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Building IN Public
15 posts on building in public, 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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