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 # Custodian Brief — the-custodian
 
 **Domain:** infotech  
-**Last synced:** 2026-08-28 19:45 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-09-05 20:10 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
+### Add the publication category to the Repo Classification Standard
+Progress: 0/3 done  |  workplan_id: `6d11d4fd-9882-55db-9010-b35754434b54`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- · Amend the standard and its machine-readable vocabulary  `75f56501`
+- · Teach repo-manager the new category  `6c943dec`
+- · Classify hall-of-helix  `0661c1d4`
+
 ### Ad hoc tasks 2026-08-25
 Progress: 1/1 done  |  workplan_id: `1c53d3db-6633-5e2d-987f-10706d73be9e`