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 See [Interlingua Standard](./docs/interlingua-standard.md) for the shared
 meaning-packet contract Weksa clients should target.
 
+See [Verse Service Demotion](./docs/verse-service-demotion.md) for the current
+service-status receipt: Weksa is not a daemon or Verse service yet, but the note
+names the CultCache witnesses, CultMesh provider surfaces, Eve projections, and
+commands expected if it later becomes one.
+
 See [Flavored English Lowering](./docs/flavored-english-lowering.md) for the
 first lowering target: interlingua projected through agent state into English
 dialogue.
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 Weksa is currently a state spine and a pipeline map, not an implementation.
 
+It is also not currently an active Verse service. See
+[Verse Service Demotion](./verse-service-demotion.md) for the current
+service-status receipt and the future CultCache/CultMesh/Eve expectations if
+Weksa grows into a daemon.
+
 ## Objective
 
 Build a procedural alien-language engine whose outputs are grounded in
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 - Render glossed output through grammar, morphology, phonology, and diachrony.
 - Emit a trace explaining which stage made each decision.
 - Keep runtime LLM-free; model use belongs in authoring and critique.
+- Do not add Verse service migration, provider advertisements, or Eve lowering
+  until Weksa has an actual daemon/compiler-service owner. Preserve the future
+  expectations in [Verse Service Demotion](./verse-service-demotion.md).
 
 ## Later
 
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+# Verse Service Demotion
+
+Weksa is not currently an active Verse service.
+
+## Verification
+
+The current repo body is a state spine, documentation set, examples, and one
+fixture emitter:
+
+- `state/map.yaml` owns the slow project map.
+- `schemas/` owns human-facing contract receipts.
+- `examples/` owns fixture evidence.
+- `tools/emit_tiny_panphon_handoffs.py` emits bounded AquaSynth handoff
+  fixtures.
+
+There is no daemon, server loop, package entry point, service supervisor,
+CultMesh provider, CultNet transport, Eve projection runtime, or executable
+compiler service. The architecture docs explicitly keep runtime language,
+service scaffolding, storage, queues, and plugin systems out of scope until a
+pipeline stage earns them.
+
+## Demotion
+
+No Verse service migration is due while Weksa remains a tool/library-shaped
+workspace. Do not add a provider advertisement fixture, export command, or
+service contract merely to satisfy the shape of future infrastructure. That
+would make a dashboard for a machine that does not exist yet, which is how the
+altar gets sticky.
+
+The current executable surface remains a bounded fixture tool, not a daemon:
+
+```powershell
+python tools/emit_tiny_panphon_handoffs.py
+```
+
+## Future Service Expectations
+
+If Weksa becomes a language/compiler service, the first service pass should
+publish a small Verse contract that names only real owned surfaces:
+
+- CultCache witnesses:
+  - project/compiler state `.cc`
+  - language-project state `.cc`
+  - interlingua packet witness `.cc`
+  - lowering/render trace witness `.cc`
+  - pronunciation or utterance-handoff witness `.cc` when that pipeline is
+    active
+- CultMesh provider surfaces:
+  - service identity and version
+  - accepted schema versions
+  - available language projects
+  - compile/render job status
+  - recent witness exports
+- Eve surfaces:
+  - compact TUI status for agent inspection
+  - GUI composition for language projects, schemas, traces, and witness review
+- Commands:
+  - validate interlingua packet
+  - compile/load language project
+  - render packet through a selected language project
+  - export typed witness
+  - advertise provider contract
+
+Those commands must delegate to the same commit or derivation paths used by any
+CLI or library API. Manual actions, programmatic jobs, fixture exports, and
+future Eve controls must not become separate truths.