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UsdSkel at OpenUSD v26.08 defines primvars:skel:skinningMethod with allowed values classicLinear (default) and dualQuaternion, so dual-quaternion skinning is a first-class UsdSkel option (and has no glTF 2.0 equivalent, see CA-B047).","status":"active","body":{"text":"UsdSkel at OpenUSD v26.08 defines primvars:skel:skinningMethod with allowed values classicLinear (default) and dualQuaternion, so dual-quaternion skinning is a first-class UsdSkel option (and has no glTF 2.0 equivalent, see CA-B047).\n\nCurator correction 2026-10-23 (discovery audit record C3-B684-01; sources re-fetched 2026-10-23, excerpts re-located by curator GET): Problem. Candidate M1-01 (and the version remark in M1-03) calls v26.08 the current OpenUSD release and says v26.11.0 is only a tag. Nature of correction: (e) changed since. Conditions. Check dated 2026-10-23. Method. The GitHub latest-release endpoint now returns Version 26.11.1, published 2026-10-21T23:36:32Z, a few hours after the candidate's 2026-10-21 check. UsdSkel schema.usda, schemas.dox and bestPractices.dox fetched at tag v26.11.1 are byte-identical to the v26.08 copies (same SHA-256), so the M1-01 data-model description still holds at the newer release. Failure modes. Guidance that says 'current release is v26.08' or that Adobe's plugin README range 23.08-25.11 plus CI 2511/2603 lacks 'the current releases v26.05 and v26.08' is now missing v26.11.x as well. Limitations. Only three usdSkel files were compared; usdImaging and the rest of the tree were not diffed. Version and date. Fetched 2026-10-23.\n\nCurator qualifications: Scope, Skeleton/SkelAnimation structure, binding rules, influence storage, geomBindTransform, blend-shape in-betweens, portability guidance and v25.11/v26.11 diffs (F0-F4, F6-F10) not reinspected. 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