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 # Protocol-Commercial
 
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 Protocol-Commercial v1.1.0 is the current CommandLayer commercial schema line.
 
 This README is a release-orientation document for the current line. The normative specification lives in `SPEC.md`. Release policy, checksum-boundary policy, and version-lifecycle rules live in `POLICY.md`.
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