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+# ENTITY-DEFENCE — Current Status Overlay
+
+This repository contains a **sealed ENTITY v3.4.0 Public / Unclassified Defence domain-package payload**. The root `README.md` is part of that sealed payload and is hash-bound by `REPOSITORY_MANIFEST.json`; it is intentionally preserved as historical release evidence.
+
+## Current ENTITY runtime
+
+- **Current supported ENTITY runtime:** v3.4.3
+- **BTDU component:** 3.4.2 unchanged
+- **This domain-package payload:** v3.4.0, unchanged
+- **Published package requalification context:** v3.4.1
+
+ENTITY v3.4.3 is a bounded remediation release and does not rewrite this package's sealed v3.4.0 evidence. This overlay therefore does **not** claim that the package itself was reissued or independently requalified as v3.4.3.
+
+## Documentation layer
+
+ENTITY-DEFENCE is a **runtime implementation package** for applying the Global Passport architecture to public/unclassified defence-domain assets and workflows. It is not the normative ENTITY Protocol 1.0 clean-room definition.
+
+For current project/runtime documentation, use the main ENTITY repository and the ENTITY documentation portal. For this package's immutable release evidence, use the root `README.md`, `SOURCE_RELEASE.json`, `REPOSITORY_MANIFEST.json`, and package verification tooling in this repository.
+
+## Security and integrity boundary
+
+This public package remains for **public/unclassified material only**. This file is an explanatory status overlay and is intentionally outside the sealed v3.4.0 repository manifest. It changes no package hash, schema, mapping, deployment template, source binding, authority rule, rights rule, security boundary, or conformance result.