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 # Gamertan Tend
 
+## Final public CLI preview
+
+`v0.2.0-preview.2` is the final public Tend CLI preview. This repository and
+its published AGPL releases remain available as an archived record, but it is
+not accepting new feature development. Private research continues around a
+networked management experience; that work is not mirrored or published here
+and carries no public release commitment.
+
+Existing licences and release artifacts are unchanged. Do not interpret this
+notice as withdrawing rights already granted by the AGPL-3.0-only and 0BSD
+files in this repository.
+
 Tend is an opinionated release and deployment tool for small Go services on
 Linux, systemd, and Caddy. It packages a clean pushed commit, records exact
 build provenance, activates a health-checked candidate, and keeps rollback
@@ -82,12 +94,10 @@ maintenance releases and explicit rollback/reactivation for both Gamertan and
 the Sandwich Hime website using one reviewed candidate. See the dated
 [dogfood evidence](docs/DOGFOOD_EVIDENCE.md) for exact scope and limitations.
 
-The additive `v0.2.0-preview.2` candidate keeps that transport and activation
+The additive `v0.2.0-preview.2` release keeps that transport and activation
 contract while adding bounded deployment-event JSONL, routed-origin continuity,
 rollback annotations, and the operational findings recorded through real
-dogfooding. Preview 1 remains unchanged. Preview 2 will not be tagged until one
-identical binary has deployed, rolled back, and reactivated Gamertan, the
-Sandwich Hime website, and Gamertan Observatory.
+dogfooding. Preview 1 remains unchanged.
 Operational friction discovered while applying the same contract to new
 services is tracked separately in the
 [dogfood friction ledger](docs/DOGFOOD_FRICTION.md). The ledger preserves the