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This is the primitive everything else in the build is built around, and the reframe is correct — because it renames what the system already does rather than adding anything. The ledger exists. The sealed panels exist. The delegated tokens exist. Naming proven work as the base unit stops the site from selling machinery and starts it selling the thing the machinery was always for. Under the [[logic-law|logic law]] that is the cheapest move with the largest effect: subtract the framing, keep the plant.\n\nThe competitive sentence is one line. Everyone ships agents, frameworks, and ontologies. 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