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 # Custodian Brief — the-custodian
 
 **Domain:** infotech  
-**Last synced:** 2026-10-11 18:55 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-10-11 19:10 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
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 **Open tasks:**
 - ! Encode the standing change rule as a policy-nexus guardrail  `5dd52156`
+  *(wait: policy-nexus owns guardrail publication; handoff written as PNEX-WP-0006.)*
 - ! Attended window #1  `e3da807f`
-- · Schedule the flow report and decision sync  `1be0569c`
-- · Stop agent-authored index and sync commits  `8a3dc219`
+  *(wait: Founder runs docs/attended-window/2026-10-11-checklist.md (about 2 h).)*
+- ► Schedule the flow report and decision sync  `1be0569c`
+- ► Stop agent-authored index and sync commits  `8a3dc219`
 - · Re-engage the coding agent with the renewed goal  `91ec924c`
 
 ### Separate agent credentials and establish supervised privileged execution