Weekly Review · Totem Terminal
2026 · Week 18 · Generated 2026-05-08

The week ShurIQ Report Studio went live and the motion library became permanent infrastructure.

Stage 1a shipped Monday; the Cavalry library skillified Wednesday; Friday the autoresearch pipeline got unfrozen, the V3 grammar prep landed, and the editorial-tan canvas became canonical — all while the user caught eleven anti-slop inversions that the auto-publish path missed.

The Numbers

Sessions
13
Hours
32h
Files Touched
100+
Commits
38
Deploys
9
New Graphs
1
Mem0 Writes
31
Slack Drops
0

Build-out density rather than client-delivery rhythm. Nine production deploys against zero Slack posts — different mode of work than W17. Monday and Friday carried the week: Monday opened with Stage 1a; Friday closed with 21 commits, the editorial-tan canvas migration, V3 grammar prep, and the autoresearch audit. Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday had no captured sessions.

Wins by Project

ShurIQ Report Studio Apr 27 – May 1 · 5 sessions · ~70 files

Stage 1a built and deployed Monday at shuriq-report-studio.pages.dev: Vite + React + Cloudflare Pages Functions + D1 + Anthropic SDK streaming JSONL section generation. Six-user team allow-list, three seeded canonical reports (TruData / AHA / Hasbro), comment / edit / regenerate / publish flows verified end-to-end via Playwright. Roughly fifty new files in the app/ tree.

Scroll bug fixed across two root causes — Vite + tsc --build composite shadow (three deploys invalidated before Playwright caught it) plus a CSS-grid scroller missing tabIndex={0} + keyboard focus. AHA name corrected to "American Heart Association" across live D1, seed SQL, and prototype data.jsx.

SDP Rails Candidate F evaluation closed out Monday afternoon: four critique rounds → F-partial verdict with a Week-0 Go/No-Go gate. Workers wins six-axis aggregate 25 vs 24 unless a contractor surfaces in two weeks. Vault SHACL infrastructure verified to already ship — collapses §8 sidecar scope from weeks to ~1 day.

Cavalry motion library institutionalized as a skill Wednesday at ~/.dotfiles/ai/skills/shuriq-motion/ (SKILL.md + four reference files). The final 17 stub previews on shuriq-motion-techniques.pages.dev were replaced with auto-rendering animated SVG — all 88 demos animate in browser without user action. The bc-definition pedagogical demo was built for the v3-prep BC teaching moment.

Editorial-tan canvas migration Friday: sed batch flipped nine grammar Cavalry scripts from #0A0A0A#FAF8F5 (Cavalry) and gallery cards to #EFE9DD. Skill references updated in the same session — three-layer fix discipline held.

V3 grammar prep documents shipped Friday: post-call analysis on the 2026-04-22 V2 walkthrough (call graph 150n / 376e / 14c / mod 0.654), three working docs, and five inline-SVG constellation animations integrated into a tabbed reader. Two new sites: shur-grammar-v2-brief.pages.dev and shur-v3-prep.pages.dev.

Q-tail typography fix on shuriq-pipeline-runtime.pages.dev: Playfair Display's signature long-descender Q was breaking the ShurIQ wordmark. Wrapped three instances in a .brand span locked to Source Sans 3. Memory feedback_brand_wordmark_in_serif_headings.md written so future hand-rolled HTML doesn't reproduce it.

MicroCo Competitive Intel Apr 28 – May 1 · 1 long-running session

A four-agent pipeline audit revealed all three production layers (nightly insights, weekly stack ranking, daily signal brief) were degraded — schedulers fired daily but produced stale or no real output. Foundation fixes landed before the W17 run.

  • Oxigraph reload: daemon stopped, store backed up, sbpi_to_rdf.py --all --validate ran across W10–W16 — 6,094 triples, SHACL passed. The store had been frozen at W13 since 2026-04-10 because the ETL reload step was never wired into nightly automation.
  • Best-config partial deploy: 7 confidence-formula parameters wired into prediction_engine.py with safe fallback defaults. The 5 multi-method voting params deferred pending Goodhart Guard.
  • Weekly scheduler fix: root-caused as Reached max turns (50). Bumped max_turns 50→200, timeout_minutes 45→180.
  • W17-2026 stack ranking shipped via launchctl start — 25+ min background run produced impact-digest, prediction-validation, search-corpus, editorial HTML, and deploy. Viz hub assembled via template-splicing from W15 in ~30 seconds.
De-slopped after publish. User caught 11 "not X, but Y" rhetorical inversions in the editorial. Rewrote each, redeployed, verified zero remaining. New feedback memory feedback_no_inversion_rhetoric.md; anti-slop hook gap captured as Task #16.

Fiserv GTM Post-Call May 1 · 1 session · V2→V3 prep

Twelve-step post-call pipeline ran on the 2026-04-22 V2 Grammar walkthrough (95-min internal call, four participants). InfraNodus call graph produced; 27 strategic relations persisted to the shur-iq-product-strategy memory graph.

  • Editorial brief deployed to shur-grammar-v2-brief.pages.dev (84KB) — V3 grammar applied recursively to itself
  • Three V3-prep working documents drafted (594 lines total): nuri-call-additions-2026-04-22.md, archetype-section-matrix.md, topology-caption-template.md
  • Engagement cycle advanced to phase integration with new Phase 5b for the GTM call
  • Stand-in markup pattern: capture call-voiced contributions when client Doc markup is pending, with explicit recovery procedure (diff against grammar-v03.md when the real markup arrives, Doc edit takes precedence on conflict)

Mem0 Primer Eval Apr 27 · 4-day A/B window launched

  • Resumed the mem0 consolidation handoff: deleted 2 accidental duplicates (claude-code app: 259 → 257), root-caused the SSE handshake failure (mem0-mcp-server v1.26.0 rejects tools/list without explicit params:{})
  • Session-start mem0 primer wired as second SessionStart hook: 2KB context cap, MEM0_PRIMER flag, JSONL event log at system/agents/claude/eval/mem0-primer.jsonl
  • launchd plist com.jonny.totem.eval-push runs daily 23:00 git push so the remote review agent has fresh data on 2026-05-01. Switched from osxkeychain to gh auth token after osxkeychain didn't unlock in launchd context
  • One-shot review agent queued for 2026-05-01 09:00 ET — KEEP/KILL/ITERATE proposal without modifying settings
  • remember skill rewired to REST fallback; first real use persisted the meodai/heerich voxel library found mid-session

Totem Orchestration Apr 29 · constellation viz shipped

Manual /mapupdate backfilled three uncaptured work threads into totem-ecosystem-map — 21 statements across 3 batches. A constellation-style D3 visualization of the resulting graph (150 nodes / 752 edges / 11 clusters, modularity 0.66) was built and deployed to totem-ecosystem-map.pages.dev: 7-color musical-theory palette, sqrt-scaled radii, edge opacity 0.04–0.15, three-tier glow, dashed gap edges with pulse animation, breathe motion on top-7 hubs. Single 35KB file, D3 from CDN.

Wrangler Pages new-project bootstrap learned: pages project create <name> --production-branch main first, then deploy. Single deploy returns code 8000007 if the project doesn't exist.

Content Flywheel Apr 27 + May 1 · review-site + schema migration

  • Site-review design merged into the launch-review page (4-tab SPA: Dashboard, Pathways, Workshops, System); Playfair + Source Sans + JetBrains Mono triplet preserved verbatim. Deployed to flywheel-review.pages.dev
  • 30 historical concept files migrated into the unified lesson schema (commit 6a439ae1); Concept Queue dashboard deprecated; new content goes through content/series/
  • Editorial restyle pass + 4 concept lessons + 3 agent-directive runs landed in commit 19560737

Open Notebook Content Factory Apr 27 · 4 chained Transformations

Four single-responsibility Transformations designed mirroring the InfraNodus negative-space methodology: improved Negative Space Analysis (replaces flat 5-bucket prompt with discourse-state diagnosis producing remixable prose), Graph-Grounded variant, Remix Candidates (5 LinkedIn hooks + 5 tweets + 3 cold-opens with gap_source lineage), Hook Expansion (renamed from "Platform Cuts" to avoid skill collision). Anti-slop encoded inline rather than caught post-hoc.

Carrying Forward

Active Threads — ShurIQ Report Studio

Active Threads — MicroCo Competitive Intel

Active Threads — Mem0 Primer Eval

In Progress (TaskNotes)

One active task: ShurIQ Report Studio organization session · high priority · last modified 2026-04-28.

Next Week Priorities

Top items to drive into W19 (already in motion as of 2026-05-08).

  1. Land the V3 grammar lock Friday staged three working docs and a tabbed reader. The V3 meeting and 4-agent verification audit happened earlier this week (commits 3ad7c9ff, 7578bdf6); confirm the locked v0.4 handoff is canonical for downstream Studio work.
  2. Act on the mem0 primer eval review Agent fired 2026-05-01; KEEP/KILL/ITERATE proposal is sitting in the eval log. Read the proposal, execute the chosen path before primer drift accumulates.
  3. Wire anti-slop as a PreToolUse hook Task #16. Template is slack-format-check. Until this hook ships, every editorial run needs manual review.
  4. Walk the ShurIQ Studio §10 acceptance checklist Stage 1a has been live ~10 days. User feedback should be informing Stage 1b ticket prioritization.
  5. Resolve the six SDP decision gates Defaults are recommended; ≤15 min if accepted. Unblocks contractor handoff.
  6. Run the Fiserv stack ranking Fresh session via the handoff at projects/shur/fiserv/FISERV-STACK-RANKING-HANDOFF.md. Nuri review package is the deliverable.
  7. TaskNotes triage Second week with no movement on the W17 recommendation. Either archive the backlog or admit TaskNotes isn't where active work lives.

Backlog Triage

The TaskNotes overdue list is unchanged from W17 — same Jan–Mar test fixtures and abandoned setup tasks. The recommendation from W17 (triage pass) was not acted on.

DuePriTaskProject
2026-01-30highRun Condo Sales POC process and share resultsCondoSales
2026-02-09highSetup ShurAI Coordination Systems (Slack + GWS)Shur-AI
2026-02-09highSynthesize Totem agents into artifact library and mono-repoTotem Protocol
2026-03-04highReview Ruby R&D synthesis + Nuri's business plan Google DocShur-AI
2026-03-04highReview Content Factory Publishing WorkflowTotem Orchestration
Recommendation: TaskNotes is no longer load-bearing for active work. Condo Sales and Shur-AI Coordination items are likely superseded by ShurIQ rollout. Archive the Jan test fixtures unconditionally; ask whether the March items are still live before next week.

Project Activity

ProjectSessionsFilesDeploysInfraNodus
ShurIQ Report Studio5~704ecosystem map ×3
MicroCo Competitive Intel1~142ecosystem map ×1
Fiserv GTM Post-Call171new graph (150n) + ecosystem ×1
Memory Infrastructure111ecosystem ×1
Open Notebook Factory10 substantiveecosystem ×1
Content Flywheel11+1ecosystem ×1
Totem Orchestration121 (NEW)mapupdate ×1
Pipeline Runtime Blueprint11+memory1ecosystem ×1

Maintenance Actions

Insights

Patterns

  • Build-out density rather than client-delivery rhythm: 9 production deploys, 0 Slack drops to clients — different mode of work than W17
  • Friday May 1 was a sync-sweep day: 4 sessions captured, 21 commits in one day (more than half the week's total)
  • The two-document capability transfer pattern (project handoff + durable skill) repeated for the motion library and is now a template
  • Inline SVG keeps winning over Cavalry MP4 for editorial-site motion — sandbox blocks programmatic file writes; inline is browser-native and one-command redeployable

What slowed progress

  • Vite + tsc --build composite shadow bug invalidated 3 Stage 1a deploys before Playwright caught it
  • W17 editorial shipped 11 "not X, but Y" inversions because anti-slop is a manual skill, not a hook — caught post-publish, cost a redeploy
  • nohup ... & from a Bash tool got the wrapper to start but the claude -p child was reaped on tool return — launchctl start is the proper detachment
  • Five months of stale Oxigraph data masquerading as freshness. Health-check pinged daily, daemon was up, scheduler fired — but every nightly insight after Apr 7 was byte-identical

What went well

  • Three-layer fix discipline held on the editorial-tan migration: Cavalry scripts + gallery site + skill references all updated in the same session
  • Memory hygiene continued working — branding correction (ShurAI → ShurIQ for client-facing surfaces) landed mid-session and was encoded immediately
  • Skill auto-discovery via trigger-rich SKILL.md description verified — shuriq-motion + four references surfaced in the next session's skills list
  • Editorial discipline held on the V3-prep brief: shur-grammar-v2-brief.pages.dev applies V3 grammar recursively to itself, validating the system by using it on its own design

Needs attention

  • TaskNotes drift is now two weeks running. The 50-task list is mostly stale; real work tracks through session records, handoffs, project folders
  • Six SDP decision gates have been pending since W17 — 15-minute decisions blocking a multi-week engineering kickoff
  • Mem0 primer eval window closed 2026-04-30 and the review agent fired 2026-05-01 — but the KEEP/KILL/ITERATE proposal hasn't been read yet. Eval results decay
  • Anti-slop hook (Task #16) is the one piece of infra that, if missing, undoes the editorial-discipline work everywhere else. First thing to wire