Introduce Continuity and license it under AGPL-3.0-only

CLAUDE.md

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-# UCF — Project Guidance
+# Continuity — Project Guidance
+
+## Naming and publication
+
+**Continuity** is the public-facing name of the experiment previously documented as **UCF / Unicorn Foundry**. Use Continuity in new public introductions. Preserve UCF and Unicorn Foundry when describing the history or referring to existing technical names.
+
+This is a documentation rebrand, not a package or runtime migration. Keep `foundry` imports, the `unicorn-foundry` distribution name, `FOUNDRY_*` configuration, workflow identifiers, historical documents, and existing technical contracts unchanged unless a separate task explicitly migrates them.
+
+The original README is preserved verbatim in `LEGACY_FOUNDRY.md`. The public description, topics, draft announcement, and remaining launch decisions live in `docs/publication.md`. The repository is publicly named Continuity and is licensed under AGPL-3.0-only. Preserve the historical UCF/Foundry names only where they describe the implementation history.
+
+Distinguish merged capabilities from future or experimental work in every public claim. The evidence-retention reliability pass is merged; do not describe later milestones as completed until their own evidence exists.
+
+The implementation guidance below retains its UCF/Foundry terminology; the discontinued Unicorn product is historical context, not a reason to revive it.
 
 ## What This Repo Is
 

docs/plans/continuity-public-introduction.json

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+{
+  "task_id": "282f117f-e976-4ca2-871a-242a41a1526b",
+  "steps": [
+    {
+      "file_path": "LEGACY_FOUNDRY.md",
+      "action": "create",
+      "rationale": "Preserve the complete pre-rebrand README byte-for-byte at repository root so its relative links remain valid. Source commit: 2639b8ebeeb485950a8faed17491b03ff440b354; source blob: 7caeb132210e40d8f98ed587204eef41cb03d2dd.",
+      "dependencies": []
+    },
+    {
+      "file_path": "README.md",
+      "action": "modify",
+      "rationale": "Introduce Continuity publicly through the original engineering problem, architecture, evidence, limitations, and historical origin. Distinguish merged code from the unmerged evidence-retention PR #6.",
+      "dependencies": ["LEGACY_FOUNDRY.md"]
+    },
+    {
+      "file_path": "CLAUDE.md",
+      "action": "modify",
+      "rationale": "Add the public-name and compatibility boundary without changing the existing technical guidance or historical rules.",
+      "dependencies": ["README.md"]
+    },
+    {
+      "file_path": "docs/publication.md",
+      "action": "create",
+      "rationale": "Record the approved repository name, description, topics, draft announcement, evidence boundaries, and outstanding owner-admin and licence decisions.",
+      "dependencies": ["README.md"]
+    }
+  ],
+  "risks": [
+    "The available GitHub connector cannot change repository name, description, or topics; do not report those admin actions as completed.",
+    "Do not merge PR #6 or this documentation PR without separate approval.",
+    "Do not advertise pending branch functionality as merged or imply that passing deterministic tests proves live autonomous operation.",
+    "Preserve existing licensing terms; public-facing documentation is not authorization to grant an open-source licence.",
+    "Keep foundry imports, package metadata, runtime code, workflow names, and historical commits unchanged."
+  ],
+  "open_questions": [
+    "Repository owner must apply the GitHub Settings and About changes.",
+    "Repository owner must decide licensing before describing the project as open source or inviting external reuse."
+  ],
+  "estimated_complexity": "small"
+}

docs/publication.md

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+# Continuity: publication notes
+
+Prepared 25 September 2026. These are the approved public identity and launch boundaries, not confirmation that GitHub settings have been changed or an announcement has been posted.
+
+## Identity
+
+**Display name:** Continuity
+
+**Repository name:** `continuity`
+
+**Intended repository:** `sinethxyz/continuity`
+
+**GitHub About description:**
+
+> An experimental runtime for persistent machine intelligence across state, action, verification, and time.
+
+**README tagline:**
+
+> An experiment in intelligence through time.
+
+**Core sentence:**
+
+> The model is a participant in the loop, not the loop itself.
+
+**Topics:**
+
+```text
+ai
+agents
+state-machines
+llm
+agent-infrastructure
+ai-systems
+orchestration
+verification
+continuity
+machine-intelligence
+```
+
+Persistent machine intelligence describes the research objective. The evidence currently supports a software-systems experiment with scoped tests, not a proven general or continuously learning intelligence.
+
+## Naming boundary
+
+Continuity is the public name. UCF and Unicorn Foundry remain historical names. Do not relabel the original commits or retrofit dates into the origin story. The claim is that the engineering problem was encountered while building the system, not that this work originated another researcher's architecture.
+
+Python imports stay under `foundry`. The distribution stays `unicorn-foundry`. Environment variable prefixes, workflow identifiers, historical specifications, and internal contracts are unchanged. There is no new package release in this naming pass.
+
+[LEGACY_FOUNDRY.md](../LEGACY_FOUNDRY.md) preserves the old README verbatim from commit `2639b8ebeeb485950a8faed17491b03ff440b354` (blob `7caeb132210e40d8f98ed587204eef41cb03d2dd`). Its root location preserves the original relative links.
+
+## Repository settings
+
+The repository has been renamed to `sinethxyz/continuity`, and the approved About description and topics have been applied by the owner.
+
+The existing Git history is preserved. Local clones should use the canonical remote `https://github.com/sinethxyz/continuity.git`.
+
+## Draft announcement
+
+Not posted. Add the verified repository URL when publishing.
+
+> The model is not the system.
+>
+> While building Unicorn + UCF, I kept encountering the same problem: a capable model could still sit inside a discontinuous system.
+>
+> I'm reopening that experiment as Continuity: a systems experiment in explicit state, controlled action, verification, and what survives the next interaction.
+>
+> The model is a participant in the loop, not the loop itself.
+
+Do not add claims about being first, a learned world model, general intelligence, production readiness, or a year of development without supporting dated artifacts. Do not describe deterministic model substitutes as live-model validation.
+
+## Evidence boundaries
+
+At preparation:
+
+| Revision | Scope | Evidence |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Merged main `6cc52e5` | Transition foundation, Foundry adapter, evidence retention, failure records, state checks, reload/replay tests | 525 full-suite tests; 51 selected tests included in the total |
+| This public-introduction branch | Naming, licensing and documentation | No new model capability or deployment |
+
+Source: [main CI](https://github.com/sinethxyz/continuity/actions/runs/36140729000). The run completed successfully on the merged reliability baseline. Recheck the final publication revision before quoting test counts.
+
+Renaming and licensing the repository do not fix the base-reference limitation, complete verifier coverage, migrate RunEngine, provide crash recovery, or establish production readiness.
+
+## Licence
+
+The owner selected **GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only (AGPL-3.0-only)** for Continuity. The repository includes the complete licence text in `LICENSE`; package metadata uses the same SPDX expression.
+
+The pre-rebrand `LEGACY_FOUNDRY.md` remains a historical snapshot and may contain the former internal-use notice. That snapshot does not override the current root licence.
+
+## Launch checklist
+
+- [x] Apply and verify the repository name and About/topics settings.
+- [x] Merge and validate the evidence-retention reliability pass.
+- [x] Select AGPL-3.0-only and add repository/package licence metadata.
+- [ ] Recheck the final public-introduction merge commit, links, CI evidence, and capability statements.
+- [ ] Publish the announcement only after the desired public state is confirmed.

pyproject.toml

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 [project]
 name = "unicorn-foundry"
 version = "0.1.0"
-description = "UCF experiment in persistent machine operation across changing state"
+description = "An experimental runtime for persistent machine intelligence across state, action, verification, and time."
 requires-python = ">=3.12"
+license = "AGPL-3.0-only"
 dependencies = [
     "fastapi>=0.115.0",
     "uvicorn[standard]>=0.30.0",