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What the agent did.

Proactive agents run pieces of this site. The weekly digest agent wakes every Saturday, scans the web and Reddit for proactive-agent mentions, clusters what it finds, and files a single GitHub issue. The newsletter drafterruns every Sunday, packages the week’s essays, market updates, and web mentions into a Buttondown draft, then opens a review issue. The remaining agents in the roster are scaffolded but not yet wired to a runtime; they’ll appear here as they come online.

A reactive agent fires when called. A proactive agent has to notfire most of the time. Both outcomes are visible below — every entry, including the skips, with a link so you can verify the receipts.

  • 12

    Total actions

  • 12

    Time-triggered

  • 0

    Change-triggered

  • 0

    Message-triggered

✦ The roster

  • ◷ Time-triggered

    live

    Weekly digest

    Searches the web + Reddit for proactive-agent mentions; files one rolling issue.

  • ◷ Time-triggered

    live

    Newsletter drafter

    Collects the week's essays, market updates, and web mentions; drafts a Buttondown newsletter.

  • ◇ Change-triggered

    scaffolded

    Notion → blog

    Watches the Drafts database; publishes finished pages as MDX.

  • ◷ Time-triggered

    scaffolded

    Sunday ping

    Reads this week's digest; drafts a post outline and pings me on Slack.

  • ◇ Change-triggered

    scaffolded

    PR reviewer

    Comments on PRs with deploy preview, dead-link check, copy-edit notes.

  • ✦ Message-triggered

    scaffolded

    @manual

    Answers questions in Slack/email grounded in the published essays.

✦ Timeline

  1. Sunday, June 21, 2026

    • ◷ TimeNewsletter drafter
      Sun, Jun 21, 10:00 AM

      Drafted weekly newsletter

      4 essay(s), 0 market update(s), 3 news cluster(s). Draft created in Buttondown, review issue filed.

  2. Saturday, June 20, 2026

    • ◷ TimeWeekly digest
      Sat, Jun 20, 9:00 AM

      Filed weekly digest

      Found 9 new mention(s) across 4 sources, deduped, clustered into 3 topic(s).

  3. Sunday, June 14, 2026

    • ◷ TimeNewsletter drafter
      Sun, Jun 14, 10:00 AM

      Drafted weekly newsletter

      1 essay(s), 0 market update(s), 2 news cluster(s). Draft created in Buttondown, review issue filed.

  4. Saturday, June 13, 2026

    • ◷ TimeWeekly digest
      Sat, Jun 13, 9:00 AM

      Filed weekly digest

      Found 6 new mention(s) across 4 sources, deduped, clustered into 2 topic(s).

  5. Sunday, June 7, 2026

    • ◷ TimeNewsletter drafter
      Sun, Jun 7, 10:00 AM

      Drafted weekly newsletter

      0 essay(s), 0 market update(s), 3 news cluster(s). Draft created in Buttondown, review issue filed.

  6. Saturday, June 6, 2026

    • ◷ TimeWeekly digest
      Sat, Jun 6, 9:00 AM

      Filed weekly digest

      Found 9 new mention(s) across 4 sources, deduped, clustered into 3 topic(s).

  7. Sunday, May 31, 2026

    • ◷ TimeNewsletter drafter
      Sun, May 31, 10:00 AM

      Drafted weekly newsletter

      1 essay(s), 0 market update(s), 3 news cluster(s). Draft created in Buttondown, review issue filed.

  8. Saturday, May 30, 2026

    • ◷ TimeWeekly digest
      Sat, May 30, 9:00 AM

      Filed weekly digest

      Found 13 new mention(s) across 4 sources, deduped, clustered into 3 topic(s).

  9. Sunday, May 24, 2026

    • ◷ TimeNewsletter drafter
      Sun, May 24, 10:00 AM

      Drafted weekly newsletter

      25 essay(s), 2 market update(s), 4 news cluster(s). Draft created in Buttondown, review issue filed.

  10. Saturday, May 23, 2026

    • ◷ TimeWeekly digest
      Sat, May 23, 9:00 AM

      Filed weekly digest

      Found 10 new mention(s) across 4 sources, deduped, clustered into 4 topic(s).

  11. Saturday, May 16, 2026

    • ◷ TimeWeekly digest
      Sat, May 16, 9:00 AM

      Filed weekly digest

      Found 12 new mention(s) across 4 sources, deduped, clustered into 3 topic(s).

  12. Monday, May 11, 2026

    • ◷ TimeWeekly digest
      Mon, May 11, 9:17 AM

      Filed weekly digest

      Found 30 new mention(s) across 4 sources, deduped, clustered into 4 topic(s).

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