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 # Custodian Brief — identity-canon
 
 **Domain:** canon  
-**Last synced:** 2026-06-19 18:44 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-06-21 18:13 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
-### Research corpus backfill and model refinement
-Progress: 0/6 done  |  workstream_id: `af85e0a3-ccb8-4cfd-8859-d0794769e3e2`
-
-**Open tasks:**
-- · Backfill Provisioning And Federation Source Notes  `fb88b28d`
-- · Backfill Authorization And Social Graph Source Notes  `bc684b78`
-- · Backfill Verifiable Claims And Entity-Resolution Source Notes  `d73ac6a7`
-- · Refresh Terminology Artifacts From Corpus  `dc1ca5f0`
-- · Refine Conceptual Model Against Scenario Tests  `989b1e68`
-- · Reconcile Canon Surfaces And Open Questions  `5e05f41d`
+*(none — repo may need first-session setup)*
 
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