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 # Custodian Brief — the-custodian
 
 **Domain:** infotech  
-**Last synced:** 2026-09-28 18:25 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-09-28 18:52 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
+### Qualify task wait states: external commitment versus human gate
+Progress: 0/6 done  |  workplan_id: `a442e062-9c91-5ac6-8f1d-35f2117b7069`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- ! Backfill the open wait tasks  `03a9c033`
+- · Write the standard and update the convention  `82e9522b`
+- · Hand off enforcement and indexing to state-hub  `e5a05f83`
+- · Hand off the ontology addendum to coordination-engine  `87711ade`
+- · Hand off the view to railiance-fabric  `aaf60a09`
+- · Correct the mis-blocked workplans  `8c51fc11`
+
 ### Separate agent credentials and establish supervised privileged execution
 Progress: 2/5 done  |  workplan_id: `a98a9f34-83b4-5c8c-8107-e05f7806d50d`