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-<!-- custodian-brief: generated by fix-consistency — do not edit manually -->
-# Custodian Brief — rail-knative
-
-**Domain:** financials  
-**Last synced:** 2026-10-21 07:09 UTC  
-**State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
-
-## Active Workstreams
-
-### Cap Knative HPA ceilings for one node and trim substrate CPU requests to 60m
-Progress: 1/2 done  |  workplan_id: `4bf822ea-55a3-5990-9967-6684cdc74fa2`
-
-**Open tasks:**
-- ! T02 - Owner handoff, apply and verify on railiance01  `1e205e27`
-  *(wait: Coordinator applies wave-1 changes one owner at a time after review; railiance-cluster overlays must follow this declaration)*
-
-## Inbox Hygiene
-
-**Stale unread:** 3 message(s) older than 3 day(s) — triage at session start.
-**Missing thread_id:** 3 unread message(s) lack supersession chains.
-
----
-## MCP Orientation (when available)
-
-If the state-hub MCP server is reachable, call:
-`get_domain_summary("financials")`
-This provides richer cross-domain context.
-If the MCP call fails, use this file as your orientation source.
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+# Local generated orientation; refreshed by State Hub.
+/.custodian-brief.md