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 # compose2pod
 
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+
 Convert a Docker Compose file into a POSIX `sh` script that runs its services as a **single Podman pod**.
 
 Built for CI and test environments where you can't use `docker compose` or `podman kube play`:
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 Real-but-unscheduled items, each with a revisit trigger.
 
+## Add the compose2pod brand lockup to the README header
+
+Sibling org repos (`db-retry`, `eof-fixer`, `semvertag`, …) open their README
+with a centered brand lockup (`<picture>` → `modern-python/.github`
+`brand/projects/<name>/lockup-{dark,light}.svg` + `lockup.png`) above the badge
+row. compose2pod's README carries the badges but no lockup: the `.github`
+repo's `brand/build/projects.py` `MANIFEST` has no `compose2pod` entry, so no
+glyph or lockup asset is generated for it. Adding one requires designing a
+distinctive gold inner symbol (a `sym.compose2pod(...)` in the brand build),
+regenerating assets, and shipping that in a `.github` PR — brand design that
+needs the org owner's sign-off.
+
+**Revisit trigger:** the org owner approves a compose2pod brand glyph, or a
+`.github` PR adds `compose2pod` to the brand `MANIFEST` and regenerates the
+lockup assets. Then wire the `<picture>` block above the badges (dropping the
+`# compose2pod` H1) to match siblings.
+
 ## Harden the pod-cleanup trap's nested `shlex.quote` for the `emit_script` library path
 
 `emit.py`'s `EXIT` trap quotes the pod name with a nested `shlex.quote` inside