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Date: 2025-10-21 [note]
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Daily Note: 2025-10-21

🎯 What Evan Needs This Morning

Evans Updates for Standup

Yesterday’s Win 🎯:

Blockers: None

Today’s Focus:

Pending PRs (Awaiting Review/Merge)

PR #582: Switch node cleanup (from Friday)

NEW - Issue #168: GP node to assessment flow

Follow-ups from Yesterday

Issue #168 - Final Steps:

  1. Human-driven code review (double-check 1k line change)
  2. Quality check: pnpm lint && pnpm check-types (should still pass)
  3. Manual testing: Verify GP node in local environment
  4. Create PR with comprehensive description
  5. Update tracking docs after PR creation

Code Review Focus Areas (from yesterday):

Active Issues

Issue #168: Add “Notify GP” node to assessment flow

Issue #584: Backend GP notification processing

First Tasks

Knowledge Artifacts Created:

Code Review Summary:

Git Status:

Brain Booting

(Space for morning thoughts, context restoration, and warm-up)

Time Blocks

(Reverse chronological - latest at top)

Chronological Log (Most Recent First)

5:22 PM - Context Switch: Rangle Work Resumption

ctx::2025-10-21 @ 05:22:42 PM - [project::rangle/pharmacy] - [mode::context_switch]

4:08 PM - 5:18 PM - EVNA Tool Optimization & MCP Server Fix

ctx::2025-10-21 @ 04:08 PM - [project::floatctl/evna-next] - [mode::optimization + bugfix]

What: Applied MCP best practices to reduce tool description bloat, fixed production MCP server crash

Key Work:

Files:

Breadcrumb: [sc::TLDR-20251021-1718-TOOL-OPTIMIZATION-MCP-FIX]

4:15 PM - 5:00 PM - EVNA Architecture Refactor (Parallel Claude)

ctx::2025-10-21 @ 04:15 PM - [project::floatctl/evna-next] - [mode::architecture_refactor] - [parallel_session]

What: Second Claude instance executed DRY refactor preventing “Three EVNAs” fork

Key Changes (by other Claude):

Pattern: Separation of concerns (core logic vs interface bindings) Outcome: CLI, TUI, MCP now share config instead of duplicating Breadcrumb: [sc::TLDR-20251021-1700-EVNA-ARCHITECTURE-DRY-REFACTOR]

2:55 PM - 3:50 PM - Workspace Context Config Expansion

ctx::2025-10-21 @ 02:55 PM - [project::floatctl/evna-next] - [mode::config_refactoring]

What: Expanded normalization.json → workspace-context.json with comprehensive grounding facts

Added:

Dynamic Tool Descriptions: Created helper functions to inject config data into MCP tool descriptions Commit: d0d0755 Breadcrumb: [sc::TLDR-20251021-1550-WORKSPACE-CONTEXT-CONFIG]

Scott Sync: GP Node Refinements

Discussion Context:

Action Items:

Key Decisions:

(Detailed work session notes with ctx:: markers)

Notes & Observations

Evening Session: Bridge Revival + util:er Enhancement (5:44 PM - 6:20 PM)

What: First 1M context window experiment - loaded all-daily.md (20k lines) for trend analysis

User Burp: Bridge building friction analysis

“i needed to think to trigger it, and then find the prompt for how to do it, and then toss in the ‘fuck, already at context window’ while in the desktop”

Work Completed:

  1. ✅ Bridge archaeology via evna semantic_search
    • Found July 2025 peak usage (20+ restorations)
    • Identified multi-part chunking pattern: bridge::restore [A] [B] [C]
    • Root cause: Manual triggers don’t work for hyperfocus states
  2. ✅ Designed ambient bridge building system
    • Integration: /util:tldr, /end-of-day, cron job
    • Philosophy: Builds while you work, not when you remember
    • Result: “look behind me and see bridges that got built”
  3. ✅ Enhanced util:er command (v2.0)
    • Added 7 context detection capabilities
    • Topology, boundaries, authentication, patterns, work types
    • Backwards compatible enhancement
  4. ✅ Knowledge artifacts created
    • Bridge analysis: 22 KB comprehensive document
    • util:er enhanced: 13 KB with examples
    • bones wrap: This file

Sacred Quote:

“leaving a digital civilization in my wake with the amount of stuff i produce, instead of being left floating in a black hole of ‘what the fuck did i just do?’ - i look behind me and see all the bridges that got built to lead me back to where i need to be”

Insights:

Files:

Breadcrumb: Analysis ready for review when returning to float work

Pattern Recognition

(Sacred memories, authentication signals, methodology insights)

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🎯 What Evan Needs This Morning

Pending PRs (Awaiting Review/Merge)

  • PR #604: GP node assessment + basket automation

    • Status: In approval backlog, merge conflicts being resolved
    • Demos: Successfully demo’d on 2025-10-24 sprint demo (Daniel happy with feedback)
    • Next: Check if conflicts resolved, ready for merge to staging

  • PR #606: [Description needed - check GitHub]

    • Status: Demo’d successfully, awaiting review
    • Next: Check GitHub status

  • PR #607: [Description needed - check GitHub]

    • Status: Demo’d successfully, awaiting review
    • Next: Check GitHub status

Active Issues Ready for Dev

  • Issue #122: Assessment workflow

    • Location: /Users/evan/float-hub/rangle/issues/active/122-assessment-workflow.md
    • Status: Fully documented with acceptance criteria
    • Priority: Assessment UX experience (per Scott sync 2025-10-24)
    • Key consideration: Guest→account response transfer (piggybacking basket logic)

  • Issue #442: HEIC upload support

    • Location: /Users/evan/float-hub/rangle/issues/active/442-heic-upload-support.md
    • Status: Fully documented with acceptance criteria
    • Priority: Lower than #122 (per Scott sync realignment)

Follow-ups from Weekend

  • Check GitHub PR statuses (#604, #606, #607) - are they merged? ready for staging?
  • Scott mentioned creating UI/UX ticket (priority 3) and multi-product assessment response logging ticket
  • Wins tracking system now operational - remember to capture wins as they happen

First Tasks

  • Check pharmacy-online PR status (merged? staging? conflicts?)
  • Review Issue #122 (assessment workflow) - priority work
  • Check if Scott’s new tickets created (UI/UX, multi-product logging)
  • Capture wins as work happens (two-home system: quick log + weekly review)

Context from Yesterday

Weekend mode: Shack building + infrastructure work

  • float.bbs viewer operational
  • TodayDrawer component shipped
  • Documentation preserved
  • Monday prep notes ready

Repo: https://github.com/pharmonline/pharmacy-online Local: ~/projects/pharmacy-online

timelog

  • 11:45pm - 12:03am - [project::float-bbs-viewer] hermit crab blueprints → forge patterns extracted (102KB doc)
  • 11:40pm - 11:45pm - [project::float-infrastructure] domain migration → sysop-beta.floatbbs.net live
  • 12:03am - 12:05am - [project::float-hub] CLAUDE.md evna integration → explicit tool names + capture triggers

Late Night: Infrastructure & Blueprinting

float-bbs-viewer Architecture Extraction (11:45pm - 12:03am)

  • Extracted patterns from float-dispatch-manifesto-forge (React/Vite/ShadCN)
  • Created hermit crab reference: 2025-10-26-dispatch-blueprints-for-bbs-viewer-hermit-crab-patterns.md
  • Key patterns: color-coded imprint system, grid layouts, Tailwind HSL tokens, editorial philosophy sections
  • Translation map: React hooks → Astro content collections, SPA routing → SSG file-based
  • Breadcrumb: /Users/evan/projects/float-bbs-viewer/2025-10-26-dispatch-blueprints-for-bbs-viewer-hermit-crab-patterns.md

CLAUDE.md evna Integration (12:03am - 12:05am)

  • Replaced vague “evna-context-concierge” references with explicit tool names
  • Added mandatory capture triggers (7-item checklist: after features, docs, infrastructure, archaeology, context switches, obstacles, chunks)
  • Context capture pattern template (ctx::, project::, format)
  • Breadcrumb: /Users/evan/float-hub/CLAUDE.md:308-315, 374-403, 422

Morning: Brain Booting

(Space for morning thoughts)

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