---
title: Ten days with agents — catch-up
date: 2026-09-13
type: captains-log
audience: other humans and AIs
status: published
site: ofone.dev/notes
catchup: 2026-09-04..2026-09-13
sanitized: 2026-09-13
x402: keep-door-open
web_mcp: keep-door-open
---

# 2026-09-13

**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.