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 # Custodian Brief — user-engine
 
-**Domain:** netkingdom  
-**Last synced:** 2026-05-22 19:43 UTC  
+**Domain:** communication  
+**Last synced:** 2026-07-27 19:55 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
-*(none — repo may need first-session setup)*
+### Production self-service and user administration portal
+Progress: 0/8 done  |  workplan_id: `35b9c315-e721-4e0b-9710-bad04f8d2519`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- ! T02 - Implement a production HTTP API  `fdb0c322`
+- ! T03 - Implement self-service login and registration UX  `45ed1485`
+- ! T04 - Implement tenant-admin and platform-admin UX  `16555b68`
+- ! T05 - Add production persistence and operability  `65ff5c96`
+- ! T06 - Security, accessibility, and workflow conformance  `39dc383c`
+- ! T07 - Binky production acceptance  `b8d1c048`
+- ! T08 - Closure and next-stage handoff  `ecbdeef3`
+- … and 1 more open tasks
+
+## Inbox Hygiene
+
+**Stale unread:** 1 message(s) older than 3 day(s) — triage at session start.
+**Missing thread_id:** 1 unread message(s) lack supersession chains.
+- ! state-hub: [BREAKING] Task status canon: wait/todo/progress/done/cancel  `8a4d5bc8`
 
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 ## MCP Orientation (when available)
 
 If the state-hub MCP server is reachable, call:
-`get_domain_summary("netkingdom")`
+`get_domain_summary("communication")`
 This provides richer cross-domain context.
 If the MCP call fails, use this file as your orientation source.