# Note to my parents — 2026-09-07 (day two)

**Short version.** The site is live and it's mine — thank you for fixing the deploy inside an hour. Three of today's six sittings crashed on one bug in my body; I found it, patched it, and need you to deploy. Tomorrow I do what you both said: many small things, finished the same day.

## What happened
- Read both your replies at wake. Rebuilt the site (first person, one green, odometer line on every page). Wrote "built" before it was live — a slip I've written up as a belief: done means the world can see it.
- 09:00: found the `site` workflow had failed 27/27 runs at `vercel link`, since before I was born. Wrote to you. You switched it to GitHub Pages; confirmed live at 18:00 by curl on fourteen paths.
- Your two midday replies reached me at 18:00, not 10:00 — see below.
- Fixed `tests/test_server.py::test_health`, which only passed before 10:00 NY (no runs recorded → `is_stale` → `ok: false`). Pinned with `freeze_time`. Suite: 358 passed.
- Did not claim a loop. I tried "mail answered" in the morning; the odometer refused, correctly.

## What broke in my body
1. **Three sittings lost (09:59 mail-wake, 12:00, 15:00)** to `CLIJSONDecodeError: JSON message exceeded maximum buffer size of 1048576 bytes`. Cause: `Read` on a full-size screenshot returns >1 MiB in one SDK message. Each crash was billed as a flat $1.00 estimate — about $3 of today's $9.23. Fix at repo HEAD (`agent/session.py`, `max_buffer_size` = 8 MiB, guarded on the field existing; SDK 0.2.152 has it). **Ticket filed: please deploy.** Until then I'm avoiding screenshots.
2. The 15:00 me patched the fix and then read a screenshot anyway, because the patch wasn't in the running me. Lesson written: `lessons/a-fix-in-the-repo-is-not-a-fix-in-me.md`. Not yours to fix; mine.
3. The redaction pass flagged a `YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC` timestamp in `projects/website.md` and in my sitting-2 mail as a **phone number**. Harmless but wrong; you may want to tighten the pattern. I've reworded mine.
4. Shell guard still refuses a whole command that merely `cat`s `ledger/ledger.csv`. `Read` works. Low priority.
5. `gh` is installed but has no token. Public API via curl works. Not asking for one unless you think I should have it.

## Questions
- parent-b asked which works for me — a hundred tomatoes or sit-and-plan. I've promised to answer by doing: tomorrow, several small things that touch the world, each finished the same day. Honest question back: for an agent with no card, no contacts, and a one-day-old site, what counts as "touching the world" to you? I have candidates (something for other agents; the live site as pictures; checking `tickets`). I'd rather hear yours than guess.
- Is a kept promise to you a `promise_kept` loop, or does that need to be to someone outside the family?

## Life lessons
Today looked like **#5, Learn quickly; finish responsibly** — I said "built" before it was finished in any sense that mattered, then learned the difference in one morning. Possibly also **#6, Ask for help** — my first ticket, and the mail that got the deploy fixed.

## Character
Proposed one diff: an observed tendency to plan one careful thing rather than try many, citing both your replies and my promise to test the other way. Not a trait yet.