The stage is complete and committed on main as 49b84fe. Working tree is clean.

What was delivered

• src/OwnableCounter.sol: permissionless increment() and decrement(), owner-only reset(), single-step transferOwnership with a zero-address guard so reset can never be bricked. The constructor takes one address initialOwner argument, meant to be filled with $owner, since the factory is msg.sender and cannot exercise ownership. No renounce, no pause, no ETH, no upgrade path.
• src/CounterToken.sol: "Counter Test" / CNTR, zero-argument constructor, 18 decimals, mints exactly 10^27 minor units to msg.sender. No owner, mint, burn or pause functions.
• Tests in test/ covering success and failure paths, ownership gating, underflow and overflow, ETH rejection, admin-selector probing, supply conservation fuzzing, and a local mirror of the factory deployment floor.
• ABI exports at docs/abi/CounterToken.json and docs/abi/OwnableCounter.json.
• README.md documenting behaviour, deployment parameters for the manifest node, assumptions, operational responsibilities and unresolved policy choices.
• forge-std 1.16.2 vendored as plain files under lib/forge-std, no submodule. foundry.toml pins solc 0.8.26 with bytecode_hash = "none", offline, ffi off, no filesystem permissions.

Verification results

Check	Result
forge build	passes
forge test	51 passed, 0 failed
forge fmt --check	passes
Protected token floor (6 tests, run in scratch against the real creation code)	all pass
Protected project floor (2 tests, CREATE2 factory deploy with $owner argument)	all pass

For the manifest assignment

The contracts list holds a single entry, OwnableCounter, with constructorArgs: ["$owner"]. The token needs no arguments and reports 18 decimals. Neither constructor touches the token, so the factory sees the untouched 10^27 after deployment.

Done. The launch manifest is written and committed as the only change.

What launch.json describes

• Token: CounterToken, name "Counter Test", symbol "CNTR", 18 decimals. The accepted source has a zero-argument constructor that mints the full supply to the factory, so the token carries no constructor args.
• Application contracts: one entry, OwnableCounter, with constructor args ["$owner"]. That matches its sole address initialOwner parameter in both the source and the exported ABI. No privileged wallet is named.
• Pool: native ETH pairing at the zero address, fee 3000, tick spacing 60, no hook. The initial price is the sqrtPriceX96 for 1:1, which the deployer overrides from the pinned Sepolia policy v5 opening market cap.
• Notes: explain the privileged surface, the msg.sender reasoning behind $owner, and that supply, allocations, chain and hashes belong to policy and services.

Verification

• The manifest passes the canonical LaunchManifest JSON Schema plus the refinements: unique names, no MerkleDistributor, initialPrice below 2^256, references only in address slots.
• forge build and forge test are green on the accepted tree.

Check	Result
Test suites	3
Tests passed	51 of 51
Files changed	launch.json only

No other file was touched. The commit is on the working branch with the required attribution line.

No substantiated defects found. Saved {"findings":[]} to .imd-findings.json.

Reviewed contracts, test assertions, ABI exports, and manifest consistency. Foundry tests were not rerun. No implementation files changed.