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-<!-- custodian-brief: generated by fix-consistency — do not edit manually -->
-# Custodian Brief — audit-core
-
-**Domain:** infotech  
-**Last synced:** 2026-10-10 11:23 UTC  
-**State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
-
-## Active Workstreams
-
-### Validate canonical execution-attribution receipts on ingest
-Progress: 1/2 done  |  workplan_id: `687311f9-8830-5aac-b541-0c4f0413c9e6`
-
-**Open tasks:**
-- ! Implement and test canonical receipt validation  `33efb421`
-  *(wait: NetKingdom NK-WP-0040-T02 must return the versioned receipt schema, validator and fixtures; Railiance must confirm its emitting source and wire binding.)*
-
-### Complete flex-auth and Qonto sender admission
-Progress: 3/5 done  |  workplan_id: `9e400de2-6ba1-520e-9b25-94aa2470e528`
-
-**Open tasks:**
-- ! Admit six flex-auth pin identities and verify custody  `fff70081`
-  *(wait: flex-auth must return final per-pin cadence/scope/selector payloads; ops-warden routing catalog and railiance-platform attended seed/delivery are not supplied.)*
-- ! Admit the Qonto collector and verify accepted-class mapping  `76b59808`
-  *(wait: rapp-qonto must supply the actual collector binding, scope/selectors, mapping/lag rules and receiver receipts; qonto-assistant must approve classification and per-class cadence.)*
-
-### Obtain independent chain-head and refreshed tenancy evidence
-Progress: 0/2 done  |  workplan_id: `ad0685fd-77cc-5415-afae-87ea7226b195`
-
-**Open tasks:**
-- ! Obtain independent offsite chain-head readback  `5fa2bfe4`
-  *(wait: resource-control and rapp-postgres must name a current chain-head custody owner/task and return offsite upload/readback receipts with cadence and failure handling.)*
-- ! Record refreshed E2 and asm-t08 owner prerequisites  `e8a9cd4f`
-  *(wait: access-engine must confirm a tenant-A flex-auth identity without tenant-B authority, or Whitehat must supply a separately approved future engagement; asm-t08 surface owner inputs remain missing.)*
-
-## Inbox Hygiene
-
-**Stale unread:** 2 message(s) older than 3 day(s) — triage at session start.
-**Missing thread_id:** 2 unread message(s) lack supersession chains.
-
----
-## MCP Orientation (when available)
-
-If the state-hub MCP server is reachable, call:
-`get_domain_summary("infotech")`
-This provides richer cross-domain context.
-If the MCP call fails, use this file as your orientation source.
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 # Failure-matrix run artifacts; regenerate with `make failure-matrix`.
 evidence/*.json
+
+# Local State Hub orientation snapshot; authored work records remain tracked.
+/.custodian-brief.md
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@@ -125,3 +125,9 @@ effect of its own.
 - Bound on what may be claimed: `docs/integrity.md`
 - Agent instructions: `AGENTS.md`
 - Workplans: `workplans/`
+
+## Local orientation brief policy — 2026-10-21
+
+`.custodian-brief.md` is a local, ignored State Hub orientation snapshot. Refreshing
+it does not require a Git commit. Authored workplans and the generated
+WORK-RECORDS index keep their existing source and staged-generation contracts.