Skillexis — 2026-03-24
What shipped
No code changes shipped. The autonomous orchestrate loop ran continuously, polling the triage queue throughout the day. All 10 open issues remained in their routed states — the pipeline is fully triaged with a healthy backlog of grindable work, but no execution commands were dispatched by the orchestrator.
The only commit was the previous day’s rollover work log (pushed at 2:08am), capturing the productive March 23 session that fixed the open redirect vulnerability and surfaced 10 scout issues.
Completed
None.
Release progress
- Simulation practice: 3/4 closed. #172 (pass lesson context through to simulation practice) remains
in-progress. - Alpha launch (v2): 0/0 — not yet started.
Carry-over
- #172 — Pass lesson context through to simulation practice (in-progress, sole remaining item for Simulation practice milestone)
- 7 issues
ready-for-dev: #199, #200, #201, #203, #204, #205, #206 - 2 issues
ready-for-prep: #202, #207
Risks
None identified.
Flags and watch-outs
- The grind queue has 7 ready-for-dev issues that could be batch-executed. The orchestrator hasn’t dispatched exec or grind commands — this may be expected (waiting for a schedule window) or may indicate the orchestrate loop needs a nudge to move past triage-only polling.
- #172 has been in-progress for multiple days without visible progress. It requires a Supabase migration and type regeneration — may need interactive attention.
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