diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index f194d83..1168538 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Contributing
 
-Boatstack is a generated content distribution. Propose changes to workflow semantics, templates, evidence rules, or generated presentation in [Intelligence Flow](https://github.com/operatorstack/intelligence-flow/tree/3e44eb72add2a33fb84bbc5a0142af9c1828feb1/labs/12-product-engineering-loop).
+Boatstack is a generated content distribution. Propose changes to workflow semantics, templates, evidence rules, or generated presentation in [Intelligence Flow](https://github.com/operatorstack/intelligence-flow/tree/2da3d0b8f8ca7baec350a8b803e5409721517e52/labs/12-product-engineering-loop).
 
 The Boatstack repository receives product/runtime changes through a generated pull request. Review the PR's `UPSTREAM.json`, tests, adapter diff, and context-size change; do not hand-edit generated output on `main`. `.github/workflows` is the exception: it is Boatstack's executable control plane, excluded from scheduled projection and changed only through a separate manually reviewed Boatstack PR.
 
diff --git a/UPSTREAM.json b/UPSTREAM.json
index aab8d5e..7d0f730 100644
--- a/UPSTREAM.json
+++ b/UPSTREAM.json
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
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+    "release-notes/2026-07-23-labkit-standalone-package.md": "50ae9ba89fdada6e04a9200ea26d53a2a04484a1759cdea663687cc9b42fb93c",
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@@ -196,7 +197,7 @@
   "generator": "operatorstack/intelligence-flow:boatstack-distribution",
   "schema_version": 1,
   "source": {
-    "commit": "3e44eb72add2a33fb84bbc5a0142af9c1828feb1",
+    "commit": "2da3d0b8f8ca7baec350a8b803e5409721517e52",
     "path": "labs/12-product-engineering-loop",
     "repository": "operatorstack/intelligence-flow"
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diff --git a/docs/evidence-engineered-coding.md b/docs/evidence-engineered-coding.md
index 6a033b8..62ad9db 100644
--- a/docs/evidence-engineered-coding.md
+++ b/docs/evidence-engineered-coding.md
@@ -146,6 +146,6 @@ Delivery and system improvement also remain separate. A failed task may suggest
 
 ## What is evidence-backed
 
-The current moves were derived from the Intelligence Flow benchmark corpus and product-repository studies. The generated source commit is [`3e44eb72add2a33fb84bbc5a0142af9c1828feb1`](https://github.com/operatorstack/intelligence-flow/tree/3e44eb72add2a33fb84bbc5a0142af9c1828feb1/labs/12-product-engineering-loop).
+The current moves were derived from the Intelligence Flow benchmark corpus and product-repository studies. The generated source commit is [`2da3d0b8f8ca7baec350a8b803e5409721517e52`](https://github.com/operatorstack/intelligence-flow/tree/2da3d0b8f8ca7baec350a8b803e5409721517e52/labs/12-product-engineering-loop).
 
 The evidence supports specific failure mechanisms and guardrails. It does not establish that Boatstack is optimal, that control-theory notation proves software quality, or that one workflow dominates every team. Those are evaluation questions, so the distribution preserves measurements, provenance, gaps, and negative results.
diff --git a/docs/public-claims.json b/docs/public-claims.json
index 564f1e8..48fa137 100644
--- a/docs/public-claims.json
+++ b/docs/public-claims.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "schema_version": 1,
-  "source_commit": "3e44eb72add2a33fb84bbc5a0142af9c1828feb1",
+  "source_commit": "2da3d0b8f8ca7baec350a8b803e5409721517e52",
   "statuses": ["verified", "observed", "still_being_evaluated"],
   "claims": [
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
       "readable_evidence": "why-these-steps.md#portable-workflow-and-state",
       "implementation": ["../boatstack/export.go", "../boatstack/references/artifacts.md", "../boatstack/references/workflow.md"],
       "verification": ["../boatstack/export_test.go"],
-      "last_verified_version": "source:3e44eb72add2a33fb84bbc5a0142af9c1828feb1"
+      "last_verified_version": "source:2da3d0b8f8ca7baec350a8b803e5409721517e52"
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
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       "verification": ["../boatstack/plan_test.go", "../boatstack/planning_test.go"],
-      "last_verified_version": "source:3e44eb72add2a33fb84bbc5a0142af9c1828feb1"
+      "last_verified_version": "source:2da3d0b8f8ca7baec350a8b803e5409721517e52"
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       "verification": ["../boatstack/plan_test.go"],
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-      "last_verified_version": "source:3e44eb72add2a33fb84bbc5a0142af9c1828feb1"
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       "verification": ["../boatstack/pr_test.go"],
-      "last_verified_version": "source:3e44eb72add2a33fb84bbc5a0142af9c1828feb1"
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       "verification": ["../boatstack/delivery_test.go", "../boatstack/pr_test.go"],
-      "last_verified_version": "source:3e44eb72add2a33fb84bbc5a0142af9c1828feb1"
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-      "last_verified_version": "source:3e44eb72add2a33fb84bbc5a0142af9c1828feb1"
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-      "last_verified_version": "source:3e44eb72add2a33fb84bbc5a0142af9c1828feb1"
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 }
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index e12145a..6c884ef 100644
--- a/labs/diagram-json/plan.lock.json
+++ b/labs/diagram-json/plan.lock.json
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
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+  "source_commit": "2da3d0b8f8ca7baec350a8b803e5409721517e52",
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diff --git a/release-notes/2026-07-23-labkit-standalone-package.md b/release-notes/2026-07-23-labkit-standalone-package.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c669130
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release-notes/2026-07-23-labkit-standalone-package.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+### Publishing toolkit moved to a standalone package
+
+The `labkit` toolkit that projects Boatstack into this repository moved from a
+submodule of the monorepo's Python package to a standalone top-level `labkit/`
+project, invoked as `python -m labkit`. This only changes where the publishing
+tooling lives and how the sync workflow installs it; the projected files are
+byte-for-byte identical (asserted by the golden reproduction test), with no
+effect on Boatstack's runtime, CLI, skill, or public contract.