The day the autonomous prototype was shut down and the program moved to requirement sessions in the cloud under a rigid issue contract. One plan page published, two pull requests opened, three release candidates still waiting.
🚦 Release candidates needing review
gsm.safety v1.2.0-RC1 — gsm.safety#68 — widget parity with safety.viz v1.6.0; Lane B's first prerequisite
gsm.safety v1.3.0-RC1 — gsm.safety#69 — stacked on v1.2.0; merge forward the same day
open.csr v0.4.0-RC1 — open.csr#75 — the CSR objective is paused; review when convenient
🧭 Decisions needed
Which of the hub's own scaffold to retire now — the nightly roadmap audit and its apply lane, the ideas-triage workflow, the analytics and cost pages, the navigator-era stamps, the decision-log machinery — asked on the standards pull request
The freeze date — the plan assumes ready by Friday 16 October; the exact talk date pins the last week
Version plan for the talk — safety.viz v2.0.0 carrying the app and gsm.safety v2.0.0 carrying the static charts, or a run of minors
The workspace cleanup on the Mac — the stop hooks and merge guard in .claude/settings.json, the dangling skill symlinks, the unloaded launchd plist, and the navigator session still running as pid 88020 all need Jeremy's hands
What happened
Jeremy's handover, delivered by voice and read at the start of the session: the fully autonomous multi-agent prototype is shut down. The readout was hard to argue with — the agent structure held, objectives and memory management were poor, most of the effort went into the orchestration itself, he had to redirect it constantly, and it never produced a release for him to review. The replacement is requirement sessions: five objectives broken into requirements and tasks, one requirement per session, running as long as it takes, with him driving rather than reviewing.
Decisions he made during the day, each recorded on the plan page in his words:
The scaffolding is retired in one obot.agent pull request tagged as the next release; the previous tag and the git history are the archive.
The desktop app is safety.viz-native — a self-contained local HTML and JavaScript app — and the open.gismo app arc parks for the talk.
Sequencing went to a plan page before any session starts.
Tracking becomes rigid: objective issues with requirement issues with linked task issues, every node with a definition of done, filed before a session starts; agents bound to issues and pull requests; nightly comments on the requirement, rolled up on the objective; a standup that reports complete / in progress / blocked and asks nothing that is not a blocked issue.
Every session moves to Claude Code cloud sessions; nothing runs from the Mac through Remote Control.
The merge lane becomes GitHub rulesets — checks and auto-merge on integration branches, his review on release branches — retiring the policy script.
The connected GitHub account is the actor in the cloud; the obotclaw[bot] identity, whose key lives in the Mac's Keychain, retires with it.
The existing charts and app objective issues are reused; three objectives are filed new.
Parity means a static twin for every interactive chart, with no code export from the app.
The standards move to the hub, in more detail than they had, and obot.agent thins to the core of the semi-autonomous approach, written against Claude Code's own best practices.
Late in the day, one design tweak: the five are objectives, not goals, and a session runs one requirement, not one objective — Objectives → Requirements → Tasks, with the requirement's definition of done as the condition the /goal evaluator judges.
What landed
Requirement Sessions: the Mid-October Plan — the five objectives as issue trees with definitions of done, two concurrent cloud sessions, and what the site must show each Friday until the talk. Published twice: once before his four gating answers, once after.
The obot.agent retire pull request — 475 files removed, seven left: the requirement-session skill, the standup routine prompt, the cloud-environments document, and an AGENTS.md that makes complying with the hub's standards the first rule.
The hub standards pull request — three new documents under docs/ (issue contract, ways of working, developer guidelines), the objective template rewritten as completable, a definition-of-done section on the requirement template, a new task template, and the README, AGENTS.md and STANDUP.md rewritten for the model.
What comes next
Jeremy reviews and merges the two pull requests, stops the navigator session, cleans the workspace hooks, creates the three cloud environments and applies the rulesets.
The objective issues are converted and filed under the contract, with their requirement and task trees and definitions of done, for his sign-off.
Lane A starts on the portfolio view and Lane B on the FDA reference data, both in the cloud, once the trees are signed.
This entry was drafted by Claude Code using Fable 5.1 and reviewed by @jwildfire.