diff --git a/docs/architecture/ARCHITECTURE.md b/docs/architecture/ARCHITECTURE.md
index 864ca38c..f5bd909d 100644
--- a/docs/architecture/ARCHITECTURE.md
+++ b/docs/architecture/ARCHITECTURE.md
@@ -144,6 +144,31 @@ flags, and raw configuration never enter the runtime edge, finding, or browser
 response. Missing, stale, duplicate, malformed, or collided facts produce no
 finding.
 
+`docker.compose_declared_target_not_active` emits an advisory only when one
+fresh, uniquely identified `depends_on` relationship is a Docker-recorded
+Compose declaration from a running Docker container to a uniquely identified
+Docker container whose normalized state is stopped or failed. Its one canonical
+evidence reference is version 1 Docker `docker_compose_depends_on`, with an
+`observed` assertion, the source container as subject, `fresh` freshness, and
+no provider slot. The Docker observation attests the declared Compose edge; it
+does not turn that declaration into a runtime dependency guarantee.
+
+The rule is advisory, rather than a warning or error, because it is a bounded
+configuration state worth an operator review, not evidence of an outage or
+security incident. Its static action is only to review the declared dependency
+and the target container state. The derivation is deterministic (findings are
+ordered by their stable opaque identifiers) and fails closed: stale or timed-out
+evidence, malformed or extra edge metadata, non-Docker entities, non-running
+sources, target states other than stopped/failed, duplicate relationship facts,
+or identity collisions suppress it. It does not claim that the dependency is
+required, that either service is ready or healthy, that traffic flows, that
+Compose start order was applied, that one container caused the other's state,
+or that configuration drift exists.
+
+This rule reads no new host state and makes no new collection call. It is a
+cached, read-only projection of the already-published runtime map; mock mode
+has no runtime evidence and therefore cannot produce it.
+
 Each rule carries only its exact triggering evidence references. The API
 validates the fixed vocabulary, static display text, and rule-specific evidence
 shape before publication, and the browser displays findings only when their
diff --git a/docs/security/THREAT_MODEL.md b/docs/security/THREAT_MODEL.md
index f3c9cb44..c84b5fbc 100644
--- a/docs/security/THREAT_MODEL.md
+++ b/docs/security/THREAT_MODEL.md
@@ -56,6 +56,13 @@ changes them:
 - Docker daemon-state bind-mount evidence is a single closed, path-free fact. It never exposes
   a mount path, mount ID, mount options, or raw Docker configuration. npm dependency evidence
   is likewise a bounded declaration with a curated summary, never raw `package.json` content.
+- The Compose target-state advisory is a cached read-only derivation, not a collector. It accepts
+  only one fresh version-1 Docker `docker_compose_depends_on` observed-declaration reference for
+  a unique running Docker-container source and unique stopped/failed Docker-container target.
+  Its static recommendation is to review that declaration and target state. Stale, malformed,
+  duplicate, collided, or non-Docker inputs are suppressed. It exposes no raw Compose content or
+  identifiers beyond the existing opaque runtime references, and it does not claim dependency
+  requiredness, readiness, health, traffic, start-order execution, root cause, or drift.
 
 ## Main Risks And Protections
 
diff --git a/docs/testing/TESTING_PLAN.md b/docs/testing/TESTING_PLAN.md
index c481565d..8e6b268a 100644
--- a/docs/testing/TESTING_PLAN.md
+++ b/docs/testing/TESTING_PLAN.md
@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ containers, or services.
   requires a bounded nonzero host binding rather than a container-only listener; Docker
   daemon-state evidence is path-free; and Systemd/npm declaration evidence is checked against
   its dedicated scheduler-slot revision and `fresh`/`stale`/`timed_out` lifecycle.
+- Bounded-finding tests: the Compose advisory accepts only a fresh, uniquely resolved Docker
+  Compose declaration from a running container to a stopped/failed container, keeps the single
+  canonical `docker_compose_depends_on` evidence reference, assigns advisory severity and static
+  review wording, and deterministically suppresses stale/timed-out, malformed, duplicate,
+  collided, ambiguous, non-Docker, and non-matching-status inputs. These are projection tests:
+  they add no collection and never assert requiredness, readiness, health, traffic, start-order,
+  root-cause, or drift conclusions.
 - Rust-owned JSON Schema and generated TypeScript declarations, Node-owned
   envelope/request/SSE schemas, and readable contract fixtures. The contract
   check fails on stale generated output, invalid fixtures, incomplete