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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 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 Engine — deterministic API for a modeled concept.** Add the layer label. Credential custody, materialization, and lifecycle remain secrets-engine's. Two boundaries to make explicit: the decision that authority exists is access-engine's, and the doctrine governing when and how authority may be materialized is gate-house's. secrets-engine implements; it does not author the rules or render the decision.
+>
+> *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 implementation.
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+# Intake records
+
+## SECRETS-IN-0001 — Declaration requested: state this repository's layer in INTENT.md (security layer model §11)
+
+```yaml
+id: SECRETS-IN-0001
+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: secrets-engine
+requested_by: gate-house
+proposed_layer: Engine
+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, and the standard does not claim adoption
+  on the basis of notes gate-house wrote. REQUESTED: state the layer in INTENT.md
+  in your own voice, or contest it. PROPOSED LAYER: Engine. Credential abstraction,
+  custody, lifecycle. Two boundaries worth stating in your words: the decision that
+  authority exists is access-engine''s, and the doctrine governing when authority
+  may be materialized is gate-house''s. Also relevant: ops-warden has declared its
+  SSH-CA signing write to OpenBao as an engine gap with intended owner secrets-engine,
+  blocked on ''no engine exposes an SSH-CA surface''. You may want to contest or accept
+  that intended ownership. 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: '2026-08-28T21:02:14.320087Z'
+updated: '2026-08-28T21:02:14.320087Z'
+```