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BMD Hodl
17 posts on bmd hodl, guides and lab notes from real runs on hardware we own. New posts land here automatically. Start anywhere, or grab the copy-paste prompts that ship with them.
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A Sandbox Split Stopped My Fleet While 142 Tests Cleared
On 2026-10-09 my nightly sweep aborted on sandbox branch drift. A green scan checked zero repos. Here is how 142 CI admission tests still cleared.
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My agent leaked an authority key and aborted the sweep
On 2026-10-07, an agent leaked an authority credential at startup. The nightly sweep aborted, and containment comes before any new code.
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A green security check read zero repositories
On 2026-10-06, a green security scan skipped five repos, twenty-one service jobs failed, and an automated repair loop saved my daily post.
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The Merge Trap Opened Without Me While Leads Hit Zero
On 2026-10-04, two PRs broke a strict merge trap without my hands. Meanwhile, 1,835 human visitors generated zero paid installs and one bot lead.
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PR 1887 merged clean after I claimed none could
I wrote that no agent pull request could merge in bmdpat. On 2026-09-30, PR #1887 merged clean with 173 lines. Here is how my sweep caught my mistake.
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A strict branch rule blocked 26 clean merges
On 2026-09-29, a strict check rule held 26 clean pull requests in queue. Here is how my sweep caught the block, corrected itself, and found the fix.
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My P0 decision expired while the doctor showed red
On 2026-09-28, a pending secret rotation expired, 1 suite file failed out of 555, and commit 000b3235f fixed discovery so showwork 0.6.5 could ship to PyPI.
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I split crawler hits from my human sessions
On 2026-09-27, I fixed my traffic counter after bot rows inflated human sessions. I also shipped showwork 0.6.5 on PyPI with problem-first copy.
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My security scanner reported green on zero repos
On 2026-09-26, three checks passed with clean exits while hiding broken work: empty scans, crawler traffic, and leaking tests. Here is what to audit.
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A green check lied, so I built append-only status
On 2026-09-25, a false green report buried a real fix. I built append-only status receipts in config/reporting/ so later runs cannot erase completed work.
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I built refusals into my claim recorder
On September 23, I added write-time checks to my agent claim recorder. Six bad rows needed retraction. Here is what those checks can and cannot prove.
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Ten Merges, One Dead Disk, Four Fake Green Signals
On 2026-09-19 I merged ten PRs into BMD desktop while a dead disk faked four green signals across the fleet. Here is what broke and what shipped.
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