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15 sessions · peak 11/day

The counts were wrong, and the entries beneath them gave it away.

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Project: Command

9 sessions this week · active 3/7 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.

this weekHeld unattended knowledge capture behind human review, traced a scheduled report that only looked broken, and rebuilt the public profile against claims the record actually supports.

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in progress jul 15

Nightly knowledge capture found a blind spot in its own preflight

The nightly run discovered that its stuck-work preflight search was silently missing batches that were already open, so it could have stacked a second overlapping one. It then re-ran the adversarial claim review on the blocked batch, corrected the false claims that review surfaced, and left the batch behind a not-clean verdict rather than merging it.

goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holding
in progress jul 15

Scoped a pilot to push build and review work onto a second agent runtime

Ran the preflight for handing most of the research, implementation, and review spend to another coding agent, and found no authorized way to dispatch or steer work there. The pilot was then walled behind a read-only plan-approval step before anything could be implemented.

goal Make my operator's behavior reliably evolvable through skills and durable rules
in progress jul 14

Held a verified nightly knowledge batch at the human review gate

The run reconciled sessions that had been captured twice under shifting timestamps, and checked each distilled claim back against its own source, correcting or dropping the ones that did not actually quote it. It also raised a governance concern about a naming policy it believed had been widened and self-ratified, then withdrew that concern when its own falsification check found the policy's operator-approved exception recorded in the document all along. With the batch green and mergeable, it deliberately did not auto-merge.

goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holding
in progress jul 13

Distilled a night of sessions and ran the review the merge gate requires

Captured the night's surviving sessions and verified its quoted anchors against their sources, wrote a dedicated page for a project that had only cold-log evidence rather than folding unverified strategy into an existing one, and pointed a now-stale block at it instead of deleting it. Closed by running the adversarial claim review that the automatic merge gate demands, leaving the batch armed to land once its tests went green.

goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holding
shipped jul 13

Traced a weekly report that looked broken, and found a real counting bug behind it

The weekly report appeared to have failed and then refused to re-run. Reading the routines' own run records showed neither thing was true: the Sunday job fired on time and stopped itself deliberately because the checkout sat on a feature branch, and a separate Monday preview task had reported before the report existed, which is what looked like a failure. An unexpected restart was ruled out against the machine's boot record rather than assumed. Reviewing the output afterward turned up the genuine defect, where a project card and the entries inside it reported different session counts, and that fix was queued as its own piece of work.

goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent work
in progress jul 13

Rescanned the competitive wedge

The scheduled rescan ran its search pass over the current competitive picture.

goal Make my operator's actions context-aware instead of one-size-fits-all
in progress jul 13

Ran the venture's Monday metrics read

Read the sprint plan and the ledgers it depends on, placed the week within the venture's fixed schedule, noted that the repeat-flat-result rule had already pulled a diagnosis forward, and started auto-filling the parts of the read that can be scripted so less of it waits on me.

goal Launch and grow PlumageDispatch, the engine's first live vertical
shipped jul 13

Rebuilt the public profile around the site link, and cut a credit that did not hold up

My site link was on my profile but only inside the contact popup nobody opens, so it was effectively invisible. The headline and summary were rewritten to put it where a visitor actually looks. A review pass against the live profile, not the draft, caught an open-source credit that the record did not support, and it came out of both places it appeared. Two more corrections followed my own edits: a career detail that read wrong and a post count stated as fixed when it keeps growing. Re-checking the deployed result afterward caught the headline having silently lost a clause, which was then fixed.

goal Hold everything I publish to a hard quality and honesty bar
in progress jul 13

Mined an outside knowledge-graph walkthrough for ideas worth adopting

Read a full transcript on curated knowledge graphs and mapped its claims against what the operator's own knowledge layer already does, instead of proposing generically. Most of it turned out to be covered already in a more disciplined form, leaving one genuinely new gap-detection idea that plugs into the existing lint pass.

goal Make my operator's behavior reliably evolvable through skills and durable rules

Project: DemandForge

1 session this week · active 1/7 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 weekGot the weekly search-visibility read as far as the live data, without a recorded result yet.

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in progress jul 14

Weekly search-visibility read stopped short of the live data

The scheduled review confirmed a live browser connection rather than assuming one, and lined up the prior weekly series along with the measurement fix it was meant to apply, but ended before it could read the live search data.

goal Measure organic demand on demand

Project: brycewatson.com

5 sessions this week · active 2/7 days

This site: the writing, the build, and this work log itself, kept current and accurate.

this weekCorrected the weekly log's per-project session attribution and tightened the preview and publishing routines around it.

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shipped jul 13

Fixed the weekly log's per-project session counts, which were misattributed rather than miscounted

Per-project session counts on this page were badly low while the week's total was correct, and the fix turned on that distinction. Sessions launched from a worktree were matched to a project only by an exact directory match, so every one of them fell into a catch-all bucket instead of its own project. Correcting the attribution moved them back, regenerated the published data, and added a parity check that fails the build when a project header and the entries beneath it disagree. A follow-up caught one more project missing from the page for a separate reason, and an adversarial review then ran on both pull requests, after build and test passes had wrongly been allowed to stand in for one.

goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent work
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prompt brycewatson.com session, Jul 13
Actually wait, why don't I see honest week in here? I worked on it during that time period didn't i?
commit git log, brycewatson.com
2606d5c site: weekly work-log refresh (2026-07-13) (#60)
shipped jul 13

Served the pending weekly refresh locally for review before merge

Checked out the pending refresh, brought up the dev server, and confirmed the report, goals, and archive pages all rendered the new data with no server errors, then removed the preview scaffolding so the branch stayed exactly as it would merge.

goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent work
in progress jul 13

Started a local preview of the weekly refresh

Began pulling the pending refresh's details to run it locally for review before the session was interrupted.

goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent work
shipped jul 13

Weekly routine stopped itself rather than open a duplicate report

The scheduled run found an open report that already carried both required data files, recorded that as the outcome, and stopped at preflight without creating a second one.

goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent work
in progress jul 13

Weekly preview matched the wrong pull request and named the rule that let it

With no report-regeneration branch open, the preview task's title fallback matched a tooling change instead. It served that preview anyway, but led with an explicit warning that this was not the usual weekly report, then identified the loose fallback rule as the thing to fix.

goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent work
next up Land the knowledge batch that is holding behind its review verdict, tighten how the weekly preview picks its pull request, and finish the venture's search-visibility read.