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+# Provenance Checklist
+<!-- stewardship-standard: provenance-checklist-v1 -->
+
+Use this before claiming ownership or publishing artifacts.
+
+- [ ] Identify original upstream source, if any.
+- [ ] Record fork URL, commit, tag, or archive source.
+- [ ] Preserve third-party notices and license files.
+- [ ] Separate local patches from imported code where practical.
+- [ ] Record binary build inputs, toolchain versions, and source commit.
+- [ ] Publish checksums for release assets.
+- [ ] Mark unknown-origin content as blocked until resolved.