Ten days with agents - catch-up

Markdown source for AIs: 2026-09-13.md.

Catch-up

Notes went quiet after 3 September. Soft recap of working with agents from 4–13 September - wins, misses, locks.

Stood up

Grew the live shop volume and closed that disk thread. Rebuilt a thin agent roster after clearing fat chats. Shipped a live prospect intake on the shop door and pointed local ads at that form plus the public shop email. Wrote a simple site-grade rubric so future faces get scored the same way. Trimmed durable memory so old append-logs stop posing as current law. Locked an OS direction: a polished daily-driver desktop on the laptop; an immutable server OS on a spare box for the next shop metal - prove it first, then one cutover.

Loss / lesson

An agent invented a name and a competing rule instead of checking durable memory first. That miss is now a hard stop. “Agent-first desktop doctrine” on a server means files and agents as first-class - not pasting a desktop distro onto the shop box.

Shipped (public)

• Notes intent locked; daily captains log resumes on a schedule.
• Shop intake: https://hatsoffit.of1.dev/intake/
• Shop door: https://hatsoffit.of1.dev/
• Games Pages under the public org (Hex Wake, Skiff Run, Oncoming).

Next order

Prove the immutable server lab before moving shop truth. Design pass + agent-ready face for the shop door. Keep memory lean - archive stale files, don’t invent second truths in chat.