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+# Software Operational Risk Typed Contract Alignment
+
+## Purpose
+
+This note records how `SourceOS-Linux/sourceos-spec` aligns to the software operational risk governance pack proposed in `SocioProphet/socioprophet-standards-storage` PR #72.
+
+## Why this repo is in scope
+
+The current upstream README positions `sourceos-spec` as the canonical machine-readable specification layer for SourceOS / SociOS metadata governance and the agent plane, including JSON Schemas, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and semantic overlays.
+
+That makes this repo the correct downstream owner for the **typed contract lane** of software operational risk.
+
+## Expected responsibilities
+
+### 1. Incident schema family
+
+This repo SHOULD host or cross-reference machine-readable contracts for software operational-risk objects such as:
+
+- outage incident,
+- degradation incident,
+- upstream watch item,
+- drift KRI,
+- control evidence summary,
+- reserve / scenario report envelope.
+
+### 2. Transport and API implications
+
+Where operational-risk data flows across services, the contract layer SHOULD define or patch:
+
+- REST / query surfaces,
+- event channels,
+- and schema identities for incident and watchlist exchange.
+
+### 3. Semantic alignment
+
+The semantic layer SHOULD eventually express relationships among:
+
+- critical service,
+- dependency node,
+- edge,
+- common-mode cluster,
+- control,
+- incident,
+- evidence grade,
+- and reserve output.
+
+## Immediate backlog
+
+1. Define a first incident schema for harvested outage records.  
+2. Define a watchlist / upstream-drift schema.  
+3. Decide whether reserve outputs belong in this repo or in a companion schema package.  
+4. Cross-reference the standards pack after PR #72 lands.