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 # Custodian Brief — railiance-platform
 
 **Domain:** financials  
-**Last synced:** 2026-10-03 22:27 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-10-03 23:10 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
@@ -12,26 +12,11 @@ Progress: 1/4 done  |  workplan_id: `0c7e3b0c-1c36-568c-af51-b06f912a0f1d`
 
 **Open tasks:**
 - ! Obtain exact founder value-custody choice  `99b73b3f`
+  *(wait: Founder must explicitly choose batched attended custody, response-wrapped issuer delivery, or scoped MFA silent writer, and approve its exact boundary. Generic D3 resolution without this disposition is insufficient.)*
 - ! Bind a real dated window and owner receipt manifests  `1ae5a6b8`
+  *(wait: Custodian must return the reviewed cadence/window date and current owner task scope before a real metadata manifest is assembled; exact founder execution authorization remains separate.)*
 - · Accept platform seam for catalog lane scaffold proposal  `6475d924`
 
-### Onboard rapp-policy-nexus to the ArgoCD production lane
-Progress: 2/5 done  |  workplan_id: `ec41a4bd-df18-5b07-9b63-ccb80d9f001c`
-
-**Open tasks:**
-- ! Prepare the Application and the dry-run evidence  `2afb1aac`
-  *(wait: Draft the Application only after the tenant decision in T02.)*
-- ! Adopt policy-nexus (live, founder go-ahead)  `8638fa73`
-  *(wait: Founder go-ahead: the merge is a live production change (CONSTRUCT @ railiance-platform, activation=APPROVED); also needs the root automation restored in RPF-WP-0044-T07.)*
-- · Agree where policy-nexus's manifests live  `49143c5e`
-
-### Close Forgejo primary backup coverage on Scaleway
-Progress: 3/4 done  |  workplan_id: `7beec1a7-aa82-5a36-9a66-6b60008a2455`
-
-**Open tasks:**
-- ! Establish primary full-archive delivery and application recovery  `a4807df0`
-  *(wait: Operator chooses the independent archive prefix and confirms retention/caller contract and bounded worker credential delivery before the primary archive retrieval.)*
-
 ### Coordinate audit-core temporary custody and recovery exercises
 Progress: 2/4 done  |  workplan_id: `f4640325-e89c-591d-b58e-ec6b087900ac`
 
@@ -41,6 +26,13 @@ Progress: 2/4 done  |  workplan_id: `f4640325-e89c-591d-b58e-ec6b087900ac`
 - ! T03 — Define the coordinated railiance01 reboot exercise  `ba729d18`
   *(wait: Single-node outage exercise needs operator access and a declared restart order coordinated with railiance-infra, railiance-cluster, audit-core and the OpenBao package owner.)*
 
+### Close Forgejo primary backup coverage on Scaleway
+Progress: 3/4 done  |  workplan_id: `7beec1a7-aa82-5a36-9a66-6b60008a2455`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- ! Establish primary full-archive delivery and application recovery  `a4807df0`
+  *(wait: Operator chooses the independent archive prefix and confirms retention/caller contract and bounded worker credential delivery before the primary archive retrieval.)*
+
 ### ArgoCD phase B: adopt the four existing Applications on railiance01
 Progress: 2/8 done  |  workplan_id: `98140775-3b9a-5cf9-9af6-722502d487dc`
 
@@ -58,6 +50,16 @@ Progress: 2/8 done  |  workplan_id: `98140775-3b9a-5cf9-9af6-722502d487dc`
 - ! Plan phase C: retire coulombcore's ArgoCD  `55d1382f`
   *(wait: Planning only; needs an operator read-only check of coulombcore's ArgoCD, outside agent session scope.)*
 
+### Onboard rapp-policy-nexus to the ArgoCD production lane
+Progress: 2/5 done  |  workplan_id: `ec41a4bd-df18-5b07-9b63-ccb80d9f001c`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- ! Prepare the Application and the dry-run evidence  `2afb1aac`
+  *(wait: Draft the Application only after the tenant decision in T02.)*
+- ! Adopt policy-nexus (live, founder go-ahead)  `8638fa73`
+  *(wait: Founder go-ahead: the merge is a live production change (CONSTRUCT @ railiance-platform, activation=APPROVED); also needs the root automation restored in RPF-WP-0044-T07.)*
+- · Agree where policy-nexus's manifests live  `49143c5e`
+
 ### Close S3 service assurance and ownership gaps
 Progress: 4/7 done  |  workplan_id: `ca639c3d-3a87-5fa4-ad13-6f2e014b0c84`
 
@@ -127,7 +129,7 @@ Progress: 2/3 done  |  workplan_id: `6f8a6cbc-c076-5f0a-ade2-281a7ec71360`
 ## Inbox Hygiene
 
 **Stale unread:** 2 message(s) older than 3 day(s) — triage at session start.
-**Missing thread_id:** 2 unread message(s) lack supersession chains.
+**Missing thread_id:** 3 unread message(s) lack supersession chains.
 
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 ## MCP Orientation (when available)