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Work-Logs

2026-03-22 — simplebooks

What shipped

The final polish batch for the Next.js port landed overnight — five issues covering error handling, performance, UX safety nets, and mobile responsiveness. These were the last items in the “Next.js port” milestone.

Error handling and loading states …


2026-03-23 — simplebooks

What shipped

No code changes shipped today. The session focused entirely on codebase reconnaissance — two full scout passes that mapped the state of the project after the Rails-to-Next.js migration and built out a prioritized issue backlog from scratch.

The first scout run …


2026-03-24 — simplebooks

What shipped

No activity. The session was idle after the previous day’s scout runs established the 10-issue backlog. A third scout pass was triggered but correctly short-circuited — no code had changed and all scan dimensions were already covered by existing issues. …


2026-03-25 — simplebooks

What shipped

No activity. The project remains blocked on #1 (merge 16 feature branches into main). The 10-issue backlog established on 2026-03-23 is unchanged — no issues closed, no code merged.

Completed

None.

Carry-over

  • #1 — Merge 16 feature branches into main (critical …


What shipped today

Big day — the entire Deflective Dan demo milestone went from scouted issues to merged code. The session started by picking up carry-over from yesterday’s scout (GH-62 through GH-66) and running a 5-agent parallel grind. All five agents worked on feat/gh-66 and delivered …


What shipped today

No code changes — short session focused on reviewing the state of the Deflective Dan demo milestone. Ran /start to confirm the queue is empty (all 5 demo issues from yesterday’s grind are merged and closed). The carry-over from yesterday remains: the demo code is written but …


What shipped today

  • f724fba GH-72: Add admin layout with content management navigation (#94)
  • 73a7aba GH-71: Seed one structured example module with content units (#93)
  • 032d6e7 GH-70: Add RLS policies for goals, content_units, and assessments (#92)
  • 342c97f GH-69: Add assessments and …


What shipped today

Massive day — 23 commits landed across two parallel workstreams: the autonomous pipeline grinding through queued issues, and a manual session building out the full admin CRUD layer.

DISC onboarding and user profiles — The pipeline completed the entire DISC personality assessment …


What shipped today

Quick check-in session to review the overnight pipeline results. The pipeline ground through all 20 issues that were loaded yesterday evening across “Adaptive lesson delivery” and “First module: Delegation” milestones, landing 19 of 20 — only GH-148 …


What shipped today

Today was about quality assurance: running /scout to find bugs left by the overnight pipeline, fixing them, and doing a full end-to-end visual review of the learner flow in the browser.

The scout pass turned up five issues. Four were bugs introduced by the 19-PR overnight pipeline …