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 # Custodian Brief — clay-borg
 
 **Domain:** consumer  
-**Last synced:** 2026-08-06 08:39 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-08-06 13:35 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)*
+### The table you sit at: the cards' own words, an overhead view, and a game you solve rather than survive
+Progress: 0/8 done  |  workplan_id: `d37c8671-54e4-447f-af64-56f482483282`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- · Task: decide what else to import, and what it costs  `17e6f38c`
+- · Task: the cards say what they do  `aa4453d2`
+- · Task: an overhead view of a real table  `2ff677ac`
+- · Task: take cards from the stack, or let the table do it  `1106c60e`
+- · Task: the meta column takes the controls and the log  `6c78e44e`
+- · Task: a game you solve  `df0a967e`
+- · Task: who did what — rankings that are not invented  `ad6e6f6f`
+- … and 1 more open tasks
 
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 ## MCP Orientation (when available)