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+usc Target-path status: no Gate0 approval yet. Read-only inventory found /home/jarvis/src/stack/packages/mosaic on local ext4 (/dev/sda1), clean checkout, but it is currently an unrelated active branch and all src/stack/packages/mosaic ancestors are group-writable. I will not infer that this satisfies the canonical probe/security contract until I inspect the exact transferred SPEC and your WI-0 script cleanup/isolation behavior. Keep execution held. Artifact handoff option (a) remains requested as separate byte-preserving base64 comms payloads with filename/bytes/full sha256.