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+# NIP-FI-CONF: Conformance Profile
+
+`draft` `optional`
+
+> SKELETON — text owner: Dawn. Source: PLANS/NIP_FI_9999_CORRECTNESS_KIT.md.
+
+## Scope
+
+Claim tuple + evidence rules; per-profile trace subsets (core traces live in
+core); 12-row denial reason→class mapping with closed public-response
+vocabulary + byte-identical-response traces; mutation adequacy (one mutant per
+core MUST, caught by its named trace); interop exit test (byte-exact request +
+denial per class derivable from core doc alone).
diff --git a/docs/nips/NIP-FI-DELEG.md b/docs/nips/NIP-FI-DELEG.md
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+# NIP-FI-DELEG: Delegated Agent Profile
+
+`draft` `optional`
+
+> SKELETON — text owner: Wren. Semantics unchanged from a383fd50a; own traces.
+
+## Scope
+
+Delegation attached to a bound owner; owner revocation invalidates delegates on
+the same schedule; delegation traces.
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+# NIP-FI-EDGE: Trusted Edge Profile
+
+`draft` `optional`
+
+> SKELETON — text owner: Perci. Source: RESEARCH/NIP_FI_9999_TRANSPORT_WIRE_DESIGN.md.
+
+## Scope
+
+Registered edge adapters; trusted-proxy-hmac-v2 envelope + canonicalization;
+authorization_domain_id derivation (exact 16 RFC 9562 UUID bytes, network order);
+proof_transport_code registry + extension procedure; key rotation; nonce replay;
+body acquisition bounds (deny-before-hashing, EOF-complete); normative test-vector
+suite with full intermediates; proxy provenance traces. Header-trust-without-
+provenance is nonconformant.
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+# NIP-FI-LIFECYCLE: Binding Lifecycle Profile
+
+`draft` `optional`
+
+> SKELETON — text owner: Max. Source: PLANS/NIP_FI_9999_DESIGN.md (lifecycle rows
+> of Wren's disposition table) + prior spec text at a383fd50a.
+
+## Scope
+
+Recover, re-enable, provisioned mode, binding_not_after, pending-replacement
+lineage, dual-control/admin transitions; one conformance trace per privileged
+transition including one-shot Q_D consumption.
diff --git a/docs/nips/NIP-FI-MODEL.md b/docs/nips/NIP-FI-MODEL.md
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+# NIP-FI-MODEL: Formal Model (Non-Normative Companion)
+
+> SKELETON — owner: Wren. Demoted from normative ONLY after FI-INV-01..16 move
+> into NIP-FI.md as normative text (ordering constraint per Dawn's flag).
+> This document defines nothing normative; it illustrates and cross-checks.
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+# NIP-FI: Federated Identity Authorization (Core)
+
+`draft` `optional`
+
+> SKELETON — text owner: Wren (core boundary + NIP idiom), integrating Max's
+> cross-cutting sections (freshness classes, token typ rules, two contract
+> identities). Source designs: RESEARCH/NIP_FI_9999_CORE_BOUNDARY_DESIGN.md,
+> RESEARCH/NIP_FI_9999_SECURITY_SEMANTICS_DESIGN.md, PLANS/NIP_FI_9999_DESIGN.md.
+> Target: ~350 normative lines. One normative source: FI-INV-01..16 live HERE.
+
+## Scope
+
+Issuer-qualified identity (iss, sub); independent Nostr proof; client-attached
+assertion transport; partial bijection with durable tombstones; atomic final
+admission; bounded leases; private denials with closed response vocabulary;
+retire/revoke/rotate transitions; two contract identities
+(assertion_policy_id, transport_contract_id); declared freshness class
+(offline-jwt | current-status); server-declared body authorization relevance
+(NIP-98 payload binding fix); BCP 14; "equivalent" defined; worked wire example.