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 # Custodian Brief — frontend-patterns
 
 **Domain:** infotech  
-**Last synced:** 2026-10-04 01:02 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-10-04 07:01 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
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 **Open tasks:**
 - ! Measure the first comparable prospective cycles  `2c5c4bae`
-  *(wait: Registers a bounded cycle before FEP-WP-0003-T01's next investigation.)*
+  *(wait: Needs useful comparable prospective evidence and an explicit protocol/returns review from WP-0003 or consumer-led WP-0008; largest declared group has two cycles, one with unknown effort.)*
 
 ### Close the ecosystem reuse and improvement loop
 Progress: 0/3 done  |  workplan_id: `9f719719-ed4e-5c57-a62f-855fe1876e17`