- Add the standard Apache License 2.0 and VertoX-AI copyright headers
- Preserve deliberately empty package markers and the standalone worker shebang policy
- Rewrite the README as a concise Hugging Face repository landing page
- Add project status, modular architecture, and detailed workflow documentation
- Add ASCII diagrams for application, benchmark, and backend execution flows
- Normalize public branding to VertoX-AI and add repository-specific citation metadata
- Add concise upstream acknowledgments and official project links
- Add deterministic license-header and empty-package-marker validation
- Preserve all Stage 0-5 reports, benchmark evidence, runtime pins, and implementation behavior
- Record final architecture, software-engineering, coverage, and reproducibility acceptance
- Add joint MFA and WhisperX five-row benchmark evidence and pairwise boundary analysis
- Add the validated 36-row WhisperX annotation, receipt, and disagreement review queue
- Record NeMo empirical evaluation as deferred pending an NVIDIA-capable runtime
- Add the machine-readable final acceptance receipt and exact follow-up requirements
- Update the README from Stage 4 status to the finalized Stage 5 release state
- Complete the base error initializer documentation required by the final docstring audit
