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+# Coulomb Pricing (MVP)
+
+Project-specific material for the Coulomb Social Economic Observatory MVP.
+
+This directory holds implementation artifacts, integrations, and documentation that
+apply to the Coulomb deployment only. Generic adaptive-pricing framework concepts
+belong in the repository root (`INTENT.md`, `research/`, `registry/`, etc.).
+
+Tracked workplan: `workplans/ADAPTIVE-WP-0002-economic-observatory-mvp.md`.
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