diff --git a/.github/workflows/qualify-track-c2-cognee-governance-exec.yml b/.github/workflows/qualify-track-c2-cognee-governance-exec.yml
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+name: Qualify Track C2 Cognee Governance Executable
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/qualify-track-c2-cognee-governance-exec.yml'
+      - 'tests/qualification/track-c2/specialists/cognee-governance-exec.py'
+      - 'tests/qualification/track-c2/specialists/verify-cognee-governance-exec.py'
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+jobs:
+  cognee-governance-executable:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 40
+    env:
+      REQUIRE_AUTHENTICATION: 'true'
+      ENABLE_BACKEND_ACCESS_CONTROL: 'true'
+      HASH_API_KEY: 'false'
+      FASTAPI_USERS_JWT_SECRET: 'yukh-qualification-only-secret'
+      DATA_ROOT_DIRECTORY: ${{ github.workspace }}/runtime/cognee/data
+      SYSTEM_ROOT_DIRECTORY: ${{ github.workspace }}/runtime/cognee/system
+      DB_PROVIDER: sqlite
+      DB_NAME: cognee_ov89
+      GRAPH_DATABASE_PROVIDER: kuzu
+      GRAPH_DATASET_DATABASE_HANDLER: kuzu
+      VECTOR_DB_PROVIDER: lancedb
+      VECTOR_DATASET_DATABASE_HANDLER: lancedb
+      LLM_API_KEY: qualification-not-used
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+        with: {persist-credentials: false}
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+        with:
+          repository: topoteretes/cognee
+          ref: 690c0ec023719a2a277dc893cdecfec1ca8012cc
+          path: external/cognee
+          persist-credentials: false
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
+        with: {python-version: '3.12'}
+      - name: Install pinned Cognee
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python -m pip install -e external/cognee
+          mkdir -p runtime/cognee/data runtime/cognee/system artifacts/track-c2-specialists
+      - name: A owns M and B is denied
+        run: python tests/qualification/track-c2/specialists/cognee-governance-exec.py setup artifacts/track-c2-specialists/cognee-state.json
+      - name: Explicit public grant to active B
+        run: python tests/qualification/track-c2/specialists/cognee-governance-exec.py grant artifacts/track-c2-specialists/cognee-state.json artifacts/track-c2-specialists/cognee-grant.json
+      - name: Explicit public revoke while A B M remain alive
+        run: python tests/qualification/track-c2/specialists/cognee-governance-exec.py revoke artifacts/track-c2-specialists/cognee-state.json artifacts/track-c2-specialists/cognee-revoke.json
+      - name: Fresh app process verifies persisted revoke
+        run: python tests/qualification/track-c2/specialists/cognee-governance-exec.py restart artifacts/track-c2-specialists/cognee-state.json artifacts/track-c2-specialists/cognee-restart.json
+      - name: Finalize normalized evidence
+        run: python tests/qualification/track-c2/specialists/cognee-governance-exec.py finalize artifacts/track-c2-specialists/cognee-state.json artifacts/track-c2-specialists/cognee-grant.json artifacts/track-c2-specialists/cognee-revoke.json artifacts/track-c2-specialists/cognee-restart.json artifacts/track-c2-specialists/cognee-governance-exec.json
+      - name: Verify COMPLEMENT_PASS
+        run: python tests/qualification/track-c2/specialists/verify-cognee-governance-exec.py artifacts/track-c2-specialists/cognee-governance-exec.json
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
+        if: always()
+        with:
+          name: track-c2-cognee-governance-exec-690c0ec0
+          path: artifacts/track-c2-specialists
+          if-no-files-found: error
+          retention-days: 30
diff --git a/tests/qualification/track-c2/specialists/cognee-governance-exec.py b/tests/qualification/track-c2/specialists/cognee-governance-exec.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import json, sys
+from pathlib import Path
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+from cognee.api.client import app
+
+PIN="690c0ec023719a2a277dc893cdecfec1ca8012cc"
+DATASET_NAME="yukh-governance-m"
+PASS="synthetic-password-OV89!"
+
+def write(path,payload):
+    p=Path(path); p.parent.mkdir(parents=True,exist_ok=True); p.write_text(json.dumps(payload,indent=2,sort_keys=True)+"\n")
+
+def register_and_key(c,email):
+    r=c.post("/api/v1/auth/register",json={"email":email,"password":PASS}); assert r.status_code in (201,400),r.text
+    r=c.post("/api/v1/auth/login",data={"username":email,"password":PASS}); assert r.status_code==200,r.text
+    token=r.json()["access_token"]
+    me=c.get("/api/v1/auth/me",headers={"Authorization":f"Bearer {token}"}); assert me.status_code==200,me.text
+    key=c.post("/api/v1/auth/api-keys",json={"name":"yukh-ov89"},headers={"Authorization":f"Bearer {token}"}); assert key.status_code==200,key.text
+    return me.json(),key.json()["key"]
+
+def hdr(key): return {"X-Api-Key":key}
+
+def visible_ids(c,key):
+    r=c.get("/api/v1/datasets",headers=hdr(key)); assert r.status_code==200,r.text
+    return {str(x["id"]):x for x in r.json()}
+
+def setup(out):
+    with TestClient(app) as c:
+        # Use the same syntactically ordinary email domain as Cognee's pinned
+        # backend-auth integration test. The qualification remains fully synthetic.
+        a,ak=register_and_key(c,"ov89-alice@example.com")
+        b,bk=register_and_key(c,"ov89-bob@example.com")
+        aid=str(a["id"]); bid=str(b["id"])
+        tenants=c.get("/api/v1/permissions/tenants/me",headers=hdr(ak)); assert tenants.status_code==200,tenants.text
+        tlist=tenants.json(); assert tlist,tlist
+        tenant_id=str(tlist[0]["id"])
+        add=c.post(f"/api/v1/permissions/users/{bid}/tenants",params={"tenant_id":tenant_id},headers=hdr(ak)); assert add.status_code==200,add.text
+        sel=c.post("/api/v1/permissions/tenants/select",json={"tenant_id":tenant_id},headers=hdr(bk)); assert sel.status_code==200,sel.text
+        ds=c.post("/api/v1/datasets",json={"name":DATASET_NAME},headers=hdr(ak)); assert ds.status_code==200,ds.text
+        dataset=ds.json(); did=str(dataset["id"])
+        assert did in visible_ids(c,ak)
+        before=visible_ids(c,bk)
+        assert did not in before, f"B saw A dataset before grant: {before}"
+        write(out,{"pin":PIN,"alice_id":aid,"bob_id":bid,"alice_key":ak,"bob_key":bk,"tenant_id":tenant_id,"dataset_id":did,"dataset_name":DATASET_NAME,"a_visible_before":True,"b_denied_before":True})
+
+def grant(state_path,out):
+    x=json.loads(Path(state_path).read_text())
+    with TestClient(app) as c:
+        g=c.post(f"/api/v1/permissions/datasets/{x['bob_id']}",params={"permission_name":"read"},json=[x["dataset_id"]],headers=hdr(x["alice_key"])); assert g.status_code==200,g.text
+        ids=visible_ids(c,x["bob_key"]); assert x["dataset_id"] in ids,ids
+        a=visible_ids(c,x["alice_key"]); assert x["dataset_id"] in a
+        write(out,{"pin":PIN,"grant_status":"public-api-success","b_reads_after_grant":True,"a_still_reads":True})
+
+def revoke(state_path,out):
+    x=json.loads(Path(state_path).read_text())
+    with TestClient(app) as c:
+        r=c.request("DELETE",f"/api/v1/permissions/datasets/{x['bob_id']}",params={"permission_name":"read"},json=[x["dataset_id"]],headers=hdr(x["alice_key"])); assert r.status_code==200,r.text
+        ids=visible_ids(c,x["bob_key"]); assert x["dataset_id"] not in ids,ids
+        a=visible_ids(c,x["alice_key"]); assert x["dataset_id"] in a
+        write(out,{"pin":PIN,"revoke_status":"public-api-success","b_denied_after_revoke":True,"a_still_reads":True,"users_remain_alive":True,"dataset_remains_alive":True})
+
+def restart(state_path,out):
+    x=json.loads(Path(state_path).read_text())
+    with TestClient(app) as c:
+        b=visible_ids(c,x["bob_key"]); a=visible_ids(c,x["alice_key"])
+        assert x["dataset_id"] not in b,b
+        assert x["dataset_id"] in a,a
+        me_b=c.get("/api/v1/auth/me",headers=hdr(x["bob_key"])); assert me_b.status_code==200,me_b.text
+        write(out,{"pin":PIN,"revocation_persists_after_fresh_app_process":True,"b_still_active":True,"b_still_denied":True,"a_still_allowed":True,"dataset_still_alive":True})
+
+def finalize(state_path,grant_path,revoke_path,restart_path,out):
+    s=json.loads(Path(state_path).read_text()); g=json.loads(Path(grant_path).read_text()); r=json.loads(Path(revoke_path).read_text()); z=json.loads(Path(restart_path).read_text())
+    obs={"initial_denial":s["b_denied_before"],"explicit_grant":g["b_reads_after_grant"],"explicit_revoke":r["b_denied_after_revoke"],"subjects_survive_revoke":r["users_remain_alive"],"object_survives_revoke":r["dataset_remains_alive"],"restart_persistence":z["revocation_persists_after_fresh_app_process"],"owner_access_preserved":z["a_still_allowed"],"revoked_subject_active":z["b_still_active"]}
+    ok=all(obs.values())
+    report={"schema_version":1,"track":"C2","gate":"cognee-governance-complement-executable","candidate":"topoteretes/cognee","revision":PIN,"protected_object":"dataset","acl_semantics":"principal × permission × dataset; explicit public grant/revoke","observations":obs,"result":"COMPLEMENT_PASS" if ok else "FAIL","limitations":["dataset/collection granularity, not per-memory atom","qualified with dataset metadata visibility rather than LLM retrieval to keep the ACL test model-free and bounded"],"authority_boundary":"Cognee ACL governs contextual dataset visibility only; Yukh accepted-state/evidence authority remains external."}
+    write(out,report)
+    assert ok
+
+def main():
+    mode=sys.argv[1]
+    if mode=="setup": setup(sys.argv[2])
+    elif mode=="grant": grant(sys.argv[2],sys.argv[3])
+    elif mode=="revoke": revoke(sys.argv[2],sys.argv[3])
+    elif mode=="restart": restart(sys.argv[2],sys.argv[3])
+    elif mode=="finalize": finalize(*sys.argv[2:])
+    else: raise SystemExit(mode)
+if __name__=="__main__": main()
diff --git a/tests/qualification/track-c2/specialists/verify-cognee-governance-exec.py b/tests/qualification/track-c2/specialists/verify-cognee-governance-exec.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import json,sys
+from pathlib import Path
+r=json.loads(Path(sys.argv[1]).read_text())
+assert r["track"]=="C2"
+assert r["gate"]=="cognee-governance-complement-executable"
+assert r["candidate"]=="topoteretes/cognee"
+assert r["revision"]=="690c0ec023719a2a277dc893cdecfec1ca8012cc"
+assert r["protected_object"]=="dataset"
+assert r["result"]=="COMPLEMENT_PASS"
+for k,v in r["observations"].items(): assert v is True,k
+assert "explicit public grant/revoke" in r["acl_semantics"]
+assert "dataset/collection granularity" in r["limitations"][0]
+assert "Yukh accepted-state/evidence authority remains external" in r["authority_boundary"]
+print("verified Cognee governance complement executable: COMPLEMENT_PASS")