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First of the three [ka:cli-build-out] verbs (umbrella #21). Reads fleet/<host>.yaml, resolves includes[] (single-file + series-dir), concatenates in apply order, emits build/<host>/<ref>/{cumulative.patch, manifest.lock}. Phase-3 ground truth on fresnel parity: b2sum 4d9d93c655ea701b… matches bit-for-bit. Five tests in tests/ka-promote/ (fresnel parity, series-dir resolver, bad-include, missing-patch, dup-include) all pass. Validator (--validate-against <linux-checkout>) hard-fails on: missing .git, baseline.ref not in checkout, HEAD-tree != baseline.ref tree, or uncommitted/untracked changes. Verified on boltzmann against the torvalds v7.0 worktree (all 3 negative paths exit 3 with clear errors). Side fix: fleet/fresnel.yaml baseline.tree mmind/linux-rockchip → torvalds/linux. mmind doesn't ship a plain v7.0 tag; baseline was actually torvalds the whole time. mmind kept as informational patch_authoring_context. Phase-5 reviewer (sonnet outside-look, #22 comment 1135) followups addressed: series-dir fixture count 7 (not 6), divergence = hard error, raw-bytes manifest hash, duplicate-include pre-flight check, explicit yaml.dump(sort_keys=True). Language choice (vs ka-status's bash): pure python3 — YAML round-trip, dict construction, and per-file hashing made bash+heredoc python quoting hell with no readability gain. Phase 7 (verify on ampere parity) + Phase 8 (close + README rewrite + PR) to follow. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>