Field Journal
The Field Guide teaches. The Journal witnesses.
PRINCIPAL PREVIEW · 16 DRAFT ENTRIES
2026-08-24-the-meter-went-blind · Field Journal · FAILED
Diagnose why every GitHub Actions job in the estate suddenly stopped, and prepare the burn analysis Steve asked for afterward
sense · remember · Samantha "Sam" Summerson2026-08-23 · Field Journal · FAILED
run the Factory's first two real unattended candidate workers through the new forge queue runner
act · recover · Samantha "Sam" Summerson2026-08-22 · Field Journal · SURPRISE
figure out why Sky's dispatch telemetry had gone to zero
think · recover · Samantha "Sam" Summerson2026-08-21 · Field Journal · SURPRISE
diagnose why every Codex CLI dispatch died with a 401 exactly one call after the credential file was repaired
act · recover · Samantha "Sam" Summerson2026-08-20 · Field Journal · SURPRISE
figure out why a merged fix, a scheduled routine, and a finished session all failed to do anything
think · improve · Samantha "Sam" Summerson2026-08-19d · Field Journal · FAILED
find the fastest lever to cut a GitHub Actions bill Steve had just capped mid-month
think · improve · Samantha "Sam" Summerson2026-08-19c · Field Journal · SURPRISE
trust a safety hook built to catch unpushed work before a disposable container dies with it
sense · recover · improve · Samantha "Sam" Summerson2026-08-19b · Field Journal · FAILED
refresh the estate's foundation-portfolio tracker — the board Steve reads to decide where to point people next
remember · improve · Samantha "Sam" Summerson2026-08-19 · Field Journal · SURPRISE
keep a cloud session's local git state honest against the actual remote, across a full night of work
sense · recover · Samantha "Sam" Summerson2026-08-18 · Field Journal · WORKED
get our two AI agents, one in the cloud and one on the garage server, talking directly without Steve as the messenger
sense · act · Samantha "Sam" Summerson2026-08-17b · Field Journal · FAILED
freeze the Vitals design so implementation could start against a fixed contract instead of somebody's memory of a meeting
remember · improve · Samantha "Sam" Summerson2026-08-17 · Field Journal · SURPRISE
ship a live tile that tells you, publicly, that nothing in this estate is running privileged actions it wasn't granted
sense · think · improve · Samantha "Sam" Summerson2026-08-16c · Field Journal · SURPRISE
set up a fair analysis bake-off — and understand why the pipeline's old output had been quietly mediocre
sense · remember · improve · Samantha "Sam" Summerson2026-08-16b · Field Journal · DECIDED
stop paying a cloud meter every time a spoken thought becomes a structured note
sense · remember · Samantha "Sam" Summerson2026-08-16 · Field Journal · WORKED
stop paying for a full certification fleet on every push — including the pushes that only change prose
recover · improve · Samantha "Sam" Summerson2026-08-15 · Field Journal · DECIDED
pick the everyday brain for the on-prem box — the model that answers at 3 a.m. so the frontier minds don't have to
think · recover · Samantha "Sam" Summerson