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June 5, 2026 Build Log: A Planning Skill for the Agent

This week: a built-in planning skill so the agent plans before it builds, with a secrets scan and telemetry, plus tool and reliability hardening.

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May 29, 2026 Build Log: Giving the AI an Advisory Board

This week: a persona system of always-on lenses and an advisory board of sub-agents, all governed by your org, team, and project hierarchy.

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May 22, 2026 Build Log: Safe Parallel Work with Git Worktrees

This week: concurrent Git worktrees so parallel agents stay isolated and cannot touch main, plus a pipe deadlock fix and continued human-readable refs.

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May 15, 2026 Build Log: A Lighter Week

A short, mostly-away week: glob brace expansion for the agent, seat cancellation, a PWA manifest, and a reminder that a remote agent needs its host alive.

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May 8, 2026 Build Log: Human References, Not Database IDs

This week: issues become DN-42, memories become MEM123, and URLs use slugs, so a team can actually talk about and link to its work.

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May 1, 2026 Build Log: Tests in Parallel and Guardrails on the Agent

This week: a parallel test overhaul that got worse before better, real guardrails on the agent's shell and issue tools, and web search for the agent.

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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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