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 # Custodian Brief — reef-railiance
 
 **Domain:** financials  
-**Last synced:** 2026-07-26 06:50 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-07-26 08:38 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
-### Bootstrap reef-railiance and import the wave-1 grouped substrate surface
-Progress: 3/4 done  |  workplan_id: `da64c718-68bf-4719-aa42-fcf26687ab23`
-
-**Open tasks:**
-- ! T03 - Prepare the retained S1 handoff from `railiance-infra`  `c6365200`
+*(none — repo may need first-session setup)*
 
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