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Project: brycewatson.com
8 sessions this week · active 4/7 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.
archiveRefreshed the weekly work log from the week's sessions
Ran the automated weekly refresh that turns the week's coding sessions into the public work-log entries, distilling each one and re-deriving the figures from git.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent workClosed the remaining open site pull requests and regenerated goals from committed code
Cleared the site's open pull requests to none, preserving a separate in-flight feature rather than discarding it, and regenerated the goals data so it rebuilds reproducibly from committed code. Verified each change on the live site and fixed a few earlier pull-request comments that had skipped the editorial voice pass.
goal Keep this site clean, accurate, and currentAdded a goals-only regeneration mode to the work-log build
Added a mode that rebuilds only the goals data from committed code, reusing the existing gates, and guarded against a future edit silently re-breaking the ability to run it from a linked worktree. Verified the full build path still worked after the refactor.
goal Keep this site clean, accurate, and currentDrafted and opened a blog post on building an evaluation framework
Drafted a post about building a trustworthy evaluation framework, rendered its share image, verified the internal links and the rendered page, and opened it as a pull request for review before publishing.
goal Ship the next most valuable blog post each week, fact-checkedDiagnosed a parity defect between the two work-log generators
Traced why the two work-log generators handled a commit evidence snippet differently, with the one that actually publishes producing an empty block, and confirmed the defect end to end before surfacing where a hard-fail gate should live rather than choosing silently.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent workFixed the work-log parity check when run from a sibling worktree
Fixed the parity check that proves the two work-log generators produce identical output but failed when run from a sibling worktree, making the shared basis an asserted invariant, adding a test, and exercising the refusal path for the first time. Flagged a second independent defect it uncovered rather than folding it in silently.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent workFixed session attribution for work-log runs in a sibling worktree
Fixed the publishing engine so it credits a session to its repository even when the run happens in a sibling worktree, which the weekly work-log job is required to use, verified it end to end, added tests, and shipped both the fix and the content for the week the bug had caused to be missed.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent workWeekly work-log run halted at a data-verification gate before publishing
The unattended weekly work-log run curated the whole week but stopped at a session-count reconciliation gate and correctly refused to open a pull request with data it could not verify, leaving the curation preserved and the failure recorded rather than shipping something unproven.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent work Project: claude-global-skills
1 session this week · active 1/7 days
My machine-wide Claude tooling, version-controlled behind a privacy guard so the automation that touches every project stays clean and auditable.
this weekAligned the shared skill library across runtimes and added a safe message portal between them.
archiveFixed two record-keeping defects in the open-source skills library
Closed two record-keeping gaps in the public skills repository: made the finding registry readable when a row is later retracted, and extended the tag vocabulary to record an inferred claim. Also restored a missing optional dependency, added a graceful skip when it is absent, and hardened a crash class, with the tests green and the docs updated to match.
goal Maintain and grow an open-source library of Claude skills and hooks Project: Command
42 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 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.
archiveAutonomous remediation tick ran and recorded a clean no-op
The scheduled remediation loop fired, claimed the top backlog item, could not classify it against the running backend, and correctly recorded a skip rather than guessing, releasing its claim and leaving an honest run record.
goal Operate that signal engine and measurably cut my own recurring frictionBuilt a self-repair loop that fixes its own detected failures, then retraced two sessions of friction
Turned the automated remediation loop into one that can actually repair a fault end to end, verified the whole chain live on the running system, and folded in a charter amendment after ground truth showed the earlier rule contradicted the practice it documented. Closed the session with a retrospective across the two most recent sessions that named the dominant friction as failure that looks like success, registered the findings in a durable ledger, and merged the fixes.
goal Operate that signal engine and measurably cut my own recurring frictionRemediation tick recorded a second honest no-op against a stale backend
The scheduled remediation loop fired again, found the running backend could not classify its top item, and left the backlog untouched with a recorded skip rather than advancing on unverified state.
goal Operate that signal engine and measurably cut my own recurring frictionBuilt and scheduled an autonomous controller to drain the work queue, with a reframe pass after three failed attempts
Picked up unfinished threads from the prior day, then designed and scheduled an autonomous controller that keeps its own context small by handing each work item to a fresh worker. Added a reframe pass that, after three failed attempts, stops trying the same fix and runs a cold diagnosis with fixed outcome codes, then cleared the open pull-request backlog to a clean slate.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingShipped the morning letter and caught a fix that had been credited but never written
Assembled and reviewed the daily owner's letter on schedule, disclosed that it posted unsigned because the signing key is an owner step, and found that a permission fix credited for days had never actually landed in code. Also flagged that an unregistered project accounted for most of the day's model spend.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingNightly ops shift halted honestly when the live backend predated its own interface
The scheduled nightly operations shift could not start because the always-on backend was running an older build that lacked the shift's own endpoints. It ran the read-only checks it still could, wrote a durable local record so the blocked run left a trace, and reported the gap plainly.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsRan the nightly wiki digest and corrected its drain-rate reading to zero
Distilled the genuine work sessions out of a batch dominated by review-subagent packets, ran a claim-mode review over the result, and corrected a page count and the drain-rate reading against the repository before the digest auto-merged.
goal Mine my own chat history for the methods that actually improve resultsFixed a false-positive class in the operator's cross-project safety guard
Corrected a guard that was meant to block cross-project changes but fired on read-only inspections too, aligning the code with what its own comments described, and verified the fix end to end against the real hook.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingAssessed structured-data adoption across the active projects
Checked the current shared web vocabulary against every active project and found the consulting site, not the venture site, had the most to gain from structured data. Surfaced the proposals for approval and queued the safety-guard fix as its own task rather than acting unprompted.
goal Keep this site clean, accurate, and currentRan a full status briefing and cleared most of the open pull-request backlog
Produced one briefing over every open pull request, showed the control plane had been serving stale data, and cleared most of the backlog. Corrected an earlier overstatement once a closer review showed some of the work needed changes rather than just a merge.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsRan the weekly wiki lint and flagged a stale focus snapshot
Ran the structural and judgment checks over the internal knowledge wiki without disturbing a concurrent session, confirmed it was healthy, and flagged that the current-focus snapshot had gone stale and predated recent changes.
goal Mine my own chat history for the methods that actually improve resultsShipped the Saturday morning letter and landed the held Phase 1 pull requests
Assembled and shipped the daily letter on a clean unattended run, confirmed the daily letter now auto-merges once its review verdict posts, then released and merged the held Phase 1 pull requests by untangling the conflicts they shared.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingNightly ops shift ran read-only because its machinery was still unmerged
Found that the nightly operations skill and its backend endpoints lived only on an open pull request, so the running system had no way to record a shift. Did the read-only work that remained useful and reported that the routine was armed before its own substrate had landed.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsRan the nightly wiki digest and kept subagent chatter out of the knowledge base
Distilled the genuine work sessions from a batch mostly made of review-subagent packets, avoided re-ingesting material a separate pull request already covered from stronger sources, and readied the night's ingest for the auto-merge path.
goal Mine my own chat history for the methods that actually improve resultsVerified public-facing claims and realigned a blog post before publishing
Set out to push public-facing work forward and found that much finished work had never actually shipped and several records were wrong. Ran a large verification pass that overturned the first recommendations at the premise, then rewrote the post's framing to match the real audience and the actual work rather than a generic story.
goal Hold everything I publish to a hard quality and honesty barDiagnosed a permission-prompt hang in unattended runs and hardened the allow-rules
Traced why a scheduled shift hung for hours, showing that scheduled runs do honor the checked-in project permission settings, then hardened the proposed allow-rules to close unsafe patterns. The documentation shipped while the security-sensitive settings change was routed to the owner rather than made unattended.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingEvaluated the morning letter and corrected its headline claim about an unattended run
Checked the daily letter against the owner model and found it had reported an unattended proof as passed when the run had actually hung on permission prompts. Posted the correction on the letter's own record and confirmed the machine had not slept by reading the system event log directly rather than inferring it.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingShipped the first morning letter assembled and merged with nobody at the keyboard
A scheduled shift assembled the daily owner's letter, ran its review, posted the verdict, and merged it on the green path with no one present. This was the first time the assemble-and-ship loop completed unattended, the moment the daily-letter automation was meant to prove.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingNightly ops shift stayed read-only with its infrastructure still on an open pull request
Confirmed that the entire nightly operations mechanism, from the skill to the backend endpoints, shipped only on an unmerged pull request, so there was no way to clock in or record a run. Left a durable local flag and kept the night read-only rather than advancing anything without an audit trail.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsUnblocked a wiki digest that had been stuck for several nights
Cleared a nightly digest pull request that had been stuck through several nights of review, finishing the fresh review it needed, then ingested the night's real sources and let both pull requests auto-merge. Also traced the classifier gap that had let review-subagent runs crowd out genuine sessions.
goal Mine my own chat history for the methods that actually improve resultsSettled business-formation questions with a fact-checked research pass
Ran a multi-source research pass on a set of open business-formation and compliance questions, verifying the load-bearing answers against primary sources, then had an adversarial review send each conclusion back to its source and caught a real correctness error before it stood. The result shrank an open advisor meeting to a short confirmation.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingBuilt the compliance upkeep loop for the operator's daily letter
Took a compliance-calendar upkeep feature through research, an adversarially reviewed plan, and implementation, so upcoming obligations surface in the daily letter as items to sign rather than as a separate re-sweep. The plan review simplified the design across iterations before code was written.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingBuilt the automated morning-letter assembly through the full ship-it chain
Designed and built the automation that lets a scheduled shift assemble and ship the owner's daily letter on its own, keeping the existing launcher untouched and landing the work as repository-side assembly scripts and a skill. The plan cleared an adversarial review across iterations before implementation.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingEnforced the operator's delegation-of-authority walls and fixed a bug that blocked auto-merge
Built the enforcement of the operator's delegation-of-authority walls end to end, pinning the inviolable ones red while keeping the bound-able ones flexible, and fixed a verdict-parsing bug that had silently blocked a correctly reviewed pull request from auto-merging. Both changes were held for an attended merge.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingMorning-letter shift skipped cleanly because the day was already covered
The scheduled letter shift confirmed a letter for the day already existed, verified it was genuinely the right one, and stopped cleanly under its duplicate guard rather than assembling a second.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingNightly wiki digest skipped a night and escalated a stuck review
Caught that the previous nightly digest was still open and blocking a new one, so it skipped the night's ingest and escalated the stuck review as an owner decision rather than freezing silently. The routine's own duplicate guard had failed to surface it, which it flagged for a fix.
goal Mine my own chat history for the methods that actually improve resultsBuilt the operator's core spine: a leverage-ranked work queue and signature folder
Built the operator's central spine through the full ship-it chain: a single leverage-ranked work queue replacing the old newest-first tray, a signature folder for owner decisions, and a monthly mandate clock. Proved the desk lock atomic across racing processes rather than asserting it, and held the change for an attended merge because its size exceeded the auto-merge cap.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingAudited and reconciled the operator's subsystems after the charter reorganization
Ran the inverse audit that verifies which subsystems to keep, reconciled the schedule registry against what was actually running, and folded an old ledger's content into the governing document without deleting the files a separate change would retire. Corrected the plan's own overclaim about automatic resurfacing rather than letting it stand.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingLanded Phase 1 of the ratified operating charter, including the daily letter task
Completed the first phase of the newly ratified operating charter and merged it on the green path: the daily letter task, the registry flip, and the launcher for the next wave of work. Adversarial review caught real operational holes, including a calendar date error in a document whose whole job is calendar honesty, and all were fixed before it landed.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingFinished a stuck wiki pull request and found a blind spot in its duplicate guard
Finished the review on a wiki digest that had been stuck for nights, and reproduced a blind spot in the routine's stuck-pull-request guard, where an unquoted search term returned nothing even when a matching pull request was open, which would have let a second conflicting one open. No new sessions were ingested, which was the correct outcome.
goal Mine my own chat history for the methods that actually improve resultsDesigned the operating model that reorganizes every project under one owner
Worked out from first principles the operating model that reframes the whole system around a single owner who sets direction and signs off, deriving what such a company must provide before comparing it against what the operator already ran. The full outline cleared an adversarial claim-mode review and became the plan behind the ratified charter.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingFixed several ways the startup session board missed unfinished work
Fixed the startup session board so it reliably detects unfinished and mid-stream sessions: widened the lookback window, recovered project attribution from oversized transcripts the old path had dropped, and stopped a supersession rule from dismissing a still-live session. The review pass then caught real defects in the fix itself, which took another iteration to clear.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsRan the nightly wiki digest and distilled the week's sessions into the knowledge base
Ran the nightly ingest over the session backlog, escalated the trivial sessions to the stronger model per the routine's own rule, caught a re-ingest bug and a double-counting error in its own figures, and opened the digest for the owner's merge decision.
goal Mine my own chat history for the methods that actually improve resultsShipped a startup improvement that always hands back the next best action
Landed a small skill improvement that had been sitting uncommitted, so the startup routine always hands back the next highest-leverage recommendation, keeping the change to exactly its scope. Reviewed it with the plan-mode lenses since it is instruction prose, then let it auto-merge on the green path.
goal Make my operator's behavior reliably evolvable through skills and durable rulesFixed the Codex worker skill's commit contract to match how sandboxed runs behave
Fixed a skill that told every sandboxed Codex worker to commit its work or fail, which live evidence showed did not match how those runs actually behave, keeping the mirror copy in sync and the safety walls verbatim. The review caught a real gap in the remediation loop's commit handling, which was fixed before it landed.
goal Make my operator's behavior reliably evolvable through skills and durable rulesBuilt the thin-Fable Codex execution layer and recovered the work after a crash
Recovered a long-running effort to build a cheap Codex-backed execution layer after a crash killed the controller, confirming the expensive commissioning step had finished one minute before the crash, then cleaned up the orphaned state and merged the layer. Monitored its first real run, which ended honestly by reporting a blocked unit rather than routing around a failed install.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingRescanned open competitions and accelerators for a fit
Ran the scheduled scan for open competitions and accelerators, found the most relevant one had already closed, and checked for anything currently open worth a look.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingOrchestrated a blog-post pipeline as a thin controller over subagents
Acted as an orchestration-only layer for producing a blog post about the evaluation system, fanning the heavy reading and drafting out to subagents and routing the final publish through a task that runs inside the site's own repository. A crash interrupted the run mid-flight, and the recovery checked for partial work before relaunching.
goal Make my operator's actions context-aware instead of one-size-fits-allRan the weekly PlumageDispatch metrics read
Ran the weekly read on PlumageDispatch, gathering traffic and search signals from the sources that do not need a manual login, confirming an empty mailbox was a real zero rather than a broken query, and preparing the short checklist of what still needed the owner.
goal Launch and grow PlumageDispatch, the engine's first live verticalPrepared and verified a Codex task packet for a new operator skill
Acted as a thin orchestration layer to produce a dispatch-ready Codex task packet for a discoverable startup skill, checking every load-bearing fact in the packet against the repository before it went in and doing none of the delegated implementation itself.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holding Project: ShopForge
1 session this week · active 1/7 days
An operator that builds and runs an online store end to end.
this weekMoved the storefront strategy to demand, distribution, and conversion before adding more automation.
Resolved a long-open merge conflict and merged a stalled pull request
Untangled a status-header merge conflict on a pull request that had sat open for weeks, resolved it precisely rather than by blind append, ran the review pass, and caught and corrected a claim the merge would otherwise have introduced.
goal Build a near-autonomous shop that sells print-on-demand art with minimal hands-on time Project: Akaya
3 sessions 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 weekFinished a reviewed plan for an admin observability surface and reconciled live project health into the operator.
Traced a data-loss risk in a client application's saved-item queue
Investigated a queue in a client application that could accept saved items but had lost its path to send them, and worked out from the deployment history and release timeline whether any real user could have had data stranded there before framing the decision.
Fixed hidden test failures and widened a client project's continuous-integration coverage
Fixed a handful of tests that were failing on the main branch but hidden because the pipeline only ran a curated subset, then widened the pipeline to run the whole suite so the gap could not reopen silently. Confirmed none of the failures was an actual application bug.
Verified and merged a batch of client pull requests and fixed a cloud sync gap
Checked a set of client pull requests against their real state, drove the highest-risk screens live to confirm they held up, and merged them safely after confirming a merge does not deploy. Then fixed a gap where saved exchanges were not reaching the cloud, and stopped short of one listed behavior rather than quietly expanding scope.
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.
archiveRan the weekly search-console review and let it overturn its own verdict
Ran the weekly crawl-and-index review against the demand test, found the two pages carrying that test had never been crawled, and let a claim-mode review send the conclusion back to primary sources, where it caught the read using a page-specific confound to suspend judgment in the site's favor and corrected it. Also raised a stale-price finding as its own tracked item.
goal Measure organic demand on demand 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 weekKept project headers from showing fewer sessions or active days than the verified dated work beneath them.
archiveReviewed and merged the session-attribution fix in the work-log engine
Reviewed the fix that attributes worktree and subdirectory sessions to their parent repository, verifying the boundary logic by running many inputs through it rather than by reading, and merged it. Corrected an earlier too-strong verdict once execution surfaced real findings, and summarized the unrelated in-flight work parked in the checkout.