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+# Target Revenue Framework — declared Phases
+
+This directory holds Phase Manifests declared for this repository under the
+Target Revenue Source License (see root `LICENSE`).
+
+| File | Phase id | Status |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `phase-service-surface.json` | `trsl:phase:info-tech-canon-service-surface` | **Declared** 2026-08-05 (WP-0008-T05 go-live) |
+
+**Authoritative live Ledger** for a declared Phase lives in the hosted Trust
+Service (`GET /phases/{id}/ledger`), not as a competing file in this repo.
+Periodic exports may be kept for offline verification.
+
+Go-live record: `coulomb/target-revenue` →
+`history/260805-T05-GoLive-info-tech-canon.md`.
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+{
+  "framework": "TRF-0.1",
+  "license": "TRSL-0.1",
+  "phase": {
+    "id": "trsl:phase:info-tech-canon-service-surface",
+    "milestone_release": {
+      "name": "info-tech-canon-service-surface-v1 (ITC-WP-0001..0012)",
+      "source_revision": "bd656d45165db3e49b971850d7d9487d41c76cc5",
+      "repo_hub": "forgejo-coulomb",
+      "repo_hub_uri": "https://forgejo.coulomb.social",
+      "repo_id": 47,
+      "repo_name": "coulomb/info-tech-canon"
+    },
+    "initial_target": {
+      "amount": 141800,
+      "currency": "EUR"
+    },
+    "target_basis": {
+      "estimated_effort_days": 1.418,
+      "daily_rate": 1000,
+      "approved_direct_costs": 0,
+      "target_multiple": 100
+    },
+    "future_license": "MIT",
+    "degeneration_policy": "trsl:policy:linear-longstop-v0@1.0",
+    "longstop_at": "2029-01-01T00:00:00Z",
+    "ledger": "/phases/trsl:phase:info-tech-canon-service-surface/ledger"
+  },
+  "extensions": [
+    "trsl:extension:development-license@1.0"
+  ]
+}