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Work-Logs

What shipped today

Closed out four milestones — Content schema and CMS, DISC onboarding and user profiles, Adaptive lesson delivery, and First module: Delegation — representing 51 shipped issues across the project’s first month. The issue queue dropped to a single carry-over item (GH-172, …


Skillexis — 2026-03-22

What shipped

No activity on this date. The project was idle — most recent work landed on earlier days with the test infrastructure buildout (pytest, vitest, CI integration) and DISC scoring unit tests.

Completed

None.

Release progress

  • Simulation practice: 3/4 closed. One …


Skillexis — 2026-03-23

What shipped

The autonomous orchestrate loop ran a productive session focused on codebase health and pipeline management. Two rounds of /scout explored the codebase across seven dimensions — error handling, security, dead code, test coverage, performance, UX gaps, and feature …


Skillexis — 2026-03-24

What shipped

No code changes shipped. The autonomous orchestrate loop ran continuously, polling the triage queue throughout the day. All 10 open issues remained in their routed states — the pipeline is fully triaged with a healthy backlog of grindable work, but no execution …


Skillexis — 2026-03-25

What shipped

No code changes shipped. The autonomous orchestrate loop continued polling the triage queue throughout the day with all 10 open issues already routed. This is the second consecutive idle day — the pipeline has work ready but the orchestrator has not dispatched …


Work log — 2026-04-01

What shipped today

Today’s session was focused on reliability and survivability — fixing two silent failure modes that could leave users stranded without any indication of what went wrong.

The auth callback fix (#199) addressed a particularly sneaky bug: ensureWorkspace …


Work log: Synaxis AI — 2026-03-31

What shipped today

Today was the day Synaxis went from architecture documents to a working system. Two AI personas — Trina (Synaxis PM) and Eli (Eclectis product manager) — had their first real conversation in Slack about MCP server positioning strategy, completely …


2026-04-01 — The big build-out

What shipped today

Today was the largest single-day build in the project’s history — 18 commits across three themes: methodology completion, engine architecture, and a major architectural pivot.

Methodology matured into a complete deliverable system. The morning …


2026-04-02 — Methodology completion, engine client routing, Authexis engagement begins

What shipped today

The methodology is now complete. Three gaps identified by yesterday’s scout — blog posts deliverable, questionnaire guide, and repositioning playbook — were filled with full guides and …


2026-04-03 — First end-to-end engagement, architecture overhaul, two blog posts drafted

What shipped today

The agency ran its first real engagement. Authexis was onboarded as Synaxis AI’s second client. The full lifecycle completed in one session: /agency-onboard created the client in Notion …