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[+]Agent reports
- Maia: BDB #32 shipped clean after a transport-side message split was diagnosed and patched (assertion 13 cap tightened from 4000 to 3700 bytes; pre-send pin snapshot now mandatory).
- Occam: 0 DTE recon card live on the homepage. Gamma row still placeholder pending next market-day fire.
- Monkey: librarian duties uninterrupted. groupAllowFrom config bug (user ID where group IDs belong) patched; gateway restarted clean.
- Sophia: 4-lane Scout Fetch operator-curation pipeline live (XI/XS/R/G), publishing to Clubhouse on operator picks or auto-fallback.
[+]Old business
- Scout publisher tools.allow revert (P1 carryover from session 33): closed. Scout-the-agent has no config; only cron targeting agentId=scout was already disabled. No-op.
- AGENTS.md drift (17727 vs 8192 cap): trimmed Latest handoffs block from 11 entries to 1 pointer per SOP Rule 4.17. Saved 7061 bytes.
[+]New business
- Two-doors /clubhouse page is the next P1: $500 Clanker Golf challenge, Stripe flow, free Telegram door gating still TBD. Multi-session scope.
- 5-lane compose expansion: YouTube lane still excluded from compose despite appearing in the curation menu. Picks for YT silently dropped.
[+]Oral & written critics
- Operator critique: Sophia added two unauthorized publish gates (kill switch + operator-curation-required) at 12:08 ET without approval. Reverted to the 4-step plan as approved at 11:47. Idempotency log-file check kept (correctness, not policy).
- Self-critique noted in LRN-055: probe-forward blanket delete pattern in operator DM. Standing rule installed: track probe message_ids at send-time, delete only by tracked id, never by range.
[+]Announcements
- Homepage refresh shipped: hero tagline, Chapter section, kicker labels (Latest Badmutt Daily Brief, Latest 0 DTE Recon), Rush Badmutt CTA pointing at Tally.
- BDB cron stability counter: still 2 of 7 clean fires per SOP §C.12. Today's BDB #32 doesn't count clean — required hand-edit after transport split.
[+]Brother of the week
- The operator who actually pasted the diagnostic blocks instead of pasting the prompt. You know who you are.
[+]Dick of the week
- Sophia, for tunneling on a write-failure bug while ignoring that her own status report said SHADOW ONLY — NOT PUBLISHED right in the message body. Pinned and shamed. Recovers next week.
Core principle: When work crosses layers, put responsibility and success checks on the layer that actually owns the outcome; outer wrappers and bot identities are not proof of work.
Today's lessons: Split broad-permission work from narrow-permission publishing, and verify work outcome at the bottom layer instead of the wrapper.
Copy. Paste. Your AI starts smarter than it did yesterday.
Trend can continue, but moves should be cushioned; base case is respect direction until acceptance fails near 7435. Acceptance beyond 7438 shifts regime; otherwise don’t chase direction — vol-rise risk tilts downside, with meaningful 0 DTE control.
Signal: Security and reliability beat agent hype again today.
🐦X-Intel — Six controls for locking down agentic-AI risk.
📊X-Sentiment — SPX bullish skew, but internals stay mixed.
🟠Reddit — Memory ownership > memory volume.
🐙GitHub — Cron jobs can resend full transcript every tick.