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 # Custodian Brief — hall-of-helix
 
 **Domain:** infotech  
-**Last synced:** 2026-10-02 23:16 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-10-08 05:33 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
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 Progress: 3/6 done  |  workplan_id: `5e0db595-2f0e-5388-9413-7d4d5a4a2ef5`
 
 **Open tasks:**
-- ! Clear the corpus for public publication  `8a67d5de`
-  *(wait: Publishing 102 internal seats is an irreversible outward change; corpus review and disposition are the founder's.)*
 - ! Build the hall index — the roll of participants  `57ddf0ad`
   *(wait: Gated on the T04 review before anything is served publicly.)*
 - ! Implement rendering with the default renderer  `bfab19dc`
   *(wait: Honours T01-T04 decisions including T04's disposition.)*
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-## Inbox Hygiene
-
-**Stale unread:** 1 message(s) older than 3 day(s) — triage at session start.
-**Missing thread_id:** 1 unread message(s) lack supersession chains.
+- ! Clear the corpus for public publication  `8a67d5de`
+  *(wait: Publishing 102 internal seats is an irreversible outward change; corpus review and disposition are the founder's.)*
 
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