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 # Custodian Brief — clay-borg
 
 **Domain:** consumer  
-**Last synced:** 2026-07-30 22:48 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-07-31 01:11 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
-### Establish the assimilate-and-surpass inner loop via the GROUND game kernel
-Progress: 2/9 done  |  workplan_id: `a1b434dc-b1c6-46b5-bbd9-80a4e6b7620f`
-
-**Open tasks:**
-- · Task: SOTA research — game-state kernel survey  `8dec6577`
-- · Task: Approval and implementation decision (ADR)  `2024c17d`
-- · Task: Write the GROUND rules specification  `2b35574b`
-- · Task: Write the kernel specification with acceptance metrics  `fc3fa174`
-- · Task: Scaffold the workspace and metrics harness  `9988219a`
-- · Task: Implement the kernel against scenarios and metrics  `3a42ff70`
-- · Task: Retrospective — harden the loop from what the example taught  `e99b107e`
+*(none — repo may need first-session setup)*
 
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