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 # Custodian Brief — fluid-core
 
 **Domain:** infotech  
-**Last synced:** 2026-10-05 22:41 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-10-07 23:11 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
 ### Handover: HelixForge Telegram identity and hall-of-helix channel
-Progress: 6/9 done  |  workplan_id: `291005a5-d474-5c94-8abd-819f682dde9f`
+Progress: 7/9 done  |  workplan_id: `291005a5-d474-5c94-8abd-819f682dde9f`
 
 **Open tasks:**
-- ! T02 - Bot identity — BLOCKED ON A PERSON  `9896fee4`
-  *(wait: Founder accepted review-51834acb. The attended BotFather registration and OpenBao store have not been performed.)*
 - ! T08 - Live experiment and audit — BLOCKED ON T02, T03 AND SUBSCRIBERS  `befd476e`
   *(wait: Needs the bot (T02), the channels (T03) and real subscribers.)*
 - ! T03 - Channels — BLOCKED ON A PERSON  `bb02bf5b`
-  *(wait: Founder accepted review-94a73510. The attended private-then-public channel creation has not been performed.)*
+  *(wait: Private test channel 4427430639 exists. The public channel stays held until a checked rendering exists.)*
 
 ### Establish the pr- campaign repository pattern and reduce hall-of-helix to an example
 Progress: 2/5 done  |  workplan_id: `b6459dd0-fc4f-54a4-a2e9-d7b83cff6c6e`
@@ -30,7 +28,7 @@ Progress: 2/5 done  |  workplan_id: `b6459dd0-fc4f-54a4-a2e9-d7b83cff6c6e`
 
 ## Inbox Hygiene
 
-**Stale unread:** 3 message(s) older than 3 day(s) — triage at session start.
+**Stale unread:** 4 message(s) older than 3 day(s) — triage at session start.
 **Missing thread_id:** 4 unread message(s) lack supersession chains.
 - ! the-custodian: FLUID-WP-0008 and FLUID-WP-0009 are blocked with no wait task  `341e7b03`