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 marketing templates, and the marketing orchestration test suite. Stripped blog.py down to just the idea capture command, removed marketing commands and handlers from the Discord bot, cleaned out marketing reentry mappings from human_requests, removed the marketing phase from the orchestrator, and purged all marketing label definitions from roles.py. All 1063 tests pass clean after the removal.

Also discussed and decided that the newsletter test/send commands (GH-92) belong in polymathic-h, not paulos — they’re project-specific to that Hugo site’s Brevo workflow. Closed the issue here; the polymathic-h Claude will handle it in that repo.

Brief exploration of dotenvx for secret management across machines. Decided against the paid tier ($490/yr). The free dotenvx encrypt or simple scp over Tailscale are sufficient when the home server setup happens.

Completed

• GH-91 — Remove editorial/marketing content features (Authexis owns content creation)
• GH-92 — Newsletter test/send commands (moved to polymathic-h, closed as not planned)

Carry-over

None.

Risks

None.

Flags and watch-outs

• Branch mode still doesn’t work properly for grind agents — they ship directly to main despite ship_mode = "branch" in config. Not urgent but matters for parallel safety.
• February 2026 milestone is at 98% completion with no remaining open issues in paulos.

Next session

• Check if March 2026 milestone needs to be created and populated
• Run /scout to identify new issues now that the codebase is cleaner post-marketing removal
• Consider whether dotenvx encrypt is worth adopting for the home server transition
• Fix branch mode for grind agents if parallel work is planned