diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host/Actors/CentralSingletonRegistrar.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host/Actors/CentralSingletonRegistrar.cs
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+using Akka.Actor;
+using Akka.Cluster.Tools.Singleton;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Actors;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Registers a central cluster singleton with the canonical naming scheme
+/// (<c>{name}-singleton</c> / <c>{name}-proxy</c>), a PoisonPill termination
+/// message, and a PhaseClusterLeave drain task that GracefulStops the manager
+/// so in-flight EF work completes before handover. Extracted from five
+/// copy-pasted ~60-line blocks (review 01 [Low]) whose drift left the two
+/// busiest singletons (notification-outbox, audit-log-ingest) without drain
+/// tasks (review 01 [Medium]).
+/// </summary>
+internal static class CentralSingletonRegistrar
+{
+    internal sealed record Handle(IActorRef Manager, IActorRef Proxy);
+
+    internal static Handle Start(
+        ActorSystem system,
+        string name,
+        Props singletonProps,
+        ILogger logger,
+        TimeSpan? drainTimeout = null)
+    {
+        var manager = system.ActorOf(
+            ClusterSingletonManager.Props(
+                singletonProps,
+                PoisonPill.Instance,
+                ClusterSingletonManagerSettings.Create(system).WithSingletonName(name)),
+            $"{name}-singleton");
+
+        var timeout = drainTimeout ?? TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10);
+        Akka.Actor.CoordinatedShutdown.Get(system).AddTask(
+            Akka.Actor.CoordinatedShutdown.PhaseClusterLeave,
+            $"drain-{name}-singleton",
+            async () =>
+            {
+                try
+                {
+                    await manager.GracefulStop(timeout);
+                }
+                catch (Exception ex)
+                {
+                    logger.LogWarning(ex,
+                        "{Singleton} singleton did not drain within the graceful-stop timeout; "
+                        + "falling through to PoisonPill handover", name);
+                }
+                return Akka.Done.Instance;
+            });
+
+        var proxy = system.ActorOf(
+            ClusterSingletonProxy.Props(
+                $"/user/{name}-singleton",
+                ClusterSingletonProxySettings.Create(system).WithSingletonName(name)),
+            $"{name}-proxy");
+
+        return new Handle(manager, proxy);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Tests/CentralSingletonRegistrarTests.cs b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Tests/CentralSingletonRegistrarTests.cs
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+using Akka.Actor;
+using Akka.Configuration;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Actors;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Tests;
+
+public class CentralSingletonRegistrarTests
+{
+    private sealed class EchoActor : ReceiveActor
+    {
+        public EchoActor() => ReceiveAny(m => Sender.Tell(m));
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Start_CreatesManagerAndProxy_WithCanonicalNames_AndDrainTask()
+    {
+        using var system = CreateSingleNodeClusterSystem();
+        var handle = CentralSingletonRegistrar.Start(
+            system, "test-widget", Props.Create(() => new EchoActor()),
+            NullLogger.Instance, drainTimeout: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2));
+
+        // Canonical naming preserved: <name>-singleton / <name>-proxy.
+        Assert.EndsWith("/user/test-widget-singleton", handle.Manager.Path.ToString());
+        Assert.EndsWith("/user/test-widget-proxy", handle.Proxy.Path.ToString());
+
+        // Singleton answers through the proxy once the member is Up.
+        var echo = await handle.Proxy.Ask<string>("hi", TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20));
+        Assert.Equal("hi", echo);
+
+        // The drain task registered on PhaseClusterLeave must stop the manager
+        // during coordinated shutdown.
+        await Akka.Actor.CoordinatedShutdown.Get(system).Run(
+            Akka.Actor.CoordinatedShutdown.ClrExitReason.Instance);
+        // Manager terminated => drain ran (GracefulStop completed or PoisonPill fallback).
+        Assert.True(handle.Manager.IsNobody() || system.WhenTerminated.IsCompleted);
+    }
+
+    private static ActorSystem CreateSingleNodeClusterSystem()
+    {
+        var port = FreePort();
+        var config = ConfigurationFactory.ParseString($@"
+akka {{
+    actor.provider = cluster
+    remote.dot-netty.tcp {{ hostname = ""127.0.0.1"", port = {port} }}
+    cluster {{
+        seed-nodes = [""akka.tcp://registrar-test@127.0.0.1:{port}""]
+        roles = [""Central""]
+        min-nr-of-members = 1
+    }}
+}}");
+        return ActorSystem.Create("registrar-test", config);
+    }
+
+    private static int FreePort()
+    {
+        var l = new System.Net.Sockets.TcpListener(System.Net.IPAddress.Loopback, 0);
+        l.Start(); var p = ((System.Net.IPEndPoint)l.LocalEndpoint).Port; l.Stop(); return p;
+    }
+}