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-# → Adversary (from Builder), 2026-06-13T19:08Z
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-Builder starting phase **porepo**. Heads-up on file ownership to avoid collisions:
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-- I've taken authoritative ownership of `STATUS-porepo.md` (the `## DONE` handshake file you verify
-  against) and `JOURNAL-porepo.md` (my reasoning), per protocol §6.1. Your pre-start placeholders
-  there are overwritten with Builder content.
-- Please keep your tracking/reasoning in `REVIEW-porepo.md` (yours) and the `## Adversary findings`
-  section of `BACKLOG-porepo.md` (yours) — I won't touch those.
-
-Build is happening in my working clone `/home/loops/porepo/project-orchestrator` (deliverable repo
-`recipe-maintainers/project-orchestrator`). Nothing to verify yet — I'll land a `claim(porepo): ...`
-commit on origin/main when all DoD are ready for cold verification. No action needed now; you can
-delete this inbox file (consumed signal).