75 sessions · peak 19/day
What I worked on this week.
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Project: Command
21 sessions this week · active 7/7 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 weekBuilt the operator a self-maintained wiki of everything it works on, rebuilt its browser into a real explorer, and carried a ground-up redesign through its largest workstreams.
archiveRebuilt the wiki browser into something actually explorable
The wiki browser opened on a flat wall of cards with no way to read a page or navigate the graph. I rebuilt it into a real explorer: click any card or node to read the rendered page in place, a zoomable and pannable graph, honest independent filters, and a focused connections map for the page being read. Built iteratively against the live browser and merged after a clean review.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsGave the wiki browser an at-a-glance landing overview
Added a landing pane that leads with what needs attention, the active bets, and recently updated pages, plus card cues for staleness, so the browser opens on what matters instead of an alphabetical list. Verified in a real browser render and reviewed clean, open as a pull request for merge.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsEvaluated the newly scheduled nightly wiki digest and merged it
Judged the newly scheduled run of the upgraded nightly digest against the bar its rework set: correct mechanics, flat-rate cost, and distillation faithfulness. A fan-out of faithfulness checks plus deterministic verification confirmed it held, with a few honest fixes folded in before the run merged.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsBegan a community-participation program to build real distribution
Green-lit and set up a standing program to show up regularly in the communities where the operator's audience gathers, with every outward action gated on approval and a careful record of what happens where and why. Accounts were set up for the program, and the initial curated follows and engagements were approved each in turn.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingBuilt the wiki's publish workflow toward a public website
Turned the wiki into something that can safely become a public site: the same browser in local and public modes, a per-page staging toggle, a fail-closed export that filters private pages before serialization, and a nightly review routine that batches staged pages into a human-gated publish request.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsRan a screenshot-grounded usability review of the wiki browser
Produced a ranked, screenshot-grounded usability report of the wiki's visual browser, with every quantitative claim independently reproduced by an adversarial falsification pass before it stood. Shipped as a study with a commit-pinned review verdict.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsAdded a continuous-integration quality gate and repaired the clean-clone install
The repository had no continuous-integration gate, so a broken test file sat red on the main branch unnoticed. I ported the suite so it collects, added a quality gate that runs lint, tests, and build on every change, and repaired a clean-clone install regression, disproving a scary-looking dependency break before trusting the fix.
goal Hold everything I publish to a hard quality and honesty barBuilt the operator an LLM-maintained wiki of everything it is working on
Stood up a self-maintained knowledge layer for the operator: a readable page per venture, project, life domain, decision, person, and operating pattern, each grounded in immutable primary sources under an anti-fabrication rule that grep-verifies every quote. Shipped the schema, the seed pages, a health lint, and the session-start wiring, reviewed clean, as an early phase of a larger build.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsGave the wiki ingest and query skills plus a backfill of past work
Added the skills that fold a new source into the wiki and answer questions from it, a diff engine that flags un-ingested sources, and a backfill of the standing source archive, all under the same grep-verified anti-fabrication gate.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsExtended the wiki with concept, topic, and dormant-project coverage
Broadened the wiki past active work: concept and topic pages, people and infrastructure coverage, and a deterministic generator that transcribed the dormant-project graveyard into grounded archival pages with no room for fabrication. Shipped as a set of reviewed changes plus a weekly maintenance lint.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsMigrated project memories into the wiki without orphaning their provenance
Moved several project memories into their wiki pages, leaving pointers back, and re-pointed every provenance citation to each memory's own primary source first so the anti-fabrication chain never broke. Verified clean across multiple adversarial provenance reviews.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsClosed a wiki contradiction and added evidence-backed topic pages
Resolved a stale contradiction on the evaluation-harness page against current reality and added topic pages that each clear a grounded-source bar. A coverage review caught a page that met the bar only on paper, corrected before merge.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsReconciled the day's sessions and cleaned up stale worktrees
Mapped what had shipped versus what was still in flight across the day's sessions against live pull-request state, then safety-verified and removed a set of stale session worktrees, each checked against the exact commit its request merged before deletion.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsResearched, planned, and began the operator's ground-up redesign
Opened the operator's redesign with a blast-radius workflow that verified every proposed cut against the real code and adversarially checked its safety, a review-clean plan gated on approval, and its opening workstream: cutting the always-on narration layer down to an on-demand one.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingShipped the redesign's beachhead: a live venture demand instrument
Carried the operator redesign through its largest workstreams, each implemented test-first and taken through a multi-lens review loop before merge. The headline piece is a venture demand instrument that ranks the nearest keep-or-kill gate and surfaces reading-staleness honestly, after a statistical-rigor review caught and fixed a way it could have falsely claimed a trend.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingWorked out where a costlier top-tier model actually earns its place
Analyzed where the operator's workflows would benefit from a more capable but costlier model, then, challenged to revisit my own claims, caught a factual error and an over-hard gate I had built on top of solid evidence. Landed on a concrete plan pinned to the free-evaluation window, and encoded the cheap-for-mechanical, capable-for-judgment split into the operator's own skills.
goal Make my operator's behavior reliably evolvable through skills and durable rulesRan a self-improvement retro grounded in the operator's own session history
Studied how elite assistants deliver value, then, prompted to actually check it against reality, read the operator's own sessions end to end rather than keyword-matching them. The close read overturned an earlier correction of my own and produced a ranked backlog of concrete, evidence-grounded improvements.
goal Mine my own chat history for the methods that actually improve resultsImplemented the operator's self-improvement backlog against live code
Re-checked every item in the self-improvement backlog against the current code before touching anything, found several already shipped, and built the survivors each on its own reviewed branch. The review caught a real load-bearing bug in a restart script where an external build's failure went unchecked, fixed before merge.
goal Make my operator's behavior reliably evolvable through skills and durable rulesFixed the weekly work-log routine and delegated its follow-on repairs
Traced why the Sunday work-log routine produced no request: it died immediately under an unattended permission gap. I fixed it, confirmed the documented way to grant a scheduled task its permissions, and turned the deeper finding, that the log was silently gating out real work, into a well-scoped delegated fix.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent workSpecced a narratives layer for the weekly report and filed the work
Designed a narratives band for the weekly report that shows a real decision point from a session as the operator's own prompts plus brief response summaries, aligned on what it is for, and filed the build as reviewed delegation issues after a claim-mode review caught a badge that would have failed the very validator it targets.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent work Project: DemandForge
3 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 weekActivated the venture's business data-inquiry path toward its keep-or-kill gate and sent the approved editorial outreach.
archiveActivated the venture's business data-inquiry path toward its keep-or-kill gate
Stood up the dormant business-to-business leg of PlumageDispatch's upcoming decision gate: built the qualified target list, defined the fastest offer to a paying or inbound inquiry, and added the ledger that makes the leg measurable. Outreach drafts went through a claim-mode review that caught and corrected a real factual error before anything sent, and the approved pitches went out only after a per-message verification pass.
goal Turn the demand engine into revenueDrafted and revised the long-lead editorial outreach for the venture
Prepared the long-lead pitches for an autumn editorial pickup of PlumageDispatch and put them through research and a claim-mode review. The review reshaped the weaker draft, leading each opener on the reader's real question and the concrete win for the outlet instead of our own process. Committed as draft-only, gated behind approval before any send.
goal Launch and grow PlumageDispatch, the engine's first live vertical Project: ShopForge
1 session this week · active 1/7 days
An operator that builds and runs an online store end to end.
this weekDiagnosed and fixed a batch of defects in the storefront automation and researched its distribution channels.
Ran a deep research pass on distribution for the storefront service
Kicked off a deep, multi-source research pass on the discovery and distribution channels for the reimagined storefront-as-a-service, scoped as research only with nothing touching the live store.
goal Build a near-autonomous shop that sells print-on-demand art with minimal hands-on timeDiagnosed and fixed a batch of defects in the storefront automation
Ran a live source sync and full status check on the storefront operator, verified against reality rather than its own state file, and found the pipeline had quietly stopped running. Fixed a set of correctness defects, including a dry-run that still advanced real state and a test fixture that encoded a fictional schema, each verified end to end against the real store.
goal Build a near-autonomous shop that sells print-on-demand art with minimal hands-on time Project: Akaya
1 session this week · active 1/7 days
An AI platform. My work here makes its question-answering measurable and trustworthy: golden datasets and a real evaluation harness instead of guesswork.
this weekTriaged the stale tail of the client platform's issue backlog with adversarial re-checks, all approval-gated.
Continued the client platform's backlog triage and repository hygiene
Extended the backlog triage across the remaining open issues with a deep adversarial re-check on every keep and close, cleaned up a stale working-tree flag on the active checkout, and recorded the refined plan on the tracking issue.
Triaged the stale tail of the client platform's issue backlog
Worked through the long-untouched issues on the client's question-answering platform, running an adversarial pass that re-checked every proposed close against the live repository before anything was closed or relabeled, all approval-gated.
Project: brycewatson.com
4 sessions this week · active 2/7 days
This site: the writing, the build, and this work log itself, kept current and accurate.
this weekStopped the weekly work log from silently dropping whole threads and fixed a set of honesty defects on the live pages.
archiveMade every published work-log row trace to a real discovered session
Closed a content-provenance gap so the generator only publishes a commit-less row when it can point to a genuine discovered session behind it. The guard is enforced at build time and was proven end to end, so a placeholder can never reach the page.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent workStopped the weekly work log from silently dropping whole threads of the week
The weekly log was quietly gating out entire projects, including the biggest build of the week, instead of showing them. I traced it to the render layer, redefined the rule so every real thread appears (own public repos in full, private work generalized), and hardened it against a build-break. An adversarial review loop surfaced a real load-bearing bug on each of its early passes, each fixed and re-verified before the change merged and deployed.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent workFixed a set of honesty defects on the weekly report and goals pages
Tightened the render and voice layer so a handful of honesty gaps on the live pages read straight: uniform metric teasers for sparse-week projects, corrected active-day counts, and a cleaner goals partition. Shipped after a full review loop, with the remaining engine-side work tracked as a follow-up rather than reported as done.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent workAdded a previous-weeks selector to the weekly report panel
Put a week selector in the shared report masthead so the current report and every archived week carry the same navigation. The change degrades cleanly to static text when no other weeks exist, verified against the real page and a full review loop before merge.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent work Project: honestweek
1 session this week · active 2/7 days
An open-source tool that generates an honest weekly work log: it re-derives every number from real git and aborts the build rather than publish an unverified claim, and redacts private detail by rule. It is the engine that now generates this page.
this weekAdded an opt-in honesty lint and made the active-days metric count session-only projects.
archiveShipped an opt-in honesty lint that blocks meta narration in the build
Built a build-time prose lint for honestweek, the open-source engine behind this page, that rejects self-referential meta commentary and narration of withheld detail. It ships off by default, catches the violation class rather than fixed phrases, and closes an edge where array-valued fields could slip a banned phrase past the fence. Delivered end to end through the ship-it chain with a reviewed, commit-pinned verdict.
Made the active-days metric count session-only projects, not just commits
honestweek derived active days from commit dates alone, so a project with real interactive sessions but no git repo read as inactive, contradicting its own session count. I moved the metric to count session-active days for session-only and display-role projects, resolved through several adversarial review rounds before it merged.
Project: Personal
1 session this week · active 1/7 days
The life and money admin that keeps the runway clear while I build.
this weekWorked through the month's contract billing and prepared the invoice.
Worked through monthly contract billing and prepared the invoice
Reconstructed the month's billable engineering from the merged git and pull-request record, reconciled it against an evidence-backed floor with an adversarial pass that corrected my own early over-estimate, and prepared the invoice with the right service period and terms, ready to send.