Dashboardinstitutional-transition-labRepository placement is not authority

Repository placement is not authority

Category: preference
Confidence: 1.00
ID: 01a0836b-ed4d-7dec-913e-ef54a2fc17cc
Project ID: 1fa3712f-997f-4884-b7ec-8abb79f9e342
Cross-project: No
Recalled in other projects: 0
Source session: 0zKqTDddSYrgO8MzX
Created: 2026-09-08 23:26:31
Updated: 2026-09-08 23:48:03

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Never infer institutional authority from repository placement, maintainership, ownership wording, or responsibility language. Chose source-explicit rights over stewardship signals because those signals usually describe implementation; however, an explicit proposal to transfer or recreate a repository under a named organization can support a narrowly scoped proposed own edge, never an effective transfer or broader authority without adoption evidence.

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