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 # Custodian Brief — railiance-master
 
 **Domain:** financials  
-**Last synced:** 2026-08-03 22:35 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-08-11 18:40 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
-*(none — repo may need first-session setup)*
+### Rapp Declaration Schema and Family Declaration Validator
+Progress: 1/9 done  |  workplan_id: `37667c23-1fa9-430e-8d80-d67d98f90e38`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- ! T09 - Release the schema to downstream repos  `b8dc2452`
+- · T02 - Author schemas/rapp.schema.json  `87ae4551`
+- · T03 - Define the composition block and its cardinality rules  `8b130ff8`
+- · T04 - Schematize rail.yaml and reef.yaml, and derive bound_rapps  `50ffbff9`
+- · T05 - Build the family declaration validator  `0a212d33`
+- · T06 - Add the deployable coverage check  `519c2838`
+- · T07 - Update the bootstrap contract to point at the schemas  `aa71bc2f`
+- … and 1 more open tasks
 
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 ## MCP Orientation (when available)