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 # Custodian Brief — clay-borg
 
 **Domain:** consumer  
-**Last synced:** 2026-08-03 17:26 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-08-03 22:19 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
-*(none — repo may need first-session setup)*
+### Import the edition: the game plays its own data
+Progress: 0/4 done  |  workplan_id: `782b1c37-f3a7-469b-87a3-fa73ebe758d2`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- · Task: decide how the data reaches the game  `68e4fe63`
+- · Task: import it, and let the thresholds mean something  `28c3ff2c`
+- · Task: retire the rules gap that was never one  `ff3bd923`
+- · Task: evidence  `ba76138d`
+
+### The design instrument: findings about the game, with their reproductions
+Progress: 1/7 done  |  workplan_id: `fda16340-0049-4acf-884b-a5cfdbde47c0`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- · Task: adversarial review  `d2597895`
+- · Task: decide  `a2e85810`
+- · Task: specify  `60ddfeab`
+- · Task: build it, and backfill what is already known  `469413ba`
+- · Task: report to ground-game, mechanically  `c6a659bd`
+- · Task: evidence  `4fb77911`
 
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