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 # Custodian Brief — hub-core
 
 **Domain:** infotech  
-**Last synced:** 2026-08-21 07:11 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-08-21 07:45 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
 ### Runtime consolidation and extension contract
-Progress: 3/6 done  |  workplan_id: `4a17907c-7382-453b-92a0-5f770ab4877f`
+Progress: 4/6 done  |  workplan_id: `4a17907c-7382-453b-92a0-5f770ab4877f`
 
 **Open tasks:**
-- · Implement core ports (minimal vertical)  `fa4db2f7`
 - · Conformance harness scaffold  `6f8fb0e8`
 - · Absorption plan with core-hub  `b35fff11`