Sep 2026 build
Shipped four approval-console tickets to the always-on box in one day
Every ticket survived three adversarial critic rounds with real blocks before it went live.
Build Log
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21 entries
Sep 2026 build
Rebuilt the console from measurements instead of taste
Two mockups got rejected. The third was built desktop-first from panels and computed styles measured off a live reference app, read-only.
Sep 2026 build
Shipped a nightly scan under an adversarial review loop
Ten tickets, every one run past a critic before it could ship, and roughly ninety root-cause fixes landed before night one.
Sep 2026 build
Built a YouTube Shorts engine that runs itself on the always-on box
From a competitor teardown to a fully autonomous daily pipeline in two days: news sweep, de-slop-gated script, cards, cloned voice and music, render, avatar bubble, upload and schedule with read-back.
Aug 2026 build
Gave the always-on agent hands on a browser, without handing it the keys
A credential broker that types secrets from 1Password without the value ever entering the container, a closed nine-operation browser vocabulary behind an origin allowlist, and a readiness ladder proven green twice.
Aug 2026 build
Released /de-slop as a public GitHub repo
The AI-slop scanner, 26 rules with the em-dash rules folded in, went from a members-only Vault skill to a public repo anyone can install.
Aug 2026 build
Ran a pre-registered autonomy experiment, and published the loss
A two-arm A/B, identical agents on identical work with only one arm's guardrails removed, against a sealed failure criterion and seven sealed predictions. The criterion fired and all seven predictions were wrong.
Aug 2026 build
The always-on box became a decision-taking computer
The agent server now serves its own decision console over Tailscale with TLS. Findings, drafts and approvals flow through one recorded writer, and the first real approval was executed end to end from the console.
Aug 2026 build
Solved the click a defended page silently drops
Rebuilt browser automation around trusted input after measuring the blind spot: synthetic clicks land but are stamped untrusted, and a defended page drops them with no error to debug.
Aug 2026 build
Shipped /lead-rescue, with the guardrail in the build instead of the README
A Vault skill that revives cold leads and writes the follow-up ladder, and structurally cannot send: the packer fails the build if a send path appears anywhere in the skill.
Aug 2026 build
Gave every credential one source of truth, and made the sync prove itself
After a rotation silently invalidated a recovery bundle, the local env file is now rendered from a 1Password vault instead of hand-edited. 109 variables seeded into 44 items, verified 109 of 109 match.
Aug 2026 build
Shipped /de-slop, and proved the wedge instead of claiming it
The judgment layer above the em-dash remover, split into three tiers by determinism rather than topic, then tested head to head against a blank model on the same draft.
Jul 2026 build
Shipped a member-engagement engine with a zero-LLM runtime
A member-engagement system for a community platform with no public API: campaign batching, weekly digest bundles, and hard guardrails that abort the whole batch on the first unverified send.
Jul 2026 build
Turned the free skills Vault into a real installable library
Members now pull branded skills straight from a private GitHub repo via a collaborator invite instead of downloading a zip. Version-controlled, updatable, revocable per member.
Jul 2026 build
Built /dream, a local memory-curation loop the model cannot game
A reimplementation of the Dreams API curation pattern: extract, gate, single-model judge, then a deterministic script that re-verifies every evidence quote verbatim and enforces a two-session promotion gate.
Jul 2026 build
Shipped a claymation VSL: a 110-second animated sales video
A 15-beat, Wallace & Gromit-style clay-world sales video, live on the Zero to Automated About page: script → AI voiceover → AI-generated living-clay footage → vector composition, built beat-by-beat under human review.
Jun 2026 build
Built /funding-snapshot: live markets dashboard, fully offline
A skill that pulls fresh funding, price, and volatility for any ticker and bakes it into a single offline HTML dashboard. Shipped to the free ZTA Vault.
Jun 2026 build
Shipped the ZTA Authority Engine content system
Two alternating post types, proof posts and news takes, each gated through a 13-persona focus group before it ships, funneling to the free ZTA Vault.
Jun 2026 build
Built /client-pack: branded docs from raw inputs
A brand-config skill that turns raw business inputs into branded proposals and invoices (HTML to PDF, no external service). Built for the free ZTA Vault.
Jun 2026 build
Shipped Windows-PC cowork + Tailscale remote access
Runs the Brain on a Windows box, reachable by SSH from anywhere over a key-only, Mac-locked Tailnet.
February 2026 build
Launched VibeVoice
Launched VibeVoice, my native macOS voice-to-text app: code-signed with a hardened runtime, automatic updates via Sparkle, shipped as a paid product.