This was the biggest single-day sprint in the project’s history — 23 issues closed across four scout runs, a Cowork product test run, a newsletter pipeline audit, Stripe setup, and a marketing questionnaire. The session ran continuously from the previous …
The biggest single-day push in Eclectis history: 43 commits, 30+ issues closed, and the product moved from “works for Paul” to “works for strangers.”
Podcast feature end-to-end. Built the entire podcast pipeline in one session: script …
Two major themes: the learning feedback loop and the homepage overhaul. Both represent the product crossing a maturity threshold — from “functional tool” to “product that can be marketed.”
Skip tracking and the learning feedback loop. …
Today’s session was a focused security and reliability hardening sprint — four issues in the same thematic cluster, all shipped. The thread running through all of it: silent failures and secret exposure paths that had been baked into the codebase since …
Today was almost entirely focused on getting the test suite up to standard. A full batch of engine handler tests landed — covering briefing.generate (skip/send/render paths), newsletter.process (idempotency and content/link modes), and …
The session started with a dev-loop tick that found all queues empty, then shifted into verifying the observability stack — a carry-over TODO from the initial launch. PostHog and Sentry both needed confirmation that …
Today was a full scout-dev automation cycle — three scout passes followed by dev-loop execution across 9 issues. The codebase went from having several outdated dependencies and loose error handling to a fully current, …
Maintenance and monitoring session. The scout ran multiple deep scans across the codebase — error handling, security, dead code, test coverage, feature gaps, dependency health, UX gaps, and performance — and found the codebase in solid shape after the March launch …
The full MCP server went from zero to complete in a single session. Four sub-issues (#648–#651) decomposed from the parent (#645), each implemented and shipped in sequence: scaffold with auth and stdio transport, article …
Two issues closed today, both small and high-signal — the kind of polish work that compounds over time.
The most user-visible fix was #653: briefing emails were rendering AI-generated summaries with raw asterisks instead of bold and italic HTML. When Claude …