diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ after its public API and format compatibility policies are established.
 
 - Add field-mutation laws for selected version-2 retention root, manifest, and head fields: rows mutate the frozen corpus record, reseal every digest and checksum they did not target, and assert the named refusal variant. KEEP-RETENTION-003 remains in progress (#212). Salvaged from the closed #107 branch; tests and ledger only.
 
+- ADR-0010 commits Keep to one current storage format: direct initialization replaces version-1 initialization plus migration, complete stores become portable while live authority checks remain, opening requires an explicit expected-state choice before the first release, and after it Keep reads released sealed segments while writing only the current format, with explicit metadata upgrades and optional, resumable segment rewriting. Main's behavior is unchanged until the units tracked in #198 land (#198).
 - Update the repository-only serde_json parser to 1.0.154 in both locked workspaces and refresh its dependency admission; the resolved transitive graph, features, license and MSRV are unchanged (#186).
 
 - Update the in-process BLAKE3 dependency to 1.8.7 in both locked workspaces, remove the unused arrayref license exception and renew its admission while retaining the external b3sum oracle and version-one identity contract (#94).
diff --git a/docs/adr/0009-retention-roots-release-and-gc-liveness.md b/docs/adr/0009-retention-roots-release-and-gc-liveness.md
index b8db887d..d55a096f 100644
--- a/docs/adr/0009-retention-roots-release-and-gc-liveness.md
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 - Owners: Keep retention, catalog, recovery, verification, and GC boundaries
 - Related issue:
   [#18](https://github.com/flyingrobots/keep/issues/18)
-- Depends on: ADR-0002, ADR-0005, issues #3, #16, and #17
+- Depends on: ADR-0002, ADR-0005, issues #3, #16, and #17; amended by [ADR-0010](0010-one-storage-format.md)
 
 ## Context
 
diff --git a/docs/adr/0010-one-storage-format.md b/docs/adr/0010-one-storage-format.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,331 @@
+# ADR-0010: One Current Storage Format
+
+- Status: Accepted
+- Date: 2026-10-27; amended 2026-11-04
+- Owners: Keep format, initialization, publication, recovery, and retention
+  boundaries
+- Related issue:
+  [#198](https://github.com/flyingrobots/keep/issues/198)
+- Depends on: ADR-0005, ADR-0009
+- Amends: ADR-0009 §Durable namespace compatibility (migration as the only
+  entry into version 2)
+- Supersedes: the restart root-identity requirement in
+  [Retention reader root identity](retention-reader-root-identity.md) and
+  [Root identity across restart](../formats/segment-store-v2/recovery.md#root-identity-across-restart)
+
+## Context
+
+Main supports two durable formats. `keep.segment-store/v1` admits the writer
+lock, staging, the segment and catalog pools, and `HEAD`.
+`keep.segment-store/v2` keeps those bytes unchanged and adds the `FORMAT`
+marker, `reader.lock`, retention state, and reserved GC and
+recovery-disposition namespaces. A one-way migration connects the two.
+
+The two formats split Keep's capabilities between them:
+
+- A version-2 store can be created only by migrating a version-1 store.
+  Version-2 initialization is undefined.
+- The content writer, `FilesystemCatalogPublisher`, and segment and catalog
+  stage recovery admit only the version-1 namespace.
+  `FilesystemVersionTwoAdmission` deliberately cannot be passed to them, so a
+  migrated store can be read and can publish retention roots, but cannot
+  ingest. General version-2 catalog publication waits on the retained-closure
+  gate in [#125](https://github.com/flyingrobots/keep/issues/125).
+- Every version-2 test, fixture, and crash case first builds a version-1
+  store and migrates it. The migration accounts for about 10,500 lines under
+  `src/adapters/store_migration`, 2,000 lines of integration tests, 1,100
+  lines of repository tasks, two golden records and their source table, and the
+  `KEEP-CRASH-053..073` process-death matrix.
+
+Nothing has been released. The crate is `0.0.0` with `publish = false`. On
+2026-10-27 the owner stated that no Keep store with data of value exists
+anywhere. Both formats can therefore be consolidated now without a
+conversion.
+
+The migration also introduced a persistent binding between a store and its
+directory. The migration intent records the root directory's device and
+inode, and every later reopen and fenced snapshot compares the live root
+against them (`require_root_identity`). The binding proves one thing: the
+migration records were not transplanted from another directory. It proves
+less than the "is this the store I meant to open" guarantee it has sometimes
+been read as:
+
+- Rename store A away and rename an intact store B into A's path. B's records
+  match B's directory, so admission passes, even though the caller wanted A.
+- Restore an older, internally consistent snapshot into the original
+  directory. The inode is unchanged, so admission passes. The binding is not
+  rollback protection.
+- Restore a backup, copy a store to a new disk, or let device-mapper renumber
+  a volume. Every byte is intact, yet admission refuses with
+  `RootIdentityChanged`, and version 2 defines no re-admission.
+
+## Decision
+
+### One supported format
+
+Keep writes and recovers exactly one storage format, the current format. The
+codebase never carries a second writer. Until the first release that is also the
+only format Keep reads. After it, Keep also reads released sealed segments, as
+[Future format changes](#future-format-changes) defines. The format is the
+version-2 record set and namespace without migration artifacts:
+
+- the segment, catalog, and publication-head grammars, byte-for-byte as
+  ADR-0005 and the version-1 pages define them;
+- `FORMAT`, `reader.lock`, retention records, GC records, and
+  recovery-disposition records, as the version-2 pages define them;
+- no `migration.intent`, `migration.receipt`, their `.next` stages, or
+  `FORMAT.next`.
+
+Its documentation is consolidated into one normative set of pages for the
+Keep store format.
+
+### Format identity
+
+`FORMAT` remains. Its magic, version, and format-definition digest identify
+the format contract, not the software release that wrote a store. Normal
+opening refuses every other marker, and refuses a root without a marker once
+version-1 admission is removed.
+
+Every grammar change must change the definition digest. Today the digest does
+not cover the segment, catalog, and head grammars
+([#205](https://github.com/flyingrobots/keep/issues/205)), so this is a
+requirement rather than a current property, and #205 must close before the first
+release. Before the first release, a grammar change regenerates the affected
+golden fixtures and needs no conversion. After the first release, it follows
+[Future format changes](#future-format-changes).
+
+### Direct initialization
+
+A store is created directly by an initialization protocol under exclusive
+writer authority. The protocol is a recoverable state machine:
+
+- every partial prefix, synchronization failure, interrupted cleanup, and
+  concurrent initialization attempt has exactly one result: admit, recover,
+  or refuse;
+- a nonempty directory that is not a recoverable initialization prefix is
+  refused, never adopted;
+- neither the existence of `FORMAT` nor the presence of some protocol
+  directories proves completion. The protocol names one durable commit point
+  before which the store does not admit;
+- missing retention state never means "nothing is retained" when other
+  artifacts contradict it; and
+- an initialized store with no published catalog is a defined state, not an
+  inferred one.
+
+Initialization replaces migration in the same change that deletes it, so a
+migrated store and an initialized store never coexist in the codebase and no
+discriminator between them is needed. That change removes the migration
+rows from the format definition, which changes the definition digest; the
+marker it writes carries the new digest.
+
+### Portable stores, live authority
+
+A store is not bound to the directory where it was created. A complete store
+copied while nothing was writing to it, or taken from a consistent filesystem
+snapshot, opens on any admitted filesystem after normal admission. The
+opening process acquires fresh local authority.
+
+Removed: the requirement that the live root's device and inode match
+coordinates persisted in the store. Initialization records no replacement
+binding.
+
+Retained without change:
+
+- capability-relative, no-follow filesystem access;
+- the writer lock and the reader fence, including lock-file identity;
+- in-process checks that protocol names still identify the directories
+  admitted by the same process
+  ([recovery directory binding](retention-recovery-directory-binding.md)),
+  and any comparison against an observation the same process made; and
+- all content, closure, catalog, retention, and recovery validation.
+
+This is not permission to copy a live store, to repair a store silently, or
+to admit an incomplete store. A copy that is corrupt or incomplete refuses
+exactly as the original would.
+
+Admission alone does not detect an unintended but valid store, or an older valid
+state. Detecting either requires an expectation the caller supplies and keeps
+outside the state being checked, such as an exact catalog generation and digest
+or a retention head digest. A record restored alongside everything else cannot
+show that newer history existed.
+
+Before the first release, opening a store therefore requires a typed choice:
+the caller passes the state it expects, and a mismatch refuses, or the caller
+explicitly states that it has no expectation. Neither is a default, so removing
+the binding never silently removes the question. Keep does not store the
+expectation.
+
+Keep persists no store identifier. The only one, the content-derived
+identifier in the migration records, is deleted with migration, and
+initialization records no installation identity in its place.
+
+### Writer before deletion
+
+Version 1 and migration are deleted only after the single format can do
+everything they do today. The order, tracked in #198, is:
+
+1. The #125 retained-closure gate on every route that can publish a catalog,
+   including recovery that finalizes a staged catalog. Changing the admission
+   type that recovery accepts is not sufficient.
+2. The segment and catalog writer, with segment and catalog stage recovery,
+   on version-2 stores, which until step 4 are still created by migration.
+   Publication of immutable catalogs and retention roots keeps running beside
+   readers. Only GC takes the reader fence exclusively, after writer
+   authority. This unit defines the input envelope it supports and does not
+   claim the segment rollover in [#121](https://github.com/flyingrobots/keep/issues/121).
+3. Populated test fixtures are built through that writer, so that test code is
+   not a second implementation of store construction.
+4. Direct initialization and its crash matrix replace migration, and
+   migration is deleted in the same change. Before that change merges, one
+   integrated public-API sequence passes: initialize, ingest, reopen,
+   reconstruct exact bytes, retain, publish a second catalog, interrupt
+   publication, recover, and read both retained contents. The sequence also
+   includes a candidate catalog that would lose retained content, which must
+   refuse with its evidence intact. The change also carries laws for two copies:
+   a copy torn by a concurrent writer never returns bytes other than those its
+   identities name, and an older valid snapshot refuses when the caller passes
+   newer expected state.
+5. Version-1 admission is deleted and the format pages are consolidated.
+
+Retired requirement and crash identifiers are never reused. A retirement
+ledger maps each one to its last evidence and states whether its obligation
+disappeared with migration or moved to the single format.
+
+### Future format changes
+
+After the first release, Keep reads old data and writes the current format. No
+format change requires rewriting a store's segments, except a change forced by
+a broken integrity primitive, which needs its own decision.
+
+Sealed segments are immutable, and each records its own magic and
+`format_version`. Keep therefore retains a frozen decoder for every released
+segment format and selects it per segment. Each frozen decoder keeps its golden
+fixtures and fuzz targets in every release. An unknown or unlisted version is
+still refused. New data is always written in the current format. Released
+segment formats stay readable indefinitely. A support window that retires a
+decoder would need a later decision, because it could strand a store that has
+not been rewritten.
+
+Catalog, publication-head, retention, and other mutable metadata has one
+current version. A release that changes it, or that changes the definition
+digest, ships a separately invoked metadata upgrade, which also rewrites the
+`FORMAT` marker. It holds the writer lock from before its first read until its
+completion is durable, and refuses if the lock is held, so it sees one consistent
+source and blocks writers by design. Normal opening never converts a store, and it refuses a marker
+other than the current one until that upgrade has run.
+
+Reads never upgrade. A read holds no writer authority, must behave the same on
+a full disk or a read-only mount, and must not change bytes that backups and
+synchronization observe. It would also leave unread data behind, so it could
+not retire a decoder.
+
+Rewriting old segments into the current format is optional. It is one explicit
+operation under writer authority that is resumable, can be limited by bytes or
+time, and verifies every content identity before an old segment becomes
+removable. The operator chooses when it runs, including never. Keep stores no
+per-store upgrade policy. An application may schedule the operation, for
+example as a background job, through a public interface that reports progress
+and accepts cancellation. Keep owns no scheduler or user interface.
+
+Keep reports how many segments and bytes each format holds, so an application
+can show that state to an operator. Format is physical layout, so it is not
+reported per content identity and is not a warning about content. Content in a
+frozen format returns exactly the same bytes as content in the current format.
+
+These principles bind every future upgrade:
+
+- content identity never depends on the format that stores it;
+- every crash leaves a store that admits or refuses, never one that silently
+  loses content;
+- a store can be read throughout segment rewriting; and
+- old segments are removed only through GC's exclusive reader fence.
+
+Open questions, to be answered by a minimal upgrade tool built after #198
+lands rather than specified here:
+
+- how long a metadata upgrade takes and how much space it needs for a store
+  with many files, since catalog size grows with the number of files;
+- whether a metadata upgrade writes a new store or converts in place, and what
+  crash matrix that choice requires;
+- what the operation's resume state is, and where it lives; and
+- whether operators want a stored schedule or a recorded order, such as most
+  read segments first. Any such hint must not make a read write to the store.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+- **Keep both formats and the migration.** Rejected. Every capability would be
+  built and tested twice. A version-2 store would stay unable to ingest until
+  that duplicated work landed.
+- **Delete version 1 first.** Rejected. Keep would have no durable writer and
+  no segment or catalog recovery.
+- **Define the format in GraphQL and generate codecs with Wesley.** Rejected.
+  Wesley's breaking-change check follows API rules, which call an added field
+  safe and do not report field reordering. A stored record breaks under both
+  changes, so the safety would still have to come from a Keep check.
+  `definition.tsv` already gives Keep a declarative, hashed format definition.
+  The approach would add a pre-1.0 build dependency, an IR change, and a
+  generator for no stronger guarantee.
+- **Keep the persistent root binding and add a rebind command.** Rejected. It
+  adds a durable mutation protocol while answering a narrower question than
+  the threat it is cited against. A rebind that checks internal consistency
+  cannot show that the store was intended or current.
+- **Rebind automatically on open.** Rejected. It silently rewrites the
+  evidence the check exists to enforce.
+- **Bind the store to the filesystem UUID instead of the device number.**
+  Rejected. It survives renumbering but still refuses backups and copies, and
+  it has the same limits for an intended or current store.
+- **Copy the whole store for every format change.** Rejected. Every byte is read,
+  hashed, and rewritten, the store needs space for two copies, and writers stay
+  blocked throughout. That cost grows with the store for a change that sealed
+  segments do not need.
+- **Read and write every released format.** Rejected. Every write path and crash
+  matrix would multiply per format.
+- **Upgrade on read.** Rejected. See [Future format
+  changes](#future-format-changes).
+- **A stored per-store upgrade policy.** Rejected for now. It would add states to
+  test without evidence that running an explicit operation is insufficient.
+- **Mark content stored in an older format.** Rejected. It would expose physical
+  layout as a property of content, and content can share or span segments.
+- **Self-describing records with tagged, skippable fields.** Rejected. They
+  give up fixed offsets and bounds checked before allocation, and they
+  conflict with refusing unknown and noncanonical content.
+- **Scrub the whole store on every open, because stores are portable.**
+  Rejected. Admission, verification of requested reads, and complete backup
+  verification stay distinct operations.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- The definition digest changes when initialization replaces migration and
+  the migration rows are removed. Golden fixtures are regenerated then.
+- Until the units in #198 land, main still enforces the persistent root
+  binding and still creates version-2 stores only by migration. This ADR is a
+  protocol commitment, not evidence that the change has shipped.
+- Removing the binding relaxes `RootIdentityChanged` on reopen and on fenced
+  snapshots. Live replacement checks keep their existing refusals.
+- Portability is accepted through these laws:
+  - a valid quiescent copy opens;
+  - a corrupt or incomplete copy refuses as the original would;
+  - a replaced lock or protocol directory during an operation still refuses;
+  - a copied store and its original, each written independently, diverge
+    with independent locks while unchanged content keeps its identity; and
+  - backup round trip: close, copy, make the original unavailable, reopen and
+    verify the copy, then interrupt a new write on the copy and recover it.
+
+  Independent copies are not replication and are never described as
+  coordinated.
+- Frozen segment decoders stay in the codebase permanently. This narrows the
+  owner's original one-format policy of 2026-10-26, in exchange for upgrades that
+  do not rewrite a whole store. Each released segment format is a permanent
+  commitment, so a format ships only when Keep will support it indefinitely.
+- A broken integrity primitive still forces a rewrite, because a frozen decoder
+  cannot repair it.
+- #190 still applies: segment and catalog stage recovery moves to the single
+  format rather than being deleted, and its recovery outcomes move with it.
+  The typed migration refusals in #191 are deleted with migration.
+- [#108](https://github.com/flyingrobots/keep/issues/108) (migration
+  recovery) and migration-specific requirement rows are retired through the
+  ledger, not reused.
+- Security: removing a persistent binding does not widen filesystem
+  authority. All access stays capability-relative and no-follow. The stronger
+  wrong-store and rollback claims hold only for a caller that passes expected
+  state, and every caller must choose whether to.
diff --git a/docs/adr/README.md b/docs/adr/README.md
index c504455b..ca27ab25 100644
--- a/docs/adr/README.md
+++ b/docs/adr/README.md
@@ -61,4 +61,5 @@ encryption, concurrency, or public-API surface it governs.
 - [ADR-0007: Terminal signal process-group guard](0007-terminal-signal-process-group-guard.md)
 - [ADR-0008: Deadline-bounded reader retirement](0008-deadline-bounded-reader-retirement.md)
 - [ADR-0009: Retention roots, release, and GC liveness](0009-retention-roots-release-and-gc-liveness.md)
+- [ADR-0010: One current storage format](0010-one-storage-format.md)
 - [Filesystem platform adapters](filesystem-platform-adapters.md)
diff --git a/docs/adr/retention-reader-root-identity.md b/docs/adr/retention-reader-root-identity.md
index d3512c51..a6b57df5 100644
--- a/docs/adr/retention-reader-root-identity.md
+++ b/docs/adr/retention-reader-root-identity.md
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # Retention reader root identity
 
-Status: Accepted
+Status: Accepted; the restart comparison is superseded by
+[ADR-0010](0010-one-storage-format.md), which makes complete stores portable.
+Main enforces this record until that change lands.
 
 Joint admission of `FORMAT`, `migration.intent`, and `migration.receipt` establishes that those records agree with each other. It does not establish that the directory receiving the read request is the directory the migration intent names. Reader admission must compare the opened root's physical identity before accepting the version-two read capability.
 
diff --git a/docs/formats/segment-store-v2/recovery.md b/docs/formats/segment-store-v2/recovery.md
index d339caae..ebb000a5 100644
--- a/docs/formats/segment-store-v2/recovery.md
+++ b/docs/formats/segment-store-v2/recovery.md
@@ -138,6 +138,10 @@ recovery refuses a substituted store.
 
 ### Root identity across restart
 
+[ADR-0010](../../adr/0010-one-storage-format.md) supersedes the restart
+requirement below and makes complete stores portable. Main enforces this
+section until that change lands.
+
 The three root coordinates the intent records do not have the same lifetime.
 `statx.stx_mnt_id` names a mount instance: it can change when a filesystem
 is unmounted and mounted again or after a reboot. A restart path must not