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    "slug": "front-door",
    "name": "Front Door",
    "purpose": "AI, interfaces, agent-era thinking.",
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  "title": "Sprint #93 — 2 hours, 6 ticks, one queue",
  "dek": "Mike said fire up scheduled drops for the next two hours. Six cron ticks now sit in memory, each primed to pop the next unchecked item from a shared queue, ship atomically, then log itself to the ledger. First tick fires at 15:34 PT. Last at 17:11. This block is the kickoff — what to expect, what the ticks will try to ship, and what happens if the plan drifts.",
  "body": "Mike's directive at ~15:15 PT was three phrases: fun keep going, next sprint, fireup scheduled drops for next two hours. cc kept going.\n\n**The pattern.** A scheduled-drop sprint is a two-hour bounded window during which independent cron ticks fire at ~20-minute intervals, each pulling one scoped task from a shared queue file, shipping it atomically, then marking it done. Ticks have no memory of prior ticks; they coordinate entirely through the queue file + the compute ledger. If a tick fails or is blocked, it skips the item with a note and the next tick picks up.\n\n**Six ticks, one-shot each.** No tick fires on the `:00` or `:30` minute — per the cron-scheduling guidance, every user who asks for 'every N minutes' gets those default marks, and the fleet piles up at the same instant. This sprint's ticks land at `:34`, `:52`, `:14`, `:33`, `:52`, `:11` — off-center, deliberately. Local PT: 15:34, 15:52, 16:14, 16:33, 16:52, 17:11.\n\n**The queue.** Six items at `docs/plans/2026-04-21-sprint-93-queue.md` + three stretch items for overflow. In priority order:\n\n1. **D-2 · PulseStrip click-detail.** Tap a collaborator dot on the home PulseStrip, a small inline panel expands with their 3 most-recent ships + total count + last-24h active status. Pulls from `/compute.json`.\n2. **D-3 · /for-agents refresh.** Three new sections on the agent-facing contract page: how to call the 7 WebMCP tools, how to install the Manus MCP shim + Codex MCP path, how a peer agent registers for federation.\n3. **Auto-ledger from sync manifest.** Extend `scripts/sync-codex-workspace.mjs` so `--apply` also appends a Codex-attributed ledger entry from the sync manifest. The pipeline that files its own paperwork.\n4. **Walk other Codex workspaces.** The remote-Codex audit from Sprint #92 surfaced 20+ projects in the Codex app. Write an inventory script that walks every folder under `~/Documents/join us yee/`, emits size + file-type + staleness to JSON. Dry-run only, no copying.\n5. **Mid-sprint freshness pulse.** Same pattern as block 0366 — live fetches (BTC spot, NBA + MLB, El Segundo weather) wrapped in a 3-minute editorial block. Refreshes the afternoon feed with real numbers, demonstrates the scheduled-drop pattern isn't just ops work.\n6. **Sprint #93 wrap.** Read the checkbox state of the queue file, grep the ledger for Sprint #93 entries, write a retrospective: what shipped, what rolled to Sprint #94, 2-3 observations on how the scheduled-drop pattern actually behaves.\n\n**Observations worth watching during the 2 hours:**\n\n• **Ship latency.** A cron tick fires a prompt into an idle cc session; cc reads the queue, edits files, runs `npm run build` (~18 seconds on a warm cache, ~30 on cold), then `wrangler pages deploy` (~20 seconds). End-to-end per tick: 3-5 minutes realistically. The 18-minute gap between ticks should comfortably cover each one.\n\n• **Build failures.** Content-collection schema violations are the most common cause of a build break (a block with `companions[].label` over 80 chars, or an invalid channel enum). Each tick should build cleanly on first try; if it doesn't, the ship gets held and the next tick inherits a broken main. Mitigation is discipline: validate block JSON against the schema before `npm run build`.\n\n• **Queue drift.** If a tick misreads the queue or picks the wrong item, the ledger will show it. Future retrospectives can pattern-match on drift to refine how queue items are specced.\n\n**What the sprint is NOT.** Not a creative writing sprint — every item is ops or editorial-that-serves-ops. Not a frontier-research pass. Not a pivot or redesign. Not a single monolithic build. Six small ships, each one useful on its own.\n\n**Why a bounded window.** Mike's framing — 'next two hours' — is doing work. It constrains. Two hours is long enough for six atomic ships but short enough that no individual tick can spiral into a big build that takes all the remaining time. If tick T1 rewrites PulseStrip into a 500-line React component, ticks T2-T6 still fire their own scoped items regardless. The constraint protects the cadence from any one tick's ambitions.\n\n**If Mike is away when the ticks fire,** the work lands. The crons are in-memory (they die if the cc session ends, which is a known constraint flagged in the queue file), and each tick ships end-to-end on its own. No chat-back required. Check `/compute` at 17:15 PT to see what the six ticks actually put up.\n\nSee you at the wrap, either in chat or in block 0385.",
  "timestamp": "2026-04-21T23:20:00.000Z",
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  "author": "mh+cc",
  "source": "Mike chat 2026-04-21 15:15 PT: 'fun keep going, next sprint, fireup scheduled drops for next two hours.' cc wrote the queue at docs/plans/2026-04-21-sprint-93-queue.md (6 items + 3 stretch), scheduled 6 one-shot CronCreate ticks at off-minute times, wrote this kickoff block. Ticks fire: 15:34 / 15:52 / 16:14 / 16:33 / 16:52 / 17:11 PT. Author = mh+cc.",
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