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 # Custodian Brief — kontextual-engine
 
 **Domain:** markitect  
-**Last synced:** 2026-05-05 08:58 UTC  
+**Last synced:** 2026-05-05 16:18 UTC  
 **State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
 ## Active Workstreams
 
-### Durable Persistence Foundation
+### Knowledge Operations Architecture Rebase
 Progress: 0/8 done  |  workstream_id: `e177f2dc-a2a0-41a4-b5cd-82e8f9f12f34`
 
 **Open tasks:**
-- · Finalize persistence boundary and ADR  `6b665ab1`
-- · Complete repository contract semantics  `eed4f0b5`
-- · Design durable schema and migrations  `7f34e36f`
-- · Implement SQLite repository backend  `6d20a457`
-- · Persist artifact evolution  `e4e6f188`
-- · Add import/export and smoke verification  `ea7313ce`
-- · Add context and phase-memory reference hooks  `965738a5`
+- · Reconcile implementation baseline with V0.2 vision  `6b665ab1`
+- · Define canonical asset identity and representation model  `eed4f0b5`
+- · Define actor permission policy and audit baseline  `7f34e36f`
+- · Define provenance lineage versioning and derived artifact model  `6d20a457`
+- · Define retrieval architecture and quality KPIs  `e4e6f188`
+- · Publish roadmap traceability and update scope docs  `ea7313ce`
+- · Define agent-safe operation catalog and review gates  `965738a5`
 - … and 1 more open tasks
 
+### Asset Registry Governance And Durable State
+Progress: 0/7 done  |  workstream_id: `231a7794-aa3b-4763-a556-80b4cea731c8`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- · Implement stable asset identity and source references  `7d61a11c`
+- · Represent source normalized and derived asset forms  `cd0a2b0a`
+- · Implement metadata classification lifecycle and schema validation  `b06c5124`
+- · Implement actor authorization and policy baseline  `c86e24ee`
+- · Implement audit events correlation IDs and structured errors  `3d2e98a1`
+- · Implement durable SQLite repository for registry state  `de155d02`
+- · Implement versioning change history conflict and idempotency semantics  `5288b136`
+
+### Multi-Format Ingestion And Normalization
+Progress: 0/7 done  |  workstream_id: `270c83c0-eaed-4143-99d0-bb3fcfd23758`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- · Implement ingestion job model status and retry surface  `8e5e514a`
+- · Implement connector and extractor contracts  `3eafdab5`
+- · Implement local file and directory ingestion  `d3e3d4d2`
+- · Implement text and markdown normalization via markitect-tool adapter  `63bf2f7e`
+- · Implement PDF office document and dataset baseline adapters  `04d7c4b0`
+- · Extract structural elements into common normalized representation  `7421bc87`
+- · Validate ingestion output quarantine failures and preserve provenance  `07b32021`
+
+### Governed Retrieval And Context Graph
+Progress: 0/7 done  |  workstream_id: `64352515-9677-46bb-909a-9e2db4915dc7`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- · Implement query contracts pagination sorting and result envelopes  `5a1b0661`
+- · Implement lexical search over normalized content  `5ec90dcb`
+- · Implement metadata lifecycle and source-context filters  `9e7d0a5c`
+- · Implement contextual entity model and relationship retrieval  `b3358059`
+- · Enforce permission-aware retrieval and fail-closed semantics  `c6c93713`
+- · Return source-grounded snippets citations and explanation data  `1a6d5a95`
+- · Capture retrieval feedback and KPI measurement hooks  `e17e2839`
+
+### Traceable Transformations And Workflow Jobs
+Progress: 0/7 done  |  workstream_id: `1b7a6b04-7879-4862-bb3e-817f7f20fc59`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- · Implement transformation operation registry  `ee2471b1`
+- · Implement transformation runs with parameters actors and policy context  `1eac7b47`
+- · Persist derived artifacts and source lineage  `837ad793`
+- · Implement workflow templates steps dependencies and preconditions  `2c55c5dd`
+- · Implement job runner status retry resume and cancel behavior  `5f4d6c88`
+- · Implement review gates human tasks and exception queues  `5fae9005`
+- · Audit workflow and transformation operations  `9e06aa46`
+
+### Service API And Agent-Safe Operation
+Progress: 0/7 done  |  workstream_id: `6e672b1a-2e57-489e-8516-cb75611d4354`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- · Implement versioned FastAPI service skeleton and health contracts  `bdb2380e`
+- · Expose asset metadata relationship audit and policy APIs  `a37e5ba3`
+- · Expose ingestion retrieval transformation and workflow APIs  `7271b26d`
+- · Implement actor context delegation and authorization middleware  `7becdec7`
+- · Implement bounded agent operation catalog  `fc9e1def`
+- · Implement context package API with policy constraints  `9ff1d345`
+- · Implement dry-run review-gate and contract-test coverage  `bbbdec75`
+
+### Observability Export And Enterprise Readiness
+Progress: 0/7 done  |  workstream_id: `09d769a5-a3cf-4cdf-ae5e-b4ecf767f109`
+
+**Open tasks:**
+- · Expose operational metrics events and job inspection  `ce6cfbc4`
+- · Implement administrative recovery actions  `8f0ead65`
+- · Implement export packages manifests and integrity validation  `54ed199f`
+- · Implement governance inspection and reporting hooks  `c62c5f36`
+- · Implement extension events webhooks and backend abstraction readiness  `f1713b41`
+- · Capture retrieval AI cost and quality signals  `1d36035a`
+- · Add performance smoke tests and MVP compliance report  `057c7bcf`
+
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