- 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
