2026-07-04
The record joins the rubric
The judging-criteria case now lives on the main page too, and the portal was brought in line to match.
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The build log
Built in the open. Every change, dated. The machine-readable version lives in the repo.
2026-07-04
The feed box gets room to breathe
Widened and given more height. It was too cramped to paste a real paragraph of slop into.
2026-07-04
The portal: the record gets a player
All 8 tracks extended into 6-10 minute reworks, each with its own intro, outro, and drop, built from stems Demucs pulled apart earlier today. A new /portal page mounts them in a real Winamp-style deck (Kris's own player, wired in from GitHub), covers and all, alongside a hero loop video study.
2026-07-04
Album cover art, first pass
Rafiki generated flash-draft candidates for all 8 tracks. Four starred as keepers, one rejected, three still undecided; the starred four get re-run at full resolution next.
2026-07-04
Demo receipts
Screenshots, presentation notes, a capture script, and the real judging criteria, all committed so the pitch has paper to back it up.
2026-07-04
README and AGENTS.md, synced
Both brought current with everything actually shipped today, not the plan from this morning.
2026-07-04
FEED and roast get real stage presence
Both results now get the same visual weight as the refusal onscreen, instead of reading as an afterthought next to it.
2026-07-04
The crystal meets the brand
Soft glow and real display type brought the live crystal in line with the brand identity page instead of drifting from it.
2026-07-04
The three minutes, locked
The stage script against the real rubric: the one-breath explanation, five beats, three paste-ready fixtures. Demo fixtures tagged as intentional slop so the voice checker doesn't flag its own bait.
2026-07-04
The real judging criteria land
Reconciled against the real emailed rubric: three prizes, not the four quadrants from the kickoff transcript. Shipped alongside: MediaPipe Hands gesture control for the crystal, an in-app photo roast (sandboxed), a merch storefront mock, and the anti-slop engine's chaos-mode counterpart, a weaponize direction that mirrors the order-mode de-slop pipeline.
2026-07-04
Agent onboarding, documented
Knowledge, playbook, and swarm automation written up so the next agent picking up this repo isn't starting cold.
2026-07-04
The Mirror, reconciled
Three sessions today built overlapping scope as separate PRs. Kept the most complete one as the base, ported over CI's widened voicecheck scan (now covers .tsx/.ts/.jsx/.js, not just prose files) and the Rafiki design work from the others. Rehearsing the merged result surfaced one real bug neither PR's own tests caught: a feeding that tips the chaos meter over threshold could show its plain rewrite under the refusal banner instead of an actual refusal line. Fixed.
2026-07-04 · hacking hour 7
The voice gate becomes a skill
The vendored voice checker is now a real skill (skills/voicecheck/SKILL.md) instead of a bash command an agent has to remember. Verified against a paragraph stuffed with nine banned words (all nine flagged) and a clean paragraph (zero flags).
2026-07-04 · hacking hour 6
The album finishes its lyric sheet
Five new tracks written: Crystallize, The One Who Says No, Crew, Faux Work, and Still Point. All 8 tracks on the record now have lyrics, every one passing the voice checker vendored in this repo.
2026-07-04 · hacking hour 5
Rehearsed, twice, clean
Ran the full demo arc end to end twice with Playwright driving a real browser: Order to Chaos and back, both slop fixtures, the REFUSAL firing, the honestly-human line getting praised instead of rewritten. Zero console or network errors. One real finding from actually rehearsing it: the REFUSAL overlay's 3.6-second window was too short to gesture at and read aloud. Extended to 7 seconds.
2026-07-04 · hacking hour 4
The eval harness actually exercises the arc
npm run eval now behaviorally checks all 10 gold-set cases directly against lib/judge and lib/chaos: scores, tells, gift/praise routing, chaos accumulation, the refusal threshold, and the offline path's zero-network guarantee. 31/31 green.
2026-07-04 · hacking hour 3
The refusal, live
When three feedings push the chaos meter past threshold, the order facet interrupts on screen with a one-line refusal, then the meter drops back partway (never to zero) and the crystal visibly calms. A live-LLM judge path exists in the code but stays inert without an Anthropic key; the offline toggle (?offline=1) forces the deterministic path regardless of key or network.
2026-07-04 · hacking hour 2
FEED + GIFT, offline by default
A deterministic, zero-network judge scores pasted text, de-slops it in plain English keeping the person's own words, or praises it outright when it's already clean. This is the permanent offline fallback, not a placeholder. Injection attempts get an in-character refusal with no prompt leakage; unconsented third-party roasts get declined, in voice.
2026-07-04 · hacking hour 1
The real crystal
Obsidian glass via MeshTransmissionMaterial, a procedural in-browser environment for reflections, and a visible trapped red core. The chaos tell becomes reverse-phi: facet edges never move, only their color cycles with a phase offset per edge, so the crystal breathes without the mesh moving. Intensity is now continuous (0-100), not binary.
2026-07-04
The art gets a paper trail
Logo lockup and per-facet background prompts written for all 8 album tracks, plus a square album-cover spec and 9 cover prompts. Favicon, social preview, and a colophon gallery wired from the first Rafiki keepers; the five unused default Next.js icons are gone.
2026-07-04 · pre-dawn
The vertical slice
The repo becomes a runnable object: Next.js shell, react-three-fiber crystal, Order/Chaos state, reduced-motion guard, eval stub, green build.
2026-07-03 · night
The Mirror pivot
The step-back critique lands: mirror, not portrait. One arc: feed, chaos, refusal, gift. OS.md becomes the constitution. The danger stays in.
2026-07-03
The Dark Crystal is born
One night: a voice OS with a working slop checker, a neo-noir identity, a concept album started, a site shell, and a work queue shaped like tomorrow.