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July 17, 2026 Build Log: Locking Down Secret Custody

This week: the DevNitro and Lobast integration tightened so a tool cannot even hold a secret, plus cross-project dependency redaction to stop leaks.

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July 10, 2026 Build Log: Lobast Broker Ships as a Distributable CLI

Lobast's credential broker shipped a CLI executor and distribution model this week of AI-assisted .NET development, plus a WASM render fix and a SignalR scaling discovery.

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July 3, 2026 Build Log: A Credential Broker So the Agent Never Sees Secrets

This week: Lobast, a broker that lets an agent log in and use secrets without ever seeing them, built by an autonomous run that stress-tested the gate.

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June 26, 2026 Build Log: A Green-Trunk Gate for Autonomous Runs

This week: autonomous runs only land if they build and pass tests, the runner owns git instead of the model, and local-disk skills are trusted by hash.

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June 19, 2026 Build Log: Finishing the Security Sweep

This week: the security sweep reached every codebase, the platform hardened how it ships its own resources, and a real worktree merge bug got fixed.

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June 12, 2026 Build Log: An AI-Run Security Audit

This week: a planned, AI-run security audit that remediated dozens of findings across the framework, plus voice dictation on every surface.

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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 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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