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 # Custodian Brief — railiance-infra
 
 **Domain:** financials  
-**Last synced:** 2026-09-29 19:39 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-10-03 01:33 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
+### Close the encrypted S1 backup and recovery loop
+Progress: 4/6 done  |  workplan_id: `5ea28f8f-376c-5230-8bb7-ca871c1a75f4`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- ! T05 — Integrate the governed write-only off-host lane  `783dff8b`
+  *(wait: Offsite upload goes through railiance-platform's railiance-backup-offsite-lane (CCR-2026-0004); credentials must be provisioned there.)*
+- ! T06 — Perform an attended isolated restore drill  `2ae6feab`
+  *(wait: Restore drill needs a fresh off-host artifact from T05.)*
+
 ### Declare and verify the Railiance host UTC baseline
 Progress: 0/4 done  |  workplan_id: `788a005b-f6d4-5db9-8866-21251951fa0b`
 
@@ -20,15 +29,6 @@ Progress: 0/4 done  |  workplan_id: `788a005b-f6d4-5db9-8866-21251951fa0b`
 - ! Apply the reviewed source and return steady-state handoff  `9adae3a6`
   *(wait: Depends on T03 and reviewed live-host authorization.)*
 
-### Close the encrypted S1 backup and recovery loop
-Progress: 4/6 done  |  workplan_id: `5ea28f8f-376c-5230-8bb7-ca871c1a75f4`
-
-**Open tasks:**
-- ! T05 — Integrate the governed write-only off-host lane  `783dff8b`
-  *(wait: Offsite upload goes through railiance-platform's railiance-backup-offsite-lane (CCR-2026-0004); credentials must be provisioned there.)*
-- ! T06 — Perform an attended isolated restore drill  `2ae6feab`
-  *(wait: Restore drill needs a fresh off-host artifact from T05.)*
-
 ### Make the S1 declaration reproducible and the handoff verifiably green
 Progress: 6/8 done  |  workplan_id: `5738f113-1c4e-5d27-95b2-b6655e0b7279`
 
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Progress: 6/8 done  |  workplan_id: `5738f113-1c4e-5d27-95b2-b6655e0b7279`
 
 ## 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.
 
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