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PATENT NOTICE

Certain methods and systems implemented in this software are the subject of
one or more pending patent applications filed by Joe Ibrahim. The MIT License
granted above applies to the copyright in the software source code and does
not grant any license, express or implied, under any patent claims.

Patent Pending applies to, but is not limited to, the following aspects of
this software:

  - Tiered cognitive routing cascade with confidence-based tier forwarding
  - Persistent memory tier architecture with cross-tier linking
  - Deterministic state composition using priority-ordered resolution
    semantics
  - Agentic execution loop with gate-integrated outcome learning

Users are free to use, modify, and distribute the software under the MIT
License terms. However, practicing the patented methods in a commercial
product or service may require a separate patent license once the patent(s)
are granted.
