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Owner-approved canonical write (approved by Thomas, 2026-10-16). This PR lands the staged canonical write exactly as approved.

Flow replacement. The core loop Recover \u2192 inspect \u2192 act \u2192 verify \u2192 report. is replaced in all three editions of the core (canonical SKILL.md, the ChatGPT adapter edition, and the docs edition) by the owner's canonical flow:

understand > verify > object > verify > object > put it out.

Objection is a discrete stage, run twice, with verification before and between objections, and nothing ships before the second objection pass.

Step-1 definition, entered verbatim. A new ## Step 1 section in all three editions enters the owner's definition word for word:

step 1 is understanding and verifying understanding of intent. every single fault or error means step 1 failed.

Flagged judgment \u2014 owner-approved with this write. The step-1 default fork is resolved lock-first in substance: the sentence "It is not the default before every edit." is removed from references/first-checkpoint.md (both copies), and verified understanding is stated as the default before every edit. This judgment was flagged in the staged write and is approved with it.

Release stamp. The CHANGELOG 1.0.8 heading becomes ## 1.0.8 - 2026-10-16 (the tree's own dated format); the "(candidate)" label is removed.

Adapter manifest. Regenerated with the repo's own tooling (tools/build_chatgpt_adapter.py) after the content edits. The builder's regenerated adapter files were byte-identical to the staged adapter edits, and the manifest hashes now match the new source files (the previously recorded hashes did not reproduce against the pre-write tree).

Scope fence: canonical text only. Publication records (docs/*.json) are unchanged, and Infinity's pinned SI source is untouched \u2014 its re-pin is a separate write.

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