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+# Custodian Brief — target-revenue
+
+**Domain:** infotech  
+**Last synced:** 2026-07-28 16:22 UTC  
+**State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
+
+## Active Workstreams
+
+### Trust Service implementation bootstrap
+Progress: 0/6 done  |  workplan_id: `2b31c2c6-7c68-4c66-ae26-5f25e91a9af0`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- · Record stack and storage ADR  `bdaa3e6a`
+- · Implement Phase Manifest validation and Phase Registry  `92568684`
+- · Implement the Target Ledger as an append-only, hash-chained store  `df4133ee`
+- · Implement the Extension Registry and conformance validator  `8454269e`
+- · Implement Conversion detection and Attestation publication  `e60c8ccf`
+- · Stand up conformance test suite and a worked end-to-end example  `90711ebf`
+
+### TargetRevenueSourceLicense prior-art and adjacent-concept research
+Progress: 0/6 done  |  workplan_id: `6f91cef8-c75c-4955-aaba-0b240390fbe9`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- · Survey delayed-open-source and source-available license models  `d2953e5a`
+- · Survey OSI Open Source Definition and Fair Source boundary framing  `3f6166cd`
+- · Survey patent-grant and Future License precedent (MIT vs Apache-2.0)  `0df9125d`
+- · Survey contributor-rights instruments for dual-future licensing  `25fbf15c`
+- · Survey jurisdiction-specific standard-terms constraints  `1fe4b444`
+- · Synthesize findings into an initial TRSL draft skeleton  `9e29b76f`
+
+---
+## MCP Orientation (when available)
+
+If the state-hub MCP server is reachable, call:
+`get_domain_summary("infotech")`
+This provides richer cross-domain context.
+If the MCP call fails, use this file as your orientation source.