What shipped today

Big day — the entire Deflective Dan demo milestone went from scouted issues to merged code. The session started by picking up carry-over from yesterday’s scout (GH-62 through GH-66) and running a 5-agent parallel grind. All five agents worked on feat/gh-66 and delivered their changes in under 5 minutes, which were squash-merged to main as a single 1,017-line commit.

The headline feature is the public demo route (GH-62): visitors hit /demo, get an anonymous Supabase session, and land directly in a simulation with Deflective Dan — no signup required. A 5-minute countdown timer auto-completes the simulation when it expires, then shows diagnostic feedback with a signup CTA. The RLS policies are scoped to a well-known demo workspace UUID so existing workspace isolation is unaffected.

Supporting work made the demo feel complete: persona prompts (GH-63) were expanded from ~16 to 43+ lines each with specific behavioral tactics (Dan now uses blame-shifting, vague commitments, and dependency claims), the diagnostic feedback was updated with persona-aware dimension weighting, simulation UX (GH-64) got persona deep-linking and a simulations list page, marketing CTAs (GH-65) now link directly to the demo instead of signup, and auto-workspace creation (GH-66) ensures new signups can immediately start simulations without the redirect loop.

A quick E2E test surfaced that anonymous auth wasn’t enabled in the Supabase config — fixed and shipped separately. The demo page renders but requires a real Supabase instance with anonymous auth enabled to complete the full flow.

Completed

• GH-62 — Add public demo route with anonymous Supabase sessions
• GH-63 — Enrich persona prompts with realistic behavioral patterns
• GH-64 — Fix simulation UX: persona deep-link, navigation, and list page
• GH-65 — Update marketing page CTAs to link to public demo
• GH-66 — Add auto-create workspace on signup for new users
• Enable anonymous auth in Supabase config

Carry-over

• Connect real Supabase instance and test full demo flow end-to-end (anonymous sign-in → chat → feedback)
• Enable anonymous auth in Supabase dashboard (Authentication → Providers)
• Run demo workspace migration against production database

Risks

• Demo flow untested against a live Supabase instance — anonymous auth + RLS interaction is the critical path
• All 5 agent changes landed on the same branch (feat/gh-66) rather than separate branches — worked out fine but violates the intended branch-per-issue isolation

Flags and watch-outs

• Next.js 16 deprecated middleware in favor of proxy — cosmetic warning for now but will need migration eventually
• Root lockfile / web lockfile dual-lockfile warning persists (cosmetic)
• 3 pre-existing useEffect dependency warnings in simulation chat components

Next session

• Stand up Supabase (local or hosted) with real credentials in web/.env.local
• Enable anonymous auth in the Supabase dashboard
• Run migrations including the demo workspace seed
• Full E2E test in Chrome incognito: marketing page → “Try Deflective Dan” → anonymous chat → diagnostic feedback → signup CTA
• If demo flow works, run /scout for polish issues before Feb 28 deadline
• Consider adding better error messages to the demo page (distinguish “Supabase not configured” from “anonymous auth disabled”)