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 # Custodian Brief — frontend-patterns
 
 **Domain:** infotech  
-**Last synced:** 2026-09-24 05:58 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-09-24 13:23 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: 0/3 done  |  workplan_id: `3350b7f2-375a-54e8-8f7c-3bf7c7c3af71`
+Progress: 1/3 done  |  workplan_id: `3350b7f2-375a-54e8-8f7c-3bf7c7c3af71`
 
 **Open tasks:**
-- · Reconcile the metadata contract  `e59295dd`
-- · Establish traceable source evidence  `0eb32b3e`
+- ► Establish traceable source evidence  `0eb32b3e`
 - · Validate a connected seed corpus  `54940b04`
 
-## Inbox Hygiene
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-**Missing thread_id:** 1 unread message(s) lack supersession chains.
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 ## MCP Orientation (when available)