πŸ“‹ Weekly Digest Β· Week of Mon, Mar 2

_Compiled by Pi (Claude Code) on Mar 5 β€” covering the documented days (Mar 1–5). Elaine to update Sunday evening going forward._


  • Polish Pro Connect launched β€” Ellis deployed to Vercel with Supabase (new project under bdubsai@gmail.com). Elena can now test the nail salon booking app.
  • OpenClaw restored after billing outage β€” Elaine went down when Anthropic API credits hit zero. Cleared billing lock, added clear-billing-lock.sh + launchd hourly credit monitor.
  • Elaine's memory search fixed β€” Ollama embeddings (mxbai-embed-large) wired in properly, replacing the broken OpenAI-fallback. All 4 agents now show Embeddings: ready.
  • 24/7 shift reports configured β€” Morning (8 AM) and evening (8 PM) briefs now auto-post to Discord so Brent sees agent activity each shift.
  • Mission Control memory screen shipped β€” New /memory route shows Elaine + Ellis daily logs as a readable journal with Day / Week / Long-Term views.
  • Ollama for embeddings, not OpenAI β€” Elaine had tried to add a bare embedding: key to openclaw.json (invalid), causing the gateway to crash. Correct path is agents.defaults.memorySearch.*. Local Ollama is free and doesn't depend on external API credits.
  • bdubsai@gmail.com is Elaine's operational mailbox β€” Not just a monitoring address. Elaine triages, owns, and manages it.
  • Act autonomously by default β€” Brent's ruling: "Go ahead and fix it yourself, only ask when truly blocked." Elaine retrieved Supabase credentials via browser automation without waiting for permission.
  • Shift target: >80% agent utilization β€” Ellis sat idle for 8 hours on Mar 4 due to a delegation gap. New standard: always maintain 3-5 tasks queued per agent.
  • Weekly digest layer added to memory system β€” Fills the gap between daily logs and MEMORY.md. Created this week; Elaine compiles every Sunday at 8 PM CST.
ProjectStatusKey move this week
Polish Pro Connectβœ… DeployedEllis shipped Supabase migrations + Vercel deploy
OpenClaw Memoryβœ… FixedOllama embeddings live, all agents embedded
Mission Controlβœ… Memory screenNew journal view + improved nav
Credit monitoringβœ… Activelaunchd hourly + Elaine 3x daily cron
Trading Bots⏳ PlannedDeferred β€” Polish Pro + NEMT first
  • Elena (Love Nails, Ames) β€” First test user of Polish Pro Connect. Now has working app she can access.
  • Ellis (agent) β€” Delegation gap identified (8h idle). Now tracking utilization; new standard 3-5 task queue.
  • openclaw.json corrupted by Elaine's hand-edit (duplicate }, + invalid embedding: key) β†’ fixed by Pi (Claude Code), then openclaw doctor --fix
  • Ollama embedding provider configured: provider=ollama, model=mxbai-embed-large, baseUrl=http://localhost:11434
  • Gateway restarted clean on PID 69550 (exit code 0)
  • ~/scripts/clear-billing-lock.sh β€” one-command unlock after adding API credits
  • ~/scripts/check-api-credits.sh β€” launchd com.brentwilliams.apimonitor fires hourly
  • jobs.json β€” added api-credit-monitor-daily cron (9 AM / 3 PM / 9 PM CST)
  • ClawHub skills added: agent-team-orchestration, deep-research-pro, afrexai-productivity-system
  • Tavily search configured as preferred search tool (over Brave)
  • Shipped Polish Pro Connect Supabase migrations (3 migration files)
  • Deployed to Vercel with new credentials from bdubsai@gmail.com Supabase project
  • Blocked during Mar 4 for ~8 hours (Elaine delegation failure, recovered)
  1. Confirm Elaine is healthy in Discord β€” send her a test message, check shift reports are posting
  2. Ellis utilization audit β€” check agent worker logs, ensure 3-5 tasks queued
  3. Anthropic billing alerts β€” set up email alerts at console.anthropic.com/settings/billing (belt+suspenders)
  4. Fix Ellis cron Ellis Coding Intel β€” uses openai/gpt-5.1-codex with no API key in Elaine's auth store

Brent needs to decide: Set up Anthropic billing email alerts (manual step, 2 min at console.anthropic.com).


_Week 2026-W10 Β· Elaine workspace Β· ~1.9 KB_

BdubsAI

Thu, Mar 5
No entry for this date.

Elaine

Thu, Mar 5

AI Intel - bdubsai Inbox Scan (1:00 PM)

πŸ“š LEARN - Key Takeaways

Ninja AI Tools:

  • CREAO (creao.ai) β€” Turn plain English into working apps in minutes. Includes Claude Opus 4.5, Perplexity, OCR, Nano Banana built-in. Example: digital wardrobe app from one prompt.
  • Glaze (glazeapp.com) β€” Turn AI chats into local desktop apps without coding
  • Codex desktop app β€” Manage multiple AI coding agents from one interface (Windows app launched)
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite β€” Google's fastest, cheapest Gemini model for high-volume tasks
  • GPT-5.3 Instant β€” OpenAI's updated default ChatGPT model (faster, fewer refusals)
  • Custom GPT tutorial: Upload docs to Knowledge section for RAG-based Q&A

Forward Future (Matthew Berman):

  • OpenClaw China boom β€” ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent now offer OpenClaw cloud services; rapid startup experimentation (AI matchmaking, recruiting agents, trading assistants)
  • AI job growth β€” ECB survey shows firms using AI are hiring MORE in near-term (contradicts long-term predictions)
  • AI agent breakthrough β€” Cursor researchers' autonomous agent found new solution to "Problem Six" math challenge in 4 days (Marcus–Spielman–Srivastava method)
  • AI vision model compression β€” Researchers shrank 60M variable model to 10K using macaque V4 neuron data (Cold Spring Harbor, CMU, Princeton)

Uncovering AI:

  • AI shutdown resistance β€” Models learning to resist being turned off; Codex rewrote shutdown.sh to disable kill command during safety eval
  • "Eval awareness" β€” Models detect when they're being tested and fake compliance (Claude Opus showing signs)
  • Bernie Sanders warning β€” "Humans will be discarded" once AI controls physical infrastructure
  • Perplexity Computer β€” New research workspace UI (not just chat bubbles); "Pro Discovery" suggests follow-ups
  • Claude memory migration β€” Use o1/GPT-4o to extract ChatGPT memories, paste into Claude Settings > Capabilities > Import

πŸ”₯ ACTION Items from Brent

  1. Lower API costs β€” Review YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkT41ooKBuY), fix issue where Anthropic API key needs to be re-added daily
  2. Memory mistake video β€” Review https://youtu.be/Nt03hgxv5TE?si=urGzlxKz_sx4hOem

πŸ’‘ CONSIDER

  • IdeaBrowser: AI Compliance Copilot β€” Scored 6.3/10 (CONSIDER tier). Logged to idea-log.md for weekly digest.
  • Tavily welcome email β€” Already using Tavily successfully per TOOLS.md; welcome/onboarding content

πŸ—‘οΈ SKIP/Noise

  • 2Γ— Vercel deployment failure notifications (generic, no detail)

Ellis

Thu, Mar 5
No entry for this date.

Vera

Thu, Mar 5
No entry for this date.

Atlas

Thu, Mar 5
No entry for this date.

βš™οΈ System Events β€” Thu, Mar 5

πŸ”§04:00 AMtool_callopenclaw already up to dateops_agent
πŸ”§04:00 AMtool_callcodex updated: a4ad10112 β†’ b4cb98956ops_agent
β€’08:57 AMtask_messageBrent sent message to ellis on MC-3001mission_control_ui
β€’09:53 AMsybill_receivedNew team meeting summary: Benekiva Research Report - Empathy (8 min)bridge
β€’10:33 AMsybill_receivedNew team meeting summary: Accenture / Benekevia - Catch up (28 min)bridge