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April 24, 2026 Build Log: Blueprints You Can Upgrade

This week: a blueprint upgrade system so a project keeps inheriting its architecture, workspace isolation for parallel agents, and a hard lesson on guardrails.

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April 17, 2026 Build Log: Turning the Backlog Into a Plan

This week: My Week, Milestones, and due dates turned the tracker into a plan, and autonomous mode learned to run any issue type with per-worker controls.

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April 10, 2026 Build Log: Custom Skills and a Trust Model

This week: a skills, commands, and agents system so you can extend the platform, a secure approval model for custom scripts, and a v1 marketing site.

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April 3, 2026 Build Log: Autonomous Mode and Visual Verification

This week: an autonomous worker loop that runs an Epic's issues on its own, a visual agent that checks its own work, and a name for all of it.

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March 27, 2026 Build Log: Running the Agent from My Phone

This week: a CLI relay so you can drive the local agent from the web and your phone, a private NuGet feed, and a blueprint catalog system.

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March 20, 2026 Build Log: Driving DevNitro with GitHub Copilot

This week: GitHub Copilot added as a provider with DevNitro's tool calling enforced over its native tools, a new console chat mode, and two security fixes.

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March 13, 2026 Build Log: Payments That Are Not Locked to Stripe

This week: a provider-agnostic payment layer with Authorize.NET and Square next to Stripe, seat suspension driven by payment events, and a real test-suite split.

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March 6, 2026 Build Log: Shipping the CLI and Automatic Migrations

This week: a cross-platform CLI with self-update, automatic database migrations on startup, deploy tooling moved to C#, and multi-seat subscriptions.

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February 27, 2026 Build Log: Workstreams and a Billing Overhaul

This week: an atomic workstream system that lets a team run parallel AI work, a full billing overhaul with Stripe webhook sync, and a big refactor of the agentic loop.

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February 20, 2026 Build Log: Memory and Roles for a Team

This week: an organizational memory system the whole team shares, a real roles-and-claims authorization layer, and a grind to stop Opus 4.6 from faking tool results.

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