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 # Custodian Brief — frontend-patterns
 
 **Domain:** infotech  
-**Last synced:** 2026-09-24 13:23 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-09-28 20:43 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
-### Validate the seed frontend pattern language
-Progress: 1/3 done  |  workplan_id: `3350b7f2-375a-54e8-8f7c-3bf7c7c3af71`
+### Make ongoing language learning observable
+Progress: 2/3 done  |  workplan_id: `528d24c1-c2c4-5914-a065-992b0dd877c8`
 
 **Open tasks:**
-- ► Establish traceable source evidence  `0eb32b3e`
-- · Validate a connected seed corpus  `54940b04`
+- ! Measure the first comparable prospective cycles  `2c5c4bae`
+
+### Close the ecosystem reuse and improvement loop
+Progress: 0/3 done  |  workplan_id: `9f719719-ed4e-5c57-a62f-855fe1876e17`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- ! Run bounded improvements and monthly review autonomously  `f823587c`
+- ! Publish and connect the reusable reference  `453fc06b`
+- ! Capture evidence of use and outcomes  `49be8a8e`
+
+### Challenge the language across architectural schools
+Progress: 2/4 done  |  workplan_id: `13c123f1-a470-560e-ab8e-b270c387930a`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- ! Compare the six research streams  `f7a7eea5`
+- ! Complete contrasting architecture walkthroughs  `05de53b6`
+
+### Evaluate retrieval and real repository applicability
+Progress: 0/3 done  |  workplan_id: `831bbc30-30c0-5df3-a315-5355cd3b8ee5`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- ! Evaluate held-out retrieval cases  `4bdd4c53`
+- ! Validate metadata and export the graph  `4fec98f6`
+- ! Test against real repository revisions  `ab66848b`
+
+### Validate the seed frontend pattern language
+Progress: 2/3 done  |  workplan_id: `3350b7f2-375a-54e8-8f7c-3bf7c7c3af71`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- ! Validate a connected seed corpus  `54940b04`
 
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