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 # Custodian Brief — clay-borg
 
 **Domain:** consumer  
-**Last synced:** 2026-08-07 19:17 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-08-07 20:04 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
 ### Pace and ornamentation
-Progress: 1/9 done  |  workplan_id: `698651ed-cccd-46f2-84cc-07b0bdb85ad0`
+Progress: 7/9 done  |  workplan_id: `698651ed-cccd-46f2-84cc-07b0bdb85ad0`
 
 **Open tasks:**
-- · Task: decide the pace, and what it may not touch  `d1176a9e`
-- · Task: transitions, computed in Rust  `0cc5939c`
-- · Task: the movement itself  `a5645f8a`
-- · Task: the rituals  `8218d3ac`
-- · Task: the hand: dealt from the right, sortable  `e5560430`
-- · Task: evidence  `77782f18`
 - · Task: the pace parameter  `e978b93b`
-- … and 1 more open tasks
+- · Task: declarations, once there are any to make  `bf2a68b0`
 
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 ## MCP Orientation (when available)