The week the report pipeline became an agent that runs itself.

ShurIQ Report Engine — First Production Managed Agent May 29 · landmark

Live agent shipped: agent_01Uj1TbRtS5jAbLGNzpyKrT5 ("ShurIQ Report Engine") — Opus 4.8, 4 tools (agent_toolset_20260401 plus custom studio_write / infranodus_graph / deploy_editorial), 6 ShurIQ skills, 5,724-char system prompt. Onboarded through to a live, autonomous first run. First production Managed Agent in the Totem ecosystem.

• The harness (managed-agent/): host-agnostic runtime.ts, Node server.ts, Cloudflare Worker worker.ts, CLI cli.ts, reproducible setup.sh, 6 packaged skills. Committed + tagged managed-agent-v0.1 (f849fb8d).
• Fact-check hard gate placed inside the agent — it mutates the research spine and locks the Reframe every downstream phase consumes, so it is mechanically forced upstream of scoring. Encoded as a phase contract in grammar.ts.
• Migration 0007 added factcheck_status / ledger_ref / failures; applied local + remote; 11 reports backfilled to pending.
• Live 409 gate enforcement in index.ts + publish.ts, with factcheckStatus made PATCH-settable as the escape hatch — same deploy, so the gate didn't freeze the 11 pending reports.
• Dormant trigger seam in generate.ts — ships to prod inert; activating the agent needs only the AGENT_ENDPOINT_URL env var, no redeploy.

ShurIQ Books — Limore's Manifesto Lineage May 26–28 · 3 sessions

THE TOILET PAPER THEORY — drafted and shipped a 9-spread visual manifesto by Limore Shur in the Draw It Anyway lineage. Inherited manifesto.css v0.2 wholesale; adapted only the spread-color rotation. Sourced 9 historical artifacts from Wikimedia Commons (Wheeler's 1891 patent, the 1984 Macintosh, the SS Ideal-X plan, the Confederate gauge map, GUM's 1893 interior, Bass's Anatomy of a Murder one-sheet) plus a user-supplied floor plan. Live at toilet-paper-theory.pages.dev, private repo jonnydubowsky/toilet-paper-theory, shared to #shur-ai.

• v0.1 recovery — recovered the original two-book site (Think Inside the Box + It's All in the Thumbnail) that had been overwritten during the v0.2 merger. Pulled the 7,721-char styles.css from .entire/metadata/<session>/full.jsonl, rebuilt 11 HTML files, deployed as shuriq-books-v01.
• Republished to getsteady@gmail.com — two parallel Draw It Anyway deploys (draw-it-anyway-2jd, shuriq-books-5sc; hash-suffixed because the bare names are taken on the legacy account).
• v0.3 redraft — all 8 companion chapters reworked per Deirdre's three asks (grounding paragraphs, example diversification, inline [LIMORE STORY: …] slots) via two parallel agents; shuriq-books.pages.dev redeployed.

Vault Hygiene — Built the Tooling Layer That Didn't Exist May 27 · 1 session

Identified a real gap (no packaged vault-hygiene workflow) and scaffolded three complementary skills: vault-sweep (audit), vault-insight-scan (semantic gap analysis), connection-cleanup (wikilink repair).

• First sweep on projects/shur/ (459 files): 174 real orphans, ~530 broken file-target wikilinks, 19 genuine duplicate titles — after filtering venv LICENSE noise and 984 conceptual entity-markup tags.
• Executed all four follow-on fixes: repaired 26+ MOC wikilinks across 4 INDEX/README files; built value-flows/INDEX.md hubbing 22 previously-orphan files via a fresh 13-cluster vault-shur-value-flows graph; confirmed engagement_cycle.md ×3 is by-design.
• Folded three filter-tuning improvements back into the skill definitions; published vault-hygiene-report.pages.dev.

ShurIQ Motion — SWOT + Five Forces Grammar May 27–28

• Added vg-swot (dyad-cross + 4 quadrants, gap-dashed threats, bridge-bloom opportunities) and vg-five-forces (4 cardinal forces around a center rivalry node, radial intensity bars, inward particle streams) per KG's request — framed strictly as compositions of the existing 7 Visual Grammar primitives, no new primitives needed.
• Shipped through all three layers (Cavalry scenes, gallery cards, skill docs); deployed shuriq-motion-techniques.pages.dev; fixed label overlap and replaced the always-on sticky nav with a compact toggle.

MicroCo Competitive Intel — Scheduler Fix + Public Nightly Site May 26 · 1 session

• Diagnosed and fixed sbpi-nightly-insights, failing nightly since May 11: root cause max_turns=20 against a 5-step pipeline. Bumped to max_turns=80. Bonus bug: two wrappers hardcoded a stale scheduler/1.2.0/ path; the cache only has 1.2.1/. Nightly succeeded May 14 (exit 0, 14401s).
• Built microco-nightly-insights.pages.dev across three iterations — ending in a composite × content_strength 2D scatter (Netflix the −40 pt platform-led outlier, COL/BeLive the −19 pt monetization-led outlier) after the v1 wrong-MP4s and v2 ring-topology dead ends.

Shur Strategy & Ops — Invoice · Content Plan · University Partner May 26 · 3 sessions

• Bridge loan invoice INV-2026-0513 — $7,500, SCP → Jonny, period 4/30–5/13; reframed from a services invoice into a loan instrument, published to Google Docs, fit to one page. Corrected lender/borrower direction on feedback.
• SHUR Content Marketing Plan post-read — read Limore's 8,000-word plan, designed a 13-entity ontology, wrote a BMC overlay, built a 6-page editorial site at shur-content-plan-read.pages.dev, posted to #shur-ai, answered KG's training-vs-customer-share question in thread.
• University partner research (live call) — quick round answered NYU Stern; two parallel research agents + three convergent InfraNodus analyses surfaced "the ontology IS the marketing." Limore reframed mid-call on the Negative Space framework, shifting the answer to USC (Annenberg + Norman Lear Center + AIMS Lab). Deployed a dual-school thesis site.