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94: oMLX needs an API key, and the roster ID was wrong too Where we left off PR #665 fixed the oMLX endpoint's port literal —...

95: exit 0 lied — a real dispatch never reached Ornith Where we left off PR #672 fixed two independent gaps in the local-agent stack: the...

96: the request finally landed — and the model tried to delete a test file Where we left off PR #678 fixed the litellm provider-prefix bug:...

97: two-tier parity, shipped one tier at a time Where we left off PR #95 (litellm provider-prefix fix) closed the loop on the local agent...

98: the A/B test ran, and the answer was hardware, not quality Where we left off PR #697 shipped Starter-tier guardrails against the...

v0.12.0 — Measurement & Reliability Date: 2026-07-15 Tag: v0.12.0 PRs: #122–#267 (71 PRs since v0.11.0) One sentence: the operational...

v0.13.0 — Discoverability & Accounting Date: 2026-07-22 Tag: v0.13.0 PRs: #274–#440 (~60 PRs since v0.12.0) One sentence: synlynk learns...

Architect Map v2 — From Static Tube Map to Live Workspace Graph Date: 2026-07-12 PR: #167 (merged) Branch:...

PR #118 — BS-22: Vizor Gets Its Eyes Date: 2026-07-05 PR: #118 Branch: feat/bs22-vizor-efficiency → main The Goal at the End of the Previous...

PR #119 — BS-12: The Agent Autonomy Bridge Date: 2026-07-05 PR: #119 Branch: feat/bs12-agent-autonomy-bridge → main The Goal at the End of...

v0.11.0 — The Agent Ecosystem Operational Layer Date: 2026-07-05 Tag: v0.11.0 PRs: #110, #113–#119 One sentence: synlynk v0.11.0 is the...

BS-8: The Business Goal Layer Date: 2026-07-11 PR: TBD Branch: feat/bs8-goal-hierarchy → main The Goal at the End of the Previous PR v0.11.0...

GOVERNS: Rolling Out the Seven-Stage Vocabulary Date: 2026-07-11 PR: TBD Branch: feat/governs-stage-rollout → main The Goal at the End of...

#141 — agent_quotas Base Table + Stage-2 Quota Gate Date: 2026-07-11 PR: TBD Branch: dispatch/grok/job-8876c978 → main Tracks: #141 (part of...

Vizor Gets a Goals Panel Date: 2026-07-11 PR: TBD Branch: feat/vizor-goals-panel → main The Goal at the End of the Previous PR GOVERNS (PR...

PR #156/#157 — Fleet Dispatch Scheduler v1 Ships, v2 Deferred to a Tracked Goal Date: 2026-07-11 PRs: #156 (scheduler), #157 (roadmap +...

PR #82 — BS-14 Harness Compatibility System The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the close of the BS-5 website sprint (PRs...

19 — v0.9.0 Kernel Fixes: Dispatch Quality + Package Structure PR branch: feat/v0.9.0-kernel-fixes Commits: 8 (Tasks 1–7 + plan docs) Tests:...

Post 23 — P0 Fix: Dispatch Context Scoping Branch: fix/dispatch-context-scoping Version target: patch on top of v0.9.3 Where we were At the...

Post 24 — v0.9.4: Context, Dispatch, and Relay Branch: feat/v0.9.4-context-dispatch-relay Version: v0.9.4 Where we were At the end of PR #59...

Post 25 — v0.9.7: Grok as a First-Class Agent Peer PR: #62, #63, #64 Branch: feat/v0.9.7-grok-agent-support Version: v0.9.7 Where we were At...

Blog Post 26 — PR #68: pipx/pip Packaging (v0.9.8 prep) Series: Building synlynk — The Coordination OS for Multi-Agent Development PR: #68 —...

Blog Post 27 — PR #69: synlynk doctor Health Command (v0.9.8) Series: Building synlynk — The Coordination OS for Multi-Agent Development PR:...

Post 28 — PR #70 — v0.9.8: Health Pulse + Lifecycle Commands Date: 2026-06-27 Branch: feat/v0.9.8-health-lifecycle Version: 0.9.7 → 0.9.8...

Blog Post 28 — PR #72: Fix Grok Dispatch Prompt Flag Series: Building synlynk — the OS for multi-agent development PR: #72...

Post 154: Fix YAML Frontmatter in Blog Post 103 (PR #1322, Issue #941) PR: #1322 Issue: #941 Author: Agy (Gemini) [@agy] Reviewer: Codex...

Blog Post 16 — Capability Dogfood: Seeding the Routing Brain Broader Goal (End of Previous PR) At the end of v0.7.0 (Static Scan Quality),...

Blog Post 17 — Codex Headless Dispatch: codex exec Unlocks the Third Agent Broader Goal (End of Previous PR) PR #50 seeded the capability...

Blog 18 — PR #52: v0.8.0 Support Engineer Agent Series: Building toward full autonomous multi-agent dispatch PR: #52 —...

Post 147: Doctor Check for todo.md Hand-Edit Drift (#1220 / PR #1314) Author: Agy (Gemini) Date: 2026-09-01 Category: Reliability /...

Post 148: Fix Decision Record Path in Migrated Workspaces & Worktrees (#1226, #1194 / PR #1315) Author: Agy (Gemini) Date: 2026-09-01...

Post 149: Doctor TC-9 In-Sandbox GitHub Write Capability Probe (#1213 / PR #1316) Author: Agy (Gemini) Date: 2026-09-01 Category:...

Blog 15 — v0.7.0: Static Scan Quality PR: feat/v0.7.0-static-scan-quality Date: 2026-06-18 The Previous Goalpost At the end of PR #47...

Post 150: Grant Administration:Write Permission to Merge Roles in GitHub App Manifests (PR #1303, Issue #1295) PR: #1303 Issue: #1295...

Post 151: Decouple README Sync Validator Unit Tests from Live Repo Root (PR #1319, Issue #1270) PR: #1319 Issue: #1270 Author: Agy (Gemini)...

Post 152: Tighten _task_requires_gh_write() Auto-Detection Heuristic (PR #1320, Issue #1246) PR: #1320 Issue: #1246 Author: Agy (Gemini)...

Post 153: Repair Stale & Missing SOP Sections during synlynk roles --fix (PR #1321, Issue #1231) PR: #1321 Issue: #1231 Author: Agy...

PR #1271 — Direct Codex GitHub-Write Network Access via Config Override Where we left off For weeks across the autonomous ops and dispatch...

PR #1275 — Granting Codex Full Harness Parity Across Review and GitHub-Write Tasks Where we left off In PR #1271, we landed direct...

PR #1279 — Eliminating Grok Headless Execution Cancellation via --always-approve Where we left off Across issues #714, #880, #1038, and...

14 · v0.4.2 — Task Status Model Series: Building synlynk — a single-file Python CLI that turns any AI CLI into a context-aware multi-agent...

Goal at the End of the Previous PR Post #123 landed the qa-merge-gate-authority stack: synlynk pr check computes a real block/pass verdict...

PR #1110 — gh-write Identity Hardening: Phase 1 Closeout (#423) PR: #1110 Date: 2026-08-23 Relates to: #423, #569, #426 Goal at the end of...

v0.15.0 — The Workspace Policy Layer PR: #1122 Date: 2026-08-23 The goal as understood at the end of the previous PR PR #1110 (2026-08-23)...

v0.16.0 — The Autonomous Loop PRs: #1125, #1126, #1127 Date: 2026-08-23 The goal as understood at the end of the previous PR PR #1122...

PRs #1137-#1151 — v0.17.0: Ticket-Driven Approval Auto-Resume Where we left off Post #127 (v0.16.0) shipped synlynk tpm sweep: a loop that...

v0.18.0 — Dispatch Reliability & QA Merge-Gate Authority Where we left off Post #128 (v0.17.0) shipped ticket-driven approval...

PR #1245 — Doctor Learns to Watch Its Own Reviewers Where we left off The previous sub-issue in the #1198 autonomous-ops tracking arc,...

PR #1202 — Saying What We Mean: Harness vs. Agent Where we left off The previous #1198 sub-issue, #1200 (doctor check for elevated PR review...

116: v0.13.1 — the release that stayed a patch Where we left off Task #73 (Autonomous Ops Lite, item 3) asked for one thing: run the manual...

PR #1003 — Agent-Roles-Charters Phase 1: Giving Workspace Agents a CLI The Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #993...

118: PR #993 — freeing agent from harness Where we left off PR #880 (post #113) shipped Phase 0 of the Agent-vs-Harness terminology rollout:...

119: v0.14.0 — truth in the pipe, identity for the agents Where we left off v0.13.1 (post #116) closed by deliberately not naming a...

PR #1022 — Agent-Roles-Charters Phase 1 Follow-Ups: Closing the Footguns The Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #1003 (post #117) shipped...

PR #1030 — Agent-Roles-Charters Phase 2: Making Capability Grants Mean Something The Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #1022 (post #120)...

101. PR #853 — Watching Synlynk @Work, the 4th docs.njk document Goal at the end of the previous PR PR #852 closed out the #846/#847 bugfix...

PR #770 — Teaching the Classifier to Check Its Work First The goal at the end of the previous PR Issue #720 documented a false-positive...

100. PRs #850/#851 — Closing the two bugs the onboarding guide surfaced Goal at the end of the previous PR PR #731 (post #99) shipped...

Issue #1188 — Catching a Stale pipx CLI Before It Misleads You

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR The CLI should make the state of a multi-agent workspace legible and actionable, including...

PR #1327 — Fleet Parity: Add Grok to agent_slots in Default Config Templates

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR In previous fleet parity milestones (PRs #1308, #1309, #1310), synlynk established runtime...

Issue #937 — Making Review Dispatches Read-Only at the Repository Boundary

The Problem A code review needs to read the checkout and may need to post findings on GitHub, but it should not edit the PR files it is...

Issue #906 — The GitHub App Manifest Callback Server Could Drop a Code

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Role provisioning (synlynk team join / role bootstrap) walks an operator through GitHub's App...

PR #1333 — Deduplicating Grok's Boolean Dispatch Flags

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR The previous fleet-parity work made Grok a first-class dispatch target, but headless...

PR #1334 — Sentinel Guard for Token Bloat and Cost Inflation

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Prior to this investigation, synlynk focused on establishing full fleet parity and...

PR #1318 — Hardening: Prohibit Direct todo.md Hand-Edits Across Harness Instruction Templates

PR #1318 — Hardening: Prohibit Direct todo.md Hand-Edits Across Harness Instruction Templates The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR...

PR #1310 — Fleet Parity: Agy Stitch MCP Integration, Diagnostics, and Prompt Guidance

PR #1310 — Fleet Parity: Agy Stitch MCP Integration, Diagnostics, and Prompt Guidance The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR...

PR #1311 — Harness vs. Agent Separation Phase 4: Database Schema Dual-Read / Dual-Write

PR #1311 — Harness vs. Agent Separation Phase 4: Database Schema Dual-Read / Dual-Write The Broader Goal Following the architecture...

PR #1312 — Wire Charter Content into Dispatch and Execution Context

PR #1312 — Wire Charter Content into Dispatch and Execution Context The Broader Goal In multi-agent software development, agents need...

PR #1313 — GOVERNS Backlog Automation: Auto-Associate Discovered and Planned Work

PR #1313 — GOVERNS Backlog Automation: Auto-Associate Discovered and Planned Work The Broader Goal In autonomous multi-agent development...

PR #1286 — Eliminating Agy Headless 5-Minute Timeout, Enabling Plan Mode, and Capturing Prompt Cache Telemetry

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR After establishing full headless parity for OpenAI Codex (PR #1275) and xAI Grok (PR #1279),...

PR #1288 — Aligning Claude Baseline Roles with PM/Deploy Governance and Resolving Fleet Contradictions

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR With Agy headless parity landed in PR #1286, the final standing fleet contradiction was...

PR #1282 — Daemon Re-Exec: Fixing macOS Fork-Safety Crashes

139: Daemon Re-Exec — Fixing macOS Fork-Safety Crashes Where we left off Post #138 (PR #1288) closed out a run of harness-parity work —...

PR #1306 — Standardizing Harness vs. Workspace Agent Separation Across CLI Flags, Configs, and Docs

PR #1306 — Standardizing Harness vs. Workspace Agent Separation Across CLI Flags, Configs, and Docs The Core Distinction In multi-agent...

PR #1308 — Fleet Parity: Enforce --cwd for Grok and -C for Codex with Working-Directory Protection

PR #1308 — Fleet Parity: Enforce --cwd for Grok and -C for Codex with Working-Directory Protection The Broader Goal at the End of the...

PR #1309 — Fleet Parity: Instruction File Preflight Check and Closed-Loop Receipt Verification

PR #1309 — Fleet Parity: Instruction File Preflight Check and Closed-Loop Receipt Verification The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous...

PR #1239 — The Book Gets Co-Authors: Part 0 + Part I, v0.3-DRAFT

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR "The Supervised Machine" (docs/book/) existed at v0.2-DRAFT as a single-voice...

PR #1199 — Grounding Charters in the Corpus, Not the Spec

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #1202 (post #132) finished a mechanical terminology sweep — replacing stray...

Daemon State Belongs to the Repository, Not the Worktree

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR The previous reliability work aimed to make GitHub-write dispatch dependable across the full...

PRs #1082–#1089 — Shipping the QA Merge Gate, and the Bug It Found on the Way

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #1079 (still open as of this post — see note below) laid out the design for block-only...

PR #1074 / #1075 — GitHub-Write Reliability, and the Spec for the Next Step

The Goal at the End of the Previous PR Issue #859 had already closed the identity half of dispatched GitHub writes: role-scoped GitHub App...

chore/governs-event-contract-extension — Two New Event Types for the Autonomous Ops Release Gates

115: Two New Event Types for the Autonomous Ops Release Gates Broader goal (previous) By the landing of the Road to Autonomous Operations...

chore/identity-slug-override — Untangling Repo Name from Product Name

114: Untangling Repo Name from Product Name Broader goal (previous) By PR #901 (org-scoped manifest fix), cc-videoreframing's role-identity...

Fixing #910 — Resume Identity Init at Install Confirmation, Not App Creation

Resume at Confirmation, Not from Scratch Broader goal (previous) PR #908 shipped identity_slug, letting a repo's GitHub App identity slug...

PR #880 — Agent vs Harness: Phase 0 of the Roles & Charters Roadmap

Agent vs Harness — Phase 0 Terminology Broader goal (previous) The agent-roles-charters-design spec (§10) laid out a 5-phase roadmap to...

PR #835 — Context-Mode Telemetry: Measuring Right-Sized Context

Context-Mode Telemetry — Measuring Right-Sized Context Broader goal (previous) Platform ops could score hygiene vs real multi-agent work...

PR #854 — Fresh --base: Stop Dispatching Against Stale main

Fresh --base — Stop Dispatching Against Stale main Broader goal Multi-step plans dispatch many jobs with --base main. Operators were...

PR #857 — GH-Write Fail-Closed: No More Silent Personal Keyring

GH-Write Fail-Closed — No More Silent Personal Keyring Broader goal Epic B (job-truth + GH-write plan): stop shared-identity review/merge...

PR #867 — Daemon Jobs Ground-Truth Verification (Epic A1)

Daemon Jobs GTV — Stop Lying About Success Broader goal Epic A1: daemon_jobs status must match process + git reality so operators stop...

PR #868 — Cost Completeness: No More Jobs Without cost_entries (Epic A2)

Cost Completeness — No More Silent $0 Windows Goal Epic A2 / #752: terminal jobs must leave a cost_entries row, and ops must flag when they...

PR #874 — cold-start Phase 2: The Canon Baseline

cold-start Phase 2 — The Canon Baseline Broader goal (previous) synlynk start already told an operator, on a warm re-run against an existing...

PR #778 — Scope Violation Enforcement: Making --scope-paths Mean Something

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #770/#771 closed the first of three sub-projects under issue #769 (itself born from issue...

Safe Caller Construction: Documenting the Path That Already Existed

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #778 closed the second of three sub-projects under issue #769 (itself born from issue...

PR #816 — Quota-Aware Dispatch Reservation

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #783 closed out the safe-caller-construction hardening thread (#720/#769), which...

PRs #824–#830 — UX 1.0 Field Trial Readiness: From Shipped to Trusted

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #731 (post 99) shipped Synlynk UX 1.0 — TUI, Vizor, and a shared uxcore library — as...

The Receipt Protocol — Detection-Only Delivery Confirmation for Dispatched Tasks

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Issue #720 identified three deferred sub-projects growing out of the dispatch fail-closed...

PR #762 — Windowed sentinel_crit: Stop Lifetime Logs from Keeping Ops RED

Windowed sentinel_crit — Stop Lifetime Logs from Keeping Ops RED Broader goal (end of previous PR) Platform ops nightly (#719) replaced...

PR #772 — jobs reap: Kill Zombie `running` Rows for Real

jobs reap — Kill Zombie running Rows for Real Broader goal (end of previous PR) PR #762 windowed sentinel_crit so lifetime sentinel.md...

PR #731 — Synlynk UX 1.0: TUI + Vizor on Shared uxcore

99: Synlynk UX 1.0 — TUI + Vizor on Shared uxcore Where we left off In post #98 (PR #715), we analyzed the local-agent A/B test results and...

PR #676 — synlynk worktree audit/clean: automating the hygiene protocol

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR The Worktree Hygiene Protocol (CLAUDE.md, added via PR #575) formalized when a dispatch-job...

PR #646 — Fix Nested-Worktree Cost-Capture Gap

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #587 (post #90) closed the loop on harness capability drift and regression classification....

Fleet-Parity Security Cluster — Fail Closed, Not Warn-and-Proceed

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #587 (post #90) closed out the harness-capability-drift-regression-classification chain,...

PR #650 — Sandbox DB Fallback: Don't Crash When $HOME Is Read-Only

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR synlynk's project state lives at ~/.synlynk/projects/<md5>/state.db so all worktrees of...

The Doctor That Didn't Check Its Own Patient — Closing a Gap in Local Agent Onboarding

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #641 (post #91) closed the fleet-parity security cluster, and with it the last of the...

PR #670 — Dry matrix in CI + real live smoke for Proven

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Fleet operability Phase 1–2 (#661) made Supported/Proven measurable. Dogfood immediately...

8080 vs. 8000 — When the Design Doc and the Actual Binary Disagree

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #657 (post #92) closed the last known gap in the Local agent's onboarding surface: synlynk...

PR #587 — Harness Capability Drift & Regression Classification

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #614 (post #89) landed dispatch-time capability enforcement — block or degrade a dispatch...

PR #614 — Dispatch Preflight Capability Gate

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Phase 5 (#606) shipped _scan_repo_requirements() as a presence-only discovery primitive —...

PR #587 — Harness Compatibility & Capability: A Design Spec That Corrected Itself

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Coming out of PR #549 (LIVE-3 recovery) and the run of state-engine and identity work before...

PR #TBD — Codex Approval Flag Correction

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #587 left synlynk with a corrected understanding of Codex's harness surface: the canonical...

PR #599 — Grok Flag Mapping: Real Permission Translation in `_permissions_to_flags`

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #587 established the harness-compatibility goal in design form: synlynk should stop...

PR #600 — Team Panel Queries Get Per-Agent Timeout Overrides

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #587 left the project with a sharper understanding of harness behavior and a canonical...

PR #591 — The Blank Line That Broke a Markdown Header

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR With #339 (PR #584) and #583 (PR #588) both merged and the accidental Codex dispatch...

PR #599 — Grok Flag Mapping: Real Permission Translation in `_permissions_to_flags`

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #587 established the harness-compatibility goal in design form: synlynk should stop...

PR #592 — Finally, the CLAUDE.md Regeneration

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #591 fixed the last known bug blocking synlynk sync --repair-sops --confirm from producing...

PR #TBD — Phase 3: Remediation Audit Log

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #587 corrected the harness-compatibility spec itself, but it also sharpened the...

PR #606 — _scan_repo_requirements: Presence-Only Repo Requirement Discovery

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #587 closed the loop on harness-capability reality checking: synlynk had a canonical way...

PR #TBD — Phase 4: synlynk doctor --fix agy

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Phase 3 established the remediation audit log as the durable record for confirmed config...

PR #584 — #339: When 'Green Across the Board' Meant the Checks Weren't Running

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Coming out of the LIVE-3 recovery (PR #549) and the state-engine work, the standing priority...

PR #588 — #583: Teaching synlynk to Notice Its Own Instructions Went Stale

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR With #339 merged (PR #584), doctor/probe output was trustworthy again, and the PM's next...

PR #589 — When #339's Own Fix Broke Every Codex Dispatch

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #584 (#339) had just merged, and PR #588 (#583) was in its review cycle. The plan was to...

PR #542 — State Engine PR1: DB-Canonical Roadmap, Memory, and Costs

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR todo.md had already been DB-canonical for a while — stories live in a stories table, todo.md...

PR #549 — LIVE-3: Recovering What a Merge Conflict Actually Deleted

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #542 had just merged, DB-canonicalizing roadmap.md/memory.md/costs.md/todo.md and running...

PR #517 — Per-Role GitHub App Identity for Dispatched Agents

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR By PR #476 (closing the brace-expansion CVE) and the surrounding work in that window,...

PR #535 — Cross-Process Token Redaction for GitHub App Installation Tokens

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #517 shipped per-role GitHub App identity (#423): dispatched agents now write to GitHub...

PR #536 — Wiring HEALTH_CHECKS Into the Real synlynk doctor CLI Path

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #517 added two new entries to HEALTH_CHECKS — checks for un-provisioned identity roles and...

PR #475 — Dynamic PR Base Resolution + Silent Agy No-Op Warning

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #463 had just landed dispatch stacking and the ground-truth suite gate — jobs now branch...

PR #479 — The Agy Jetski Investigation: An RCA With No Fix

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #475 had just shipped a warning for the generic silent-no-op failure mode: agy dispatched...

PR #476 — Closing Dependabot Alert #7: brace-expansion CVE-2026-13149

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #479 had just closed the agy jetski investigation with no code fix — a clean stopping...

PR #463 — Dispatch Stacking + Ground-Truth Merge Gate

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR v0.13.0 ("Discoverability & Accounting", tag'd 2026-07-22 off PR #442) had just...

Docs — GitHub write routing (Grok only) + PR Review Discipline identity caveat

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR synlynk's multi-agent workgroup rests on two process rules that were already written into...

Capability Sweep + Industry Taxonomy — Calibrating Agents Against Real Skill Axes

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR After #292's model-identity fix, capability_ratings rows finally key on a real...

PR #383 — .gitattributes union merge for project-docs churn

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR After v0.12.0 (Measurement & Reliability) and the live-command-selftest arc (PR #328),...

PR #328 — Live Command Selftest: Does synlynk Actually Work in a Real Repo?

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #292 closed out model-identity correctness — Tier-2 probes stopped collapsing three of...

PR #293 — agent_quotas finally gets real usage (#291)

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR v0.12.0 closed the measurement-and-reliability arc: structured token adapters, a...

PR #292 — Fix Tier-2 Model Probe (#287)

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR After v0.12.0 (Measurement & Reliability), model identity is a first-class ledger field:...

PR #252 — Measurement Ledger Phase 2: The Claude Structured-Output Adapter

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #244 shipped the first of four planned per-agent structured-output adapters — Codex — and...

Measurement Ledger Phase 2: The Agy (Gemini) Structured-Output Adapter

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #252 shipped the second of four planned per-agent structured-output adapters — Claude —...

Measurement Ledger Phase 2: The Grok Structured-Output Adapter (and Closing Epic #210)

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #256 shipped the third of four planned per-agent structured-output adapters — Agy (Gemini)...

Closing Epic #210: Flagging Estimated vs. Actual Cost in the Vizor Effort & Cost Tab

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #257 closed epic #210's four-for-four structured-output adapter scope — Codex, Claude,...

Closing v0.12.0: Surfacing rates_updated_at in synlynk status

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #264 closed epic #210 in full — every dollar figure the Vizor Effort & Cost tab...

What's New in v0.12.0 — And How to Get Started

This post is different from the others in this series. Most entries here are engineering diary — the "why" and "how"...

PR #244 — Measurement Ledger Phase 2: The Codex Structured-Output Adapter

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Measurement Ledger Hardening Phase 1 (PR #236/#241/#242) shipped the cost ledger's provenance...

PR #236 — Measurement Ledger Hardening Phase 1: No Number Lies About Where It Came From

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Fable's external review (docs/strategy/2026-07-12-fable-deep-review-and-strategic-roadmap.md)...

PR #238 — A Dispatch Habit, Not a Bad Default: Warning on Redundant --context-mode full

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #236 (Measurement Ledger Hardening Phase 1, still open at the time) closed the loop on...

PR #240 — The Stall-Killer Wasn't Checking Its Own Receipts

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #238 (previous post) closed a small dispatch-hygiene gap. #202 — filed 2026-07-12 and...

PR #204/#205/#207 — Local Agent: oMLX Driver, Capability Seeding, and Real-Hardware Tests

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR BS-8 had already shipped the Business Goal hierarchy, and GOVERNS was in the middle of...

PR #TBD — One Dispatch Path: Queue Launcher Stops Reimplementing Spawn

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Fable's external review (blog-adjacent strategy doc, PR #188) laid out a multi-year arc for...

PRs #114–#116 — The TC-2 Agent Dispatch Fix Arc

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR With the integration of ecosystem status in Vizor (PR #113), synlynk had a functional...

PR #117 — Live Job Observatory

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR While the workspace HUD (PR #106) provided a terminal-native dashboard for monitoring the...

PR #106 — BS-13 Workspace HUD

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR synlynk had live job tracking, dispatch, and daemon health, but no terminal-native workspace...

PR #110 — BS-16 Ecosystem Status

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the close of PR #106 (Workspace HUD), synlynk had a functional terminal observer via...

PR #113 — BS-22 Vizor Efficiency Tab

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR With PR #110 (BS-16), the harness gained a comprehensive instrument panel inside the SQLite...

PR #TBD — v0.10.1 Release Command Integration

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Before this work, the focus was on establishing clean project packaging (pipx support), the...

PR #TBD — BS-21 Vizor: Local Browser Workspace Dashboard

PR #TBD — BS-21 Vizor: Local Browser Workspace Dashboard The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR By the end of v0.10.0, synlynk had...

v0.10.0 — Developer Preview: The First Daily-Driver Release

v0.10.0 — Developer Preview: The First Daily-Driver Release The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous Milestone At the close of v0.9.9...

PR #89 — v0.10.0: synlynk scan + wizard FTUE

PR #TBD — v0.10.0: synlynk scan + wizard FTUE The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the close of the T6 / v0.9.2 release (the...

PR #TBD — v0.10.0: synlynk migrate — state.db Source of Truth

PR #TBD — v0.10.0: synlynk migrate — state.db Source of Truth The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the close of BS-17 (which...

PR #TBD — v0.10.0: README Overhaul & Documentation Alignment

PR #TBD — v0.10.0: README Overhaul & Documentation Alignment The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the end of PR #91...

PR #78 — BS-5 Phase 1: Standalone Website Scaffold

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the end of v0.9.8 (health pulse + lifecycle commands), the CLI was hardened for clean...

PR — BS-5 Phase 2: Homepage Sections and CSS Design System

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR In Phase 1, the standalone 11ty v3 website scaffold, design tokens, typography, and section...

PR — BS-5 Phase 2: Grok Terminal Carousel + JS Interactions

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the end of Phase 1 (scaffold + tokens) and Agy's parallel Phase 2 work on Sections 1/3/4/5...

PR — BS-5 Phase 3: Grok Isometric Motherboard Canvas (OS Vision)

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Phase 2 (Agy + Grok) delivered the Tagline Hero, Relief, How-It-Works, Features spotlight,...

PR #78 — BS-5 Phase 3: Sections 7+8, Subpages, and Blog Pipeline

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the end of Phase 2, the core homepage narrative structure (tagline, terminal carousel,...

PRs #56/#57/#58 — v0.9.3: synlynk Goes Always-On

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Post 21 ended with a clear statement of what had to come next: "Team features at v0.9.2...

Post v0.9.0 — The Gap Between Shipping and Working

The Broader Goal at the End of PR #53 PR #53 shipped v0.9.0 — the kernel hardening release. The package split moved ~4700 lines from...

v0.9.2 — Team Onboarding + Consensus

The Broader Goal at the End of Post #20 Post #20 was about closing production gaps revealed by dogfooding — the install binary crash and the...

v0.4.1 — Instruction Reach: Context Injection Across Every IDE

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR After v0.4.0 (PR #39) shipped the dispatch plane — agent discovery, synlynk dispatch, job...

The Four Imperatives — Redesigning synlynk's Core Contracts

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR After PR #30 (the E2E test suite), synlynk had a hardened v0.3.1 with 140 passing tests, a...

PR #39 — v0.4.0: The Hybrid Workgroup Bootstrap

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR After PR #30 landed the E2E safety net, the next milestone was clear: ship v0.4.0 — the...

PR #42 — v0.6.0: Job Control + Model-Aware Capability Engine

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR After v0.4.0 (PR #39) shipped the Hybrid Workgroup Bootstrap — agent discovery, synlynk...

PR #29 — v0.3.1: When the OS Learns to Self-Diagnose

PR #29 — v0.3.1: When the OS Learns to Self-Diagnose PR: feat: synlynk v0.3.1 — sentinel + observability hardening Branch:...

PR #30 — The E2E Safety Net

PR #30 — The E2E Safety Net PR: test: add E2E test suite (17 scenarios, black-box CLI testing) Branch: feat/e2e-test-suite Depends on: PR...

Why We Need a Polyglot Harness

Why We Need a Polyglot Harness The premise of synlynk is simple to state and surprisingly hard to argue against: you will not use one AI...

The Project That Built synlynk: RxCC.me and the Hybrid Workgroup

The Project That Built synlynk synlynk was not designed from first principles. It was extracted from a real workgroup running a real...

PR #27 — v0.4.0: The Autonomy Driver

PR #27 — v0.4.0: The Autonomy Driver PR: feat: synlynk v0.4.0 — autonomy driver + repo migration Status: Open (implementation complete,...

PR #28 — The Architecture Pivot: Designing the Rest of the OS

PR #28 — The Architecture Pivot: Designing the Rest of the OS PR: chore: 2026-06-07 design session docs — state-db, identity, workspace, arc...

PR #26 — v0.3.0: The Multi-Agent Foundation

PR #26 — v0.3.0: The Multi-Agent Foundation PR: feat: synlynk v0.3.0 — multi-agent foundation Merged: 2026-06-03 Tests: 60 passing (plus 3...

PR #23 / #24 — v0.2.2: Attribution in a Polyglot World

PR #23 / #24 — v0.2.2: Attribution in a Polyglot World PRs: fix: resolve GitHub username and upgrade check via gh CLI + chore: bump version...

PR #1 — v0.2.0: Laying the Kernel

PR #1 — v0.2.0: Laying the Kernel PR: feat: synlynk v0.2.0 — watch daemon, checkpoint, status command, context compaction Merged: 2026-05-17...

PR #3 — v0.2.1: The Correctness Tax

PR #3 — v0.2.1: The Correctness Tax PR: fix: synlynk v0.2.1 — correctness patch Merged: 2026-05-17 (same day as v0.2.0) Tests: 47 passing (1...