target contract is:
+
+> Notarius creates cache entries with conventional maximum creation modes and
+> allows the operating system to determine effective access through the
+> process umask, inherited group ownership, and default ACLs.
+
+Concretely:
+
+- newly created cache directories request `0777`;
+- newly created cache files, including atomic temporary files, request `0666`;
+- the kernel applies the invoking process's umask and any applicable default
+  ACL;
+- setgid directories provisioned by the operator control inherited group
+  ownership and, on supported Unix systems, setgid propagation to descendants;
+- Notarius does not call `chmod`, `chown`, or `chgrp` to impose or repair a
+  cache access policy; and
+- Notarius does not reject a cache merely because its effective modes are more
+  or less permissive than a Notarius-selected default.
+
+This is policy inheritance, not literal copying of a parent directory's mode
+bits. Directories and non-executable data files appropriately have different
+maximum modes. A parent mode alone also does not determine child modes: an
+operator who needs a particular result must configure the service umask and,
+where appropriate, a setgid parent or default ACL.
+
+For example, a service started with umask `0077` ordinarily creates `0700`
+directories and `0600` files. A trusted-group deployment can provision a
+setgid cache root and use umask `0007`, or an equivalent default ACL, to obtain
+`0770` directories and `0660` files. These are deployment choices rather than
+configuration values interpreted by Notarius.
+
+## Public Contract
+
+No new Notarius configuration field, environment variable, or CLI flag is
+introduced. In particular, do not add the previously considered
+`cache.access: private|group` setting.
+
+Existing cache enablement, locations, chunk-plan modes, resume controls,
+identity, and compatibility rules remain unchanged. The behavioral change is
+that effective permissions on newly created cache entries are controlled by
+the deployment environment rather than forcibly converged by Notarius.
+
+The policy applies uniformly to both cache families:
+
+- canonical chunk plans; and
+- invocation checkpoints.
+
+Output and debug storage are outside this feature's scope. Their current
+contracts must not change incidentally through a shared helper refactor. A
+separate review may later consider whether the same deployment-owned policy is
+appropriate for those surfaces.
+
+## Filesystem And Atomic-Publication Requirements
+
+Permission deference must cover every cache write path, not only final files:
+
+- configured cache-family roots created by Notarius;
+- chunk-plan source-digest directories;
+- checkpoint identity and stage directories;
+- atomic temporary files; and
+- final files published by rename.
+
+Atomic publication must not bypass the deployment policy. Go's
+`os.CreateTemp` creates a file with `0600`, and applying `chmod(0666)` afterward
+would bypass the process umask. Cache writers therefore need an atomic
+temporary-file creation path that chooses a collision-resistant name and opens
+it with `O_CREATE|O_EXCL` and requested mode `0666`, allowing the kernel to
+apply umask and default ACL policy at creation time.
+
+Replacement writes publish a newly created temporary inode. Its effective
+permissions and ACL are therefore those selected for new entries by the
+current parent and process policy; Notarius does not copy mode bits or ACLs
+from the replaced file. Operators who require stable replacement permissions
+must express that policy through a stable service umask and directory default
+ACL.
+
+Opening an existing cache for writing must not alter its root or descendant
+modes. Read-only lookup of a missing cache must remain side-effect free.
+
+## Preserved Safety And Correctness Boundaries
+
+Deferring access policy does not weaken Notarius's filesystem correctness
+rules. The implementation must preserve:
+
+- confined resolution beneath the selected cache root;
+- rejection of symlinked or unexpected cache entries;
+- validation of source digests, checkpoint identities, schemas, and recorded
+  provenance;
+- atomic replacement, existing synchronization behavior, cleanup of abandoned
+  temporary files, and complete-record visibility;
+- existing missing, malformed, incompatible, and operational-error recovery
+  classifications; and
+- separation of output, cache, and debug roots.
+
+An administrator's decision to permit multiple accounts to reach one cache
+does not create a new Notarius guarantee for simultaneous writers. Preserve
+the existing atomicity and validation behavior, but do not add locking or claim
+transactional coordination across concurrent processes as part of this work.
+Concurrent writes to the same multi-file checkpoint identity remain subject to
+the currently documented cache behavior; the implementation documentation
+must state any existing limitation accurately.
+
+## Architectural Boundaries
+
+The target removes application-owned cache modes without creating a general
+permission-policy framework. Chunk-plan and checkpoint storage may use
+different filesystem APIs internally, but both must implement the same
+deployment-owned result. Pipeline modules and the runner remain unaware of
+physical roots and filesystem access policy.
+
+Any shared writer API must distinguish an application-enforced exact mode from
+an umask-filtered maximum creation mode. The cache change must not silently
+alter output or debug behavior merely because checkpoints currently share
+filesystem helpers with those surfaces.
+
+## Existing Cache Migration
+
+Stopping permission convergence does not change existing inode modes. A cache
+tree created by an older Notarius version may therefore remain `0700`/`0600`
+and inaccessible to another account after upgrade.
+
+Operators who want a different policy must either:
+
+- remove the reconstructible cache and allow it to be recreated beneath a
+  correctly provisioned parent and service environment; or
+- stop writers and deliberately update ownership, modes, and ACLs using normal
+  system-administration tools.
+
+Notarius must not perform a recursive startup migration. The same rule applies
+when an operator wants to make a previously shared cache private: change the
+deployment policy and deliberately migrate or recreate existing state when an
+immediate whole-tree change is required.
+
+## Documentation And Decision Records
+
+The final documentation set includes an accepted ADR titled along the lines of
+"Defer cache access policy to the deployment." The ADR records the durable
+ownership boundary so later maintenance does not reintroduce
+application-enforced modes solely because cache data can contain source-derived
+content.
+
+The new ADR need not supersede ADR-0005 or ADR-0007: those decisions govern
+canonical chunk-plan reuse and checkpoint recording/reuse, while leaving exact
+storage permissions to operational contracts. It should reference those ADRs
+and the output/cache/debug separation established by ADR-0006 and refined by
+ADR-0007.
+
+In the final current-behavior documentation, `docs/operations.md` owns cache
+provisioning, umask, setgid, default ACL, migration, sensitivity, and
+concurrent-use guidance. Architecture owns the deployment/application boundary;
+the configuration reference clarifies that selecting a cache path does not
+select its permissions; and the internal state guide explains the implemented
+write mechanics. The release that first contains the feature summarizes the
+operational change without becoming its canonical reference.
+
+Current-behavior documentation must not describe this target behavior before
+the implementation lands.
+
+## Verification Expectations
+
+Behavioral tests protect kernel-selected permissions for both cache families,
+non-mutation of existing roots, atomic replacement, and representative
+assembled CLI wiring. Existing confinement, symlink, validation, identity,
+reuse, and recovery coverage remains authoritative. Umask tests are POSIX-only,
+serialized, and restore process-global state. The default suite does not create
+privileged accounts or groups; setgid and default-ACL examples may be verified
+in a purpose-built Linux deployment environment.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- No cache access-mode field or application-specific private/group policy is
+  added.
+- Both chunk-plan and checkpoint writers request `0777` for new directories
+  and `0666` for new files, including atomic temporary files.
+- Effective permissions reflect the process umask and applicable default ACLs
+  rather than a later Notarius chmod.
+- Existing cache roots and descendants are not chmod-converged during reads or
+  writes.
+- A private deployment can obtain private cache state through its filesystem
+  provisioning and umask without a Notarius-specific setting.
+- A trusted-group deployment can obtain shared cache state through setgid,
+  umask, and/or default ACL policy without a Notarius-specific setting.
+- Existing cache trees are not recursively migrated.
+- Chunk-plan and checkpoint enablement, lookup, recording, resume, identity,
+  validation, confinement, atomicity, and recovery semantics remain unchanged.
+- Output and debug permission behavior does not change as an incidental effect.
+- Notarius performs no user/group management, ownership mutation, ACL
+  management, privilege escalation, or cross-process locking.
+- The ADR and canonical operations, architecture, configuration, and internal
+  documentation accurately describe the implemented boundary; the next
+  release note summarizes the change when that release is prepared.
+- Focused tests and repository-wide `go test ./...`, `go vet ./...`, and
+  `go build ./cmd/notarius` checks pass.
diff --git a/docs/roadmap/future.md b/docs/roadmap/future.md
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@@ -150,6 +150,16 @@ address Go dependency cycles, registrar ownership, stable public module keys,
 and supersession of the affected ADR-0004 decision. Conceptual artifact-family
 ownership does not by itself require this move.
 
+## Near-Term Operations
+
+### Deployment-Managed Cache Permissions
+
+- Implement the proposed
+  [deployment-managed cache permissions](deployment-managed-cache-permissions.md)
+  contract so Notarius respects the access policy established by the cache
+  root, process umask, setgid inheritance, and default ACLs instead of imposing
+  application-owned private or group modes.
+
 ## Blue-Sky Platform And Operations
 
 These ideas are intentionally less specified. Promote one into an earlier
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+# Deployment-Managed Cache Permissions Implementation Plan
+
+## Purpose
+
+Implement the target contract in
+[Deployment-Managed Cache Permissions](deployment-managed-cache-permissions.md):
+Notarius must preserve safe, confined, atomic cache I/O while allowing normal
+Unix creation semantics to determine who can access newly created chunk-plan
+and checkpoint state.
+
+This document is the execution sequence. The feature roadmap is authoritative
+for user intent, policy, scope, and the target end state. Each numbered stage
+below is sized for one `gpt-5.6-terra` implementation prompt and must be
+completed in order.
+
+## Cross-Stage Requirements
+
+Every stage must preserve these decisions:
+
+- Do not add a `cache.access` field, environment variable, CLI flag, or an
+  application-level private/group policy.
+- New cache directories request mode `0777`; new cache files request mode
+  `0666`. The kernel applies umask and default ACL policy.
+- Do not chmod, chown, chgrp, or recursively migrate existing cache entries to
+  enforce access policy.
+- Keep chunk-plan and checkpoint confinement, symlink rejection, identity,
+  validation, atomic replacement, cleanup, and recovery behavior intact.
+- Do not change output or debug permissions as an incidental consequence of a
+  shared-helper change.
+- Do not add cross-process locking or promise transactional concurrent writes
+  to one checkpoint identity.
+- Follow `docs/policy/testing.md`: protect the observable permission boundary
+  and meaningful filesystem risks without snapshotting helper structure or
+  duplicating all cases at every layer.
+- Keep the repository buildable and the tests relevant to the completed stage
+  passing. Do not retire either roadmap document during implementation; they
+  remain review evidence until the completed feature is accepted.
+
+## Stage 1: Record The Decision And Add An Umask-Respecting Atomic Writer
+
+### Goal
+
+Record the durable ownership boundary and add the narrow filesystem primitive
+needed by checkpoint storage, without changing any production caller yet.
+
+### Required Changes
+
+1. Add `docs/adr/0017-defer-cache-access-policy-to-deployment.md` using the
+   repository's Nygard ADR format, with status `Accepted` and the implementation
+   date. The decision must:
+   - assign cache access policy to deployment provisioning, process umask,
+     setgid inheritance, and default ACLs;
+   - distinguish access policy from Notarius-owned confinement, validation,
+     atomicity, and recovery;
+   - reject both forced private modes and a Notarius-specific private/group
+     setting;
+   - state that source-derived cache contents may be sensitive and that the
+     operator owns access and retention;
+   - state that API credentials must remain outside cache payloads under the
+     existing secret boundary;
+   - explain that existing cache modes are not migrated automatically;
+   - reference ADR-0005, ADR-0006, and ADR-0007 without superseding them; and
+   - record application-enforced `0700`/`0600`, configurable permission modes,
+     and recursive permission convergence as rejected alternatives.
+2. Extend `internal/core/fileio` with exactly two cache-oriented entry points:
+   - `WriteBytesWithProcessPermissions(root, name string, data []byte) error`;
+   - `WriteJSONWithProcessPermissions(root, name string, payload any) error`.
+3. The new byte writer must reuse `SafePath` and symlink-component rejection,
+   call `os.MkdirAll` with `0777`, and atomically replace the target. The JSON
+   wrapper must retain the existing indented JSON plus trailing-newline format.
+4. Implement the new atomic path independently from the existing exact-mode
+   `WriteBytes` path:
+   - generate a 16-byte cryptographically random suffix;
+   - attempt at most 32 unique sibling names of the form
+     `.<target-base>.tmp-<hex-suffix>`;
+   - open with `os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE|os.O_EXCL` and mode `0666` so the kernel
+     applies umask and default ACLs at creation;
+   - retry only name collisions;
+   - write, close, rename, and remove an unpublished temporary file on every
+     failure path; and
+   - do not call `chmod` or inspect/change the process umask in production code.
+5. Leave `WriteBytes`, `WriteJSON`, and their existing callers unchanged so
+   output and debug behavior cannot drift in this stage.
+
+### Tests
+
+- Add supported-Unix (`linux || darwin`) behavioral tests using
+  `syscall.Umask`. Each test must restore the prior umask with `defer` and must
+  not use `t.Parallel`.
+- Prove a restrictive umask (`0077`) produces `0700` nested directories and a
+  `0600` final file.
+- Prove a group-oriented umask (`0007`) produces `0770` nested directories and
+  a `0660` final file.
+- Pre-create the selected root with a distinctive mode, write beneath it, and
+  prove the root mode is unchanged.
+- Replace an existing file created under a different mode and prove the new
+  inode follows the current process policy and contains the complete new
+  content.
+- Prove no temporary sibling remains after success. Retain all existing
+  confinement, symlink, and exact-mode writer tests.
+
+### Validation
+
+Run:
+
+```sh
+gofmt -w internal/core/fileio/*.go
+go test ./internal/core/fileio
+go test -race ./internal/core/fileio
+git diff --check
+```
+
+### Stage Acceptance
+
+The ADR records the agreed boundary; the new writer demonstrates both target
+umasks without chmod; existing file-writing behavior has not changed; and the
+stage is small enough for one implementation prompt.
+
+## Stage 2: Convert Canonical Chunk-Plan Storage
+
+### Goal
+
+Make every chunk-plan creation and replacement path follow deployment-managed
+permissions while preserving the rooted filesystem and cache-recovery
+protocol.
+
+### Required Changes
+
+1. In `internal/framework/chunkplan`:
+   - request `0777` when creating the configured root;
+   - remove the chmod of an opened existing root;
+   - request `0777` when creating a source-digest directory;
+   - remove the chmod branch for an opened existing digest directory;
+   - retain the before/open/after identity checks that defend against entry
+     replacement races;
+   - change the existing rooted `O_CREATE|O_EXCL` temporary-file open mode from
+     `0600` to `0666`; and
+   - remove the subsequent `temp.Chmod(0600)` call while preserving write,
+     sync, close, rename, cleanup, and interruption hooks.
+2. Do not replace `os.Root` operations with ordinary path operations, weaken
+   unexpected-entry handling, or create a missing root during read-only load.
+3. Rewrite `TestFilesystemStorePermissions` into a behavioral Unix test that
+   controls and restores umask. Consolidate permission cases rather than
+   retaining a stale forced-private assertion alongside the new contract.
+
+### Tests
+
+- Under umask `0077`, prove the root, digest directory, and published plan are
+  `0700`, `0700`, and `0600`.
+- Under umask `0007`, prove they are `0770`, `0770`, and `0660`.
+- Because the published plan is the renamed temporary inode, its final mode
+  proves the temporary-file creation policy; use the existing pre-rename hook
+  only if a separate assertion is needed to prevent a plausible regression.
+- Pre-create both the root and digest directory with deliberate modes, save a
+  plan, and prove neither directory is modified.
+- Retain the existing missing-root side-effect, symlink, entry-replacement,
+  interruption, atomic-replacement, record-validation, and recovery tests.
+
+### Validation
+
+Run:
+
+```sh
+gofmt -w internal/framework/chunkplan/*.go
+go test ./internal/framework/chunkplan
+go test -race ./internal/framework/chunkplan
+git diff --check
+```
+
+### Stage Acceptance
+
+Chunk-plan writes honor both controlled deployment policies, existing
+directories are not converged, and all rooted atomicity and recovery coverage
+passes. This stage is small enough for one implementation prompt.
+
+## Stage 3: Convert Checkpoints And Prove Assembled Cache Behavior
+
+### Goal
+
+Move checkpoints to the new shared writer, remove stale private-cache
+expectations at the CLI boundary, and prove one assembled run applies the same
+deployment policy to both cache families.
+
+### Required Changes
+
+1. Change the checkpoint recorder's JSON write boundary in
+   `internal/framework/checkpoint` to call
+   `fileio.WriteJSONWithProcessPermissions`. Do not thread modes through the
+   recorder or introduce a cache permission configuration value.
+2. Replace the checkpoint round-trip test's forced `0700`/`0600` subsection
+   with focused POSIX permission coverage. Use a cache root that does not exist
+   before the recorder writes so root creation is covered.
+3. Preserve checkpoint JSON representation, path layout, manifests, payloads,
+   identity, recording enablement, reuse eligibility, loader decisions, and
+   corrupt/incompatible-state behavior.
+4. In `internal/cli/state_hardening_test.go`, stop applying
+   `assertRestrictedTree` to checkpoints. Retain that helper and assertion for
+   debug state, whose permission contract is unchanged.
+5. Add one supported-Unix CLI integration test using the existing offline
+   state-test harness:
+   - configure both chunk-plan caching and checkpoint recording beneath
+     previously absent roots;
+   - set and reliably restore umask `0007` around the run;
+   - prove representative directories and final files in both cache families
+     are group-accessible (`0770`/`0660`);
+   - prove the run completes and the stored state remains reusable; and
+   - do not duplicate every package-level permission or recovery case.
+6. Keep output and debug mode assertions unchanged and confirm that no
+   `cache.access` parsing or composition code exists.
+
+### Tests
+
+- Add checkpoint-level cases for umask `0077` and `0007`, covering
+  representative nested directories and both manifest and payload files.
+- Prove a pre-existing checkpoint root is not chmod modified.
+- Retain the existing all-stage round trip as the owner of serialization and
+  loader behavior rather than cloning it into each permission case.
+- Ensure every umask-changing test is non-parallel and restores global state.
+
+### Validation
+
+Run:
+
+```sh
+gofmt -w internal/framework/checkpoint/*.go internal/cli/*.go
+go test ./internal/framework/checkpoint ./internal/cli
+go test -race ./internal/framework/checkpoint ./internal/cli
+go test ./internal/framework/chunkplan ./internal/core/fileio
+git diff --check
+```
+
+### Stage Acceptance
+
+Both cache families follow process/filesystem policy through the real CLI
+composition, checkpoint reuse remains intact, and output/debug permission
+contracts have not changed. This stage is small enough for one implementation
+prompt.
+
+## Stage 4: Update Canonical Documentation
+
+### Goal
+
+Make the implemented behavior discoverable without duplicating volatile
+details across documentation owners.
+
+### Required Changes
+
+1. Update `docs/policy/architecture.md` with the normative boundary:
+   deployments own cache access policy; Notarius owns confined paths, atomic
+   publication, validation, and recovery. Do not generalize the rule to output
+   or debug state in this work.
+2. Update `docs/operations.md`, the canonical operational owner, to:
+   - replace claims that cache entries are forcibly `0700`/`0600`;
+   - explain requested maximum modes `0777`/`0666`, umask filtering, default
+     ACLs, and setgid group inheritance without claiming literal mode-bit
+     inheritance;
+   - provide concise private (`0077`) and trusted-group (`0007` plus a
+     deployment-provisioned setgid root, or an equivalent default ACL)
+     examples;
+   - state that cache data is reconstructible but may contain source-derived
+     content and operators own access and retention;
+   - explain that pre-feature cache trees retain their existing inode modes and
+     must be deliberately recreated or administratively migrated; and
+   - accurately limit concurrent-use claims to the existing atomicity and
+     validation guarantees.
+3. Update `docs/config.md` only to clarify that selecting chunk-plan or
+   checkpoint directories does not configure their filesystem access policy.
+   Do not document a nonexistent permission field.
+4. Update `docs/internal/state.md` with the two implemented writer paths:
+   rooted chunk-plan atomic creation and checkpoint use of the
+   process-permission file writer. Link to Operations for operator-facing mode
+   and provisioning guidance instead of duplicating it.
+5. Review `docs/internal/overview.md` and `docs/development.md`; update links or
+   routing only if the existing navigation no longer reaches the canonical
+   state and operations documents.
+6. Do not edit a historical release note. The release procedure will summarize
+   this change when the next release candidate is prepared.
+
+### Validation
+
+- Verify every changed relative Markdown link and heading anchor.
+- Search current-behavior documentation for stale assertions that cache modes
+  are always `0700`/`0600`; distinguish cache from still-valid debug claims.
+- Confirm current-behavior documentation outside `docs/roadmap/` contains
+  neither `cache.access` nor instructions for Notarius-managed
+  chmod/chown/chgrp/ACL mutation.
+- Run `git diff --check`.
+
+### Stage Acceptance
+
+Each policy and operational fact has one canonical owner, current docs describe
+only implemented behavior, and the feature roadmap remains the owner of future
+status until final review. This stage is small enough for one implementation
+prompt.
+
+## Stage 5: Repository-Wide Verification And Contract Audit
+
+### Goal
+
+Prove the complete target state and catch accidental permission, safety, or
+documentation drift before review.
+
+### Required Review
+
+1. Inspect production cache code for remaining `0700`, `0600`, or `Chmod`
+   operations. Every remaining occurrence must be a fixture, an unrelated
+   output/debug contract, or otherwise justified; neither cache writer may
+   enforce those values.
+2. Search configuration, CLI, examples, and documentation to confirm no
+   `cache.access` surface or private/group application policy was introduced.
+3. Confirm output and debug production paths and their contract tests are
+   unchanged except for necessary documentation disambiguation.
+4. Confirm cache reads remain side-effect free where previously guaranteed and
+   every cache write remains confined and atomic.
+5. Review all new tests against `docs/policy/testing.md`. Consolidate redundant
+   mode assertions while retaining one owner for each realistic regression:
+   kernel filtering, existing-root preservation, each cache writer, and
+   assembled CLI wiring.
+6. Review the ADR and canonical docs for the agreed scope. Do not describe
+   Unix permissions as literal inheritance from a parent directory.
+
+### Validation
+
+Run the complete offline suite:
+
+```sh
+gofmt -w internal/core/fileio/*.go internal/framework/chunkplan/*.go internal/framework/checkpoint/*.go internal/cli/*.go
+go test ./...
+go test -race ./internal/core/fileio ./internal/framework/chunkplan ./internal/framework/checkpoint ./internal/cli
+go vet ./...
+go build ./cmd/notarius
+go run ./cmd/notarius config validate --config examples/dnd-minimal.config.yml --pipeline dnd-session
+OPENROUTER_API_KEY=validation-placeholder go run ./cmd/notarius config validate --config examples/dnd-complete.config.yml --pipeline dnd-session
+git diff --check
+```
+
+The config validations must perform no provider requests. Also inspect
+`git status --short --untracked-files=all` for unintended files, generated
+artifacts, or unrelated edits.
+
+### Final Acceptance
+
+Every acceptance criterion in the feature roadmap is supported by direct code,
+test, or documentation evidence; all prescribed commands pass; the working
+diff contains only this feature; and the two roadmap documents remain in place
+for the post-implementation review. This stage is small enough for one final
+verification prompt.