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 # Custodian Brief — fluid-telegram
 
 **Domain:** infotech  
-**Last synced:** 2026-10-05 00:52 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-10-05 22:40 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
@@ -12,14 +12,19 @@ Progress: 3/13 done  |  workplan_id: `a660ed65-700e-5b54-8d91-a556b73518f0`
 
 **Open tasks:**
 - ! T02 — Create the channels  `597ab1b7`
-  *(wait: Human step: operator creates the private test and public channels.)*
-- ! T01 — Register the bot  `a5449e86`
-  *(wait: Human step: operator registers the HelixForge bot via BotFather.)*
-- ! T07 — Record the consent basis for hall participants  `6a91ea08`
+  *(wait: Founder accepted review-94a73510. The attended private-then-public channel creation has not been performed.)*
 - ! T10 — Open the public channel and start publishing  `b469b9b8`
-- ! T04 — Record the intent and publish R-1  `13a92a96`
+  *(wait: No public post goes out about anyone's work without the recorded consent basis.)*
+- ! T01 — Register the bot  `a5449e86`
+  *(wait: Founder accepted review-51834acb. The attended BotFather registration and OpenBao store have not been performed.)*
+- ! T07 — Record the consent basis for hall participants  `6a91ea08`
+  *(wait: Public posts need a recorded consent basis. Absence of objection is not consent, and the adapter refuses a post that lacks one.)*
 - ! T03 — Generate and store the redaction salt  `bbe5da73`
+  *(wait: The salt generator in FT-WP-0002-T05 is done. The live empty-path apply still waits on the operator session bootstrap in FT-WP-0002-T01.)*
 - ! T08 — Publish one post to the private channel  `5e5cd89a`
+  *(wait: The first private-channel post needs the consent basis and the operator session that creates the bot and channel.)*
+- ! T04 — Record the intent and publish R-1  `13a92a96`
+  *(wait: Founder accepted review-774bf3ce, authorizing a durable key outside git. The key has not been created and R-1 is not published.)*
 - … and 3 more open tasks
 
 ### Provision the Telegram presence from a declared specification
@@ -27,7 +32,7 @@ Progress: 7/8 done  |  workplan_id: `f2373858-c932-5a4d-81b6-db9a3595135a`
 
 **Open tasks:**
 - ! T01 — Write the seeding runbook and bootstrap the session  `039e5358`
-  *(wait: An operator registers a dedicated account, obtains api_id/api_hash and runs the guided session bootstrap; never an agent.)*
+  *(wait: Founder accepted review-0030fd73. The dedicated account session has not been bootstrapped; an agent does not run it.)*
 
 ## Inbox Hygiene