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 paulos-managed projects, command listener for receiving Discord messages, LLM intent router for classifying and dispatching commands, and an escalation policy engine with configurable thresholds. Also shipped the unified EOD publish pipeline (GH-68) which aggregates work logs across projects, synthesizes them via LLM, generates podcast audio, and pushes to polymathic-h — all remotely via GitHub API with no local repos required.

Ship workflow improvements. Added issue closing to ship_apply (GH-77) so referenced issues are automatically closed after a successful push, then ported the same behavior to the CLI ship command (GH-86) for parity. Added subprocess timeouts to all _run() helpers in git_branch.py and ship.py (GH-88) and hardened the orchestrator against TimeoutExpired crashes (GH-90). Disabled Notion docs_sync by default in ship workflows (GH-43).

Code quality and infrastructure. Ran two scout→grind cycles that found and fixed: notification platform test failures from env var leakage (GH-78), 40+ getattr blocks replaced with GitHubConfig helper across mcp_server.py (GH-80) and commands/pm.py (GH-87), deduplicated _load_provider into core/config.py (GH-81), consolidated duplicate dataclasses in grind modules (GH-71), replaced print() with logger calls (GH-73), cleaned up stale imports (GH-48), and updated README with all 27 MCP tools plus gitignored build/ artifacts (GH-89).

Test coverage. Added test suites for github.py (81 tests), tts.py (37 tests), notification_platforms.py, notification_templates.py, and fixed 31+ stale test failures. Test count went from ~900 to 1090+.

Documentation. Rewrote PRODUCT.md from a placeholder template into a comprehensive product vision document covering all 10 capability domains, architecture, project portfolio, and success metrics.

Also investigated authexis Vercel deploy failures — found 20+ consecutive failures and a broken deploy alert workflow (403 permissions error). Filed GH-313 and GH-314 in authexis repo for their agent to fix.

Completed

• GH-17 — Add –date flag to eod for retroactive closeout
• GH-64 — Multi-project context loader
• GH-65 — Discord command listener
• GH-66 — LLM intent router
• GH-67 — Escalation policy engine
• GH-68 — Unified EOD publish pipeline
• GH-70 — Fix 2 failing test_orchestrate_global tests
• GH-71 — Consolidate duplicate dataclass definitions
• GH-72 — Notification platform tests
• GH-73 — Print-to-logger cleanup
• GH-77 — ship_apply closes referenced GitHub issues
• GH-78 — Fix notification platform test env var leakage
• GH-79 — Add unit tests for github.py
• GH-80 — Extract GitHubConfig helper for mcp_server.py
• GH-81 — Deduplicate _load_provider into core/config.py
• GH-82 — Add unit tests for tts.py
• GH-86 — CLI ship closes referenced issues (parity with MCP)
• GH-87 — Apply GitHubConfig helper to commands/pm.py
• GH-88 — Add subprocess timeouts to _run() helpers
• GH-89 — Update README MCP tool list + gitignore build/
• GH-90 — Handle TimeoutExpired in orchestrate.py
• PRODUCT.md rewrite — comprehensive product vision document
• Authexis: filed GH-313 (workflow permissions) and GH-314 (deploy failures)

Carry-over

• Authexis deploy failures need investigation (GH-313, GH-314 filed — authexis agent to fix)
• February 2026 milestone is 100% complete — next milestone needs planning

Risks

• Grind agents shipped directly to main instead of feature branches despite branch mode being configured. The pm_execute step appears to not create feature branches consistently. This worked fine today but could cause conflicts with truly parallel work.

Flags and watch-outs

• Test count jumped significantly (900 → 1090+). Some new tests from grind agents may be brittle or over-mocked — worth a quick review pass.
• Multiple grind agents bundled their changes into a single commit (GH-89 commit contained GH-87, GH-88, GH-90 changes too). Ship_apply with stage_all on shared main caused this.

Next session

• Plan March 2026 milestone — review what’s next after clearing the February backlog
• Run /scout for a fresh scan now that infrastructure is much cleaner
• Review authexis GH-313/GH-314 progress — check if deploy alert workflow is fixed
• Consider fixing branch mode so grind agents actually use feature branches (pm_execute + ship_apply on main defeats the purpose)
• Quick review pass on new test suites from grind agents for test quality