diff --git a/INTENT.md b/INTENT.md
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+++ b/INTENT.md
@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 # 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 is `net-kingdom/canon/standards/security-layer-model_v0.1.md` (proposed),
+> ratified by `gate-house/decisions/decisions.md` GH-DEC-2026-001.
+>
+> The layer rule that binds every repository: **Staff never touches tooling
+> directly. It acts only through engine APIs.**
+>
+> **This repository is Staff — interactive, non-deterministic; builds and tears down.** Add the layer label and the Staff invariant: ops-mason acts through engine APIs, never against tooling directly. Record the demarcation this repository is half of: **ops-mason and ops-warden own access routes and lanes — how a worker reaches a host; access-engine owns access rules — whether they may.** The perimeter doctrine ops-mason builds to is gate-house's; the building is ops-mason's.
+>
+> *This note records what should change. The body below is not yet adapted.*
+
 > This file captures **why this repository exists**, the **direction it is
 > moving toward**, and the **kind of system it is meant to become**. It is
 > intentionally aspirational and stable, not a description of current
diff --git a/intakes/intakes.md b/intakes/intakes.md
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--- a/intakes/intakes.md
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@@ -28,3 +28,38 @@ created: '2026-08-22T09:33:08.629717Z'
 updated: '2026-08-22T21:19:02Z'
 state_hub_intake_id: "01a028d1-c4af-7a06-adb5-c90399721872"
 ```
+
+## MASON-IN-0002 — Declaration requested: state this repository's layer in INTENT.md (security layer model §11)
+
+```yaml
+id: MASON-IN-0002
+kind: intake
+title: 'Declaration requested: state this repository''s layer in INTENT.md (security
+  layer model §11)'
+status: open
+origin: cross-repo
+origin_ref: net-kingdom security-layer-model_v0.4 §11
+priority: low
+owner: ops-mason
+requested_by: gate-house
+proposed_layer: Staff
+description: 'A conformance sweep on 2026-08-28 found this repository has no layer
+  declaration of its own. It carries a layering review note gate-house wrote into
+  the top of its INTENT.md on 2026-08-24, and that note names a layer — but the words
+  are gate-house''s, sitting above a line admitting the body is unadapted. Section
+  11 has since been amended to say so explicitly: a layer stated about a repository
+  by another repository is not a declaration; only the repository''s own file, in
+  its own voice, conforms. Seven of fifteen estate-authored repositories have declared;
+  this is one of the eight that have not. REQUESTED: state the layer in INTENT.md
+  in your own voice, or contest it. PROPOSED LAYER: Staff. Builds and tears down access
+  routes, credentials, and perimeters. Two things to state in your words: the Staff
+  binding rule (you act through Engine APIs, never directly against Tooling — a grep
+  of your own source is the check, as ops-warden did and found one), and the demarcation
+  you are half of: ops-mason and ops-warden own access lanes, access-engine owns access
+  rules. Contesting is a real option and costs nothing — the three repositories that
+  reviewed this model each returned a correction, two of which changed the standard.
+  If the proposed layer is wrong for what this repository actually does, that is more
+  useful to us than a label added to close a checkbox. Standard: net-kingdom/canon/standards/security-layer-model_v0.4.md.'
+created: '2026-08-28T21:03:29.920563Z'
+updated: '2026-08-28T21:03:29.920563Z'
+```