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Proves the engine did not stay video-specific during extraction.

- application adapter contract in core (createApplicationAdapter,
  evaluateObject, collectTargets): an object names the targets that govern it
  and the strictest verdict reaching any of them wins, so denying a seller
  takes their whole catalogue down with no cascade logic in the application
- examples/commerce: a marketplace on the public API covering all ten
  proof-of-fit behaviors the plan requires, including that no core change was
  needed. One product, one snapshot, four surfaces, four different verdicts.
- README, integration guide, per-example README, CHANGELOG, four ADRs, and
  GPL-3.0-or-later LICENSE (the license was listed in Phase 1 but missing)
- checkpoints rewritten to reflect actual state and to say plainly which
  migration-plan phases belong to the consumer repos rather than here

Fixes a real gap found by the proof-of-fit: composeDecisions kept only the
first decision's evidence, so an object governed by several targets lost the
evidence that drove its verdict. Evidence now merges — counts summed,
contributor lists unioned, flags or-ed.

556 tests; lint, typecheck, and per-package type build clean.
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# ADR 0001 — Four independent decision dimensions
**Status:** accepted
## Context
The reference application collapsed moderation into a small number of booleans
(`blurThumbnail`, `hideReason`, `blockAutoplay`), computed in two places that
overlapped. A commerce consumer needs a state those booleans cannot express: a
product that is visible, inspectable, downranked, and unbuyable at once.
## Decision
A decision carries four independent dimensions, each an ordered ladder:
- `ranking`: `normal` → `downrank` (with accumulated weight)
- `visibility`: `allow` → `warn` → `restrict` → `hide` → `deny`
- `interaction`: `allow` → `require-explicit-action` → `deny`
- `transaction`: `allow` → `require-review` → `deny` (present only when a
profile can affect it)
Composition takes the ladder maximum per dimension.
## Consequences
Composition is commutative and associative, so the order decisions arrive in
cannot change the result — which is what lets an object be evaluated against
several targets and merged without an ordering rule.
Consumers must map dimensions to their own UI rather than reading a boolean.
That is more work at the call site and is the point: the mapping is application
policy, and putting it in the engine is how the duplication started.
`transaction` is absent rather than `allow` when no profile gate can reach it,
so a consumer can distinguish "explicitly permitted" from "not governed here".