Work log — 2026-03-25

What shipped today

Per-project status report pipeline (complete)

The entire status report pipeline shipped end-to-end in a single session — from skill file to HTML renderer to CLI command to rollover integration to retirement of the old system. This replaces the centralized morning briefing with per-project status emails sent during nightly rollover, each containing shipped work, priorities, roadmap progress, blockers, and optional analytics/errors sections. A test email was sent successfully and confirmed working before the centralized agents were retired.

The four-issue decomposition (#613-616) landed cleanly: skill file defining the data contract and 8 workflow steps, an HTML renderer with 6 color-coded section cards (11 tests), a CLI command (paulos cos status-report) wired into the rollover pipeline’s Phase 3.5, and finally retirement of com.paulos.briefing and com.paulos.editorial launchd agents. PRODUCT.md was updated throughout to reflect the new architecture.

Security and infrastructure hardening

A critical SSH command injection vulnerability was fixed in setup_cmd.py — the escaped variable was created but never used, leaving raw plist content interpolated into a shell here-document. Now passes content via stdin. Five silent except Exception: pass blocks in webhook handlers and orchestrate loop now log at debug/warning level. Brevo’s send_email() now calls raise_for_status() instead of silently returning bad responses — all 5 callers updated to try/except with logging. 234 lines of dead config code removed (16 unused fields, AppConfig, STANDARD_APPS, and related functions).

Risk governance

Created RISKS.md as a living risk register with 5 seed risks from recent work. Decomposed the broader RISKS.md governance initiative (#607) into 3 focused children: template creation (shipped), writer skill updates, and reader skill updates.

Scout findings

Ran a full codebase scout producing 5 issues across security, error handling, test coverage, and dead code dimensions. All 5 were executed in the same session.

Completed

• #610 — Status report: narrative + issue list (closed as duplicate of #614)
• #613 — Create /status-report skill file
• #614 — Build status report HTML email renderer
• #615 — Add status-report to rollover pipeline
• #616 — Retire centralized briefing and editorial launchd agents
• #617 — Fix SSH command injection in plist deployment
• #618 — Add logging to bare except blocks in webhook/orchestrate handlers
• #619 — Add tests for cos.py, notify.py, social/authexis.py (closed — already covered)
• #620 — Remove 16 dead config fields from ProjectConfig
• #621 — Brevo send_email() should check response status
• #607 — Add RISKS.md governance doc (decomposed into #629-631)
• #611 — Build /status-report skill and integrate (decomposed, all children shipped)
• #629 — Create RISKS.md template and seed risk register

Release progress

• March 2026: 24/24 closed
• April 2026: 2/2 closed

Carry-over

• #630 — Update writer skills to append risks to RISKS.md (ready-for-prep)
• #631 — Update reader skills to consume RISKS.md (ready-for-prep)
• #609 — Status report: roadmap commentary and ROADMAP.md (needs-decompose)
• 5 needs-clarification issues waiting on Paul: #487, #545, #564, #586, #606

Risks

• Status report pipeline hasn’t run through a real rollover yet — first overnight run will be the true validation. Fall back to on-demand paulos cos briefing if broken.
• 10 pre-existing orchestrate_loop test failures still unaddressed.
• Pre-existing test failure in test_cos_command.py::test_editorial_email_flag discovered — mock expects wrong argument shape after editorial refactor.

Flags and watch-outs

• The test email sent to Paul confirmed the renderer works, but the full pipeline (skill gathers data → writes JSON → CLI renders → Brevo sends) will only be proven when rollover runs tonight.
• paulos cos briefing and paulos cos editorial still work for on-demand use — Python code was preserved, only launchd agents removed.

Supervisor session (additional context)

The supervisor session (this log’s co-author) handled fleet operations alongside the dev work: ran /sum-up and /reflect for March 23 and 24, published two podcast episodes (“When the queue goes empty” and “Your empty queue isn’t a problem” via OpenAI TTS with ash voice), unblocked eclectis (answered Mailgun SKIP_PATTERNS question), redirected idle sessions to scout, fixed prakta (bare shell in wrong directory), started Claude in simplebooks, archived utilities repo on GitHub and both machines, symlinked the new /status-report skill, and brainstormed the full status report architecture with Paul.

Infrastructure changes from the supervisor: API models switched to claude-sonnet-4-6, TTS switched to OpenAI (ash voice), briefing crash fixed (log() undefined), env var loading standardized to single path (cli.py), 4 missing keys migrated from utilities/.env.

Next session

• Verify 2am rollover + status reports arrived (check email for [status] subjects)
• Check if /status-report was recognized by all sessions
• Prep and exec #630 and #631 (RISKS.md skill integration — writer and reader skills)
• Decompose #609 (roadmap commentary)
• Fix test_cos_command.py::test_editorial_email_flag pre-existing failure
• Fix the 10 pre-existing orchestrate_loop test failures
• Unblock Skillexis — 7 ready-for-dev issues idle for 2+ days
• Unblock Simplebooks — push for merge strategy decision on #1 (day 4)
• Run /sum-up and /reflect for March 25