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 # Custodian Brief — test-driver
 
 **Domain:** infotech  
-**Last synced:** 2026-08-22 21:12 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-08-22 21:21 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
 ### Bootstrap State Hub integration
-Progress: 2/3 done  |  workplan_id: `a8573acc-44b5-5364-b0e3-6797c3e2e426`
-
-**Open tasks:**
-- ! Verify Local Developer Workflow  `39da4237`
+Progress: 3/3 done  |  workplan_id: `a8573acc-44b5-5364-b0e3-6797c3e2e426`
 
 ### Vertical spike: falsify the crystallization thesis
-Progress: 3/10 done  |  workplan_id: `68b252b8-03e7-55c7-8dec-ac13f6ca0aa1`
+Progress: 4/10 done  |  workplan_id: `68b252b8-03e7-55c7-8dec-ac13f6ca0aa1`
 
 **Open tasks:**
-- · Deterministic semantic kernel  `ffbcc9e8`
 - · Test-driver lab with labelled ground truth  `595a89c2`
 - · Out-of-band ground truth for self-verification  `4fb31485`
 - · Agentic realisation of one semantic action, fully instrumented  `b58cf7ce`