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 # Custodian Brief — user-engine
 
 **Domain:** communication  
-**Last synced:** 2026-09-28 16:19 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-09-28 18:20 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
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 Progress: 1/3 done  |  workplan_id: `54d99faf-4c53-5927-a82c-feca41de2cf3`
 
 **Open tasks:**
-- · Root entitlement and mapping disposition  `23a5c211`
-- · Authenticated workload transport and private acceptance  `c5d67725`
+- ! Root entitlement and mapping disposition  `23a5c211`
+- ! Authenticated workload transport and private acceptance  `c5d67725`
 
 ### Follow the flex-auth to access-engine repository rename (FLEX-WP-0020 handoff)
 Progress: 1/2 done  |  workplan_id: `0b948be1-ad75-5548-b4eb-aabc8e3ae6cc`