@@ -356,6 +356,8 @@ The suite lives in `tests/`:
 | `tests/run_e2e.py` | E2E test runner (agent-based tests) |
 | `tests/providers.py` | Model backends the e2e runner selects between |
 | `tests/conformance.py` | Disposition per embedded check — run here, or skip with a reason |
+| `tests/fork_dispositions.py` | Dispositions for the blocks in fork-owned content: stacks, platforms, workflow, process sections |
+| `tests/fork_checks.py` | Smoke checks that read fork-owned content (examples, interview, e2e cases), loaded by `run_smoke.py` when present |
 | `tests/run_conformance.py` | Runs the templates' own embedded checks against this repository |
 | `tests/run_fork_sync.py` | Merges the change under test into a simulated fork and runs smoke on the result |
 
@@ -459,7 +461,8 @@ Run `py tests/run_smoke.py` before every PR. It checks:
   still be red in CI: one such edit put a 127-character line into every
   generated chain, 36 findings, with smoke green over it
 - Adding a fenced `bash`/`python` block to a template MUST add its
-  disposition in `tests/conformance.py` — run it here, or skip it with
+  disposition in `tests/conformance.py`, or in `tests/fork_dispositions.py`
+  for a block in fork-owned content — run it here, or skip it with
   the reason it does not apply. `py tests/run_conformance.py` fails on a
   block with no entry, and on a skip stating no reason. A block unrunnable
   only because it names a placeholder is not a skip: resolve the
 
@@ -434,7 +434,11 @@ checks that this repository OBEYS them — it extracts every fenced check in
 `templates/` and either runs it here or records why it does not apply.
 Adding a fenced check to a template without a disposition in
 `tests/conformance.py` fails the run, which is what stops a new check from
-arriving unexamined. Checks reaching GitHub need `gh` authenticated.
+arriving unexamined. A block in fork-owned content (stacks, platforms,
+workflow, the process sections) takes its entry in
+`tests/fork_dispositions.py` instead, and a smoke check reading such
+content goes in `tests/fork_checks.py`, so both runners stay the same file
+upstream and in every fork. Checks reaching GitHub need `gh` authenticated.
 
 A check whose verdict is a judgement reports `REVIEW` rather than `PASS`,
 and the summary counts it as awaiting a reading. It does not fail the run
 
@@ -59,32 +59,6 @@
 
     # -- core/docs.md ------------------------------------------------
 
-    {"file": "core/docs.md", "find": "community health files checked",
-     "title": "Community health files resolve to one location each",
-     "do": RUN, "expect": ["nonzero"]},
-
-    {"file": "core/docs.md",
-     "find": "the naming convention drifted",
-     "title": "ADR frontmatter schema", "do": RUN, "expect": ["nonzero"]},
-
-    {"file": "core/docs.md", "find": "bound by the layout, from",
-     "title": "Decision records carry the layout's sections",
-     "do": RUN, "expect": ["nonzero", "nonzero"]},
-
-    {"file": "core/docs.md", "find": "over a bound and not frozen",
-     "title": "Decision-record prose stays within the declared bounds",
-     "do": RUN,
-     "expect": ["line", "line", "nonzero", "nonzero", "zero", "zero",
-                "zero", "zero"]},
-
-    {"file": "core/docs.md", "find": "changelog entries measured",
-     "title": "Changelog entries stay within the word bound",
-     "do": RUN, "expect": ["nonzero", "nonzero", "any", "zero"]},
-
-    {"file": "core/docs.md", "find": "entries, fenced = [], False",
-     "title": "Development journal entry form", "do": RUN,
-     "expect": ["nonzero"]},
-
     # The efficacy benchmark's arm files are a generator's verbatim output,
     # which its design forbids editing; `short`'s is held to its own budget
     # and the others to none. They are source material the benchmark
@@ -103,24 +77,6 @@
                     'SOURCES = ("templates/", "generated/", "examples/", '
                     '"tests/efficacy/arms/")'}},
 
-    {"file": "core/docs.md", "find": "(?:R|TD)[0-9]{2}",
-     "title": "Risk and technical-debt identifiers stay in their owning doc",
-     "do": RUN, "expect": ["nonzero", "nonzero", "nonzero"]},
-
-    {"file": "core/docs.md", "find": "git diff --word-diff=porcelain",
-     "title": "A format-only ADR edit moved no claim", "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "Takes the format-only commit under review as its argument; "
-               "`HEAD~1` is a placeholder. There is no standing corpus of "
-               "format-only ADR edits to run it over."},
-
-    # -- core/examples.md ---------------------------------------------
-
-    {"file": "core/examples.md", "find": "example failed: $f",
-     "title": "Every example runs against a consumer install", "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "Placeholder runner. This repository's `examples/` holds generated "
-               "context files rather than executable programs, so there is nothing "
-               "to execute."},
-
     # -- core/git.md -------------------------------------------------
 
     {"file": "core/git.md", "find": "<regenerate-command>",
@@ -141,81 +97,6 @@
      "reason": "PATHS is a placeholder naming the documents two open "
                "branches both edit; it is set per release, not per repo."},
 
-    {"file": "core/git.md", "find": "git diff --stat :3:<path>",
-     "title": "A conflict resolution keeps both sides' content", "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "Runs only during an unresolved merge conflict, against the "
-               "conflicting path."},
-
-    {"file": "core/git.md",
-     "find": "settings leaving no safe deletion path",
-     "title": "A merged head branch has a safe deletion path", "do": RUN,
-     "expect": ["nonzero", "zero"]},
-
-    {"file": "core/git.md", "find": "MILESTONE",
-     "title": "Every issue closed since the previous tag carries the "
-              "milestone", "do": RUN, "expect": MANUAL,
-     "reason": "Parameterised by MILESTONE, which is unset here, so the "
-               "check reports that the release is not scoped to a "
-               "milestone and does not apply."},
-
-    {"file": "core/git.md", "find": "<release-workflow>.yml",
-     "title": "The release pipeline has executed before", "do": RUN,
-     "expect": ["nonzero"],
-     "substitute": {"<release-workflow>.yml": "release-gates.yml"}},
-
-    {"file": "core/git.md",
-     "find": "closing issues the subject does not name",
-     "title": "A single-commit branch names its issue in the subject",
-     "do": RUN, "expect": ["nonzero", "nonzero", "nonzero", "zero"]},
-
-    {"file": "core/git.md",
-     "find": "named by a merged commit and still open",
-     "title": "No issue whose work already merged is still open",
-     "do": RUN,
-     "expect": ["line", "nonzero", "nonzero", "nonzero", "zero"]},
-
-    {"file": "core/git.md", "find": "ready but unmerged",
-     "title": "Release ordering against other ready pull requests",
-     "do": RUN, "expect": MANUAL,
-     "reason": "Each pull request it lists as ready is a decision about "
-               "which side of the tag the work lands on. The check states "
-               "that is not a warning it can score."},
-
-    # DOCS is the project judgement the check names: the paths a consumer of
-    # the release reads. Here that is the templates themselves, so an
-    # identifier a template documents is documented in what ships. The
-    # v2.90.0 cut named `uv.lock`, which only `stack/python-lib.md` carries,
-    # and the default set read it as undocumented. `generated/` stays out as
-    # a derivation of `templates/`; `tools/` and `tests/` stay out because a
-    # set covering the whole tree passes whatever the code mentions, which
-    # the rule calls the defect itself.
-    {"file": "core/git.md", "find": "documentation files in the tree",
-     "title": "The tree being tagged documents what the release claims",
-     "do": RUN,
-     "expect": ["nonzero", "nonzero", "line", "line", "any", "any", "zero"],
-     "substitute": {'DOCS = ("README.md", "docs/")':
-                    'DOCS = ("README.md", "docs/", "templates/")'}},
-
-    {"file": "core/git.md",
-     "find": "bullets ever under Unreleased in that range",
-     "title": "A bullet deleted from Unreleased is reported",
-     "do": RUN, "expect": ["nonzero", "nonzero", "zero"]},
-    {"file": "core/git.md", "find": "entries in Unreleased",
-     "title": "The Unreleased section accounts for what the release carries",
-     "do": RUN, "expect": MANUAL,
-     "reason": "Parameterised by RELEASE, which is unset here, so the check "
-               "reports that no release is in preparation and does not "
-               "apply. With it set, the two counts are deliberately not "
-               "required to match and the operator reconciles them."},
-
-    {"file": "core/git.md", "find": "audit records found",
-     "title": "The newest periodic-review record is inside the interval",
-     "do": RUN, "expect": ["nonzero", "nonzero"]},
-
-    {"file": "core/git.md", "find": "<source-owner>/<source-repo>",
-     "title": "A repository migration preserves both remotes", "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "Placeholder owner/repo pairs, run once during a migration."},
-
     {"file": "core/git.md", "find": "BASE = \"origin/main\"",
      "title": "A diff touching an off-limits path says so", "do": RUN,
      "expect": MANUAL,
@@ -336,34 +217,6 @@
      "reason": "Compares two revisions of a module named as arguments; run "
                "during a module split, not against a tree."},
 
-    # -- language/python.md ------------------------------------------
-
-    {"file": "language/python.md", "find": "pkg/_accel.py",
-     "title": "An optional accelerator is isolated to one module",
-     "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "An illustration of the module layout, not a check."},
-
-    {"file": "language/python.md", "find": "_LOG.addHandler",
-     "title": "A library core attaches a null handler",
-     "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "An illustration of the module layout, not a check."},
-
-    {"file": "language/python.md", "find": "the library attaches no handler",
-     "title": "A plain import leaves the library's logger silent",
-     "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "Imports a package named `pkg`. This repository ships no "
-               "importable package."},
-
-    {"file": "language/python.md",
-     "find": "raises_nothing_outside_the_contract",
-     "title": "The package raises nothing outside its error contract",
-     "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "Imports a package named `pkg` and walks its raises. This "
-               "repository ships no importable package; its own Python "
-               "(tools/, tests/) raises SystemExit to carry a verdict and "
-               "declares no error hierarchy, because nothing calls it as "
-               "a library."},
-
     # -- security/devsecops.md ---------------------------------------
 
     {"file": "security/devsecops.md", "find": "sbom.json",
@@ -418,118 +271,18 @@
      "title": "Every stated check is in a form a tool can extract",
      "do": RUN, "expect": ["nonzero", "zero"]},
 
-    # -- workflow/scope.md -------------------------------------------
-
-    {"file": "workflow/scope.md", "find": "platform/[a-z-]+[.]md",
-     "title": "The context file names exactly one platform", "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "Reads a generated project's `CLAUDE.md` for its platform "
-               "axis. This repository's `CLAUDE.md` is authored, not "
-               "generated, and declares no platform template."},
-
-    # -- workflow/two-pass-review.md ---------------------------------
-
-    {"file": "workflow/two-pass-review.md", "find": "usage: scan <artifact>",
-     "title": "First-pass mechanical scan of an artifact under review",
-     "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "Takes the artifact to scan as an argument. It is a review "
-               "aid run per artifact, not a property of the tree."},
-
-    # -- platform/github.md -----------------------------------------------
-
-    {"file": "platform/github.md", "find": "gh run list --commit",
-     "title": "A commit's checks have started, not merely not failed",
-     "do": RUN, "expect": ["line", "nonzero", READ],
-     "reading": "The rows under the count, one per run that did not "
-                "succeed. Whether a run still going is acceptable depends "
-                "on what is being decided, so the rows go to whoever the "
-                "count summons. The count itself is decided: its pass "
-                "condition says a zero must be resolved either way, since "
-                "the check cannot tell a malformed query from a workflow "
-                "that never fired."},
-
-    {"file": "platform/github.md", "find": "code-scanning/analyses",
-     "title": "Code scanning is entitled before the workflow is committed",
-     "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "Placeholder owner/repo, and it answers a question asked "
-               "once when adding the workflow."},
-
-    {"file": "platform/github.md", "find": "state,headRefOid",
-     "title": "A branch is deleted only against the merged pull request",
-     "do": SKIP, "reason": "Takes a pull request number as a placeholder."},
-
-    {"file": "platform/github.md", "find": "refs/pull/<N>/head",
-     "title": "A rewritten head is inspected rather than assumed",
-     "do": SKIP, "reason": "Takes a pull request number as a placeholder."},
-
-    {"file": "platform/github.md", "find": "TYPES = re.compile",
-     "title": "Every open issue carries one type and one priority label",
-     "do": RUN, "expect": ["nonzero"]},
-
-    # -- stack/c-embedded.md ----------------------------------------------
-
-    {"file": "stack/c-embedded.md", "find": "Configure (cross-compile",
-     "title": "Build commands for the embedded stack", "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "A stack's Commands section, not a check."},
-
-    # -- stack/go-lib.md ---------------------------------------------------
-
-    {"file": "stack/go-lib.md", "find": "for program in examples",
-     "title": "Every example program builds and runs", "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "Runs `go vet`, `go test` and each program under "
-               "`examples/`. This repository ships no Go module."},
-
-    # -- stack/nodejs-lib.md -----------------------------------------------
-
-    {"file": "stack/nodejs-lib.md", "find": "npm --prefix",
-     "title": "Every example runs against the packed tarball", "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "Packs an npm distribution and installs it into a clean "
-               "directory. This repository publishes no npm package."},
-
-    # -- stack/python-lib.md ----------------------------------------------
-
-    {"file": "stack/python-lib.md",
-     "find": "git grep -n \"sys.path\" -- 'tests/*'",
-     "title": "The suite imports the installation, not the working tree",
-     "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "Scoped to a packaged library adopting `src/`. This "
-               "repository ships no importable package, so its `tests/` "
-               "has no installation to import instead."},
-
-    {"file": "stack/python-lib.md", "find": "assert 'pkg.heavy' not in",
-     "title": "A plain import loads neither the submodule nor its dependency",
-     "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "`pkg` is a placeholder for the library under test. This "
-               "repository ships no importable package."},
-
-    {"file": "stack/python-lib.md", "find": "tar -tzf dist/",
-     "title": "The sdist carries no vendored or submodule path", "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "Builds a source distribution and lists it. This repository "
-               "builds no distribution."},
-
-
-    {"file": "stack/python-lib.md", "find": "pathlib.Path(\"dist\").glob",
-     "title": "The built wheel contains what it should", "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "Inspects a wheel under `dist/`. This repository builds no "
-               "distribution."},
+]
 
-    {"file": "stack/python-lib.md", "find": "from importlib import import_module",
-     "title": "A deferred import binds its name on first access", "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "This repository ships no importable package. The block is "
-               "the module `__getattr__` pattern itself; the check that "
-               "every advertised name resolves is `core/testing.md`'s "
-               "and carries its own entry."},
 
-    {"file": "stack/python-lib.md", "find": "_RENAMED = {\"OldName\"",
-     "title": "A renamed public symbol resolves through the deferred map",
-     "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "This repository ships no importable package."},
+# A fork's dispositions cover the blocks only a fork's templates carry --
+# its stacks, platforms, workflow and process sections. They live in
+# fork_dispositions.py, which this registry takes in when the file exists,
+# so a tree without those templates carries no entry for a block it lacks.
+try:
+    from fork_dispositions import CHECKS as FORK_CHECKS
+except ModuleNotFoundError as exc:
+    if exc.name != "fork_dispositions":
+        raise
+    FORK_CHECKS = []
 
-    {"file": "stack/python-lib.md", "find": "READER = {",
-     "title": "Every committed lock has a Dependabot ecosystem that reads it",
-     "do": SKIP,
-     "reason": "Pairs a committed Python lock with its Dependabot reader. "
-               "This repository ships Markdown, commits no Python lock, and "
-               "enrols no Python ecosystem, so the check would fail on the "
-               "zero-locks branch that is a finding for a library and a "
-               "fact here."},
-]
+CHECKS = CHECKS + FORK_CHECKS