63 sessions · peak 15/day
What I worked on this week.
- shipped: built, merged, verified
- in progress
- designed, not proven: machinery exists, no real result yet
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Project: Command
22 sessions this week · active 5/7 days
Watches all ~65 of my projects and keeps their Claude Code setups optimized and running cleanly: surfacing CI failures, stale or unpushed work, and config drift, and proposing the fix from one seat. proof caseBefore a fix runs, Command commits its exact success metric and target to git, so the bar cannot move afterward to fit the result. false-provingA measure reporting success from random noise alone. Caught and bounded before the measure is trusted on a real case.
this weekSealed the first real proof case, so a proposed fix has to clear a metric committed before it runs, and hardened the measurer against false-proving.
archiveChecked that the scheduled jobs across projects are firing correctly
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projects
Added an external-client privacy filter and leverage-first objective ranking to the operator
Gave the operator an external-client privacy filter and a delegation dormancy guard, then made each objective carry a durable leverage tier so the work queue ranks by leverage rather than recency.
goal Make my operator's actions context-aware instead of one-size-fits-allBuilt an authoritative goal registry and drift guard to keep the public goal lens in sync
Stood up a single authoritative registry for the operator's objectives plus a drift guard, so the public goal lens on the site can never silently diverge from the private source of truth. Covered the reconcile logic with a focused test.
goal Hold everything I publish to a hard quality and honesty barReprioritized the standing objectives toward high-leverage work and aligned them with the site's goals
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holding
Fixed an operator backend crash-loop by normalizing objective state at the store boundary
Traced a backend crash-loop to inconsistent objective state and fixed it by normalizing the living state and active plan at the store boundary, where the data enters, rather than patching each read.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingArchived stale project repositories to keep the operator's attention on live work
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projects
Synced the delegation skill to its shipped code and cleared the type errors an adversarial review surfaced
Brought the delegate-to-project skill's documented steps back in line with the code that actually shipped, then cleared the type errors and review findings that an adversarial pass turned up, including a type-safe rewrite of the evaluation logging.
goal Make my operator's behavior reliably evolvable through skills and durable rulesGave the operator a cross-project-write guard and a delegate-the-what posture
Added a guard that blocks accidental writes across project boundaries and set the default posture to delegate the what, not the how, so the operator hands work to a project rather than reaching into it. This is the seam the site's goal lens depends on.
goal Make my operator's actions context-aware instead of one-size-fits-allProved Rung 1 of the signal engine's behavioral finish line
Worked through the first rung of the signal engine's behavioral finish line, establishing the measure before relying on it. The machinery is in place; the higher rungs are the frontier.
goal Build a signal engine that turns my own chat history into targeted improvements Project: ShopForge
2 sessions this week
An operator that builds and runs an online store end to end.
this weekCleaned up the repo and docs after a rebuild landed.
Explored where an illustration skill could improve the project's presentation
goal Build a near-autonomous shop that sells print-on-demand art with minimal hands-on time
Reviewed and triaged the project's open issues
goal Build a near-autonomous shop that sells print-on-demand art with minimal hands-on time
Project: DemandForge
10 sessions this week · active 3/7 days
A category-authority research engine: it earns trust by producing original, sourced research for a product category, then points that trust at products. The machine does the labor; I approve in about fifteen minutes a day.
this weekBuilt the silent-source alert pipeline and re-verified the full pricing set before launch, where 8 of 13 claims had drifted.
archiveScored a long-tail content calendar from the latest trend pull
goal Build category-authority content that ranks
Shipped a rising-category content pillar plus a category-demand trend index and plateau detector
Published the rising-category pillar content and the supporting test pages, then added a category-demand trend index and a monthly plateau detector so the site can tell rising demand from a plateau rather than guessing.
goal Detect rising category demand before it peaksBuilt an on-demand metrics skill for traffic and Search Console reads
Added a metrics skill and a small analytics client so traffic and Search Console numbers can be pulled on demand instead of by hand, which is what makes the weekly read repeatable.
goal Measure organic demand on demandDropped an over-claim from the publisher copy and recorded the dataset's archival DOIs
Removed an institutional over-claim from the publisher line and recorded the dataset's archival DOIs, so the public record matches what was actually deposited.
goal Hold everything I publish to a hard quality and honesty barDiagnosed and fixed a search-attribution issue flagged for the site
goal Measure organic demand on demand
Project: brycewatson.com
17 sessions this week · active 4/7 days
This site: the writing, the build, and this log itself. The goal here is to show the work honestly, receipts and retractions included.
this weekRewrote the Command write-up around its design decisions, shipped the Command project page, and started this work-log.
archiveBuilt a goal-based lens over the Weekly Work Log, gated by a publish registry
Added a second lens that groups the week's work by goal, drawing only from a curated publish registry so private objectives stay private. Every goal label on the page traces back to that one gate.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent workAdded a goals measurement layer with two-way goal and session linking
Gave the goals page a measurement layer that aggregates the verified work toward each goal across every archived week, with each entry linking back to the week it came from and each week linking forward to its goals.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent workFixed the project name and metrics overlapping in the mobile weekly-report header
goal Keep this site clean, accurate, and current
Shipped the Weekly Work Log to production and surfaced it in the site nav
Took the Weekly Work Log live: every interactive Claude session for the week, redacted, with honest status badges, and wired the privacy gates into the build so a leak fails the deploy. Added it to the top navigation.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent workEliminated weekly-report navigation flicker and a mobile popover clip
goal Keep this site clean, accurate, and current
Added a working-tree-hygiene guardrail and cleared the scratch backlog
goal Keep this site clean, accurate, and current
Researched and assembled a comprehensive set of goals from real project history
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent work
Project: Akaya
6 sessions this week
An AI platform. My work here makes its question-answering measurable and trustworthy: golden datasets and a real evaluation harness instead of guesswork.
this weekBuilt the eval baseline and golden sets, closed a retrieval gap, and packaged the phase to share.
Continued the solver web-app work and packaged it for review
Reviewed open pull requests on the question-answering platform and confirmed quality held
Worked through the open pull requests on the question-answering platform, ran adversarial reviews to make sure each change actually improved the work, and confirmed answer quality held.
Coordinated sharing an evaluation transcript with the team
Project: claude-global-skills private
1 session this week · active 2/7 days
My machine-wide Claude tooling, version-controlled behind a privacy guard so the automation that touches every project stays clean and auditable.
archiveMade the global skills repo open-source-ready and hardened the review-loop
Worked toward making the global skills repo a shareable open-source project: folded the story-miner's evidence discipline into the transcript analysis skill, bounds-checked the review-loop installer, and tightened the cross-project review tooling.
goal Maintain and grow an open-source library of Claude skills and hooks