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 * a **promotion handoff** surface between source repos and S5 deployments
 * a future **developer portal** and self-service entry point
 * a place to codify delivery knowledge into **repeatable automation**
+* as of 2026-08-11, the owner of the **forge layer responsibility**: runner
+  placement and labels, registry retention, artifact lifecycle, and package
+  credentials
+
+---
+
+## Inherited: the forge layer responsibility
+
+Decision `d151d817` (2026-08-11) placed `railiance-forge`. The Forgejo
+**workload** becomes `rapp-forgejo`; the **layer responsibility** folds into S4
+— here — because this layer already declared a handoff contract with forge for
+runner labels, package credentials, registry endpoints, and artifact evidence.
+Owning the contract's other side is the natural resolution.
+
+This is S4's first concrete owned responsibility. That is worth stating plainly:
+until now this layer has been almost entirely aspiration — a rich Direction of
+Evolution with 25 commits and no workplans behind it. The forge responsibility
+gives it something real to be accountable for, and the gap between what this
+INTENT promises and what the repo contains should be read as an open debt, not
+as a description of the present.
 
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