Read REVIEW_COMMON.md (repo root) first - its contract binds this checklist. Architecture doc: README.md.

dastest ships as a prebuilt exe - the DAS_UTILS_SHIPPED_EXES entry (utils/CMakeLists.txt, repo root) records this decision; the rules for changing it live in utils/REVIEW.md.

A helper added to, renamed in, or removed from review_gate.das updates its section in README.md in the same change.