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 # INTENT
 
+> **NetKingdom layering review — 2026-08-28.** This repository's role was reviewed
+> against the NetKingdom IT-security layer model: **Taxonomy → Tooling → Engines →
+> Staff**, layered by determinism and by the kind of artifact each layer produces.
+> Findings and the argument behind them:
+> `gate-house/history/2026-08-28-security-layer-model-and-gate-house-recut.md`.
+> The model as currently stated is `gate-house/INTENT.md` § "Where Gate House Sits";
+> it is ruled to become a `net-kingdom/canon/standards/` standard, not yet written.
+>
+> The layer rule that binds every repository: **Staff never touches tooling
+> directly. It acts only through engine APIs.**
+>
+> **This repository is Taxonomy — cross-cutting, ecosystem-wide.** Clarify the split with net-kingdom canon: info-tech-canon owns cross-cutting semantic contracts and terminology for the whole ecosystem; NetKingdom-specific security architecture — including the layer model — is net-kingdom canon's. No change of role, only an explicit boundary so the two canons are not read as competing.
+>
+> *This note records what should change. The body below is not yet adapted.*
+
 ## Purpose
 
 This repository exists to develop and maintain **InfoTechCanon**: an evolving, markdown-first reference system for building interoperable, adaptable, and extensible information-processing systems.