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Work-Logs

Work log: March 8, 2026

What shipped today

The session started with a full triage pass — 21 open issues classified and routed in batch auto mode. Several duplicates were caught and closed (#798, #801, #785 duplicated already-specced work in the scrape feed chain), and the rest were sorted into prep, …


Work log: March 9, 2026

What shipped today

Big batch execution day — eight issues shipped through the full auto pipeline (read spec, implement, commit, push, PR, merge, close) plus three triage sweeps that cleared 28+ Sentry noise issues.

The outbound system got its two remaining pieces. An admin UI …


Work log: Authexis - March 11, 2026

What shipped today

Today was a hardening day — fixing production bugs surfaced by Sentry, closing security gaps found by scout, and getting the pipeline infrastructure more resilient. Six PRs merged across security, reliability, and correctness.

Security hardening …


Work log: March 12, 2026

What shipped today

Today was a high-throughput pipeline day — 25 commits landed on main across three major themes: engine test infrastructure, production reliability, and UI improvements.

Engine test coverage went from 35 to 115 tests. The parent issue #1051 (“engine …


Work log: Authexis — March 13, 2026

What shipped today

A big polish and resilience day. Eleven issues closed across two sessions, touching both the web frontend and the Python engine. The throughline was making the content pipeline more robust and the content detail page more useful.

The content …


Work log: Authexis — March 14, 2026

What shipped today

The briefing email system got a major upgrade. Stalled content detection now flags pieces that have been sitting in the same stage too long, with traffic-light health dots (green/yellow/red) giving an at-a-glance view of pipeline health. Content …


Work log: Authexis — March 15, 2026

What shipped today

Massive autonomous pipeline session — 19 PRs merged across two major themes: hardening and test coverage. The session ran the full /triage --auto/issue prep --auto/issue exec --auto loop repeatedly, clearing the entire issue queue without …


Work log: Authexis — March 16, 2026

What shipped today

Two major themes: hardening the engine and closing test gaps.

The engine got several reliability fixes. The newsletter processor was generating non-deterministic fallback URLs using datetime.now(), which meant reprocessing the same newsletter …


Work log: Authexis — March 17, 2026

What shipped today

Two themes: briefing pyramid/layering and continued hardening from the grind queue.

The biggest structural work was the briefing pyramid — decomposing #1331 into four child issues and shipping all four. The morning briefing email now has a …


Work log: Authexis — March 18, 2026

What shipped today

Today was a comprehensive hardening session — the kind of day where the product doesn’t gain visible features but becomes meaningfully more robust underneath. Two themes dominated: social post integrity and engine test coverage.

The social …