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-# Railiance Fabric Brief
+<!-- custodian-brief: generated by fix-consistency — do not edit manually -->
+# Custodian Brief — railiance-fabric
 
-Domain: railiance
-Repo slug: railiance-fabric
-State Hub topic ID: ca369340-a64e-442e-98f1-a4fa7dc74a38
-State Hub workstream ID: bd190990-8e68-49a3-9ce4-0ba89103ea54
+**Domain:** railiance  
+**Last synced:** 2026-05-18 11:46 UTC  
+**State Hub:** http://127.0.0.1:8000 *(adjust if running on a remote machine)*
 
-## Purpose
+## Active Workstreams
 
-Railiance Fabric defines the repo-owned declaration model for the Railiance
-ecosystem graph: services, capabilities, interfaces, dependencies, bindings,
-validation, discovery queries, and State Hub export contracts.
+*(none — repo may need first-session setup)*
 
-## Current Work
+---
+## MCP Orientation (when available)
 
-- `RAIL-FAB-WP-0001` is active and establishes the first ecosystem graph model.
-- `T01` is done: `INTENT.md` defines the vocabulary and source-of-truth
-  boundary.
-- `T02` is done: `docs/declaration-schema.md`, `schemas/`, and
-  `examples/declarations/` define the first declaration schema baseline.
-- `T03` is done: `catalog/` and `docs/type-catalog.md` define the first
-  capability/interface type catalog.
-- `T04` is done: `fabric/` contains seed declarations for the first Railiance
-  ecosystem provider/consumer graph.
-- `T05` is done: `railiance-fabric validate` loads and validates schema,
-  catalog, reference, provider, source-link, and cycle checks.
-- `T06` is done: discovery queries and JSON/Mermaid exports are available from
-  the CLI.
-- `T07` is done: `docs/state-hub-integration.md` defines the graph export and
-  proposed hub read-model ingestion path.
-- `T08` is done: `docs/adoption-guide.md` and `docs/first-rollout.md` define
-  how other repos should adopt and promote the seed declarations.
-- All tasks in `RAIL-FAB-WP-0001` are done.
-
-## State Hub
-
-- Local API: `http://127.0.0.1:8000`
-- Remote tunnel: `http://127.0.0.1:18000`
-- After changing workplan files, sync from `~/the-custodian/state-hub` with:
-  `make fix-consistency REPO=railiance-fabric`
+If the state-hub MCP server is reachable, call:
+`get_domain_summary("railiance")`
+This provides richer cross-domain context.
+If the MCP call fails, use this file as your orientation source.