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 # Custodian Brief — the-custodian
 
 **Domain:** infotech  
-**Last synced:** 2026-08-28 18:50 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-08-28 19:08 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
-### Recover or disposition the cache-only work records so the retired hub can be discarded
-Progress: 2/9 done  |  workplan_id: `c930b3ec-68b5-596e-ae72-d4ecaf7380e7`
-
-**Open tasks:**
-- · Unblock the bootstrap-eligible repositories  `a3564d51`
-- · Rule the six non-conforming record identifiers  `e1eb31d5`
-- · Bring clay-borg's workplans onto the convention  `554bf550`
-- · Recover the 176 with a non-empty projection  `0947f7fe`
-- · Rule the identifier question for the remainder  `fd1bf8e8`
-- · Converge and retire the cache database  `cbb8bf98`
-- · Clear the stale hub rows that no longer derive from any file  `4c08f657`
-
 ### Ad hoc tasks 2026-08-25
 Progress: 1/1 done  |  workplan_id: `1c53d3db-6633-5e2d-987f-10706d73be9e`
 
+## SCOPE Freshness
+
+- SCOPE.md says active but no open workplans remain — refresh Current State.
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 ## MCP Orientation (when available)