What shipped today
No code changes to paulos today. The session was a planning and workflow discussion focused on how to increase development velocity across the portfolio, particularly on Authexis.
The core insight: the current single-tab workflow creates a bottleneck where the main Claude agent gets consumed by grind supervision (monitoring sub-agents, merging PRs, handling failures), leaving no bandwidth for higher-value design conversations. We designed a two-tab workflow to fix this:
- Tab 1 (grind supervisor): Runs
/grindautonomously — spawns agents, merges results, keeps going. Stateless and heads-down. - Tab 2 (design partner): Conversational — discuss architecture, run
/scoutand/prep, review specs, plan features.
The handoff between tabs is GitHub issues — tab 2 creates and preps issues, tab 1 grinds them. No shared context needed because the issue body is the complete work packet. This validates the /prep investment: if issues are self-contained, agents don’t need massive context windows.
Also confirmed the EOD publish pipeline works end-to-end for a second consecutive day (5 work logs → synthesis → podcast → 7 files pushed to polymathic-h). Apple Podcasts still showing wrong cover art despite the ?v=2 cache buster — may need a filename change.
Completed
No issues closed today.
Carry-over
None for paulos specifically.
Risks
None.
Flags and watch-outs
- Apple Podcasts cover art still wrong — may need to change the image filename rather than just cache-busting the URL
- Branch mode for grind agents still broken (ships to main despite config) — matters more now with two-tab workflow
- February 2026 milestone complete, no March milestone created yet
Next session
- Create March 2026 milestone for paulos
- Run
/scoutto seed the new milestone with issues from the cleaner post-marketing-removal codebase - Fix branch mode so grind agents actually use feature branches — this is more urgent now with the two-tab workflow where design tab may be editing files while grind tab runs
- Evaluate whether the two-tab workflow (tested on Authexis today) revealed any paulos tooling gaps
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