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Work-Logs

2026-03-27

What shipped today

The day’s work was split between observability infrastructure across projects and tightening the autonomous pipeline.

The main observability push was adding Sentry to the eclectis and authexis engines as separate projects — the web layers already had Sentry, but …


Work log: synthesis frontmatter fix, sentry validation, reflect feedback

What shipped today

Short session — mostly validation and a quick fix from a polymathic-h bug report. The /sum-up skill was generating synthesis files without a content_type field in the frontmatter, which caused a synthesis to appear as the “Latest:” link in email signatures. The fix was …


Work log: periodic tasks and social pipeline hardening

What shipped today

Paulos now has a proper periodic task framework. Three CLI commands — paulos sentry triage, paulos issue stale, and a refactored paulos social run — can run headless from launchd on an hourly or daily cadence. Each has a core module with no Click dependency, so the same logic …


Work log: paulos social pipeline

What shipped today

The broken Zapier pipeline that turned blog posts into social media blurbs is now a proper CLI command. paulos social handles the full lifecycle: parse the RSS feed, generate platform-tuned blurbs using the LLM with Paul’s voice guidelines, and push them to Authexis for …


What shipped today

Massive day — closed 37 issues across four grind rounds plus significant manual work. The theme was “make it real for Stacy”: testing the full onboarding-to-daily-value pipeline with a real user (Stacy Sutton) and fixing everything that broke along the way.

Parallel …


What shipped today

Massive day — 16 issues closed across the entire stack. The morning started with a parallel grind session that knocked out a batch of mid-priority fixes and features: social queue sorting (GH-331), welcome email conditional copy (GH-318), team member email lookup batching …


What shipped today

Two parallel workstreams ran today: a grinder tab executing queued issues, and a design partner tab focused on architecture and planning for the next phase of the product.

Grinder output (tab 1)

The grinder shipped a massive batch of features across the web app. Citations shipped …


What shipped today

Massive day running a two-tab workflow: tab1 (grinder) implemented and merged code, tab2 (thinker) reviewed PRs and prepped the entire upcoming issue queue. Six feature branches went through multiple rounds of code review and landed on main, while the Apple app roadmap was fully …


What shipped today

  • 5035645 GH-449: Apple app: briefing list + detail view (#508)
  • 70ab7f4 GH-437: Sidebar onboarding score — show completion progress for new users (#506)
  • a9ea893 GH-504: Fix podcast endpoint review feedback (#505)
  • 87ce297 GH-447: Private podcast RSS feed endpoint (#503)
  • 0f8dfd5 …


What shipped today

  • 1c81e0c Update apple/Authexis submodule ref (added .gitignore)
  • 94c2664 Fix TypeScript build error: unknown type not assignable to ReactNode in articles page (#590)
  • c554f3c Change briefing Content heading to “Your content” (#588)
  • 1fa6a12 Add “Refine your …