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+# Intake records
+
+## TEN-IN-0003 — Declaration requested: state this repository's layer in INTENT.md (security layer model §11)
+
+```yaml
+id: TEN-IN-0003
+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: tenant-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 own file, in its
+  own voice, conforms. REQUESTED: state the layer in INTENT.md in your own voice,
+  or contest it. PROPOSED LAYER: Engine — tenant-as-an-entity facts. Your boundary
+  contract holds unchanged. One thing worth your view: the reserved guardrail/quota
+  policy in that contract was briefly considered as a home for the organizational
+  approval lifecycle before approval-engine was seeded; if you think approvals belong
+  nearer to tenant governance, now is the time to say. Contesting costs nothing —
+  the three repositories that reviewed this model each returned a correction, two
+  of which changed the standard. NOTE for your own records, unrelated to the request:
+  the State Hub holds two open intakes for tenant-engine created 2026-08-25 (audit
+  evidence externalization; unfiltered event-read interface) with no intakes/intakes.md
+  in this checkout to back them, which is an ADR-001 file-is-truth inconsistency you
+  may want to reconcile. Standard: net-kingdom/canon/standards/security-layer-model_v0.4.md.'
+created: '2026-08-28T21:03:13.580775Z'
+updated: '2026-08-28T21:03:13.580775Z'
+```