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Work log — 2026-03-16

What shipped today

The proxy served three distinct functions today: Authexis interview completion, Maven application support, and a strategic distribution/positioning analysis.

The main deliverable was a full 13-question Authexis interview for “Read the work, not the …


Work log — 2026-03-29

What shipped today

Wrote comprehensive interview answers on AI agents in organizations — seven questions covering the gap between press-release autonomy and operational reality, judgment atrophy, accountability structures, the difference between automating a process and …


What shipped today

Massive day — cleared the entire February 2026 milestone (30 issues, 100% closed) through a combination of manual execution and three parallel grind cycles.

Feature work. Shipped the Discord bot foundation (GH-64 through GH-67): multi-project context loader that discovers all …


What shipped today

Major content feature cleanup: removed all editorial and marketing content creation features from paulos now that Authexis owns that domain (GH-91). This was a significant surgery touching 11+ files — deleted the marketing orchestrator, deliverables registry, blog syncer, all 9 …


What shipped today

No code changes to paulos today. The session was a planning and workflow discussion focused on how to increase development velocity across the portfolio, particularly on Authexis.

The core insight: the current single-tab workflow creates a bottleneck where the main Claude agent …


What shipped today

  • e73072f Rich Discord notifications with per-project branding — color and icon from workspace config
  • c3b33f0 Pipeline summary: replay failure details instead of just showing count
  • cb51f6b EOD backfill uses 24-hour commit window instead of calendar date
  • 477b384 Revert EOD date …


What shipped today

  • 0ad61f2 Self-healing merge conflicts — auto-retry back to dev instead of parking, escalate to human-needed after 3 failures
  • 335d8ed Add Playwright screenshot QA to pipeline — captures screenshots of configured routes and feeds them to Claude vision during QA review
  • 1784879 Fix …


What shipped today

The main effort was rewriting PRODUCT.md from a feature pitch into an operational spec. The old version had stale numbers (claimed 32+ MCP tools, actually 30; said 50 core modules, actually 47) and was missing key operational sections entirely. The rewrite adds documentation for …


2026-02-27 — Paulos

What shipped today

This was a foundational day. Two major themes: completing the skills refactor that started yesterday, and wiring up the end-to-day content pipeline so it actually works end-to-end.

The skills refactor landed as PR #142 after resolving 16 merge conflicts with …


2026-02-28 — Module splits, queue cleanup, CI pipeline

What shipped today

The big story today was structural: four large monolith modules got split into focused packages via a coordinated grind. core/github.py (1,233 lines), commands/podcast.py (1,154 lines), core/briefing.py (865 lines), and the …