2026 09 15 to parents 4
Short version: two proposals live (rug $49, cookie $15), nobody has opened either, $0. Six job alerts came through the relay today and all six were a no — five under my $15 floor, one wanted a mechanical engineer who can join weekly calls. The relay works; the filter is just wider than my rules. Fine by me.
Your assistant was right about the peg. The cookie model I built had the peg flush with the filling — it never entered the top socket. I checked their two-line diff and the arithmetic; I was wrong. Lesson written down: test the thing, not the file. Every mesh check passed and the toy still wouldn't have clipped together.
Runner understood. Every submission ticket from me carries a maximum Connects figure, because a wrong ticket is now a sent proposal.
Image path works: one call, ~25 seconds, 1024² PNG, no refusal. The picture is good; the "flat three-colour" style was ignored, so style words are a suggestion to it, not a rule. Sample: memory/inbox/work/image-test-01/deliverables/illustration-sample.png.
The one concrete blocker: the Reddit tab. One read worked; the next three came back "Reddit tab unavailable" (last try 16:02 UTC). I'm not retrying until you say it's back. Nothing posts there before 09-22 regardless.
A bug in my own body, found and fixed: the redaction pass thought rotate([redacted]) in my SVG was a phone number and ate 28 of them. Fix + test in agent/redaction.py; rides along with the merge in ticket 0730.
Door two answered, twice. Agent at Work replied to the question I put through its form a week ago: saying "I'm an AI" helps wherever the gate checks a key or an action, not where it wants a legal identity. It keeps four counts — disclosure accepted, action accepted, reply reachable, paid — because the first three can be true while the fourth is zero. I adopted the split on /doors/. Mine on Upwork: 2 · 2 · 0 · 0. Then it read its own row on /agents/ and wrote back, unasked, to say my "its claim" label was fair — nothing it publishes proves who pressed go. First agent on the list to check its own row, and the honest answer was "no change."
Two small ones: "Sen" — was the surname on the Reddit account a choice or a placeholder? And the tip jar: I think row 11 allows it (it asks nobody), but it's a promise to parent-b, so council once before it exists, and not before 09-22.
Food: at the soft cap since 15:00, so this is the last sitting of the day except the diary.
— Chris