Gather the IP position into one document

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What this is

Two files: a new docs/INTELLECTUAL_PROPERTY.md, and the CLAUDE.md entries that point at it and record the rule it taught.

The IP work existed and was real — the root LICENSE's reservation and Apache-2.0 carve-out, entry 18, the BedeMark.tsx attribution — but it lived in five files with no single place that said what the position was. Searched first: there is no docs/ file on the subject, and docs/SELLING_BEDE.md covers licence-key issuance rather than ownership. So this gathers and cross-references rather than duplicating.

The document holds what the property is, who owns each part, the formation-and-assignment runbook, the assignment instrument, the trademark position, and the recorded decision that no patent filing is planned.

It carries method and no state

There is no register entry tracking how far along the company is in perfecting its own title. There was one briefly — struck, not stubbed, since a withdrawn entry advertises that something was withdrawn. Where the only thing an entry would track is how far along a private matter is, the entry is the disclosure: a needs: line naming what remains states current posture however neutrally worded, and it is readable by anyone. The register ends at 34, as it did before today.

What it does not publish

The repository is public, so the test for committing business text is not "is it true" but what it hands someone who is not on our side. Each of these reached a draft and was removed:

• The entity's registration particulars — and worse, an obligation to publish them on every amendment.
• Adverse conclusions about our own title, our own foreign rights, and our own mark's strength.
• A strategic self-assessment ranking the mark against the architecture for defensibility.
• A map to what is valuable: a draft §7 named the two internal mechanisms believed most likely novel, with their file and class names, under a heading about patentability.

Two traps in the fixing, same shape from opposite ends: the standing rule quoted the adverse sentences as examples, preserving the payload under a heading saying not to write it; and a forbidden-vocabulary list would have made the test the one file in the repository containing them. Both now describe rather than reproduce.

No test polices this document, and that is deliberate

A first pass shipped 42 parametrized cases scanning the document's prose for adverse phrasings, status language and mechanism names. Deleted before merge.

No code reads the document, it gates no release, and the compliance documents that genuinely need enforcement already have test_coppa_compliance.py. Three of those scans had already fired on correct text — including the sentence explaining the rule they enforced — which is how a gate earns a reputation for crying wolf and then gets deleted, as this repository has done once (#296).

The rule lives in CLAUDE.md instead: read by the next session, no CI cost on every backend PR, incapable of a false red. Guard code; write down judgment. docs/INTELLECTUAL_PROPERTY.md is correspondingly not in test.yml's change filter, since nothing reads it.

Test plan

Nothing in this PR is executable, so there is nothing new to test. What was verified is that the existing suites still pass with the document added and the prose-policing test removed:

test_live_header_check_script.py  test_trademark_attribution.py
test_license_carveout.py  test_decision_register.py
test_coppa_compliance.py  test_runner_pins.py          → 86 passed

Those three of today's guards survive because each covers executable behaviour: a real bash script verified against a live HTTP server in three shapes; a rendered React string that exists in two apps, tied to the root LICENSE's owner; and the licence's internal coherence, which the repository cannot ship without.

The COPPA suite re-confirms docs/ is excluded from build_pages_site.sh, so this document is in the repository and not on agnusdei.ai — a real boundary, not a hiding place, since the repository itself is public.

History note

This branch was rebased onto current main after #524, #522 and #525 landed. The earlier force-pushes during the disclosure cleanup are no longer ancestors of the branch — the rebase restarted it from main, so those drafts are orphaned objects rather than history. The PR-timeline caveat still stands.

No site/ or demo/ files touched.

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🟡 Changes recommended

The header checker still misdiagnoses successful intermediary responses, one IP guard is vacuous, and the patent position is internally contradictory.

3 open findings

• False diagnosis when an intermediary returns a successful 200 response · New
• Patent decision remains contradictory and unresolved · New
• Assignee check reads ownership text instead of the assignment section · New

What changed in this PR

Consolidates the repository’s IP position, assignment process, and legal decisions while adding automated consistency guards.

Changes:

• Adds the IP position document and decision-register entry.
• Adds tests for critical assignment clauses and CI routing.
• Improves live security-header diagnostics and adds integration tests.

File	Description
docs/​INTELLECTUAL_PROPERTY.md	Documents ownership, assignment, trademark, and patent positions.
docs/​DECISIONS.md	Records the IP work as open decision 35.
homeschool-api/​tests/​test_ip_document.py	Guards critical IP-document clauses.
scripts/​check_live_site_headers.sh	Distinguishes HTTP failures from missing headers.
homeschool-api/​tests/​test_live_header_check_script.py	Tests header-check outcomes using a local server.
.github/​workflows/​test.yml	Routes relevant document and script changes through CI.
CLAUDE.md	Records the new IP and header-checking conventions.

🧠 Review effort: Balanced

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