Promote a working artifact to canonical state

Core meaning

Capability purpose: Prevent drafts, working copies, intermediate outputs, and operational shadow state from silently becoming durable owner truth while allowing accepted value to enter its correct canonical home.
Meaningful outcome: The candidate artifact is either promoted into a named canonical object/version with review and provenance, or receives an explicit rejected, deferred, conflicted, or failed disposition.
Boundaries — includes: candidate artifact identity, source workspace/run, target canonical class/home, review state, approval state, validation, transformation, conflict handling, promoted-object identity/version, provenance, and disposition evidence.
Boundaries — excludes: producing the artifact, deciding that an execution output qualifies as a Result, governing imported-source enrichment stages, maintaining the workspace, publishing outward, and deleting temporary state before promotion is verified.
Terms and concepts: A working artifact is a non-canonical output or copy produced during work. Canonical state is the governed durable source-of-truth lifecycle appropriate to the object's information class; it need not be one physical location.

Actor: The owner or an explicitly authorized promotion process.
Command / intent: Accept a bounded working artifact into its designated canonical lifecycle.
Current state: The artifact, source work or workspace, proposed canonical class/home, review state, approval state, current canonical version, and authority are identifiable.
Policies / invariants: Temporary state never becomes canonical implicitly; the target is selected by information type and governance rather than interface; source work and prior canonical versions remain traceable; conflicts and transformations are explicit; failed promotion leaves the only copy protected; approval does not imply outward publication.
Transition: Validate the artifact and authority, resolve or record conflicts, create or revise the canonical object, bind provenance to the source artifact/work, verify durable acceptance, and record the disposition.
Result: A verified promoted canonical object/version or an explicit rejected, deferred, conflicted, or failed promotion record.
Events / effects: May make workspace cleanup, result linking, knowledge compilation, History inclusion, sharing, or publication eligible through separate capabilities.
Unknowns: Universal review thresholds, conflict strategies, atomicity requirements, and temporary-copy retention periods are not established.

No temporary, cached, model-generated, or operational artifact may become canonical merely because it exists or was used.
Promotion must identify the resulting canonical object/version and preserve source-work provenance.
The only remaining copy must not be discarded until durable acceptance is verified.

Prefer an explicit review and approval state for human-significant or high-impact artifacts.
Keep working copies until promotion verification and any required rollback window complete.

Statement	Semantic class	Evidence status	Source / note
Temporary work becomes durable owner truth only through an explicit, attributable promotion into the appropriate canonical lifecycle.	rule/invariant	sourced	V01–V08.