Skillexis — 2026-03-25
What shipped
No code changes shipped. The autonomous orchestrate loop continued polling the triage queue throughout the day with all 10 open issues already routed. This is the second consecutive idle day — the pipeline has work ready but the orchestrator has not dispatched exec or grind commands.
The only commit was the previous day’s rollover work log (pushed early morning March 25).
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, now multi-day stale)
- 7 issues
ready-for-dev: #199, #200, #201, #203, #204, #205, #206 - 2 issues
ready-for-prep: #202, #207
Risks
- Two consecutive idle days with a full grind queue suggests the orchestrator may not be configured to dispatch exec/grind for this project. Worth investigating whether the orchestrate loop is triage-only or whether exec dispatch is gated on something.
Flags and watch-outs
- #172 has been in-progress since at least March 22 with no visible progress. It requires a Supabase migration, type regeneration, and multi-file changes — likely needs interactive attention or an
--autoexec run. - The 7 ready-for-dev issues are self-contained fixes (dead code, error handling, pagination, security) that could be batch-executed via
/grind.
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