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 # Custodian Brief — frontend-patterns
 
 **Domain:** infotech  
-**Last synced:** 2026-09-30 10:51 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-10-03 23:05 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: 2/3 done  |  workplan_id: `3350b7f2-375a-54e8-8f7c-3bf7c7c3af71`
+### Obtain independent validation for the M1 seed gate
+Progress: 0/3 done  |  workplan_id: `78374f2e-006f-5faf-9053-786d54a4488a`
 
 **Open tasks:**
-- · Validate a connected seed corpus  `54940b04`
+- ! Independent human review of language pilot 01  `c7e0d957`
+  *(wait: Needs an independent human reviewer to rate the masked pilot-01 answers; no model may supply or infer these scores.)*
+- ! Re-assess the M1 gate  `121de012`
+  *(wait: M1 re-review needs independent human ratings and the fresh replication.)*
+- · Fresh-scenario replication with atomic criteria  `8e0ac763`
 
 ### Make ongoing language learning observable
 Progress: 2/3 done  |  workplan_id: `528d24c1-c2c4-5914-a065-992b0dd877c8`
@@ -20,6 +24,26 @@ Progress: 2/3 done  |  workplan_id: `528d24c1-c2c4-5914-a065-992b0dd877c8`
 - ! Measure the first comparable prospective cycles  `2c5c4bae`
   *(wait: Registers a bounded cycle before FEP-WP-0003-T01's next investigation.)*
 
+### 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`
+  *(wait: After M2 (FEP-WP-0004-T01).)*
+- ! Validate metadata and export the graph  `4fec98f6`
+  *(wait: After schema and seed examples pass M1 (FEP-WP-0009-T03).)*
+- ! Test against real repository revisions  `ab66848b`
+  *(wait: After the held-out retrieval evaluation (FEP-WP-0004-T02).)*
+
+### 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`
+  *(wait: Full comparison waits on the M1 evidence gate (FEP-WP-0009-T03, residual of FEP-WP-0002); only the bounded exploratory slice was permitted before it.)*
+- ! Complete contrasting architecture walkthroughs  `05de53b6`
+  *(wait: After the M1 re-review (FEP-WP-0009-T03).)*
+
 ### Close the ecosystem reuse and improvement loop
 Progress: 0/3 done  |  workplan_id: `9f719719-ed4e-5c57-a62f-855fe1876e17`
 
@@ -31,29 +55,10 @@ Progress: 0/3 done  |  workplan_id: `9f719719-ed4e-5c57-a62f-855fe1876e17`
 - ! Capture evidence of use and outcomes  `49be8a8e`
   *(wait: Receipt contract follows the published capability entry (T01).)*
 
-### 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`
-  *(wait: Full comparison waits on FEP-WP-0002's M1 evidence gate (T03 wait); only the bounded exploratory slice was permitted before it.)*
-- ! Complete contrasting architecture walkthroughs  `05de53b6`
-  *(wait: After the M1 review (FEP-WP-0002-T03).)*
-
-### 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`
-  *(wait: After M2 (FEP-WP-0004-T01).)*
-- ! Validate metadata and export the graph  `4fec98f6`
-  *(wait: After schema and seed examples pass M1 (FEP-WP-0002-T03).)*
-- ! Test against real repository revisions  `ab66848b`
-  *(wait: After the held-out retrieval evaluation (FEP-WP-0004-T02).)*
-
 ## Inbox Hygiene
 
-**Missing thread_id:** 2 unread message(s) lack supersession chains.
+**Stale unread:** 1 message(s) older than 3 day(s) — triage at session start.
+**Missing thread_id:** 1 unread message(s) lack supersession chains.
 
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 ## MCP Orientation (when available)