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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. The existing boundary contract (`net-kingdom/canon/standards/user-engine-boundary-contract_v0.1.md`) holds unchanged. Worth making explicit that user-engine supplies subject context as input to the authorization decision and never renders one.
+>
+> *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
+
+## USER-IN-0001 — Declaration requested: state this repository's layer in INTENT.md (security layer model §11)
+
+```yaml
+id: USER-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: user-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. Users, accounts, memberships.
+  Your boundary contract (net-kingdom/canon/standards/user-engine-boundary-contract_v0.1.md)
+  holds unchanged; the only addition is making explicit that subject context is an
+  input to the authorization decision and never a decision. 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: '2026-08-28T21:02:12.760565Z'
+updated: '2026-08-28T21:02:12.760565Z'
+```