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Workspace lab notebook for long-running or resumable research work.

Use this file to track chronology, not release notes. Keep entries short, factual, and operational.

2026-08-15 13:36 EDT — intake-sweep-0.3.23-post-release

- Objective: Refresh the complete Feynman AI-researcher intake after the 0.3.23 release and persist the verified state.
- Intake: Open issues and PRs are empty. The recent merged PR #230 is released and verified. All 30 newest forks are behind main except NioZow/feynman, which is 1 commit ahead and 108 behind with only an old Nix packaging commit; no port target exists.
- Upstream: Pi 0.84.2, pi-web-access 0.23.0, pi-docparser 4.0.0, pi-btw 0.4.1, and pi-otel 0.1.0 are current. pi-subagents 0.50.0 is current upstream, but its 391-commit 0.40.0...0.50.0 migration adds missions, schedules, workflows, FleetView, Herdr, worktrees, and administration rather than fixing a Feynman research defect; the bundled 0.40.0 remains the correct scoped choice.
- Security and freshness: Dependabot and repository advisory queues are empty; code scanning has no analysis. Root and website production audits report zero vulnerabilities. npm outdated reports non-security upgrades for general dependencies only; no coordinated research-runtime update is required.
- Verified: 784/784 tests, typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), root and website audits, diff check, dry and real packs, installed artifact verification, installed RPC/TypeBox/Copilot checks, and document parse/search/screenshot passed. The real pack is 114,755,952 bytes with 29,134 files and SHA-256 95940c60ff9842b568b0c9b7af507081012353d7ad6fe54c53b567de05d0a1dd.
- State: verified and production-live on synchronized main 316e7a6. The nested dirty website checkout and existing ignored research artifacts remain preserved and untouched. Next: refresh the queues on the next scheduled sweep.

2026-08-15 12:30 EDT — pi-copilot-rate-limit-0.3.23-final

- Objective: Complete merge, publication, release identity, published-install, intake, and cleanup gates for Feynman 0.3.23.
- Delivery: PR #230 passed run 31889957676 and merged as 413f37e17b3ceeb5037f029f34e86a1ce75741bd. Publish run 31892303159 passed every package, consumer, native, npm, GitHub release, and published-state job.
- Published proof: npm 0.3.23 is latest with integrity sha512-3pk6i0K/c5aPxuRBDwthh+Vg6QQKi2HMVSjgNJB0QojPFyUuK6qcqF+dXxj2JxxemLW03LN8uJ+H/LZp0vFY8Q==. Its verified SLSA provenance resolves to 413f37e; a clean registry install passed audit, package verification, CLI smoke, Pi RPC, TypeBox, Copilot, and document parse/search/screenshot checks.
- Release proof: GitHub v0.3.23 and its tag target 413f37e. All five native assets are valid archives, their downloaded SHA-256 values match SHA256SUMS, and all six downloaded files match GitHub's provider digests.
- Live proof: Post-release run 31895320515 passed published npm installs on Linux, macOS, and Windows across Node 22, 24, and 25; live model and researcher-child runs passed. The live native installers passed on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
- Intake: Open issues and PRs are empty. All 30 recent forks were compared; only NioZow/feynman is ahead, by one old generic Nix packaging commit that remains rejected. Dependabot alerts and repository advisories are empty; code scanning has no analysis. Pi 0.84.2, [email protected], and [email protected] remain current; [email protected] remains rejected for adjacent workflow scope.
- Cleanup: Deleted the release branch, exact owned package, consumer, audit, home, upstream, release-download, and intake temporary paths. Daytona sandbox 0f5c5798-798a-4b71-aea4-b506b10cea9b was deleted and now returns Not Found. Older user-owned sandboxes and the unrelated dirty nested website repository remain untouched.
- State: verified and production-live. Next: start the next intake sweep from synchronized main.

2026-08-15 09:38 EDT — pi-copilot-rate-limit-0.3.23

- Objective: Port Pi's merged GitHub Copilot login fixes into the current 0.84.2 runtime and qualify Feynman 0.3.23.
- Intake: Open Feynman issues and pull requests remain empty. No issue or PR changed after the prior automation cutoff. The 30 newest forks are behind or equal to main except NioZow/feynman, whose old Nix packaging commit remains rejected. Security alert and advisory queues are empty.
- Fixed: Applied upstream Pi commits d5278ea and 086c32e to every root, nested, vendored, and agent-managed Pi AI runtime copy. Copilot policy updates now run sequentially, and model discovery honors Retry-After before one bounded retry.
- Fixed: Consolidated embedded Pi AI target discovery after the first full test found scripts/patch-embedded-pi.mjs above the architecture limit. The script is now 1,170 lines without weakening the guard.
- Verified: Focused patch tests passed (9/9), and the full suite passed (784/784). Typecheck, build, architecture, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), root/website/runtime audits, package freshness review, and diff checks passed. The mocked Copilot login proved one active policy request and a successful second model request after 429.
- Package proof: Dry and real packs matched at 114,755,955 bytes and 29,134 files. The tarball SHA-256 is 0c7db229e9cd6d1ae45fd80319f0d82311196c3a77cb65c3d64fdc365ca78728; clean source/runtime/consumer audits and package, stale-upgrade, 15-tool/9-command RPC, TypeBox, Copilot, and document parse/search/screenshot verifiers passed.
- State: unverified for exact-commit Daytona, PR CI, merge, publication, and post-release identity. Next: finish those gates, then publish and verify 0.3.23.

2026-08-15 06:32 EDT — intake-sweep-v0-3-22-daytona-proof

- Objective: Complete clean-machine proof for the published Feynman 0.3.22 release and close the intake sweep.
- Clean machine: The first 1 GB Daytona sandbox hit host exit 137 during package build. It was deleted. A replacement 4 GB sandbox checked out exact commit 586b7419d88e0cc95475eccff92e95b6b14f6ed2, passed 783/783 tests, typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build, root and website production audits, outdated review, and diff check, then remained clean.
- Package proof: Dry and real npm pack passed with 29,134 files and 116,449,033 bytes. The real tarball SHA-256 is f9d65a0b2d202bf6f65a75c1af33eaf06621d3695a7ccda0012086ff821824e7. A clean consumer install passed audit, CLI version/help, package/search status, package-artifact verification, installed 15-tool/9-command RPC and TypeBox checks, and document parse/search/screenshot.
- Intake and delivery: Live GitHub queues remain empty. The release commit remains 586b7419d88e0cc95475eccff92e95b6b14f6ed2; main is now clean and synchronized at docs commit 35cf83c6cc96a7c55d152930b2d2f17ad41201be. GitHub v0.3.22, npm 0.3.22, publish runs 31860841967, 31877648696, 31878044250, and main synchronization run 31879771165 remain successful. The replacement sandbox and prior failed sandbox were deleted; the two older user-owned sandboxes remain untouched.
- State: verified and production-live. No code or dependency changes were made in this run. Next: start the next sweep from synchronized main.

2026-08-15 05:41 EDT — intake-sweep-v0-3-22-completion

- Objective: Finish the 0.3.22 release receipts and refresh the full Feynman intake queue.
- Intake: Open issues and pull requests are empty. The 30 newest forks are behind main; NioZow/feynman is 1 commit ahead but 102 behind with only Nix packaging files, so it is rejected. Issue #217 is closed with the semantic-version security-floor fix in v0.3.13. Dependabot alerts and repository advisories are empty. [email protected] is rejected: its upstream v0.49.0...v0.50.0 diff changes 131 files for async missions, schedules, FleetView, Herdr, worktrees, administration, and related control-plane surfaces without fixing a current Feynman research defect.
- Release: PR #229 merged as 586b7419d88e0cc95475eccff92e95b6b14f6ed2. Publish run 31860841967 passed source verification, all six Linux/macOS/Windows package consumers, five native bundles, npm publication, GitHub release creation, provenance, checksums, and published-state verification. GitHub v0.3.22 targets 586b741; npm @companion-ai/[email protected] is latest with integrity sha512-yAJepY8ZGPF7ppNDB4pCEjIBkEbJOqvhwvnn1UDlL0iHC74Gcz/GUdR9AJ0iVAA5tRpLKz4z837HA8xplETgIQ==.
- Verified locally: npm test passed 783/783; typecheck, build, architecture check, production audit, and diff check passed. Dry and real packs both report 114,751,448 bytes, 298,731,472 unpacked bytes, and 29,134 files. A clean installed tarball passed consumer audit, package-artifact verification, 15-tool/9-command RPC and TypeBox checks, and document parse/search/screenshot. A fresh registry install passed the same runtime/document gates and audit; npm provenance resolves to 586b741.
- State: verified and production-live. Post-release workflow 31877648696 passed all six published-package jobs, three native installer jobs, live model smokes, and researcher-child smokes. The nested dirty website repository remains unchanged and preserved. Next: keep main synchronized.

2026-08-14 22:25 EDT — intake-sweep-pi-0.84.2-web-0.23.0

- Objective: Adopt the current Pi and web research runtimes, reconcile the empty intake queues, and qualify Feynman 0.3.22.
- Intake: Open issues and PRs are empty. The 30 newest forks are behind main; NioZow/feynman is 1 commit ahead but 100 behind with only stale Nix packaging work, so it is rejected. Dependabot and published advisory counts are zero. Main workflow runs through 31706066442 are successful. npm and GitHub latest remain 0.3.21.
- Changed: Updated the coordinated Pi package train to 0.84.2, pi-web-access to 0.23.0, exact source fixtures and patch gates, runtime locks and archive, and 0.3.22 release docs. Updated installed TypeBox checks to match Pi 0.84.2: optional non-nullable null values are omitted and malformed non-null values remain rejected. Repaired a stale packaged web verifier marker for the 0.23.0 registration layout.
- Verified locally: Focused checks, full npm test (783/783), typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build, root/site production audits, outdated review, diff check, package budget, package-artifact verification, clean installed tarball audit, installed 15-tool/9-command RPC and TypeBox checks, installed document parse/search/screenshot, and a live installed openai/gpt-5.5 smoke returning PONG passed. Final pack is 114,751,448 bytes, 29,134 files; runtime SHA-256 is e22e5661f4a8d4a65cb403bbbca20e2d03dbeb2843341232e42249e74944e306.
- State: unverified for the exact commit in Daytona, remote CI, merge, npm/GitHub/native publication, and post-release delivery proof. No GitHub or npm writes occurred. Existing nested dirty website work remains preserved. Next: commit the candidate, run and delete Daytona, then push the exact tested SHA and complete CI and release verification.

2026-08-13 07:21 CDT — liteparse-2.12.0-0.3.21-release

- Objective: Complete the LiteParse 2.12.0 research-runtime intake through publication, delivery proof, and cleanup.
- Persistence: PR #228 exact head c0b388c4eee1de9d6fcb84c55d4cabdcb8daaa24 passed run 31690228104 and merged as 186c226ecb4168c7fb5fb4026f99649be1920441.
- Clean-machine proof: Exact head passed the Daytona package, runtime, document, consumer, and release ladder in sandbox 73c70fbf-bc65-4f81-b0eb-7ccb80df5f70; the sandbox was deleted and confirmed absent.
- Delivery: Publish run 31693465638 passed source and package verification, six consumers, five native bundles, npm publication, GitHub release creation, provenance, checksums, and published-state verification. npm @companion-ai/[email protected] is latest with integrity sha512-naoZamvsJRxzcjD0iaUyv3WykWmlSN0lMn7xSUkTJwRkUFad+t5JibP7qbmrOj8hZojI7Kw+FR8eWfilLX4yaQ==, SHA-256 3026f1111823a1406fccf432825758f738382d3c0b27776c004abbf63cbf3e60, and provenance resolving to 186c226.
- Published proof: GitHub v0.3.21 targets 186c226 and contains five native assets plus SHA256SUMS; all asset digests match the manifest. Post-release run 31698860122 passed all six published package installs, all three live native installers, model smokes, and researcher-child smokes on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
- Intake and final state: Open issue and PR queues are empty. Dependabot and repository advisory queues are empty. Main is clean and synchronized. State: verified and production-live. Next: start the next sweep from clean synchronized main.

2026-08-12 08:55 CDT — managed-packages-current-date-0.3.20-release

- Objective: Complete the managed-package reconciliation and current-date context intake through merge, publication, delivery proof, and cleanup.
- Persistence: PR #227 exact head ba87fd7dca38717af0260280aa707be08a4c08b6 passed the release candidate, six Linux/macOS/Windows consumers, and Windows native installer checks, then merged as 33685eeea271a28b68f746f7687a31bbe9eb7293.
- Clean-machine proof: Exact head ba87fd7 passed 783/783 tests, typecheck, build, architecture, website, audit, package, runtime, document, model, and researcher-child gates in Daytona. The sandbox was deleted and confirmed absent.
- Delivery: Publish run 31597429220 passed source and package verification, six consumers, five native bundles, npm publication, GitHub release creation, provenance, checksums, and published-state verification. npm @companion-ai/[email protected] is latest with integrity sha512-9atWIA/Jj1K5BRavBTu31mkXIEizU/6SgpWFzfZGXOOHwsQW/HT26GkQ0FTuP+B0wOhyDznNPDSXw/udV+RFfQ==; the 122,787,315-byte registry tarball has SHA-256 6ff5e7ddd673b67a0771162ee5abe536ee27ecc14f34ead6f6952fd1d8fac7ca and provenance resolving to the merge commit.
- Published proof: GitHub v0.3.20 targets 33685ee; all five native asset digests match SHA256SUMS. Post-release run 31603093191 passed all six published package installs, all three live native installers, model smokes, and researcher-child smokes on Linux, macOS, and Windows. A fresh registry consumer passed audit, package, RPC, TypeBox, and document parse/search/screenshot checks.
- Intake and final state: Open issue and PR queues are empty. All 1,019 forks added no current port target. [email protected] remains rejected because its broad workflow, mission, scheduling, worktree, and administration scope replaces Feynman's focused task and chain surface without fixing a current research defect. State: verified and production-live. Next: start the next sweep from clean synchronized main.

2026-08-12 05:18 CDT — intake-sweep-managed-packages-current-date-0.3.20

- Objective: Repair stale Feynman-managed package trees and give current research turns an explicit local date.
- Intake: Open issue and PR queues are empty. Current Pi, pi-web-access, pi-docparser, LiteParse, pi-btw, pi-otel, and alpha-hub releases remain adopted. [email protected] remains rejected because its broad async workflow and administration scope does not fix this intake. Recent TheTechOddBug, nagyist, and dubbypanda forks match main; sk-surya is stale; randomm contributed only the current-date principle.
- Changed: Managed historical package sources now reconcile to exact bundled presets before launch. Feynman removes stale managed shadow installs and seeds bundled packages without replacing custom selectors, filtered package objects, or optional packages. Parent and researcher-child turns receive the local current date through Pi's supported before_agent_start system-prompt result.
- Verified locally: Adversarial review found and repaired degraded-runtime launch failure, stale usable prefix handling, custom-prefix preservation, and omitted historical pins. Focused tests passed 70/70; the full suite passed 782/782; typecheck, build, architecture, website lint/typecheck/build, production audits, and diff checks passed. Dry and real packs matched at 121,045,848 bytes and 40,224 files; local/global consumers, extracted-runtime audit, stale-upgrade, package, RPC, TypeBox, current-date, and docparser checks passed. A live openai/gpt-5.5 probe returned DATE=2026-08-12.
- State: unverified for exact-SHA Daytona, PR CI, merge, and 0.3.20 publication. Next: persist the candidate, pass clean-machine and CI gates, then publish and verify exact release identity.

2026-08-11 23:28 CDT — pi-web-access-0.22.0-and-feynman-0.3.19-release

- Objective: Complete the [email protected] research-runtime intake through merge, publication, delivery proof, and cleanup.
- Persistence: PR #226 candidate be39b4859ffa57337c71733435bb607f5344ebbc passed its source, package, six-consumer, and native checks, then merged as fecb7faee6ebebafc71ee2f414573eae3c24a79e. The release branch was removed from origin.
- Clean-machine proof: The exact merged SHA passed the full validation ladder in the larger Daytona sandbox after the initial resource-pressure failure in the smaller sandbox.
- Delivery: Publish run 31559441208 passed source verification, six package consumers, five native bundles, npm publication, GitHub release creation, provenance, checksums, and published-state verification. npm @companion-ai/[email protected] is latest with integrity sha512-rQZgsi4kFewieuBgulJyJI7ECPbPaxBhjmJDjlSkf+aBGFEYkas4SAqWytIkPIfgU5fwwgcJMPpox3IW9BD/wg==. GitHub v0.3.19 targets fecb7fa and contains five native archives plus SHA256SUMS.
- Published proof: Post-release run 31562633273 passed all six published global installs, all three native installers, and the model and researcher-child smokes, including RESULT=PONG. Open issue and PR queues remain empty; Dependabot alerts remain empty.
- Cleanup: Deleted owned Daytona sandboxes 06f1ad9a-388e-4249-92d5-89266cd8a4ef and b18763b2-f19c-4155-b7d5-ca5ec4414dc0, removed the generated runtime archive and 436 owned temporary directories, and confirmed no owned process remains.
- State: verified and production-live. Successor release identity is verified on the completion commit; no fixable residual work remains.

2026-08-11 17:05 CDT — intake-sweep-pi-web-access-0.22.0

- Objective: Adopt the current web-research runtime without reopening adjacent package or control-plane scope.
- Intake: Open issues and pull requests are empty. dubbypanda/feynman is the only fork changed since the prior sweep and matches main. Root and website production audits are clean. [email protected] remains rejected because it replaces Feynman's task and chain contract with broader async workflow and mission surfaces without fixing a current defect.
- Changed: Updated pi-web-access to 0.22.0, adopted upstream fetched-content cache hardening, added Bocha search and configurable 30,000–200,000-character content slices, and preserved Feynman's exact config path, private cache, model scope, browser-cookie opt-in, raw-result default, and 90-second primary-search deadline.
- State: unverified for cumulative tests, clean package consumers, Daytona, CI, merge, and release. Next: pass every source, website, package, runtime, clean-machine, CI, and publication gate for exact 0.3.19.

2026-08-11 11:28 EDT — intake-sweep-windows-consumer-budget-0.3.18

- Objective: Resume the 0.3.18 publication after main run 31499996075 exhausted its Windows Node 25 consumer job budget.
- Evidence: The first clean tarball install passed after 33 minutes. The second clean global install was still running when GitHub cancelled the job at 60 minutes. The same matrix completed in prior runs when both installs finished sooner.
- Changed: Raised the PR and publish package-consumer job budgets from 60 to 90 minutes. All local/global install, audit, package, runtime, RPC, TypeBox, and document gates remain unchanged.
- State: unverified for the successor PR and publish run. Next: pass focused and cumulative checks, merge exact green CI, then finish npm/GitHub/native publication and post-release proof.

2026-08-11 01:35 EDT — intake-sweep-web-cache-hardening-0.3.17

- Objective: Complete the post-0.3.16 fetched-content reliability intake without broadening Feynman beyond the research loop.
- Intake: Feynman has no open issue or PR. The refreshed 1,018-fork snapshot has no push after the 0.3.16 merge. GitHub advisory and Dependabot queues are empty. The nested dirty website repository remains preserved at 67186845.
- Root causes: Short successful fetch_content results kept responseId only in hidden tool details, so a live model guessed fetch_content and get_search_content failed. The new external cache also lacked count and byte limits, stale temporary-file cleanup, permission repair, and symlink checks.
- Changed: Every single-URL fetch now exposes its stored response ID in model-visible text. The exact-gated [email protected] patch ports upstream PR #241 at b3e784f, bounds cache use to 128 entries and 128 MiB, evicts oldest entries, normalizes POSIX permissions, rejects symlinks, writes through exclusive random temporary files, and treats concurrent missing prune targets as success. Exact-source hashes normalize Windows line endings. Cache-specific tests now live in a separate file instead of growing the general web patch suite beyond the architecture threshold.
- Verified locally: Upstream PR #241 passes 13/13 focused tests, 446/446 cumulative tests, typecheck, and runtime audit. Feynman passes 24/24 focused tests, 65/65 affected tests, 767/767 cumulative tests, typecheck, build, architecture, actionlint, website lint/typecheck/build, root/site/runtime/consumer audits, registry signatures, dry and real packs, package budget, local/global installed runtime and document checks, and a four-process cache stress.
- Live proof: Installed openai/gpt-5.5 saw response ID mso97v8wmxdxvf, reused that exact ID with get_search_content, and returned WEB_CACHE_0317_OK mso97v8wmxdxvf. The final cache used 0700 directory and 0600 file modes.
- State: Candidate 0.3.17 is locally verified and uncommitted. Next: commit the exact candidate, prove it in Daytona and CI, then merge and verify npm, GitHub, native, provenance, and live research delivery.

2026-08-10 13:12 EDT — intake-sweep-deepseek-v4-pro-0.3.15-release

- Objective: Carry the exact DeepSeek V4 Pro research-model correction through clean-machine proof, merge, publication, delivery checks, and cleanup.
- Persistence: PR #221 exact head 9debe8def114a3443bb6e7624cb35ded5e6596bb passed run 31395933747 and merged as 4fc5a6874d91d1841069d1a4625cac3cb7a9b169. The port keeps Pi's exact DeepSeek IDs and rejects the source fork's broad Pro bypass, provider scripts, duplicate parallel-search bundle, and stale agent changes.
- Clean-machine proof: Exact merge 4fc5a687 passed focused 105/105, cumulative 755/755, typecheck, build, architecture, website lint/typecheck/build, audits, pack, clean consumer, stale-Pi, RPC/TypeBox, and document gates in Daytona sandbox 4c3e449a-f0c1-48de-a59a-7bf2c0419f90 on Node 25.9.0. Its 122,765,124-byte package had SHA-256 cabdcac428a7ba32e11978f084991d3606eb5b018b72ce4b4bf72b603c2fc769; the sandbox was deleted and confirmed absent.
- Delivery: Publish run 31401997236 passed and released npm/GitHub 0.3.15 from the merge commit. The 122,765,082-byte registry tarball has SHA-256 28a5a854f4fcb3c955573c5dc78333e8dc2de8aa91cba766ac082fdd00c715f2, integrity sha512-nIfGSLzFqjimz2WZeLs3y4H2zozxE5XRn81GJuDs4j9Y5P2vnbEvnlWly3s/YQwsiuF1rTfYa/4ls231mztYSQ==, and verified provenance resolving to 4fc5a687. GitHub v0.3.15 targets the same commit; all five native asset digests match SHA256SUMS. Production release docs and both live installers match source.
- Published proof: A fresh registry consumer passed zero-vulnerability package, embedded-runtime, and extracted-runtime audits; 96 signatures with 192 attestations; package/runtime/stale-Pi/RPC/TypeBox/document gates; and exact default persistence. Its model list showed nebius/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro as current and recommended, the removed environment bypass still rejected Gemini Pro, and a streamed prompt reached /v1/chat/completions with the exact DeepSeek ID and returned DEEPSEEK_V4_PRO_OK.
- Final state: Canonical post-release run 31409934882 passed all six Linux/macOS/Windows Node 22/24/25 consumers and all three live native installers. Issue and PR queues are empty, security advisory queues are empty, and the unrelated nested website repository remains preserved. State: verified and production-live. Next: start the next sweep from clean synchronized main.

2026-08-10 09:35 EDT — intake-sweep-deepseek-v4-pro-0.3.15

- Objective: Port the valid research-model correction from randomm/feynman without importing its fork-only provider scripts, broad Pro bypass, or duplicate parallel-search surface.
- Intake: Open issues and PRs are empty. All 1,017 forks were refreshed; only nagyist/feynman and randomm/feynman changed after the cutoff. nagyist/main has no commit ahead of upstream. randomm/main contributes the DeepSeek correction in 2fa0437; its parallel-search and agent-discovery commits remain rejected because current [email protected] already batches web queries, and removing bundled [email protected] would remove Feynman's verified subagent runtime.
- Changed: Exact DeepSeek V4 Pro IDs from Pi's direct, DeepSeek, Nebius, and Fireworks catalogs now pass the Pro-class cost guard. Premium service models such as Gemini Pro and o1-pro remain blocked. No FEYNMAN_ALLOW_PRO_MODELS or other broad bypass exists. Updated model listing, recommendation, explicit selection, default persistence and repair, CLI copy, command metadata, setup guidance, website documentation, release notes, and candidate version 0.3.15.
- Verified locally: Focused model and content coverage passed 105/105; the cumulative suite passed 755/755. Typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), root/site/runtime/consumer/extracted-runtime production audits, package freshness review, and git diff --check passed. Only existing dependency build warnings and recorded architecture debt remain.
- Package proof: The rebuilt candidate contains 40,223 files, is 121,026,469 bytes compressed and 342,291,561 bytes unpacked, and has SHA-256 91f55cfd83deb14cc917bed444750cdb5ff439e375be06cb93a2195ab7c66811. A clean installed consumer passed package, stale-Pi, 9 RPC command, 15 tool/TypeBox schema, document parse/search/screenshot, and all runtime audits.
- User path: An installed-package model list exposed nebius/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro as current and recommended, model set persisted it, FEYNMAN_ALLOW_PRO_MODELS=1 did not expose a premium Gemini model, and a mocked OpenAI-compatible prompt reached /v1/chat/completions with the exact DeepSeek model ID and returned DEEPSEEK_V4_PRO_OK.
- State: verified locally and unverified for the exact commit in Daytona, PR CI, merge, and npm/GitHub/native publication. Next: commit with contributor attribution, prove the exact pushed SHA in Daytona and CI, then merge and verify every 0.3.15 delivery surface.

2026-08-10 09:13 EDT — intake-sweep-pi-web-access-0.20.0-release

- Objective: Carry the verified [email protected] research-runtime candidate through merge, publication, independent delivery proof, and cleanup.
- Persistence: PR #220 exact head 22fa33604307ec82dbd6ad41f563964c5ec1a4f0 passed run 31380143935, including the release candidate, six Linux/macOS/Windows Node 22/24/25 consumers, and Windows PowerShell 5.1/Core native installation. It merged as 3d59c3d7130d0e7ae87c09e61c3669977c8d1575; origin now exposes only main.
- Clean-machine proof: Exact head 22fa336 passed the complete source, website, package, runtime, document, model, DuckDuckGo, Datalab, and AlphaXiv ladder in Daytona sandbox 155e1fa0-5b19-4690-a7a0-81c101d8eedb. The successful sandbox and low-memory diagnostic sandbox f522149f-00dc-47d3-9765-e2b869c80b51 were deleted and confirmed absent.
- Delivery: Main run 31383652197 passed source/package verification, all six package consumers, five native builds, npm publication, GitHub release creation, provenance, checksums, and published-state verification. npm @companion-ai/[email protected] is latest; its 122,764,823-byte registry tarball is byte-identical to the CI artifact at SHA-256 d3d7bee2579be5220f8ab0386710a033e2e1d608c61d05c575d4a97449bddc3c, and its attestation resolves to the merge commit. GitHub v0.3.14 targets the same commit with five nonempty native archives plus SHA256SUMS; every provider digest matches the manifest.
- Published proof: A clean registry consumer passed zero-vulnerability audit, 96 package signatures with 192 attestations, package/runtime/RPC/TypeBox/document gates, two live domain-filtered arXiv results through DuckDuckGo, Datalab missing-key handling, openai/gpt-5.5, and the authenticated 36,090-byte AlphaXiv paper question. Canonical post-release run 31390092634 passed all six published consumers and all three live native installers for exact version 0.3.14.
- Intake and preservation: The issue and PR queues are empty, all 1,017 forks added no port target, the release branch is deleted, and deployed release docs plus both live installers match source. Concurrent unrelated work on local branch codex/non-premium-pro-models remains untouched with its 12 dirty model/release paths. State: verified and production-live. Next: start the next sweep from synchronized main while preserving that separate work.

2026-08-10 05:21 EDT — intake-sweep-pi-web-access-0.20.0

- Objective: Refresh the complete maintainer intake and adopt only current package changes that improve Feynman's research retrieval, document extraction, or runtime reliability.
- Intake: Open issues and PRs are empty. Origin exposes only main; all 1,017 forks were inspected, and none changed after the prior cutoff. No active workflow, Dependabot alert, or repository advisory exists. The unrelated nested dirty website repository remains preserved.
- Changed: Updated bundled pi-web-access from 0.19.0 to 0.20.0, retained Feynman's exact config path, project-local fetch cache, session model scope, browser-cookie opt-in, and search deadline patches, and added migration from the 0.3.13 package set. Added package gates for keyless DuckDuckGo search and optional Datalab PDF-to-Markdown extraction. Updated root and packaged runtime ip-address to 10.5.0 for graceful non-IPv6 parsing. Bumped the candidate and public release notes to 0.3.14.
- Source proof: Registry [email protected] resolves to upstream commit 00b2271d0f1603ac780df3f324aed0fc92f3e849, whose exact source passed 425/425 tests, typecheck, production audit, and package inspection. Registry [email protected] resolves to ef98e0a0e77fbef1fdf8bc3bd33288b00b3103c9; upstream CI run 31359175734 passed. Kept [email protected] because the current 1.3.11 changes schema-engine semantics without a current defect, and kept [email protected] because 0.45.2 still replaces Feynman's task/chain contract with broad async mission, schedule, Herdr, worktree, and administration surfaces.
- Verified locally: Focused affected coverage passed 102/102; all tests passed 751/751. Typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), actionlint, root/site/runtime/consumer audits, registry signatures (760 packages and 188 attestations), package freshness review, and git diff --check passed. The rebuilt runtime carries [email protected] and [email protected] with archive SHA-256 f6b27fbdf1cf976fc7ec9c2970407e36dacb0e63f8d4cc2e7df2a825985ecc65.
- Package proof: Dry and real packs matched at 121,025,688 bytes, 342,289,989 unpacked bytes, and 40,223 files; the tarball SHA-256 is 6bfd9ef05ae1317a3e9158b526a22c873f0a87f810e5fe981371fc4e0f017a96. Clean local and global installs passed package, stale-Pi, 9 RPC command, 15 tool/TypeBox schema, and document parse/search/screenshot gates. The installed runtime returned two live domain-filtered arXiv results through DuckDuckGo, rejected Datalab without a key, returned INTAKE_0314_OK from openai/gpt-5.5, and returned 36,090 bytes from the exact authenticated AlphaXiv paper question with empty stderr.
- State: verified for source, local cumulative checks, packaging, installed runtime, and live research paths. Exact-commit Daytona, PR CI, merge, and npm/GitHub/native publication remain unverified. Next: commit the exact candidate, validate it in Daytona and CI, then merge and verify every 0.3.14 delivery surface.

2026-08-09 18:19 EDT — intake-sweep-nanoid-3.3.18-audit-repair

- Objective: Refresh the complete maintainer intake and clear every current production audit finding without broadening Feynman's research scope.
- Intake: Open issues and PRs were empty. All 1,016 forks were refreshed; nagyist, pseudoctor, and TheTechOddBug matched upstream, while sk-surya exposed only stale Dependabot branches 196 commits behind. Dependabot and repository-advisory queues were empty. Code scanning has no analysis, and secret scanning is disabled.
- Root cause: Root and website locks still selected [email protected], affected by GHSA-2v37-7h3g-55p8. Upstream 3.3.17 repaired most zero-size loops, while 3.3.18 also repaired the omitted React Native async path.
- Changed: Root and website overrides now require exact [email protected]; both locks were refreshed, and the package security regression enforces the patched resolution. Kept [email protected]; current 0.45.1 removes Feynman's task/chain contract and adds async missions, schedules, Herdr, worktrees, and administration without fixing a current defect.
- Local and clean-machine proof: Focused regressions passed 15/15; the cumulative suite passed 750/750. Typecheck, build, architecture, website lint/typecheck/build, actionlint, root/site/runtime audits, registry signatures, dry and real pack, clean consumer/global installs, package/runtime/RPC/TypeBox checks, and document parse/search/screenshot passed. Exact head ed067e14bb29e1aad88b81b59d563fa04f883e9c passed the same ladder in Daytona on Node 25.9.0; its 122,763,413-byte tarball had SHA-256 31dcd53fcb6147f0ab87b675531a6679287300f6291366b714448d76f331e683.
- Persistence: PR #219 passed run 31336147879, including all Linux/macOS/Windows Node 22/24/25 consumers and Windows PowerShell 5.1/Core native installation. It merged as c0231bf8edfda15d72e9cdd63c63ba9812a23c45; the local and remote repair branches were deleted.
- Release state: Main run 31338927707 passed version identity and correctly skipped republication because version 0.3.13 already exists. npm 0.3.13 and GitHub v0.3.13 remain unchanged, and a fresh published consumer audit found zero vulnerabilities. Vercel reported a successful exact-main deployment.
- Cleanup: The exact-head Daytona sandbox and current-run consumer were deleted. The unrelated nested dirty website repository remains unchanged at 67186845 with 51 paths. State: verified on main with empty intake queues and no fixable residual item. Next: start the next sweep from clean synchronized main.

2026-08-09 07:50 EDT — intake-sweep-brace-forward-compat-0.3.13-release

- Objective: Carry issue #217 through exact-candidate verification, merge, publication, delivery proof, and cleanup.
- Persistence: PR #218 exact head 5177a12785972d09a023b35c418b8e57ea2390b9 passed the complete install matrix and merged as f7ead4144746ff34cd8f6dc18c1cb2e2a9f6c891. The source and remote release branches were deleted.
- Clean-machine proof: Daytona sandbox 99ff14c2-8913-405a-a45b-11f27518bd76 checked out exact head 5177a12 on Node 25.9.0 and passed 750/750 tests, typecheck, build, architecture, website checks, all production audits, pack and consumer/global installation, package/runtime/RPC/document verification, stale-Pi repair, and a fabricated [email protected] launch. Its sandbox and the earlier undersized exit-137 sandbox were deleted.
- CI and delivery: PR run 31306432848 passed the release candidate, six Node 22/24/25 Linux/macOS/Windows consumers, and Windows PowerShell 5.1/Core native installation. Main run 31308625569 passed source/package verification, the same consumer matrix, five native builds, npm publication, GitHub release creation, provenance, checksums, and published-state verification.
- Release identity: npm @companion-ai/[email protected] has integrity sha512-UkXPQz+jv1OTI42pIwNW5jr0IwUc1RErwsFulaj50Xfml2KQ3jmEPRNw47oc9wq+4kKmAzduDTnb/dhObcsK7Q==; its attestation resolves to f7ead414. GitHub v0.3.13 targets the same commit and exposes exactly five nonempty native archives plus SHA256SUMS; each provider digest matches the checksum manifest.
- Published smoke: Fresh local and global npm installs passed zero-vulnerability consumer audit, version/help/package/search commands, package-artifact verification, installed runtime verification, and document parse/search/screenshot. Issue #217 was commented with these receipts and closed.
- Intake and cleanup: The issue and PR queues are empty. No duplicate PR, temporary tarball, consumer, process, release branch, or Daytona sandbox remains. The unrelated dirty nested website repository and prunable Lima worktree record remain preserved.
- State: verified and production-live. [email protected] remains intentionally unadopted because its broad task/chain, async, schedules, missions, Herdr, worktree, and administration migration does not serve this issue-specific research-runtime fix.

2026-08-09 05:15 EDT — intake-sweep-brace-forward-compat-0.3.13

- Objective: Resolve issue #217 without weakening Pi's launch-time dependency repair, then release the exact verified candidate.
- Intake: Issue #217 is the only open issue and no PR is open. Two forks changed after the automation cutoff; both still match upstream main. The other 1,014 inspected forks add no current port target. The preserved Lima worktree is 92 commits behind main with no unique commit. The unrelated nested website repository remains dirty and unchanged outside the tracked release page.
- Root cause: The security patch accepted only exact reviewed brace-expansion versions. Pi's agent-managed <agentDir>/npm tree can resolve a later secure release, so the next registry update would stop Feynman before CLI startup. Advisory GHSA-rgw5-rvv9-x895 confirms 5.0.9 as the patched 5.x floor.
- Changed: Valid semantic versions at or above 5.0.9 now remain intact in Pi shrinkwraps, owning locks, and installed trees. Reviewed vulnerable 5.0.6 through 5.0.8 trees still upgrade to exact 5.0.9; malformed and older unsupported versions still fail closed. Added source, package-lock, installed-tree, and exact agent-managed runtime regressions. Bumped the candidate and public release notes to 0.3.13.
- Verified locally: Focused regressions passed 70/70; all tests passed 750/750; typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), root/site/runtime/consumer audits, npm registry signatures, and git diff --check passed. Clean local and global tarball installs passed version/help/package/search, stale-Pi upgrade, source and installed artifact verification, installed RPC/TypeBox tools, document parse/search/screenshot, and a fabricated agent-managed [email protected] launch.
- Package proof: Dry and real packs matched at 121,011,306 bytes, 342,270,111 unpacked bytes, and 40,223 entries. The tarball SHA-256 is c7d1a439af9a9d70e3f90375efd03ba776f4af85e1d8346192861b3d4987c7e0; the embedded runtime SHA-256 is d803f701a3e32ff90a38d175891b413d83ca4f722ecf20f89f6b0ae2715f058d.
- Freshness: [email protected] was reviewed but not adopted. Versions after bundled 0.40.0 remove public task/chain surfaces, make launches asynchronous by default, and add schedules, missions, Herdr, and administration paths. That broad contract migration has no issue-specific security or research-loop requirement. Other root and website drift has no current advisory or proven defect.
- State: verified locally and unverified for the exact commit in Daytona, PR CI, merge, and npm/GitHub/native publication. Next: commit the candidate, prove that exact SHA in Daytona and CI, then merge, publish, verify delivery, and close #217.

2026-08-08 21:44 EDT — intake-sweep-0.3.12-release-completion

- Objective: Complete issue #214 through merge, publication, live delivery proof, and queue cleanup.
- Persistence: PR #216 exact head 3922342c4e9f8576627a661eadc953b5ee0e514e merged as bf6e415c83d702c6b3c280b463ed7a7e998861d3. PR #215 closed as superseded because it retained the obsolete alphaXiv fallback and added no unique repair. Origin now exposes only main.
- Delivery: Publish run 31285624271 passed every source, package, Linux, macOS, Windows, native-bundle, provenance, release, and published-state job. npm 0.3.12 is latest; its attestation resolves to the merge commit. GitHub v0.3.12 targets that commit with five nonempty native archives and matching SHA256SUMS.
- User path: A clean global install of the published package authenticated with alphaXiv. The exact reported feynman alpha ask 2401.12345 "What optimizer did they use?" command returned paper content without MCP error -32602.
- Live verification: Post-release run 31288182374 passed six npm consumers on Linux, macOS, and Windows across Node 22, 24, and 25. It also passed all three live native installers plus every enabled one-shot model, text-model, and subagent call.
- Intake: Issue #214 closed with delivery receipts and no issue or PR remains open. The sweep checked all 1,015 forks and every branch in the 20 forks active since August 1. The duplicate alphaXiv branch was superseded; stale security branches were already covered; the fork-only parallel-search prompt bundle remained outside the focused research-runtime fix.
- Freshness: Pi 0.84.1, [email protected], [email protected], and LiteParse 2.11.1 remain current. [email protected] was reviewed but not adopted: its post-0.40.0 line makes direct launches asynchronous and adds default schedules, missions, Herdr, worktree, and administration surfaces that cross Feynman's research-only boundary. Other root and website drift has no current advisory or proven research-loop defect.
- State: verified and production-live. Root, website, runtime, and installed-consumer audits found zero vulnerabilities. The next daily sweep should start from npm/GitHub 0.3.12, clean main, and an empty issue/PR queue.

2026-08-08 05:10 EDT — intake-sweep-alpha-ask-0.3.12

- Objective: Fix issue #214, reconcile the preserved 0.3.12 candidate, and complete its unpublished release without adding a new product surface.
- Intake: Issue #214 is the only open issue and no PR is open. Live main remains daa7f47; GitHub and npm still serve 0.3.11. Recent active forks either match or trail main; fuzzywigg security commits are superseded, and randomm documents its provider-specific parallel-cli bundle as fork-only, so neither earns a port.
- Root cause: @companion-ai/[email protected] sends answer_pdf_queries first as { urls, queries }, then retries as { url, query }. The current alphaXiv contract requires { paper, queries }, matching the provider's reported validation schema.
- Changed: The removable alpha-hub package patch now sends { paper: url, queries: [query] }, repairs an already search-patched runtime, fails closed on unknown Q&A layouts, and is enforced in source and archived package verification. Public 0.3.12 release notes now describe the user-visible repair.
- Reconciled: The preserved candidate now includes Pi 0.84.1, [email protected], LiteParse 2.11.1, PDF.js 6.2.108, current root and website security resolutions, and Pi delta-only Workbench RPC text updates. The open contributor PR duplicates the alphaXiv repair but retains the obsolete fallback, so it adds no change to port.
- Adversarial repair: The first package-artifact run found the verifier checking nested Pi's obsolete dist/tui.js after Pi moved rendering to dist/tui-main-screen.js; the verifier and its regression now target the actual patched module. Review also corrected both public release surfaces from LiteParse 2.11.0 to the exact runtime 2.11.1.
- Verified locally: The exact source tree passed focused patch and release regressions, all 748/748 tests, typecheck, production build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), root and website production audits (0 vulnerabilities), actionlint, and git diff --check. Live feynman alpha ask 2401.12345 "What optimizer did they use?" returned paper content without an MCP schema error.
- CI repair: PR #216 proved the Linux-built npm tarball on Linux, but its macOS and Windows consumers could not load LiteParse's matching native module because the archived runtime only carries its build host's optional package. The published package now requests every supported LiteParse native package as an optional dependency, allowing npm to install the consumer's matching binary outside the portable runtime archive.
- Verified CI repair locally: Focused regressions and all 748/748 tests passed. The source, website, audit, build, architecture, and diff ladders stayed green. A 121,011,394-byte tarball passed budget, runtime audit, clean macOS consumer and global installs, artifact/runtime verification, and document parse/search/screenshot with the installed darwin-arm64 package.
- State: verified for the successor local source and macOS package paths, plus exact-SHA Daytona for predecessor fb3cc6f. PR CI must prove the successor across Linux, macOS, Windows, and native installers. Next: push the focused native-package repair, merge only green CI, then verify every 0.3.12 delivery surface.

2026-08-05 01:00 EDT — intake-sweep-0.3.12-release-hardening

- Objective: Repair the remaining packaged web-config and document-tool verification gaps, adopt current research-runtime dependencies, and complete the unpublished 0.3.12 release.
- Intake: Open issues and PRs are empty. main and origin/main match merge daa7f47; npm and GitHub still serve 0.3.11. Recent forks are behind main except NioZow's stale one-commit Nix packaging branch, which is broad platform work with no current research defect or current-release validation and is not ported. The Lima worktree is clean and has no unique commit.
- Changed: Web configuration now reads and writes through getWebSearchConfigPath() and creates that exact file's parent. Added an installed verifier that loads pi-docparser through Pi's bundled Jiti and executes parse, search, and screenshot tools in package, consumer, native, publish, and live-delivery gates. Updated direct, nested Pi, and runtime Undici to 8.10.0; overrode pi-docparser's LiteParse 2.10.1 pin with removable runtime version 2.11.0.
- Source proof: Undici 8.10.0 is official release commit c8d80e6 with idle-loop, readable-body, retry, HTTP/2, proxy IPv6, and DNS-origin fixes. LiteParse 2.11.0 is official package commit 0f579ee; its reviewed range adds document provenance, RTL/LTR ordering, table extraction improvements, and PDFium 1.5.0. [email protected] and its current upstream main still pin LiteParse 2.10.1, which defines the override removal condition.
- Verified so far: Dependency, runtime, package-seeding, exact web-fixture, release-workflow, and runtime-lock regressions passed 59/59. The installed document verifier parsed one page, found one exact phrase hit, and wrote a nonempty 22,539-byte PNG. Package-artifact verification passed with runtime SHA-256 a7211debc8cc2cd254bf4e4b7cfb613d5e7332f6f3917fd159ae1e8995fbb093.
- State: verified for focused local paths and unverified for the cumulative local ladder, exact-commit Daytona, PR CI, merge, and published delivery. Next: complete every local gate, commit the exact candidate, prove it in Daytona and CI, then merge and verify npm, GitHub, native assets, and live installers.

2026-08-04 21:21 EDT — intake-sweep-0.3.12-final-candidate

- Objective: Finish the open 0.3.12 web-runtime follow-up after its Windows installer verifier failed, refresh the complete maintainer intake, and add the smallest current document-research and security repairs before publication.
- Changed: Made the [email protected] patch validate every target before any write, reject unsupported versions and layouts, and verify all live session-scope paths in the packaged runtime. Updated pi-docparser to 4.0.0 for isolated cancellable native workers, atomic bounded outputs, stable JSON, and LiteParse 2.10.1. Updated the audited Hono, fast-uri, ip-address, express-rate-limit, and website brace-expansion overrides. The Windows verifier now buffers the mutable checksum file while continuing to stream the large archive, which removes the retained checksum handle that failed the previous Windows job.
- Intake: No open issues exist. PR #213 is the only open PR and remains the owning merge path. PR #212 already owns the 0.3.12 version. The newest kunalkcube, gs034, and Interested-Deving-1896 forks match main; the other sampled recent forks are behind with no ahead commits. Dependabot and repository security-advisory queues are empty. Code scanning and secret scanning are not enabled, so those two empty-state claims remain unavailable rather than inferred.
- Source proof: npm [email protected] resolves to upstream commit 931a0995067062c91bd81798ef226d120c31bd84, whose workflow 30816481652 and local upstream 57/57 check passed. npm latest remains Pi 0.83.0, [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].
- Verified locally: Final focused runtime, package, release, and Windows coverage passed 97/97; the exact upstream web fixture and fail-closed artifact coverage passed 25/25; the full suite passed 737/737. Root typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), root/site/runtime/extracted-runtime/consumer audits, actionlint, registry signature verification (754 packages and 182 attestations, zero missing or invalid), package freshness review, and git diff --check passed. The exact bundled runtime SHA-256 is 62a11862fc7cec8235c7d17111b5520dbd52371a1177ccdab158c9d0b02f40ef.
- Runtime proof: Clean local and global tarball consumers, package-artifact verification, stale-Pi migration, RPC extension loading, and TypeBox validation passed. The final installed tarball retained a textual HTTP 418, found a stored teapot passage case-insensitively, and registered all three web tools. A generated two-page PDF passed document_parse, document_search, and document_screenshot; the final screenshot was a nonempty 47,023-byte PNG. A final installed openai/gpt-5.5 request returned exact PONG.
- Package proof: Final dry and real packs match at 119,891,973 bytes, 336,971,093 unpacked bytes, and 39,702 files. The tarball SHA-1 is 168932760db4c3733961b1807219c0e0dc57c427, its SHA-256 is 26137da41f64b7cab7ba75c1041d5177a30fc1ded735632b837330aac5d7623e, and its embedded runtime SHA-256 is 62a11862fc7cec8235c7d17111b5520dbd52371a1177ccdab158c9d0b02f40ef.
- State: verified locally and unverified for the successor exact commit in Daytona, successor PR CI, merge, and npm/GitHub/native/live-installer publication. Next: commit and push the exact candidate, prove it in a disposable Daytona sandbox and required CI, merge only that head, then verify every 0.3.12 delivery surface.

2026-08-02 23:53 PDT — intake-sweep-pi-web-access-0.18

- Objective: Refresh the empty issue/PR queue and recent contributor/fork state, then qualify [email protected] as the smallest current research-retrieval upgrade from the clean 0.3.11 release baseline.
- Changed: Updated Feynman's bundled/default/runtime-locked web package to 0.18.0, retained migration for the 0.3.11, 0.3.10, and older bundled defaults, and bumped the release candidate to 0.3.12. Adopted upstream raw and page-grounded fetches, direct images, stored-content passage lookup, provider additions, curator isolation, and Git cancellation while preserving project-local PDF scratch files, opt-in browser cookies, no-curator defaults, and the bounded primary-search deadline. Nested page-answer and summary model calls now follow Pi's live resolved session scope instead of rereading .pi settings; exact-version and artifact gates fail closed around the local patch. BSD runtime archives omit host ACL, flags, macOS metadata, and xattrs so those host records no longer change package bytes.
- Intake: GitHub has no open issues or PRs, origin exposes only main, and the preserved Lima worktree at 6a81316 has no unique commits. Recently pushed forks are identical to or behind main; fuzzywigg/feynman is 128 commits behind and its security changes are superseded by current safe versions. No contributor change earned a port.
- Source proof: npm [email protected] resolves to upstream git head d2aab00dcf0547572276d9de4bc4a2a49d640e13. Its exact source passed 363/363 tests, typecheck, production audit, and a 58-file dry pack before integration.
- Verified locally: Focused final model-scope/runtime/package coverage passed 47/47, and the full suite passed 734/734; root typecheck, build, architecture check, root/site/runtime/consumer audits, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), registry signatures (754 packages and 181 attestations), actionlint, package freshness review, and git diff --check passed. The exact installed web extension retained a textual HTTP 418 response, found a stored TEAPOT passage case-insensitively, registered fetch_content, get_search_content, and web_search, rejected an out-of-scope answer override, and enforced a scope narrowed after context creation.
- Package proof: Dry and real packs were byte-identical at 111,490,673 bytes, 328,503,777 unpacked bytes, and 39,705 files. The tarball SHA-1 is 66b878d0d5ca64617c56e4c45db72617fed99e05, its SHA-256 is 33f183d6d31658083ce2e2d71fbe2d586a15b99509f664c06b1ae9415dec8fc4, and the embedded runtime SHA-256 is 7784202e9e3019bc86d01de9292936add9698b653f5c01ec3d5c6db01e25e8d3; the runtime archive contains no host PAX/xattr metadata. Clean local/global installs, stale-Pi upgrade, CLI/package/search flows, package-artifact verification, extracted-runtime/consumer audits, installed RPC, extension loading, TypeBox checks, and a real installed openai/gpt-5.5 prompt returning PONG passed.
- State: verified locally and unverified for committed exact-SHA Daytona, PR CI, merge, and npm/GitHub/native/live-installer publication. Next: commit the exact candidate, prove it in a disposable Daytona sandbox and required CI, merge only the green head, then verify every 0.3.12 delivery surface.

2026-08-02 00:45 PDT — intake-sweep-0.3.11-release-completion

- Objective: Finish the [email protected] intake through exact-commit proof, publication, live installer verification, successor CI, and queue/worktree reconciliation.
- Exact-head proof: Candidate 03fdb2a4c816e2de5c128821c0e48bf0011b2f73 passed the full local 728/728 ladder, authenticated parent/subagent smokes, exact-commit Daytona sandbox 7e3db21f-b329-4331-b4e2-4ce07e156dc4, and PR run 30733954782; PR #210 merged as 26a55bd0cf9acf539413c3177da9ddb27029a5ce.
- Released: Main run 30735432891 passed source/package verification, all six Linux/macOS/Windows Node consumers, all five native builds, npm publication, GitHub release creation, and published-state verification. npm latest is @companion-ai/[email protected] with integrity sha512-L/cWUqE1MitHhTntq57wcZdZEjQT2x2NZytMjXFn+JxeeVE5wmnearF5+/kMKiHq/tSArrqpBTMaFM/mUJ62bA==; the 113,095,746-byte registry tarball has SHA-256 12d36457caa982e8d4cdde292c4aef70a935a7d06aeabad52a1108c51859fada, exactly matches the main workflow artifact, and verified provenance resolves to 26a55bd.
- Release identity: GitHub v0.3.11 targets 26a55bd and contains five nonempty native archives plus SHA256SUMS; every GitHub asset digest matches the manifest. Clean registry local/global consumers, source/runtime audits, package-artifact verification, installed RPC/TypeBox checks, the direct macOS one-line installer, and deployed feynman.is release docs all passed.
- Installer gate: PR #211 added durable post-release checks for the public Unix and Windows one-line installers and merged as b67abf280d19eecc6c978fcfddeb2201b6178e1c after local 729/729 validation and PR run 30736017829. Dispatch 30737679781 passed all six published-package jobs plus live native installation on Ubuntu, macOS, and Windows; successor main run 30738324530 verified the existing release identity and skipped rebuild/publication.
- Reconciled: Open issue and PR queues are empty; recent fork heads are behind main; root, website, and bundled runtime audits are clean; the unrelated Lima worktree remains preserved at 6a81316. State: completed. Next: start future intake from the clean 0.3.11 release baseline.

2026-08-01 22:00 PDT — intake-sweep-pi-subagents-0.40

- Objective: Process the only post-0.3.10 in-scope intake change, preserve the clean unrelated Lima worktree, and carry [email protected] through a 0.3.11 release.
- Changed: Updated the bundled/default/runtime-locked subagent package to 0.40.0; retained automatic migration for both the 0.3.10 ([email protected]) and 0.3.6 (0.37.2) default package sets; bumped Feynman to 0.3.11; and added matching repository/website release notes. TypeBox remains at Pi 0.83.0's exact 1.3.7 contract.
- Source proof: npm [email protected] resolves to upstream tag commit d4d2ab706b612ccd173caad2bc202eef07e7eda3; upstream CI 30721272104 passed Ubuntu and Windows. The installed package exposes the reviewed capability ceilings, usage budgets, approval checkpoints, runtime-extension acknowledgement, signal status, process/output separation, and model/thinking visibility paths.
- Verified locally: Focused package/settings/runtime/release coverage passed 92/92; full tests passed 728/728; typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), root/site/runtime/consumer audits, package freshness review, git diff --check, package-artifact verification, stale-Pi upgrade, and clean local/global installed-runtime RPC/TypeBox checks passed. Registry signature audit reported zero invalid or missing packages, and real authenticated openai/gpt-5.5 parent plus researcher subagent smokes returned PARENT_OK and RESULT=PONG.
- Package proof: Dry and real packs matched at 112,546,426 bytes, 329,608,636 unpacked bytes, and 39,705 files. The tarball SHA-256 is 79f8a976fc9dc4a4e2d4ffd1616b42798a6fd18ad0716241e35ab6933a108612; the embedded runtime SHA-256 is cad4ab09354c89cc5026ecbf78573ff6e0a4b08ae95b72a5205a6b3be7471ab3.
- State: verified locally and unverified for exact-commit Daytona, PR CI, merge, and npm/GitHub/native publication. Next: commit and push the candidate, prove that exact commit in a disposable Daytona sandbox and required CI, then merge and verify every 0.3.11 release surface.

2026-08-01 10:00 PDT — intake-sweep-0.3.10-release-completion

- Objective: Finish the Pi 0.83.0 migration, Windows installer, package-update, and blocked-telemetry queue through exact-head proof, merge, publication, issue reconciliation, and cleanup.
- Exact-head proof: Commit b5c43a1508b26e7be12f0f54a09b3089c181bd40 passed the complete 727/727 suite, typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build, all production audits, dry and real packs, package budget, clean local/global installs, stale-Pi and package-artifact verification, and installed RPC/TypeBox checks in Daytona sandbox 8423796e-c70c-4c61-bab4-d43ab8aa188f. Its 113,079,330-byte, 39,702-file tarball had SHA-256 e68cdab8074ec84d6833d4c296aeddf68fe5e6a5e8f3365c88eec1002559d365; the sandbox was deleted and confirmed absent.
- CI and merge: PR run 30704056177 passed the release candidate, both Windows PowerShell installer paths, and all six Linux/macOS/Windows Node 22.22.0/24.18.0/25 consumers. PR #206 merged as 162a26a14c07576e44f2e579bc97a56de81a169e; the release branch was deleted and local main fast-forwarded.
- Released: Main run 30705796129 passed source/package verification, all six package consumers, all five native bundles, npm publication, GitHub release creation, and published-state verification. npm @companion-ai/[email protected] has integrity sha512-yZQSjB6GmTo/m41lra8WaavQ3jFFxbWQkNvcmw1EV7zZAO8xSSdZ/G81Pd1UKBKJS/wJ5uR32PLtyiQvjTGhvQ==; its verified SLSA/Fulcio provenance resolves to 162a26a, and the registry tarball exactly matches the Daytona SHA-256.
- Release identity: GitHub v0.3.10 targets 162a26a and contains five native archives plus SHA256SUMS; every provider asset digest matches the manifest. GitHub latest resolves to v0.3.10, the live Unix and Windows installer bytes match main, and the deployed release page names v0.3.10.
- Reconciled: Issues #207, #208, and #209 are closed with release receipts; the open issue and PR queues are empty. State: completed. Next: start future intake from the clean 0.3.10 release baseline and remove the remaining temporary fork-inspection refs.

2026-08-01 07:30 PDT — intake-sweep-native-nested-pi-repair

- Failed: Exact-SHA PR run 30703039353 reached the Windows native bundle and rejected the freshly installed nested @earendil-works/pi-agent-core because patch-embedded-pi.mjs patched only hoisted and runtime-workspace copies before artifact verification.
- Fixed: The embedded patch now applies the reviewed AgentCore, TUI, editor, and package-update-notice repairs to hoisted and nested Pi copies in both the application dependency tree and vendored runtime workspace, with exact Pi-version guards.
- Verified: A clean production-only dependency install began with all four affected files unpatched, then the embedded patch added every required marker; focused embedded/runtime regressions passed 8/8; full tests passed 727/727; typecheck, build, architecture check, and git diff --check passed.
- State: verified locally and unverified for successor-SHA Daytona, Windows native CI, merge, and publication. Next: push the repair, prove the exact successor commit in Daytona and CI, then merge and reconcile the release.

2026-08-01 06:12 PDT — intake-sweep-0.3.10-current-queue

- Objective: Finish PR #206 and issues #207/#208/#209 as one 0.3.10 reliability release without losing the coordinated Pi 0.83.0 candidate.
- Fixed: The Windows installer now extracts through a unique short same-volume drive and cleans up transactionally; package updates target the effective managed/project root and verify the update actually landed; PostHog transport failures open a silent per-process circuit breaker; TypeBox schemas reject null arrays; installed RPC verification reaps complete process trees; Pi package notices use the supported feynman update command; and the bundled [email protected] / [email protected] defaults now migrate consistently across settings, runtime, package-list, and release surfaces.
- Hardened: Adversarial review replaced version-dependent Windows path lengths with a calculated boundary fixture, requires successful taskkill, corrects patch removal conditions, resolves hoisted direct dependencies during artifact verification, prevents tests from mutating the vendored Pi tree through legacy symlinks, and follows symlinked temp paths when deciding whether the installed verifier should execute. A final review also restricted exact-pin reconciliation to valid semantic versions while preserving range/tag selectors, and changed the bundled tracer preflight to an authenticated, status-checked OPTIONS request so retriable HTTP failures never enable the exporter.
- Verified locally: focused review regressions passed 54/54; full tests passed 726/726; typecheck, build, architecture check, actionlint, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), source/runtime/site/consumer audits, source and installed artifact checks, runtime tree reconciliation, stale-Pi upgrade, local/global installed RPC checks, healthy PostHog/OTLP log/trace delivery, blocked-collector silence, and git diff --check passed.
- Package proof: dry and real packs matched at 112,524,540 bytes, 329,580,850 unpacked bytes, 39,705 files, SHA-1 bfecb172351c30fddfe3a5b2aedfe8dea708e4d6, and integrity sha512-bZMJhGiA0F5YzasK6ehOLciAWfkv5WQMCKrmsdk2ja7Utn7aTSM4qmcukVE2fZTmERKiyuas2nzB3NUBeClo1w==. Tarball SHA-256 is 1c459ea70d98f1f09e66057d1192bd23bf592e7674c0fd464bcfbe18411f1617; runtime SHA-256 is fa4828de88c37d559de58eef449be255f5b97d2de0f9a6a6eb8a66f2a2c1d069.
- State: verified locally and unverified for committed exact-SHA Daytona, PR CI, merge, published 0.3.10, and terminal issue reconciliation. Next: commit/push the exact candidate, run and delete Daytona, require green Windows/consumer CI, merge, verify npm/GitHub/native release identity, then close #207/#208/#209.

2026-07-30 02:02 PDT — intake-sweep-0.3.10-release-candidate

- Fixed: PaperRank now reads only Pi's finalized assistant message and rejects provider errors, aborts, output-limit truncation, and other non-completion stop reasons before generated synthesis is written. Pi's top-level cli extension source classification no longer hides Feynman's 15 built-in research tools.
- Hardened: Installed-package verification now inventories 9 Feynman commands and 15 tools over RPC, compiles all 15 installed schemas, exercises a genuinely nullable array through Pi's TypeBox tool path, and proves malformed arguments fail before tool execution.
- Verified locally: focused release gates passed 10/10; full tests passed 688/688; typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build, git diff --check, root/site/runtime/consumer audits, mixed-Pi rejection, stale-Pi upgrade, package-artifact verification, dry/real pack, package budget, clean consumer install, and global install all passed. The real tarball is 112,476,954 bytes with 39,700 files; runtime archive SHA-256 is ec22f6bae0eadbe56012818ebc4fa9c42345159adbd8a2c540efd436f3a26bb7.
- Verified user paths: the installed runtime exposed all 9 commands and 15 tools, rejected malformed TypeBox input, completed a real authenticated openai/gpt-5.5 prompt, and generated a real PaperRank synthesis artifact from the fixture source.
- State: verified locally and unverified for exact-SHA Daytona, PR CI, merge, and published 0.3.10 reconciliation. Next: commit and push the exact candidate, run Daytona, merge only green CI, then verify npm provenance and GitHub/native assets.

2026-07-29 16:07 PDT — intake-sweep-0.3.10-pi-0.83

- Objective: Continue the terminal intake from released 0.3.9 and adopt the new coordinated Pi runtime rather than leave a fixable dependency migration deferred.
- Found: Pi 0.83.0 was published from upstream commit 845d6ff1 during this sweep. Its TypeBox 1.3.7 change requires an explicit compatibility pass; its llama.cpp source now requests streaming usage, but old models-store.json entries still preserve the false capability. Upstream issues #7150 and #7053 remain open, and Pi's shrinkwrap still carries vulnerable [email protected] plus proxy-broken Undici 8.5.0.
- Fixed: Moved all four Pi packages, root/runtime locks, fallback pins, correctness gates, declarations, artifact checks, and fixtures to exact 0.83.0. Retained the compaction-loss and eager parallel-result repairs, rebased llama.cpp handling to keep only the serialized cached-metadata migration on top of Pi's upstream usage fix, and reapplied the exact [email protected] and Undici 8.9.0 repairs. Mixed Pi trains and unreviewed older/newer versions now fail closed.
- Verified so far: Focused runtime, llama.cpp, TypeBox-compatible extension/model, package, audit, integrity, and release-workflow tests passed 92/92; root and generated-runtime production audits, typecheck, architecture check, and git diff --check passed. npm metadata and the official v0.83.0 tag/release all resolve the four-package train to 845d6ff1.
- State: verified for the focused migration and unverified for the full source/site/package/native/clean-machine/CI/release ladder. Next: complete cumulative validation, exact-SHA Daytona proof, PR CI, merge, and 0.3.10 npm/GitHub/native release reconciliation.

2026-07-29 05:18 PDT — intake-sweep-0.3.9-runtime-correctness

- Objective: Close the post-0.3.8 release-gate findings and current Pi 0.82.1 runtime correctness gaps instead of leaving them as upstream or dependency deferrals.
- Found: The stale-Pi gate omitted the shrinkwrap-owned security subtree, allowed Windows .cmd launches through Node's deprecated shell-with-arguments path, and recorded the prior release date incorrectly. Current Pi also acknowledges then drops a default RPC prompt during manual compaction, delays every parallel tool result behind the slowest sibling before persistence, pins Undici 8.5.0, whose EnvHttpProxyAgent tunnels plain HTTP proxy traffic, and disables llama.cpp streaming usage so session token totals remain zero. The first correctness candidate persisted completed results only after extension dispatch, accepted extension-rewritten tool-call identities that could duplicate accounting, and verified broad artifact markers without Pi's own shrinkwrap metadata.
- Fixed: Bound stale verification to the exact source/npm/native candidate and pre-launch runtime baselines; require complete core-fixture mutation accounting, exact trusted brace/pi-otel trees, dereferenced second-pass identity, and explicitly escaped ComSpec launches. Added removable, exact-version-gated Pi 0.82.1 patches that reject manual-compaction prompts before a success acknowledgment and eagerly persist completed parallel tool results before extension dispatch while restoring source order. Extension-modified results now replace that eager entry under the original protocol identity instead of duplicating session usage. Updated Feynman's direct, nested Pi, committed runtime, and current user/global Pi Undici resolution to 8.9.0 while leaving stale Pi versions untouched. Ported upstream Pi PR #7258, repaired stale llama.cpp models-store.json capability metadata in place, and serialized that migration against concurrent network catalog refreshes. Artifact verification now checks every load-bearing correctness fragment and exact Pi shrinkwrap Undici version, resolved URL, and integrity.
- Verified so far: Adversarial review findings were closed with exact migration, real file-store, concurrent-refresh, mock SSE usage, and semantic artifact-mutation regressions. Full tests passed 681/681; typecheck, build, architecture check, actionlint, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), root/site/runtime/consumer production audits, freshness review, source artifact verification, and git diff --check passed. Dry and real packs matched at 112,154,998 bytes / 39,706 entries with tarball SHA-256 c0e0e1947d1de0882ca7ed1bd01cd10554a180ac2278f7a0b29f11d2deb04571 and runtime SHA-256 8224927047fadd5cf77fb012cc70574ec660980ee77e0aeb1fd6d5689b3940eb. A clean local/global install passed version/help/package/search, two-launch stale-Pi, real RPC (112 commands), runtime and consumer audits, artifact verification, and persisted llama.cpp cache repair. The macOS arm64 native bundle passed version/help and the same stale-Pi gate at SHA-256 535ab3f514fb79b5f7c67d0f6c73ad8f8ea6fb24dcd4d73fef60eeec4cf28af9.
- Release gate: PR run 30464663836 passed the complete source/site/package matrix, every Linux/macOS/Windows Node consumer, and the Windows installer at exact head e6ecd34; PR #204 merged as d062cd3. Main run 30468941628 then exposed a Windows-native-only verifier defect after every source, package-consumer, and other native job passed: fixture snapshots combined a slash-bearing scoped package label with Windows path separators, so the valid nested brace-expansion repair missed its allowlist. Snapshot and allowlist keys now use one canonical separator. The focused path/workflow suite passed 9/9, typecheck and git diff --check passed, and the local two-launch stale-Pi verifier passed.
- Final exact-head proof: Commit 8fc4ed9 passed the focused path/workflow suite (12/12), full tests (683/683), typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build, source/runtime/consumer audits, dry/real pack, installed package and Linux native smokes, artifact verification, and the stale-Pi gate. Disposable Daytona sandbox feynman-039-path-20260729204251 repeated the complete ladder on Node 25.9.0 / npm 11.12.1; its 112,753,043-byte tarball had SHA-256 4eb46f2ca02ca18b0a53195813475dd99a614f90c8bd7f2edc857198b4af4028. The sandbox was deleted and confirmed absent. PR run 30489379792 then passed the release candidate, all six Linux/macOS/Windows Node consumers, and both Windows PowerShell installer paths.
- Released: PR #205 merged as 8dac290. Main run 30491968966 passed source verification, all six package consumers, all five native bundles, npm publication, GitHub release creation, and published-state verification. npm @companion-ai/[email protected] integrity is sha512-dX6A9lghZazeT83tKUv8KVoIL77xsm6RPMonzqDF50J8+xmKcXXBQGxPPIEA/oL1wWm+yyvm/JWOxDfFrDYxVA==; independently verified SLSA/Fulcio provenance resolves to 8dac290. GitHub v0.3.9 targets the same commit and contains five nonempty native assets plus SHA256SUMS, with every provider digest matching the manifest. A clean registry consumer and global install passed version/help/package/search, runtime and consumer audits, artifact verification, and the two-launch stale-Pi smoke.
- State: completed. The existing v0.3.8 GitHub release body was reconciled to the corrected July 29 source notes. Next: continue future intake from the clean 0.3.9 release baseline.

2026-07-29 01:45 PDT — intake-sweep-0.3.8-windows-native-cleanup

- Objective: Finish the 0.3.8 release after all source and package-consumer gates passed but the Windows native stale-Pi smoke failed.
- Found: Main run 30432364527 passed source verification, all six Linux/macOS/Windows package consumers, and four native bundles. The Windows native smoke then ran exactly to the verifier's 120-second launch limit; its primary timeout was hidden when immediate temp-tree removal hit a live Windows handle and threw EPERM.
- Fixed: Give Windows native runtime extraction and launch a bounded five-minute pass budget, retry only transient filesystem cleanup errors with capped backoff, preserve a verification error when cleanup also fails, and keep a successful verification red when cleanup cannot complete.
- Verified locally: Focused cleanup/workflow tests passed 12/12; full tests passed 659/659; typecheck, build, architecture check, actionlint, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), full and production audits, package freshness review, and git diff --check passed. A clean installed tarball passed budget, artifact, consumer/runtime audit, version/help/package/search, and two-launch stale-Pi gates. A separate exact Pi 0.82.0 user-root reproduction launched twice with all four stale Pi versions and affected core-file hashes unchanged.
- Clean machine: Disposable Daytona sandbox ab03dc5c-7228-485b-b1cc-88eaf4d2f131 verified exact 544832028368fc28bb408b3054a77782356b7736 on Node 24.18.0 and npm 11.16.0 through the same 659 tests, source/site/package/runtime/consumer ladder, and stale-upgrade smoke. Its tarball SHA-256 was b3f5ddb109a4a724d746229cb829bf19ec4ea86128068ba98b3dec3b495578d8; runtime SHA-256 was 05da056664d0009df87795a834e480998546db9393cf3752a9912e1b9aa8893c. The sandbox was deleted and confirmed absent.
- Released: Main run 30437805935 passed all source gates, six package consumers, five native bundles, npm publish, GitHub release, and published-state verification. The repaired Windows native stale-Pi smoke passed twice in 2m52s. npm 0.3.8 integrity is sha512-6y6Yf7NgOFsht/HxpdncV+8AfjxYo+C3F04ymSqEDF8Iq6B5qVBGwcwoI/ZGk/9iAlAZLBGf3uwaFgCwosy4Ag==; verified SLSA provenance, GitHub tag, and release all resolve to 5448320. All five nonempty native asset digests match SHA256SUMS.
- State: completed. Issue #202 received the release and exact Pi 0.82.0 receipts. Next: keep the stale-user-package gates in future releases and re-run the intake from this terminal baseline.

2026-07-28 21:20 PDT — intake-sweep-stale-pi-editor-upgrade

- Objective: Reproduce and fix issue #202, where a standalone 0.3.7 install failed at launch with Unsupported Pi editor layout: required import patch anchor was not found.
- Found: Pi stores user packages under <agentDir>/npm. An upgrade can retain Pi 0.80.6 core dependencies there. The exact published 0.3.7 RPC launch failed against the official stale editor, and a one-anchor editor compatibility patch then failed against the same release's ModelRegistry. Pi 0.82.1 already aliases extension peer imports to the current bundled core, so patching each historical core layout is unnecessary and brittle.
- Fixed: Resolve Feynman's bundled Pi version from package metadata and skip core patchers only for Pi packages with a different explicit version. Security, MCP, and extension patching still covers user roots. Package and native release gates now launch twice with staged stale editor and ModelRegistry files, prove those core files remain byte-identical, and prove extension patching remains idempotent.
- Verified locally: Fresh official Pi 0.80.6 packages passed two idempotent patch passes (true, then false) with editor and ModelRegistry hashes unchanged, followed by two clean RPC launches. Focused tests passed 22/22; full tests passed 655/655; typecheck, build, architecture check, actionlint, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), root/website/runtime/clean-consumer audits, and git diff --check passed. Dry and real packs matched at 111,634,612 bytes / 39,692 entries with SHA-256 daaf0e114b4e708269629edc99b166f782990f0940105265f6efa2dade0c1376. The clean installed tarball passed artifact verification and the two-pass stale upgrade smoke with runtime archive SHA-256 5dee5447b585bab835bcb3dd74b5a832a69b4e7cbea57aa4ca3d75794242d788; the native macOS arm64 bundle passed the same smoke at SHA-256 6db6e81d58b91a0b78d043e9532b078341aaae0bf965dfa8c65d158690c1660f.
- State: verified locally. Next: prove the exact commit in Daytona and required GitHub CI, then merge and verify the 0.3.8 npm/GitHub/native release before closing #202.

2026-07-29 00:35 PDT — intake-sweep-0.3.8-windows-release-budget

- Objective: Finish the merged 0.3.8 release without dropping the supported Windows Node 24.18.0 local/global installation gate.
- Failed: Main run 30428654129 passed source/package verification and the Linux, macOS, and Windows Node 25 consumers. The Windows Node 24.18.0 consumer spent 26m on the first exact-tarball install, then the former 45-minute job budget cancelled the second required global install before runtime audit and artifact verification; npm/GitHub remained at 0.3.7.
- Fixed: Keep every package, audit, local/global launch, runtime extraction, and artifact check intact while raising only the PR and release package-consumer job budget to a bounded 60 minutes. Next: validate, push, and require the successor main release run to publish and verify 0.3.8.

2026-07-28 14:30 PDT — intake-sweep-global-npm-install

- Objective: Re-run the terminal intake after 0.3.6, including the documented global npm install path rather than treating a clean project-prefix consumer as equivalent.
- Found: Both an upgrade under ~/.npm-global and a fresh disposable npm install --prefix ... @companion-ai/[email protected] produced an empty node_modules/@opentelemetry/api directory. feynman --version then failed before command dispatch from the direct telemetry import, while the existing non-global consumer gate passed because npm could hoist @opentelemetry/[email protected] above the package root.
- Fixed: Bundle the exact direct OpenTelemetry API with the five existing runtime packages, and exercise the exact global install/version/help path across every supported package-consumer matrix plus post-publication registry verification.
- Exact-head CI: Run 30402843325 passed the release candidate, all Linux/macOS consumers, Windows Node 25, and the native installer. Windows Node 24.18.0 completed both local and global version/help checks but hit the former 30-minute job limit six seconds into runtime extraction; the identical Node 25 path completed in 29m38s. Both PR and release consumer matrices now use a bounded 45-minute timeout.
- Verified locally: Scoped workflow tests passed (7/7); the complete suite passed (654/654); typecheck, build, architecture check, actionlint, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), root and website full/production audits, package freshness review, and git diff --check passed. Dry and real packs matched at 111,637,876 bytes / 328,227,251 unpacked / 39,692 files with npm integrity sha512-PFChM+N8VQsNZQ64uFLb9EDytP96vKFvThpooai5P0KnmYfyspXyFrleW5gHeQipEH5zuIxTZnbJZ2Fv/jC/SQ== and tarball SHA-256 941389ca83a06b49105a4c07515fad1e250617ced593192ad2a90c4b851b61a0.
- Installed proof: A clean consumer and extracted runtime each audited at zero, artifact verification passed with runtime SHA-256 c31b7db649f47997abfc6a3622c5af1758af71789a5eae9c96c98932c3d96ac1, and clean global installs under npm 11.16.0 and 11.18.0 each contained nonempty bundled OpenTelemetry API 1.9.1 trees and passed version/help. Installed RPC loaded 112 commands including thinking and web-results.
- Released: PR #201 merged as 6248ac3; push run 30408266001 passed source verification, all six package consumers, all five native bundles, npm publication, GitHub release creation, and published-state verification. Windows Node 24.18.0 completed the release consumer path in 39m.
- Registry proof: npm latest is 0.3.7 with integrity sha512-zl9Jov8XYoJHE+pbfAeO9iwvciyyWerYq68ryEg+TpH3ehijMwOlTa7YIeDhgDoTd23GqIBZ0se/rVMGsTvdxQ==; its verified SLSA provenance resolves to 6248ac3. GitHub v0.3.7 targets the same commit and has five nonempty native archives plus a SHA256SUMS file that matches every GitHub asset digest.
- User install: The broken ~/.npm-global 0.3.6 install reproduced the missing OpenTelemetry entry point, then an in-place registry upgrade passed version/help and installed @opentelemetry/[email protected] with 588 files. The package artifact verifier passed with runtime archive SHA-256 5599cb62bfa015479cc942b5051c8335b637999dc276deeb853ea5b6cdf86e88.
- State: completed. Next: keep the global-install and bounded Windows consumer gates in every future release.

2026-07-28 08:30 PDT — intake-sweep-manual-release-provenance-gate

- Objective: Keep manual release recovery from creating an immutable npm package whose provenance the push-only identity policy would reject.
- Found: workflow_dispatch could publish a previously absent version, but npm would correctly attest the certificate trigger as workflow_dispatch; post-publish and every later reconciliation would then fail the required push identity check.
- Fixed: Manual runs may reconcile an already-published npm version and complete its GitHub release, but they fail before authorizing npm publication for a new version. The publish-npm job independently requires a push event.
- Verified: The gate is scoped to version-check, executes before should_publish_npm=true, and the publication job has a second event guard. Adversarial review confirmed manual reconciliation remains fail-closed and found one test-only hardening gap, now fixed by scoping downstream skip-condition assertions to their owning jobs. Focused provenance/workflow tests (7/7), full tests (652/652), actionlint, and git diff --check pass.
- Completed: Commit a3aebe4 is on main; run 30375131813 verified the complete 0.3.6 identity without republishing. A disposable Daytona daytona-large sandbox re-ran the exact commit's focused suite (7/7), full suite (652/652), full/production audits, and clean-tree check on Node 24.18.0, then was deleted.

2026-07-28 08:16 PDT — intake-sweep-0.3.6-release-completion

- Objective: Complete the 0.3.6 npm/GitHub release, reconcile every tracked user issue, and preserve the final development-audit refresh.
- Published: Main run 30367434326 published the exact verified 39,102-file npm tarball and six-asset GitHub release from ccc8030c1090efb6afab8c4f907115309d1eb788. The package integrity is sha512-DKIzet0eGtJt8lAN307j6pfGrpT+Vu+Lmrju/YbW+DDHJ+/hO/jmxavu494EwqPk2Sied3kvmtGQzhqb6Eqo0g==; GitHub targets the same commit and publishes five nonempty native archives plus SHA256SUMS.
- Failed: npm 11.18.0 does not add gitHead when publishing a prebuilt tarball, so the original final verification stopped before testing the installed package and release assets even though npm's signed SLSA provenance binds the package digest to ccc8030.
- Fixed: Release reconciliation now uses npm audit signatures --include-attestations, validates the verified SLSA subject digest and source claims, and binds them to the Fulcio certificate's GitHub workflow SAN plus OIDC issuer, workflow/ref, source SHA, push trigger, invocation, public visibility, and repository-subject extensions instead of relying on optional registry gitHead metadata.
- Verified: The live npm attestation resolves only to ccc8030; adversarial certificate/source/commit/invocation mismatches fail closed. Focused provenance/workflow tests pass (7/7), full tests pass (652/652), typecheck, build, architecture check, actionlint, root and website full/production audits, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), and git diff --check pass. The post-release dry/real package remains within its release budgets; source, clean installed-consumer, and extracted-runtime verification/audits pass.
- Completed: Commit d2cce1f persisted the provenance verifier and dev-lock refresh. Successor run 30373237537 verified the published npm/GitHub identity without republishing; issues #182/#185/#186/#187/#188/#190/#193/#196 were closed with release receipts, and the two superseded remote branches were deleted.

2026-07-28 07:30 PDT — intake-sweep-root-dev-audit-refresh

- Objective: Clear the one remaining root development-only advisory without changing the validated 0.3.6 production graph.
- Fixed: Refreshed Vite's transitive postcss from 8.5.16 to patched 8.5.24 and its nanoid dependency from 3.3.15 to 3.3.16 in the root lockfile. package.json, the runtime lock, website dependencies, and published package inputs remain unchanged.
- Verified: Root full and production audits, website full and production audits, focused release tests (5/5), full tests (650/650), typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), and git diff --check pass. Non-security package drift remains intentionally deferred.
- Next: Persist the lock refresh after the in-flight 0.3.6 release reaches terminal identity, then require the successor main workflow to skip release work cleanly at the already-published version.

2026-07-28 07:12 PDT — intake-sweep-release-tarball-publish-path

- Objective: Repair npm publication after all successor package consumers and native bundles passed.
- Found: Run 30364141613 passed source verification, all six Linux/macOS/Windows consumer jobs, and all five native bundles. publish-npm job 90300538798 then passed the downloaded artifact as bare relative path npm-package/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.6.tgz; npm 11.18.0 interpreted that as a Git dependency and attempted ssh://[email protected]/npm-package/...tgz.git. npm 0.3.6 and GitHub v0.3.6 remain absent, so no partial release occurred.
- Fixed: Resolve the single downloaded tarball to an absolute filesystem path before inspecting and publishing it, and scope the regression to the publish-npm job.
- Verified: Full tests (650/650), the focused workflow suite (5/5), actionlint, and git diff --check pass.
- Next: Push the exact successor, then require npm provenance publication, six GitHub assets, checksums, installability, and final release identity before issue closure.

2026-07-28 06:32 PDT — intake-sweep-release-consumer-job-path

- Objective: Correct the first release-workflow repair after successor run 30361556647 repeated the Windows runtime-audit failure.
- Found: Commit c67c99c normalized the source-verification consumer block, but the failing cross-platform verify-package-consumers matrix was a separate duplicated block and remained unchanged. The regression asserted against the whole workflow, so the unrelated first block satisfied it. Both Windows Node 24.18.0 and 25 receipts show the old native D:\... archive argument at the failure.
- Fixed: Normalize the runtime archive and extraction paths inside the matrix job itself, and scope the regression to the verify-package-consumers job so another block cannot false-green it.
- Verified: Full tests (650/650), the focused workflow suite (5/5), actionlint, and git diff --check pass.
- Next: Push the exact successor and require both Windows consumers plus native/publish/release identity to pass before issue closure.

2026-07-28 06:00 PDT — intake-sweep-release-windows-runtime-path

- Objective: Repair the first post-merge 0.3.6 release run without allowing a partially published release.
- Fixed: Main run 30359204278 passed source/package verification and Linux/macOS consumers, then Windows Node 25 job 90277101520 proved that the publish workflow handed GNU tar the native D:\... path of the installed runtime archive. Git Bash interpreted the drive colon as a remote host separator. The release consumer now converts the runtime archive and extraction destination through cygpath, matching the already-green PR consumer path.
- Verified: npm publication and GitHub release jobs remained gated and never started; the failed run was cancelled after the discriminator receipt was retained. Full tests (650/650), typecheck, focused workflow tests (5/5), actionlint, and git diff --check pass. Exact successor Windows consumers and terminal release identity remain pending.
- Next: Validate and push the workflow-only repair to main, require the successor release run to pass every consumer/native/publish job, then verify npm/GitHub assets and close the eight released issues.

2026-07-28 01:49 PDT — intake-sweep-pi-web-access-0-15

- Objective: Resolve the post-cutoff [email protected] research-search release before publishing Feynman 0.3.6.
- Changed: Pinned the bundled and seeded web-access package to 0.15.0, refreshed the committed runtime lock/archive, documented simultaneous all-provider search, TinyFish search/extraction, and configurable OpenAI Responses-compatible gateways, and extended Feynman's package patch so current upstream utils.ts continues to honor the exact FEYNMAN_WEB_SEARCH_CONFIG file instead of falling back to Pi's agent directory.
- Verified: The exact upstream tag/commit passed its patched test suite (215/215), typecheck, runtime production audit, idempotency, and diff check. Focused Feynman package/runtime/settings/integrity regressions passed (50/50); full tests passed (649/649); typecheck, build, architecture, actionlint, website lint/typecheck/build, root/site/runtime/consumer audits, and diff check passed. Dry and real packs matched at SHA-1 ae23ce2976abe5a3d5920435ad4f4f9a68a8a395; the real tarball SHA-256 is b6d10e01f6bea37984016b7b4a294a8a038ac5e295ccc38c826040583cfa025d. Clean installed-artifact verification reports Pi 0.82.1, [email protected], and runtime SHA-256 2ec33eae33d1d994b73a6826703200daf0883295b2e52a786ea268f5b94375ef; isolated RPC loaded web-results while ignoring an intentionally invalid agent-directory web config in favor of Feynman's exact config path.
- Next: Commit and push the exact candidate, run the clean Daytona ladder at that SHA, require the final GitHub Windows/Node matrix to pass, then merge and verify npm/GitHub release identity.

2026-07-28 01:24 PDT — intake-sweep-windows-consumer-path

- Objective: Repair the final exact-head PR #192 platform failure without weakening the shared candidate-tarball gate.
- Fixed: Run 30341296771 proved that both Windows Node 24.18.0 and Node 25 consumers converted the downloaded tarball to a native D:\... path, which GNU tar interpreted as a remote host. The PR consumer gate now retains a native absolute tarball for npm, derives an MSYS path for GNU tar, and normalizes shell-owned consumer and runtime extraction paths under Git Bash.
- Verified: The exact parent candidate passed the GitHub release-candidate source/package job and entered both Windows installer hosts; actionlint, the focused release-workflow suite (5/5), and git diff --check pass with the path repair. Exact successor CI, final clean Daytona verification, merge, and publication remain pending.
- Next: Commit and push the repair, require every Windows/Node/native job to pass, rerun clean-machine proof at the successor SHA, then merge and verify the 0.3.6 release.

2026-07-28 01:07 PDT — intake-sweep-0-3-6-final-candidate

- Objective: Finish PR #192 as the single release path for issues #182/#185/#186/#187/#188/#190/#193/#196, including the remaining Windows, supported-Node, packaged-runtime, and live-auth gates.
- Fixed: Raised the Node 22 floor to 22.22.0; made candidate-tarball paths absolute; kept the PowerShell launcher while validating it under execution-policy bypass; normalized Windows runtime hardlinks; updated MCP to 1.30.0, Hono to 2.0.12, and pi-subagents to 0.37.2; made installed-consumer CI audit the extracted runtime archive; made runtime recovery verify every manifest package; and made both alphaXiv status paths refresh and verify credentials against live user-info.
- Verified: Full tests passed (648/648); typecheck, build, architecture, actionlint, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), root/site/runtime/consumer audits, and git diff --check passed. Final tarball SHA-256 is 06cdfd606a52e5a59d15d7276c68a9e542f3b40dfa120a4fda5a970e2676fa2b (111572902 bytes, 327212330 unpacked, 39105 files); source and installed artifact verification passed with Pi 0.82.1 and runtime SHA-256 7a858a29c51dcf977be07ba6be1c64ba023b4eaad3aacf0f7ed03414c9679056. Exact-package RPC proved extension/prompt loading, direct bash, and /thinking clamping; live OpenAI model, researcher subagent, and refreshed alphaXiv user-info smokes passed.
- Next: Commit and push the exact candidate, run and delete a disposable Daytona sandbox at that SHA, require the full GitHub Windows and Node 22/24/25 matrix to pass, merge, then verify npm/GitHub/native release identity and issue closure.

- Objective: Repair PR #192 Windows native job 89859997454 at exact head 8bf9f1a2e5af48787c2eb47eae3726b86cacb9c1 without weakening runtime archive integrity.
- Fixed: Windows tar preserved npm-created NTFS hardlinks, while the live workspace hash treated each hardlink as its regular-file contents and the archive hash treated it as a distinct entry type. Runtime archive verification now resolves in-archive hardlinks to their target file or symlink content, rejects targets outside npm/, duplicate entries, missing targets, and cycles, and compares the same logical tree on every platform.
- Further fixed: All public Windows PowerShell downloads now use -UseBasicParsing, which Microsoft requires after the CVE-2025-54100 PowerShell 5.1 update to avoid an interactive script-execution prompt. PR and publish gates now reuse the exact packed candidate across Node 22.19.0, 24.18.0, and 25, including Windows Node 25 plus macOS and Windows Node 24 consumers, instead of leaving the supported-major matrix manual and post-publication.
- Verified: A minimal hardlink repro failed against the prior archive parser; the focused archive/runtime regression suite passes (8/8), the installer/workflow suite passes (8/8), actionlint passes, both public Windows installers are byte-identical, and root typecheck/full tests/build/architecture plus git diff --check passed at the hardlink commit (642/642). Exact Windows native/install and supported-major consumer proof remain pending the next pushed-head CI run.
- Next: Push the remaining gate repairs, require the complete PR matrix to pass, then finish clean-machine, merge, and release verification.

2026-07-26 17:16 PDT — intake-sweep-0-3-6-windows-ci-repair

- Objective: Repair the first exact-head PR CI failure at f5974f96ae9b1950ced68093c6ee1abdb9acc5d9 without weakening the release verifier.
- Fixed: Windows native build run 30226243548, job 89856784343, proved that the production dependency install replaced the patched MCP manifest before artifact verification. The embedded runtime patch now repairs MCP manifests in the installed package and vendored workspace graphs. The Windows installer also validates downloaded PowerShell launchers through the current host with a process-scoped execution-policy bypass, preserving the public in-memory installer under Windows PowerShell's default Restricted policy. A follow-up adversarial check found that the StrictMode verifier used $installBinDir without defining it; the verifier now derives that path explicitly and tests the assignment.
- Verified: Focused archive, installer, MCP, runtime-patch, and release-workflow tests passed (18/18) before the StrictMode follow-up; both public Windows installer copies are byte-identical; actionlint and git diff --check passed. Exact Windows native/install proof remains pending the next pushed-head CI run.
- Next: Commit and push the repair, require both Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell Core jobs to pass, then continue clean-machine and release verification.

2026-07-26 16:48 PDT — intake-sweep-0-3-6-release-candidate

- Objective: Reconcile the inherited 0.3.6 work into PR #192, finish the Pi 0.82.1/security/package/installer release blockers, and prove the exact candidate before merge and publication.
- Changes: Migrated Feynman's model/auth/session paths to Pi 0.82.1 ModelRuntime; added model-aware /thinking; preserved Pi follow-up while adding Option+Enter newline input; pinned and integrity-bound the packaged runtime graph; repaired Pi brace-expansion and MCP/Hono consumer advisories; made runtime/native archives deterministic; made Windows replacement transactional and checksum-ambiguous inputs fail closed; added Windows Desktop/Core, clean-consumer, package-budget, native matrix, exact-tarball publication, and release-reconciliation gates. The publish gate now accepts a complete npm/GitHub release at an ancestor commit while still requiring exact commit identity for incomplete-release recovery, so ordinary later main commits do not false-fail the prior release.
- Intake: PR #192 is the owning merge path. PR #200 is superseded by the independently prepared model-aware implementation and should close after the replacement commit is pushed. Issues #182/#185/#186/#187/#188/#190/#193/#196 are implemented and remain open only until exact-head CI, merge, and release verification.
- Verified locally: Focused regressions passed (64/64); full npm test passed (639/639); typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), actionlint, root/site/runtime/consumer production audits, and git diff --check passed. Exact tarball companion-ai-feynman-0.3.6.tgz is 111547961 bytes with 39088 files, SHA-256 d95cd2bdce96069653707b85f06a6d1e453113893a354d46a02f676d25503e26; source and installed artifact verification passed with Pi 0.82.1 and runtime archive SHA-256 0bb4e8c6049a1a9d3742f36350cd978c46d249d22c4cbf6942fac8ff6d4dd8ae. An installed Pi session reached the expected missing OpenAI credential only after runtime load and workspace scaffolding.
- Next: Commit and push the exact candidate, run and delete a disposable Daytona proof, repair PR CI to green, merge, then verify npm/GitHub/native release identity and terminally reconcile the eight issues plus PR #200.

2026-07-22 20:10 EDT — intake-sweep-package-floor

- Objective: Finish the check-new-issues release-candidate proof after the queue audit, preserve the existing PR branch, and correct package metadata that made supported Node 22 installs noisy or inconsistent.
- Changes: Raised the website engine contract from Node >=20.19.0 <25 to >=22.19.0 <26, matching Astro 7 and the root Feynman runtime. Moved ketcher-core, ketcher-react, and ketcher-standalone from production dependencies to exact 3.15.0 development dependencies because they are build-only inputs already bundled into dist.
- Verified: Clean root and website installs passed; the complete suite passed (595/595); focused runtime/MCP tests passed (24/24); root typecheck/build and architecture checks passed with existing warnings; website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages); website audit found 0 vulnerabilities; root audit still reports only Pi-shrinkwrapped [email protected] and [email protected]; npm pack --dry-run --json passed with 402 entries. The exact tarball /tmp/feynman-pack-release-20260722-2010/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.6.tgz is 71043279 bytes with SHA-256 6b9e4150f6b28233345bd99b4f3222371fe3d0e354ec7665740dac6a03cc9732.
- Installed smoke: A fresh Node 22.22.3 install emitted no Ketcher engine warnings and passed version/help, alpha help, package listing, unknown --extensions guidance, alt+enter, packaged workspace scaffold creation, launch-before-spawn wiring, alphaXiv OAuth markers, project-local fetch-cache markers, and runtime archive entries for Pi 0.80.6, pi-btw 0.4.1, and pi-web-access 0.13.0.
- Blocked: A consumer-side tarball audit additionally resolves @modelcontextprotocol/[email protected] to vulnerable @hono/[email protected]. The repository is clean because its root override selects 2.0.11, but npm package overrides do not propagate to consumers and the latest MCP SDK still declares @hono/node-server@^1.19.9; no safe package-local version bump is currently available.
- Next: Keep PR #192 unmerged and unpublished without explicit authorization; verify issue #199 on a tool-capable Ubuntu/Ollama model before calling it fully fixed; resolve or explicitly accept the consumer-install MCP/Hono audit blocker before publishing 0.3.6.

2026-07-22 15:36 EDT — intake-sweep-workspace-scaffold

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues, preserve existing dirty release-candidate work, refresh live GitHub/release/package/workflow state, classify open issues/PRs/contributor refs, and fix safe repo-local validation or artifact failures without GitHub writes.
- Checked: New issue #199 reports fresh Ubuntu/Ollama runs printing planned outputs/.plans writes without actually creating files because the workspace lacks outputs/.plans. Open issues are now #199, #198, #196, #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; open PRs remain #197, #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains green at 54d08a3; GitHub release and npm latest remain v0.3.5 / 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; bundled Pi remains 0.80.6; npm Pi latest remains 0.81.1.
- Decisions: Ported a smallest root-cause local fix for #199: Pi launch now scaffolds outputs/.plans, outputs/.drafts, papers, and notes under the selected --cwd before the child runtime starts. PR #192 remains merge/defer pending explicit authorization; PR #189 remains already ported into #192; PR #191 remains reject/defer as broader extension inventory surface; PR #197 remains reject/defer as generic provider catalog expansion. Issue #198 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar; #196 remains upstream Pi TUI slash-command scope; #193/#182/#190/#188/#187/#186/#185 remain covered by #192; #184 remains support/content scope.
- Contributor refs: Remote refs were refreshed. origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning remains 74 behind / 1 ahead; pr4fork/main remains 73 behind / 0 ahead; visible fork refs did not introduce a fresh safe research-loop port target.
- Freshness: Root and website npm outdated --json show non-security drift. No dependency edit was made because the actionable defect was workspace artifact scaffolding, not dependency freshness.
- Verified: npm test passed (595/595); root npm run typecheck; root npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/direct-eval/chunk warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages); website audit found 0 vulnerabilities; root audit remains blocked by Pi-shrinkwrapped [email protected] and [email protected]; git diff --check passed; npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 402, shasum ff8c9b527f00bee5588e7fbb43bc3660d97d044b, size 71041173; installed-tarball smoke passed for package 0.3.6, help, and fresh-workspace scaffold creation.
- Next: Review/commit the scaffold fix with the existing 0.3.6 release-candidate work; merge/publish PR #192 only when authorized; keep dependency freshness drift separate from #199.

2026-07-22 07:32 EDT — intake-sweep-copilot-review-rejected

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman, preserve the existing dirty release-candidate worktree, refresh live GitHub/release/package/workflow state, classify open issues/PRs/contributor refs, and validate the local 0.3.6 package without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Open issues are #198, #196, #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; open PRs are #197, #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains green at 54d08a3; GitHub release and npm latest remain v0.3.5 / 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; bundled Pi remains 0.80.6; npm Pi latest remains 0.81.1; alpha-hub remains 0.1.3; pi-btw remains 0.4.1.
- Decisions: Issue #198 is reject/defer because Microsoft Copilot reviewer/checklist automation is external review/admin workflow rather than a concrete Feynman-owned research-loop defect or smallest research artifact verification improvement. PR #192 remains merge/defer pending explicit authorization; PR #189 remains already ported into #192; PR #191 remains reject/defer as broader extension inventory surface; PR #197 remains reject/defer as generic curated provider expansion. Issue #196 remains upstream Pi TUI slash-command scope; #193/#182/#190/#188/#187/#186/#185 remain covered by #192; #184 remains support/content scope.
- Contributor refs: Remote refs were refreshed. origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning, pr4fork/main, and visible fork refs did not introduce a fresh safe research-loop port target.
- Freshness: Root and website npm outdated --json show non-security drift. No dependency edit was made because no queue-specific root-cause failure requires dependency churn and the remaining root audit blocker is still Pi-owned nested shrinkwrap state.
- Verified: Focused runtime test passed (15/15); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/direct-eval/chunk warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; npm test passed (594/594); website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages); website audit found 0 vulnerabilities; root audit remains blocked only by Pi-shrinkwrapped [email protected] and [email protected]; git diff --check passed; npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 402, shasum c698bb6c66c37756ba677c0a45af49c532f6a6d9, size 71041144; installed-tarball smoke passed for 0.3.6, help, alpha help, packages list including pi-btw and pi-web-access, update --extensions help hint, alt+enter, runtime archive markers, alpha auth patch, and project-local fetch cache patch.
- Next: Merge/publish PR #192 only when authorized; keep #198, #197, and #191 out unless product scope explicitly changes.

2026-07-13 23:35 PDT — intake-sweep-pr-192-still-clean

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman, preserve existing dirty local work, refresh GitHub issue/PR/workflow/release/package/branch state, classify the queue against the AI-researcher product bar, and validate the local package without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Current branch remains codex/fix-feynman-user-issues; open issues remain #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; open PRs remain #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman remains 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; Pi remains 0.80.6; @companion-ai/alpha-hub remains ^0.1.3.
- Decisions: No new code changes. Keep draft PR #192 as the merge path for #182, #185, #186, #187, #188, #190, and #193; it already includes PR #189 as cherry-pick 79aa7b2. Reject/defer PR #191 because feynman extensions is still a broader extension-inventory surface than the reported update/help failure requires and its Vercel status remains failing. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar.
- Contributor refs: Remote refs were refreshed. origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning remains stale local-model warning work; visible fork refs were prompt/Overleaf/admin surfaces, provider/platform changes, fork docs, broad Windows rewrites, or already-covered installer/runtime/auth work. No new safe port target was found.
- Freshness: Root and website npm outdated --json show dependency drift only; root and website npm audit --omit=dev found 0 vulnerabilities. No dependency change was made.
- Verified: Focused runtime test passed (15/15); npm test passed (594/594); root npm run typecheck; root npm run build with existing Vite/RDKit/3Dmol/chunk warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev; git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 402, shasum f0b50e989c04095e9a4b3b65628bcf6def9921aa); installed-tarball smoke proved package 0.3.6, CLI help, feynman alpha --help, feynman packages list including npm:pi-btw and npm:pi-web-access, runtime archive presence, and the hoisted alpha CLI resolver.
- Note: The installed tarball emitted dependency deprecation warnings during npm install, but completed successfully. No GitHub write was made.
- Next: Commit the hoisted alpha CLI resolver and merge/publish PR #192 when authorized; keep PR #191 out unless product scope explicitly expands to extension inventory.

2026-07-13 11:34 PDT — intake-sweep-alpha-193-covered

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman, preserve existing dirty local work, refresh GitHub issue/PR/workflow/release/package state, classify the queue against the AI-researcher product bar, and validate the local package without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Current branch remains codex/fix-feynman-user-issues at 8ad8d55 tracking origin/codex/fix-feynman-user-issues; origin/main remains 54d08a3. Open issues are now #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; open PRs remain #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman remains 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; Pi latest/current remains 0.80.6; @companion-ai/alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3.
- Decisions: No GitHub writes. Treat new issue #193 as covered by the #192 alphaXiv auth patch plus the current local hoisted-alpha CLI resolver in src/cli.ts; clerk.alphaxiv.org still fails with ENOTFOUND, while local patched alpha-hub uses https://api.alphaxiv.org/auth. Keep draft PR #192 as the merge path for #182, #185, #186, #187, #188, #190, and #193; it already includes contributor PR #189 as cherry-pick 79aa7b2. Reject/defer PR #191 because feynman extensions remains broader than the update/help failure requires and its Vercel status remains failing. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar.
- Contributor refs: Remote refs were refreshed. No new safe port target was found beyond #189, already included in #192; visible fork refs remain stale, broader provider/platform/admin work, docs/export material, or already-covered installer/runtime/auth work.
- Freshness: Root and website npm outdated --json show non-security drift only. No dependency change was made.
- Verified: Focused alpha/runtime tests passed (20/20); npm test passed (594/594); root npm run typecheck; root npm run build with existing Vite/RDKit/3Dmol/chunk warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 402, shasum f0b50e989c04095e9a4b3b65628bcf6def9921aa); installed-tarball smoke proved package 0.3.6, CLI help, feynman alpha --help, hoisted alpha resolver presence, and installed alpha-hub auth issuer https://api.alphaxiv.org/auth.
- Note: Early focused and pack probes failed only from invocation/parser assumptions: raw node --test on TS files without tsx, then mixed npm pack --json output containing prepack [feynman] logs. Corrected commands passed.
- Next: Commit the hoisted alpha CLI resolver and merge/publish PR #192 when authorized; keep PR #191 out unless product scope explicitly expands to extension inventory.

2026-07-13 03:37 PDT — intake-sweep-pr-192-still-clean

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman, preserve existing dirty local work, refresh GitHub/package/release/branch state, classify open issues/PRs/contributor refs, and run repo-local validation without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Current branch remains codex/fix-feynman-user-issues at 8ad8d55 tracking origin/codex/fix-feynman-user-issues; origin/main remains 54d08a3. Open issues remain #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; open PRs remain #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman remains 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; Pi latest/current remains 0.80.6; @companion-ai/alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3.
- Decisions: No new code changes. Keep draft PR #192 as the merge path for #182, #185, #186, #187, #188, and #190; it includes contributor PR #189 as cherry-pick 79aa7b2, has green Vercel status, and the latest PR comment still reports the alpha auth patch worked for another user. Reject/defer PR #191 because feynman extensions is broader than the update/help failure requires and its Vercel status is still failing. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar.
- Contributor refs: Remote refs and recent public forks were refreshed/spot-checked. No new safe port target was found beyond #189, already included in #192; recent visible forks were either at 54d08a3, behind, broader provider/platform work, docs/export material, or already-covered Windows/install/auth work.
- Freshness: npm outdated --json shows non-security drift only in root and website packages. No dependency change was made.
- Verified: Focused runtime/auth/web/install regressions passed (51/51); npm test passed (594/594); root npm run typecheck; root npm run build with existing Vite/RDKit/3Dmol/chunk warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 402, shasum f0b50e989c04095e9a4b3b65628bcf6def9921aa); corrected installed-tarball smoke proved package/CLI 0.3.6, CLI help, package listing, alpha status, bundled alt+enter, runtime archive, alphaXiv OAuth2 patch, project-local fetch cache patch, and archive entries for pi-btw, pi-web-access, and @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent.
- Note: Early smoke wrappers failed only from probe assumptions: mixed npm pack --json parsing, stale alpha-hub archive path, and stale pi-web-access source path. The corrected smoke used actual archive paths and passed; temp artifacts were cleaned.
- Next: Review/merge/publish PR #192 when authorized; keep PR #191 out unless product scope explicitly expands to extension inventory.

2026-07-12 06:15 EDT — intake-sweep-pr-192-still-clean

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman, preserve unrelated local work, refresh GitHub/package/release/branch state, classify open issues/PRs/contributor refs, and run repo-local validation without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Current branch remains codex/fix-feynman-user-issues at 8ad8d55 tracking origin/codex/fix-feynman-user-issues; origin/main remains 54d08a3. Open issues remain #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; open PRs remain #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman remains 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; Pi latest/current remains 0.80.6; @companion-ai/alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3.
- Decisions: No new code changes. Keep draft PR #192 as the merge path for #182, #185, #186, #187, #188, and #190; it includes contributor PR #189 as cherry-pick 79aa7b2, has green Vercel status, and the latest PR comment still reports the alpha auth patch worked for another user. Reject/defer PR #191 because feynman extensions is broader than the update/help failure requires and its Vercel status is still failing. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar.
- Contributor refs: Remote refs were refreshed. No new safe port target was found beyond #189, already included in #192; older visible refs remain stale, broader provider/platform work, docs/export material, or already-covered Windows/install/auth work.
- Freshness: npm outdated --json shows non-security drift only in root and website packages. No dependency change was made.
- Verified: npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; npm test passed (593/593); root npm run typecheck; root npm run build with existing Vite/RDKit/3Dmol/chunk warnings; root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 402, shasum 167a902ecc8b2ea71e6b3402052f3a45c7ab2b11); corrected installed-tarball smoke proved package 0.3.6, CLI --version, CLI --help exit, packages list, alpha status, runtime archive entries for pi-btw and pi-web-access, and the alphaXiv OAuth2 patch in the runtime archive.
- Note: One early smoke wrapper failed only from a mixed npm pack --json parser grabbing an inner files array. The corrected parser and smoke passed; temp installs and tarballs were cleaned.
- Next: Review/merge/publish PR #192 when authorized; keep PR #191 out unless product scope explicitly expands to extension inventory.

2026-07-12 02:15 EDT — intake-sweep-pr-192-still-clean

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman, preserve unrelated local work, refresh GitHub/package/release/branch state, classify open issues/PRs/contributor refs, and run repo-local validation without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Current branch remains codex/fix-feynman-user-issues at 8ad8d55 tracking origin/codex/fix-feynman-user-issues; origin/main remains 54d08a3. Open issues remain #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; open PRs remain #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman remains 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; Pi latest/current remains 0.80.6; @companion-ai/alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3.
- Decisions: No new code changes. Keep draft PR #192 as the merge path for #182, #185, #186, #187, #188, and #190; it includes contributor PR #189 as cherry-pick 79aa7b2, has green Vercel status, and the latest PR comment still reports the alpha auth patch worked for another user. Reject/defer PR #191 because feynman extensions is broader than the update/help failure requires and its Vercel status is still failing. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar.
- Contributor refs: Remote refs were refreshed. No new safe port target was found beyond #189, already included in #192; older visible refs remain stale, broader provider/platform work, docs/export material, or already-covered Windows/install/auth work.
- Freshness: npm outdated --json shows non-security drift only in root and website packages. No dependency change was made.
- Verified: npm test passed (593/593); root npm run typecheck; root npm run build with existing Vite/RDKit/3Dmol/chunk warnings; root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 402, shasum 167a902ecc8b2ea71e6b3402052f3a45c7ab2b11); corrected installed-tarball smoke proved package 0.3.6, CLI --version, packages list, alpha status, bundled alt+enter, runtime archive entries for pi-btw and pi-web-access, and the alphaXiv OAuth2 patch in the runtime archive.
- Note: Two early smoke wrappers failed only from probe assumptions: first parsing the [feynman] prepack log prefix as JSON, then sampling archive paths under pipefail/a stale alpha-hub path. The corrected checks passed and temp artifacts were cleaned.
- Next: Review/merge/publish PR #192 when authorized; keep PR #191 out unless product scope explicitly expands to extension inventory.

2026-07-11 22:11 EDT — intake-sweep-pr-192-still-clean

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman, preserve unrelated local work, refresh GitHub/package/release/branch state, classify open issues/PRs/contributor refs, and run repo-local validation without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Current branch remains codex/fix-feynman-user-issues at 8ad8d55 tracking origin/codex/fix-feynman-user-issues; origin/main remains 54d08a3. Open issues remain #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; open PRs remain #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman remains 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; Pi latest/current remains 0.80.6; @companion-ai/alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3.
- Decisions: No new code changes. Keep draft PR #192 as the merge path for #182, #185, #186, #187, #188, and #190; it includes contributor PR #189 as cherry-pick 79aa7b2, and the latest PR comment still reports the alpha auth patch worked for another user. Reject/defer PR #191 because feynman extensions is broader than the update/help failure requires and its Vercel status is still failing. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar.
- Contributor refs: Remote refs were refreshed. No new safe port target was found beyond #189, already included in #192; older visible refs remain stale, broader provider/platform work, docs/export material, or already-covered Windows/install/auth work.
- Freshness: npm outdated --json shows non-security drift only in root and website packages. No dependency change was made.
- Verified: npm test passed (593/593); root npm run typecheck; root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); root npm run build with existing Vite/RDKit/3Dmol/chunk warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 402, shasum 167a902ecc8b2ea71e6b3402052f3a45c7ab2b11); corrected installed-tarball smoke proved package 0.3.6, CLI --version, --help, packages list, alpha status, bundled alt+enter, runtime archive, and archive entries for pi-btw, pi-web-access, and @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent.
- Note: One installed-smoke wrapper failed from a bad mixed-log JSON parser; the corrected strict smoke passed and temp artifacts were cleaned.
- Next: Review/merge/publish PR #192 when authorized; keep PR #191 out unless product scope explicitly expands to extension inventory.

2026-07-11 18:09 EDT — intake-sweep-pr-192-still-clean

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman, preserve unrelated local work, refresh GitHub/package/release/branch state, classify open issues/PRs/contributor refs, and run repo-local validation without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Current branch remains codex/fix-feynman-user-issues at 8ad8d55 tracking origin/codex/fix-feynman-user-issues; origin/main remains 54d08a3. Open issues remain #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; open PRs remain #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman remains 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; Pi latest/current remains 0.80.6; alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3.
- Decisions: No new code changes. Keep draft PR #192 as the merge path for #182, #185, #186, #187, #188, and #190; it includes contributor PR #189 as cherry-pick 79aa7b2, and the latest PR comment reports the alpha auth patch worked for another user. Reject/defer PR #191 because feynman extensions is broader than the update/help failure requires and its Vercel status is still failing. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar.
- Contributor refs: Remote refs were refreshed. No new safe port target was found beyond #189, already included in #192; older visible refs remain stale, broader provider/platform work, docs/export material, or already-covered Windows/install/auth work.
- Freshness: npm outdated --json shows non-security drift only in root and website packages. No dependency change was made.
- Verified: npm test passed (593/593); root npm run typecheck; website npm run lint and npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; root npm run build with existing Vite/RDKit/3Dmol/chunk warnings; website npm run build (34 pages); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 402, shasum 167a902ecc8b2ea71e6b3402052f3a45c7ab2b11); strict installed-tarball smoke proved package 0.3.6, CLI --version, --help, packages list, alpha status, bundled alt+enter, runtime archive, and archive entries for pi-btw, pi-web-access, and @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent.
- Note: One installed-smoke wrapper failed from a bad mixed-log JSON parser and missing set -e; the corrected strict smoke passed and temp artifacts were cleaned.
- Next: Review/merge/publish PR #192 when authorized; keep PR #191 out unless product scope explicitly expands to extension inventory.

2026-07-11 09:16 EDT — intake-sweep-pr-192-still-clean

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman, preserve the existing dirty CHANGELOG.md, refresh GitHub/package/release/branch state, classify open issues/PRs/contributor refs, and run repo-local validation without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Current branch remains codex/fix-feynman-user-issues at 8ad8d55 tracking origin/codex/fix-feynman-user-issues; origin/main remains 54d08a3. Open issues remain #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; open PRs remain #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman remains 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; Pi latest/current remains 0.80.6; alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3.
- Decisions: No new code changes. Keep draft PR #192 as the merge path for #182, #185, #186, #187, #188, and #190; it includes contributor PR #189 as cherry-pick 79aa7b2. Reject/defer PR #191 because feynman extensions is broader than the update/help failure requires and its Vercel status is failing. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar.
- Contributor refs: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning, pr4fork/main, and fork refs were checked. No new safe port target was found: visible refs were either already represented in #192, broader platform/provider/admin work, docs-only walkthrough/export material, fork-specific changes, or stale Windows/install work already covered by the current branch.
- Freshness: npm outdated --long shows non-security drift only (@clack/prompts, OpenTelemetry packages, TypeBox, Node types, fast-xml-parser, lucide-react, patristic, posthog-node, radix-ui, tsx, TypeScript, undici, vite). No dependency change was made.
- Verified: npm test passed (593/593); npm run typecheck; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; root npm run build with existing Vite/RDKit/3Dmol warnings; root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 402, shasum 167a902ecc8b2ea71e6b3402052f3a45c7ab2b11); installed-tarball smoke proved package 0.3.6, CLI --version, --help, packages list, alpha status, bundled alt+enter, and runtime archive entries for pi-btw, pi-web-access, and @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent.
- Note: Two initial smoke wrappers failed only from probe assumptions: first reading hoisted dependencies under the package-local node_modules, then resolving non-exported dependency package.json files. The final smoke used CLI/archive checks and passed; generated temp installs and tarballs were removed.
- Next: Review/merge/publish PR #192 when authorized; keep PR #191 out unless product scope explicitly expands to extension inventory.

2026-07-11 05:15 EDT — intake-sweep-pr-192-still-clean

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman, preserve the existing dirty CHANGELOG.md, refresh live GitHub/package/release/branch state, classify open issues/PRs, and run repo-local validation without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Current branch remains codex/fix-feynman-user-issues at 8ad8d55 tracking origin/codex/fix-feynman-user-issues; origin/main remains 54d08a3. Live queue remains issues #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, #182 and PRs #192, #191, #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman remains 0.3.5; local candidate remains 0.3.6; Pi remains latest/current at 0.80.6; alpha-hub remains latest/current at 0.1.3.
- Decisions: No new code changes. Keep draft PR #192 as the merge path for #182, #185, #186, #187, #188, and #190; it already includes contributor PR #189 as cherry-pick 79aa7b2 with original authorship. Reject/defer PR #191 because a new feynman extensions inventory command is broader than the update --extensions help/update failure requires and its Vercel check is failing. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar.
- Contributor refs: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning, pr4fork/main, and older fork refs were checked as remote branch state; none introduced a current safe port target beyond #189, already included in #192.
- Freshness: npm outdated --long shows non-security drift only (@clack/prompts, OpenTelemetry packages, TypeBox, Node types, fast-xml-parser, lucide-react, patristic, posthog-node, radix-ui, tsx, TypeScript, undici, vite). No dependency change was made.
- Verified: npm test passed (593/593); npm run typecheck; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; root npm run build with existing Vite/RDKit/3Dmol warnings; root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 402, shasum 167a902ecc8b2ea71e6b3402052f3a45c7ab2b11); corrected installed-tarball smoke proved feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list, feynman alpha status, package 0.3.6, Pi 0.80.6, alpha-hub ^0.1.3, bundled alt+enter, and runtime archive entries for pi-btw, pi-web-access, and @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent.
- Note: An initial installed-smoke wrapper hit the known mixed npm pack --json log parser issue; it was rerun with a stricter extractor and passed. Generated temp installs and tarballs were removed.
- Next: Review/merge/publish PR #192 when authorized; keep PR #191 out unless product scope explicitly expands to extension inventory.

2026-07-11 01:29 EDT — intake-sweep-pr-192-still-clean

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman, preserve existing local work, refresh live GitHub/package/release/branch state, classify every open issue/PR, and run repo-local validation without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Current branch remains codex/fix-feynman-user-issues at 8ad8d55 tracking origin/codex/fix-feynman-user-issues; pre-existing dirty state was CHANGELOG.md only. Live queue remains issues #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, #182 and PRs #192, #191, #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman remains 0.3.5; local candidate remains 0.3.6; Pi remains latest/current at 0.80.6; alpha-hub remains latest/current at 0.1.3.
- Decisions: No new code changes. Keep PR #192 as the merge path for #182, #185, #186, #187, #188, and #190; it already includes contributor PR #189 as cherry-pick 79aa7b2. Reject/defer PR #191 because feynman extensions is broader extension-inventory surface than the reported update/help failure needs and has a failing Vercel status. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar.
- Contributor refs: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning, pr4fork/main, and older fork refs were observed; none introduced a current safe port target beyond #189, already included in #192.
- Verified: npm test passed (593/593); npm run typecheck; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; root npm run build with existing Vite/RDKit/3Dmol warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 402, shasum 167a902ecc8b2ea71e6b3402052f3a45c7ab2b11); installed tarball smoke proved feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list, feynman alpha status, package 0.3.6, Pi 0.80.6, alpha-hub 0.1.3, bundled alt+enter, staged Windows installer extraction, fetch cache patch, and alphaXiv OAuth2 patch. Direct archive listing proved bundled pi-btw and pi-web-access.
- Note: Earlier smoke wrappers failed only from parser/probe mistakes: mixed npm pack --json logs, package export restrictions on direct package.json requires, and a stale runtime archive prefix. Corrected checks passed and temp artifacts were removed.
- Next: Review/merge/publish PR #192 when authorized; keep PR #191 out unless product scope explicitly expands to extension inventory.

2026-07-10 21:13 EDT — intake-sweep-pr-192-still-clean

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman, preserve existing local work, refresh live GitHub/package/release state, classify every open issue/PR, and run repo-local validation without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Current branch is codex/fix-feynman-user-issues at 8ad8d55 tracking origin/codex/fix-feynman-user-issues; pre-existing dirty state was CHANGELOG.md only. Live queue remains issues #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, #182 and PRs #192, #191, #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman remains 0.3.5; local candidate remains 0.3.6; Pi remains latest/current at 0.80.6; alpha-hub remains latest/current at 0.1.3.
- Decisions: No new code changes. Keep PR #192 as the merge path for #182, #185, #186, #187, #188, and #190; it already includes contributor PR #189 as cherry-pick 79aa7b2. Reject/defer PR #191 because feynman extensions is broader extension-inventory surface than the reported update/help failure needs. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar.
- Contributor refs: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning and pr4fork/main were the only non-main refs observed; neither introduced a current safe port target for this queue.
- Verified: npm test passed (593/593); npm run typecheck; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; root npm run build with existing Vite/RDKit/3Dmol warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 402, shasum 167a902ecc8b2ea71e6b3402052f3a45c7ab2b11); installed tarball smoke proved feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list, package 0.3.6, Pi 0.80.6, bundled alt+enter, staged Windows installer extraction, fetch cache patch, alphaXiv OAuth2 patch, runtime archive, and bundled pi-btw/pi-web-access archive entries.
- Note: The smoke command exited 141 only after successful checks because tar | grep | head hit SIGPIPE under pipefail; temp install and tarball artifacts were removed.
- Next: Review/merge/publish PR #192 when authorized; keep PR #191 out unless product scope explicitly expands to extension inventory.

2026-07-10 17:12 EDT — intake-sweep-pr-192-validated

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from the current codex/fix-feynman-user-issues checkout, preserve local branch state, and classify the now-open issues/PRs without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Current branch tracks origin/codex/fix-feynman-user-issues at 8ad8d55 with no dirty files. Open issues are #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182. Open PRs are #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest remains 0.3.5; local candidate is 0.3.6; Pi latest/current is 0.80.6; alpha-hub latest/current is 0.1.3.
- Decisions: PR #192 is the preferred merge path after review because it bundles the smallest research-loop reliability fixes for #182, #185, #186, #187, #188, and #190, includes contributor PR #189 as a cherry-pick, and leaves #191 out. PR #189 should be ported via #192 rather than merged separately. PR #191 should be rejected/deferred because a new feynman extensions management/discovery surface is broader than the issue requires; update guidance is enough for #187. Issue #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar as support/advice.
- Contributor refs: Existing fork refs remain stale or broad provider/admin/platform churn. No additional contributor branch was ported beyond #189, which is already included in local PR #192 as commit 79aa7b2.
- Freshness: npm outdated --long shows non-security dependency drift only (@clack/prompts, OpenTelemetry packages, TypeBox, Node types, fast-xml-parser, lucide-react, patristic, posthog-node, radix-ui, tsx, TypeScript, undici, vite). No queue-specific freshness patch was needed.
- Verified: Focused regressions passed (88/88); full npm test passed (593/593), including the two workbench tests that failed in the prior run; npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 402, shasum 167a902ecc8b2ea71e6b3402052f3a45c7ab2b11); installed tarball smoke passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list, package 0.3.6, Pi 0.80.6, bundled alt+enter keybinding, staged Windows installer extraction, runtime archive presence, fetch cache patch, and alphaXiv OAuth2 patch.
- Note: A first installed-smoke helper failed only because it parsed mixed npm pack --json logs and then used overly literal probe strings. The corrected smoke passed and temp tarball artifacts were removed.
- Next: Review and merge/publish PR #192 when authorized; leave #191 out unless the product scope explicitly expands to extension inventory.

2026-07-10 13:14 EDT — intake-sweep-current-queue-flaky-workbench

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues against the current dirty checkout, preserve pending Pi 0.80.6, alpha OAuth, and Windows installer work, and verify whether the live queue or local validation requires another local fix.
- Checked: Local main remains aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3. Live GitHub queue still has open issues #186, #185, #184, and #182, with zero open PRs. Latest main Publish and Release run 28835967900 is green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent latest/current is 0.80.6; @companion-ai/alpha-hub latest/current is 0.1.3.
- Decisions: No new code changes were needed. Issue #186 remains covered by the pending staged Windows installer extraction fix; issue #185 remains covered by bundled pi-btw; issue #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar as support/advice; issue #182 remains covered by the pending alphaXiv OAuth2 endpoint patch. No PRs were available to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Contributor refs: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is behind current main with one already-covered ahead commit. Sampled fork refs were behind by 91-142 commits with Bedrock/provider setup, Overleaf/export/admin prompts, Claude CLI bypass, architecture notes, fork-specific search tooling, or broad Windows/platform churn; no clean core-research patch was ported.
- Freshness: Root npm outdated --json shows non-security dependency drift only, with Pi already current at 0.80.6. Root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Root npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum 78cbe7bc2a43ce7aec95c42c10077b4754a9afe1); installed tarball smoke reached feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list, feynman alpha status, packaged scripts/install/install.ps1 staged-extraction checks, and runtime archive inspection showing api.alphaxiv.org/auth, oauth2/authorize, and openid profile email offline_access.
- Validation note: The full npm test run failed 2/589 in tests/workbench.test.ts (notebook Python session kernel persists variables across cells saw one execution record instead of two; workbench server streams chat messages through the authenticated API saw missing final message status). The same two tests passed when rerun in isolation with node --import tsx --test --test-concurrency=1 --test-name-pattern='notebook Python session kernel persists variables across cells|workbench server streams chat messages through the authenticated API' tests/workbench.test.ts, so this remains a repo-local full-suite flake/failure to investigate.
- Note: The first real-pack smoke parser failed on mixed npm pack --json logs, and the corrected smoke later failed only because it expected website/public/install.ps1 inside the npm package. The shipped package includes scripts/install/install.ps1, which was verified; temp smoke artifacts and the root tarball were removed.
- Next: Investigate the two full-suite workbench flakes before claiming a fully green local validation ladder; commit or push only when explicitly authorized.

2026-07-10 09:09 EDT — intake-sweep-windows-installer-staging

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues against the current dirty checkout, preserve the pending Pi 0.80.6 and alpha OAuth work, and evaluate the new Windows installer issue.
- Checked: Local main remains aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3. Live GitHub queue has open issues #186, #185, #184, and #182, with zero open PRs. Latest main Publish and Release run 28835967900 is green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; @companion-ai/alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3; @earendil-works/pi-* remains 0.80.6; root and website have non-security dependency drift only.
- Decisions: Ported the smallest safe fix for issue #186 because install reliability supports Feynman's research-loop reliability. The Windows installer now extracts the release zip into temp staging, validates the expected bundle directory, then swaps that bundle into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\feynman, avoiding Expand-Archive -Force cleanup against the live install root. Issue #185 remains covered by bundled pi-btw; issue #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar; issue #182 remains covered by the pending alphaXiv OAuth2 endpoint patch. No PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Contributor refs: Configured refs remain stale or non-actionable. origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is behind current main with one already-covered ahead commit; pr4fork/main is behind with zero ahead. Sampled fork refs remain older provider/setup/platform/admin or broad fork work rather than a fresh core research-loop fix.
- Changed: Updated scripts/install/install.ps1, synced website/public/install.ps1, and added tests/install-windows.test.ts. Existing dirty changes in package.json, package-lock.json, scripts/lib/alpha-hub-auth-patch.mjs, scripts/prepare-runtime-workspace.mjs, src/pi/package-ops.ts, and tests/alpha-hub-auth-patch.test.ts were preserved.
- Verified: Focused installer tests passed (6/6); full npm test passed (588/588); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum 53c8090ca3fb238122d5f0942b0fee5c99b692b0); real installed tarball smoke passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list, feynman alpha status, and packaged install.ps1 staged-extraction checks. No local PowerShell runtime was available for a live Windows script execution.
- Next: Commit or push only when explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the Windows installer staging fix, Pi 0.80.6 refresh, and alpha OAuth patch local-only.

2026-07-09 21:15 EDT — intake-sweep-pi-0806-refresh

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current dirty checkout, preserve unrelated local work, and port only safe core-research/runtime fixes.
- Checked: Local main remains aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3. Live GitHub queue still has open issues #185, #184, and #182, with zero open PRs. Latest main Publish and Release run 28835967900 is green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; @companion-ai/alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3; pi-btw latest/current remains 0.4.1; @earendil-works/pi-* latest is now 0.80.6.
- Decisions: Ported the smallest safe runtime freshness fix by bumping Feynman's pinned Pi runtime packages from the pending 0.80.5 refresh to 0.80.6. The upstream package diff directly affects the research loop: post-compaction output-token budgeting, GPT-5.6/GPT-5.5 long-context cost accounting, OpenAI cache-write usage accounting, GPT-5.6 Codex metadata, max thinking-level support, Claude thinking-block preservation, and shellPath home expansion. Issue #182 remains locally covered by the pending alphaXiv OAuth2 endpoint patch; issue #185 remains covered by bundled pi-btw; issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice. No PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Contributor refs: Configured refs remain stale or non-actionable. origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is behind current main with one already-covered ahead commit; pr4fork/main is behind with zero ahead. Sampled fork refs are still behind current main with small ahead diffs in old provider/setup/platform/fork-specific lanes rather than fresh core research-loop fixes.
- Changed: Updated package.json and package-lock.json to @earendil-works/pi-agent-core, pi-ai, pi-coding-agent, and pi-tui 0.80.6; updated Pi runtime fallback constants in src/pi/package-ops.ts and scripts/prepare-runtime-workspace.mjs.
- Freshness: Root npm outdated --long --json now shows non-Pi dependency drift only; website drift remains non-security dependency drift. Root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Focused package/runtime/alpha tests passed (27/27); full npm test passed (586/586); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum 35c88e81b93f395c695cab93e46bbde1f6f27bd6); real tarball smoke passed for feynman --version, current help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw, feynman alpha status, installed Pi 0.80.6, runtime archive Pi 0.80.6, runtime pi-btw 0.4.1, and alpha OAuth2 runtime archive inspection.
- Note: The real-pack metadata parser again hit mixed prepack logs/JSON after the tarball was created; the produced tarball was used directly. A first installed-smoke assertion looked for Pi under a nested dependency path and failed after npm hoisted Pi to top-level; the corrected direct package metadata check passed. Temp smoke artifacts and the root tarball were removed.
- Next: Commit or push only when explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local Pi 0.80.6 refresh plus existing alpha OAuth patch local-only.

2026-07-08 21:03 EDT — intake-sweep-no-new-action

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current Feynman checkout, preserving the pending alpha-auth patch while checking live GitHub issues/PRs, contributor refs, main workflows, release/package state, freshness, and local validation.
- Checked: Local main and origin/main both resolve to 54d08a3 after fetch. Open issues remain #185, #184, and #182; open PR list is empty. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, succeeded at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest remains 0.3.5; Pi latest/current remains 0.80.3; alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3; pi-btw latest/current remains 0.4.1.
- Decisions: No new queue-driven code changes were needed. #182 remains locally actionable but already covered by the pending local alpha-hub auth compatibility patch that rewrites bundled auth to https://api.alphaxiv.org/auth/oauth2/* with openid profile email offline_access. #185 remains covered by bundled pi-btw, which directly improves long-running research-loop steering. #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice rather than a repo feature. There were no PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Contributor state: Configured contributor refs are stale, behind, or non-actionable. origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is behind by 74 commits with one ahead local-model-warning commit; pr4fork/main is behind by 73 with zero ahead. Sampled fork refs were behind by 91-142 commits with small ahead diffs focused on provider setup, Overleaf/export/admin prompts, Claude CLI bypass, architecture notes, fork-specific search tooling, broad platform churn, or runtime/setup churn; none was a clean core-research patch to port in this run.
- Freshness: Root and website have dependency drift only. Root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Focused alpha/runtime tests passed (16/16); full npm test passed (586/586); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum 01d621ba42cd8d159489a18aef58778887ade7e9); real installed tarball smoke passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list, feynman alpha status, alpha OAuth2 runtime archive inspection, and bundled pi-btw archive files. The first installed-smoke wrapper failed before install because it parsed [feynman] prepack logs as JSON; the corrected parser succeeded, and temp smoke artifacts were removed.
- Next: Commit or push only if explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local alpha auth compatibility patch pending review.

2026-07-08 16:58 EDT — intake-sweep-no-new-action

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current Feynman checkout, preserving existing local alpha-auth patch work while checking live GitHub issues/PRs, contributor branches, main workflows, release/package state, freshness, and validation.
- Checked: Local main and origin/main both resolve to 54d08a3. Open issues are #185, #184, and #182; open PR list is empty. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, succeeded at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest remains 0.3.5; Pi latest/current remains 0.80.3; alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3; pi-btw latest/current remains 0.4.1.
- Decisions: No new queue-driven code changes were needed. #182 remains locally actionable but already covered by the pending local alpha-hub auth compatibility patch. #185 remains covered by bundled pi-btw, which directly improves long-running research-loop steering. #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice rather than a repo feature. There were no PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Contributor state: Configured contributor refs are stale, behind, or non-actionable. origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is behind by 74 commits with one local-model-warning commit ahead; pr4fork/main is behind by 73 with zero ahead. Sampled fork refs were behind by 91-142 commits with small ahead diffs focused on Overleaf/export/admin prompts, broad platform churn, provider setup, Claude CLI bypass, architecture notes, or fork-specific search tooling; none was a clean core-research patch to port in this run.
- Freshness: Root and website have dependency drift only. Root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Focused alpha/runtime tests passed (16/16); full npm test passed (586/586); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum 01d621ba42cd8d159489a18aef58778887ade7e9); real installed tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-lcIijJ/ passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list, feynman alpha status, alpha OAuth2 runtime archive inspection, and bundled pi-btw archive files. The temp smoke directory and root tarball were removed.
- Next: Commit or push only if explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local alpha auth compatibility patch pending review.

2026-07-08 12:56 EDT — intake-sweep-no-new-action

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current Feynman checkout, preserving existing local work while checking live GitHub issues/PRs, contributor branches/forks, main workflows, release/package state, freshness, and local validation.
- Checked: Local main is aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3 after fetch. Open issues remain #185, #184, and #182; open PR list is empty. Issue #182's newest comment still matches the already-pending alphaXiv OAuth2 endpoint/scope patch. Latest main Publish and Release run is 28835967900, succeeded at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; Pi latest/current remains 0.80.3; alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3; pi-btw latest/current remains 0.4.1.
- Decisions: No new queue-driven code changes were needed. #182 remains the only locally actionable issue and is already covered by the pending local alpha-hub auth compatibility patch that rewrites bundled auth to https://api.alphaxiv.org/auth/oauth2/* with openid profile email offline_access. #185 remains covered by bundled pi-btw, which directly improves long-running research-loop steering. #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice rather than a repo feature. There were no PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Contributor/fork state: Configured contributor refs are behind, stale, or old already-reviewed changes. origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is behind by 74 commits with one ahead local-model warning commit; pr4fork/main is behind by 73 commits with zero ahead commits. Recent public fork heads checked: QuantumKuba/feynman, ivnvalex/feynman, and colindomoney/feynman match 54d08a3; ussdeveloper/feynman is behind at fa26693; advaitpaliwal/feynman is behind at cb5fa56.
- Freshness: Root and website have dependency drift only. Root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Focused alpha/runtime tests passed (16/16); full npm test passed (586/586); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum 01d621ba42cd8d159489a18aef58778887ade7e9); real installed tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-OqsQM0/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list, feynman alpha status, and runtime archive inspection for api.alphaxiv.org/auth, oauth2/authorize, oauth2/token, oauth2/register, oauth2/userinfo, openid profile email offline_access, and bundled pi-btw.
- Next: Commit or push only if explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local alpha auth compatibility patch pending review.

2026-07-08 08:54 EDT — intake-sweep-no-new-action

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current Feynman checkout, preserving existing local work while checking live GitHub issues/PRs, contributor refs/forks, workflows, release/package state, freshness, and local validation.
- Checked: Local main is aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3 after fetch. Open issues remain #185, #184, and #182; open PR list is empty. Issue #182 has a new comment suggesting the same alphaXiv OAuth2 endpoint/scope rewrite already present in the pending local patch. Latest main Publish and Release run is 28835967900, succeeded at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; Pi latest/current remains 0.80.3; alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3; pi-btw latest/current remains 0.4.1.
- Decisions: No new queue-driven code changes were needed. #182 remains the only locally actionable issue and is already covered by the pending local alpha-hub auth compatibility patch that rewrites bundled auth to https://api.alphaxiv.org/auth/oauth2/* with openid profile email offline_access. #185 remains covered by bundled pi-btw, which directly improves long-running research-loop steering. #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice rather than a repo feature. There were no PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Contributor/fork state: Configured contributor refs are behind, stale, or old already-reviewed changes. origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is behind by 74 commits with one ahead local-model warning commit; pr4fork/main is behind by 73 commits with zero ahead commits. Recent public fork discovery showed colindomoney/feynman identical to main; ussdeveloper/feynman and advaitpaliwal/feynman are behind with zero ahead commits.
- Freshness: Root and website have dependency drift only. Root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Focused alpha/runtime tests passed (16/16); full npm test passed (586/586); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum 01d621ba42cd8d159489a18aef58778887ade7e9); real installed tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-x31nAy/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list, feynman alpha status, and runtime archive inspection for api.alphaxiv.org/auth, oauth2/authorize, oauth2/token, oauth2/register, oauth2/userinfo, openid profile email offline_access, and bundled pi-btw.
- Note: The first installed-smoke wrapper exited nonzero after successful CLI checks because it looked for package/npm/... inside the nested runtime archive; the correct nested path is npm/node_modules/..., and the follow-up archive inspection passed. The temp smoke directory was removed.
- Next: Commit or push only if explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local alpha auth compatibility patch pending review.

2026-07-08 04:53 EDT — intake-sweep-no-new-action

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current Feynman checkout, preserving existing local work while checking live GitHub issues/PRs, contributor refs/forks, workflows, release/package state, freshness, and local validation.
- Checked: Local main is aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3 after fetch. Open issues remain #185, #184, and #182; open PR list is empty. Latest main Publish and Release run is 28835967900, succeeded at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; Pi latest/current remains 0.80.3; alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3; pi-btw latest/current remains 0.4.1 with Pi peer range >=0.74.0 <1.
- Decisions: No new queue-driven code changes were needed. #182 remains the only locally actionable issue and is already covered by the pending local alpha-hub auth compatibility patch that rewrites bundled auth to https://api.alphaxiv.org/auth/oauth2/* with openid profile email offline_access. #185 remains covered by bundled pi-btw, which directly improves long-running research-loop steering. #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice rather than a repo feature. There were no PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Contributor/fork state: Configured contributor refs are behind, stale, or broad fork-specific churn. pr4fork/main is behind by 73 commits with zero ahead commits; origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is behind by 74 commits with one already-considered ahead commit. Public fork discovery showed only advaitpaliwal/feynman as recently pushed, still behind current origin/main at cb5fa56.
- Freshness: Root and website have dependency drift only. Root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Focused alpha/runtime tests passed (16/16); full npm test passed (586/586); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum 01d621ba42cd8d159489a18aef58778887ade7e9); real installed tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-nGtsGm/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list, feynman alpha status, and runtime archive inspection for api.alphaxiv.org/auth, oauth2/authorize, openid profile email offline_access, and bundled pi-btw.
- Next: Commit or push only if explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local alpha auth compatibility patch pending review.

2026-07-08 00:52 EDT — intake-sweep-alpha-auth-patch-validated

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current Feynman checkout, preserve existing local work, and verify whether fresh GitHub, release, package, contributor, or validation state requires another change.
- Checked: Live GitHub queue still has open issues #185, #184, and #182, with zero open PRs. Latest main publish run is Publish and Release 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; Pi latest/current is 0.80.3; alpha-hub latest/current is 0.1.3; pi-btw latest/current is 0.4.1 with Pi peer range >=0.74.0 <1. The newest public forks checked, founderqiang/feynman and colindomoney/feynman, are identical to main; ussdeveloper/feynman, Sourabhsubhasish/feynman, and advaitpaliwal/feynman are behind with zero ahead commits. Configured contributor remotes remain stale or behind.
- Decisions: No new code changes were needed beyond the existing local #182 alpha auth compatibility patch. Issue #182 remains the only locally actionable queue item because its newest comment points at alphaXiv's migrated OAuth endpoints and the local package patch already rewrites bundled alpha-hub auth to https://api.alphaxiv.org/auth/oauth2/* with openid profile email offline_access. Issue #185 remains covered by bundled pi-btw, which directly improves long-running research-loop steering. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice, not a repo feature. No PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Freshness: Root and website have dependency drift only. Root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Full npm test passed (586/586); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum 01d621ba42cd8d159489a18aef58778887ade7e9); real tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-8S4oAQ/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list, feynman alpha status, and runtime archive inspection for api.alphaxiv.org/auth, oauth2/authorize, openid profile email offline_access, and bundled pi-btw.
- Next: Commit or push only when explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local alpha auth compatibility patch pending review.

2026-07-07 21:07 EDT — check-new-issues-alpha-auth-endpoint

- Objective: Run the recurring Feynman intake sweep against live GitHub issues, PRs, contributor branches/forks, recent main workflows, release/npm state, package freshness, and local validation while preserving unrelated worktree changes.
- Checked: Live open issues stayed #185, #184, and #182; open PR list was empty; local main is aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3; latest main Publish and Release run 28835967900 succeeded at 54d08a3; latest GitHub release and npm package remain v0.3.5 / @companion-ai/[email protected]; runtime/package versions remain @earendil-works/[email protected], @companion-ai/[email protected], and [email protected]. New public fork colindomoney/feynman is identical to main; recent forks ussdeveloper, advaitpaliwal, skandanyal, and gaurav-g-alva are behind with zero ahead commits; configured contributor refs are old/behind or non-actionable.
- Decisions: Ported the safe core of the new #182 evidence by updating Feynman's alpha-hub runtime patch to use alphaXiv's current https://api.alphaxiv.org/auth/oauth2/* endpoints and openid profile email offline_access scope. This directly restores a research-source login path without taking the fork's broader search-mode collapse or manual-token workflow. #185 remains covered on main by bundled pi-btw; #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar as support/advice. No open PRs needed merge/port/reject/defer action.
- Changed: scripts/lib/alpha-hub-auth-patch.mjs rewrites legacy Clerk endpoint constants to the current alphaXiv OAuth2 host; scripts/prepare-runtime-workspace.mjs now hashes/imports/applies the auth patch when building .feynman/runtime-workspace.tgz; tests/alpha-hub-auth-patch.test.ts covers the endpoint rewrite.
- Verified: node --import tsx --test --test-concurrency=1 tests/alpha-hub-auth-patch.test.ts tests/package-seeding.test.ts (16/16); full npm test twice after the endpoint patch (586/586, final run 586/586 after the runtime-archive fix); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json with entryCount: 401, shasum 01d621ba42cd8d159489a18aef58778887ade7e9; actual temp tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-e3qffD/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list showing npm:@companion-ai/alpha-hub and npm:pi-btw, feynman alpha status, and nested runtime archive inspection showing api.alphaxiv.org/auth, oauth2/authorize, and openid profile email offline_access.
- Next: Keep the patch local until explicitly authorized to commit/push; issue #182 can be rechecked with a fresh logged-out login flow when an affected user or release test environment is available.

2026-07-07 12:50 EDT — check-new-issues-clean-main

- Objective: Run the recurring Feynman intake sweep against live GitHub issues, PRs, contributor branches/forks, recent main workflows, release/npm state, package freshness, and local validation while preserving unrelated worktree changes.
- Checked: Live open issues stayed #185, #184, and #182; open PR list was empty; local main is aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3; latest main Publish and Release run 28835967900 succeeded at 54d08a3; latest GitHub release and npm package remain v0.3.5 / @companion-ai/[email protected]; runtime/package versions remain @earendil-works/[email protected], @companion-ai/[email protected], and [email protected]; recent public forks checked (nagyist/feynman, TheTechOddBug/feynman, and dubbypanda/feynman) are identical to main, while founderqiang/feynman, gaadha1985/feynman, and ussdeveloper/feynman are behind by three commits with zero ahead commits. Configured contributor refs are old/behind or non-actionable.
- Decisions: No queue-driven code changes were needed. #185 remains covered on main by bundling existing pi-btw in the core Pi package stack because it improves long-running research-loop steering without inventing a Feynman-owned interrupt protocol. #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar because it is a thesis-planning/support request, not a repo feature or defect. #182 has one new affected-user comment but no new Feynman-owned repro or diagnostic; it remains deferred/external because Feynman delegates alpha auth to @companion-ai/alpha-hub, the installed alpha-hub source owns Clerk registration, localhost callback, token exchange, and auth storage, issue diagnostics still point at alphaXiv/Clerk redirect/token handoff outside Feynman, and the current installed-tarball alpha status succeeds. No open PRs needed merge/port/reject/defer action.
- Freshness: Root and website have dependency drift only; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: npm test (585/585); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json with entryCount: 401, shasum dff26e588536c8184e30f2e39e208a47bea011c3; actual temp tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-I0Ypru/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw in Core, feynman alpha status, and runtime archive inspection for npm/node_modules/pi-btw/package.json plus npm/node_modules/pi-btw/extensions/btw.ts.
- Next: Keep sweeps read-only unless a fresh Feynman-owned repro or core-research PR appears; current main contains unreleased workbench commits after v0.3.5.

2026-07-07 08:49 EDT — check-new-issues-clean-main

- Objective: Run the recurring Feynman intake sweep against live GitHub issues, PRs, contributor branches/forks, recent main workflows, release/npm state, package freshness, and local validation while preserving unrelated worktree changes.
- Checked: Live open issues stayed #185, #184, and #182; open PR list was empty; local main is aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3; latest main Publish and Release run 28835967900 succeeded at 54d08a3; latest GitHub release and npm package remain v0.3.5 / @companion-ai/[email protected]; runtime/package versions remain @earendil-works/[email protected], @companion-ai/[email protected], and [email protected]; the newest public forks checked (nagyist/feynman, TheTechOddBug/feynman, and dubbypanda/feynman) are identical to main, while founderqiang/feynman, gaadha1985/feynman, and ussdeveloper/feynman are behind by three commits with zero ahead commits. Configured contributor refs are old/behind or non-actionable.
- Decisions: No queue-driven code changes were needed. #185 remains covered on main by bundling existing pi-btw in the core Pi package stack because it improves long-running research-loop steering without inventing a Feynman-owned interrupt protocol. #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar because it is a thesis-planning/support request, not a repo feature or defect. #182 remains deferred/external because Feynman delegates alpha auth to @companion-ai/alpha-hub, issue diagnostics point at alphaXiv/Clerk redirect/token handoff outside Feynman, and the current installed-tarball alpha status succeeds. No open PRs needed merge/port/reject/defer action.
- Freshness: Root and website have dependency drift only; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: npm test (585/585); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json with entryCount: 401, shasum dff26e588536c8184e30f2e39e208a47bea011c3; actual temp tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-C38rex/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw in Core, feynman alpha status, and runtime archive inspection for npm/node_modules/pi-btw/package.json plus npm/node_modules/pi-btw/extensions/btw.ts.
- Note: one real-pack metadata parser attempt failed after successful tarball creation because mixed prepack logs preceded/embedded JSON; the produced tarball was used directly for archive inspection and installed smoke.
- Next: Keep sweeps read-only unless a fresh Feynman-owned repro or core-research PR appears; current main contains unreleased workbench commits after v0.3.5.

2026-07-07 04:48 EDT — check-new-issues-clean-main

- Objective: Run the recurring Feynman intake sweep against live GitHub issues, PRs, contributor branches/forks, recent main workflows, release/npm state, package freshness, and local validation while preserving unrelated worktree changes.
- Checked: Live open issues stayed #185, #184, and #182; open PR list was empty; local main is aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3; latest main Publish and Release run 28835967900 succeeded at 54d08a3; latest GitHub release and npm package remain v0.3.5 / @companion-ai/[email protected]; runtime/package versions remain @earendil-works/[email protected], @companion-ai/[email protected], and [email protected]; the newest public fork checked (ussdeveloper/feynman) is behind main by three commits with zero ahead commits, and configured contributor refs are old/behind or non-actionable.
- Decisions: No queue-driven code changes were needed. #185 remains covered on main by bundling existing pi-btw in the core Pi package stack because it improves long-running research-loop steering without inventing a Feynman-owned interrupt protocol. #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar because it is a thesis-planning/support request, not a repo feature or defect. #182 remains deferred/external because Feynman delegates alpha auth to @companion-ai/alpha-hub, issue diagnostics point at alphaXiv/Clerk redirect/token handoff outside Feynman, and the current installed-tarball alpha status succeeds. No open PRs needed merge/port/reject/defer action.
- Freshness: Root and website have dependency drift only; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: npm test (585/585); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json with entryCount: 401, shasum dff26e588536c8184e30f2e39e208a47bea011c3; actual temp tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-T0C0Hw/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw in Core, feynman alpha status, and runtime archive inspection for npm/node_modules/pi-btw/package.json plus npm/node_modules/pi-btw/extensions/btw.ts.
- Next: Keep sweeps read-only unless a fresh Feynman-owned repro or core-research PR appears; current main contains unreleased workbench commits after v0.3.5.

2026-07-07 00:53 EDT — check-new-issues-clean-main

- Objective: Run the recurring Feynman intake sweep against live GitHub issues, PRs, contributor branches/forks, recent main workflows, release/npm state, package freshness, and local validation while preserving unrelated worktree changes.
- Checked: Live open issues stayed #185, #184, and #182; open PR list was empty; local main is aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3; latest main Publish and Release run 28835967900 succeeded at 54d08a3; latest GitHub release and npm package remain v0.3.5 / @companion-ai/[email protected]; runtime/package versions remain @earendil-works/[email protected], @companion-ai/[email protected], and [email protected]; the two most recently pushed public forks (founderqiang/feynman, ussdeveloper/feynman) are both behind main by three commits with zero ahead commits, and configured contributor refs are old/behind or non-actionable.
- Decisions: No queue-driven code changes were needed. #185 remains covered on main by bundling existing pi-btw in the core Pi package stack because it improves long-running research-loop steering without inventing a Feynman-owned interrupt protocol. #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar because it is a thesis-planning/support request, not a repo feature or defect. #182 remains deferred/external because Feynman delegates alpha auth to @companion-ai/alpha-hub, issue diagnostics point at alphaXiv/Clerk redirect/token handoff outside Feynman, and the current installed-tarball alpha status succeeds. No open PRs needed merge/port/reject/defer action.
- Freshness: Root and website have dependency drift only; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: npm test (585/585); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json with entryCount: 401, shasum dff26e588536c8184e30f2e39e208a47bea011c3; actual temp tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-PknUYQ/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw in Core, feynman alpha status, and runtime archive inspection for npm/node_modules/pi-btw/package.json plus npm/node_modules/pi-btw/extensions/btw.ts.
- Next: Keep sweeps read-only unless a fresh Feynman-owned repro or core-research PR appears; current main contains unreleased workbench commits after v0.3.5.

2026-07-06 EDT — workbench-light-theme-parity

- Objective: Close the biggest visual 1:1 gap. Drove the installed Claude Science app live (authenticated via claude-science url) and captured its real project frame: it is a clean LIGHT UI (rgb(253,253,252) background, near-black text, blue accent), not the dark-green theme the workbench had. Owner decision: match Claude's light layout with Feynman green as the single accent, and simplify the frame chrome.
- Changed: Appended a light-theme override layer to workbench-web/src/styles.css that re-skins the frame surfaces (rail, conversation canvas, messages, generated tiles, composer, tab strip, files/side panels) to neutral light with --cs-* tokens and Feynman green (#2f6a3d) as the accent (links, active tab, selected session, send button). Hides the reference-absent chrome — top-bar status pills, model/session menus, and the context metric strip — to match Claude's quiet frame. Fixed the selected-session pill to a light-gray pill.
- Verified: Focused source-contract tests pass; full npm test (585/585, Node 24); build:workbench-web green; live headless render on /projects/workspace/frames/playwright shows white rail/conversation/composer, hidden metric strip, green accent, and no console errors, matching the captured Claude Science reference frame.
- Next: Tighten remaining details (composer column max-width/centering, generated-tile spacing) against the reference; regenerate stale dark-UI artifact thumbnails.

2026-07-06 EDT — workbench-center-tab-strip-parity

- Objective: Finish the in-flight Claude Science parity slice that adds a Chat/Files tab strip to the workbench frame center pane, so Files can open in-place instead of only as a right-side panel.
- Changed: Added a CenterPane state (chat | files) and a .workspace-tab-strip nav under the frame header; the transcript+composer render only on the Chat tab, and the existing FilesPanel (factored out once as filesPanelElement and reused by the side panel) mounts in a .center-files-panel on the Files tab. Rail Files button and the files toggle now switch the center pane. New session / run navigation resets the pane to Chat.
- Verified: Full npm test (585/585) under Node 24; typecheck and build:workbench-web green; live headless render on /projects/workspace/frames/playwright confirmed both tabs present, Files tab shows the center files panel and hides the composer, Chat tab restores it, zero console errors.
- Next: Continue the visual 1:1 parity pass against the installed Claude Science app.

2026-07-06 12:44 EDT — check-new-issues-clean-main

- Objective: Run the recurring Feynman intake sweep against live GitHub issues, PRs, contributor branches, recent main workflows, release/npm state, package freshness, and repo-local validation while preserving active worktree edits.
- Checked: Live open issues stayed #185, #184, and #182; open PR list was empty; origin/main stayed aligned with local main at fa26693; latest main Publish and Release run 28755882698 succeeded at fa26693; latest GitHub release and npm package remain v0.3.5 / @companion-ai/[email protected]; installed/runtime package versions remain @earendil-works/[email protected], @companion-ai/[email protected], and [email protected]; contributor refs were stale behind origin/main, had no ahead diff, or contained provider/platform/export/prompt/admin/docs churn rather than a fresh research-loop fix.
- Decisions: #185 remains locally covered by bundling existing pi-btw in the core Pi package stack because it improves long-running research-loop steering without inventing a Feynman-owned interrupt mechanism. #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar because it is a thesis-planning/support request, not a repo feature or defect. #182 remains deferred/external because Feynman delegates alpha auth to @companion-ai/alpha-hub, issue diagnostics point to alphaXiv/Clerk redirecting away before localhost receives code, and the current installed-tarball alpha status succeeds. No open PRs needed merge/port/reject/defer action. No new queue-driven code changes were needed in this run.
- Verified: npm test (585/585); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json with entryCount: 401, shasum cc7a11600c6ebf36481195626203769be3c52dcb; actual temp tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-dmOqSI/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw in Core, and feynman alpha status (Logged in to alphaXiv as Advait Paliwal); runtime archive inspection confirmed npm/node_modules/pi-btw/package.json and npm/node_modules/pi-btw/extensions/btw.ts.
- Note: one first archive-inspection helper hit ENOBUFS because it buffered the embedded runtime tarball in Node; a second tar-based inspection verified the archive paths directly.
- Next: Keep intake sweeps read-only unless a fresh Feynman-owned repro or core-research PR appears; the remaining dirty files are preserved active workbench/docs/package-stack edits plus append-only run notes.

2026-07-05 21:18 EDT — workbench-compact-composer-parity

- Objective: Fix the live Claude Science parity mismatch where Feynman's frame composer stretched into a tall pale input slab with chunky light controls.
- Changed: The React workbench composer now opts out of grid stretching, renders as a compact dark input strip, uses a transparent textarea with light text, and keeps the composer action/send buttons at compact 32px dark/green sizes.
- Verified: Focused React/file-surface tests passed (17/17); root/workbench typecheck passed; npm run build:workbench-web passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic bundle warnings; headless browser verification on session-20260705210923-1cb3e7 measured composer height 52.9px instead of 304px, 32px controls, transparent textarea background, and no side panel; full npm test passed (585/585).
- Next: Continue the 1:1 workbench parity goal with the next live rendered mismatch.

2026-07-05 20:45 EDT — check-new-issues-clean-main

- Objective: Run the recurring Feynman intake sweep against live GitHub issues, PRs, contributor branches, recent main workflows, release/npm state, package freshness, and repo-local validation while preserving active workbench edits.
- Checked: Live open issues stayed #182 and #184; open PR list was empty; origin/main is fa26693; latest main Publish and Release run 28755882698 succeeded at fa26693; latest GitHub release and npm package remain v0.3.5 / @companion-ai/[email protected]; installed/runtime package versions remain @earendil-works/[email protected] and @companion-ai/[email protected]; contributor refs were stale relative to current origin/main, had no ahead diff, or contained adjacent platform/admin/export/prompt churn rather than a new research-loop fix.
- Decisions: #182 remains deferred/external because Feynman delegates alpha auth to @companion-ai/alpha-hub, issue diagnostics still point to alphaXiv/Clerk redirecting to the landing page before localhost receives code, and the current installed-tarball alpha status succeeds. #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar because it is a thesis-planning/support request, not a repo feature or defect. No open PRs needed merge/port/reject/defer action. No queue-driven code changes were needed.
- Verified: npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; full npm test (585/585); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings), and npm run build (34 pages); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json with entryCount: 401, shasum 047d3783178ab6ab5caa05d9c98b3cee005e28ff; actual temp tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-P1QWmm/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, and feynman alpha status.
- Next: Keep intake sweeps read-only unless a fresh Feynman-owned repro or core-research PR appears; the remaining dirty files are unrelated active workbench edits plus append-only run notes.

2026-07-05 16:49 EDT — check-new-issues-clean-main

- Objective: Run the recurring Feynman intake sweep against live GitHub issues, PRs, contributor branches, recent main workflows, release/npm state, package freshness, and local validation without disturbing unrelated workbench edits.
- Checked: Live open issues stayed #182 and #184; open PR list was empty; refreshed origin/main now points at 0fd15dd; latest main Publish and Release run 28754199423 succeeded at 0fd15dd; latest GitHub release and npm package remain v0.3.5 / @companion-ai/[email protected]; installed runtime dependencies remain @earendil-works/[email protected] and @companion-ai/[email protected]; contributor refs were stale relative to origin/main or had no ahead diff.
- Decisions: #182 remains deferred/external because Feynman delegates alpha auth to @companion-ai/alpha-hub, the installed auth source owns the Clerk registration/localhost callback/token exchange flow, the issue evidence points to alphaXiv/Clerk redirecting away before localhost receives code, and current installed-tarball alpha status succeeds. #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar because it is a thesis-planning/support request, not a repo feature or defect. No PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer. No queue-driven code changes were needed.
- Verified: npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; full npm test (585/585); root npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings), npm run build (34 pages), and npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json with entryCount: 401, shasum 5ed1945fd2a13d3a46ad44a41319815b06c5fa53; actual temp tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-MewoZd/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, and feynman alpha status.
- Next: Keep intake sweeps read-only unless a fresh Feynman-owned repro or core-research PR appears; the remaining dirty files are unrelated active workbench edits plus append-only run notes.

2026-07-05 13:35 EDT — workbench-dark-main-surface-parity

- Objective: Continue the Claude Science 1:1 workbench parity goal by moving the frame conversation surface from a light card-heavy canvas toward the reference dark project workspace.
- Changed: The React workbench conversation area now uses a dark green canvas, dark topbar/context strip borders and chips, dark assistant/user message surfaces, light transcript text, and a dark disabled-send state while keeping the composer input readable. The change is scoped to the in-frame workbench surface and leaves menus, launcher cards, and the underlying chat/artifact mechanics intact.
- Verified: Focused React/file-surface tests passed (17/17); root/workbench typecheck passed; npm run build:workbench-web passed with existing science-viewer bundle warnings; headless browser verification on session-20260705160452-ae55be showed conversation background rgb(32, 37, 31), topbar border rgb(52, 60, 50), title color rgb(245, 248, 238), context chip background rgb(42, 51, 40), assistant message background rgb(29, 35, 28), assistant text rgb(237, 244, 232), user message background rgb(34, 48, 32), composer border rgb(58, 66, 55), and readable composer text; architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings; git diff --check passed; and full npm test passed (585/585).
- Next: Commit the focused dark main-surface slice, then continue with the next live rendered parity mismatch.

2026-07-05 13:26 EDT — workbench-dark-wide-rail-parity

- Objective: Continue the Claude Science 1:1 workbench parity goal by matching the reference rail's wide dark project-pane structure while keeping Feynman's green identity.
- Changed: The React workbench grid now uses a responsive --rail-width up to 358px instead of a fixed 256px. The in-project rail uses a dark green surface, transparent large action rows, a divider under Files, dark hover/selection states, and lighter session text so project/session names truncate less aggressively and read closer to the Claude Science rail. Launcher/setup brand styles remain separate and intact.
- Verified: Focused React/file-surface tests passed (17/17); root/workbench typecheck passed; npm run build:workbench-web passed with existing science-viewer bundle warnings; headless browser verification on session-20260705160452-ae55be showed rail width 358px, rail background rgb(29, 35, 28), transparent 44px rail actions exactly New chat, Customize, Files, divider rgb(58, 66, 55), selected row background rgb(16, 21, 15), no project-card or brand-row, and main content starting at x=358; launcher verification still found brand-mark, brand-title, and brand-subtitle intact; architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings; git diff --check passed; and full npm test passed (585/585).
- Next: Commit the focused dark/wide rail slice, then continue with the next live rendered parity mismatch.

2026-07-05 13:18 EDT — workbench-flat-project-header-parity

- Objective: Continue the Claude Science 1:1 workbench parity goal by removing the extra card-like rail project summary that made the Feynman project rail denser and more decorated than the reference.
- Changed: The React workbench rail now uses one compact flat project header with the Feynman mark and active project name, then immediately flows into New chat, Customize, Files, and the session list. The old rounded project summary card and rail description copy are removed from the in-project rail only.
- Verified: Focused React/file-surface tests passed (17/17); root/workbench typecheck passed; npm run build:workbench-web passed with existing science-viewer bundle warnings; headless browser verification on session-20260705160452-ae55be showed projectCard: null, brandRow: null, rendered rail actions exactly New chat, Customize, Files, and the first action at y=72 under a 46px flat project header; architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings; git diff --check passed; and full npm test passed (585/585).
- Next: Commit the focused header slice, then continue with the next live rendered parity mismatch.

2026-07-05 13:12 EDT — workbench-project-rail-parity

- Objective: Continue the Claude Science 1:1 workbench parity goal by making the in-project rail match the reference project action structure.
- Changed: The React workbench rail now exposes only the primary project actions in reference order: New chat, Customize, and Files. Search remains available through the command palette/search surfaces, and notebook, compute, and memory remain available through their owned workbench surfaces instead of appearing as peer rail actions.
- Verified: Focused React/file-surface tests passed (17/17); root/workbench typecheck passed; npm run build:workbench-web passed with existing science-viewer bundle warnings; headless browser verification on session-20260705160452-ae55be showed rendered rail actions exactly New chat, Customize, Files, no side panel, shell class app-shell, and conversation width 924px at 1180px viewport; architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings; git diff --check passed; and full npm test passed (585/585).
- Next: Commit the focused rail slice, then continue with the next live rendered parity mismatch.

2026-07-05 12:52 EDT — workbench-empty-frame-layout-parity

- Objective: Continue the Claude Science 1:1 workbench parity goal by fixing the blank/new-frame layout mismatch found in the live Feynman route.
- Changed: The React workbench shell no longer opens Files by default for empty runs. The shell now uses two columns unless a side panel is present, grows to a third column only for active side panels on wide screens, and preserves full conversation width behind the fixed overlay side panel at narrower viewports. Artifact-bearing runs still auto-open the selected primary artifact.
- Verified: Live in-app browser checks on session-20260705160452-ae55be showed no side panel, no selected artifact, rail 224px, conversation 710px, and body width 934px. Live checks on session-20260705035324-621b20 still showed the side panel open with End-to-End Workbench Proof selected while the conversation stayed 710px instead of being squeezed to 278px. Focused React/file-surface tests passed (17/17); workbench web typecheck passed; npm run build:workbench-web passed with existing science-viewer bundle warnings; root typecheck passed; architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings; git diff --check passed; and full npm test passed (585/585).
- Next: Continue with the next live rendered parity mismatch.

2026-07-05 12:41 EDT — check-new-issues-clean-main

- Objective: Run the recurring Feynman intake sweep against live GitHub, package, release, workflow, contributor-branch, freshness, and local validation state.
- Checked: Live open issues stayed #182 and #184; open PR list was empty; recent main workflow runs were successful through e417a8c; latest GitHub release and npm package remain v0.3.5 / @companion-ai/[email protected]; installed runtime dependencies remain @earendil-works/[email protected] and @companion-ai/[email protected]; contributor branch diffs were behind current origin/main and did not contain a new core-research fix to port.
- Decisions: #182 remains deferred/external because the issue evidence points at the alphaXiv/Clerk redirect before Feynman can exchange a token, and the installed package still reports alphaXiv status successfully. #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar because it is a thesis-planning/support request, not a repo feature or defect. No PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer. No code changes were needed.
- Verified: npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; full npm test (585/585); website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json with entryCount: 401, shasum c15eb404a3594619fc1824e1943b60feb35914af; actual temp tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-8KRbQH/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, and feynman alpha status.
- Next: Keep queue read-only unless a fresh Feynman-owned repro or core-research PR appears; release state is unreleased main work after v0.3.5, with successful publish workflows but no newer version tag.

2026-07-05 04:18 EDT — html-annotation-overlay-parity

- Objective: Close the reference HtmlAnnotationOverlay chunk with a Feynman-owned iframe annotation bridge.
- Changed: HTML artifact previews now inject a sandboxed annotation bridge, expose Annotate mode, capture clicked element selector/descriptor/text plus iframe geometry, paint saved selector badges, and route selected HTML elements through Feynman's owned artifact annotation/refinement path. Gap manifest screen/chunk status is now 52 done / 0 stub / 0 missing.
- Verified: Focused HTML annotation/source/React tests passed (21/21 across tests/workbench-files-surface.test.ts, tests/workbench-annotations.test.ts, and tests/workbench-react-shell.test.ts); root/workbench typecheck passed; root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; website typecheck passed (0 errors, 0 warnings); website build passed (34 pages); architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings including science-database-variants.ts; and git diff --check passed. Rendered in-app browser smoke opened the packaged CRISPR seed design_report.html, verified the iframe has sandbox="allow-scripts", toggled Annotate mode, clicked the report heading inside the iframe, opened the artifact refinement panel with selector body > h1:nth-child(1), saved a smoke annotation, verified one saved annotation plus an iframe #1 badge, captured outputs/.plans/feynman-e2e-screenshots/07-html-annotation-overlay.png, then removed the smoke annotation and confirmed remainingSmoke: 0.
- Next: Continue on SQLite migration status stubs and full package verification.

2026-07-05 04:12 EDT — files-hosts-parity

- Objective: Close the reference useFilesHosts hook with Feynman-owned Files host inventory.
- Changed: Files panel and full Files overlay now show a host selector for local workspace artifacts, SSH/BYOC compute hosts, and cloud buckets derived from Feynman's compute provider and credential-backed storage state. Gap manifest screen/chunk status is now 51 done / 1 stub / 0 missing.
- Verified: Focused Files/source/React tests passed (16/16 across tests/workbench-files-surface.test.ts and tests/workbench-react-shell.test.ts); root/workbench typecheck passed; root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; website typecheck passed (0 errors, 0 warnings); website build passed (34 pages); architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings including science-database-variants.ts; and git diff --check passed.
- Next: Continue on the last real UI stub: HtmlAnnotationOverlay.

2026-07-05 04:10 EDT — project-section-status-parity

- Objective: Close the reference ProjectSection chunk where Feynman's launcher and workbench rail already own the project behavior.
- Changed: Marked ProjectSection done in the gap manifest. Feynman owns project cards, project/session counts, new-project creation, project opening, seed workflow grouping, and project/run route navigation through the launcher and in-workbench rail. Gap manifest screen/chunk status is now 50 done / 2 stub / 0 missing.
- Verified: Focused project/session/source coverage passed (26/26 across tests/workbench-files-surface.test.ts, tests/workbench-new-sessions.test.ts, and tests/workbench-react-shell.test.ts); workbench web typecheck passed; and git diff --check passed.
- Next: Continue on the two remaining real UI stubs: HtmlAnnotationOverlay and useFilesHosts.

2026-07-05 04:09 EDT — text-preview-status-parity

- Objective: Close the reference TextPreview and RemoteTextPreview chunks where Feynman's existing artifact inspector already owns the behavior.
- Changed: Marked TextPreview and RemoteTextPreview done in the gap manifest. Feynman's authenticated file preview path fetches workspace artifact text through /api/file, handles loading/truncation, routes rich formats to owned preview components, renders plain text in the artifact inspector, and captures keyboard/mouse selection for annotation/refinement. Left HtmlAnnotationOverlay open because iframe DOM-region annotation is not yet equivalent to the reference overlay. Gap manifest screen/chunk status is now 49 done / 3 stub / 0 missing.
- Verified: Focused source/React tests passed (16/16 across tests/workbench-files-surface.test.ts and tests/workbench-react-shell.test.ts); workbench web typecheck passed; and git diff --check passed.
- Next: Continue on the remaining real UI stubs: HtmlAnnotationOverlay, ProjectSection, and useFilesHosts.

2026-07-05 04:07 EDT — note-preview-modal-parity

- Objective: Close the reference NotePreviewModal screen stub with a Feynman-owned note context preview.
- Changed: Existing artifact notes now include a Preview action that opens a read-only modal with note content, target type/name, session id, artifact path, timestamp, and Open artifact navigation. The modal uses Feynman's existing target-note and artifact state, with no reference-app runtime dependency. Updated public README, release notes, website docs, source guards, and the gap manifest; screen/chunk status is now 47 done / 5 stub / 0 missing.
- Verified: Focused source/memory/React tests passed (18/18 across tests/workbench-files-surface.test.ts, tests/workbench-memory.test.ts, and tests/workbench-react-shell.test.ts); root/workbench typecheck passed; root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings including science-database-variants.ts; website typecheck passed (0 errors, 0 warnings); website build passed (34 pages); and git diff --check passed.
- Next: Continue on the remaining preview/Files host UI stubs.

2026-07-05 04:05 EDT — reference-hook-status-parity

- Objective: Close reference hook chunks that are already covered by Feynman-owned state and APIs, without hiding remaining behavior gaps.
- Changed: Marked useComputeProviders, useFrameMessages, and useOpenSessionInProject done in the gap manifest. Feynman already owns compute provider state/actions, durable frame message rows and authenticated state, and project/run/artifact navigation through the React route helpers. Left useFilesHosts open because the reference's unified local/SSH/cloud host picker is not yet implemented as a Files surface. Gap manifest screen/chunk status is now 46 done / 6 stub / 0 missing.
- Verified: Focused hook/status coverage passed (41/41 across tests/workbench-compute-provider-records.test.ts, tests/workbench-frame-messages.test.ts, tests/workbench-react-shell.test.ts, and tests/workbench.test.ts); git diff --check passed.
- Next: Implement the next real remaining UI stub instead of marking the Files-host picker done prematurely.

2026-07-05 04:03 EDT — cloud-storage-modal-parity

- Objective: Close the reference CloudStorageModal and cloud-credential hook stubs with Feynman-owned storage UI and state.
- Changed: Customize > Storage now opens a Cloud storage modal with credential rows, provider/status badges, target details, configured/missing connection-reference feedback, Delete credential, and Go to Credentials. The modal reads Feynman's owned cloudCredentials and cloudExportTargets state and removes entries through the existing settings API instead of depending on a reference-app credential hook. Updated public README, release notes, website docs, source guards, and the gap manifest; screen/chunk status is now 43 done / 9 stub / 0 missing.
- Verified: Focused cloud export/source/React tests passed (18/18 across tests/workbench-cloud-export.test.ts, tests/workbench-files-surface.test.ts, and tests/workbench-react-shell.test.ts); root/workbench typecheck passed; root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings including science-database-variants.ts; website typecheck passed (0 errors, 0 warnings); website build passed (34 pages); and git diff --check passed.
- Next: Continue the active 1:1 parity goal on the remaining screen/migration stubs.

2026-07-05 03:59 EDT — note-modal-parity

- Objective: Close the reference NoteModal screen stub with a Feynman-owned artifact note surface.
- Changed: Artifact actions now include Notes, which opens a modal with target context, existing note count, add/edit/delete controls, and Cmd/Ctrl+Enter save. The modal writes through Feynman's existing /api/notes path and target-note ledger, so notes stay attached to artifact/project/session context without any reference-app runtime dependency. Updated public README, release notes, website docs, source guards, and the gap manifest; screen/chunk status is now 41 done / 11 stub / 0 missing.
- Verified: Focused source/memory/React tests passed (18/18 across tests/workbench-files-surface.test.ts, tests/workbench-memory.test.ts, and tests/workbench-react-shell.test.ts); root/workbench typecheck passed; root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings including science-database-variants.ts; website typecheck passed (0 errors, 0 warnings) after rerunning it without the parallel content-store race; website build passed (34 pages); and git diff --check passed.
- Next: Continue the active 1:1 parity goal on the remaining screen/migration stubs from outputs/.plans/claude-science-gap-manifest.md.

2026-07-05 03:55 EDT — export-to-cloud-modal-parity

- Objective: Close the reference ExportToCloudModal screen stub with a Feynman-owned artifact export surface.
- Changed: Artifact Cloud export now opens a modal instead of firing a hidden one-click action. The modal shows configured and missing cloud storage targets, lets the user choose a destination path, disables export until a configured target is selected, calls Feynman's existing /api/artifact/export-cloud endpoint, and records exports through the owned cloud-export audit log. Updated public README, release notes, website docs, source guards, and the gap manifest; screen/chunk status is now 40 done / 12 stub / 0 missing.
- Verified: Focused cloud export/source tests passed (18/18 across tests/workbench-files-surface.test.ts, tests/workbench-react-shell.test.ts, and tests/workbench-cloud-export.test.ts); root/workbench typecheck passed; root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings including science-database-variants.ts; website typecheck passed (0 errors); website build passed (34 pages); and git diff --check passed.
- Next: Continue the active 1:1 parity goal on the remaining screen/migration stubs from outputs/.plans/claude-science-gap-manifest.md.

2026-07-05 03:51 EDT — chat-stream-state-parity

- Objective: Close the browser-proven core-loop gap where chat-written artifacts appeared in Workspace but the active run/project counters could remain stale at 0.
- Changed: The authenticated chat streaming endpoint now attaches a freshly rebuilt workbench state to final done and error SSE frames, and the React shell applies that state immediately. The final stream event now carries the updated artifact/project/run ownership after Pi writes files under outputs/, papers/, or notes/.
- Verified: Focused stream/server/client regression now writes outputs/stream-artifact.md during a streamed turn and asserts the final done SSE state includes that artifact under the active run and workspace project. Focused workbench tests passed (41/41 across tests/workbench.test.ts, tests/workbench-react-shell.test.ts, and tests/workbench-artifact-snapshots.test.ts); root/workbench typecheck passed; root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; website typecheck passed (0 errors); architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings including science-database-variants.ts; and git diff --check passed.
- Next: Continue the active 1:1 parity goal on the remaining screen/migration stubs from outputs/.plans/claude-science-gap-manifest.md.

2026-07-05 04:34 EDT — variants-named-tool-parity

- Objective: Close the installed reference variants exact-name gap while keeping Feynman Bio Tools standalone and Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added exact variant query modes for get_variant, search_variants, gene_variants, gene_constraint, region_variants, liftover_variant, clinvar_variants, structural_variants, get_structural_variant, mitochondrial_variants, cadd_variant_score, cadd_position_scores, cadd_range_scores, clinvar_search, clinvar_get_records, clinvar_variant_by_rsid, dbsnp_get_rsids, and dbsnp_search_by_region. These route through owned gnomAD GraphQL, CADD REST, NCBI ClinVar E-utilities, NCBI dbSNP E-utilities, and NCBI Variation Services endpoint calls. Updated runtime tool guidance, README, release notes, website pages, command metadata, and the 1:1 gap manifest.
- Verified: Focused variants exact-name tests passed (1/1) across all eighteen names; full science-database tests passed (84/84); root/workbench typecheck passed; website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages); root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings and newly flagged science-database-variants.ts split debt; git diff --check passed; full npm test passed (581/581); and npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 401, shasum df89bfee330715aa527c2572f9bc772e30ccdcb0.
- Next: Continue on non-Bio Tool parity gaps because active Bio Tool coverage is now 247 done / 0 stub / 0 missing.

2026-07-05 04:02 EDT — regulation-named-tool-parity

- Objective: Close the installed reference regulation exact-name gap while keeping Feynman Bio Tools standalone and Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added exact regulation query modes for encode_search_experiments, encode_search_biosamples, encode_list_files, encode_get_experiment, encode_get_file, encode_get_biosample, jaspar_get_matrix, jaspar_matrix_versions, jaspar_list_matrices, jaspar_list_species, jaspar_list_taxa, jaspar_list_collections, jaspar_list_releases, unibind_search_tfbs, unibind_get_dataset, and unibind_tfbs_in_region. These route through owned ENCODE REST, JASPAR REST, UniBind REST, and UCSC hub-backed endpoint calls. Updated runtime tool guidance, README, release notes, website pages, command metadata, and the 1:1 gap manifest.
- Verified: Installed reference regulation modules were inspected for exact names, payload shape, stable ENCODE projections, JASPAR catalog/version behavior, and UniBind dataset/region behavior. Official/current ENCODE REST, JASPAR API, UniBind genome-track, and UCSC Genome Browser API docs were checked for public endpoint shape. Focused regulation exact-name tests passed (1/1) across all sixteen names; full science-database tests passed (83/83); root/workbench typecheck passed; website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages); root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings only; git diff --check passed; full npm test passed (580/580); and npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 401, shasum 014c0ec784c3b05e22a79c59f9af10bb64f2e46f.
- Next: Continue the exact named-tool parity run with the next manifest domain, variants.

2026-07-05 03:27 EDT — omics-archives-named-tool-parity

- Objective: Close the installed reference omics-archive exact-name gap while keeping Feynman Bio Tools standalone and Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added exact archive query modes for arrayexpress_search_experiments, arrayexpress_get_experiment, arrayexpress_get_experiment_files, arrayexpress_get_experiment_samples, geo_search_series, geo_get_series, metabolights_list_studies, metabolights_get_studies, metabolights_get_study_files, metabolights_search_data_files, mgnify_search_studies, mgnify_get_studies, mgnify_get_study_analyses, pride_search_projects, pride_get_projects, pride_search_project_proteins, and pride_find_projects_for_protein. These route through owned BioStudies, NCBI E-utilities, MetaboLights, MGnify v2, and PRIDE Archive endpoint calls. Updated runtime tool guidance, docs, website pages, command metadata, and the 1:1 gap trackers.
- Verified: Installed reference omics-archive modules were inspected for exact names, payload shape, sample/file/protein behavior, and parsers. Official/current BioStudies/ArrayExpress, NCBI E-utilities/GEO, MetaboLights, MGnify API v2, and PRIDE Archive docs plus live endpoint probes were checked for public endpoint shape. Focused omics-archive exact-name tests passed (1/1) across all seventeen names; full science-database tests passed (82/82); root/workbench typecheck passed; website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages); root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings only; git diff --check passed; full npm test passed (579/579); and npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 400, shasum 40eac670a5f6418c9e69a5e32a30d3490c4b150f.
- Next: Continue the exact named-tool parity run with the next manifest domain, regulation.

2026-07-05 03:03 EDT — rna-named-tool-parity

- Objective: Close the installed reference RNA/Rfam exact-name gap while keeping Feynman Bio Tools standalone and Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-rfam-exact.ts and exact Rfam query modes for get_family, accession_to_id, id_to_accession, get_seed_alignment, get_covariance_model, get_tree, get_sequence_regions, get_structure_mapping, and search_sequence. Family, alignment, model, tree, region, and structure modes use documented Rfam endpoints; sequence search uses the current documented Rfam batch submit/result flow. Updated runtime tool guidance, docs, website pages, command metadata, and the 1:1 gap trackers.
- Verified: Installed reference RNA/Rfam modules were inspected for exact names, payload shape, checksums, text capping, and parsers. Official Rfam API docs were checked for public endpoint shape. Focused Rfam exact-name tests passed (8/8 for the reference-parity file); full science-database tests passed (81/81); root/workbench typecheck passed; website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages); root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings only; full npm test passed (578/578); git diff --check passed; and npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 399, shasum 937d1a61b92ce02550d56fe3cdace6cbf846fc03.
- Next: Continue the next exact named-tool parity domain.

2026-07-05 02:44 EDT — research-resources-named-tool-parity

- Objective: Close the installed reference research-resource exact-name gap while keeping Feynman Bio Tools standalone and Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added grantsgov as a built-in science database source and added exact research-resource query modes for search_antibodies, get_antibody, find_antibodies_by_catalog, get_antibody_registry_stats, and search_grants. Antibody Registry modes use the public SciCrunch API; Grants.gov uses the unauthenticated Search2 POST endpoint with keyword, opportunity number, ALN, agency, status, eligibility, funding category, and funding instrument filters. Updated runtime tool guidance, docs, website pages, command metadata, and the 1:1 gap trackers.
- Verified: Installed reference research-resource modules and Grants.gov client/spec code were inspected for exact names and payload shape. Official Antibody Registry OpenAPI and Grants.gov Search2 docs were checked for public endpoint shape. Focused research-resource exact-name tests passed (2/2); full science-database tests passed (80/80); root/workbench typecheck passed; website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages); root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings only; full npm test passed (577/577); git diff --check passed; and npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 398, shasum f4e58ae1276c00cd64719d97d9086427c7210177.
- Next: Continue the exact named-tool parity run with the rna domain.

2026-07-05 02:43 EDT — protein-annotation-named-tool-parity

- Objective: Close the installed reference protein-annotation Bio Tool domain while keeping Feynman standalone and avoiding any runtime dependency on ~/.claude-science.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-protein-annotation.ts and exact query modes for get_domain_architecture, search_interpro_entries, get_interpro_entry, search_pfam_clans, get_pfam_clan, get_pfam_family_proteins, get_pfam_family_proteomes, get_protein_atlas_gene, search_protein_atlas, map_string_ids, get_string_network, get_string_similarity_scores, and get_string_best_similarity_hits. These route through owned InterPro/Pfam, Human Protein Atlas, and STRING endpoint calls inside feynman_science_database_search.
- Verified: Installed reference protein-annotation modules were used only as local reference structure; official InterPro, Human Protein Atlas, and STRING API docs were checked for endpoint shape. Focused protein-annotation exact-name tests passed (1/1), focused protein/public-atlas/reference/database tests passed (24/24), full science database tests passed (79/79), root/workbench typecheck passed, website typecheck passed (0 errors), root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website lint and build passed (34 pages), architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check passed, full npm test passed (576/576), and npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 398, shasum 8a355fae8ff28860d34cb18127486acc89824275.
- Next: Continue remaining Bio Tool stub domains from outputs/.plans/claude-science-gap-manifest.md.

2026-07-05 02:18 EDT — literature-named-tool-parity

- Objective: Close the installed reference literature Bio Tool domain while keeping Feynman standalone and avoiding any runtime dependency on ~/.claude-science.
- Changed: Added exact OpenAlex and arXiv query modes to Feynman's owned Bio Tools. feynman_science_database_search now accepts openalex_search_works, openalex_get_work, openalex_citations, openalex_references, openalex_search_authors, openalex_get_author, openalex_venue_info, arxiv_search, and arxiv_get_papers, with reference-shaped snake_case records, DOI claimant accounting, arXiv category/date/sort windows, and batch duplicate/not-found accounting. Added focused regression tests, command metadata, README/release-note/website docs, and parity tracker updates.
- Verified: Installed reference literature modules were used only as local reference structure; official OpenAlex and arXiv API docs were checked for endpoint shape. Focused literature exact-name tests passed (1/1), focused literature/OpenAlex/database tests passed (8/8), full science database tests passed (78/78), root/workbench typecheck passed, website typecheck passed (0 errors), root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website lint and build passed (34 pages), architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings only after extracting arXiv and exact OpenAlex helpers, git diff --check passed, full npm test passed (575/575), and npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 395, shasum a67f16a5c337083f4370e3fda5613146dc7acf10.
- Next: Continue remaining Bio Tool stub domains from outputs/.plans/claude-science-gap-manifest.md.

2026-07-05 01:58 EDT — human-genetics-named-tool-parity

- Objective: Close the installed reference human-genetics Bio Tool domain while keeping Feynman standalone and avoiding any runtime dependency on ~/.claude-science.
- Changed: Added exact GWAS Catalog, eQTL Catalogue, and PheWeb/FinnGen PheWAS query modes to Feynman's owned Bio Tools. feynman_science_database_search now accepts gwas_associations_for_variant, gwas_associations_for_gene, gwas_associations_for_trait, gwas_search_traits, gwas_search_studies, gwas_get_study, gwas_get_variant, eqtl_list_datasets, eqtl_associations, phewas_instances, phewas_variant, phewas_finngen_gene, phewas_list_phenotypes, and phewas_search_phenotypes. Added the Feynman-owned pheweb source, focused regression tests, command metadata, README/release-note/website docs, and parity tracker updates.
- Verified: Installed reference mcp_human_genetics plus GWAS/eQTL/PheWeb helper modules were used only as local reference structure; public EBI GWAS Catalog v2, eQTL Catalogue API, PheWeb, and FinnGen PheWeb docs were checked for endpoint shape. Focused human-genetics tests passed (3/3), focused atlas/human-genetics tests passed (13/13), broader science database tests passed (77/77), full npm test passed (574/574), root/workbench typecheck passed, website typecheck passed (0 errors), root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website lint and build passed (34 pages), architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check passed, and npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 395, shasum 737d8378a8f8a5a2e7f8c6f238c9597d5fca6540.
- Next: Continue remaining Bio Tool stub domains from outputs/.plans/claude-science-gap-manifest.md.

2026-07-05 00:24 EDT — genomes-named-tool-parity

- Objective: Close the installed reference genomes Bio Tool domain while keeping Feynman standalone and avoiding any runtime dependency on ~/.claude-science.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-ensembl.ts with Feynman-owned Ensembl REST support for ensembl_lookup, ensembl_xrefs, ensembl_vep_variant, ensembl_homology, ensembl_sequence, and ensembl_overlap_region; extended the UCSC adapter with exact ucsc_list_tracks, ucsc_chrom_sizes, ucsc_track_data, ucsc_conservation, and ucsc_tfbs_clusters query names; and updated README, release notes, website docs, command metadata, Pi tool guidance, and parity trackers.
- Verified: Installed reference genome modules and public Ensembl/UCSC docs were checked for argument names and endpoint shape. Focused exact-name tests passed (2/2) for all eleven genome names; full science database tests passed (74/74); root/workbench typecheck passed; website typecheck passed (0 errors); root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; website lint and build passed (34 pages); architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings only; git diff --check passed; full npm test passed (571/571); and npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 394, shasum 8c05dccadde132d611d431205875c13958f44efd.
- Next: Continue to the next remaining Bio Tool stub domain from outputs/.plans/claude-science-gap-manifest.md.

2026-07-05 00:16 EDT — chat-artifact-run-project-ownership

- Objective: Fix the live workbench parity gap where Pi chat-created artifacts appeared in Workspace with preview/provenance but not in the producing Run or Project scopes when the artifact slug differed from the chat frame id.
- Changed: Added explicit artifactPaths ownership to workbench runs, augmented runs from execution output paths and artifact snapshot producer ids, switched custom project/file-scope/header artifact counts to the same path-aware ownership rule, and documented the behavior in README, release notes, and the website workbench docs.
- Verified: Focused artifact snapshot, React shell, and architecture tests passed (19/19); full npm test passed (556/556); root/workbench typecheck passed; root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages); architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings only; git diff --check passed; and npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 390, shasum 3a36f1019d05cee086a09b412452058303dcc82b. The rebuilt browser route for biology-evidence-map-2 / session-20260705035324-621b20 now shows ARTIFACTS 1, Run 1, Project 1, and the outputs/e2e-workbench-proof.md row in Run scope. Screenshot: outputs/.plans/feynman-e2e-screenshots/07-run-project-artifact-counts-fixed.png.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-05 00:14 EDT — browser-e2e-workbench-proof

- Objective: Prove the core Feynman workbench loop end to end in the running app before doing more connector breadth.
- Changed: Created proof screenshots under outputs/.plans/feynman-e2e-screenshots/ and added outputs/e2e-workbench-proof.md through a real Pi-backed chat turn.
- Verified: Fresh workbench launched on port 6190; browser flow created project biology-evidence-map-2, opened frame session-20260705035324-621b20, streamed a chat turn, wrote outputs/e2e-workbench-proof.md, opened it in Files, inspected Preview and Provenance, ran a Bash notebook cell in verification mode, and saw the artifact provenance update with Feynman notebook version, verified execution row, claim row, and VERIFICATION ... pass.
- Gap: The artifact attaches to Workspace discovery and artifact provenance/history, but active Run and Project artifact counters stayed at 0; next fix is active frame/project artifact attachment for chat-written files.
- Next: Fix the Run/Project artifact attachment gap, then rerun the browser proof.

2026-07-05 00:04 EDT — reference-gap-manifest

- Objective: Stop one-gap-at-a-time discovery and create the full installed Claude Science reference-surface manifest required by the owner directive.
- Changed: Added outputs/.plans/claude-science-gap-manifest.md with screen chunks, migrations, Bio Tool domains/tools, license-deferred tools, skills, seed workflows, coarse status, and immediate next work.
- Verified: Generated directly from ~/.claude-science/runtime/0.1.15-dev.20260701.t220242.shaaa553de-release, including web-dist, drizzle/sqlite, mcp_bio/domains.json, mcp_bio/deferred.json, and skills, plus Feynman's local skills and fixtures/open-science-seeds. Manifest counts: 299 web assets, 112 JS chunks, 52 screen-like chunks, 96 migrations, 23 Bio Tool domains, 247 active Bio Tools, 14 license-deferred Bio Tools, 29 reference skills, and four seed workflow families.
- Next: Browser-prove the running workbench loop end to end before more connector breadth.

- Objective: Close the in-flight KEGG reference-tool gap while keeping the connector Feynman-owned, then return to the bulk-manifest/end-to-end directive.
- Changed: Added KEGG link:<targetDb> <ids> and conv:<targetDb> <ids> modes to feynman_science_database_search, including 10-id batching, two-column row normalization, operation/source/target/batch/request metadata, endpoint provenance, and missing-id reporting. Updated Pi prompt guidance, README, release notes, website homepage, website workbench guide, CLI command docs, command metadata, and parity trackers.
- Verified: Installed reference KEGG code and the official KEGG API manual were checked for /link, /conv, tab-delimited output, +-joined multi-entry calls, batching, request provenance, and missing-id behavior. Live Feynman tool smoke against real KEGG returned 58 pathway rows for link:pathway hsa:7157 hsa:672 and 2 NCBI GeneID conversion rows for conv:ncbi-geneid hsa:7157 hsa:672. Final gates passed: full npm test (555/555), root/workbench typecheck, website lint, website typecheck (0 errors), root build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website build (34 pages), architecture check with split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, and npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 389, shasum 1ae30d0843e83ff850251e58b7316875b0610b03).
- Next: Build the full reference-surface gap manifest and browser end-to-end proof before more connector breadth.

2026-07-04 23:41 EDT — OWNER DIRECTIVE: switch to bulk-port method

- Directive (supersedes prior "Next" lines): stop the one-connector-per-slice grind; it is too slow. Keep the standalone boundary exactly as-is (Feynman-owned code, no ~/.claude-science runtime dependency).
- Do this instead: (1) build ONE full reference-surface gap manifest — every screen (web-dist chunk names), all 94 drizzle migrations, all 247 bio-tools, all 29 skills, all seed workflows — marked done/stub/missing; (2) bulk-port remaining bio-tools/schema/previews by category in a single sweep (generate the tools from a table off their shared HTTP+dispatch shape, do not hand-write each), running the full gate ONCE at the end; (3) prove the whole app loop END-TO-END in the browser — create project → chat/stream run → produce artifact → open provenance/history → run a verification check — screenshotting each step and reporting what works in the running app vs only in tests.
- Priority: whole app loop working 1:1 end-to-end FIRST; specialist bio-tool long tail AFTER. Do not spend another slice on a single preview/connector format.
- Next: build the gap manifest, then run the first bulk-port sweep; record results here and in outputs/.plans/claude-science-1to1.md.

2026-07-04 23:34 EDT — panglaodb-marker-source

- Objective: Continue science-tool parity by porting PanglaoDB as a Feynman-owned no-login single-cell marker source instead of relying on the reference runtime.
- Changed: Added panglaodb to feynman_science_database_search, tool schema, runtime prompt context, Settings/Customize connector catalog, README, release notes, website homepage, website workbench guide, command metadata, and parity trackers. extensions/research-tools/science-database-panglaodb.ts now downloads or reads the frozen PanglaoDB marker TSV, checksum-verifies the gzip by default, parses marker rows, and supports cell:, markers:, gene:, synonym lookup, options, species, organ, canonical-marker, sensitivity, and specificity filters. The first implementation briefly pushed science-database-longtail.ts over the architecture split threshold, then was corrected by moving PanglaoDB into its own module.
- Verified: Installed reference panglaodb_markers code and public PanglaoDB marker pages were checked for TSV URL, checksum behavior, marker rows, options, reverse lookup, 8,286 associations, 178 cell types, 4,679 gene symbols, 29 tissues, and 27 Mar 2020 update. Live Feynman tool smoke returned 8286 total rows, 49 canonical human T-cell marker rows, and first returned genes BATF3, BRAF, and CCL20 from the real PanglaoDB gzip. Final gates passed: root/workbench typecheck, website lint, website typecheck (0 errors), root build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website build (34 pages), architecture check with split-debt warnings only and no new long-tail warning, git diff --check, full npm test (554/554), and npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 389, shasum 435760c36e61387ec964e2c1bcf8f917f34b020d).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference and seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-04 22:56 EDT — ketcher-sketch-format-preview

- Objective: Close the reference Ketcher format loop so Feynman-owned KET/RXN/CDXML chemistry artifacts created by chat tools open as first-class workbench science previews.
- Changed: Added .ket, .rxn, .cdxml, and .cxsmiles to the scanner previewable file table, content-type/language mapping, React artifact classifier, and molecule preview parser. KET previews now summarize Ketcher atom/bond nodes, RXN previews summarize reaction member molecules, CDXML previews summarize ChemDraw atom/bond nodes, and CXSMILES previews follow the SMILES parser. The RDKit preview now reports that Ketcher-only formats should open in Ketcher instead of attempting a bad RDKit parse, while the Ketcher editor receives raw KET/RXN/CDXML content. Updated README, release notes, website workbench docs, website release notes, command metadata, and parity trackers.
- Verified: Focused preview/editor/backend tests passed (24/24) for chemistry sketcher creation, KET/RXN/CDXML/CXSMILES classification and parsing, backend KET artifact edit/snapshot behavior, and React artifact helper contracts. Final gates passed: root/workbench typecheck, website lint, website typecheck (0 errors), root build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website build (34 pages), architecture check with split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full npm test (553/553), and npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 388, shasum 478d3f5a9ac51faf7aa31de749b3c20e64f4a6a3).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference and seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-04 19:42 EDT — ketcher-chemistry-sketcher

- Objective: Close the reference-app chemistry MCP gap where Feynman had Ketcher artifact editing but no chat-callable, Feynman-owned sketcher seed tool mirroring the reference open_sketcher shape.
- Changed: Added feynman_open_chemistry_sketcher in extensions/research-tools/chemistry-sketcher.ts. The tool accepts KET, RXN, Molfile, or SMILES seeds, prefers KET when present, writes an editable workspace artifact under outputs/chemistry-sketches/, and returns artifact path/format/mime metadata for the local Ketcher editor. The Customize connector catalog now marks Ketcher Chemistry as a configured built-in science workbench tool. Updated README, release notes, website workbench docs, website release notes, command metadata, and parity trackers.
- Verified: Installed reference Ketcher MCP server was inspected for its open_sketcher tool, UI resource, accepted seed formats, KET preference, save metadata, and supported extensions. Public Ketcher docs were checked for browser molecule/reaction editing and supported file formats. Final gates passed: focused chemistry/settings tests (6/6), root/workbench typecheck, website lint, website typecheck (0 errors), root build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website build (34 pages), architecture check with split-debt warnings only, full npm test (553/553), and npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 388, shasum d913c79d96722e1555335eff60bf067f645e43e7).
- Next: Run final git diff --check, then continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference and seed-workflow probes.

2026-07-04 09:18 PDT — org-database-reference-ledger-envelopes

- Objective: Close the remaining product-structure gap where Feynman's state coverage map had reference-shaped ledgers that were not yet physical tables in the owned org database.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/org-database-ledgers.ts and wired it into src/workbench/org-database.ts so ~/.feynman/orgs/<org_uuid>/feynman-workbench.db creates compact table envelopes for every remaining reference-shaped workbench ledger already owned in Feynman state. The envelope tables cover agents, bundled-agent settings, agent-skill assignments, custom skills/prompts, custom MCP servers/assignments, directory attachments, OAuth tokens, user secrets, Anthropic key rows, cloud credentials, setup decisions, marketplace rows, skill license assents, use-intent declarations, user agents, events, notifications, queued user messages, session seen marks, session concurrency, compaction archives, frame branch archives, frame system prompts, frame backfill poison, artifact dependencies, content snapshots, host grants, host call log, safety feedback, compute usage, compute pending terminations, poller leases, transcript annotations, and session claims. Updated README, release notes, website workbench docs, website release notes, and parity trackers.
- Verified: Focused org database tests passed (2/2) for physical table presence across the full reference coverage map, seeded event/session-claim rows, payload preservation, active-org database placement, and no .claude-science/operon-cli path coupling. Final gates passed: focused path/data-root/org-db/settings/resource tests (22/22), root/workbench typecheck, website lint, website typecheck (0 errors), root build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website build (34 pages), architecture check with split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full npm test (551/551), and npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 387, shasum 338b28e19ded8e1f1c9568ad1d4b91eca1df71f9).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference and seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-04 08:25 PDT — org-database-spine

- Objective: Close the product-structure gap where Feynman had an active org folder but no Feynman-owned org database mirror like the reference app's durable control-plane database.
- Changed: Added ~/.feynman/orgs/<org_uuid>/feynman-workbench.db via src/workbench/org-database.ts, with reference-shaped projects, frames, frame_messages, artifacts, artifact_versions, execution_log, verification_checks, memories, notes, annotations, frame_read_cursors, artifact_folders, compute_providers, mcp_tool_grants, memory_categories, routine_schedules, managed_endpoints, and capability_settings tables plus feynman_state_payloads for Feynman-specific fields. The served workbench refreshes the database from Feynman's own state. Updated README, release notes, website configuration/workbench docs, website release notes, and parity trackers to describe the owned org database.
- Verified: Focused extended org database tests passed (2/2) for schema metadata, table names, row counts, payload preservation, active-org database placement, extended control-plane rows, and no .claude-science/operon-cli path coupling. Final gates passed: focused path/data-root/org-db/settings/resource tests (22/22), root/workbench typecheck, website lint, website typecheck (0 errors), root build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full npm test (551/551), and npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 386, shasum 005f89772e47e7b2393d1647189f3b9d24d4b638).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference and seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-04 07:42 PDT — app-org-home-spine

- Objective: Close the product-structure gap where Feynman had a ~/.feynman home but did not yet mirror Claude Science's active-org/app-home spine.
- Changed: Added Feynman-owned active org support in src/config/paths.ts: ~/.feynman/active-org.json, ~/.feynman/orgs/<org_uuid>/, and preservation of existing reference-shaped org manifests. Moved default workbench app data from the previous home-level ~/.feynman/workbench/workspaces/<workspace-id>/ path into ~/.feynman/orgs/<org_uuid>/workbench/workspaces/<workspace-id>/, added per-workspace manifests plus an org-level workspaces.json index, and kept first-access migration from both legacy home-level workbench state and checkout-local .feynman/workbench records. Updated README, release notes, website configuration/workbench docs, website release notes, and parity trackers to describe the org-scoped home.
- Verified: Installed Claude Science home was checked for active-org.json and orgs/<org_uuid>/operon-cli.db. Focused path/data-root tests passed (14/14), broader path/settings/resource tests passed (19/19), and final gates passed: root/workbench typecheck, website lint, website typecheck (0 errors), root build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full npm test (548/548), and npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 385, shasum d787072c9f65f287ff5a94c811aafaf18d07b7ee).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference and seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-04 07:07 PDT — pubmed-workflow-parity

- Objective: Continue Claude Science 1:1 science-tool parity by replacing Feynman's shallow PubMed keyword search with a Feynman-owned adapter matching the reference PubMed MCP workflow modes.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-pubmed.ts with existing PubMed ESearch/ESummary search plus EFetch XML article metadata, PMC ID Converter PMID/PMCID/DOI conversion, ELink related articles and PMC links, Europe PMC-backed PMC full-text routing with bounded section snippets, PubMed/PMC copyright and license status, and ECitMatch citation lookup. Routed source: "pubmed" through the dedicated adapter, added focused tests, and updated README, website docs/homepage/release notes, CLI command docs, command metadata, Settings resources, runtime context, Pi tool prompt guidance, and parity trackers.
- Verified: Installed reference mcp_pubmed exposed search_articles, get_article_metadata, convert_article_ids, find_related_articles, get_full_text_article, get_copyright_status, and lookup_article_by_citation. Official NCBI E-utilities docs were checked for ESearch, ESummary, EFetch, ELink, and ECitMatch; official PMC ID Converter docs were checked for ids, idtype, PMID/PMCID/DOI conversion, and multi-ID behavior; Europe PMC REST docs were checked for search and /{id}/fullTextXML. Focused PubMed plus shared science database tests passed (7/7); a stale workbench prompt assertion was updated to protect the richer PubMed mode list and its focused context test passed (5/5). Final gates passed: root typecheck, website lint, website typecheck (0 errors), root build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full npm test (543/543), and npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 385, shasum 66d927c9f6d7cfd150d976c7edb61d4654e59938).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference and seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-04 06:25 PDT — chembl-molecular-pharmacology-parity

- Objective: Continue Claude Science 1:1 science-tool parity by replacing Feynman's shallow ChEMBL molecule/target/assay search with a Feynman-owned adapter matching the reference chemistry MCP modes.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-chembl.ts with legacy ChEMBL entity search plus compound name search, SMILES similarity/substructure search, drug indication and warning lookup, calculated ADMET properties, ligand-target bioactivity filters, mechanism records, and target/gene/organism filters. Routed source: "chembl" through the dedicated adapter, added focused tests, and updated README, website docs/homepage/release notes, CLI command docs, command metadata, Settings resources, workbench runtime context, Pi tool prompt guidance, and parity trackers.
- Verified: Installed reference mcp_chembl exposed compound_search, drug_search, get_admet, get_bioactivity, get_mechanism, and target_search. Public ChEMBL web-service docs were checked for molecule, drug indication, drug warning, mechanism, target, activity, similarity, substructure, filter syntax, only, and order_by support. Focused tests passed (7/7). Live smokes returned imatinib CHEMBL941, ADMET properties for CHEMBL941, ABL1 bioactivity against CHEMBL1862 with IC50=38nM and pChEMBL=7.42, mechanism id 304 with action type INHIBITOR, leukemia drug indication row for CHEMBL1096882 with black-box warning summaries, and target CHEMBL1862 with gene symbol ABL1. Final gates passed: root typecheck, website lint, website typecheck (0 errors), root build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only after splitting the ChEMBL regression into tests/science-database-chembl.test.ts, git diff --check, full npm test (542/542), and npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 383, shasum 1c8377d30cb37b09b5a65c4f642953b984bd7017).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference and seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-04 06:00 PDT — openfda-drugsfda-parity

- Objective: Continue Claude Science 1:1 science-tool parity by replacing Feynman's shallow openFDA label/event/recall search with a Feynman-owned adapter matching the reference drug-regulatory MCP modes.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-openfda.ts with FDA label, adverse-event, recall, structured label filter, Drugs@FDA application detail/search, application count, statistics, pharmacologic-class, and generic-equivalent active-ingredient-set modes. Routed source: "openfda" through the dedicated adapter, added focused tests, and updated README, website docs/homepage/release notes, CLI command docs, command metadata, Pi tool prompt guidance, and parity trackers.
- Verified: Installed reference mcp_drug_regulatory exposed search_drug_applications, get_drug_application, count_drug_applications, get_drug_statistics, list_pharmacologic_classes, get_generic_equivalents, and search_drug_labels. Public openFDA Drugs@FDA and label docs were checked for application/product/submission/openfda sections, searchable fields, query syntax, and {term,count} aggregation rows. Focused tests passed (16/16). Live smokes returned application NDA020503, Keytruda application BLA125514, Keytruda sponsor count MERCK SHARP DOHME, pharmacologic class Corticosteroid Hormone Receptor Agonists [MoA], Advil generic-equivalent active-ingredient sets, and Tylenol oral-label row 015a6179-bacb-452d-b594-4de628ddc11d. Final gates passed: focused science tests (16/16), root typecheck, website lint, website typecheck (0 errors), root build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full npm test (541/541), and npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 382, shasum 839239dd94e224603913471ae6fabe9f007ed584).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference and seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-04 04:31 PDT — clinical-trials-parity

- Objective: Continue Claude Science 1:1 science-tool parity by replacing Feynman's shallow ClinicalTrials.gov search with a Feynman-owned adapter matching the reference clinical-trials MCP modes.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-clinical-trials.ts with general study search, direct NCT details, sponsor-specific programs, eligibility filters with ClinicalTrials.gov age-unit normalization, investigator/contact discovery from overall officials, responsible parties, and site contacts, and endpoint summaries across trial outcome measures. Routed source: "clinicaltrials" through the dedicated adapter, added focused tests, and updated README, website docs/homepage/release notes, CLI command docs, command metadata, Pi tool prompt guidance, and parity trackers.
- Verified: Installed reference mcp_clinical_trials exposed analyze_endpoints, get_trial_details, search_by_eligibility, search_by_sponsor, search_investigators, and search_trials. Public ClinicalTrials.gov v2 endpoints were checked for /studies, /studies/{nctId}, query., filter., fields, countTotal, and /version. Focused tests passed (11/11). Live smokes returned detail record NCT04280705, melanoma eligibility rows with brain-metastases criteria, phase-3 melanoma endpoint summaries, Merck sponsor rows (totalCount: 9), and Rosenberg investigator rows from overallOfficials. Final gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full npm test (536/536), and npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 381, shasum 002ff0af57cbfcc8d9c56409dccf15a02d84a3ce).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference and seed-workflow probes.

2026-07-04 02:17 PDT — app-data-root

- Objective: Close the product-structure gap where Feynman had a home ~/.feynman folder but still treated checkout-local .feynman/workbench as the primary app state store.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/data-root.ts with deterministic per-workspace app data roots under ~/.feynman/workbench/workspaces/<workspace-id>/, legacy .feynman/workbench migration on first access, and shared stored-path resolution. Moved workbench settings, chat sessions, uploads, memory, artifact annotations/actions/trash, transcript annotations, safety feedback, read cursors, onboarding profile, project rows, OAuth token/pending stores, notebook execution logs, environment action logs, managed Python/R environment roots, Modal CLI/job paths, artifact snapshots, cloud-export logs, compute pending-terminate rows, endpoint timestamp probes, Pi-side connector/context settings readers, and Settings/Storage resource cards onto the shared app-data root. Research artifacts still remain in outputs/, papers/, and notes/.
- Verified: Focused app-data/workbench regression passed (59/59) after moving stale fixtures to the app-data root and canonicalizing symlinked workspace paths. Final gates passed: root typecheck, root build, website lint, website typecheck (0 errors), website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full npm test (530/530), and npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 379, shasum e90b924e32a5668fb061674e536be180fb9a1e40).
- Next: Continue remaining Claude Science parity gaps from the current reference/seed probes.

2026-07-04 01:58 PDT — zinc-source

- Objective: Continue science-tool parity by turning the existing ZINC Settings preset into an executable Feynman-owned CartBlanche22/ZINC source instead of a reference-shaped placeholder.
- Changed: Added zinc to feynman_science_database_search. The source submits form-encoded CartBlanche22 tasks, polls /search/result/<task>, caps response reads, canonicalizes short ZINC IDs, supports ZINC ID lookup, SMILES exact/analog search with dist/adist, supplier catalog-code lookup, random screening-set samples, and 3D tranche-location metadata when current records expose a tranche code. Settings/Customize now marks ZINC as a configured built-in Feynman Bio Tools source, and the Pi prompt context, README, release notes, website homepage, website workbench guide, website release docs, and parity trackers describe the owned ZINC path.
- Verified: The installed reference mcp_zinc module, public ZINC/CartBlanche search pages, and live CartBlanche submit/poll behavior were checked. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (17/17). Live Feynman adapter smoke for id:ZINC12 returned ZINC000000000012, one zinc20 record, SMILES O=C(CS@@C(c1ccccc1)c1ccccc1)NO, 75 supplier catalog rows, source counts, and tranche properties. Final gates passed: root typecheck, website lint, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, full npm test (530/530), git diff --check, public product/source reference-leakage scan, stale wording scan, and npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 378, shasum 670050ec1f7595b7094d0429f91f18205046e866).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference and seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-04 01:26 PDT — europepmc-fulltext

- Objective: Continue science-tool parity by porting the Claude Science-shaped Europe PMC full-text path into Feynman's owned feynman_science_database_search tool instead of relying on the reference runtime.
- Changed: Added Europe PMC full-text mode behind the existing europepmc source. Queries such as fulltext:PMC5815332, pmid:29456894, fulltext pmid=..., and supported article URLs now resolve availability through Europe PMC /search with resultType=core, fetch /{PMCID}/fullTextXML only for open-access PMCID records, extract title, abstract, section inventory, bounded section snippets, figure/table captions, and reference counts, and report explicit retrieved, not_open_access, no_pmcid, xml_not_available, not_found, invalid_id, or not_processed statuses without returning raw XML. Updated tool prompts, runtime context, Settings/Customize resource copy, README, release notes, website homepage, website workbench guide, website release docs, and parity trackers.
- Verified: The installed reference europepmc_fulltext module, Europe PMC RESTful API docs, and rOpenSci Europe PMC docs were checked for PMCID/PMID availability, Open Access full-text XML, section extraction, and non-OA behavior. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (18/18). Live Feynman adapter smokes returned retrieved for fulltext:PMC5815332 and pmid:29456894, resolved PMID 29456894 to PMCID PMC5815332, extracted 6 sections, 6 figures, 3 tables, and 52 references, and preserved /search plus /fullTextXML endpoint provenance. Final gates passed: root typecheck, website lint, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full test suite (528/528), npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 377, shasum b5a9c25f963cd072d0c7149c3a34f79f91706bfe), public product/source reference-leakage scan, and stale-gate wording scan.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-04 01:01 PDT — unibind-source

- Objective: Continue science-tool parity by porting UniBind as a Feynman-owned no-login direct TF-DNA interaction and TFBS region source instead of relying on the reference runtime.
- Changed: Added unibind to the feynman_science_database_search adapter, tool schema, runtime prompt context, Settings/Customize connector catalog, README, release notes, website homepage, website workbench guide, website release docs, and parity trackers. UniBind now searches TF/cell-line/JASPAR datasets, resolves exact dataset detail/model rows with BED/FASTA/plot URLs, and fetches bounded UCSC hub-backed TFBS region rows for Robust or Permissive collections while preserving source endpoints and hub URLs.
- Verified: The installed reference module, UniBind public genome-track documentation, and UCSC REST API contract were checked for dataset/detail/hub-region behavior. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (24/24). Live tool smoke returned 968 CTCF datasets, exact CTCF dataset ENCSR000AUE.A549_lung_carcinoma.CTCF with 57900 peaks and one DAMO model, and a Robust hg38 chr17:7661779-7687546 GATA3 region scan with 1949 TFBS rows scanned, 18 GATA3 rows, and first row ENCSR000EWS_MCF-7_GATA3_MA0037.3. Final gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full test suite (525/525), npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 376, shasum 232a6e80233c0b6a93dc52520c6bedb09942bc16), and public product/source reference-leakage scan.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-04 00:42 PDT — openalex-source

- Objective: Continue science-tool parity by porting OpenAlex as a Feynman-owned credential-aware literature/citation-graph source instead of relying on the reference runtime.
- Changed: Added openalex to the feynman_science_database_search adapter, tool schema, runtime prompt context, Settings/Customize connector catalog, README, release notes, website homepage, website workbench guide, website release docs, and parity trackers. OpenAlex now searches works, resolves W-id and DOI work detail through the DOI claimant filter route, returns incoming citations and outgoing references, searches and resolves authors and sources/venues, reports open-access status, reconstructs abstracts only for declared open licenses, redacts API keys from provenance/errors, and returns structured openalex_key_required rate-limit diagnostics when OPENALEX_API_KEY is missing.
- Verified: Official OpenAlex docs and installed reference modules were checked for works/authors/sources, API-key/rate-limit, citation/reference traversal, DOI claimant resolution, and source/author ID contracts. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (24/24). Live no-key tool smoke returned W3161425918 for CRISPR base editing, W2064815984 detail and DOI-filter resolution for 10.1126/science.1231143, 15549 incoming citations, 32 outgoing references, author A5067184382 for Jennifer Doudna search, source S106963461 for Nature Biotechnology, and structured openalex_key_required for rate-limit. Final gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full test suite (524/524), npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 375, shasum bea248aa0664c8325ddf75002779b8137c4cfa52), public-doc reference leakage scan, and stale-gate wording scan.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-04 00:23 PDT — intake-sweep-clean-queue

- Objective: Run the check-new-issues intake sweep against live GitHub/package/runtime state while preserving the dirty workbench/science-tools tree.
- Checked: Local main is still two commits ahead of origin/main with the existing dirty workbench/science-tools changes preserved. Live GitHub has open issues #184 and #182, zero open PRs, latest main workflow run Publish and Release 28343487961 succeeded at cb5fa56, latest GitHub release is v0.3.5 with four native assets, npm latest is @companion-ai/[email protected], bundled Pi latest/current is 0.80.3, and @companion-ai/alpha-hub remains 0.1.3.
- Decisions: #184 remains a support/research-topic issue outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar. #182 remains deferred/externally blocked absent a fresh Feynman-owned repro; the current package still delegates alpha login/status through alpha-hub. No open PRs existed. Contributor branch origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning remains already absorbed by local warning behavior and tests; other contributor branches were rejected/deferred as admin/export/provider/platform churn rather than core research-loop fixes.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, full npm test (523/523), git diff --check, root and website npm audit --omit=dev, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 375, shasum d0919d30bb22de57f0a388d290ebe00aa1b8f944), actual temp tarball pack, and disposable installed-tarball smoke for feynman --version, feynman --help, and feynman alpha status passed.
- Next: Keep #184 as manual GitHub support if desired; keep #182 deferred until alphaXiv/Clerk/alpha-hub behavior changes or a new local repro points at Feynman code.

2026-07-04 00:09 PDT — antibody-registry-source

- Objective: Continue science-tool parity by porting Antibody Registry as a Feynman-owned no-login reagent/RRID source instead of relying on the reference runtime.
- Changed: Added antibodyregistry to the feynman_science_database_search adapter, tool schema, runtime prompt context, Settings/Customize connector catalog, README, release notes, website homepage, website workbench guide, website release docs, and parity trackers. Antibody Registry now searches antibody RRIDs, resolves AB/RRID detail records, performs catalog-number lookup with vendor filtering, lists vendors, and returns registry statistics with endpoint provenance.
- Verified: Installed reference modules, Antibody Registry public pages/OpenAPI, RRID guidance, and live Antibody Registry service behavior were checked for FTS search, detail, catalog, vendor, and stats contracts. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (35/35). Live tool-level smoke returned TP53 RRID:AB_3717446, AB_330944 detail, catalog 9205 as RRID:AB_330944, vendor rows from 5814 registered vendors, and registry stats of 3186152 antibodies with last update 2026-07-03. Final gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full test suite (523/523), npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 374, shasum f9c91eb2d9e9fa68d93ba752ac7ddb149022f2ed), public-doc reference leakage scan, and stale-gate wording scan.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 23:26 PDT — cellguide-source

- Objective: Continue science-tool parity by porting CellGuide as a Feynman-owned no-login cell-type source instead of relying on the reference runtime.
- Changed: Added cellguide to the feynman_science_database_search adapter, tool schema, runtime prompt context, Settings/Customize connector catalog, README, release notes, website homepage, website workbench guide, website release docs, and parity trackers. CellGuide now searches Cell Ontology cell types, resolves CL ids, returns validated descriptions, computational and canonical marker genes, tissue occurrence rows, and CELLxGENE source collections with snapshot and endpoint provenance.
- Verified: Installed reference modules, the public CellGuide surface, public marker-gene docs, and live CellGuide service behavior were checked for snapshot, metadata, marker, source-collection, and tissue-mapping contracts. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (34/34). Live tool-level smoke returned T cell CL:0000084, CellGuide snapshot 1764612212, computational/canonical marker rows, 165 source collections, and 56 tissue mappings from the public CellGuide service. Final gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full test suite (522/522), npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 373, shasum faf45078c3f655672662287aa0e501876137bbf0), public-doc reference leakage scan, and stale-gate wording scan.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 23:16 PDT — ucsc-source

- Objective: Continue science-tool parity by porting UCSC Genome Browser as a Feynman-owned no-login genomics source instead of relying on the reference runtime.
- Changed: Added ucsc to the feynman_science_database_search adapter, tool schema, runtime prompt context, Settings/Customize connector catalog, README, release notes, website homepage, website workbench guide, website release docs, and parity trackers. UCSC now lists assemblies, searches track metadata, returns chromosome sizes, fetches bounded genomic region track rows while preserving UCSC truncation state, computes conservation score summaries, and exposes ENCODE TFBS cluster rows with endpoint provenance.
- Verified: Official UCSC REST API docs, installed reference modules, and live UCSC service behavior were checked for assembly, track search, chromosome-size, bounded track-data, conservation, and TFBS-cluster contracts. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (33/33). Live tool-level smoke returned hg38 chr17 size 83257441, TP53 knownGene rows with UCSC truncation flagged, phyloP100way conservation scores over chr17:7676150-7676170, and ClinVar track-search metadata from the UCSC REST API. Final gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full test suite (521/521), npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 373), public-doc reference leakage scan, and stale-gate wording scan.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 22:50 PDT — metabolights-source

- Objective: Continue science-tool parity by porting MetaboLights as a Feynman-owned no-login metabolomics source instead of relying on the reference runtime.
- Changed: Added metabolights to the long-tail feynman_science_database_search adapter, tool schema, runtime prompt context, Settings/Customize connector catalog, README, release notes, website homepage, website workbench guide, website release docs, and parity trackers. MetaboLights now lists public MTBLS study accessions, fetches public study metadata, returns study-folder file listings, and supports public data-file listings by accession/pattern with endpoint provenance.
- Verified: Official MetaboLights public pages and the EBI MetaboLights utility surface were checked for repository scope, public study listing, metadata/file usage, and ISA-Tab public-study workflows. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (32/32). Live tool-level smoke returned MTBLS1 study metadata, MTBLS1 folder listings, a valid empty public *.mzML data-file listing, and public accession list metadata from the EBI MetaboLights service. Final gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full test suite (520/520), npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 372), public-doc reference leakage scan, and stale-gate wording scan.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 22:32 PDT — biomart-source

- Objective: Continue science-tool parity by turning the existing BioMart Settings preset into an executable Feynman-owned no-login source instead of a reference-shaped placeholder.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-biomart.ts and routed biomart through feynman_science_database_search. BioMart now lists Ensembl mart registry rows, datasets, common/all attributes, filters, and constrained gene/data table rows with BioMart completion-stamp checks and endpoint provenance. Updated the tool schema, runtime prompt context, Settings/Customize connector catalog, README, release notes, website homepage, website workbench guide, website release docs, and parity trackers.
- Verified: Installed reference modules and live Ensembl martservice probes were checked for registry, dataset, attribute/filter, and TSV data-query contracts. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (31/31). Live tool-level smoke returned TP53 as ENSG00000141510 plus registry row ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL. Final gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full test suite (519/519), npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 372), public-doc reference leakage scan, and stale-gate wording scan.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 21:59 PDT — gwas-catalog-source

- Objective: Continue science-tool parity by porting a stable no-login human-genetics source from the reference bio-tool surface while keeping Feynman Bio Tools standalone.
- Changed: Added gwascatalog to extensions/research-tools/science-database-public-atlases.ts and routed it through feynman_science_database_search. GWAS Catalog now returns curated association rows by rsID, mapped gene, EFO id, or EFO trait; trait rows by text search; and study rows by GCST accession or PubMed id. Updated the tool schema, workbench runtime prompt guidance, Settings/Customize connector catalog, README, release notes, website homepage, website workbench guide, website release docs, and parity trackers.
- Verified: Official/public docs and the installed reference module were checked for the GWAS Catalog v2 REST API surface. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (23/23). Live tool-level smoke returned one record each from GWAS association search (101326235), GWAS trait search (MONDO_0956975), and GWAS PMID study search (GCST90103431). Final gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full test suite (517/517), npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 371), public-doc reference leakage scan, and stale-gate wording scan.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 21:11 PDT — public-atlas-regulatory-sources

- Objective: Continue science-tool parity by adding more stable no-login public sources from the reference bio-tool surface while keeping Feynman Bio Tools fully Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-public-atlases.ts and routed openfda, proteinatlas, and eqtlcatalogue through feynman_science_database_search. openFDA returns drug label, adverse-event, and recall/enforcement records; Human Protein Atlas returns gene, synonym, Ensembl, UniProt, and tissue-expression fields; eQTL Catalogue returns v3 association, study, and dataset rows. Updated the tool schema, workbench runtime prompt guidance, Settings/Customize connector catalog, README, release notes, website homepage, website workbench guide, website release docs, and parity trackers.
- Verified: Official/public docs were checked for openFDA, Human Protein Atlas, and eQTL Catalogue API surfaces. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (21/21). Live tool-level smoke returned one record each from openFDA (008ee85b-5cac-45a6-a857-a828f8125175), Human Protein Atlas (ENSG00000141510), and eQTL Catalogue (chr17_6690037_T_G). Final gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full test suite (515/515), npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 371), public-doc reference leakage scan, and stale-gate wording scan.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 20:25 PDT — ebi-structural-interactions-sources

- Objective: Continue science-tool parity by adding more no-login public EBI sources from the installed reference bio-tool catalog while keeping Feynman Bio Tools standalone.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-ebi-structural.ts and routed chebi, complexportal, intact, and emdb through feynman_science_database_search. ChEBI returns compound accessions, formula/mass/structure identifiers, synonyms, and ontology detail records; Complex Portal returns CPX accessions, species, participant accessions, and complex metadata; IntAct returns interaction accessions, participants, MI scores, detection methods, and PubMed evidence; EMDB returns cryo-EM map accessions, resolution, fitted PDB ids, release dates, and map metadata. Updated the tool schema, runtime prompt guidance, Settings/Customize connector catalog, README, release notes, website homepage, website workbench guide, website release docs, and parity trackers.
- Verified: Official/public docs were checked for IntAct, ChEBI, EMDB, and Complex Portal API surfaces. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (18/18). Live tool-level smoke returned one record each from ChEBI (CHEBI:759292), Complex Portal (CPX-6093), IntAct (EBI-1562402), and EMDB (EMD-77042). Final gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full test suite (512/512), npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 370), public-doc reference leakage scan, and stale-gate wording scan.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 19:56 PDT — reference-longtail-science-sources

- Objective: Continue Claude Science science-tool parity by adding concrete no-login public sources from the installed reference bio-tool catalog while keeping the runtime Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-longtail.ts and routed alphafold, arrayexpress, jaspar, mgnify, and mygene through the existing feynman_science_database_search tool. AlphaFold DB returns UniProt-linked predicted structure records and PDB/CIF/PAE links; ArrayExpress/BioStudies returns migrated functional-genomics studies; JASPAR returns transcription-factor matrix records; MGnify returns metagenomics study/biome/ENA metadata; MyGene.info returns gene annotation ids and summaries. Updated the tool schema, Pi prompt guidance, runtime context, Settings/Customize connector catalog, README, release notes, website homepage, website workbench guide, and parity trackers.
- Verified: Official/public docs were checked for AlphaFold DB API access, JASPAR API, MyGene query service, BioStudies/ArrayExpress migration/API, and MGnify REST API. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (14/14). Live tool-level smoke returned one record each from AlphaFold DB (AF-P05067-F1), ArrayExpress/BioStudies (E-GEOD-17155), JASPAR (MA0106.1), MGnify (MGYS00006825), and MyGene.info (TP53). Final gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, full test suite (508/508), npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 369), git diff --check, public-doc reference leakage scan, and stale-gate wording scan. GWAS Catalog was deferred in that slice because the first endpoint probes returned 404/406 before the later v2 contract check.
- Next: Keep looking for concrete remaining no-login reference sources or specialist workflow gaps. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 19:12 PDT — reference-artifact-viewer-parity

- Objective: Close the reference bundle's remaining media/document artifact viewer gap while keeping previews implemented in Feynman-owned React code.
- Changed: Expanded artifact kind classification and workbench previews for audio, video, XLSX spreadsheets, Jupyter notebooks, and LaTeX/TeX files. Spreadsheet previews parse bounded workbook sheets with JSZip plus fast-xml-parser; notebook previews summarize kernels, cells, outputs, and source snippets; LaTeX previews summarize sections, equations, citations, labels, bibliography commands, and source. Added a shared text-preview fetch policy so binary/media/XLSX panes use download or media URLs instead of the text preview endpoint. Updated scan/file-type handling, React artifact inspector components, preview styling, source tests, README, release notes, website docs, and parity trackers.
- Verified: The installed reference bundle was checked for separate audio, video, spreadsheet, notebook, and LaTeX preview chunk names. Focused React/source tests passed (18/18) for preview classification, fetch policy, parsers, and source/CSS ownership. Rendered browser smoke in a disposable workspace opened XLSX, IPYNB, LaTeX, audio, and video artifacts with zero overflow, zero console errors, and zero failed responses; screenshots were written under outputs/playwright/feynman-artifact-preview-*.png. Final gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, full test suite (505/505), npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 368), git diff --check, public-doc reference leakage scan, and stale-gate wording scan.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference or seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 18:13 PDT — frame-backfill-poison-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science frame_backfill_poison structural gap while keeping Feynman's default state honest when no frame backfill failures exist.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/frame-backfill-poison.ts, expanded workbench ledger/state types with frameBackfillPoison, and expose frame-scoped backfill health rows through /api/state. The ledger reads Feynman's own .feynman/workbench/frame-backfill-poison.json when present, accepts both reference-shaped snake-case and Feynman camel-case fields, filters rows to live frame ids, and returns an empty array for clean workspaces. Added tests/workbench-reference-table-coverage.test.ts so every audited reference table maps to a Feynman-owned WorkbenchState key. Updated README, release notes, website homepage copy, website release notes, the Science Workbench guide, and parity trackers to mention frame backfill health records.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB and migration were checked for frame_backfill_poison; the local reference table currently has zero rows and defines frame_id, fail_count, terminal, reason, and updated_at. Focused frame/workbench tests passed (27/27) for persisted row normalization, live-frame filtering, empty API default, and existing frame/frame-message behavior; focused reference-table coverage tests passed (3/3). Final gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, full test suite (504/504), npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 368, including dist/workbench/frame-backfill-poison.js), and git diff --check.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference or seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 17:40 PDT — project-metadata-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science projects metadata gap while keeping Feynman's project rows derived from owned workspace project, run, artifact, and upload-frame state.
- Changed: Expanded WorkbenchProject and project derivation with local user id, upload-frame id linkage, context, memory-enabled state, created timestamps, updated timestamps, run slugs, artifact paths, session counts, and artifact counts. Custom project context now appears as reference-shaped project context while the chat prompt still reads the stored Feynman project file. Updated README, release notes, website homepage copy, website release notes, the Science Workbench guide, and the parity trackers to mention project metadata and upload-frame linkage.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for projects; local reference rows expose id, name, description, context, created/updated timestamps, user id, uploads frame id, and memory-enabled state. Focused project/frame/React tests passed (27/27) for project metadata, upload-frame linkage, created timestamps, custom project context, and typed React fixtures. Full gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, full test suite (503/503), npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 367), and git diff --check.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference or seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 17:14 PDT — frames-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science frames structural gap while keeping Feynman's frame spine derived from owned projects, chat sessions, artifact runs, and upload areas.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/frames.ts, expanded workbench ledger/state types with frames, and expose first-class frame rows through /api/state. Rows include root/parent frame identity, project id, agent/delegate names, conversation type, status, bounded input/output/context JSON, model and compute settings, artifact references, timestamps, root sequence, and source ownership. Updated README, release notes, website homepage copy, website release notes, the Science Workbench guide, and the parity trackers to mention frame records.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for frames; the local reference DB exposes agent and uploads conversation types with parent/root ids, project ids, agent/delegate names, task summaries, hidden flags, root sequence, token/cost columns, and timestamps. Focused frame/workbench tests passed (27/27) for session-derived frames, artifact-run frames, upload frames, structured JSON payloads, frame-message linkage, and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, website npm --prefix website run typecheck, npm run build, website npm --prefix website run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (503/503), and npm pack --dry-run --json (366 files, including dist/workbench/frames.js).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference or seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 16:18 PDT — frame-messages-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science frame_messages structural gap while keeping Feynman's chat transcript state derived from owned workbench session files.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/frame-messages.ts, expanded workbench ledger/state types with frameMessages, and expose one row per persisted chat turn through /api/state. Rows include frame id, message index, structured message JSON with _uuid, role, text content, status, creation timestamp, Feynman message metadata, and bounded tool-event payloads. Updated README, release notes, website homepage copy, website release notes, the Science Workbench guide, and the parity trackers to mention frame message rows.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for frame_messages; the local reference DB currently has 592 rows and stores frame_id, idx, and JSON msg_json with _uuid, role, and content blocks. Focused frame-message/workbench tests passed (25/25) for direct state derivation, structured JSON shape, tool-event payloads, and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, website npm --prefix website run typecheck, npm run build, website npm --prefix website run build, npm run architecture:check, full npm test (501/501), and npm pack --dry-run --json (365 files, including dist/workbench/frame-messages.js).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference or seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 15:52 PDT — safety-feedback-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science safety_feedback structural gap while keeping Feynman's review-feedback state tied to owned review requests and bounded context.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/safety-feedback.ts, expanded workbench ledger/state types with safetyFeedback, and record one review feedback row per frame/user/type when the existing workbench Request review action runs. Rows include root frame id, local user id, feedback type, optional model, reviewer response id, reason, bounded context snapshot, creation timestamp, and review-request source. Updated README, release notes, website homepage copy, website release notes, the Science Workbench guide, and the parity trackers to mention review feedback rows.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB and migration were checked for safety_feedback; the local reference table currently has zero rows. Focused safety-feedback/review tests passed (3/3) for direct review requests, uniqueness by frame/user/type, bounded context snapshots, secret scan assertions, and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, website npm --prefix website run typecheck, npm run build, website npm --prefix website run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (499/499), and npm pack --dry-run --json (364 files, including dist/workbench/safety-feedback.js).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference or seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 15:23 PDT — poller-lease-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science poller_lease structural gap while keeping Feynman's compute polling state truthful and derived from owned runtime state.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/poller-leases.ts, expanded workbench ledger/state types with pollerLeases, and derive provider * compute-polling lease rows from active compute jobs and pending compute termination records. Updated README, release notes, website homepage copy, website release notes, the Science Workbench guide, and the parity trackers to mention compute poller lease rows.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB and migration were checked for poller_lease; the local reference DB currently has one provider * lease row. Focused compute lifecycle tests passed (2/2) for active local compute and pending Modal termination lease exposure. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, website npm --prefix website run typecheck, npm run build, website npm --prefix website run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (497/497), and npm pack --dry-run --json (363 files, including dist/workbench/poller-leases.js).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference or seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 14:58 PDT — setup-decisions-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science contact_email_decisions and credential_ask_decisions structural gap while keeping Feynman's setup state standalone and secret-safe.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/setup-decision-ledgers.ts, expanded workbench ledger/state types with contactEmailDecisions and credentialAskDecisions, and derive public scientific API contact-email consent from NCBI_EMAIL/ENTREZ_EMAIL/CROSSREF_MAILTO plus provider credential readiness from Feynman's redacted settings/env/Pi-auth credential records. Updated README, release notes, website homepage copy, website release notes, the Science Workbench guide, and the parity trackers to mention setup decision rows.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB and migrations were checked for contact_email_decisions and credential_ask_decisions; both local reference tables currently have zero rows. Focused setup decision tests passed (2/2) for direct state, authenticated /api/state exposure, contact-email de-duplication, accepted/pending credential decisions, and secret-redaction assertions. Final gates passed: focused regression bundle (5/5), npm run typecheck, website npm --prefix website run typecheck, npm run build, website npm --prefix website run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (497/497), and npm pack --dry-run --json (362 files, including dist/workbench/setup-decision-ledgers.js).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference or seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 14:27 PDT — routine-schedules-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science routine_schedules structural gap while preserving Feynman's honest /watch contract: a recurring routine exists only when scheduling tooling is actually available.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/routine-schedules.ts, expanded workbench ledger/state types with routineSchedules, and derive watch routine rows from durable outputs/.plans/<slug>.md watch plans plus outputs/<slug>-baseline.md baselines. Rows include root frame id, owner, label, JSON tick payload, cadence, enabled/blocked state, next due timestamp, last baseline result, and plan/baseline paths. Updated README, release notes, website homepage copy, website release notes, and the Science Workbench guide to mention watch routine state.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB and migration were checked for routine_schedules; the local reference table currently has zero rows. Focused routine schedule tests passed (2/2) for direct state and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, website npm --prefix website run typecheck, npm run build, website npm --prefix website run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (495/495), and npm pack --dry-run --json (361 files, including dist/workbench/routine-schedules.js).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference or seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 13:59 PDT — skill-source-license-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science marketplace_sources and skill_license_assents structural gap while keeping Feynman's skill catalog Feynman-owned and local.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/marketplace-ledgers.ts, expanded workbench ledger/state types with marketplaceSources and skillLicenseAssents, and derive a pinned Feynman Science Skill Pack source plus per-skill license-assent rows from Feynman's local skills//SKILL.md catalog and package license. Updated README, release notes, website homepage copy, website release notes, and the Science Workbench guide to mention skill source/license state without introducing an external marketplace runtime dependency.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB and migrations were checked for marketplace_sources and skill_license_assents. Focused skill-ledger tests passed (2/2) for direct state and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, website npm --prefix website run typecheck, npm run build, website npm --prefix website run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (493/493), and npm pack --dry-run --json (360 files, including dist/workbench/marketplace-ledgers.js).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference or seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 13:27 PDT — use-intent-and-docs-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science use_intent_declarations structural gap and make the public README/website/docs describe the standalone Feynman science workbench rather than only the terminal CLI.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/use-intent-declarations.ts, expanded workbench ledger/state types with useIntentDeclarations, and derive onboarding-backed intent rows for field, goal, workflow, task, specialist, compute default, tools, bottlenecks, permissions, Feynman Bio Tools connector suggestions, and seed workflow suggestions. Updated the root README, RELEASES.md, website homepage, website command reference, setup/quickstart/install docs, release docs, docs sidebar, and a new Science Workbench guide to describe feynman serve, Feynman Bio Tools, redacted credential availability, onboarding intent context, and the standalone no-reference-runtime boundary.
- Verified: Focused workbench new-session and secret-ledger tests passed (11/11) after the use-intent implementation. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, website npm --prefix website run typecheck, npm run build, website npm --prefix website run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (493/493), and npm pack --dry-run --json (359 files). Rendered website smoke captured outputs/playwright/feynman-website-workbench-docs.png and outputs/playwright/feynman-website-home-mobile.png; the built HTML contains the new workbench route, sidebar link, feynman serve command reference, Feynman Bio Tools copy, standalone boundary text, and corrected Node engine range.
- Next: Finish the gate sweep and then continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps found by reference or seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 06:32 PDT — session-activity-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science events/notifications/queued_user_messages/session_seen_marks structural gap while keeping the activity ledger Feynman-owned and research-scoped.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/session-activity.ts, src/workbench/summary.ts, state arrays for events, notifications, queuedUserMessages, sessionSeenMarks, and sessionActivity, plus summary counters for activity, notifications, queued messages, and unread activity. The launcher Research queue now surfaces unread/queued/running/failed session activity alongside plan and compute cards.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for the reference tables, and the local reference bundle was checked for queued-user-message and notification rendering paths. Focused session-activity/read-cursor/React-source tests passed. Fresh-server API smoke returned 15 events, 13 notifications, 0 queued user messages, 1 seen mark, and 25 session activity items. Browser smoke rendered five visible Unread session activity cards, zero console errors, zero failed responses, and no horizontal overflow (1440/1440, queue 1074/1074). Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (464/464), and npm pack --dry-run (331 files).
- Next: Continue only on the next concrete 1:1 parity gap from reference or seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 06:12 PDT — session-claims-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science session_claims/verification-check claim-linkage gap while keeping the claim ledger Feynman-owned and research-scoped.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/claims.ts, state.claims, summary.claimCount, deterministic claimIds on verification checks, artifact metadata claim export, and a Claims section in the artifact Provenance tab. Explicit Claim:, Finding:, Conclusion:, and Verified: markers in research Markdown become structured claim records, and verification checks merge into the same ledger.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for session_claims and verification-check claim linkage. Focused claim/state/UI tests passed. Fresh-server API smoke returned 10 claims, 10 checks, and summary.claimCount: 10. Browser smoke opened outputs/reference-audit/verification-matrix.md, rendered two Claims rows with zero console errors, zero failed responses, and no horizontal overflow (1440/1440, panel 432/432). Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (463/463), and npm pack --dry-run (329 files).
- Next: Continue only on the next concrete 1:1 parity gap from reference or seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 06:00 PDT — memory-notes-screen-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science MemoryScreen/NoteModal/NotePreviewModal gap while keeping memory and notes Feynman-owned and standalone.
- Changed: Added .feynman/workbench/memory.json as the local workbench memory store, authenticated /api/memory and /api/notes mutation routes, memories and notes in workbench state, memory resource counts in Settings/Customize, and a React Memory rail panel. The panel saves profile/project/session/artifact/category scoped memory rows, saves target notes for the active session or artifact, shows saved-row metadata, and deletes records without using ~/.claude-science at runtime.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB and bundle were checked for notes, memories, memory_categories, MemoryScreen, NoteModal, and NotePreviewModal. Focused memory/resource tests passed. Browser smoke on the seed workflow route saved a scoped session memory plus a session target note, verified both through /api/state, removed both through /api/memory and /api/notes, confirmed no smoke strings remained in .feynman/workbench/memory.json, measured no horizontal overflow (1440/1440, panel 460/460), recorded zero console errors, and captured outputs/playwright/feynman-memory-notes-panel.png. Final gates passed: npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (462/462), and npm pack --dry-run (328 files).
- Next: Continue only on the next concrete 1:1 parity gap from reference or seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 — composer-reference-mentions-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science-style composer affordance gap so the React workbench can reference project artifacts, sessions, and commands directly from chat.
- Changed: Added a Feynman-owned composer mention model and UI. Typing or clicking @ opens artifact suggestions, # opens session suggestions, and / opens command/skill suggestions from the real workbench state. Suggestions insert the concrete artifact path, session slug, or executable command. Command ranking now prioritizes resource names and command strings over incidental description matches. Mobile workbench routes now open chat-first instead of letting the default Files side panel cover the composer.
- Verified: Focused React shell tests passed (15/15) with new composer helper coverage. Desktop browser smoke on the seed-workflow route inserted @outputs/open-science-seeds/example_enzyme_engineering/plddt.npy, #example_crispr_screen, and /lit, with zero browser errors and no horizontal overflow. Mobile browser smoke at 390x740 confirmed the side panel is closed by default, the suggestion menu fits the viewport, the composer tool row wraps above the textarea, and no horizontal overflow occurs. Full gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build through npm pack --dry-run, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (454/454), and npm pack --dry-run. Screenshots: outputs/playwright/feynman-composer-mentions.png and outputs/playwright/feynman-composer-mentions-mobile.png.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps; hosted NVIDIA ESMFold remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists.

2026-07-03 — numpy-tensor-artifact-preview-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science-style tensor artifact gap for Feynman's packaged enzyme-engineering seed workflow while keeping tensor parsing and rendering inside Feynman-owned code.
- Changed: Added .npy and .npz artifact content types, routed them through authenticated binary downloads instead of UTF-8 text previews, added a React tensor preview using npyjs and jszip, and rendered array cards with dtype/shape/order metadata, bounded stats, vector plots, matrix heatmaps, archive member lists, and sample values.
- Verified: Focused tensor/workbench tests passed (37/37). Full gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build through npm pack --dry-run, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (453/453), and npm pack --dry-run with the packaged seed .npy/.npz artifacts included. Browser smoke opened the Feynman-owned is621_esmfold.npz and plddt.npy seed artifacts, rendered NPZ tensor preview | 4 arrays and NPY tensor preview | 1 array, verified four NPZ array cards, heatmap/vector geometry, correct binary content types, no page-level horizontal overflow, and zero console/page/request failures. Screenshots: outputs/playwright/feynman-tensor-npz-preview.png and outputs/playwright/feynman-tensor-npy-preview.png.
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps; hosted NVIDIA ESMFold remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists.

2026-07-03 — open-science-genome-browser-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science-style genome/variant artifact viewer gap while keeping Feynman standalone and library-backed.
- Changed: Added [email protected] and wired VCF/BED/GFF previews to an embedded IGV.js genome browser inside the existing artifact inspector. Feynman now infers loci from the selected artifact, mounts IGV through an empty imperative stage to avoid React/IGV DOM ownership conflicts, keeps parsed rows/stat cards underneath for provenance, and widens the Files side panel for genome/molecule/structure artifacts so scientific viewers are not cramped.
- Verified: Focused React shell tests passed (13/13) with VCF/BED/GFF/GenBank track inference coverage. Browser smoke on a disposable workspace opened outputs/variants.vcf at /projects/workspace/frames/variants, rendered IGV 3.8.4 | VCF at chr1:100000-100001, confirmed IGV shadow-DOM controls, panel width 640px, stage width 585px, no page-level horizontal overflow, hidden stage overflow, and zero console/page/request failures. Expected IGV warning was limited to unindexed tiny VCF preview loading. Screenshots: outputs/playwright/feynman-igv-genome-preview.png and outputs/playwright/feynman-igv-stage.png. Full gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (452/452), and npm pack --dry-run with dist/workbench-web/assets/igv-*.js included.
- Next: Continue only on remaining concrete 1:1 parity gaps; hosted NVIDIA ESMFold remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists.

2026-07-03 — open-science-model-endpoint-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science-style model-endpoint control-plane gap while keeping Feynman standalone and Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added feynman_model_endpoint_call, an executable Pi tool for NVIDIA BioNeMo/NIM-style scientific model calls. Hosted ESMFold uses NVIDIA_API_KEY; self-hosted/local AlphaFold2 NIM accepts an endpointUrl. Endpoint responses now save under outputs/model-endpoints with a provenance sidecar, and Settings/runtime context expose the tool as the NVIDIA BioNeMo NIM model endpoint path.
- Verified: Focused endpoint/settings/context/chat tests passed (12/12), npm run typecheck passed, and a real local HTTP smoke through the registered tool wrote PDB/provenance artifacts. Full gates passed: npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (452/452), and npm pack --dry-run with extensions/research-tools/model-endpoints.ts included. Browser smoke on fresh server 127.0.0.1:6188 verified Customize exposes NVIDIA BioNeMo NIM, feynman_model_endpoint_call, and outputs/model-endpoints, with no console/page/network failures and no horizontal overflow; screenshot outputs/playwright/feynman-model-endpoint-settings.png. The local environment has no NVIDIA_API_KEY, so hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains unverified instead of falsely claimed.
- Next: Keep hosted NVIDIA execution marked credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists, then run one hosted ESMFold smoke.

2026-07-03 — open-science-reference-connector-parity

- Objective: Close the remaining no-login Claude Science bio-tool source gap while keeping Feynman standalone and Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added built-in feynman_science_database_search sources for PubChem, BindingDB, STRING, KEGG, Rhea, and Rfam; exposed them in Feynman Bio Tools and the Settings/Customize connector catalog; promoted Chemistry, RNA, and Structures & Interactions presets to executable built-ins where appropriate.
- Verified: Focused source/settings tests passed for the six new sources and connector catalog exposure. Live Feynman-tool smoke succeeded against PubChem aspirin, BindingDB uniprot:P35355 cutoff=100, STRING TP53,BRCA1 species=9606 score=700, KEGG find:compound aspirin, Rhea glucose, and Rfam RF00005. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run, and full npm test passed (449/449).
- Next: Continue compute/runtime/provider parity; hosted NVIDIA NIM execution stays unverified until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists.

2026-07-03 — open-science-seed-fixture-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science seed-workflow parity gap without leaving Feynman dependent on ~/.claude-science or ignored workspace outputs.
- Changed: Added package-owned fixtures/open-science-seeds with the four workflow families, included fixtures/ in the package manifest, added a startup sync that materializes missing seed files into outputs/open-science-seeds, and preserved existing workspace edits by skipping files that already exist.
- Verified: The fixture inventory has 83 artifacts across CRISPR screen (20), enzyme engineering (28), extremophile protein (19), and immunotherapy scRNA-seq (16). npm test -- --test-name-pattern="seed fixture|seed workflows" ran the repo harness and passed (446/446).
- Next: Continue 1:1 parity on remaining science connector/tool depth or long-tail artifact action states while NVIDIA hosted execution waits on NVIDIA_API_KEY.

2026-07-02 19:17 PDT — intake-sweep-open-184

- Objective: Run the check-new-issues intake sweep against live GitHub/package/runtime state while preserving the existing dirty React workbench tree.
- Checked: Local main is still one commit ahead of origin/main at 6c84b24 with the existing dirty workbench/package slice preserved. Live GitHub has open issues #184 and #182, zero open PRs, latest main workflow run Publish and Release 28343487961 succeeded at cb5fa56, latest GitHub release is v0.3.5 with four native assets, npm latest is @companion-ai/[email protected], Pi latest/current is 0.80.3, and @companion-ai/alpha-hub remains 0.1.3.
- Decisions: #184 is a user research-topic support request, not a repo defect or feature to port. #182 remains deferred/externally blocked because evidence points to alphaXiv/Clerk OAuth redirect behavior before Feynman/alpha-hub receives a callback, while unauthenticated alphaXiv search remains available. No open PRs were available to merge or port. Contributor branch origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is not an open PR and its core warning behavior is already present in the local dirty tree with tests, so no additional port was made.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, root npm audit --omit=dev, website npm audit --omit=dev, full npm test (431/431), npm pack --dry-run, and a disposable installed-tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-ZWjC2U/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz running feynman --help and feynman packages --help passed. Package freshness checks found only non-security drift in root and website dependencies.
- Next: Keep #184 as non-product GitHub support unless someone wants to answer it manually; keep #182 deferred until alphaXiv/Clerk OAuth redirect behavior changes or alpha-hub ships a supported auth alternative.

2026-07-02 08:58 PDT — react-shell-streaming-chat

- Objective: Move the React/Vite workbench shell from blocking chat submission toward Claude Science's live research-chat loop with streamed assistant text and visible tool progress.
- Researched: Rechecked the installed Claude Science runtime bundle at ~/.claude-science/runtime/0.1.0-dev.20260630.t160235.sha2e3e6f9-release/web-dist/assets/, confirming the shell modules MessageBubble, useFrameMessages, ProjectControlPlane, FilesOverlay, and ArtifactTile. Rechecked the local Claude Science SQLite frame message store, which now has 592 frame messages; seeded tool-use blocks include generate_plan, manage_environments, skill, and bash with user-facing descriptions such as Planning scRNA-seq immunotherapy response analysis, Listing envs for scanpy availability, and Downloading GSE120575 supplementary files.
- Changed: The React shell composer now uses /api/chat/message/stream instead of blocking /api/chat/message, parses SSE frames, streams assistant deltas into the transcript, merges streamed tool events into the latest assistant message, lets follow-up text steer a running Pi turn through /api/chat/message/steer, and exposes a Stop control backed by /api/chat/abort. Stream parsing and assistant tool merging now live in workbench-web/src/stream.ts with direct tests, and npm run typecheck now includes workbench-web/tsconfig.json so TSX is covered by the normal gate.
- Verified: Temporary prompt-executor server http://127.0.0.1:54812/app-shell/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=react-stream-smoke streamed Streamed React shell reply: stream a quick verification update into the React transcript and rendered the tool row Run verification notebook complete with zero console warnings/errors; screenshot outputs/playwright/feynman-react-shell-stream-smoke.png. npm run typecheck, npm run build:workbench-web, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, focused React/workbench tests (25/25), and full npm test passed (417/417).
- Next: Continue React shell parity on artifact preview/open actions, Files overlay behavior, Customize mutations, notebook/compute panes, and annotation/refinement flows before switching /projects/... to React.

2026-07-02 08:39 PDT — open-science-workbench-react-shell

- Objective: Stop growing the crowded string-rendered workbench shell and start the Claude Science-shaped React/Vite app shell on top of the existing Feynman/Pi APIs.
- Researched: Rechecked the live Claude Science product page, OpenCode's desktop/app package split, and Conductor's React/Vite dashboard structure. The reference direction is a backend-backed app shell with a narrow project/session rail, central chat, explicit Files/Customize surfaces, pane-local scroll, artifact state, and provenance rather than an always-expanded dashboard.
- Changed: Added workbench.vite.config.ts, workbench-web/, React/Vite/lucide dependencies, a build:workbench-web build step, authenticated /app-shell/... static serving through src/workbench/static-shell.ts, and tests/workbench-react-shell.test.ts. The React shell reads /api/state, opens real workbench chat sessions, sends messages through /api/chat/message, shows project/session rail, central transcript/composer, Files artifact panel, and Customize resource panel. The rail caps at six visible sessions plus an overflow count and hides its scrollbar chrome.
- Verified: Fresh server http://127.0.0.1:51274/app-shell/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=cxf8y2kVEXs0PJs3Zjpv1WGORRRtWyfc measured default viewport 1280x720, no document overflow, bodyOverflow:hidden, rail 256x720, conversation 678.4x720, side panel 345.6x720, six visible session rows, 10 more sessions, session-list overflow hidden, and zero console warnings/errors. Mobile 390x740 measured no document overflow, hidden rail, overlay side panel, and zero warnings/errors. Screenshots: outputs/playwright/feynman-react-shell.png and outputs/playwright/feynman-react-shell-no-rail-scroll.png. npm run build:workbench-web, npm run build, npm run typecheck, npm run architecture:check, focused shell/UI tests, and full npm test passed (416/416).
- Next: Continue migrating the default /projects/... surface to the React shell only after stream handling, artifact preview actions, Files overlay parity, and Customize mutations reach feature parity with the existing workbench.

2026-07-02 08:00 PDT — open-science-workbench-density-framework

- Objective: Re-anchor the crowded active frame to the installed Claude Science app and choose the durable UI framework direction instead of continuing ad hoc template sprawl.
- Researched: Launched the installed /Applications/Claude Science.app through a fresh claude-science url, captured launcher/project screenshots, and inspected the bundled Vite web app modules plus local SQLite schema. The reference structure is a sparse project launcher, narrow project/session rail, central conversation, explicit Files/Customize/Workspace surfaces, pane-local scrolling, and artifact/provenance drawers rather than a document page with every surface visible at once.
- Changed: Collapsed the active rail session list to the active session plus six recent rows with a quiet overflow count, preserving session navigation while removing the all-history rail dump. Recorded the framework decision: keep Feynman's Pi/workbench backend, but move durable UI work toward a React/Vite app shell rather than growing string-rendered HTML and global CSS.
- Verified: Fresh server http://127.0.0.1:64584/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=O0GFnV3ygqfjrLo1TihaZt0T3mbft-LI measured no document overflow, body overflow hidden, rail 196x720, central chat 1084x720, transcript 878x523.4 with hidden scrollbar chrome, hidden right pane by default, hidden model/config chips by default, seven visible session rows, 9 more sessions, and zero console errors. Screenshot: outputs/playwright/feynman-patched-collapsed-rail.png. Focused workbench UI/new-session tests passed (7/7), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test passed (415/415).
- Next: Run the full gate, then start the React/Vite shell migration in slices around project rail, chat transcript, composer, artifact viewer, Files overlay, and Customize settings without changing the Pi-backed API contract.

2026-07-02 07:34 PDT — open-science-workbench-gnomad-and-rail-cleanup

- Objective: Continue the Claude Science parity pass by adding the installed app's gnomAD-style variant source and removing the remaining crowded rail/search chrome from the active frame.
- Researched: Rechecked the public Claude Science page and stored installed-app screenshots. The reference frames Claude Science as a workbench around scientific tools, database connections, compute, reproducible artifacts, and provenance, with a light current-project/session rail rather than an all-project dashboard inside the project view. Re-read the installed Claude Science gnomAD client/query source, which uses the public gnomAD GraphQL API, gnomad_r4, and a longer request timeout.
- Changed: Added gnomad to the built-in feynman_science_database_search source set for rsID search, direct variant allele-frequency lookup, and gene constraint lookup; updated runtime prompt/settings resources/tests for gnomAD; tightened the active frame rail to the current project only, hid the rail filter box in the compact frame shell, fixed session-list horizontal overflow, narrowed the rail to 196px, and capped the chat/composer column to 880px so the screen reads as chat-first instead of dashboard-wide.
- Verified: Browser smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=JjwtbTyutG_ANMCEMJlq21OnR9dvBOmn measured default columns 196px 1084px, visible project rows ["Active Plans"], search input display:none, document overflow 0/0, session list scrollbarWidth:none with no horizontal overflow, hidden right pane, and screenshots outputs/playwright/feynman-open-science-workbench-claude-rail-fixed.png plus outputs/playwright/feynman-open-science-workbench-claude-rail-fixed.json. Split mode measured workspace-open artifact-view-open, columns 196px 546.406px 537.594px, right tabs/tab panel/artifact strip/preview tabs hidden, preview scrollbar chrome hidden, and screenshot outputs/playwright/feynman-open-science-workbench-claude-rail-split.png. Focused UI/database/settings/context tests passed (15/15), npm run typecheck passed, full npm test passed (415/415), and git diff --check passed.
- Next: Continue with exact PDF renderer glyph anchoring, deeper variant annotation flows, and NVIDIA hosted execution once credentials exist.

2026-07-02 07:11 PDT — open-science-workbench-artifact-view-and-gtex

- Objective: Continue correcting the active Open Science Workbench frame toward Claude Science's control-plane structure and add more no-setup science sources from the installed reference app.
- Researched: Rechecked the installed Claude Science project view screenshot and current Feynman route. The reference keeps the default frame as rail + conversation, then uses the right side as an intentional selected-artifact viewer; Feynman's explicit artifact Open path still showed the Files browser, tabs, artifact tabs, and preview stacked together, which made the split state crowded.
- Changed: Made frame/project navigation leave the artifact viewer closed and unselected by default; tightened sidebar session rows to one-line 32px rail items with hidden scrollbar chrome; made explicit artifact selection open the split viewer; added an artifact-view-open mode that hides the right-pane tab/file-browser chrome so the selected artifact gets the whole right pane; expanded feynman_science_database_search with GTEx tissue-expression lookup and QuickGO UniProt GO-annotation lookup; updated runtime prompt, Customize connector presets, and tests for the twenty built-in read-only science sources.
- Verified: Restarted the local server at http://127.0.0.1:6174/?token=8DGNU6J1WVLjPmwV0tn2M530nGxXyla9. Browser metrics for /projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench show default workspaceOpen:false, artifactViewOpen:false, two columns 204px 1236px, right pane display:none, session row height 32, and session scrollbar none; after clicking the artifact Open button, metrics show workspaceOpen:true, artifactViewOpen:true, columns 204px 631.203px 604.797px, right pane rows 960px, and right tabs/tab panel/artifact tabs/preview tabs all hidden. Screenshots: outputs/playwright/feynman-open-science-workbench-artifact-mode-default.png and outputs/playwright/feynman-open-science-workbench-artifact-mode-split.png. Focused tests passed (15/15), full npm test passed (415/415), npm run typecheck passed, and git diff --check passed.
- Next: Continue with gnomAD/variant catalogs and exact PDF renderer glyph anchoring without reopening the default frame into a crowded workspace pane.

2026-07-02 06:47 PDT — open-science-workbench-collapse-and-specialty-bio

- Objective: Fix the visibly crowded active Open Science Workbench frame and continue moving the chat tool layer toward Claude Science's bundled scientific database behavior.
- Researched: Rechecked the live installed Claude Science project control plane, which uses a project rail, central research chat, generated artifact tray, and right artifact preview for useful selected artifacts; rechecked Feynman's current rendered route and found the right artifact/workspace column was being served from stale server CSS and, when open, defaulted to a long plan artifact that made the route feel like a scroll-heavy document pane instead of a chat.
- Changed: Made the desktop right workspace truly on-demand by defaulting the workbench frame to the project rail plus chat column and only adding the right column when workspace-open is active. Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-specialty.ts and wired feynman_science_database_search to six Claude Science-style public bio sources: OLS, ENCODE, InterPro, GEO, PRIDE, and Reactome, with stable ids/source URLs/provenance returned through the same Pi tool contract.
- Verified: Restarted the local server on http://127.0.0.1:6174/?token=wrj4sU01wZGHTJx5fipIgcWxlhlCqDOL; the active frame screenshot outputs/playwright/feynman-open-science-workbench-after-restart.png shows the crowded right pane gone on first load, and served HTML contains the two-column default plus body.workspace-open three-column override. Captured Claude Science dashboard/project references at outputs/playwright/claude-science-reference-dashboard.png and outputs/playwright/claude-science-reference-project-direct.png. Focused tests passed (7/7), npm run typecheck passed, and full npm test passed (415/415).
- Next: Continue functional parity on GTEx/QuickGO/variant catalogs, better artifact-selection defaults for frame routes, and exact PDF renderer glyph anchoring without reintroducing always-on dashboard chrome.

2026-07-02 06:24 PDT — open-science-workbench-claude-column-frame

- Objective: Replace the crowded active frame with a Claude Science-shaped research workbench structure and keep expanding no-setup science sources.
- Researched: Used the installed Claude Science runtime/page evidence already captured for projects/frames/chat/artifact history, then rechecked the live Feynman route and the current Pi/workbench code path before patching.
- Changed: Reworked the active frame into a persistent desktop project rail, full-height chat column, and right artifact inspector; restored a compact topbar/drawer structure for mobile; made Files open the full overlay from the visible rail; split Markdown preview rendering/styles out of oversized preview modules; and expanded the built-in database tool to bioRxiv, medRxiv, UniProt, RCSB PDB, and Ensembl in addition to the existing seven sources.
- Verified: Fresh server http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=b3R6bfbeh5Y9ubiNzoVlV73qy6vgoPmX measured no desktop/mobile document overflow, desktop columns 204px / 573.6px / 662.4px, visible Markdown preview, Files overlay 1440x904, mobile chat under the 390x80 topbar with overlap 0, and zero browser console/request failures. Live API smoke returned records from UniProt, RCSB PDB, Ensembl, bioRxiv, and medRxiv. git diff --check, npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, focused tests, and full npm test passed (414/414).
- Next: Continue parity on pathway/variant sources such as gnomAD, GTEx, ENCODE, and Reactome, plus exact PDF renderer glyph anchoring.

2026-07-02 05:27 PDT — open-science-workbench-frame-layout-correction

- Objective: Fix the active Open Science Workbench frame feeling crowded/broken by correcting the Claude-style chat/artifact split layout.
- Researched: Reused the installed Claude Science app/runtime evidence for the quiet chat-first frame with secondary Files/Workspace surfaces; remeasured the live Feynman route before patching and found the transcript was only 222px tall inside a 743px conversation card because the frame grid still reserved an empty second row.
- Changed: Made the transcript own the full middle column, hid nonessential topbar version/refresh chrome, removed the visible State kicker, widened the desktop Workspace drawer to 720px, structured the drawer file controls, hid the redundant drawer grid/list toggle, and made mobile preview actions wrap.
- Verified: Fresh server http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=GCh6fz2gmA_zyZcjE7NGkMoWIeEClacJ measured desktop/mobile closed/open layouts with no document overflow and zero console errors; desktop transcript is now 1014x741, Workspace drawer is 720x924, and mobile drawer preview controls fit in 361px. Screenshots saved under outputs/playwright/open-science-workbench-layout-*.png. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check -- src/workbench/ui-style-frame.ts, and full npm test passed (413/413).
- Next: Continue parity on deeper specialty science database execution and exact PDF renderer glyph/page anchoring.

2026-07-02 00:51 PDT — open-science-workbench-read-cursors

- Objective: Close the Claude Science frame read-cursor gap so long research frames remember the last read transcript message across reloads.
- Researched: Re-opened the installed Claude Science migration 0055_frame_read_cursors.sql, which stores root_frame_id, message_uuid, message_index, and updated_at.
- Changed: Added a local .feynman/workbench/read-cursors.json store, WorkbenchFrameReadCursor state, authenticated /api/read-cursor, per-message transcript ids, unread/current labels, first-unread jump behavior, and a Mark read action that persists the current frame cursor.
- Verified: Focused read-cursor/files tests passed (4/4); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test passed (407/407). Rebuilt in-app browser smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/workspace/frames/open-science-workbench?token=ncHp5CGU6uIcN_Wk1PPkZKzBeX_EQuEW showed 2 new messages, clicked Mark read, reloaded, verified Current, verified the saved cursor at messageIndex: 1 / messageCount: 2, and recorded zero browser errors.
- Next: Continue parity on richer PDF text-selection/page-rect anchoring and live science database/tool connector execution.

2026-07-02 00:32 PDT — open-science-workbench-media-annotations

- Objective: Close the Claude Science figure/PDF annotation gap by making image and PDF artifacts markable with coordinates that Pi can use in follow-up chat.
- Researched: Re-opened the public Claude Science page and the installed local app bundle. The reference product promises plain-language figure iteration, artifact history, protein/genomic/chemical/PDF renderers, reviewer checks, persistent kernels, databases, skills, and connectors. The installed bundle uses unified annotations records, image point/region overlays, PDF text-selection annotations with page/rect metadata, and HTML element overlays.
- Changed: Extended Feynman artifact annotations with anchorKind, page/line fields, selection prefix, and percent x/y/width/height geometry. Image and PDF previews now expose an Annotate control, click/drag point-or-region capture, saved numbered badges/boxes, annotation target summaries, API persistence, and prompt injection of anchor type/page/coordinates so the Pi-backed chat sees the selected scientific artifact region.
- Verified: Focused annotation/files tests passed (6/6); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test passed (405/405). Rebuilt in-app browser smoke on a throwaway workbench at http://127.0.0.1:51355/projects/workspace/frames/figure?token=IfCJ1XQX2eRpINetxYqzr366VMgrmjlC dragged an image region, created Image region x=20.1%, y=21.9%, w=45.8%, h=35.2%, saved a revision note, verified one saved region box on the image preview, verified .feynman/workbench/annotations.json stored percent geometry, recorded zero browser errors, and captured /tmp/feynman-media-annotation-rebuilt-smoke.png.
- Next: Continue parity on persistent read cursors, richer PDF text-selection/page anchoring, and live science database/tool connectors.

2026-07-02 00:08 PDT — open-science-workbench-refinement-apply

- Objective: Match Claude Science's artifact refinement loop where selected text can produce a model suggestion, preview the replacement as a diff, and apply the edit back into the artifact with version history.
- Researched: Re-opened the installed Claude Science runtime and bundle. AnnotationRefinementPanel calls annotations/suggestEdit, renders Ask/Edit, Generating suggestion, Diff/Full, an editable suggestion textarea, and Apply; ArtifactTile then calls annotations/applyEdit and swaps to the returned artifact version with carried annotations.
- Changed: Replaced the direct-chat refinement edit path with authenticated /api/artifact/refinement/suggest and /api/artifact/refinement/apply routes. Feynman now validates the selected text and offsets against the current artifact, asks the workbench/Pi prompt executor for a JSON suggestion, renders a Claude-style suggestion card with word diff/full modes and editable replacement text, and applies only the selected span through the existing snapshot/version writer.
- Verified: Focused artifact/files tests passed (7/7); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and full npm test passed (404/404). In-app browser verification on the real 6174 workbench opened the artifact preview and confirmed the selected-text panel exposes Editing selection, Save note, Ask, and Edit. A second in-app browser smoke used a throwaway server at http://127.0.0.1:64727/?token=KLI24zZSqpfkJ3UEoY_Dx_kbZmAO39Ay, generated a fake model suggestion, displayed the diff/apply state, clicked Apply, verified outputs/apply.md changed to include the sample-size caveat, and verified before/after snapshots under .feynman/workbench/artifact-snapshots/.
- Next: Continue parity on persistent read cursors, richer PDF/image region annotations, and live science-specific tool/database connectors.

2026-07-01 23:43 PDT — open-science-workbench-artifact-edit

- Objective: Match Claude Science's editable artifact viewer by turning Feynman's right artifact pane into a real inline text editor with auditable save/version behavior.
- Researched: Re-read the installed Claude Science bundle modules for EditableTextPreview, EditableMarkdownPreview, ArtifactTile, and AnnotationRefinementPanel. Claude's editor swaps text/markdown previews into a focused textarea with original/edited content state; the refinement panel calls a suggestion path and shows Apply after an edit suggestion. Feynman's existing artifact snapshot/version code already had the correct local history spine for this behavior.
- Changed: Added authenticated artifact edit read/save APIs, a backend text-artifact edit module limited to tracked outputs/, papers/, and notes/ artifacts, before/after snapshot recording on every changed save, and a green Feynman-styled Edit content action in the artifact menu. The content tab now opens a textarea editor with Save changes and Cancel, refreshes the preview after saving, and records the result in the existing Versions tab for diff/restore.
- Verified: Focused edit/files UI tests passed (5/5); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test passed (402/402). Fresh Playwright smoke on a throwaway workbench opened outputs/smoke.md, used Edit content, loaded the real file body through /api/artifact/edit, saved revised text, verified the file bytes, verified .feynman/workbench/artifact-snapshots/workbench-edit.jsonl, opened the Versions tab, recorded zero browser errors, and captured /tmp/feynman-artifact-edit-smoke.png.
- Next: Continue parity on model-generated suggestion/apply diffs, read cursors, and richer PDF/image region annotations.

2026-07-01 23:31 PDT — open-science-workbench-refinement-panel

- Objective: Match Claude Science's plain-language artifact/figure iteration flow by turning selected artifact text into an anchored refinement interaction instead of only a manual annotation form.
- Researched: Re-opened the public Claude Science page, which names figure iteration in plain language, reproducible artifact history, scientific renderers, reviewer checks, persistent kernels, and compute/database integration as the product bar. Drove the installed Claude Science Example project, opened a generated report artifact, and inspected the local bundle modules imported by text/PDF previews. AnnotationRefinementPanel-BlsUc42k.js renders Editing selection, a selected-passage preview, a Describe the edit you'd like... textarea, Ask, Edit, generated suggestion, and Apply; the PDF preview shows an Annotate popover on selected text and passes anchored text/rect metadata. The SQLite migrations show Claude moved from transcript/file annotations into a unified annotations table keyed by project, target kind/key, label index, checksum, and JSON body.
- Changed: Added a focused workbench refinement client and style module. Selecting text inside an annotatable artifact preview now opens a sticky Editing selection panel over the preview, preserves the selected anchor and start/end offsets, accepts an edit instruction, enables Save note, Ask, and Edit, saves revision annotations through the existing authenticated annotation API, and sends Ask/Edit prompts through the existing in-app Pi chat stream so the refinement stays attached to the active research frame.
- Verified: Focused annotation/files UI tests passed (5/5); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test passed (399/399). Fresh Playwright smoke on a throwaway workbench at http://127.0.0.1:6215/?token=refine-smoke selected responder signal is strong, opened the refinement panel, saved Add a sample-size caveat before making the response claim., verified the Annotations tab row, verified .feynman/workbench/annotations.json stored the anchor plus startOffset: 30 and endOffset: 56, recorded zero browser errors, and captured /tmp/feynman-refinement-panel-smoke.png. Refreshed the visible local server on port 6174 and verified http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit?token=sEs1AdjRRwW1qHX6ckWlJ4QWAZvmrQ1X opens the Editing selection panel from selected text in outputs/reference-audit/handoff.md, with zero browser errors and screenshot /tmp/feynman-live-refinement-panel.png.
- Next: Continue parity on direct editable artifact contents, suggestion/apply diffs, Claude-style read cursors, and richer PDF/image region annotations.

2026-07-01 23:17 PDT — open-science-workbench-cloud-export

- Objective: Match Claude Science's artifact Export to Cloud action with a real credential-backed flow instead of a disabled placeholder.
- Researched: Drove the installed local Claude Science Example project and clicked Export to Cloud; with no cloud credentials it opened Settings → Storage with No cloud storage configured and Go to Credentials. Read the installed app bundle modules for ExportToCloudModal, CloudStorageModal, and useCloudCredentials; the reference supports credential selection, bucket selection, destination path, provider credential tests, and a no-secrets credential model.
- Changed: Added workbench cloud export target discovery from credential references, exposed targets in WorkbenchState, updated the Storage settings card, added authenticated /api/artifact/export-cloud, implemented real file:///absolute-path exports plus aws s3 cp and gcloud storage cp/gsutil cp execution paths, wrote .feynman/workbench/cloud-exports.jsonl audit records, enabled the artifact menu action, and added a green Feynman-styled export modal with the Claude-style empty state and Go to Credentials path.
- Verified: Focused cloud/artifact/files tests passed (6/6); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test passed (399/399). Fresh Playwright smoke on a throwaway workbench at http://127.0.0.1:6214/?token=cloud-smoke opened the artifact menu, confirmed Export to Cloud was enabled, exported outputs/alpha.md to a configured file:// target, verified the copied file contents, recorded zero browser errors, and captured /tmp/feynman-cloud-export-smoke.png. Refreshed the visible local server on port 6174 and verified http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit?token=6InrvzybxhndI__VaLGgZdu4x-sEBgC- shows the enabled action and the no-storage modal with zero browser errors, captured at /tmp/feynman-live-cloud-export-menu.png.
- Next: Continue parity on editable artifact/version flows, Claude-style read cursors, and annotation refinement drawers.

2026-07-01 22:53 PDT — open-science-workbench-artifact-actions

- Objective: Match Claude Science's artifact preview action menu with real local actions instead of placeholder preview chrome.
- Researched: Re-drove the installed local Claude Science Example project and captured the artifact menu at /tmp/claude-science-probe-artifact-menu.png. The reference menu exposes Star, Hide, View in context, Provenance, Copy link, Rename, Export Metadata, Export to Cloud, and Delete from the preview's More actions button.
- Changed: Added a persisted artifact-action store under .feynman/workbench/artifact-actions.json, applied starred/renamed/hidden/deleted state during workspace scans, exposed hidden/deleted action records in state, added authenticated /api/artifact/action, and wired the right preview plus Files overlay menus to Star/Unstar, Hide, Rename, soft Delete, Unhide, and Restore. Delete moves the artifact into .feynman/workbench/artifact-trash/ instead of destroying it, and the Files overlay now has a Hidden & trash recovery source.
- Verified: Focused artifact/files UI tests passed (4/4); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test passed (397/397). Fresh Playwright smoke on a throwaway workspace at http://127.0.0.1:6212/projects/workspace/frames/alpha?token=KF0HeeBmYSmGDFjkEbtxu7o9wD1kb1Mk verified the full action menu text, starred outputs/alpha.md, renamed it through the browser prompt, hid it, deleted outputs/beta.md through the confirm flow, confirmed the file moved to workbench trash, recorded zero browser errors, and captured /tmp/feynman-artifact-actions-smoke.png. A second throwaway Playwright smoke at http://127.0.0.1:6213/projects/workspace/frames/alpha?token=MRRyHatMiGQBaMv5VT_YpkJHsAEkAuLh opened Files → Hidden & trash, unhid outputs/alpha.md, restored outputs/beta.md, verified both artifacts returned to visible state, recorded zero browser errors, and captured /tmp/feynman-archive-restore-smoke.png.
- Next: Continue parity on editable artifact/version flows, Claude-style read cursors, annotation refinement drawers, and cloud-export endpoint configuration.

2026-07-01 22:34 PDT — open-science-workbench-files-overlay

- Objective: Match Claude Science's dedicated file-browser surface so the left rail Files control opens a full-height browse/inspect flow instead of only swapping the right-side tab.
- Researched: Continued from the installed Claude Science bundle/live-app evidence for FilesOverlay, FileBrowserPane, persistent right preview actions, and the frame-level Files rail.
- Changed: Added a focused Files overlay client and style module plus static shell markup. The overlay reuses the existing artifact/upload/file-card model, supports session/project source switching, search, grid/list layout, import, artifact selection, right-preview synchronization, selected-file details, and actions for open preview, provenance, download, copy link, and metadata JSON. The left-rail Files button and Files-pane Expand button now open the overlay while preserving the existing side preview.
- Verified: Focused workbench UI tests passed (2/2); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test passed (395/395). Fresh Playwright smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6211/projects/workspace/frames/reference-audit?token=mJHzzXZpKjB5YkJSaLDF0okdRGYfffQr opened the Files overlay from the left rail, switched list mode, searched verification, selected outputs/reference-audit/verification-matrix.md, confirmed the preview title and five overlay actions, closed the overlay, recorded zero browser errors, and captured /tmp/feynman-files-overlay-smoke.png.
- Next: Continue parity on persistent frame read state, richer file annotations/drawers, and Claude-style message/read cursors.

2026-07-01 22:26 PDT — open-science-workbench-transcript-tools

- Objective: Match Claude Science's conversation-level execution trace, where tool runs appear as grouped transcript cards with step chips, command/code context, and collapsible output instead of a flat debug dump.
- Researched: Reused the installed Claude Science live-app audit and screenshots showing tool-group-header, tool-chip, BASH/ENV code cards, and Show output disclosures embedded in the chat while the right file preview remains visible.
- Changed: Added focused transcript tool-event client and style modules that override the existing flat renderer without growing the 1200-line main client. Tool events now render a group header, per-step status chips, normalized tool kind badges, code/environment cards from existing Pi inputs/details, output disclosures, and existing connector approval cards.
- Verified: Focused workbench UI tests passed (2/2); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test passed (395/395). Fresh Playwright smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6211/projects/workspace/frames/reference-audit?token=eRkiuEWztANZV4qXzLsghL0sRBJ9dyFU injected only an in-memory chat session, verified 3 transcript tool events, 3 code cards, 3 output toggles, zero browser errors, and captured /tmp/feynman-transcript-tool-events-final.png.
- Next: Continue parity on exact Claude-style file overlay/actions and persistent frame messaging/read state.

2026-07-01 22:05 PDT — open-science-workbench-artifact-tray-overflow

- Objective: Match Claude Science's generated-artifact tray behavior where a long artifact set shows several cards plus a +N more card that opens the full file surface.
- Changed: Added a focused artifact-tray override module that keeps five visible generated artifact cards, adds a +N more overflow card for larger runs, and routes that card to the Files pane. Added a small dashed-card style and static bundle coverage without growing the already-large main client module.
- Verified: Focused workbench UI tests passed (2/2); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed. Fresh Playwright smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6211/projects/workspace/frames/reference-audit?token=NG5xpAXqxzwdL07GTGJ4V3qm_mmQp0j0 verified 5 visible tray cards, a +17 more overflow card, click-through to the Files tab, 22 rendered file cards, zero browser errors, and screenshot /tmp/feynman-turn-tray-more-smoke.png. Full npm test passed (395/395).
- Next: Continue parity on exact Claude-style file overlay/actions.

2026-07-01 22:00 PDT — open-science-workbench-inline-artifacts

- Objective: Match Claude Science's inline generated-file affordance where artifact filenames in assistant messages are direct file anchors, not only separate tray or Files-pane entries.
- Changed: Added a focused message-artifact renderer that detects known artifact paths and filenames from the active run/project, renders them as safe inline file chips in transcript message bodies, and routes clicks through the existing artifact preview path. Added a compact green chip style and static bundle coverage.
- Verified: Focused workbench UI tests passed (8/8); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed. Fresh Playwright smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6211/?token=dZ7xAfZh8aPSWNqFX9KM953EVptxlvrw injected an in-memory transcript message mentioning outputs/.plans/open-science-workbench.md and open-science-workbench.md, verified two inline artifact refs, clicked one, confirmed the preview title became Open Science Workbench, recorded zero browser errors, and captured /tmp/feynman-message-artifact-ref-smoke.png. Full npm test passed (395/395).
- Next: Continue parity on exact Claude-style file overlay/actions.

2026-07-01 21:54 PDT — open-science-workbench-activity-pane

- Objective: Close the Claude Science frame-activity gap by making the active research frame browseable as messages, tools, files, plan steps, and review events instead of scattering that state across separate panes.
- Researched: Re-drove the installed local Claude Science project view and extracted its active project snapshot. The reference frame showed grouped tool chips, generated artifact cards, reviewer status, inline file references, and a persistent right preview working together as one session surface.
- Changed: Added an Activity tab to the right science pane, backed by a focused client module and style module. The pane builds one chronological frame model from chat messages, tool events, Pi/execution records, generated artifacts, uploads, plan steps, and review checks, with filters for All, Messages, Tools, Files, Plan, and Review plus artifact-opening links.
- Verified: Focused workbench UI tests passed (8/8); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed. Fresh Playwright smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6211/?token=kw85w811IijZKfmp4-sDZzkT1raNeF5T opened the workspace frame, switched to Activity, verified 10 events across Messages/Tools/Files/Plan filters, recorded zero browser errors, and captured /tmp/feynman-activity-smoke.png. Full npm test passed (395/395).
- Next: Continue parity on richer artifact reference chips and exact Claude-style file overlay/actions.

2026-07-01 21:41 PDT — open-science-workbench-file-import

- Objective: Turn the Files pane into a real research intake surface so users can import session evidence, inspect it, download it, and remove it without hiding the capability behind the composer plus menu.
- Changed: Added a visible Import control to the Files toolbar, made uploaded files render as actionable upload cards, added upload preview/download/remove handling in a focused client script, exposed a session-bound authenticated /api/chat/attachment/download route, kept upload previews in the right preview pane, and split attachment API coverage into tests/workbench-attachments.test.ts to keep tests/workbench.test.ts below the architecture hard cap.
- Verified: Focused workbench/import tests passed (31/31); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed; full npm test passed (395/395). Fresh Playwright smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6211/?token=DyD7POAc5Y8BE_iWvZDDqxi1suW_CN33 created a throwaway project, clicked the visible Files Import button, uploaded import-smoke.csv, verified preview text, downloaded exact uploaded bytes through /api/chat/attachment/download, removed the upload card, measured the search box at 72px after the toolbar fit fix, captured /tmp/feynman-files-import-smoke.png, and removed the temporary project/session/upload files.
- Next: Continue parity on turn-level artifact opening and denser live activity trace.

2026-07-01 21:28 PDT — open-science-workbench-project-create

- Objective: Close the Claude Science project-creation gap so the dashboard can create a real research project and immediately open a chat frame instead of showing a disabled placeholder.
- Researched: Drove the installed local Claude Science app through its dashboard New project flow. The reference modal has Name, Description, and Agent Context; the description is shown in the project list and is not included in the agent prompt, while agent context is included in every project agent prompt.
- Changed: Added persisted custom workbench projects under .feynman/workbench/projects.json, included custom projects in scanned state/project rails, added authenticated /api/project/new, created an initial blank chat session for each new project, added a Claude-style dashboard modal in Feynman's green workbench UI, wired the client flow through state/URL/session rendering, and injected only project name plus agent context into Pi prompts.
- Verified: Focused workbench tests passed (10/10); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed; full npm test passed (395/395). Fresh Playwright smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6211/?token=S-tfIKiPXkoABTK5IEQqRM8JnPyvXkoM clicked New project, filled all three reference fields, created a custom project, verified /api/state project/session rows and agent context, captured /tmp/feynman-new-project-smoke.png, and removed the temporary smoke project/session files.
- Next: Continue parity on turn-level artifact opening, import/attachment affordances, and denser live activity trace.

2026-07-01 18:30 PDT — open-science-workbench-managed-environments

- Objective: Close the Claude Science environment-management gap by turning runtime discovery into real Python/R create/install actions for notebook work.
- Researched: Re-read the installed Claude Science local runtime and transcript evidence for manage_environments(mode="list"), manage_environments(mode="create", name="scanpy", packages=[...]), manage_packages(mode="install", ...), execution conda_env, and environment_snapshot behavior.
- Changed: Added /api/notebook/environment, persisted feynman.notebookEnvironmentAction.v1 records under .feynman/workbench/environment-actions.jsonl, created project-local Python venv and R library paths under .feynman/workbench/environments/, made Python execution prefer the managed venv when present, made R kernels/processes inherit the managed library through R_LIBS_USER, and added a Notebook-pane Managed environment form with Create/Install controls and managed-runtime/action metadata.
- Verified: Focused managed-environment tests passed (3/3), full npm test passed (381/381), and npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed. Fresh server http://127.0.0.1:6188/?token=TWJPoamvuIZP7am9-mo5T3-6jtR4Bhd6 created the managed Python venv, ran an isolated Python notebook cell through /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman/.feynman/workbench/environments/python-venv/bin/python, and recorded that executable/version in the environment snapshot. Playwright smoke verified the Notebook UI Create path, managed Python row, no console errors, and screenshot /tmp/feynman-managed-env-click-smoke.png.
- Next: Add live compute job lifecycle controls: queued/running state, cancel/terminate/retry, and pending terminate records for long-running local/cloud jobs.

2026-07-01 18:16 PDT — open-science-workbench-runtime-inventory

- Objective: Make notebook runtime/kernel state visible in the workbench the way Claude Science exposes environment status and frame kernels.
- Changed: Added first-class environments and kernels to workbench state. Environment records now expose Python, managed R/Rscript, and Bash command source, executable, version, modes, session/execution counts, and lockfile snapshot counts. Kernel records expose persisted session kernel ids, active process state, runtime source, executable/version, and latest execution metadata. The Notebook pane now shows live session kernels above the runtime catalog, with compact cards that keep active state visible in the split pane.
- Verified: Full npm test passed (378/378); npm run typecheck and npm run build passed after the final UI filter/layout fix. Fresh rebuilt server http://127.0.0.1:6187/?token=science-runtimes-20260701c ran a real managed R session cell, printed 42, and reported active kernel session:runtime-parity-smoke:r on /Users/advaitpaliwal/.claude-science/conda/envs/r/bin/R with R version 4.5.3 (2026-03-11). Playwright/Chrome verified the active R kernel renders above the runtime catalog and saved /tmp/feynman-notebook-final-runtimes.png.
- Next: Add managed environment create/install actions for Python/R notebook runtimes, matching the manage_environments behavior observed in the installed Claude Science transcripts.

2026-07-01 17:27 PDT — open-science-workbench-r-session-kernel

- Objective: Close the persistent-kernel parity gap where Feynman had session kernels for Python/Bash but R cells still fell back to isolated process mode.
- Changed: Added a persistent R notebook kernel using a long-lived R --vanilla --slave process, global-environment evaluation, per-cell completion markers, bounded stdout/stderr capture, timeout shutdown, and session kernel ids like session:<session>:r. Runtime environment probes now tolerate missing runtime stdout, so absent R/Rscript reports as unavailable context instead of crashing environment capture.
- Verified: Focused tests/workbench-r-kernel.test.ts passes with a fake R process proving variables persist across cells and notebook records keep session:r-memory:r. Full npm test passed (377/377). npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed after splitting the R test out of tests/workbench.test.ts. Fresh server HTML contains the R language option, Session kernel runtime option, and Modal cloud runtime option. Local machine still has no R/Rscript, so live R execution is unverified here until R is installed.
- Next: Keep provider work focused on real science jobs and NVIDIA only when NVIDIA_API_KEY is present.

2026-07-01 17:05 PDT — open-science-workbench-modal-notebook

- Objective: Close one provider execution-depth gap by making Modal a real Notebook runtime mode instead of only a credential/status card.
- Researched: Re-read the repo's skills/modal-compute/SKILL.md, which scopes Modal to bounded research experiments when the modal CLI is available. Rechecked Modal docs for modal run, App, local_entrypoint, Image.debian_slim, and current local-data guidance. Local machine has ~/.modal.toml and Python/pip; latest PyPI Modal is 1.2.6.
- Changed: Added a Modal notebook execution bridge. Python cells can now use executionMode: "modal", which writes an auditable Modal app script under .feynman/workbench/modal-jobs/, runs modal run <script>, parses a result marker for remote stdout/stderr/exit code, records Modal cloud provenance, and keeps generated scripts local for audit. The Notebook runtime selector now includes Modal cloud for Python cells. Missing Modal CLI records a notebook error instead of pretending a cloud job ran. Installed a managed local Modal CLI at .feynman/workbench/modal-venv/bin/modal, and Compute diagnostics now prefer that managed CLI when present. Modal cells also expose FEYNMAN_MODAL_ARTIFACT_DIR so bounded cloud-produced files under outputs/, papers/, or notes/ can be returned to the local artifact/version/snapshot pipeline.
- Verified: Full npm test passed (376/376), including the Modal artifact-return assertion. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed. The managed Modal CLI reports modal client version: 1.2.6. Fresh server /api/state on http://127.0.0.1:6184 returned 43 connectors, managed Modal CLI diagnostics, and NVIDIA available; server-rendered HTML contains the Modal cloud notebook runtime option. A real Modal cloud cell completed through /api/notebook/execute with stdout feynman modal quiet smoke 2026-07-01 and Modal app URL https://modal.com/apps/companion/main/ap-D5yRyW2a7m1cX9h2CVXFj3. A second real Modal cloud smoke from a temporary workspace wrote outputs/modal-artifact-smoke.md, returned it locally, produced one snapshot, and completed at https://modal.com/apps/companion/main/ap-w3udlvpyi4uV3QuhcVO9df.
- Next: Use Modal for a bounded research/replication job that produces a real science artifact; implement NVIDIA hosted NIM calls once NVIDIA_API_KEY is present.

2026-07-01 16:17 PDT — open-science-workbench-environment-lockfiles

- Objective: Continue Claude Science-style provenance by making notebook environment snapshots record concrete package/environment lockfile fingerprints, not only OS/runtime/resource context.
- Changed: feynman.workbenchEnvironmentSnapshot.v1 now includes environmentFiles for detected package manifests and lockfiles, with path, kind, size, checksum, and updated time. The snapshot detects root Node/Python/R/Conda manifests and lockfiles plus the bundled Pi runtime manifest/lockfile under .feynman/npm/. The artifact Environment tab now renders those files in a compact provenance block beside the producer runtime, while raw JSON details remain available for audit.
- Verified: Focused workbench context tests passed (3/3), focused workbench/settings/server tests passed (30/30), and full npm test passed (375/375). npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed. Fresh server /api/state on http://127.0.0.1:6184 returned the expected groups and 43 connectors, with Modal configured and NVIDIA available. A non-mutating snapshot probe in the real workspace captured package.json, package-lock.json, .feynman/npm/package.json, and .feynman/npm/package-lock.json with checksums.
- Next: Pick one executable provider action for the next slice: Modal notebook job submission, NVIDIA hosted NIM calls, or connector OAuth handshake.

2026-07-01 16:09 PDT — open-science-workbench-provider-credentials

- Objective: Continue the Claude Science parity work by making the cloud/model provider cards reflect real local credential state instead of generic available placeholders.
- Researched: Checked Modal's official config/token docs (https://modal.com/docs/reference/modal.config, https://modal.com/docs/reference/cli/token) and NVIDIA's official API-key docs (https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/retriever/26.5.0/extraction/api-keys/). Local runtime check found ~/.modal.toml present, no MODAL_TOKEN_ID/MODAL_TOKEN_SECRET env pair, no NVIDIA_API_KEY, and no installed modal CLI/Python module.
- Changed: Modal compute and credential resources now detect either the env token pair or ~/.modal.toml, show the detected credential source without exposing values, and keep cloud execution labeled as waiting on a Modal runtime adapter. NVIDIA BioNeMo/NVIDIA API resources now use NVIDIA_API_KEY diagnostics consistently and keep self-hosted/local NIM endpoints routed through custom connectors or credential refs.
- Verified: Focused workbench/settings tests passed (3/3), including deterministic env-backed Modal/NVIDIA assertions. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed. Fresh authenticated /api/state on http://127.0.0.1:6184 returned Modal compute/credential as configured via ~/.modal.toml, NVIDIA BioNeMo/NVIDIA API as available, and the 43 connector resources from the science catalog slice. The in-app browser automation bridge exposed no usable browser globals after restart, so this slice is API/state/test verified rather than click-smoked.
- Next: Implement the actual cloud execution adapter only after the provider action is scoped: Modal notebook job submission, NVIDIA hosted NIM calls, or connector OAuth handshake.

2026-07-01 16:02 PDT — open-science-workbench-science-catalog

- Objective: Respond to the Claude Science parity critique by making the Feynman workbench feel like an in-app Pi research chat with a science connector/control plane, not a generic resource dashboard.
- Researched: Re-used the installed Claude Science local app observations for Settings > Connectors, including Featured/Directory/Organization sections, BioMart's visible tool list, Remote/Local connector forms, OAuth/header/env fields, permissions, and the modal page structure. Re-read Pi 0.80.3 RPC/session/extension evidence already captured for persistent chat, commands, packages, and MCP-like tool bridges.
- Changed: Connector resources now include connector kind and tool metadata. Feynman exposes a Claude Science-shaped science connector catalog with 20 Featured, 6 Directory, and 9 Organization presets, while keeping executable Pi packages and custom connectors separate and honest as configured/package-backed rows. Customize now has a Settings-style sidebar grouped into Capabilities and Workspace, breadcrumb/back chrome, connector list/search/filter, connector detail pages with tool permission previews, and Remote/Local add screens using the existing persisted connector model. The transcript now shows a pending Pi session strip before the first turn so the central surface reads as a Pi-backed chat frame immediately. Split connector client and style code into focused modules to keep architecture guard green.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, focused workbench/settings tests (26/26), and full npm test passed (374/374). Fresh authenticated /api/state on http://127.0.0.1:6184 returned 43 connector resources: Featured 20, Directory 6, Organization 9, Configured packages 5, Optional packages 2, Project extensions 1; BioMart is a Featured available preset with list_marts, list_datasets, list_common_attributes, list_all_attributes, list_filters, get_data, get_translation, and batch_translate. The in-app browser bridge could load and screenshot the current app route, but its click context reset/timed out before a post-split connector-modal click smoke; interactive connector behavior remains covered by state/API and existing settings handlers.
- Next: Add provider-backed OAuth/cloud connection flows where a supported local CLI/API path exists, then enrich environment snapshots with package/environment lockfiles.

2026-07-01 15:17 PDT — issue-sweep-workbench-clean-repeat

- Objective: Run the recurring Feynman AI researcher intake sweep from the actual dirty local main checkout, preserving unrelated workbench/package changes and making no GitHub writes.
- Checked: Local main is still one commit ahead of origin/main at local 6c84b24, with the existing dirty workbench/package slice preserved. Live GitHub still has open issue #182 only, zero open PRs, and latest main workflow run Publish and Release 28343487961 succeeded at cb5fa56. Latest GitHub release remains v0.3.5 with four release assets; npm latest remains @companion-ai/[email protected]; local/package Pi remains 0.80.3; @companion-ai/alpha-hub remains 0.1.3.
- Decisions: No product code change was needed. Issue #182 stays deferred because the issue still reports old CLI 0.2.17 plus a later 0.3.4/alpha-hub 0.1.3 trace where alphaXiv/Clerk redirects to the landing page before Feynman/alpha-hub receives a callback code; this machine's source feynman alpha status succeeds, and no fresh current-version logged-out callback trace proves a Feynman-owned defect. Open PR classification is empty. Contributor refs remain non-actionable: pr4fork/main has no commits ahead, origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is a stale local-model warning branch, and sampled fork branches are Overleaf/admin export, provider/runtime bypasses, Windows/platform changes, fork docs, architecture notes, or fork-specific parallel-tool extensions outside the narrow research-loop bar.
- Package freshness: Root and website production audits found 0 vulnerabilities. Remaining root drift is non-security (@clack/prompts, @types/node, fast-xml-parser, posthog-node); website drift is non-security Astro/React/Tailwind/ESLint/UI-tooling drift. No drift maps to an open research-loop defect.
- Verified: npm run architecture:check; focused workbench/runtime tests (49/49); full npm test (374/374); npm run typecheck; npm run build; website npm run lint; website npm run typecheck; website npm run build (33 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev; source feynman alpha --help; source feynman alpha status; git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run (172 files, package size 52.5 MB); and temp installed-tarball smoke passed after correcting the archive path assertion. The installed tarball printed 0.3.5, rendered help, and its runtime archive contains @companion-ai/[email protected] plus @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent, pi-ai, pi-agent-core, and pi-tui at 0.80.3.
- Next: Keep watching #182 for a fresh current-version logged-out OAuth callback trace. Preserve the still-dirty workbench/package slice unless explicitly asked to publish it.

2026-07-01 13:16 PDT — open-science-workbench-sse-connectors

- Objective: Close the remaining custom connector transport gap by making legacy SSE MCP connectors executable from the in-app Pi chat.
- Researched: Re-read installed Pi 0.80.3 SDK/extension/session docs, MCP SDK 1.29.0 SSE client/server transport source, and the live local Claude Science runtime/log/SQLite evidence. Claude Science runs a daemon-backed research chat surface with project frames, messages, custom MCP servers, agent assignments, tool grants, and lazy pooled MCP connectors over Streamable HTTP and stdio; MCP SDK SSE uses a GET event stream, an endpoint event, POSTed JSON-RPC messages, and response message events.
- Changed: feynman_connector_tools and feynman_connector_call now execute transport: "sse" connectors through the same approval-gated bridge as Streamable HTTP and local stdio. The bridge opens the SSE stream, enforces same-origin endpoint resolution, posts initialize/list/call JSON-RPC to the server-provided endpoint, resolves pending responses from event-stream messages, cleans up pending requests on close, and updates runtime prompt/context/settings diagnostics to describe SSE as executable.
- Verified: Focused connector tests now cover Streamable HTTP, SSE, local stdio, grants, skip approvals, specialist assignments, excluded tools, and helper/env parsing. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test passed (374/374). Fresh in-app browser smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6182/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit?token=M5eEiSEaQXSy0e66JLDwosfr1FjShUlg added a temporary SSE connector, verified the Customize > Connectors card and executable runtime diagnostic, captured /tmp/feynman-sse-connector-smoke.png, and cleaned settings back to zero custom connectors/grants/domains.
- Next: Add provider-backed OAuth/cloud connection flows where a supported local CLI/API path exists, then enrich environment snapshots with package/environment lockfiles.

2026-07-01 13:02 PDT — open-science-workbench-connector-assignments

- Objective: Close the Claude Science connector attachment gap by making custom connectors specialist-aware and able to hide selected MCP tools from chat execution.
- Researched: Re-read installed Pi 0.80.3 RPC/SDK/extension docs and the local Claude Science SQLite/runtime evidence. Claude Science stores MCP servers separately from mcp_agent_assignments, with excluded_tools on the assignment; its customize skill describes connector access by profile plus per-connector excluded tools after connector resolution.
- Changed: Custom connector settings now persist assignedSpecialists and bare-name excludedTools. The feynman_connector_tools and feynman_connector_call Pi tools accept the active specialist, report not_assigned connectors, omit excluded tools from discovery, and reject excluded or wrong-specialist calls before any HTTP/local MCP execution or approval request. Runtime prompts, sanitized context, connector diagnostics, and the Customize connector form now expose the assignment/exclusion policy. Fixed Customize panel rendering so its tab body, long connector form, and resource sections reserve layout height instead of overlapping.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, focused workbench connector/settings/context/UI tests, and full npm test passed (373/373). Fresh in-app browser smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6182/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit?token=vovodDnZeOXaR-cCg9J7nA4JEoUCMV2t verified the real Customize Connectors tab, Assigned specialists and Excluded tools fields, no form/resource overlap, and clean connector-panel geometry.
- Next: Add SSE connector transport, then provider-backed OAuth/cloud connection flows.

2026-07-01 12:42 PDT — open-science-workbench-chat-approvals

- Objective: Move connector ask approvals from Settings-only review into the actual chat transcript, matching the installed Claude Science approval-card flow more closely.
- Researched: Re-read Pi 0.80.3 extension docs, JSON event stream docs, package metadata, and permission-gate examples. Inspected the installed Claude Science approval/runtime assets for pending_input_requests, mcp_tool connector cards, Connector kind labels, allow/deny controls, and skip-server semantics.
- Changed: Transcript tool events now render a connector approval card when a Pi connector-call error carries a connector:<connector-id>:<tool-name> scope. The card shows connector, tool, scope, input arguments, Allow, Block, and Allow connector actions. All actions write to the existing permissionGrants settings collection, and Settings mutations now re-render the transcript so chat and Settings share one approval state.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, npm run build, and git diff --check passed after the final UI polish. The full Node test harness passed earlier in the slice (372/372). Fresh-server in-app browser smoke verified the pending card, Allow exact grant, Allow connector exact-plus-wildcard grants, visible card geometry/screenshot with no overlap, suppression of the raw connector error output above the card, and cleanup back to the original settings/session files.
- Next: Add SSE connector transport, then agent-specific connector assignment/exclusion and provider-backed OAuth/cloud connection flows.

2026-07-01 11:36 PDT — open-science-workbench-local-stdio-connectors

- Objective: Close the next Claude Science connector parity gap by making local command MCP connectors executable from the in-app Pi chat, matching the installed Claude Science local MCP launcher shape.
- Researched: Re-read the MCP SDK stdio transport and the installed Claude Science local MCP launcher at ~/.claude-science/runtime/0.1.0-dev.20260630.t212931.sha2bc1ac8-release/mcp-servers/bio-tools/run_server.py; Claude Science launches local MCP servers over stdio, while Pi 0.80.3 still needs app-owned extension tools for MCP execution.
- Changed: Extended feynman_connector_tools and feynman_connector_call to support transport: "local" connectors. The extension now validates local commands, spawns them in the workspace, speaks LF-delimited MCP JSON-RPC over stdin/stdout, captures bounded stderr, parses connector env lines, closes child processes, and keeps the existing explicit allow grant gate before execution. Runtime prompt/context/settings diagnostics now describe Streamable HTTP and local command connectors as executable.
- Verified: Focused connector tests prove local stdio discovery, allowed tools/call, env parsing, and grant enforcement before local spawn. npm run typecheck; npm run build; npm run architecture:check; git diff --check; full npm test (371/371) all passed. Restarted the real built workbench on PID 61886 at http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit?token=connector-bridge-20260701; browser smoke verified the chat composer, temporary local connector card with executable local command diagnostics, temporary allowed grant card, zero console errors, and cleanup back to zero custom connectors/grants.
- Next: Add SSE connector transport, then UI approval cards for ask grants and agent-specific connector assignments/exclusions.

2026-07-01 11:24 PDT — open-science-workbench-connector-execution

- Objective: Close the next Claude Science parity gap by making saved custom connectors executable from the in-app Pi chat instead of only visible as prompt/settings context.
- Researched: Rechecked Anthropic's current Claude Science page for connectors, skills, scientific databases, traceable artifacts, compute, and internal API/ELN/pipeline integrations. Re-read the installed Claude Science runtime/database evidence for custom_mcp_servers, mcp_tool_grants, mcp_agent_assignments, MCP app tiles, connector attachment/exclusion APIs, and host.mcp(...) as the reference connector execution surface. Re-read Pi 0.80.3 README, extension docs, dynamic-tool examples, RPC/session launch path, and security notes; Pi has no built-in MCP, and extensions are the supported path for app-owned tool integrations.
- Changed: Added feynman_connector_tools and feynman_connector_call to the bundled research-tools Pi extension. Streamable HTTP MCP connectors now run the MCP initialize, initialized notification, tools/list, and tools/call JSON-RPC sequence; connector calls require an explicit allow grant for connector:<connector-id>:<tool-name> or connector:<connector-id>:* before any network request. Header helpers can provide request headers without printing or storing secret values. Runtime prompts, sanitized context diagnostics, settings diagnostics, and the Permissions placeholder now describe the executable bridge instead of the old "adapter needed" boundary.
- Verified: Targeted connector tests prove tool discovery, allowed tool calls, MCP session headers, grant enforcement before network execution, and header-helper parsing. npm run typecheck; npm run build; npm run architecture:check; git diff --check; full npm test (370/370) all passed. Fresh rebuilt-server browser smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit verified the rendered workbench frame, temporary Streamable HTTP connector card with feynman_connector_tools/feynman_connector_call runtime text, temporary allowed permission-grant card, zero browser console errors, and cleanup back to zero custom connectors/grants.
- Next: Add local stdio and SSE connector transports, UI approval cards for ask grants, and agent-specific connector assignments/exclusions.

2026-07-01 11:09 PDT — open-science-workbench-review-action

- Objective: Fix the composer Request review action so the workbench behaves more like Claude Science's in-frame reviewer instead of pasting review instructions into chat.
- Researched: Re-drove installed Claude Science and confirmed its composer Request review starts a reviewer child frame from the chat surface. Re-read Pi 0.80.3 RPC, prompt-template, extension, and session docs; Pi RPC prompt expands prompt templates and the package prompts/review.md command is available as /review <artifact>.
- Changed: Added a first-class workbench review request path. The authenticated /api/chat/review/request route selects the primary review artifact, submits /review <artifact> through the existing persisted workbench chat/Pi path, records the transcript/tool event, and refreshes workbench state. The composer plus-menu action now calls that route, shows an in-chat reviewing state, and targets the active run's primary output artifact rather than the side-pane selection.
- Verified: npm run typecheck; npm run build; npm run architecture:check; git diff --check; focused workbench/review tests; full npm test (367/367); and a rebuilt-server in-app browser smoke with a fixture Pi executor. Browser verification opened Verification, clicked composer Request review, and confirmed the transcript contained /review outputs/scaling-laws.md, not notes/scaling-laws-verification.md; the fixture reply rendered in chat and the composer input stayed empty. Restarted the real local workbench on http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit?token=QxvLzneQw5haG_sqC0HsRZYfoUicATPg.
- Next: Build the MCP/package/extension execution adapter for saved custom connectors and explicit grant enforcement.

2026-07-01 10:43 PDT — open-science-workbench-runtime-context

- Objective: Respond to the "chat inside it" critique by making the in-app Pi chat aware of the same configured science resources that the Claude Science-shaped Customize surface exposes.
- Researched: Re-read installed Pi 0.80.3 RPC, SDK, settings, package, security, usage, and extension docs. Pi docs confirm this version intentionally has no built-in MCP; app-owned capabilities need to flow through prompts, extensions, packages, or external adapters. Rechecked installed Claude Science SQLite/runtime evidence for frame_messages, MCP server/grant tables, cloud credentials, compute providers, memory categories, artifact environment snapshots, execution logs, and provenance panes.
- Changed: Added a shared workbench runtime context layer that formats custom connectors, credential env refs, grants, domains, compute hosts, and memory categories into normal chat prompts without secret values. Added a bundled Pi tool, feynman_workbench_context, so Pi can inspect sanitized workbench resources during a turn. Notebook executions now persist feynman.workbenchEnvironmentSnapshot.v1 records that include OS/runtime/resource context, and connector diagnostics now state the real bridge plus the remaining MCP adapter boundary.
- Verified: npm run typecheck; npm run build; npm run architecture:check; git diff --check; focused runtime-context tests; full npm test (366/366); and fresh rebuilt-server in-app browser smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit. Browser verification opened the real project frame/transcript, opened Customize, selected Connectors, verified the temporary runtime-context connector card plus feynman_workbench_context bridge diagnostic, saw zero console errors, then removed the temporary connector and confirmed customConnectors: 0.
- Next: Build the MCP/package/extension execution adapter for saved custom connectors and explicit grant enforcement.

2026-07-01 09:50 PDT — open-science-workbench-settings-control-plane

- Objective: Respond to the Claude Science parity critique by making the Customize surface a real science-app settings/control plane instead of a generic resource-card drawer.
- Researched: Re-drove the installed Claude Science local app and confirmed its Settings sections: Skills, Connectors, Specialists, Memory, Compute, Network, Permissions, Credentials, Storage, Usage, and General. Re-read Pi 0.80.3 docs for RPC embedding, package sources/filtering, project trust, extension execution, settings, usage, and the no-built-in-sandbox boundary. Rechecked current OpenCode and Conductor references for the relevant control-plane cues: multi-session/local desktop agent UX, provider credentials, isolated/parallel agent work, event/dashboard visibility, and settings/env surfaces.
- Changed: Replaced the workbench Customize resource grouping with Claude Science-shaped sections while keeping Feynman semantics. Skills now include prompt templates in the Skills tab; Connectors are grouped by configured/core/optional/project extensions; Memory, Compute, Network, Permissions, Credentials, Storage, Usage, and General are populated from local Pi/Feynman state, package manifests, web-access status, environment-variable presence, artifact/session counts, runtime versions, and trust/package boundaries. The UI now renders subsection headings inside each Settings tab.
- Verified: API state returned the 11 Settings groups with counts 33/8/4/3/6/6/5/10/5/3/4. Headless Chrome smoke on the live local workbench verified the rendered modal tabs, Network/Credentials/Storage content, zero console errors, and zero tab/card overflow; screenshot /tmp/feynman-settings-claude-science-structure.png. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, focused workbench tests (27/27), and full npm test (361/361) passed.
- Next: Add deeper custom connector/tool-grant mutation paths and real credential connection flows rather than read-only inventory cards.

2026-07-01 08:09 PDT — issue-sweep-workbench-clean-repeat

- Objective: Run the recurring Feynman AI researcher intake sweep from the actual dirty local main checkout while preserving unrelated workbench/package changes and making no GitHub writes.
- Checked: Local main is one commit ahead of origin/main at 6c84b24 with the existing dirty workbench/package slice preserved. Live GitHub has open issue #182 only, zero open PRs, and latest main workflow run Publish and Release 28343487961 succeeded at cb5fa56. Latest GitHub release remains v0.3.5 with release assets; npm latest remains @companion-ai/[email protected]; local/package Pi remains 0.80.3; @companion-ai/alpha-hub remains 0.1.3.
- Decisions: No product code change was needed. Issue #182 stays deferred because the latest issue/comment evidence still points to alphaXiv/Clerk redirect behavior before Feynman/alpha-hub receives a callback code, this machine's source feynman alpha status succeeds, and no fresh current-version logged-out callback trace proves a Feynman-owned defect. Open PR classification is empty. Contributor refs remain non-actionable: pr4fork/main has no commits ahead, origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is one stale local-model warning commit, and sampled forks remain Overleaf/admin export, provider/runtime, Windows/platform, fork docs, or fork-specific extension work outside the narrow research-loop bar.
- Package freshness: Root and website production audits found 0 vulnerabilities. Remaining root drift is non-security (@clack/prompts, @types/node, fast-xml-parser, posthog-node); website drift is non-security Astro/React/Tailwind/ESLint/UI-tooling drift. No drift maps to an open research-loop defect.
- Verified: npm run architecture:check; focused workbench/runtime tests (39/39); full npm test (352/352); npm run typecheck; npm run build; website npm run lint; website npm run typecheck; website npm run build (33 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev; source feynman alpha --help; source feynman alpha status; git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run (159 files, package size 52.4 MB); and temp installed-tarball smoke passed. The installed tarball printed 0.3.5, rendered help, and its runtime archive contains @companion-ai/alpha-hub plus @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent, pi-ai, pi-agent-core, and pi-tui.
- Next: Keep watching #182 for a fresh current-version logged-out OAuth callback trace. Preserve the still-dirty workbench/package slice unless explicitly asked to publish it.

2026-07-01 00:41 PDT — open-science-workbench-kernel-notebook

- Objective: Respond to the "chat inside it" / insufficient-research critique by replacing the artifact-list Notebook pane with a Pi-backed code-cell surface closer to Claude Science's kernel notebook.
- Researched: Re-read installed Pi 0.80.3 RPC, SDK, and session-format docs plus the current Feynman workbench execution scanner. Reused the installed Claude Science bundle evidence for KernelNotebookPane, useExecutionLog, ProvenancePane, and execution-log/verification-check schemas: Claude Science centers notebook cells on execution records with code, output, language, environment, files written, and review context.
- Changed: Made the right-pane Notebook tab prefer real execution records with extracted Pi code over artifact cells; each rendered cell now shows a bracketed cell index, language/environment/source id, status, code, output, details, and read/wrote artifact links. Artifact notebook rows remain as the fallback/file trail. Added a focused notebook stylesheet and wired it into the workbench style bundle.
- Verified: Focused tests/workbench.test.ts passed (18/18); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (345/345) passed. A headless Chrome CDP smoke against a throwaway Pi JSONL workspace confirmed kernel-notebook-pane rendered with one Pi-backed Python code cell, output Saved outputs/producer-result.md, file read/write links, and zero visible-overflow elements. Screenshot: /tmp/feynman-kernel-notebook.png.
- Next: Add direct kernel/code execution from the notebook surface or composer, then promote verification checks and artifact versions into structured records rather than best-effort scans.

2026-07-01 00:23 PDT — open-science-workbench-producer-context

- Objective: Respond to the Claude Science parity critique by making selected artifacts show the producer code, producer messages, and producer environment/details from real Pi session data instead of generic workspace scan text.
- Researched: Re-read installed Pi 0.80.3 session-format, RPC, SDK, extension, AgentSession, RPC event, and SessionManager docs/source. Verified Pi session JSONL entries store assistant toolCall arguments, toolResult content/details, bash execution messages, and stable toolCallId correlation. Reused the installed Claude Science public/product and local-app evidence that artifact history is organized around exact code, environment, conversation/messages, execution, and review.
- Changed: Extended workbench tool events to preserve Pi tool names, input arguments, result details, and error state; derived execution records directly from Pi session JSONL files by correlating assistant tool calls with tool results; attached producer code, producer messages, details, language, environment, and artifact links to execution records; added a selected-artifact Messages tab; and made the Code and Environment tabs prefer linked producer records before falling back to local content/workspace metadata.
- Verified: Focused tests/workbench.test.ts passed (18/18), including a new Pi JSONL producer fixture; npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (345/345) passed. A live Chrome/Playwright smoke against a throwaway workbench workspace confirmed preview tabs include Messages, producer code renders for outputs/producer-result.md, producer messages include Saved outputs/producer-result.md, the environment pane shows Pi session details including Python 3.12 and tool-code, and the artifact Execution tab renders 2 rows. Screenshot: /tmp/feynman-producer-tabs.png.
- Next: Add richer notebook/code-cell execution surfaces and structured verification checks equivalent to Claude Science's kernel notebook and reviewer panes.

2026-06-30 22:17 PDT — open-science-workbench-execution-log

- Objective: Close the next Claude Science parity gap by giving Feynman a frame-level execution ledger and selected-artifact producer links.
- Researched: Re-read installed Pi 0.80.3 session/RPC/SDK/extension docs for prompt, steer, abort, queued messages, JSONL session entries, tool lifecycle events, and AgentSession event subscriptions. Queried the installed Claude Science SQLite schema for execution_log, verification_checks, artifacts, artifact_versions, artifact_dependencies, frames, and frame_messages, then confirmed seeded artifact versions carry extracted code and metadata while execution/verification tables are empty in the sample DB.
- Changed: Added typed WorkbenchExecutionRecord state, split execution scanning into src/workbench/execution.ts, derived execution events from local artifact writes plus persisted workbench/Pi chat session messages/tool events/timeline entries, linked events to artifact paths when the artifact is explicitly named, added a right-pane Execution tab, and added a selected-artifact Execution preview tab.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, focused tests/workbench.test.ts (17/17), npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed. In-app browser smoke against http://127.0.0.1:49921/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit confirmed the right Execution pane renders 29 events, the artifact Execution tab renders 21 rows for the selected artifact, preview tabs include Execution, right tabs include Execution, and a layout geometry check found zero row overlap or overflow across 50 visible execution rows.
- Next: Add richer notebook/code-cell execution surfaces equivalent to Claude Science's kernel notebook pane, then promote environment snapshots and verification checks from best-effort local scans into structured records.

2026-06-30 22:02 PDT — open-science-workbench-science-previews

- Objective: Use the installed Claude Science app as the reference and move Feynman toward functional parity for scientific artifact previews.
- Researched: Opened the running Claude Science app from a fresh nonce URL, drove the dashboard, Example project, Files overlay, CSV artifact split view, and IS621 PDB artifact route. Inspected the local Claude Science runtime bundle and SQLite DB to identify frame/artifact routes, content types, artifact version storage paths, and preview chunks for CSV, FASTA, PDB, PDF, image, genome, sequence, structure, molecule, notebook, provenance, and execution-log surfaces.
- Changed: Added typed Feynman workbench previews for CSV/TSV tables with row/column metadata, FASTA sequence cards with residue counts, PDB structure previews with style controls plus canvas rotate/zoom/pan behavior, and inline image/PDF rendering through the existing safe download endpoint. Extended scanner/content-type/language handling for FASTA, PDB, and TSV while preserving /api/file as text-only for binary media.
- Verified: Focused tests/workbench.test.ts (16/16), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (343/343) passed. Browser smoke against a temporary workbench workspace confirmed PDB structure controls and canvas (/tmp/feynman-science-pdb-preview.png), CSV table rendering (/tmp/feynman-science-csv-preview.png), and FASTA sequence rendering (/tmp/feynman-science-fasta-preview.png). Claude Science reference screenshots were saved at /tmp/claude-science-frame-current.png, /tmp/claude-science-files-overlay.png, /tmp/claude-science-csv-preview.png, and /tmp/claude-science-pdb-current.png.
- Next: Build the frame-level execution log and artifact-producing-turn links from Pi tool events and Feynman artifact writes, then expose structured environment snapshots and verification checks.

2026-06-30 21:47 PDT — open-science-workbench-live-chat-controls

- Objective: Close the immediate "chat inside it" gap by making the workbench composer behave like a live research frame while a Pi-backed turn is still running.
- Researched: Drove the installed Claude Science dashboard/frame/artifact split view, inspected its local runtime bundle and SQLite tables for frames/messages/artifacts/execution/provenance, and re-read installed Pi 0.80.3 RPC/SDK/session docs for prompt, steer, abort, queue, session state, and streaming events.
- Changed: Kept the composer input enabled during active Pi runs, changed Send to Queue while running, added Stop, wired queued messages through Pi RPC steer, wired Stop through Pi RPC abort, preserved queued transcript messages across stream writes, and mapped aborted Pi turns to a stopped chat state instead of a generic error.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, focused tests/workbench.test.ts (16/16), npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (343/343), and a headless Chrome smoke with a delayed executor passed. The smoke confirmed running-state controls (Queue, visible Stop, enabled input) and clean reset after completion; screenshot saved at /tmp/feynman-live-chat-running.png.
- Next: Add Claude Science-style scientific artifact previewers and deeper execution/provenance surfaces from Pi tool events, Feynman artifact writes, and verification records.

2026-06-30 21:31 PDT — intake-sweep-workbench-packaging-fix

- Objective: Run the recurring Feynman AI researcher intake sweep against the actual dirty local tree while preserving unrelated workbench/package changes.
- Checked: Live GitHub queue still has open issue #182 only, zero open PRs, latest main workflow run Publish and Release success at cb5fa56, latest release v0.3.5, npm latest @companion-ai/[email protected], alpha-hub latest 0.1.3, and Pi latest/current 0.80.3. Contributor refs remain stale or outside the research-loop bar: local-model warning, Overleaf/admin export, provider/runtime forks, Windows/platform work, fork docs, and fork-specific parallel-tool extension work.
- Decision: Keep issue #182 deferred because the thread still points to alphaXiv/Clerk redirect behavior before Feynman can exchange a token, this machine's feynman alpha status succeeds, and no current-version Feynman-owned callback trace was added. No PR was open to classify beyond an empty PR queue.
- Changed: Fixed the dirty workbench package gate by keeping generated plan mutation ownership in src/workbench/plan.ts and ensuring server/tests import that module instead of treating chat as the plan owner. No GitHub writes, pushes, merges, closes, or comments were performed.
- Verified: npm run architecture:check, focused tests/workbench.test.ts (16/16), full npm test (343/343), npm run typecheck, npm run build, website npm run lint, website npm run typecheck, website npm run build (33 pages), root and website npm audit --omit=dev, source feynman alpha --help, source feynman alpha status, git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run, and temp installed-tarball smoke passed. The installed tarball printed 0.3.5, rendered help, and its runtime archive contains Pi coding-agent, pi-ai, pi-agent-core, pi-tui, and alpha-hub package entries.
- Next: Keep watching #182 for a fresh logged-out OAuth callback trace on current Feynman/alpha-hub; preserve the still-dirty local workbench slice unless explicitly asked to publish it.

2026-06-30 21:29 PDT — open-science-workbench-generated-plan

- Objective: Make the workbench behave more like Claude Science's science-frame planning loop by turning "Plan next step" into a real generated plan artifact with approval and step-status mutation.
- Researched: Re-read Pi 0.80.3 SDK/RPC/session/extension docs and the installed Claude Science app/database/bundle evidence for generate_plan, update_step_status, plan approval UI, artifact versions, execution logs, verification checks, and scientific artifact panes.
- Changed: Added typed feynman.workbenchPlan.v1 JSON plans in outputs/.plans/<session>.workbench-plan.json, plan scanning through /api/state, authenticated plan generate/approve/reject/step-update APIs, visible approval and step controls in the transcript/right-pane Plan UI, and split the plan lifecycle into src/workbench/plan.ts so chat/session persistence stays separate.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, focused tests/workbench.test.ts (16/16), npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (343/343) passed. Headless Chrome UI smoke on a temporary workspace generated a plan, rendered the approval bar, approved it, completed the first step, confirmed persisted JSON had plan status running and first-step status complete, and saved /tmp/feynman-workbench-generated-plan-smoke.png.
- Next: Connect Pi/Feynman tool events and artifact writes into a frame-level execution log, then add richer scientific previewers and real skills/connectors/compute management.

2026-06-30 21:07 PDT — open-science-workbench-plan-status

- Objective: Move the workbench closer to Claude Science's science-frame workflow by making plan/status state visible while chat remains active inside the research session.
- Researched: Reused the installed Claude Science evidence from the project surface, View plan flow, plus menu, and plan/status tool counts, then mapped the slice to Feynman's existing outputs/.plans, notebook cells, verification artifacts, provenance sidecars, and Pi-backed chat state.
- Changed: Added a Plan right-pane tab, a transcript Execution plan card, and plus-menu actions for View plan, Your files, Plan next step, Request review, Save as skill, and Attach from files. The plan model is derived from real selected-run artifacts across plan, evidence, synthesis, verification, and provenance states. Split right-pane rendering into ui-client-panes.ts and split agent/plan styles into focused modules so the workbench did not add new architecture-size warnings.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, focused tests/workbench.test.ts (14/14), npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (341/341) passed. Chrome DevTools Protocol smoke against http://127.0.0.1:61381/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit confirmed the transcript plan card is visible, the Plan pane renders 5 steps, View plan and Your files composer actions switch panes, and there were zero page exceptions. Screenshots: /tmp/feynman-workbench-plan-card-visible.png, /tmp/feynman-workbench-plan-pane-visible.png, /tmp/feynman-workbench-plus-view-plan-visible.png, and crop /tmp/feynman-workbench-plan-card-crop.png.
- Next: Add a generated plan mutation path equivalent to Claude Science's generate_plan/update_step_status, then connect Pi tool events and Feynman artifact writes into a frame-level execution log.

2026-06-30 19:19 PDT — open-science-workbench-rpc-chat

- Objective: Correct the workbench chat from stable one-shot Pi turns to a real inside-the-app session bridge like Claude Science's persistent research frame.
- Researched: Drove the installed Claude Science app locally through the Example project, Files view, Customize modal, composer plus menu, session options, model menu, and plan/artifact split view. Rechecked the Claude Science SQLite schema/tool counts and unpacked bundle chunk names, then re-read Pi RPC/SDK/session docs and source for exact --session-id, JSONL framing, prompt, state, entries, tree, model, thinking, and event behavior.
- Changed: Replaced the workbench streaming runtime with a long-lived per-session Pi RPC client using strict LF-only JSONL parsing, exact stable --session-id reuse, prompt response correlation, live message/tool event forwarding, server-close cleanup, and a smaller RPC prompt that avoids replaying prior transcript turns into Pi history. Added a protocol regression test and updated the open-science parity plan.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, focused tests/workbench.test.ts (14/14), npm run build, and npm run architecture:check passed. Browser smoke against http://127.0.0.1:63637/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit sent a real prompt through the UI and got assistant reply feynman-rpc-smoke; the Pi strip and Agent tab showed the same active feynman-workbench-reference-audit JSONL session with 2 messages, model, cwd, thinking level, and timeline. Screenshots: /tmp/feynman-workbench-rpc-smoke.png and /tmp/feynman-workbench-rpc-agent-pane.png.
- Next: Add Claude Science-style generated plan/status cards and artifact lineage/execution-log surfaces from Pi events and Feynman artifact writes.

2026-06-30 19:18 PDT — open-science-workbench-agent-pane

- Objective: Move the Feynman workbench closer to Claude Science's chat-inside-a-research-frame control plane by grounding the UI in real Pi session data.
- Researched: Inspected the installed Claude Science bundle/runtime/SQLite org database and Pi Coding Agent docs for sessions, JSON event mode, SDK, RPC, extensions, and session format. Claude Science's seed has projects/frames/messages/artifacts around real science workflows; Pi exposes persistent JSONL session trees, event streams, entries, tools, branch state, and commands for embedded UIs.
- Changed: Added an Agent tab to the workbench right pane, and extended Pi session parsing to expose the current-branch timeline plus per-tool summaries from the real Pi JSONL session file. Added outputs/.plans/open-science-workbench.md as the durable parity checklist.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, focused tests/workbench.test.ts (13/13), npm run build, npm run architecture:check, full npm test (340/340), and git diff --check passed. Browser smoke against http://127.0.0.1:56964/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit confirmed the Agent tab opens and renders the Pi session status, metrics, runtime, tools, and timeline states without layout overlap; screenshot saved at /tmp/feynman-workbench-agent-pane.png.
- Next: Replace spawn-per-turn print mode with a long-lived Pi SDK/RPC runtime per workbench session, then add execution-log and plan-approval surfaces.

2026-06-30 18:39 PDT — open-science-workbench-pi-session-provenance

- Objective: Respond to the in-app chat/parity critique by grounding the workbench in Pi's real session model and adding Claude Science-style artifact-local provenance panes.
- Researched: Re-read the installed Pi coding agent docs/source for AgentSession, AgentSessionRuntime, JSONL session format, SessionManager, print/JSON mode, --session-id, session tree/branch behavior, extension/session persistence, and the SDK-vs-RPC embedding boundary. Re-inspected the installed Claude Science runtime/database and confirmed artifact details are organized around Code, Execution Log, Messages, Environment, and Review provenance panes backed by artifact version, execution, and verification tables.
- Changed: Added stable Pi session IDs for workbench chat turns via Feynman's Pi launcher, parsed Pi JSONL session files with Pi's SessionManager, persisted a piSession summary on each workbench chat, and rendered a Pi session status row in the transcript with session ID, JSONL file, message/tool/branch counts, model, and thinking level. Added selected-artifact tabs in the right preview pane: Content, Code, Lineage, Environment, and Review. Split new client/style code into focused workbench modules to keep architecture debt from growing.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, npm test (340/340), and git diff --check passed. Browser smoke against http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit confirmed preview tabs switch, lineage opens Verification Matrix, Review shows checks, the Pi session row fits at 531x75 px, and screenshots were saved at /tmp/feynman-workbench-pi-session-provenance.png and /tmp/feynman-workbench-pi-session-row.png.
- Next: Move from one-shot --session-id persistence to a long-lived SDK AgentSessionRuntime bridge with real abort/steer/follow-up/new/resume/fork controls, then add true execution-log/code-cell surfaces, message-history drawers, package-level environment snapshots, richer file renderers, compute setup, and skills/connectors management.

2026-06-30 18:14 PDT — open-science-workbench-research-trace

- Objective: Respond to the Claude Science parity critique by making the central chat surface expose the selected research run's actual artifact/notebook trail, not just a summary bubble.
- Researched: Re-opened the installed Claude Science app, local runtime/database, and Pi-backed workbench code paths; confirmed Claude Science centers work around a session transcript with visible planning/tool/artifact rows, split artifact preview, files/library/notebook/provenance panes, and a composer wired to local research state.
- Changed: Added an expandable Research trace inside the assistant turn, sourced from the selected run's notebook/artifact records, with status/category chips, path and metadata detail, Notebook jump, Open-in-split, and Download actions. Removed the stale non-streaming browser submit duplicate so the visible composer relies on the streaming control path. Preserved transcript scroll position when expanding trace rows while keeping live chat sticky at the bottom.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm test (338/338), npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed. Browser smoke against http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit confirmed the 22-step research trace renders, expansion stays visible without snapping to the bottom, and Open-in-split switches the preview to Source Archive and loads its Markdown. Screenshots: /tmp/feynman-workbench-research-trace-row.png and /tmp/feynman-workbench-research-trace-expanded.png.
- Next: Continue Claude Science parity with artifact lineage/execution-log surfaces, richer file renderers, skills/connectors/compute management, and a longer-lived Pi session bridge.

2026-06-30 17:31 PDT — open-science-workbench-streaming

- Objective: Close the next Claude Science parity gap by making in-app chat stream live Pi text and tool activity instead of waiting for a completed one-shot response.
- Researched: Re-read Pi JSON/RPC/SDK docs and runtime source for message_update, tool_execution_start, tool_execution_update, tool_execution_end, and the interactive-mode rendering path; inspected the installed Claude Science runtime for streaming text/tool state, tool-stream skeletons, and frame phases.
- Changed: Split Pi prompt launching into chat-runtime.ts, added JSON-mode event parsing for live assistant text and tool lifecycle updates, added authenticated SSE endpoint POST /api/chat/message/stream, updated the browser chat submit path to read the stream, and added tests for Pi JSON event mapping plus the streaming API contract.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, focused tests/workbench.test.ts (12/12), npm run build, full npm test (338/338), npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed. Headless Chromium stream smoke confirmed running-state rendering, streamed assistant text, streamed tool rows, and no console/page errors against a delayed fake executor; real Pi JSON event parsing is covered by unit tests, while a live model JSON-stream smoke remains the next runtime proof.
- Next: Continue Claude Science parity with artifact lineage, execution/code-cell surfaces, richer PDF/CSV/biological previews, compute-provider setup, skills/connectors management, and eventually a long-lived Pi RPC/SDK session bridge.

2026-06-30 17:28 PDT — open-science-workbench-attachments

- Objective: Close the next Claude Science parity gap by making in-app chat accept local research file uploads as session-owned context for Pi.
- Researched: Re-read Pi 0.80.3 docs/source for -p print mode, JSON/RPC/session behavior, runtime launch arguments, and extension boundaries; inspected the installed Claude Science runtime for composer upload chips, attachment file refs, "User uploads" grouping, drop-to-attach behavior, and submit blocking while uploads are in flight.
- Changed: Added persisted workbench attachments under ignored .feynman/workbench/uploads/<session>, attachment metadata/previews on chat sessions, upload/delete API endpoints, Pi prompt injection with text excerpts plus local file paths, composer file picker, drag/drop upload, removable attachment chips, and focused upload/deletion coverage.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, focused tests/workbench.test.ts (10/10), npm run build, full npm test (336/336), npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed. Headless Chromium upload smokes confirmed chip rendering, persisted preview text for Pi context, delete cleanup, no console/page errors, and restored the throwaway reference-audit session/upload files afterward; visual chip screenshot is /tmp/feynman-workbench-chip-present.png.
- Next: Continue Claude Science parity with streaming Pi turns, generated artifact lineage, execution log/code-cell surfaces, richer biological/CSV/PDF previews, compute-provider setup, and real skills/connectors management.

2026-06-30 16:44 PDT — open-science-workbench-controls

- Objective: Continue the Claude Science parity work beyond basic chat by using the installed app and copying observed session controls into Feynman's local workbench.
- Researched: Drove the live Claude Science project surface with Playwright and observed composer-plus-menu, composer-plus-menu-plan, composer-request-review, session config rows for delegation/auto-review/memory/specialist/compute, Files/Library source and search controls, library card open/download/menu actions, artifact maximize/download actions, and the Customize surface.
- Changed: Added persisted workbench session config that feeds into the Pi prompt, composer plus-menu actions for plan/review/attach, session config popover/toggles, safe artifact download endpoint, file source selector, library search, file-card open/download/info actions, artifact tray split-open buttons, preview maximize/download controls, a local Customize panel, and split the browser controls into ui-client-controls.ts to avoid adding new architecture debt.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, npm run build, focused tests/workbench.test.ts (8/8), full npm test (334/334), npm run architecture:check with no new workbench large-file warning, git diff --check, and headless Chromium control smoke /tmp/feynman-science-controls-after-split.png passed. The browser smoke confirmed menu insertion, config persistence, file search, artifact download 200, preview maximize, and no console/page errors; temporary .feynman/workbench/sessions/reference-audit.json was removed afterward.
- Next: Continue toward full Claude Science parity with streaming turns, real upload/drop attachments, generated artifact lineage, execution log/code cells, richer preview types, compute-provider setup, and real skills/connectors management.

2026-06-30 16:27 PDT — open-science-workbench-chat

- Objective: Correct the workbench from a static Claude Science-shaped dashboard into an actual local science chat surface backed by Feynman/Pi.
- Researched: Inspected the installed Claude Science app, its live dashboard/project DOM, local SQLite tables for projects/frames/messages/artifacts/execution/provenance/customization, bundled science skills, and Pi's RPC/session/prompt docs before choosing the slice.
- Changed: Added app-owned workbench chat sessions under ignored .feynman/workbench/sessions, authenticated chat/session HTTP endpoints, a central transcript with tool-event rows and artifact tray, composer controls, and a production prompt executor that runs Pi through the same Feynman runtime wrapper as the CLI. Updated feynman serve docs/help metadata and ignored local workbench state.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, focused tests/workbench.test.ts, npm run build, full npm test (332/332), npm run architecture:check with only existing large-file warnings, and git diff --check passed. Headless Chromium rendered /tmp/feynman-science-chat-workbench.png; a real browser composer submit invoked Pi and persisted an assistant reply of feynman-chat-ok in /tmp/feynman-science-chat-submit.png, then the throwaway local session was removed.
- Next: Continue filling Claude Science parity beyond chat: streaming turns, upload/attachment routing, artifact open-in-split actions, execution/provenance lineage, compute-provider setup, customization/skills/connectors, and richer preview types.

2026-06-30 15:50 PDT — open-science-workbench-structure

- Objective: Remake the local workbench into the Claude Science app structure instead of a combined dashboard/workspace screen.
- Changed: Split the browser app into / project dashboard, /projects/:projectId project control plane, and /projects/:projectId/frames/:slug session deep links; rebuilt the UI around a centered project table, top project chrome, left project/session navigation, central session/artifact/notebook content, and right Files/Library/Notebook/Compute/Provenance panes; kept the Feynman green palette and read-only local research scope.
- Guardrails: Kept the server loopback/token-protected, removed decorative radial background, kept inactive project creation and archive download controls disabled, and added server coverage that project routes return the app shell under token auth.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, focused tests/workbench.test.ts, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (330/330) passed. Headless Chrome rendered /tmp/feynman-science-dashboard-1to1.png and /tmp/feynman-science-control-1to1.png at 1440x1000 from the built CLI server.
- Next: Use the live route-split workbench to decide the next research-surface slice, likely real run execution/progress streaming or richer provenance navigation.

2026-06-30 14:23 PDT — issue-sweep-pi-0-80-3-runtime-refresh

- Objective: Re-run the recurring Feynman AI researcher intake sweep from the actual dirty main checkout, preserving the existing open-science workbench changes and making no GitHub writes.
- Checked: Local main remains aligned with origin/main at cb5fa56; live GitHub still has open issue #182, zero open PRs, latest successful Publish and Release run 28343487961 at cb5fa56, GitHub release v0.3.5, and npm @companion-ai/[email protected]. Contributor branches remain stale or non-actionable: pr4fork/main has no commits ahead of origin/main, origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is stale, and sampled fork branches remain broad provider/admin/export/docs/platform changes rather than narrow research-loop defects.
- Decision: Ported the safe Pi runtime freshness fix because @earendil-works/pi-* 0.80.3 contains runtime reliability and observability fixes for provider errors/retries, OpenAI/Codex timeout handling, session/RPC behavior, extension timing, TUI shrink behavior, and markdown escape rendering. Left ordinary dependency drift and website tooling drift untouched because no open issue or validation failure ties it to the research loop. #182 remains deferred because current Feynman still delegates alpha auth to alpha-hub, alpha-hub is still latest at 0.1.3, feynman alpha status succeeds on this machine, and the issue still lacks a current-version logged-out callback trace proving a Feynman-owned defect.
- Changed: Updated the four pinned Pi runtime packages to 0.80.3, updated Feynman's Pi runtime fallback constants in package seeding and vendored workspace generation, and regenerated the vendored runtime archive. Existing uncommitted workbench files were preserved.
- Verified: Focused runtime/package/content tests passed 68/68; npm run architecture:check; full npm test passed 330/330; npm run typecheck; npm run build; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities; git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run; temp installed-tarball smoke returned 0.3.5, rendered help, and confirmed packaged runtime archive contains all four Pi packages at 0.80.3 plus pi-ai/compat; source feynman alpha status and source feynman alpha --help passed.
- GitHub writes: none. Commit/push/merge/close/comment: none.
- Next: Keep watching #182 for a current-version logged-out OAuth redirect trace; otherwise the next durable step is committing/reviewing the combined local workbench plus Pi runtime refresh when explicitly authorized.

2026-06-30 14:01 PDT — open-science-workbench

- Objective: Build Feynman's first local open science app surface, inspired by Codex, OpenCode Desktop, Conductor, and Claude Science, while keeping scope anchored to research runs, artifacts, provenance, verification, and the workspace lab notebook.
- Changed: Added a token-protected loopback workbench server behind feynman serve; added workspace scanning for outputs/, papers/, notes/, outputs/.plans/, outputs/.drafts/, provenance files, verification files, and CHANGELOG.md; mapped existing artifacts into science projects, sessions, notebook cells, compute cards, and provenance records; replaced the first file-browser UI with a Claude Science-shaped science app surface and green Feynman styling; documented the command in CLI help and README.
- Guardrails: The workbench is read-only, binds to 127.0.0.1 by default, validates previews against resolved workspace paths, and does not add Electron/Tauri packaging or generic productivity surfaces.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, focused tests/workbench.test.ts, and full npm test (330/330) passed. Built CLI smoke returned 4 projects, 43 sessions/runs, 122 artifacts, 122 notebook cells, 3 compute cards, and 16 provenance records from /api/state. Headless Chrome rendered the initial app at 1440x1000.
- Next: Use the live workbench to decide the next research-surface slice, likely run execution/progress streaming or richer provenance navigation.

2026-06-30 07:20 PDT — issue-sweep-0-3-5-clean-repeat

- Objective: Re-run the recurring Feynman AI researcher intake sweep from the actual main checkout, preserving existing uncommitted CHANGELOG.md lab-notebook entries and making no GitHub writes.
- Checked: Local main is aligned with origin/main at cb5fa56; live GitHub still has open issue #182, zero open PRs, and latest successful Publish and Release run 28343487961 at cb5fa56. Latest GitHub release is v0.3.5; npm latest is @companion-ai/[email protected]; bundled Pi is 0.80.2; @companion-ai/[email protected] is still latest.
- Decisions: No product code change was needed. #182 remains deferred because Feynman delegates alpha auth to bundled alpha-hub, alpha-hub owns client registration, localhost callback, and token exchange, this machine's feynman alpha status succeeds, and the issue thread still points at alphaXiv/Clerk redirect behavior before Feynman can exchange a token. Open PR classification is empty. Contributor branches remain non-actionable: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is one stale workflow-warning commit behind current main, pr4fork/main has no commits ahead of origin/main, and the sampled fork branches are Bedrock/provider/admin/export/fork-docs/Windows-installer changes rather than narrow current research-loop defects.
- Package freshness: Root production audit and website production audit found 0 vulnerabilities. Remaining root drift is non-security (@clack/prompts, @types/node, fast-xml-parser, posthog-node); website drift is non-security Astro/ESLint/UI-tooling drift. No drift maps to an open research-loop defect.
- Verified: npm run architecture:check, npm test (326/326), npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint, website typecheck, website build (33 pages), root and website npm audit --omit=dev, git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run, temp packed-tarball install smoke, source feynman alpha status, and source feynman alpha --help passed. One source node ./dist/cli.js alpha --help attempt failed because it raced the parallel npm pack --dry-run prepack clean; the rerun through bin/feynman.js passed.
- Next: Keep watching #182 for a current-version logged-out OAuth redirect trace proving a Feynman-owned defect; no local fix or GitHub action is justified from the current evidence.

2026-06-30 00:20 PDT — issue-sweep-0-3-5-clean-repeat

- Objective: Re-run the recurring Feynman AI researcher intake sweep from the actual main checkout, preserving existing uncommitted CHANGELOG.md lab-notebook entries and making no GitHub writes.
- Checked: Local main is aligned with origin/main at cb5fa56; live GitHub still has open issue #182, zero open PRs, and latest successful Publish and Release run 28343487961 at cb5fa56. Latest GitHub release is v0.3.5; npm latest is @companion-ai/[email protected]; bundled Pi is 0.80.2; @companion-ai/[email protected] is still latest.
- Decisions: No product code change was needed. #182 remains deferred because Feynman delegates alpha auth to bundled alpha-hub, this machine's feynman alpha status succeeds, and the current issue thread still points at the alphaXiv/Clerk redirect path before Feynman can exchange a token. Open PR classification is empty. Contributor branches remain non-actionable: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is one stale workflow-warning commit behind current main, pr4fork/main has no commits ahead of origin/main, and the sampled fork branches are Bedrock/provider/admin/export/fork-docs/Windows-installer changes rather than narrow current research-loop defects.
- Package freshness: Root production audit and website production audit found 0 vulnerabilities. Remaining root drift is non-security (@clack/prompts, @types/node, fast-xml-parser, posthog-node); website drift is non-security Astro/ESLint/UI-tooling drift. No drift maps to an open research-loop defect.
- Verified: npm run architecture:check, npm test (326/326), npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint, website typecheck, website build (33 pages), root and website npm audit --omit=dev, git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run, temp packed-tarball install smoke, feynman alpha status, and feynman alpha --help passed. One packaging harness attempt failed after prepack because npm pack --json output included prepack logs before JSON; the plain tarball filename capture rerun passed.
- Next: Keep watching #182 for a current-version logged-out OAuth redirect trace proving a Feynman-owned defect; no local fix or GitHub action is justified from the current evidence.

2026-06-29 17:20 PDT — issue-sweep-0-3-5-clean-repeat

- Objective: Re-run the recurring Feynman AI researcher intake sweep from the actual main checkout, preserving the existing uncommitted CHANGELOG.md lab-notebook entries and making no GitHub writes.
- Checked: Local main is aligned with origin/main at cb5fa56; live GitHub still has open issue #182, zero open PRs, and latest successful Publish and Release run 28343487961 at cb5fa56. Latest GitHub release is v0.3.5; npm latest is @companion-ai/[email protected]; bundled Pi is 0.80.2; @companion-ai/[email protected] is still latest.
- Decisions: No product code change was needed. #182 remains deferred because current Feynman delegates alpha auth to bundled alpha-hub, this machine's feynman alpha status succeeds, and the fresh issue thread still points at the alphaXiv/Clerk redirect path before Feynman can exchange a token. Open PR classification is empty. Contributor branches remain non-actionable: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is one stale workflow-warning commit behind current main, pr4fork/main has no commits ahead of origin/main, and the sampled fork branches are Bedrock/provider/admin/export/fork-docs/Windows-installer changes rather than narrow current research-loop defects.
- Package freshness: Root production audit and website production audit found 0 vulnerabilities. Remaining root drift is non-security (@clack/prompts, @types/node, fast-xml-parser, posthog-node); website drift is non-security Astro/ESLint/UI-tooling drift. No drift maps to an open research-loop defect.
- Verified: npm run architecture:check, npm test (326/326), npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint, website typecheck, website build (33 pages), root and website npm audit --omit=dev, git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run, temp packed-tarball install smoke, feynman alpha status, and feynman alpha --help passed.
- Next: Keep watching #182 for a current-version logged-out OAuth redirect trace proving a Feynman-owned defect; no local fix or GitHub action is justified from the current evidence.

2026-06-29 03:17 PDT — issue-sweep-0-3-5-still-clean

- Objective: Re-run the recurring Feynman AI researcher intake sweep from the actual main checkout, preserving the existing uncommitted lab-notebook entry and making no GitHub writes.
- Checked: Local main is aligned with origin/main at cb5fa56; live GitHub still has open issue #182, zero open PRs, and latest successful Publish and Release run 28343487961 at cb5fa56. Latest GitHub release is v0.3.5; npm latest is @companion-ai/[email protected]; bundled Pi is 0.80.2; @companion-ai/[email protected] is still latest.
- Decisions: No product code change was needed. #182 remains deferred because current Feynman delegates feynman alpha login to alpha-hub's Clerk OAuth callback flow on 127.0.0.1:9876, this machine's feynman alpha status succeeds, and the open issue still reports CLI 0.2.17 without a current 0.3.5 callback trace proving a Feynman-owned defect. Open PR classification is empty. Contributor branches remain non-actionable: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is one stale workflow-warning commit behind current main, and pr4fork/main has no commits ahead of origin/main.
- Package freshness: Root production audit and website production audit found 0 vulnerabilities. Remaining root drift is non-security (@clack/prompts, @types/node, fast-xml-parser, posthog-node); website drift is non-security Astro/ESLint/UI-tooling drift. No drift maps to an open research-loop defect.
- Verified: npm run architecture:check, npm test (326/326), npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint, website typecheck, website build (33 pages), root and website npm audit --omit=dev, git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run, temp packed-tarball install smoke, feynman alpha status, and feynman alpha --help passed. One packaging harness attempt failed after prepack because the shell script assigned to zsh's read-only status variable; the plain rerun passed.
- Next: Keep watching #182 for a fresh logged-out OAuth redirect trace on current Feynman; no local fix or GitHub action is justified from the current evidence.

2026-06-28 20:18 PDT — issue-sweep-0-3-5-clean

- Objective: Re-run the recurring Feynman AI researcher intake sweep after the 0.3.5 release, preserving the clean local worktree and making no GitHub writes.
- Checked: Local main is clean and aligned with origin/main at cb5fa56; live GitHub has open issue #182, zero open PRs, and latest successful Publish and Release run 28343487961 at cb5fa56. Latest GitHub release is v0.3.5; npm latest is @companion-ai/[email protected]; bundled Pi is 0.80.2; @companion-ai/[email protected] is still latest.
- Decisions: No repo code change was needed. #182 remains deferred because Feynman delegates feynman alpha login to alpha-hub's Clerk OAuth callback flow on 127.0.0.1:9876; this machine is already logged in, feynman alpha status succeeds, and no current logged-out callback trace proves a Feynman-owned defect. #183 is no longer open after the 0.3.5 release. Open PR classification is empty. Stale branch review found no merge/port target: local-model workflow warning behavior is already present in current code/tests, pr4fork/main has no commits ahead of origin/main, and older fork branches are broad admin/provider/platform/tooling changes or new external workflow lanes rather than narrow research-loop fixes.
- Package freshness: Root and website production audits found 0 vulnerabilities. Remaining root drift is non-security (@clack/prompts, @types/node, fast-xml-parser, posthog-node); website drift is non-security Astro/ESLint/UI-tooling drift. No drift maps to an open research-loop defect.
- Verified: npm run architecture:check, npm test (326/326), npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint, website typecheck, website build (33 pages), root and website npm audit --omit=dev, git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run, feynman alpha status, and feynman alpha --help passed.
- Next: Keep watching #182 for a fresh logged-out OAuth redirect trace; no local fix or GitHub action is justified from the current evidence.

2026-06-28 18:28 PDT — issue-183-ship-0-3-5

- Objective: Ship the local Pi runtime candidate that fixes #183 instead of leaving it as an unpublished 0.3.4 working tree.
- Changed: Bumped Feynman to 0.3.5, added v0.3.5 release notes, kept the Pi runtime line at 0.80.2, preserved published v0.3.4 release history, derived legacy @mariozechner/ peer aliases from current @earendil-works/ runtime metadata, and updated the Pi TUI patcher for the current overflow-check block.
- Checked: Live GitHub had open issues #182 and #183 and zero open PRs at the start of the pass. #183 is fixed and published in v0.3.5: packaged/runtime Pi 0.80.2 includes @earendil-works/pi-ai ./compat, dist/compat.js, current and legacy extension-loader /compat aliases, and the bundled pi-web-access package imports successfully through Jiti. #183 was commented and closed as completed after npm/GitHub release verification. #182 remains open and still points at the alphaXiv/Clerk OAuth redirect before Feynman/alpha-hub receives a callback; no Feynman-owned callback fix was proven in this pass.
- Verified: npm test passed 326/326; npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, root npm audit --omit=dev, website lint/typecheck/build/audit, rendered website internal-link check, git diff --check, release-note extraction for 0.3.5, npm pack --dry-run --json, and real installed-tarball version/help/runtime/pi-web-access import/search-status smokes passed. One installed-tarball smoke attempt failed from local /tmp ENOSPC while extracting the runtime archive; after removing stale Feynman temp smoke directories, the rerun passed.
- Next: Continue watching #182 for a current callback trace; no open PRs remain.

2026-06-27 23:09 PDT — issue-sweep-open-queue-covered

- Objective: Re-run the recurring Feynman intake sweep from the actual dirty local release-candidate tree, preserving unrelated local changes and making no GitHub writes.
- Checked: Live GitHub still has open issues #182 and #183, zero open PRs, latest main workflow Publish and Release run 28082220040 green at 852a2f1, latest GitHub release v0.3.4, and npm @companion-ai/[email protected]. Contributor branch surfaces remain non-open PRs: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning, pr4fork/main, and fetched stale fork branches.
- Decisions: No new product code was needed. #183 is actionable against published v0.3.4 reports but already covered by the local candidate: Pi runtime 0.80.2 exports ./compat, packaged runtime-workspace.tgz contains pi-ai/dist/compat.js, and the extension loader aliases both @earendil-works/pi-ai/compat and @mariozechner/pi-ai/compat. #182 remains deferred because the current evidence still points at alphaXiv/Clerk OAuth redirect behavior before Feynman/alpha-hub receives a callback; local Feynman code delegates auth to @companion-ai/[email protected] and prints the auth URL.
- Package freshness: Feynman and Pi runtime packages are current; alpha-hub is current. Root non-security drift remains @clack/prompts, posthog-node, fast-xml-parser, and @types/node; website non-security drift remains Astro/ESLint/UI-tooling packages. No dependency drift was tied to an open research-loop defect.
- Verified: npm test passed 326/326; npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, website lint, website typecheck, website build, root and website npm audit --omit=dev, git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run --json, and installed-tarball version/help/runtime-archive smoke passed. One temporary installed-tarball smoke attempt failed only because the npm pack --json parser consumed prepack log text before the final JSON array; the corrected rerun passed.
- Next: Keep the local release candidate unpushed until explicit commit/push/release authorization; continue watching #182 for a current callback trace and #183 for published-release follow-up after the local candidate is shipped.

2026-06-27 16:08 PDT — issue-sweep-current-queue-clean

- Objective: Re-run the recurring Feynman intake sweep against the current dirty release-candidate tree without pushing, merging, closing, or commenting on GitHub.
- Checked: Open GitHub issues are still #182 and #183; open PRs are zero; recent main workflow state still ends with green Publish and Release run 28082220040 at 852a2f1; latest GitHub release and npm package are still v0.3.4 / 0.3.4; current local package metadata is @companion-ai/[email protected]; Pi runtime packages remain current at 0.80.2; alpha-hub remains current at 0.1.3; origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning and pr4fork/main are stale/non-open branch surfaces, not live PRs.
- Decisions: No new product code was needed. #183 remains covered by the local Pi 0.80.2 candidate because installed and packaged runtime copies include @earendil-works/pi-ai ./compat, dist/compat.js, and extension-loader aliases for both current and legacy /compat paths. #182 remains deferred because current local code delegates the OAuth callback loop to @companion-ai/alpha-hub on 127.0.0.1:9876, the bundled auth patch exposes the full auth URL, and no current-version callback trace proves a Feynman-owned defect. Outdated ordinary dependencies (@clack/prompts, posthog-node, fast-xml-parser, @types/node) were not upgraded because no open issue or validation failure tied them to the research loop.
- Verified: Root npm test passed 326/326; npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, root and website production audits, website lint/typecheck/build, git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run, and installed-tarball version/help/runtime inspection smoke passed. Installed tarball smoke returned version 0.3.4 and confirmed packaged Pi 0.80.2 compat export/file, current and legacy loader aliases, and alpha auth URL logging.
- Next: Keep the release candidate local-only until explicit commit/push/release authorization; continue watching #182 for a current-version callback trace and #183 for regressions against Pi /compat.

2026-06-27 09:15 PDT — issue-sweep-no-new-port

- Objective: Re-run the recurring Feynman intake sweep against the current dirty release-candidate tree without disturbing existing local package/runtime work.
- Checked: Open GitHub issues are #182 and #183; open PRs are zero; recent main workflows still end with green Publish and Release run 28082220040 at 852a2f1; latest GitHub release and npm package are v0.3.4 / 0.3.4; published Pi runtime packages are current at 0.80.2; refreshed remote branch list has no new contributor PR branch beyond the existing stale branches.
- Decisions: No new product code was needed. #183 remains covered by the local Pi 0.80.2 candidate because installed @earendil-works/pi-ai exports ./compat, dist/compat.js exists, and the installed extension loader aliases both current and legacy /compat paths. #182 remains deferred because the current local code delegates alpha login to @companion-ai/alpha-hub on 127.0.0.1:9876, and no fresh trace proves a Feynman-owned callback defect.
- Verified: Root npm test passed 326/326; npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, website lint/typecheck/build, root and website production audits, git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run, and installed-tarball help/packages/PaperRank/paper-access smokes passed. Installed tarball smoke returned version 0.3.4, ranked 4 fixture papers with 2/2 full text and 2 critiques, and resolved fixture paper access as full text available.
- Next: Keep the release candidate local-only until explicit commit/push/release authorization; continue watching #182 for a current-version failing callback trace.

2026-06-26 19:13 PDT — issue-sweep-current-queue-clean

- Objective: Re-run the recurring Feynman intake sweep against the current dirty release-candidate tree.
- Checked: Open GitHub issues are #182 and #183; open PRs are zero; latest main workflow is Publish and Release run 28082220040 at 852a2f1 and succeeded; latest GitHub release and npm package are still v0.3.4 / 0.3.4; the only non-main origin branch is fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning.
- Decisions: #183 remains covered by the local Pi 0.80.2 candidate because installed, vendored, and packaged runtime loaders include both @earendil-works/pi-ai/compat and legacy @mariozechner/pi-ai/compat aliases and @earendil-works/pi-ai exports ./compat. #182 is current-version user-reported but still points at the upstream alphaXiv/Clerk OAuth redirect flow before Feynman/alpha-hub receives a callback; no local fix was ported. The local-model warning branch stays deferred because it is workflow-copy behavior without a current issue-backed research-loop defect.
- Verified: Focused touched-surface tests passed 88/88; npm run typecheck, npm run build, full npm test (326/326), website lint/typecheck/build, root and website npm audit --omit=dev, git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run --json, and installed-tarball help/alpha-help/runtime-archive smoke passed. One installed-tarball smoke attempt failed only in the pack JSON parser because npm prepack logs preceded the JSON payload; the rerun extracted the JSON array deliberately and passed.
- Next: Keep the release candidate local-only until explicit commit/push/release authorization; keep watching #182 for provider-side OAuth changes or a reproducible local callback defect.

2026-06-26 09:32 PDT — pi-peer-alias-stability

- Objective: Fix the red package-op gate found after the intake sweep: full npm test could fail at installPackageSources installs Pi runtime peers beside Pi packages.
- Root cause: resolveRuntimePeerSpec() trusted legacy @mariozechner/ package roots before resolving the canonical @earendil-works/ runtime package. A stale or concurrently-created legacy root in .feynman/npm/node_modules could make generated legacy peer aliases use stale runtime metadata instead of the current bundled Pi runtime.
- Changed: Legacy Pi runtime package names now derive their npm alias version from the current canonical @earendil-works/* package first, falling back only when canonical metadata is unavailable. The package-op regression now plants stale legacy roots and asserts aliases still follow the current root runtime version.
- Verified: Focused tests/package-ops.test.ts passed 10/10. npm run typecheck, npm run build, full npm test (326/326), git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run, and installed-tarball help smoke passed.
- Next: The package candidate is local-only; commit/push/release still need explicit user authorization.

2026-06-25 22:05 PDT — issue-sweep-no-new-port

- Objective: Re-run the Feynman GitHub/release/package/local validation sweep against the current dirty package state.
- Checked: Open GitHub issues remain #182 and #183; open PRs remain zero; latest main workflow Publish and Release run 28082220040 succeeded; latest GitHub release and npm package remain v0.3.4 / 0.3.4; Pi runtime packages remain current at 0.80.2; contributor branch origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is still unmerged and not an open PR.
- Decision: No new product code was needed. #183 is still covered by the local Pi 0.80.2 runtime/compat changes. #182 stays deferred because the report is on old CLI 0.2.17 and no current-version auth repro was available. The local-model warning branch stays deferred because it is launch-copy behavior without a current issue-backed defect.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, npm run build, isolated package-op tests, full npm test (326/326), root/website production audits, website typecheck/lint/build, git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run, and installed-tarball help smoke passed. One initial combined focused test command failed a package-op assertion while other validation commands were running; isolated package-op and full-suite reruns passed.
- Next: Commit/push/release only after explicit user authorization; continue watching #182 for a current-version login repro.

2026-06-25 20:47 PDT — pi-tui-terminal-overflow

- Objective: Fix Feynman startup/runtime failures when Pi renders a line wider than the current terminal width.
- Changed: Updated the Pi TUI patcher to recognize the current Pi 0.80.2 overflow-check block, where the line clear happens before the width guard. The patch now removes Pi's hard Rendered line ... exceeds terminal width throw and truncates the overwide line instead. Rebuilt the vendored runtime workspace so installed and packaged Pi TUI copies carry the fix.
- Verified: The real node_modules, vendored workspace, and runtime-workspace.tgz Pi TUI files no longer contain throw new Error(errorMsg) and do contain line = sliceByColumn(line, 0, width, true). A direct fake-terminal TUI smoke hit the overwide differential-render path without throwing. Focused Pi TUI/runtime patch tests, npm run typecheck, npm run build, full npm test (326/326), git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run, and installed-tarball help/runtime inspection passed.
- Next: Commit/push/release only after explicit user authorization.

2026-06-24 18:05 PDT — pi-0-80-2-compat-runtime

- Objective: Sweep live GitHub intake and fix only core AI-researcher reliability defects.
- Changed: Upgraded the bundled Pi runtime package line from 0.79.10 to 0.80.2, aligned Feynman's fallback/runtime seeding constants, migrated the remaining getEnvApiKey import to @earendil-works/pi-ai/compat, rebuilt the vendored runtime workspace, and updated release docs/tests to record the /compat migration. This addresses the open pi-web-access /compat loader failure without adding a local shim.
- Verified: GitHub issue/PR sweep found open issues #182 and #183, zero open PRs, and the latest main workflow green. The packaged runtime archive now contains @earendil-works/[email protected] with ./compat and loader aliases for both @earendil-works/pi-ai/compat and @mariozechner/pi-ai/compat. Focused tests passed 52/52 and 72/72; full npm test passed 325/325; npm run typecheck, npm run build, root/website production audits, website typecheck/lint/build, npm pack --dry-run, git diff --check, and installed-tarball help/runtime smokes passed.
- Next: Commit/push/release only after explicit user authorization; keep #182 deferred until there is a current-version alpha login repro.

2026-06-22 15:46 PDT — release-candidate-cleanup

- Objective: Clean the staged AI-researcher release candidate without expanding scope after the Yo-Yo PR intake.
- Changed: Removed stale ignored local artifacts (firebase-debug.log, old package tarballs, outputs/.DS_Store, and a stale paper log). Kept fresh ignored build artifacts needed for local CLI/package smoke inspection. Reworded the /lit publication-corpus guard so rejected non-core workflow terms do not appear in the active prompt surface. Normalized PaperRank report/provenance indentation.
- Verified: Active-surface scan now finds rejected outreach/Bernoulli/contact terms only inside the negative regression. Focused node --import tsx --test --test-concurrency=1 tests/content-policy.test.ts tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 85/85. No tracked files were deleted during the ignored-artifact cleanup.
- Next: Re-run full package gates and keep commit/push/release pending explicit user authorization.

2026-06-22 15:41 PDT — yoyo-pr-core-intake

- Objective: Re-evaluate PR #179 and merge only the pieces that strengthen Feynman's core AI-researcher loop.
- Changed: Ported the useful lab-canon idea into /lit as a lab/PI/author publication-corpus mode instead of adding a new top-level workflow. Ported the useful summarize idea into /summarize by adding Field Context, Technical Hinges, Methodology From Primitives, and Follow-up Questions to the output format while keeping the existing disk-backed RLM ingestion. Left /paper-outreach, hardcoded Bernoulli database registration, and standalone /lab-canon out of the product surface. Added a regression that the accepted research-core ideas are present and the rejected outreach/database pieces stay absent.
- Verified: Fetched and reviewed PR #179 through GitHub. Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 33/33. Full npm test passed 321/321. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website typecheck/lint/build, git diff --check, git diff --cached --check, npm pack --dry-run, and live FEYNMAN_TELEMETRY=off NO_COLOR=1 node bin/feynman.js help passed. Posted PR review comment 4548622880 with the intake decision.
- Next: Stage the ported PR slice with the current local release candidate; commit/push/release remains pending explicit user authorization.

2026-06-22 05:34 PDT — paperrank-action-pointer-truth

- Objective: Ensure PaperRank's next-action queue points only to artifacts that actually exist for the current run, keeping the workflow useful instead of feature-shaped.
- Changed: Default missing-calibration and missing-reproduction next actions now point to the ranked brief, score audit, graph explorer, scores, and rank-sensitivity artifacts that are always written. Calibration templates, guides, score-calibration JSON, reproduction ledgers, reproduction-note templates, and replication plans are referenced only after a preference file or reproduction notes file causes those artifacts to exist. Added a regression covering the model-synthesis handoff path.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank/content-policy tests passed 78/78. Full npm test passed 308/308. npm run typecheck, npm run build, git diff --check, git diff --cached --check, root production audit, and npm pack --dry-run passed.
- Next: Continue auditing for concrete AI-researcher alignment defects; commit/push/release only after explicit user authorization.

2026-06-22 05:32 PDT — paperrank-preference-notes-rename

- Objective: Keep PaperRank calibration and reproduction evidence inside the AI-researcher loop without exposing test-harness language as product surface.
- Changed: Renamed the public PaperRank calibration/reproduction inputs from --calibration-fixture and --reproduction-fixture to --preference-file and --reproduction-notes. Renamed exported PaperRank option/type/function names, telemetry keys, generated JSON source fields, generated template schema names, website docs, release docs, and tests from fixture-language to preference/notes-language. Left --source-fixture only as test-data plumbing for OpenAlex-shaped fixtures.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank/telemetry/content-policy tests passed 89/89. Full npm test passed 308/308. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, root and website production audits, git diff --check, git diff --cached --check, and npm pack --dry-run passed. Built CLI smoke with --preference-file and --reproduction-notes produced evaluated calibration and reproduction artifacts with preferenceSource and notesSource, no fixtureSource; old --calibration-fixture exited as an unknown option.
- Next: Commit/push/release only after explicit user authorization.

2026-06-22 05:31 PDT — refreshed-reference-audit-and-fixture-surface-trim

- Objective: Refresh the external reference repos the user named and re-audit the staged package for feature creep before committing anything.
- Changed: Pulled clean reference archives for ML Intern, Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, plus local Codex/Hermes/OpenClaw checkouts where clean. Local pi-mono was fetched but not pulled because it had pre-existing deleted build artifacts. Removed PaperRank calibration/reproduction fixture flags from the README and command teaser while keeping the advanced evidence features in the PaperRank docs/tests.
- Verified: Current Pi source and npm still report 0.79.10 for the scoped Pi runtime packages, so no newer installable Pi pin exists. Current Pi packages/extensions/security docs still support the Feynman package/extension path and warn that packages/extensions are full-access. Active staged scans found no live Research Agenda keys outside negative tests and no gpt-5.5-pro slug. Full npm test passed 308/308 after the fixture-surface trim.
- Next: Stage the trim/audit notes, then rerun the final non-test package gates before any commit/push/release authorization.

2026-06-22 05:03 PDT — final-package-verification-pass

- Objective: Re-run the remaining package, website, and audit gates after the latest scope/model cleanup so the staged AI-researcher package has one coherent verification state.
- Changed: No product behavior changed. Updated this lab notebook with the final verification state.
- Verified: Full npm test passed 308/308. npm pack --dry-run passed and packed 130 files after rebuilding dist and confirming the vendored runtime workspace was current. Website lint, typecheck, and build passed; the website build generated 33 pages. Root and website npm audit --omit=dev both reported found 0 vulnerabilities. git diff --check and git diff --cached --check passed.
- Next: Commit/push/release only after explicit user authorization.

2026-06-22 04:58 PDT — model-pro-edge-guard

- Objective: Make the non-Pro model policy robust even for edge-case provider/model strings, without removing provider catalog entries.
- Changed: isProClassModel now evaluates the full provider/model spec instead of only the model ID, so provider names carrying a Pro-class marker cannot slip into available/recommended/default paths. Gemini model family ranking now ranks Pro suffixes last instead of treating them as the strongest variant. Added a synthetic catalog regression that Pro-class provider and model strings are excluded from recommendations when a non-Pro OpenAI GPT model is available.
- Verified: Focused model/catalog/settings tests passed 61/61. npm run typecheck and npm run build passed.
- Next: Commit/push/release only after explicit user authorization.

2026-06-22 04:56 PDT — compute-surface-scope-tightening

- Objective: Keep Docker, Modal, and RunPod as execution choices for active research experiments instead of marketing them as separate Feynman product lanes.
- Changed: Replaced the separate README tool bullets for Docker, Modal, and RunPod with one gated Research execution options bullet tied to explicitly chosen replication, benchmark, or dataset-heavy experiment runs, and added a content-policy regression that those standalone bullets do not return.
- Verified: Focused content/help/package tests passed 42/42. Live FEYNMAN_TELEMETRY=off NO_COLOR=1 node bin/feynman.js help showed research-scoped commands and no generic scheduler/process package commands. Live feynman packages list showed the lean core package set plus only supported research-continuity optional presets on the current Node runtime, with no remote-compute preset.
- Next: Commit/push/release only after explicit user authorization.

2026-06-22 04:53 PDT — paperrank-next-actions-contract

- Objective: Remove the remaining default Research Agenda feature-shaped label from PaperRank while keeping the useful read/calibrate/reproduce action queue inside the core research loop.
- Changed: Renamed the active PaperRank result, CLI JSON summary, model-synthesis packet, report heading, prompt handoff, telemetry property, and provenance wording from researchAgenda/Research Agenda to nextResearchActions/Next Research Actions. Changed generated action IDs from agenda- to action-. Added regression checks that the old JSON/artifact keys stay absent.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank/content-policy/telemetry tests passed 89/89. Full npm test passed 307/307. npm run typecheck and npm run build passed. Live built-CLI smoke with telemetry disabled ran feynman rank "sparse autoencoders mechanistic interpretability" --limit 2 --expand-citations 1 --full-text-top 1 --critique-top 1 --json; output had nextResearchActions, no researchAgenda, no research-agenda files, report heading ## Next Research Actions, 2 scored papers, 9 graph papers, and 9 graph edges.
- Next: Commit/push/release only after explicit user authorization.

2026-06-22 04:42 PDT — reference-sweep-scope-wording

- Objective: Re-read current external agent references and remove the remaining active wording that made Feynman sound like generic productivity or code optimization instead of an AI researcher.
- Changed: Refreshed/current-read ML Intern, Claude Code, Codex, Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, and Pi references. Kept the useful pattern as scoped research infrastructure: plugins/extensions, skills, traces, sandbox/remote execution, and model choice. Tightened /summarize, /autoresearch, the autoresearch skill, workflow docs, and slash-command docs so they describe research sources and research experiment loops instead of arbitrary URLs or generic benchmark/code-optimization loops. Added content-policy coverage for those surfaces.
- Verified: npm test passed 307/307. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, root and website production audits, npm pack --dry-run, git diff --check, and git diff --cached --check passed. Live CLI smokes passed for feynman help, feynman model, bundled feynman alpha --json search, feynman paper 10.7717/peerj.4375 --fetch-full-text --json, and feynman rank "sparse autoencoders mechanistic interpretability" --limit 3 --expand-citations 1 --full-text-top 1 --critique-top 1 --json with telemetry disabled and temp output. The live rank output wrote the lean default artifact set, generated 16 graph nodes and 20 graph edges, had 3 scored papers, fetched one full text, generated one critique, omitted raw full-text bodies, and produced zero default memo/dashboard/agenda/calibration/template/synthesis/replication-plan files. Active-surface scans found no grant/proposal/admin product lane outside funding-noise filters and negative assertions, and no stale summarize/autoresearch phrases outside the new regression assertion. Built website docs include the research-scoped autoresearch copy.
- Next: Commit/push/release only after explicit user authorization.

2026-06-22 04:24 PDT — paperrank-lean-default-artifacts

- Objective: Keep PaperRank simple yet potent: default output should answer what to read first and why, not create a pile of adjacent research-management artifacts.
- Changed: Removed default research-memo, dashboard, and standalone research-agenda artifact generation from PaperRank. Kept the decision-critical ranked brief, score audit, score/data JSONL, rank sensitivity, citation graph, graph explorer, field map, provenance, and optional research critique. Calibration, reproduction/replication, and synthesis artifacts now write only when their existing fixture or synthesis flags are used. Removed dead memo/dashboard renderers, fixed stale artifact pointers, changed release notes, and replaced the Pro-only catalog test fixture with a generic fake Pro ID.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank tests passed 46/46; focused catalog/content-policy tests passed 44/44; focused Pi settings tests passed 13/13. Full npm test passed 306/306. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, root and website production audits, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check passed. Live feynman paper 10.7717/peerj.4375 --fetch-full-text fetched Europe PMC fullTextXML with 70,012 chars and 3 sections. Live feynman rank "sparse autoencoders mechanistic interpretability" --limit 3 --expand-citations 1 --full-text-top 1 --critique-top 1 produced 10 files, with zero default memo/dashboard/agenda/calibration/reproduction/synthesis fixture files.
- Next: Stage the lean PaperRank cleanup with the AI-researcher package, then inspect the staged diff. Commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-22 03:48 PDT — pi-0-79-10-published-refresh

- Objective: Keep Feynman's embedded Pi runtime on the latest installable published package, not the older package that was current earlier in the audit.
- Changed: Rechecked npm and found @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent, pi-agent-core, pi-ai, and pi-tui are now all published at 0.79.10. Upgraded all four exact pins, updated Feynman's fallback/runtime-peer seeding constants to 0.79.10, regenerated the vendored runtime workspace, and updated current release docs. Adjusted the theme resource test for Pi 0.79.10's deduped theme behavior: the synced user theme remains enabled and the duplicate project copy is no longer returned disabled.
- Verified: npm view reports 0.79.10 for all four Pi packages, and package.json/package-lock.json pin all four at 0.79.10. Read Pi 0.79.10 package changelogs: compaction-event context, safer exact-version update flow, nested-repo find fix, OpenAI-compatible reasoning_details streaming preservation, and reload/session UI fixes. node scripts/prepare-runtime-workspace.mjs rebuilt the vendored runtime. Focused Pi/runtime/model/content tests passed 177/177 across two focused runs. Full npm test passed 306/306. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, root/website/vendored production audits, and npm pack --dry-run passed. Built CLI smokes for help, packages list, and model passed; live negative checks found no Pro, grant/proposal/funding, or removed UI/bulk targets in those command outputs.
- Next: Stage this Pi refresh with the AI-researcher package and continue only on defects that simplify or strengthen the core research loop.

2026-06-22 03:39 PDT — research-review-skill-rename

- Objective: Remove the last active peer-review product label from installed skill surfaces while preserving the useful internal research-review workflow.
- Changed: Renamed bundled skill skills/peer-review/SKILL.md to skills/research-review/SKILL.md and changed its frontmatter name to research-review. Updated content-policy coverage to read the renamed skill and assert the old skill name is absent. Updated public release-note wording from peer-review docs to research-review docs.
- Verified: Focused content-policy plus skill-path tests passed 32/32. Active-surface scan found no skills/peer-review, name: peer-review, Peer Review, peer-review-style, peer-review simulation, venue-style peer review, venue-pass speculation, venue readiness, or reviewing a paper for a venue hits outside regression assertions. Full npm test passed 306/306. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, and npm pack --dry-run passed; the pack dry-run includes skills/research-review/SKILL.md and no skills/peer-review/SKILL.md.
- Next: Stage this skill rename with the AI-researcher package and continue only on defects that simplify or strengthen the core research loop.

2026-06-22 03:32 PDT — reviewer-venue-scope-cleanup

- Objective: Keep the reviewer and audit surfaces inside internal research critique instead of venue-decision or external peer-review territory.
- Changed: Removed venue-style peer review, venue readiness, and venue-pass speculation language from the bundled reviewer agent. The reviewer now frames publication-readiness questions as revision risk and evidence quality, explicitly without predicting venue acceptance. The audit workflow docs now say to use /audit when evaluating a paper before relying on its claims, not when reviewing a paper for a venue. Added regression guards for those stale phrases.
- Verified: Focused content-policy tests passed 31/31. Active-surface scan found no venue-style peer review, venue-pass speculation, venue readiness, reviewing a paper for a venue, or stale peer-review simulation phrases outside regression assertions. Full npm test passed 306/306. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, and npm pack --dry-run passed.
- Next: Stage this scope cleanup with the AI-researcher package and continue only on defects that simplify or strengthen the core research loop.

2026-06-22 03:23 PDT — cli-docs-live-surface-scope

- Objective: Keep live CLI guidance and docs navigation aligned with the actual simple AI-researcher surface.
- Changed: Renamed the docs sidebar workflow label from Peer Review to Research Review, changed alphaXiv docs from peer-review workflow wording to internal research-review wording, and removed the nonexistent feynman setup model recommendation from model status guidance. Model guidance now points to real commands: feynman model login <provider>, feynman model list, and feynman model set <provider/non-pro-model>.
- Verified: Focused catalog/content tests passed 44/44. Full npm test passed 306/306. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, and npm pack --dry-run passed. Active-surface scans found no feynman setup model, Peer Review, or workflows like ... peer review hits outside regression assertions. After rebuilding dist, FEYNMAN_HOME=<temp> FEYNMAN_TELEMETRY=off NO_COLOR=1 node bin/feynman.js model printed After auth is in place, rerun \feynman model list\. with no setup model guidance.
- Next: Stage this CLI/docs live-surface cleanup with the AI-researcher package and continue only on defects that simplify or strengthen the core research loop.

2026-06-22 03:16 PDT — website-render-scope-and-layout

- Objective: Verify the public site as rendered, not only by source grep, and remove user-facing noise that weakens the simple AI-researcher surface.
- Changed: Fixed homepage accessible H1 text so it reads "The open source AI research agent" instead of AIresearch. Constrained the docs wrapper/article/prose/code/table layout so mobile docs pages do not create page-level horizontal overflow; long code and tables keep their own local scroll. Removed the unused Vercel Analytics script and dependency so local preview no longer emits /_vercel/insights/script.js 404s; Feynman observability remains PostHog-focused.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 31/31. Full npm test passed 305/305. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, and npm pack --dry-run passed. Website build passed with 33 pages after a concurrent Vite cache race was rerun sequentially. Browser render probe against local preview checked homepage, PaperRank, paper access, researcher, writer, and configuration pages on desktop 1440px and mobile 390px: all returned 200, stale public-copy hits were 0, console/page errors were 0, failed requests were 0, and document width equaled viewport width. Configuration still has internal table/code scrolling on mobile, but no page-level overflow.
- Next: Stage this website render cleanup with the AI-researcher package, then continue only on defects that simplify or strengthen the core research loop.

2026-06-22 03:02 PDT — public-agent-docs-scope

- Objective: Keep public agent docs aligned with the scoped research-output contract instead of implying universal citation, full-document reading, or fixed orchestration for every answer.
- Changed: Replaced the homepage "Every answer is cited" line with research-claim citation wording. Narrowed researcher docs from "entire source discovery and extraction pipeline" and default parallel agents to selected-source extraction and broad-task parallelism. Narrowed writer docs from every factual claim and always-last-agent promises to research-claim citation and usually-near-the-end workflow placement. Narrowed verifier docs from every verification result and exact quote wording to traceable completed verification notes with source locations. Narrowed reviewer docs from universal end-to-end document reading to available-artifact review tasks. Added content-policy coverage for these stale public-doc promises.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 31/31. Full npm test passed 305/305. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, and npm pack --dry-run passed. Active-surface scans found no stale Every answer is cited, handles the entire source discovery, Every factual claim is linked, It is always the last agent, or Every verification result includes phrases outside regression assertions.
- Next: Stage this public agent-docs cleanup with the AI-researcher package, then continue only on defects that simplify or strengthen the core research loop.

2026-06-22 02:55 PDT — public-provenance-promise-scope

- Objective: Keep public provenance claims strong but precise: research outputs and research claims are source-grounded, not every utility response or command output.
- Changed: Narrowed homepage hero/footer copy and README "How it works" copy from absolute every claim / every output promises to research-claim and research-output provenance. Replaced homepage "right team assembles" orchestration copy with specialist agents joining when the research task needs them, and changed "searches, remembers, and exports work" to source retrieval, research continuity, and artifact rendering. Added content-policy coverage for public absolute-promise wording.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 31/31. Full npm test passed 305/305. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, and npm pack --dry-run passed. Active-surface scans found no stale cites every claim, every output stays source-grounded, Every output is source-grounded, right team assembles, or searches, remembers, and exports work phrases outside regression assertions.
- Next: Stage this public promise cleanup with the AI-researcher package, then continue only on defects that simplify or strengthen the core research loop.

2026-06-22 02:48 PDT — compute-research-scope-cleanup

- Objective: Keep Docker, Modal, and RunPod positioned as explicit research execution targets, not generic compute/deploy/admin products.
- Changed: Narrowed homepage and README compute copy to explicitly chosen replication, benchmark, and research-experiment runs. Removed Modal deploy/serve/app-list style command copy from the skill, narrowed Modal away from generic training/inference/batch processing, narrowed RunPod to research-run pods, and tightened Docker safe-run wording to Feynman research workflows. Added content-policy coverage for compute scope.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 30/30. Full npm test passed 304/304. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, and npm pack --dry-run passed. Active-surface scans found no stale generic compute/deploy phrases such as training and inference, batch processing, Deploy persistently, Serve with hot-reload, or List deployed apps outside regression assertions.
- Next: Stage this compute scope cleanup with the AI-researcher package, then continue only on defects that simplify or strengthen the core research loop.

2026-06-22 02:43 PDT — homepage-replication-execution-gate

- Objective: Keep the public homepage aligned with the plan-first replication contract instead of implying Feynman automatically executes experiments.
- Changed: Updated the homepage /replicate workflow card, terminal example, and hero copy so replication is described as an environment-gated plan and experiment-planning workflow. Expanded content-policy coverage to include the homepage in the replication execution-gate test.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 29/29. Full npm test passed 303/303. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check passed. Active-surface scans found no remaining Replication plan and execution, experiment execution, runs experiments, and cites every claim, Replicate experiments on local or cloud GPUs, monitors training runs, or suggests reasonable defaults based on common practices hits outside regression assertions.
- Next: Stage this homepage scope cleanup with the AI-researcher package, then continue only on defects that simplify or strengthen the core research loop.

2026-06-22 02:37 PDT — review-authority-language-cleanup

- Objective: Remove the remaining positive "peer-review-style" and "simulated peer review" framing from active review surfaces while preserving the useful internal research critique workflow.
- Changed: Renamed the CLI PaperRank critique summary to Research critique, changed review workflow/agent/skill/homepage/README wording to internal research critique or internal research review, and expanded content-policy coverage to scan the homepage, CLI summary source, and release notes for reviewer-branded or peer-review-style wording.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 29/29. Full npm test passed 303/303. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check passed. Active-surface scans found no remaining Reviewer critique, reviewer-style, peer-review-style, or simulated peer review hits outside regression assertions.
- Next: Stage this final language cleanup with the AI-researcher package, then continue only on defects that simplify or strengthen the core research loop.

2026-06-22 02:29 PDT — paperrank-research-critique-label

- Objective: Keep PaperRank's optional critique useful while avoiding reviewer-branded or peer-review-adjacent wording in generated ranking artifacts.
- Changed: Renamed PaperRank user-facing critique copy from reviewer-style / Reviewer Critique to Research Critique across README examples, CLI docs, PaperRank workflow docs, generated reports, generated dashboards, critique reports, provenance, and replication/research-agenda text. Expanded content-policy coverage so PaperRank-specific copy cannot reintroduce reviewer-branded critique wording.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts plus tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 75/75. PaperRank-specific scan found no remaining reviewer hits in src/rank/paper-rank.ts, PaperRank workflow docs, or CLI docs; stale reviewer-branded PaperRank phrases appear only inside regression assertions.
- Next: Run full package verification, stage this label cleanup with the AI-researcher package, and continue only on defects that simplify or strengthen the core research loop.

2026-06-22 02:23 PDT — review-current-surface-cleanup

- Objective: Finish the /review scope cleanup across active model-facing and public command surfaces, not only the workflow page.
- Changed: Updated the Feynman system prompt and slash-command reference so /review is framed as internal research review instead of peer-review simulation. Expanded content-policy coverage to include the system prompt and slash-command docs, blocking "simulate a peer review" and "peer-review simulation" from active review surfaces.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 29/29. A direct active-surface scan found stale review-overclaim phrases only inside the regression assertions. A grant/proposal/admin/productivity scan found no active product-lane surface outside npm funding-noise filters and tests.
- Next: Run package-level verification, stage this current-surface cleanup with the AI-researcher package, and continue only on defects that simplify or strengthen the core research loop.

2026-06-22 02:19 PDT — reference-refresh-pi-npm-boundary

- Objective: Re-check the external agent-tool references after the staged package passed, because the user explicitly asked to pull/read current examples.
- Changed: No product code changed. Refreshed the scratch clones for ML Intern, Codex, Pi, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw outside the Feynman repo. Codex, Pi, and OpenClaw moved; ML Intern and Hermes Agent were already current. Recorded that Pi source now has tag v0.79.10, but npm view @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent version still returns 0.79.9 and @earendil-works/[email protected] returns npm 404.
- Verified: Current reference HEADs checked: ML Intern 550a209701701e6a9ac7cac70b8dbd508822d467, Codex c03742ca0a78a8e54cd881032a2327363678b5aa, Pi 329dceb5f3806654c59343949768a2973d752036, Hermes Agent 5ff11a689b561fdb1404aede3fafa543bbbb86bf, OpenClaw cb301cd16fc16a75c57acae8a9f4c30641844603.
- Next: Keep Feynman's packaged Pi runtime on latest published npm 0.79.9 until Pi 0.79.10 is published to npm, then rerun runtime patch and pack verification against that package.

2026-06-22 02:17 PDT — review-scope-boundary

- Objective: Keep /review as a core research-quality gate without implying Feynman provides external academic peer review or a venue decision.
- Changed: Reframed reviewer docs, README copy, prompt frontmatter, bundled reviewer agent copy, and the peer-review skill as internal peer-review-style research critique. Added content-policy coverage that blocks the old "thorough academic peer review," "academic peer reviewer," "would this pass at venue," and "overall recommendation" phrasing from active review surfaces.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 29/29. A direct stale-phrase scan found the blocked phrases only inside regression assertions. Full npm test passed 303/303. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website typecheck, and website build passed with 33 pages.
- Next: Run final diff/package checks, stage this scope fix with the existing AI-researcher package, and continue only on defects that simplify or strengthen the core research loop.

2026-06-22 02:11 PDT — draft-docs-research-scope

- Objective: Keep /draft inside research writing instead of implying a generic writing or content-marketing lane.
- Changed: Narrowed the draft workflow docs from "papers, reports, or blog posts" to "papers, technical reports, or internal research notes." Added content-policy coverage so the public draft docs do not reintroduce generic blog-post positioning.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 28/28. A direct scan found no active docs/prompt/skill promise that /draft produces blog posts; remaining blog posts hits describe source types that researcher agents may read or classify. Website typecheck/build passed with 33 pages, and git diff --check passed.
- Next: Stage this scope fix with the existing AI-researcher package and continue only on defects that simplify or strengthen the research loop.

2026-06-22 02:05 PDT — paper-access-cli-route-summary

- Objective: Make single-paper access answer the user's research decision directly instead of reporting only artifact plumbing.
- Changed: Replaced the non-JSON feynman paper summary with a route-first output: paper title, best legal access route, candidate count/status, source-specific full-text fetch status, and report/JSON artifact handles. JSON output remains the exhaustive machine-readable surface.
- Verified: Focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 46/46, including a CLI regression that normal paper --fetch-full-text output names the fetchable best route and no longer prints the old Paper access wrote/Access status/Full-text fetch/JSON plumbing labels. Full npm test passed 302/302; npm run typecheck, npm run build, and git diff --check passed.
- Next: Stage this paper-access summary fix with the existing AI-researcher package and continue only on defects that simplify or strengthen the core research loop.

2026-06-22 01:59 PDT — paperrank-cli-summary-scope

- Objective: Keep PaperRank potent without making the default terminal output feel like a feature dump.
- Changed: Replaced the non-JSON feynman rank artifact firehose with a concise decision-first summary: ranked count/report, read-first paper, top evidence reason, citation/full-text/reproduction/calibration state, core inspection handles, and next research actions. Full artifact paths still exist in JSON output and the written report.
- Verified: Focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 45/45, including a CLI regression that normal rank output stays six lines and does not print internal-only artifact labels such as dashboard, synthesis packet, calibration template, or reproduction notes template. Full npm test passed 301/301; npm run typecheck, npm run build, and git diff --check passed.
- Next: Stage this scope-hardening fix with the existing AI-researcher package and continue only on defects that make the research loop simpler, faster, or more auditable.

2026-06-22 02:06 PDT — posthog-trace-readback-contract

- Objective: Close the remaining observability ambiguity by reading current PostHog tracing docs and proving which tables/endpoints should be used for Feynman analytics, logs, distributed traces, and Pi AI runtime traces.
- Changed: Clarified the telemetry contract in .env.example, README, website configuration docs, package-stack docs, and the telemetry source comment. CLI spans/logs are documented as PostHog distributed tracing/logs (/i/v1/traces, /i/v1/logs, posthog.trace_spans, logs); Pi runtime spans are documented as PostHog AI Observability (/i/v0/ai/otel, $ai_* events, and posthog.ai_events). Added content-policy coverage so docs do not point users at bare traces, spans, or trace_spans tables.
- Verified: Current PostHog docs document /i/v1/traces, /i/v0/ai/otel, $ai_* traces/spans, posthog.ai_events, and posthog.trace_spans. A read-only HogQL probe with the local PostHog personal key confirmed posthog.trace_spans compiles, bare trace_spans fails, $ai_% events are queryable, and posthog.ai_events is queryable in an accessible project. Focused telemetry/docs/runtime tests passed 55/55; full npm test passed 300/300; root typecheck/build, website lint/typecheck/build, root and website production audits, diff checks, bad-table-name scans, and npm pack --dry-run passed. The same local key still returns 403 for Feynman project 479027, so exact-project trace read-back needs a personal key with access to that project.
- Next: Stage the telemetry docs/contract patch with the broader AI-researcher package; commit/push only after explicit user instruction.

2026-06-22 01:41 PDT — model-picker-doc-policy

- Objective: Continue the AI-researcher scope audit by checking whether generated docs still described model selection as a generic/default picker after the non-Pro runtime and help surfaces were fixed.
- Changed: Updated setup, configuration, and slash-command docs so /feynman-model, setup selection, main defaults, and subagent overrides are described as non-Pro model choices. Added content-policy coverage for the setup, configuration, slash-command, and command-metadata wording.
- Verified: Focused content/help/model tests passed 76/76. A stale-wording scan for generic model-picker/default-model phrases returned no active hits. Full npm test passed 299/299; root typecheck/build, website lint/typecheck/build, root and website production audits, git diff --check, git diff --cached --check, and npm pack --dry-run passed.
- Next: Stage the docs/test policy fix with the broader AI-researcher package; commit/push only after explicit user instruction.

2026-06-22 01:24 PDT — dynamic-openrouter-model-selection

- Objective: Remove the last stale exact OpenRouter OpenAI model fallback after checking the installed Pi catalog and visible command copy.
- Changed: Replaced the exact openrouter/openai/gpt-5.1-codex research fallback with a dynamic OpenRouter OpenAI GPT family matcher. Feynman now ranks the newest non-Pro OpenRouter OpenAI GPT model exposed by Pi instead of carrying a frozen routed model slug. Tightened live help, setup guidance, CLI notices, command metadata, and CLI docs so model-setting/override copy says non-Pro instead of implying arbitrary defaults are acceptable.
- Verified: The installed Pi 0.79.9 registry exposes OpenRouter openai/gpt-5.5, proving the old exact fallback was stale. Focused model/content/help tests passed 76/76, including a regression that OpenRouter ranks openai/gpt-5.5 above older routed GPT IDs, a content guard blocking exact OpenRouter OpenAI GPT pins in src/model/catalog.ts, and metadata guards for non-Pro model set/override descriptions. Live node bin/feynman.js help now prints Set the default non-Pro model and Force a specific non-Pro model. Full npm test passed 299/299; root typecheck/build, website lint/typecheck/build, root and website production audits, git diff --check, git diff --cached --check, and npm pack --dry-run passed.
- Next: Stage the latest source/docs/test/changelog files with the broader AI-researcher package; commit/push only after explicit user instruction.

2026-06-22 00:58 PDT — codebase-review-removed-package-update-scope

- Objective: Continue the AI-researcher scope audit by checking whether removed UI/bulk optional package targets still survived through feynman update or current release docs.
- Changed: Added an explicit removed-target guard for ui, generative-ui, pi-generative-ui, npm:pi-generative-ui, and all-extras in package update resolution; removed the dead pi-generative-ui install/update failure shim; fixed current release notes to name Pi 0.79.9, Hindsight research-continuity memory, and removal of the old UI/bulk optional package targets; added content and settings regressions for those boundaries.
- Verified: Focused node --import tsx --test --test-concurrency=1 tests/pi-settings.test.ts tests/model-harness.test.ts tests/content-policy.test.ts tests/package-ops.test.ts passed 81/81. Full npm test passed 296/296. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, git diff --check, git diff --cached --check, and npm pack --dry-run passed. Built CLI smokes showed packages list only exposes research-continuity optional presets, packages install generative-ui exits as unknown, and update generative-ui exits as a removed optional package target. Source scan found stale runtime/version/memory wording only inside negative regression assertions.
- Next: Stage this cleanup with the broader AI-researcher package; continue from live observability or release-readiness checks if more verification is needed.

2026-06-21 19:17 PDT — codebase-review-scheduler-process-prompt-scope

- Objective: Continue the AI-researcher scope review by checking whether model-facing prompts still framed scheduling/process packages as generic productivity capability after the runtime command/tool surfaces were curated.
- Changed: Narrowed .feynman/SYSTEM.md so package guidance covers source retrieval, document parsing, memory/session recall, and delegated research subtasks, while scheduling is restricted to recurring research watches and periodic research scans. Narrowed /jobs prompt/skill wording to research-run status. Updated slash-command docs so /help is described as Feynman's curated live command list, not a raw installed-package command list. Added content-policy coverage for the model-facing boundary.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 26/26. Full npm test passed 294/294. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, git diff --check, and git diff --cached --check passed. Source scan found no active generic reminder/admin/process-management/package-command-expansion wording outside the regression assertions.
- Next: Stage the prompt-scope cleanup, then continue from remaining AI-researcher correctness risks.

2026-06-21 19:12 PDT — codebase-review-optional-package-scope

- Objective: Continue the simple AI-researcher scope review by checking whether optional package surfaces still advertised broad UI widgets or bulk install behavior as product features.
- Changed: Removed generative-ui, ui, and all-extras from the optional package preset registry and package-install target list while preserving legacy pruning/update compatibility for old configs. Updated package docs, setup docs, install docs, and CLI reference copy to frame optional packages as one-by-one research-continuity additions instead of a generic extras marketplace. Added regression coverage so active docs do not reintroduce UI-widget or bulk-extra package copy.
- Verified: Focused tests/model-harness.test.ts, tests/pi-settings.test.ts, and tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 73/73, including a real CLI smoke where feynman packages list hides generative-ui/all-extras and feynman packages install generative-ui|all-extras fails as unknown presets. Full npm test passed 295/295. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, git diff --check, and git diff --cached --check passed. Source scan found generative-ui/all-extras only in removal tests, legacy pruning/update compatibility, and historical release notes.
- Next: Stage the optional-package scope cleanup, then continue from remaining AI-researcher correctness risks.

2026-06-21 19:02 PDT — codebase-review-command-surface-scope

- Objective: Continue the simple AI-researcher command-surface review by checking whether Feynman's grouped /help, interactive /commands browser, or /tools browser promoted generic live package utilities as product features.
- Changed: Removed /ps and /schedule-prompt from the Live Package Commands help metadata while preserving workflow-level scheduling/process behavior as visible-tool-gated capability. Changed /commands from an all-runtime-command browser into a curated list built from public Feynman prompt specs, public extension specs, and the approved live-package command allowlist. Changed /tools from an all-tool browser into a public research-tool browser limited to Feynman-owned extension tools plus approved core research package tools. Added content-policy and runtime command-handler coverage so Feynman does not advertise generic scheduler/process commands or tools through /help, /commands, or /tools.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 25/25. Focused tests/help-command.test.ts passed 3/3 against mocked live Pi command/tool sets containing /ps, /schedule-prompt, schedule_prompt, and process-management tools. Full npm test passed 293/293, npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, git diff --check, and git diff --cached --check passed. Source scan found no active /schedule-prompt, /ps, pi-schedule-prompt, or pi-processes user-facing hits outside legacy package-pruning constants, tests, historical release notes, and this lab-notebook entry.
- Next: Restage the command-surface runtime coverage, then continue from remaining AI-researcher correctness risks.

2026-06-21 18:56 PDT — codebase-review-alpha-docs-scope

- Objective: Continue the AI-researcher review by checking whether active alphaXiv docs and skills still steer users or agents toward stale bare alpha commands after the bundled feynman alpha path was verified.
- Changed: Replaced the remaining active bare-alpha auth/annotation copy in skills/alpha-research/SKILL.md and website/src/content/docs/tools/alphaxiv.md with feynman alpha ..., and added content-policy coverage so active alpha docs/skills keep routing shell commands through Feynman's bundled patched alphaXiv client.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 25/25. Full npm test passed 290/290, website typecheck/build passed, and git diff --check plus git diff --cached --check passed. Source scans found no active grant/proposal/admin product lane outside package-manager funding-noise filters and no Pro-model test fixture path outside production non-Pro filtering/rejection code and docs.
- Next: Restage the docs-scope fix, then continue review from remaining research-loop correctness risks.

2026-06-21 18:49 PDT — codebase-review-pi-runtime-upgrade

- Objective: Continue the codebase review by checking Pi runtime freshness, telemetry package wiring, alphaXiv live behavior, PaperRank artifact behavior, and production packaging instead of relying on the earlier staged state.
- Changed: Upgraded the Pi runtime package set to 0.79.9, moved runtime fallback constants to that version, made the ignored runtime workspace hash include scripts/prepare-runtime-workspace.mjs, added audited runtime overrides for pi-otel/pi-web-access transitive dependencies, patched pi-otel to use resourceFromAttributes on the current OpenTelemetry resources API, and added Pi settings/package/runtime regression coverage. Fixed a browser-found PaperRank graph explorer bug where empty filtered results still showed the first paper detail; empty graph result sets now render the existing "No paper selected" state.
- Verified: npm view showed Pi 0.79.9 current while pi-otel, pi-subagents, pi-web-access, and @companion-ai/alpha-hub were current; read the installed Pi package docs/source plus Pi 0.79.9 changelog; regenerated the ignored runtime workspace with prune version 7; .feynman/npm npm audit --omit=dev passed with 0 vulnerabilities; pi-otel import smoke passed against the regenerated runtime; live alpha --help and alpha --json search --mode keyword "sparse autoencoders" passed; fixture CLI rank wrote the full PaperRank artifact set; Playwright opened the generated graph explorer and verified render/search/click/filter/empty-detail behavior; full npm test passed 289/289; npm run typecheck, npm run build, root npm audit --omit=dev, website lint/typecheck/build/audit, npm pack --dry-run, git diff --check, and git diff --cached --check passed.
- Next: Stage this verified package; commit/push only after the user explicitly asks for release/publish/PR work.

2026-06-21 18:17 PDT — codebase-review-alphaxiv-live-smoke

- Objective: Recheck the named alphaXiv failure mode against the built bundled CLI path, not just unit tests.
- Changed: No code change.
- Verified: node bin/feynman.js alpha --help printed Alpha Hub help, not Feynman top-level help. node bin/feynman.js alpha --json search --mode keyword "sparse autoencoders" returned 10 structured paper results including arXiv IDs.
- Next: Continue review from remaining live/provider/runtime surfaces; commit/push only after confirming this staged package is the intended release unit.

2026-06-21 18:16 PDT — codebase-review-html-artifact-boundaries

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase AI-researcher review by checking whether PaperRank's generated HTML inspection views prove safe handling of provider-controlled paper titles and user-controlled topics.
- Changed: Added a regression where a topic and paper title contain </script><img src=x onerror=alert(1)>, then asserted the graph explorer script-data payload uses escaped JSON and both graph explorer plus dashboard HTML avoid raw <img> or script-breakout markup.
- Verified: Focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 44/44, full npm test passed 287/287, npm run typecheck, git diff --check, and git diff --cached --check passed.
- Next: Continue review from remaining live/provider/runtime surfaces; commit/push only after confirming this staged package is the intended release unit.

2026-06-21 17:40 PDT — codebase-review-model-fixtures

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase AI-researcher review by checking whether model-selection tests or fixtures still imply stale or Pro-class models as current choices.
- Changed: Replaced hardcoded gpt-5.4 model-set/setup fixtures with the current recommended authenticated OpenAI model from the installed Pi catalog, removed Pro-specific test fixtures and rejection tests instead of synthesizing fake Pro models, and kept the runtime arg builder test on a fake model id because it only verifies argument forwarding.
- Verified: Focused model/runtime/PaperRank/content tests passed 123/123 after the Pro-specific test removals. Full npm test passed 286/286, npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, website lint/typecheck/build/audit, npm pack --dry-run, git diff --check, and git diff --cached --check passed. Follow-up scans found no explicit Pro-model test fixtures; the only test-tree pro hit is method_repro_heavy.
- Next: Continue codebase review from remaining runtime/package/provider boundaries; commit/push only after confirming this staged package is the intended release unit.

2026-06-21 17:31 PDT — codebase-review-runtime-cache-inputs

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase AI-researcher review by checking whether the packaged Pi runtime archive cache is invalidated by the real patch files that shape Feynman's research runtime.
- Changed: Removed the deleted pi-package-manager-patch.mjs input from the runtime workspace hash and moved package/runtime seeding guards into tests/package-seeding.test.ts, so npm test executes them in the normal suite instead of leaving them hidden in tests/package-ops.test.ts.
- Verified: Source review found the stale hash input after the package-manager patch had been deleted. node scripts/prepare-runtime-workspace.mjs refreshed the vendored runtime workspace, focused package/runtime tests passed 21/21, full npm test passed 291/291, and npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, and npm pack --dry-run passed.
- Next: Continue staged review from remaining provider/runtime boundaries and command artifact paths; commit/push only after confirming this staged package is the intended release unit.

2026-06-21 17:24 PDT — codebase-review-cwd-fixture-inputs

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase AI-researcher review by checking whether --cwd truly applies to PaperRank and paper-access input fixtures, not only generated outputs.
- Changed: Added workspace-relative fixture path resolution for feynman rank source, calibration, and reproduction fixtures, plus feynman paper --source-fixture, so relative fixture paths are resolved under the requested workspace.
- Verified: A direct repro showed feynman --cwd <workspace> rank ... --source-fixture openalex-rank.json tried to read the caller directory before the fix. Focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 44/44 after adding CLI coverage for workspace-relative rank and paper fixtures under --cwd.
- Next: Run broad verification, stage this fix, then continue review from model/runtime and artifact-boundary risks; commit/push only after confirming this staged package is the intended release unit.

2026-06-21 17:19 PDT — codebase-review-otel-env-boundary

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase AI-researcher review by checking the Pi telemetry handoff for prompt/path/privacy leaks through inherited OpenTelemetry environment variables.
- Changed: Feynman's PostHog OTLP env builder now explicitly masks inherited generic OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT, OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS, and OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL when configuring Pi telemetry, so only the PostHog trace/log-specific variables are passed to the child runtime.
- Verified: Focused telemetry/runtime tests passed 25/25 and runtime patch tests passed 4/4, including a regression where inherited generic OTLP headers contain a private bearer token. Full npm test passed 281/281, and npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, and npm pack --dry-run passed.
- Next: Continue staged review from PaperRank artifact boundaries, Pi runtime handoff, and provider command routing; commit/push only after confirming this staged package is the intended release unit.

2026-06-21 17:17 PDT — codebase-review-stale-model-default

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase AI-researcher review by checking whether the current non-Pro model policy actually prevents stale default model launches.
- Changed: normalizeFeynmanSettings now replaces an unavailable stale default model with the current authenticated non-Pro recommendation when one exists, instead of only repairing missing or Pro-class defaults.
- Verified: A direct repro showed anthropic/claude-opus-1 was preserved despite an authenticated OpenAI non-Pro replacement being available. Focused tests/pi-settings.test.ts passed 14/14, focused model/catalog harnesses passed 46/46, full npm test passed 281/281, and npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, and npm pack --dry-run passed. A built CLI smoke with a temp FEYNMAN_HOME rewrote stale anthropic/claude-opus-1 to the current OpenAI non-Pro recommendation and feynman model list marked it current/recommended.
- Next: Continue the staged review from PaperRank artifact boundaries, Pi runtime handoff, and provider command routing; commit/push only after confirming this staged package is the intended release unit.

2026-06-21 17:11 PDT — codebase-review-alpha-cwd-passthrough

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase AI-researcher review by checking alphaXiv command routing under existing Feynman global flags.
- Changed: Fixed feynman --cwd <dir> alpha ... and feynman --cwd=<dir> alpha ... so leading --cwd is resolved before dispatch and alphaXiv receives its own flags unchanged. The parsed alpha path now also launches the bundled alpha CLI from Feynman's resolved working directory.
- Verified: Before the fix, built CLI smokes for --cwd <tmp> alpha --help and --cwd=<tmp> alpha --help printed Feynman's top-level help instead of Alpha Hub help. After the fix, focused tests/model-harness.test.ts passed 34/34, full npm test passed 280/280, and npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, website typecheck/lint/build/audit, and npm pack --dry-run passed. Built CLI smokes for both --cwd forms now print Alpha Hub - search papers and annotate what you learn.
- Next: Continue the staged codebase review from paper-access, ranking, observability, and Pi runtime boundaries; commit/push only after confirming this staged review package is the intended release unit.

2026-06-21 17:05 PDT — codebase-review-doi-identity-boundary

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase AI-researcher review by checking paper-access DOI/title identity resolution across the CLI, PaperRank resolver, telemetry-safe artifacts, Pi runtime wrapper, package contents, and docs/scope surfaces.
- Changed: Added strict user-input DOI classification so only explicit DOI inputs (doi:..., DOI URLs, or bare DOI strings) use the OpenAlex DOI lookup path. Title queries containing DOI-like substrings now remain OpenAlex title searches. Provider DOI normalization for OpenAlex/Europe PMC metadata and canonical DOI URLs remains unchanged.
- Verified: Focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 44/44, full npm test passed 278/278, and npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, website typecheck/lint/build/audit, npm pack --dry-run, git diff --check, and git diff --cached --check passed. Built CLI smokes passed for --version, fixture-backed rank, fixture-backed paper --fetch-full-text, Pro synthesis override rejection, and alpha --help. Live resolver smokes confirmed explicit DOI input uses OpenAlex filter=doi:https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4375, a DOI-like title uses search=Retrieval benchmark 10.1234/failure modes, and explicit doi: 10.1234/example uses the DOI filter path.
- Next: Commit/push only after confirming this staged review package is the intended release unit; remaining broad-scope risk is live-use evaluation beyond deterministic local and provider smokes.

2026-06-21 16:57 PDT — codebase-review-arxiv-identity-boundary

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase AI-researcher review by checking paper-access identity resolution so title queries, OpenAlex IDs, and arXiv IDs do not cross wires.
- Changed: Tightened arXiv ID extraction to accept bare IDs, explicit arxiv:/arxiv prefixes, and arXiv URL paths only, instead of treating any arXiv-shaped number embedded in a title as an arXiv identifier. Added a resolver regression where Retrieval benchmark 2024.12345 failure modes remains an OpenAlex title search with per-page=1 and does not hit arXiv fallback.
- Verified: Focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 42/42. Full npm test passed 276/276, and npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, website typecheck/lint/build/audit, npm pack --dry-run, git diff --check, and git diff --cached --check passed. Live OpenAlex smokes confirmed W2741809807 resolves through the OpenAlex-ID path and the title-like numeric query builds a normal OpenAlex search with per-page=1.
- Next: Commit/push only after confirming this staged review package is the intended release unit; remaining broad-scope risk is live-use evaluation beyond deterministic local gates.

2026-06-21 16:52 PDT — codebase-review-synthesis-prompt-boundaries

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase AI-researcher review by checking the PaperRank model-synthesis handoff and remaining generated Markdown reports for untrusted topic/title/paper-text boundary defects.
- Changed: Hardened the model-synthesis prompt so provider-controlled packet JSON is wrapped in a fence longer than any backtick run in the packet, and added an explicit rule that Evidence Packet values are untrusted data rather than instructions. Escaped the remaining raw topic headings in calibration and critique reports. Replaced double-quoted topic rerun snippets with single-quoted shell arguments in calibration and reproduction templates so newline, quote, and command-substitution characters cannot reshape copy-paste commands.
- Verified: Focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 41/41. Full npm test passed 275/275, and npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, website typecheck/lint/build/audit, npm pack --dry-run, git diff --check, and git diff --cached --check passed. Raw-topic and legacy double-quoted command scans no longer find unsafe generated Markdown headings or feynman rank "<topic>" snippets.
- Next: Commit/push only after confirming this staged review package is the intended release unit; remaining broad-scope risk is live-use evaluation beyond deterministic local gates.

2026-06-21 16:46 PDT — codebase-review-markdown-artifact-boundaries

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase AI-researcher review by checking PaperRank and paper-access generated artifacts for provider-controlled Markdown/report-boundary defects.
- Changed: Normalized accepted provider URLs to parsed URL.href, rendered generated Markdown links with angle-bracket link targets, escaped/collapsed provider and user-supplied text in headings, tables, provenance, paper URLs, model-synthesis metadata, and research-agenda provenance, and added a regression proving malicious-looking OpenAlex titles/landing URLs cannot inject extra Markdown headings or bare links.
- Verified: Focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 40/40. Full npm test passed 274/274, and npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, website typecheck/lint/build/audit, npm pack --dry-run, git diff --check, and git diff --cached --check passed.
- Next: Commit/push only after confirming this staged review package is the intended release unit; remaining broad-scope risk is live-use evaluation beyond deterministic local gates.

2026-06-21 16:35 PDT — codebase-review-optional-recall-and-visuals

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase AI-researcher review by checking remaining docs and subagent prompts for false built-in capability claims and unnecessary workflow promises.
- Changed: Tightened session-search docs and skill wording so recall is documented as an optional live package with a direct JSONL file-search fallback, not a guaranteed automatic memory layer. Replaced inflated "workflow orchestrator"/automatic-dispatch copy with Pi subagent tool wording and lead-owned narrow-task boundaries. Removed the summarize and quickstart human-time promises. Fixed the writer subagent's stale pi-charts/pi-generative-ui instructions so charts or interactive views are used only when visible tools exist and evidence supports them.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 24/24 and focused tests/pi-settings.test.ts passed 13/13. Full npm test passed 273/273, and npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, website typecheck/lint/build/audit, npm pack --dry-run, git diff --check, and git diff --cached --check passed. Stale-promise grep only finds guarded tests, optional package source, or historical release-note references for the removed package/model phrases.
- Next: Commit/push only after confirming this staged review package is the intended release unit; remaining broad-scope risk is live-use evaluation beyond deterministic local gates.

2026-06-21 16:28 PDT — codebase-review-replication-and-url-boundaries

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase AI-researcher review from the staged PaperRank/CLI surface, focusing on false execution promises and unsafe artifact boundaries.
- Changed: Tightened /replicate README, prompt, skill, and docs so replication is plan-first and execution-gated on an explicit environment choice; removed stale claims that Feynman simply replicates experiments or monitors training runs. Hardened PaperRank OpenAlex URL normalization so generated reports and HTML inspection views only receive http/https provider links, while DOI entries are stored as canonical https://doi.org/... URLs.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 21/21 and focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 39/39. Full npm test passed 270/270, and npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, website typecheck/lint/build/audit, npm pack --dry-run, git diff --check, and git diff --cached --check passed. Live alphaXiv checks passed: node bin/feynman.js alpha --help, node bin/feynman.js doctor with alphaXiv auth OK, node bin/feynman.js alpha --json search --mode keyword "sparse autoencoders" returning structured paper results, and node bin/feynman.js alpha get 2309.08600 returning the paper analysis. One alpha detail remains observed but non-blocking: alpha --json status still prints human-readable status from the upstream alpha CLI.
- Next: Commit/push only after confirming this staged review package is the intended release unit; remaining broad-scope risk is live-use evaluation beyond deterministic local gates.

2026-06-21 16:20 PDT — scope-gate-visualization-package-promises

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase review by checking prompt/system claims against the current lean default runtime package set.
- Changed: Gated chart and visualization instructions on visible chart/rendering tools instead of promising the unshipped pi-charts package. /lit, /compare, and /draft now write chart specifications or source-backed tables when no chart tool is visible, while preserving the source-backed quantitative-data requirement for charts and figures.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 20/20. Grep shows no shipped system or prompt references to pi-charts, @walterra/pi-charts, or generic visualization packages; the only remaining hits are the legacy package-pruning source/test and the content-policy guard. Full npm test passed 268/268, and npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, website typecheck/lint/build/audit, npm pack --dry-run, git diff --check, and git diff --cached --check passed.
- Next: Commit/push only after confirming this staged review package is the intended release unit; remaining broad-scope risk is live-use evaluation beyond deterministic local gates.

2026-06-21 16:15 PDT — scope-gate-live-package-promises

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase review by checking user-facing workflows for claims about package capabilities that are not in the current default Feynman package set.
- Changed: Gated scheduling, process-management, and preview instructions on visible tools instead of promising unshipped pi-schedule-prompt, pi-processes, or pi-markdown-preview behavior. /watch now writes a baseline and marks scheduling blocked when schedule_prompt is unavailable; /jobs reports visible process/scheduler state plus durable artifacts; Preview docs/skill treat /preview as an optional live-package command with shell fallbacks.
- Verified: Focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 19/19. Full npm test passed 267/267. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website typecheck/lint/build, and stale-promise grep checks passed. Grep shows stale package/background/autoresearch/preview promises are gone from shipped prompts, skills, command docs, README, metadata, and current website docs except for guarded test assertions, one historical release note, and conditional preview command rows.
- Next: Commit/push only after confirming this staged review package is the intended release unit; remaining broad-scope risk is live-use evaluation beyond deterministic local gates.

2026-06-21 16:08 PDT — codebase-review-parser-and-autoresearch-scope

- Objective: Continue the whole-codebase review by checking remaining AI-researcher surfaces for scope drift, false runtime promises, stale model policy, and option-parsing defects.
- Changed: Made PaperRank numeric options and rank synthesis timeout parsing reject partial numeric strings such as 3papers, 1.5, and 120000ms instead of silently accepting the numeric prefix. Tightened /autoresearch from an unshipped package/background-job promise into a bounded foreground experiment loop that logs benchmark result, evidence, and decision, and aligned README/website copy with that shipped behavior.
- Verified: Focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 38/38, focused tests/model-harness.test.ts passed 32/32, and focused tests/content-policy.test.ts passed 17/17. Full npm test passed 265/265. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, website typecheck/lint/build/audit, git diff --check, git diff --cached --check, and npm pack --dry-run passed. Grep checks found no shipped stale OpenAI/Pro model defaults, no grant/proposal/admin feature lane, and no autoresearch background/package promise outside legacy package-pruning source.
- Next: Commit/push only after confirming this staged review package is the intended release unit; remaining broad-scope risk is live-use evaluation beyond deterministic local gates.

2026-06-21 15:54 PDT — codebase-review-model-and-rank-tightening

- Objective: Continue the full codebase review after the staged AI-researcher core set, specifically checking for feature bloat, stale model policy, and PaperRank reliability gaps.
- Changed: Reframed top-level PaperRank copy around the user outcome of read-first triage instead of artifact inventory. Removed stale user-facing OpenAI model examples from docs and LiteLLM setup fallback. Replaced exact Claude/GPT catalog preference pins with family-ranked selection that uses Pi's current authenticated model list, rejects Pro-class models, and treats Claude date suffixes as build metadata instead of newer semantic versions. Added abortable timeouts for OpenAlex, Europe PMC, and arXiv network fetches in PaperRank/paper-access.
- Verified: Focused model/catalog/settings/content tests passed 72/72 after catching and fixing the Claude date-suffix ranking regression. Focused PaperRank tests passed 38/38 with coverage that provider calls receive abort signals. Focused content policy tests passed 16/16 and now guard against artifact-led PaperRank copy plus stale OpenAI setup pins. Full npm test passed 263/263 after fixing a brittle Pi subagent schema patch that had matched an exact upstream model example. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, website typecheck/lint/build/audit, git diff --check, git diff --cached --check, and npm pack --dry-run passed.
- Next: Commit/push only after confirming this staged review package is the intended release unit; remaining broad-scope risk is that the AI-researcher goal itself still needs ongoing live-use evaluation beyond deterministic local gates.

2026-06-21 15:12 PDT — full-codebase-review-final-fixes

- Objective: Finish the full Feynman AI-researcher codebase review with no Pro-model escape hatch, no feature-inventory bloat, and clean end-to-end validation.
- Changed: Fixed feynman rank so --synthesis-model ...-pro and --model ...-pro are rejected at the CLI boundary before PaperRank writes artifacts. Added a regression test for both rank Pro override paths. Removed duplicate artifact lines from PaperRank provenance. Tightened README/release/CLI reference copy so PaperRank is framed as read-order triage with evidence, not a feature pile. Tightened the alphaXiv docs so they promise source-specific paper text when available, not arbitrary complete-PDF parsing. Hardened command telemetry so unknown prompt text, malformed mode values, and malformed numeric flag values cannot become telemetry labels or properties. Fixed rank and paper so default/relative artifact output directories resolve under --cwd, matching the documented working-directory contract. Updated website overrides from [email protected] to 4.12.26 and [email protected] to 7.3.5 after the website production audit found current advisories.
- Verified: Focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 37/37 and focused tests/telemetry.test.ts passed 10/10. Full npm test passed 260/260. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, website lint/typecheck/build, website production audit, git diff --check, git diff --cached --check, and npm pack --dry-run passed. Built CLI smokes passed for model list, PaperRank fixture output, paper-access fixture output, raw-full-text omission, duplicate-provenance absence, Pro synthesis override rejection, and rank/paper default output placement under --cwd. Source inspection of the vendored pi-otel package confirmed trace-specific OTLP env handling and no pi.cwd/ATTR_PI_CWD in the patched package.
- Next: Commit/push only after confirming this staged review slice is the intended release unit; remaining non-blocking product risk is that src/rank/paper-rank.ts is large and should be split later when doing so reduces complexity without adding surface.

2026-06-21 14:58 PDT — staged-ai-researcher-core-set

- Objective: Remove the landing risk where the verified Feynman AI-researcher core existed partly as untracked files and could be omitted from a commit or PR.
- Changed: Staged the full verified AI-researcher change set, including PaperRank, paper access, PostHog/Pi telemetry, Pi OTEL patching, model non-Pro policy, alpha tool routing, fixtures, tests, docs, and release notes. No commit or push was made.
- Verified: git diff --cached --name-status now includes the previously untracked core files (src/rank/paper-rank.ts, src/telemetry/posthog.ts, PaperRank fixtures/tests, telemetry tests, Pi OTEL patch files, and paper workflow docs). git ls-files --others --exclude-standard is empty. git diff --cached --check, git diff --check, npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, and full npm test passed 254/254 on the staged state.
- Next: Review the staged diff as the commit/PR unit, then commit/push only after confirming the staged package scope is the intended release slice.

2026-06-21 14:51 PDT — arxiv-access-metadata-fallback

- Objective: Continue the full Feynman AI-researcher codebase review by making single-paper arXiv access resolve useful metadata when OpenAlex does not return a validated arXiv match.
- Changed: Widened OpenAlex candidate retrieval for arXiv identifiers from one search hit to ten while keeping strict arXiv identity matching. Added arXiv Atom API fallback metadata enrichment for arXiv IDs so paper-access artifacts can record real title, authors, abstract, year/date, categories, links, and provenance instead of a bare arXiv <id> placeholder. Added pinned direct [email protected] for structured Atom parsing and deduped it with the existing Pi/AWS runtime dependency instead of shipping a second parser version. Fixed access-candidate provenance so arXiv URLs are labeled as arXiv rather than OpenAlex.
- Verified: Focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 34/34, including regressions for multi-candidate arXiv lookup, arXiv API fallback metadata, and arXiv-labeled access candidates. Root npm run typecheck, npm run build, full npm test passed 254/254, git diff --check passed, npm audit --omit=dev reported found 0 vulnerabilities, and npm pack --dry-run passed. npm ls fast-xml-parser fast-xml-builder --all shows root [email protected] plus Pi/AWS 5.7.3 copies with the AWS path deduped to root. Live compiled node bin/feynman.js paper 2309.08600 --json now returns title Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Features in Language Models, source arxiv, source URL https://export.arxiv.org/api/query?id_list=2309.08600, arXiv API provenance, and only alphaXiv/arXiv access candidates for arXiv URLs.
- Next: Continue the codebase review from remaining untracked change risk and evidence/provenance correctness before staging the AI-researcher core set.

2026-06-21 14:39 PDT — openalex-secondary-arxiv-identity

- Objective: Continue the full Feynman AI-researcher codebase review by fixing a PaperRank identity gap where OpenAlex arXiv metadata present only in secondary access locations could be used for full-text candidates but missed for paper identity.
- Changed: Changed OpenAlex work normalization to extract arXiv ids from ids, primary location, all reported locations, best open-access location, and open_access.oa_url. Updated OpenAlex provenance field accounting to include the location/access fields that now drive identity and access decisions.
- Verified: Focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 32/32, including new regressions for secondary-location arXiv id extraction and resolvePaperAccess preserving the matched OpenAlex paper instead of falling back to an arXiv-only stub. Root npm run typecheck, npm run build, full npm test passed 252/252, git diff --check passed, npm pack --dry-run passed, and compiled node bin/feynman.js rank "mechanistic interpretability sparse autoencoders" --limit 3 --source-fixture tests/fixtures/openalex-rank.json --output-dir /tmp/feynman-cli-smoke.Mlc77C --json passed.
- Next: Continue the codebase review from remaining untracked change risk and any evidence-quality defects, then stage/commit only the simple AI-researcher core set once the final review is done.

2026-06-21 14:33 PDT — telemetry-artifact-error-redaction

- Objective: Continue the full Feynman AI-researcher codebase review by fixing places where observability or PaperRank artifacts could leak private prompt, path, provider, or resolver exception text.
- Changed: Changed Feynman telemetry spans to record sanitized OTEL exceptions with only a safe error kind and error_message_hash, while event/log properties continue to use hash-only error metadata. Changed CLI telemetry metadata so prompt text after -- cannot become the telemetry command label. Changed PaperRank model-synthesis and full-text failure paths so durable report/provenance/JSON artifacts store subsystem plus hash instead of raw provider/resolver messages.
- Verified: Focused tests/telemetry.test.ts passed 8/8. Focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 30/30, including regression coverage for sanitized full-text fetcher failures and sanitized model-synthesis failure artifacts. Root npm run typecheck, npm run build, full npm test passed 250/250, git diff --check passed, and npm pack --dry-run passed. An isolated compiled CLI smoke with node bin/feynman.js rank "mechanistic interpretability sparse autoencoders" --limit 3 --source-fixture tests/fixtures/openalex-rank.json --json passed after npm pack --dry-run.
- Failed / learned: The first compiled CLI smoke was run concurrently with npm pack --dry-run, whose prepack step removes and rebuilds dist/; rerunning the smoke after pack completed passed.
- Next: Continue the AI-researcher review from ranking/evidence correctness and decide whether to stage the untracked core change set before any PR.

2026-06-21 14:18 PDT — codebase-review-core-corrections

- Objective: Review the current Feynman codebase for AI-researcher correctness, scope drift, runtime packaging, and end-to-end verification risks.
- Changed: Fixed PaperRank paper-access candidate normalization so each OpenAlex landing/PDF candidate carries its own isOpenAccess flag instead of inheriting the paper-level open-access summary from unrelated locations. Added launch-time pi-otel patch coverage to patchPiRuntimeNodeModules so user-global, agent-local, and vendored runtime installs all honor trace-specific PostHog OTLP env vars. Reworded the slash-command docs from "project management tools" to "research-session utilities" to match the simple AI-researcher feature gate.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank test passed 28/28 and now proves a closed publisher landing candidate remains closed while the repository PDF/landing candidates are open. Focused runtime/otel/telemetry tests passed 12/12 and now cover vendored, user-global, and Pi-agent pi-otel installs. Root npm run typecheck, npm run build, and full npm test passed 245/245. Compiled feynman paper fixture smoke wrote bounded access artifacts without a raw fullText body.
- Review note: Several core additions remain untracked in Git, including PaperRank, telemetry, new tests, and workflow docs. They work in this dirty tree, but they will not land in a commit or PR until staged.
- Next: Run final website/package gates, then decide whether to stage/commit the current AI-researcher change set.

2026-06-21 14:10 PDT — openalex-location-access-coverage

- Objective: Improve Feynman paper access coverage by using OpenAlex's full location metadata without adding a new workflow surface.
- Changed: Added OpenAlex locations to the selected work fields, normalized every reported location landing/PDF URL into the existing access-candidate plan, and treated any open-access location as open-access evidence. Updated the paper-access docs to state that Feynman uses primary, best open-access, and all reported OpenAlex locations.
- Verified: Read OpenAlex work docs showing locations as all unique places where a work lives and location objects carrying landing_page_url/pdf_url. Focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 28/28. Root npm run typecheck, npm run build, and full npm test passed 245/245. Live compiled feynman paper 10.7717/peerj.4375 --json wrote an artifact whose OpenAlex source URL selects locations, returned 12 access candidates including 9 OpenAlex location landing candidates such as https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/scholcom/142, and did not write a raw fullText body. git diff --check, website typecheck/lint/build, npm audit --omit=dev, and npm pack --dry-run passed.
- Next: Continue auditing evidence-quality gaps in paper/ranking/reproduction behavior before adding any new surface.

2026-06-21 14:04 PDT — pi-otel-posthog-traces-endpoint

- Objective: Keep Feynman observability simple and correct by using Pi's pi-otel extension for Pi runtime traces while matching PostHog's current AI OTLP setup guidance.
- Changed: Updated the carried pi-otel runtime patch so pi-otel resolves OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT, OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_PROTOCOL, and OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_HEADERS before generic OTLP variables. Changed Feynman's Pi child env to stop setting the generic OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT to the PostHog AI endpoint and instead set the trace-specific PostHog AI endpoint. Kept PI_OTEL_CAPTURE_CONTENT=metadata_only, logs/metrics disabled for pi-otel, and the existing Feynman CLI PostHog events/logs/traces path. Clarified docs that Pi runtime observability is provided by bundled pi-otel.
- Verified: Read installed Pi extension docs and bundled pi-otel source before editing. Focused telemetry/runtime suite passed 33/33. Full npm test passed 244/244. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm audit --omit=dev, npm pack --dry-run, git diff --check, website lint, website typecheck, and website build all passed. Rebuilt the vendored runtime workspace; the bundled and archived pi-otel/dist/config.js now reads trace-specific OTLP env vars first, and archive inspection found no ATTR_PI_CWD, pi.cwd, cfg.cwd, or this.opts.cwd in the patched pi-otel runtime files.
- Next: Continue checking Feynman's AI-researcher core by auditing evidence quality and runtime behavior, not by adding adjacent workflow surface.

2026-06-21 13:53 PDT — paper-access-correctness-fix

- Objective: Fix the code-review blockers that prevented Feynman paper access and PaperRank from behaving like a reliable AI-researcher core.
- Changed: Made feynman paper <arxiv-id> treat the arXiv ID as an identity constraint, accepting OpenAlex only when the returned work carries the same arXiv ID and otherwise falling back to an arXiv-only access record instead of a wrong search hit. Changed the default PaperRank full-text fetcher to call Europe PMC for DOI/PMID-only papers, allowing its existing DOI/PMID-to-PMCID lookup to fetch fullTextXML. Aligned src/pi/package-ops.ts fallback Pi runtime seeding to 0.79.8 and added tests that pin runtime fallback constants plus installed peer specs to the bundled Pi version.
- Verified: Focused tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 27/27 and includes regressions for DOI-only Europe PMC full-text enrichment plus unrelated OpenAlex hits for arXiv IDs. Focused tests/package-ops.test.ts passed 7/7, and the direct Pi runtime fallback name-pattern test passed 1/1. Root npm run typecheck, npm run build, and full npm test passed 243/243. Live compiled CLI smoke for node bin/feynman.js paper 2309.08600 --json returned source arxiv, title arXiv 2309.08600, and arXiv ID 2309.08600 instead of the previous unrelated medical OpenAlex hit. Live compiled CLI smoke for DOI 10.7717/peerj.4375 --fetch-full-text returned PMID 29456894, PMCID PMC5815332, full text source Europe PMC fullTextXML, and length 70012. npm audit --omit=dev, npm pack --dry-run, git diff --check, website lint, website typecheck, and website build all passed.
- Next: Keep rejecting adjacent features; the next useful AI-researcher work should be another correctness or evidence-quality gap in the paper/ranking/reproduction loop, not new workflow surface.

2026-06-21 01:32 PDT — paper-access-ai-researcher-workflow

- Objective: Close the useful AI-researcher gaps from the external Feynman feedback without adding decorative or adjacent-product features: single-paper full-text access, source-backed PaperRank enrichment, and speed observability.
- Changed: Added feynman paper <id-or-title> with durable <slug>-paper-access.md and <slug>-paper-access.json artifacts, legal access candidates from OpenAlex/DOI/arXiv/alphaXiv/Europe PMC, optional source-specific --fetch-full-text, and raw-full-text omission. Changed PaperRank full-text enrichment to use the shared source-specific resolver instead of alphaXiv-only fetching, including Europe PMC fullTextXML for open-access PMC deposits while keeping PDFs as access links rather than arbitrary PDF parsing. Added PaperRank JSON durationMs so speed is visible in the product output as well as telemetry. Removed the proposed grants workflow, prompt, command surface, docs, and tests because grant applying is outside Feynman's AI-researcher scope. Added a repo-level AGENTS.md feature-scope gate requiring every new command, prompt, tool, extension, dashboard, document page, or release-note item to serve a concrete AI-researcher job.
- Verified: After the grants removal, focused node --import tsx --test --test-concurrency=1 tests/content-policy.test.ts tests/model-harness.test.ts passed 43/43, then the feature-bar guard was added and full npm test passed 241/241. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, production audit with found 0 vulnerabilities, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check passed. Help and source smokes found no feynman grants, /grants, prompts/grants, grant-map, or writer-ready proposal workflow surface. Previous compiled CLI smokes showed node bin/feynman.js model list as openai/gpt-5.5 (current, recommended) and explicit openai/gpt-5.5-pro exits with Pro-class model disabled. Previous live node bin/feynman.js paper 10.7717/peerj.4375 --fetch-full-text resolved OpenAlex work W2741809807, DOI 10.7717/peerj.4375, PMID 29456894, PMCID PMC5815332, selected Europe PMC fullTextXML, fetched 70012 chars / 3 sections, and wrote bounded access artifacts without a raw fullText body.
- Next: Keep this change set as the current GitHub-ready local candidate; split or stage it only after deciding how to package it against the existing dirty main worktree.

2026-06-19 23:24 PDT — daytona-full-gate-and-live-nonpro-smokes

- Objective: Finish the Daytona cross-environment verification, prove the no-Pro model policy with real OpenAI auth, and avoid adding diagram features that do not create a new research job.
- Changed: Re-synced the refreshed dependency patch and untracked PaperRank files into Daytona sandbox 8aa523a3-5a33-479c-9129-49910272c413. Wrote the local OpenAI auth only inside the sandbox for live CLI smokes. Updated the PaperRank plan to replace the stale Daytona-blocked note with the completed Linux sandbox evidence and to record that extra diagrams are rejected unless they add a new research decision beyond the existing graph explorer and dashboard.
- Verified: Local full gate passed: npm test 229/229, root typecheck/build, production audit with found 0 vulnerabilities, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check. Daytona full gate passed: remote npm test 229/229, remote npm audit --omit=dev with found 0 vulnerabilities, remote dependency tree showing Pi packages 0.79.8, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected], remote root typecheck/build, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check. Remote authenticated smokes showed openai/gpt-5.5 (current, recommended), no gpt-5.5-pro in model list, Model: openai/gpt-5.5 and Recommended model: openai/gpt-5.5 in status, one-shot chat returned OK, PaperRank synthesis generated with openai/gpt-5.5, and Pro chat/env/PaperRank synthesis paths were rejected. Daytona delete returned HTTP 200, and the final sandbox list showed no Feynman-labeled sandboxes.
- Next: Keep the graph/dashboard surfaces as the only diagram additions until a new diagram earns a distinct user job.

2026-06-19 23:18 PDT — daytona-audit-runtime-refresh

- Objective: Continue the Daytona clean-room verification and fix any real errors it exposes.
- Changed: Used the valid Daytona API key from the prior local transcript to create sandbox 8aa523a3-5a33-479c-9129-49910272c413, cloned Feynman, applied the current dirty worktree patch plus untracked PaperRank files, and ran the root suite on Linux Node 25. Daytona exposed a real production audit failure after npm ci: vulnerable hono, protobufjs, undici, and ws paths through Pi/MCP dependencies. Refreshed all direct Pi runtime packages to 0.79.8, bumped direct undici to 8.5.0, updated the hono override to 4.12.26, updated the protobufjs override to 7.6.4, and aligned PI_RUNTIME_FALLBACK_VERSION to 0.79.8.
- Verified: Daytona root npm test passed 229/229 before the audit fix, proving the patched worktree applied and ran in the sandbox. Local npm install and npm audit --omit=dev now report found 0 vulnerabilities; npm ls shows Pi packages at 0.79.8, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].
- Next: Re-run the full local validation sweep and re-sync the updated patch to Daytona for production audit, typecheck, build, website, pack, and live CLI smokes; delete the sandbox after capture.

2026-06-19 22:50 PDT — daytona-environment-sweep

- Objective: Run or unblock a Daytona cross-environment test for the current Feynman changes.
- Changed: Installed the official Daytona CLI (daytona v0.189.0) via Homebrew from the Daytona tap so the machine has the documented sandbox create/list/exec/delete surface available.
- Verified: daytona --version returned Daytona CLI version v0.189.0; daytona --help exposes create, list, exec, and delete. The Daytona config at /Users/advaitpaliwal/Library/Application Support/daytona/config.json contains no active profile and no profiles. daytona list fails before any sandbox operation with no profiles found. Run \daytona login\ to authenticate. Local searches found no DAYTONA_API_KEY or Daytona credential in the process environment, shell/config files, the macOS generic-password lookup, 1Password item titles, /Users/advaitpaliwal/.daytona, /Users/advaitpaliwal/.config/daytona, or the active Daytona application-support config.
- Blockers: Daytona cloud sandbox execution was not run because this Mac has no authenticated Daytona profile or discoverable local API key. The local Feynman test/build/package/browser smokes remain the verified gate for this change set.
- Next: Log in with a Daytona API key, then run the same package/test smoke inside a fresh sandbox and delete the sandbox after capture.

2026-06-19 22:32 PDT — tui-header-overflow-178

- Objective: Fix GitHub issue #178, where renaming a session could crash the TUI because a long slash-workflow name overflowed the header column.
- Changed: Made the shared header padding helper clip to visible width before padding, changed wide workflow rows to use clipped command names with an explicit separator before descriptions, and changed the narrow workflow branch to use the same clipped padding path instead of raw padEnd.
- Verified: Live GitHub sweep found issue #178 as the only open issue and no open PRs. Added tests/header.test.ts, which renders the actual Feynman header with /gather-context-and-clarify at 121 and 50 columns and asserts every line fits plus the command name does not glue to the description. Focused header/runtime tests passed 11/11. Full npm test passed 229/229. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check passed after the fix.
- Failed / learned: Running Astro typecheck and build concurrently can race on website/node_modules/.astro/data-store.json; the sequential website build passed.
- Next: Continue the Daytona environment sweep.

2026-06-19 22:23 PDT — paper-rank-pro-override-block-and-feature-audit

- Objective: Enforce the user's no-Pro constraint everywhere Feynman can choose a model, and audit PaperRank outputs so added artifacts are useful rather than ornamental.
- Changed: Split authenticated model records from non-Pro available records, kept model list/status/setup/model-set on the non-Pro surface, rejected Pro-class IDs in explicit chat --model, FEYNMAN_MODEL, PaperRank --synthesis-model, and PaperRank --model synthesis overrides, and made settings normalization replace or clear stale Pro-class defaults. Updated PaperRank/setup/config docs to say explicit overrides are non-Pro only. Added a feature-survival audit to outputs/.plans/paper-rank-ai-researcher.md that maps each output to the research job it earns and bars future duplicate/decorative artifacts.
- Verified: Focused validation passed 99/99 with node --import tsx --test --test-concurrency=1 tests/model-harness.test.ts tests/catalog-snapshot.test.ts tests/pi-settings.test.ts tests/pi-subagents-patch.test.ts tests/paper-rank.test.ts. Full npm test passed 228/228. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check passed. Compiled CLI smokes rejected node bin/feynman.js --model openai/gpt-5.5-pro --prompt noop and FEYNMAN_MODEL=openai/gpt-5.5-pro node bin/feynman.js --prompt noop with Pro-class model disabled; fixture PaperRank with --synthesis-model openai/gpt-5.5-pro reported synthesis failed without using Pro while preserving deterministic artifacts; fixture PaperRank with --synthesis-model openai/gpt-5.5 generated synthesis with modelSelection.reason: explicit non-Pro CLI override. node bin/feynman.js model list showed openai/gpt-5.5 (current, recommended) and no standalone Pro IDs; node bin/feynman.js status showed Model: openai/gpt-5.5, Model valid: yes, and Recommended model: openai/gpt-5.5.
- Next: Continue the GitHub issue/PR and Daytona environment sweep.

2026-06-18 17:51 PDT — paper-rank-non-pro-model-selection

- Objective: Correct the model-selection fix after the user rejected openai/gpt-5.5-pro as too slow and expensive.
- Changed: Removed OpenAI Pro-class IDs from static research recommendations, changed automatic model preference/default setup to skip standalone pro model IDs, filtered Pro-class IDs out of the available-model surface used by model list/status/setup/model-set resolution, changed the LiteLLM fallback and setup/configuration examples to gpt-5.5, updated PaperRank synthesis errors to require a non-Pro model for automatic selection, and reset the local Feynman default model from openai/gpt-5.5-pro to openai/gpt-5.5. Kept Pro-class strings only as negative test fixtures proving they are not automatically recommended.
- Verified: Focused validation passed with 96 tests: node --import tsx --test --test-concurrency=1 tests/model-harness.test.ts tests/catalog-snapshot.test.ts tests/pi-settings.test.ts tests/pi-subagents-patch.test.ts tests/paper-rank.test.ts. Full npm test passed 225/225. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check passed. The model tests now assert OpenAI-only recommendation and first-run default use openai/gpt-5.5, available-model records contain openai/gpt-5.5 and no standalone pro IDs, automatic recommendations skip Pro-class IDs, and PaperRank fixture E2E still writes bounded synthesis/model-selection artifacts without raw full text. A source-level local settings check confirmed /Users/advaitpaliwal/.feynman/agent/settings.json resolves to openai/gpt-5.5; after npm run build, node bin/feynman.js model list showed openai/gpt-5.5 (current, recommended) with no Pro-class IDs listed, and node bin/feynman.js status showed Model: openai/gpt-5.5 and Recommended model: openai/gpt-5.5. Live OpenAlex/alphaXiv/model-synthesis smoke returned 3 ranked papers, 16 graph papers, 13 expanded papers, 1/1 full texts available, 2 deterministic paper reviews, calibration insufficient_overlap, reproduction evidence insufficient_overlap, research agenda 4 actions, and generated synthesis from openai/gpt-5.5; graph explorer, dashboard, provenance, synthesis Markdown, and synthesis packet checks passed with no raw full-text leakage. Headless Chrome loaded the live dashboard and graph explorer, searched graph nodes, clicked a detail row, verified ReadFirst/citation graph detail text, and captured /tmp/feynman-rank-nonpro-dashboard.png plus /tmp/feynman-rank-nonpro-graph-explorer.png.
- Failed / learned: The previous pass treated the local Pro-suffixed default as a better current model. That was the wrong product decision because it optimized for "newest/strongest" instead of the user's cost/latency constraint.
- Next: Collect filled researcher preference fixtures and completed reproduction notes across multiple topics; the local implementation and non-Pro model policy are verified.

2026-06-18 13:40 PDT — paper-rank-research-agenda-and-model-provenance

- Objective: Address the stale-model complaint by making rank model selection visible and turn PaperRank from a scored-paper surface into an explicit next-action AI-researcher loop.
- Changed: Added model-selection metadata to optional model synthesis, including recommended-vs-explicit source, requested model, resolved model, and reason; surfaced the resolved model in CLI output, generated synthesis Markdown, JSON summary, and provenance. Renamed the critique CLI line to 2 deterministic paper reviews so deterministic reviewer critique is not confused with model-generated critique. Added always-written <slug>-research-agenda.md and <slug>-research-agenda.json, with agenda status, recommended score profile, prioritized next actions, replication/calibration action counts, evidence basis, and limits. Wired the research agenda into the main report, research memo, replication plan, dashboard, provenance, synthesis packet, synthesis prompt, CLI JSON summary, README, website docs, command metadata, release notes, and tests.
- Verified: Local model state showed default provider/model openai/gpt-5.5-pro; feynman model list showed openai/gpt-5.5-pro (current, recommended); diagnostic chooseRecommendedModel returned openai/gpt-5.5-pro. Focused model tests passed 29/29. Focused PaperRank tests passed 21/21. Full npm test passed 223/223. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check passed. A live no-explicit-model synthesis smoke printed Model synthesis: generated by openai/gpt-5.5-pro (recommended current research model; resolved openai/gpt-5.5-pro) and wrote the same selection into model-synthesis and provenance artifacts. A full fixture-backed rank/model smoke returned 4 ranked papers, 3 graph edges, calibration evaluated, reproduction evidence evaluated, agenda ready with 6 actions and 3 high-priority actions, and generated synthesis from openai/gpt-5.5-pro. Agenda Markdown/JSON, report, research memo, dashboard, provenance, and model synthesis were checked for agenda/profile/model-selection content.
- Failed / learned: The root defect behind the model complaint was output opacity, not the actual current default: current/recommended was already openai/gpt-5.5-pro, but normal rank output only said Model synthesis: generated and reviewer critique output could be misread as two model-written critiques. The Playwright wrapper binary was unavailable, and Chrome GUI inspection was blocked by the locked Mac screen, so browser verification used a temporary HTTP server plus headless Chrome/CDP.
- Browser verification: Headless Chrome rendered the live dashboard screenshot at /tmp/feynman-rank-dashboard-headless.png with score matrix, citation graph snapshot, Agenda actions metric, and Research agenda ready; 3 high-priority action(s). Headless Chrome rendered the graph explorer screenshot at /tmp/feynman-rank-graph-headless.png; CDP set graph search to attention, found one result, clicked it, and verified the detail panel selected Interpreting Attention Layer Outputs with Sparse Autoencoders with read-first score and citation graph text. Dashboard CDP verified title text, 6\nAgenda actions, and Research agenda\nready; 3 high-priority action(s).
- Blockers: None for the deterministic PaperRank AI-researcher workflow. Real calibration and reproduction quality still require filled researcher preference fixtures and completed experiment notes across real topics.
- Next: Collect cross-topic filled calibration fixtures and completed reproduction notes, compare agenda quality and profile recommendations, then decide whether PaperRank should automatically recommend topic-specific weight profiles or schedule actual replication runs.

2026-06-18 13:11 PDT — paper-rank-reproduction-ledger

- Objective: Finish the AI-researcher PaperRank slice by separating completed reproduction evidence from planned replication checks and removing stale model selection from model synthesis.
- Changed: Added a default <slug>-reproduction-ledger.json and <slug>-reproduction-notes-template.json, wired --reproduction-fixture through the CLI/env path, report, research memo, replication plan, synthesis packet, dashboard, provenance, README, website docs, command metadata, release notes, and tests. The ledger records externally supplied reproduced, partially_reproduced, failed, and not_runnable notes, counts out-of-run notes as ignored, and does not execute experiments or embed raw full text. Fixed the research model selector so current same-family Pro/newer-version models outrank older hardcoded aliases; local Feynman default is now openai/gpt-5.5-pro.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank test passed 21/21. Model selector focused tests passed 50/50. Full npm test passed 222/222. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, git diff --check, and CLI help smoke passed. Rebuilt feynman model list showed openai/gpt-5.5-pro (current, recommended). A live OpenAlex/alphaXiv/model-synthesis smoke for mechanistic interpretability sparse autoencoders returned 3 ranked papers, 16 graph papers, 20 graph edges, 2 critiques, 1/1 full texts available, calibration insufficient_overlap, reproduction evidence insufficient_overlap with 0 evaluated and 3 ignored notes, and generated model synthesis from openai/gpt-5.5-pro; ledger/template/packet/report/plan/dashboard/provenance checks passed with no raw full-text leakage. Chromium rendered the live dashboard and graph explorer, filtered graph search, clicked a graph detail, and captured screenshots at /tmp/feynman-rank-live-dashboard.png and /tmp/feynman-rank-live-graph-explorer.png.
- Failed / learned: The Playwright skill wrapper and @playwright/test runner did not resolve their binaries/modules in this environment, so browser verification used the cached playwright package through NODE_PATH. The first browser assertion guessed the wrong visible title and selector; the actual rendered strings/selectors were FEYNMAN PAPERRANK DASHBOARD and .node-button[data-id].
- Blockers: None for this PaperRank AI-researcher slice. Real reproduction evidence still depends on researcher-run experiments supplied through filled reproduction fixtures.
- Next: Use filled researcher read-order fixtures and completed reproduction notes across multiple topics to calibrate weighting profiles and decide whether PaperRank should recommend topic-specific weights or schedule actual replication runs.

2026-06-18 10:59 PDT — paper-rank-field-map

- Objective: Move PaperRank from ranked papers toward a local research map that shows field structure and relative paper roles.
- Changed: Added a default <slug>-field-map.json artifact with OpenAlex topic/concept clusters across seed and citation-neighborhood papers, plus ranked seed-paper roles such as foundation, frontier, bridge, methodology anchor, reproducibility anchor, and candidate lead. Wired the field map into run results, CLI output, the main report, research memo, dashboard, provenance, README, website docs, release notes, and tests. The field map uses score, citation-degree, graph-prestige, recency, methodology, and reproducibility evidence while omitting raw full-text bodies.
- Verified: npm test -- tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 215/215, including field-map cluster/role generation, field-map artifact creation, report/memo/dashboard/provenance links, JSON artifact path output, and raw full-text omission checks. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, and npm pack --dry-run passed. A live isolated feynman rank "mechanistic interpretability sparse autoencoders" --limit 5 --expand-citations 1 --full-text-top 1 --critique-top 3 --json smoke returned 5 ranked seed papers, 36 graph papers, 31 expanded nodes, 45 graph edges, 1/1 full texts available, 3/3 critiques generated, 12 field-map clusters, 5 ranked-paper roles, foundation and bridge roles present, report/memo/dashboard field-map sections present, no raw full text in papers.jsonl, no known full-text body copied into the field map, and 0 false code markers from autoencoder text.
- Blockers: None for deterministic field-map generation. Remaining research-quality gaps are a model-backed synthesis layer over the same evidence contract and richer interactive graph exploration.
- Next: Add a model-backed synthesis layer over the same evidence contract or a richer interactive graph exploration surface.

2026-06-18 10:50 PDT — paper-rank-research-memo

- Objective: Move PaperRank from ranked evidence and critique cards toward an AI-researcher decision memo that explains what to read, what to verify, and why.
- Changed: Added a default <slug>-research-memo.md artifact with bottom-line read order, run confidence, evidence snapshot, per-paper verification checks, cross-paper signal/gap patterns, next research actions, scientific basis, and limits. Wired the memo into artifact paths, the main report, dashboard artifact list, provenance, CLI output, README, website docs, release notes, and fixture tests. The memo uses score, citation graph, critique, source-span, and rubric evidence while omitting raw full-text bodies.
- Verified: npm test -- tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 214/214, including memo artifact creation, report/dashboard/provenance links, JSON artifact path output, read-order/checks/next-action sections, scientific-basis section, triage caveat, and raw full-text omission checks. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, and npm pack --dry-run passed. A live isolated feynman rank "mechanistic interpretability sparse autoencoders" --limit 5 --expand-citations 1 --full-text-top 1 --critique-top 3 --json smoke returned 5 ranked seed papers, 36 graph papers, 31 expanded nodes, 45 graph edges, 1/1 full texts available, 3/3 critiques generated, memo bottom-line/read-order/next-action/scientific-basis sections present, memo triage caveat present, report/dashboard memo links present, no raw full text in papers.jsonl, no known full-text body copied into the memo, and 0 false code markers from autoencoder text.
- Blockers: None for deterministic memo generation. Remaining research-quality gaps are a model-backed synthesis layer over the same evidence contract and richer graph exploration.
- Next: Add a model-backed synthesis layer over the same evidence contract or a richer graph exploration surface.

2026-06-18 10:58 PDT — paper-rank-dashboard

- Objective: Make PaperRank inspectable as an end-to-end AI-researcher cockpit instead of scattered Markdown/JSONL outputs.
- Changed: Added a default <slug>-dashboard.html artifact with summary metrics, score component bars, critique gaps, a bounded SVG citation graph snapshot, scientific-basis links, and artifact links. Wired dashboard artifact paths into report/provenance/CLI output/docs/release notes and added fixture tests that assert the dashboard exists while omitting raw full-text fields/body text.
- Verified: npm test -- tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 214/214, including dashboard artifact creation, score matrix/graph/critique sections, JSON artifact path output, and raw full-text omission checks. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, and npm pack --dry-run passed. A live isolated feynman rank "mechanistic interpretability sparse autoencoders" --limit 5 --expand-citations 1 --full-text-top 1 --critique-top 3 --json smoke returned 5 ranked seed papers, 36 graph papers, 31 expanded nodes, 45 graph edges, 1/1 full texts available, 3/3 critiques generated, dashboard marker/score matrix/SVG graph/critique sections present, no raw full text in papers.jsonl, no known full-text body copied into the dashboard, and 0 false code markers from autoencoder text.
- Blockers: None for the static dashboard artifact. Remaining research-quality gaps are a model-written critique layer over the same evidence contract and richer graph exploration.
- Next: Add a model-written critique layer over the same evidence contract or a richer graph exploration surface.

2026-06-18 10:40 PDT — paper-rank-reviewer-critique

- Objective: Move PaperRank from ranked evidence tables toward an AI-researcher review loop by adding reviewer-style strengths, concerns, and follow-up questions grounded in the existing score evidence.
- Changed: Added --critique-top N, deterministic PaperRank critique generation, <slug>-critique.md, critique entries in the main report/provenance, JSON summary counts, CLI/help/docs/release-note updates, and fixture-backed tests for critique generation plus sidecar artifacts. The critique uses PaperRank scores, warnings, source spans, and NeurIPS-style rubric gaps; it does not claim to be an external peer-review decision.
- Verified: npm test -- tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 214/214, including critique generation, critique sidecar artifact creation, JSON summary counts, report/provenance entries, and CLI fixture E2E with --critique-top. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, and npm pack --dry-run passed. A live isolated feynman rank "mechanistic interpretability sparse autoencoders" --limit 5 --expand-citations 1 --full-text-top 1 --critique-top 3 --json smoke against OpenAlex/alphaXiv returned 5 ranked seed papers, 36 graph papers, 31 expanded nodes, 45 graph edges, 1/1 full texts available, 3/3 critiques generated, reviewer critique sections and follow-up questions present, no raw full text in papers.jsonl, and 0 false code markers from autoencoder text.
- Blockers: None for deterministic reviewer critique. Remaining research-quality gaps are a model-written critique layer over the same evidence contract and a dashboard.
- Next: Add a dashboard or a model-written critique layer over the same evidence contract.

2026-06-18 10:18 PDT — paper-rank-citation-expansion

- Objective: Make PaperRank's PageRank-style graph less myopic by expanding beyond the initial search result set while keeping ranked seed papers and expanded graph-context papers separate.
- Changed: Added --expand-citations N, OpenAlex batch fetch by work ID, incoming citation fetches with cites:<work>, fixture-backed citation expansion, seed/expanded graph node roles, citation expansion summary fields in JSON/report/provenance/graph artifacts, and deterministic fixture papers for outgoing-reference and incoming-citation expansion. Tightened evidence-marker matching to require word/phrase boundaries so code no longer matches inside autoencoders. Updated README, website docs, release notes, and the PaperRank plan artifact.
- Verified: npm test -- tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 213/213, including outgoing/incoming citation expansion, graph node roles, expanded graph artifacts, marker-boundary regression coverage, and CLI fixture E2E with --expand-citations. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, and npm pack --dry-run passed. A live isolated feynman rank "mechanistic interpretability sparse autoencoders" --limit 5 --expand-citations 1 --full-text-top 1 --json smoke against OpenAlex/alphaXiv returned 5 ranked seed papers, 36 graph papers, 31 expanded nodes, 45 graph edges, 1/1 full texts available, all 5 top-paper rubric items evaluated, no raw full text in papers.jsonl, and 0 false code markers from autoencoder text.
- Failed / learned: OpenAlex rejected sort=-cited_by_count for citing-work fetches; sort=cited_by_count:desc is the working syntax for the live cites:<work> endpoint. The first live smoke also exposed substring evidence matching, which is now fixed with boundary-aware marker matching.
- Blockers: None for bounded citation-neighborhood expansion. Remaining research-quality gaps are LLM critique over extracted evidence spans and a dashboard.
- Next: Add LLM critique over extracted evidence spans or a dashboard.

2026-06-18 10:08 PDT — paper-rank-section-rubric

- Objective: Move PaperRank from full-text marker matching toward a more legible AI-researcher audit by extracting paper sections and answering checklist-style rubric items.
- Changed: Added canonical full-text section extraction with absolute offsets, section-specific full_text:<section> spans, deterministic rubric answers for limitations, reproducibility path, experimental details, statistical significance, and compute resources, rubric-backed methodology/reproducibility scoring, report rendering for section rubric findings, and JSONL/papers.jsonl serialization that keeps section boundaries without writing raw section bodies. Updated fixture full text, tests, docs, release notes, and the PaperRank plan artifact.
- Verified: npm test -- tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 211/211, including section extraction, rubric answers, durable artifacts, and fixture CLI E2E. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm --prefix website run lint, npm --prefix website run typecheck, npm --prefix website run build, and npm pack --dry-run passed. An isolated live feynman rank "mechanistic interpretability sparse autoencoders" --limit 5 --full-text-top 1 --json smoke returned five papers, enriched 1/1 requested full texts, wrote the rubric section, produced 25 rubric answers, produced three section-specific full-text spans, and serialized three full-text section boundaries.
- Blockers: None for deterministic section-aware rubric screening. The remaining research-quality gap is LLM critique over the extracted spans and broader citation expansion beyond the first OpenAlex candidate set.
- Next: Run typecheck/build/website/package/live smoke, then add citation expansion or a dashboard slice.

2026-06-18 10:00 PDT — paper-rank-full-text-enrichment

- Objective: Move PaperRank closer to an AI researcher by letting the ranking inspect full-paper content for top arXiv candidates instead of relying only on metadata and abstracts.
- Changed: Added --full-text-top N to feynman rank, pre-ranking from OpenAlex metadata, fetching full text for top arXiv candidates through the bundled alphaXiv client, recording per-paper full-text status, rescoring with full_text source spans, and omitting raw paper bodies from papers.jsonl while keeping fullTextLength and score evidence spans. Updated README, CLI help metadata, website docs, release notes, fixture data, tests, and the PaperRank plan artifact.
- Verified: npm test -- tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 209/209, including deterministic fixture CLI full-text enrichment; npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm --prefix website run lint, npm --prefix website run typecheck, npm --prefix website run build, and npm pack --dry-run passed. node bin/feynman.js help | rg "full-text-top|Rank papers" showed the new help line. An isolated live feynman rank "mechanistic interpretability sparse autoencoders" --limit 5 --full-text-top 1 --json smoke returned five papers, enriched 1/1 requested full texts, and wrote artifacts with 51 span-backed evidence entries including 31 full_text spans.
- Failed / learned: An earlier live smoke failed only because it ran concurrently with npm pack --dry-run, whose prepack step cleans and rebuilds dist/; the isolated rerun passed.
- Blockers: None for optional full-text enrichment. The remaining research-quality gap is section-aware extraction and rubric answers over cited full-paper spans.
- Next: Add citation expansion beyond the first OpenAlex candidate set, section-aware extraction, rubric answers over full-paper spans, and a local dashboard.

2026-06-18 09:50 PDT — paper-rank-source-spans

- Objective: Make PaperRank methodology and reproducibility scoring explainable with concrete source text, not only marker counts.
- Changed: Added source-span extraction for methodology and reproducibility markers, preserved span objects in score evidence (source, field, marker, start/end offsets, and surrounding text), surfaced top evidence snippets in the Markdown report, and updated PaperRank docs/plan language to describe span-backed screening.
- Verified: npm test -- tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 208/208, including span extraction and CLI artifact assertions; npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, and npm pack --dry-run passed. A live feynman rank "mechanistic interpretability sparse autoencoders" --limit 5 --json smoke wrote artifacts whose report contains the evidence section and whose scores JSONL contained 20 span-backed evidence entries.
- Failed / learned: Running website astro check and astro build in parallel caused a transient .astro/data-store.json rename race; rerunning typecheck by itself passed.
- Blockers: None for metadata/abstract source spans. Full-text methodology review still requires an AlphaXiv/full-paper pass with section-level spans.
- Next: Add optional full-text enrichment for top-ranked arXiv papers, then move from marker screening to rubric answers grounded in extracted paper sections.

2026-06-18 09:43 PDT — paper-rank-ai-researcher

- Objective: Move Feynman from research strategy toward a tested end-to-end AI researcher by shipping a first PaperRank workflow for transparent paper ranking.
- Changed: Added feynman rank <topic> backed by OpenAlex-shaped work metadata, normalized paper records, local citation-graph construction, PageRank-style graph prestige, citation impact/velocity, deterministic methodology and reproducibility screening, and durable artifacts (<slug>-paper-rank.md, <slug>-papers.jsonl, <slug>-scores.jsonl, <slug>-citation-graph.json, <slug>-rank.provenance.md). Added docs, release notes, command registry wiring, fixture data, unit tests, and a CLI fixture e2e test.
- Verified: npm test passed 207/207; npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, and node bin/feynman.js help | rg 'feynman rank|PaperRank|Rank papers' passed. A live node bin/feynman.js rank "mechanistic interpretability sparse autoencoders" --limit 5 --json run against OpenAlex returned five papers and wrote all five artifacts in a temp output directory.
- Failed / learned: A help smoke run failed once while npm pack --dry-run was deleting and rebuilding dist/; rerunning after pack passed. The live 5-paper OpenAlex set had no candidate-to-candidate citation edges and missing abstract-visible methodology evidence for the top paper, and PaperRank correctly marked those components unavailable instead of fabricating them.
- Blockers: None for the first PaperRank slice. Full methodology peer review still requires a later full-text/AlphaXiv evidence-span pass rather than abstract-only screening.
- Next: Extend PaperRank with citation expansion, full-text methodology extraction, source-span-backed rubric answers, and a dashboard.

2026-06-18 09:30 PDT — alphaxiv-cli-repair

- Objective: Fix broken alphaXiv access end to end, including the Feynman agent shell path that was resolving an old global feynman binary.
- Changed: Added feynman alpha ... pass-through to Feynman's bundled patched alphaXiv client, documented the full alpha command surface, updated bundled prompts/skills/agent guidance to avoid the user's bare global alpha binary, patched the user's global alpha-hub install on this machine, and added a per-Feynman-home bin/feynman shim so Pi bash sessions resolve this repo's CLI before stale global installs.
- Verified: npm test passed 200/200; root npm run typecheck, root npm run build, website npm --prefix website run lint, website npm --prefix website run typecheck, website npm --prefix website run build, and npm pack --dry-run passed. Live smokes passed for node bin/feynman.js --version, node bin/feynman.js alpha status, bundled feynman alpha search "transformer scaling laws" --mode semantic --json, bundled feynman alpha get 2001.08361 --json, and global /Users/advaitpaliwal/.npm-global/bin/alpha search "transformer scaling laws" --mode keyword --json. A forced one-shot agent bash test ran feynman alpha search "transformer scaling laws" --mode semantic --json and returned RESULT_COUNT=10 FIRST_ID=2411.06646.
- Failed / learned: Direct package-local alpha-hub already worked; the user-visible failure came from stale global alpha-hub search fallback and, separately, from Pi bash resolving global feynman 0.2.49 instead of the current repo CLI.
- Blockers: Remote CI and release publication were not run from this local repair pass.
- Next: Publish the pending 0.3.4 refresh when ready, then run the remote end-to-end install workflow against the packaged release.

2026-06-16 00:00 PDT — feynman-ai-researcher

- Objective: Research how to convert Feynman into a deeper AI researcher and whether to build a PageRank-style paper-importance/methodology scoring product.
- Changed: Wrote a source-backed strategy package: outputs/.plans/feynman-ai-researcher.md, outputs/.drafts/feynman-ai-researcher-research-direct.md, outputs/.drafts/feynman-ai-researcher-cited.md, outputs/.drafts/feynman-ai-researcher-verification.md, outputs/feynman-ai-researcher.md, and outputs/feynman-ai-researcher.provenance.md.
- Verified: Local Feynman README/AGENTS/prompts/skills/extensions/docs were read; external sources were opened for Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Elicit, ResearchRabbit, Litmaps, Consensus, SciSpace, Undermind, PaperQA2, OpenScholar, Agent Laboratory, AI Scientist, Eigenfactor, time-aware PageRank, PRISMA, EQUATOR, Cochrane RoB 2/ROBINS-I, GRADE, and NeurIPS/ML reproducibility checklists. Artifact existence and key final sections were checked with stat and rg.
- Failed / learned: Scite pages were sparse behind JavaScript in this environment and were not used for final claims. Live OpenAlex/Semantic Scholar API limits and pricing were not smoke-tested, so implementation must re-check provider limits before coding.
- Blockers: None for the research artifact. The PaperRank score weights remain a product hypothesis that need empirical validation against real paper-selection tasks.
- Next: Implement feynman rank <topic> as the first product slice: normalized paper records, local citation graph, component scoring, methodology/reproducibility rubrics with source spans, JSONL outputs, and a local dashboard.

2026-06-14 11:23 PDT — daily-issue-sweep

- Objective: Re-check live GitHub issues/PRs, dependency/audit freshness, CI/release status, and repo-local validation against the pending 0.3.4 refresh.
- Changed: No open GitHub issues or PRs required product fixes. Updated the remaining stale website devDependency eslint-plugin-react-refresh from ^0.5.2 to ^0.5.3, preserving the existing pending 0.3.4 maintenance refresh.
- Verified: gh issue list --state open ... returned []; gh pr list --state open ... returned []; gh run list --limit 15 ... still shows latest successful Publish and Release run 27438650693 and latest successful End-to-End Install Tests run 27394423414; gh release list --limit 10 and npm view @companion-ai/feynman version still show v0.3.3 / 0.3.3 latest while the local package is 0.3.4. Root and website npm outdated --json now return {}; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both report zero vulnerabilities. npm test passed 198/198, root npm run typecheck, root npm run build, website npm run lint, website npm run typecheck, website npm run build, npm pack --dry-run, and node bin/feynman.js --version all passed.
- Failed / learned: The only new actionable item was the website lint-plugin patch update; no new issue, PR, audit, CI, or local validation failure required a code-path fix.
- Blockers: None for this local sweep.
- Next: Push the pending 0.3.4 maintenance refresh when ready, then let release CI publish and rerun e2e.

2026-06-14 03:56 PDT — daily-issue-sweep

- Objective: Re-check live GitHub issues/PRs, dependency/audit freshness, CI/release status, and repo-local validation after the prior pending 0.3.4 maintenance refresh.
- Changed: No product code changes. No open GitHub issues or PRs required action, and the pending 0.3.4 dependency/runtime refresh remained the only local code change set.
- Verified: gh issue list --state open ... returned []; gh pr list --state open ... returned []; gh run list --limit 20 ... still shows latest successful Publish and Release run 27438650693 and latest successful End-to-End Install Tests run 27394423414; gh release list --limit 10 still shows v0.3.3 latest. Root and website npm outdated --json returned {}; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both reported found 0 vulnerabilities. npm test passed 198/198, root npm run typecheck, root npm run build, website npm run typecheck, website npm run build, npm pack --dry-run, and node bin/feynman.js --version all passed. npm ls esbuild confirms [email protected] under root tsx and website Astro/Vite.
- Failed / learned: No new actionable remote issue, PR, dependency, audit, CI, release, or local validation failure was present in this sweep.
- Blockers: None for this local sweep.
- Next: Push the pending 0.3.4 maintenance refresh when ready, then let release CI publish and rerun e2e.

2026-06-12 — windows-agent-npm-subagent-root

- Objective: Make the Windows subagent spawn work from the published package and prove it with the multi-OS e2e workflow.
- Changed: Added regression coverage for launch-time pi-subagents patching in both the Feynman npm-global package root and Pi's <agentDir>/npm/node_modules package root; bumped the package to 0.3.3 for a release containing the already-committed <agentDir>/npm/node_modules runtime patch.
- Verified: Run 27392984208 failed only on Windows live subagent smoke; its instrumentation showed D:\a\_temp\feynman-home\.feynman\agent\npm\node_modules\pi-subagents existed with patched(wrapperPiCliPath): false, while the failure still imported D:\a\feynman\feynman\--mode through Feynman's wrapper. Focused local patch tests, npm test (198/198), npm run typecheck, npm run build, node bin/feynman.js --version, and a local live subagent smoke returning RESULT=PONG passed.
- Failed / learned: The 0.3.2 fix covered the npm-global copy but not Pi 0.79's own agent-local package install root after FEYNMAN_HOME is set.
- Blockers: Need publish confirmation, e2e green on all six jobs, diagnostics cleanup, and a final green e2e run.
- Next: Push 0.3.3, verify npm latest, and dispatch e2e.

2026-06-13 — daily-issue-sweep

- Objective: Re-run the daily issue/PR, dependency freshness, CI/release, audit, and local validation sweep against the current checkout.
- Changed: No open GitHub issues or PRs required action. Advanced the pending 0.3.4 maintenance refresh from Pi 0.79.2 to 0.79.3, kept the runtime fallback constants aligned, and updated website in-range stale packages (@tailwindcss/vite, tailwindcss, lucide-react, eslint). Preserved the existing esbuild: 0.28.1 audit overrides.
- Verified: gh issue list --state open ... returned []; gh pr list --state open ... returned []; gh run list --branch main --limit 10 ... still shows latest successful Publish and Release run 27438650693 and latest successful End-to-End Install Tests run 27394423414; gh release list --limit 10 still shows v0.3.3 latest. Root and website npm outdated --json now return {}; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both report found 0 vulnerabilities. npm test passed 198/198, root npm run typecheck, root npm run build, website npm run typecheck, website npm run build, npm pack --dry-run, and node bin/feynman.js --version all passed. npm ls esbuild confirms [email protected] under root tsx and website Astro/Vite. Runtime archive inspection confirms all four bundled Pi packages lock to 0.79.3.
- Failed / learned: The first archive inspection used the wrong extracted root path; the archive top-level is npm/, and the rerun against that path passed.
- Blockers: None for this local sweep.
- Next: Push the pending 0.3.4 maintenance refresh when ready, then let release CI publish and rerun e2e.

2026-06-12 13:24 PDT — daily-issue-sweep

- Objective: Sweep live GitHub issue/PR state, dependency/audit freshness, CI/release status, and repo-local validation for safe actionable fixes.
- Changed: No open GitHub issues or PRs required action. Refreshed the bundled Pi runtime from 0.79.1 to 0.79.2 across direct deps plus the packaged runtime fallback constants, added a root esbuild: 0.28.1 override to clear the new tsx -> esbuild 0.28.0 advisory, added the same website override for Astro/Vite's esbuild <0.28.1 advisory path, and bumped the package version to 0.3.4 with release notes.
- Verified: gh issue list --state open --json ... returned []; gh pr list --state open --json ... returned []; gh run list --limit 12 --json ... still shows the latest successful Publish and Release run 27438650693 and End-to-End Install Tests run 27394423414; gh release list --limit 10 still shows v0.3.3 as latest before this local bump. npm outdated --json is now {}. Root npm install and website npm install both ended with found 0 vulnerabilities. Root npm audit --json first exposed esbuild advisory GHSA-gv7w-rqvm-qjhr through [email protected]; after the override, root npm audit --omit=dev, npm test (198/198), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm pack --dry-run, node bin/feynman.js --version, and npm ls esbuild all passed. Website npm audit --omit=dev, npm run typecheck, npm run build, and npm ls esbuild also passed with [email protected] forced under Astro/Vite.
- Failed / learned: A concurrent node bin/feynman.js --version run failed once because npm pack --dry-run intentionally deletes and rebuilds dist/ during prepack; rerunning it after the pack step passed, so that was a validation race, not a repo defect.
- Blockers: None.
- Next: Push the 0.3.4 maintenance refresh when ready so release CI can publish the Pi/runtime-security sweep.

2026-06-12 13:22 PDT — daily-issue-sweep

- Objective: Refresh live GitHub issue/PR state, dependency/audit freshness, CI/release status, and repo-local validation for any safe actionable fix.
- Changed: No product code changes; recorded that the repo currently has no open GitHub issues or PRs and that the latest publish/e2e flows for main are green after v0.3.3.
- Verified: gh issue list --state open --json ... returned []; gh pr list --state open --json ... returned []; gh run list --limit 12 --json ... shows latest successful Publish and Release run 27438650693 on 2026-06-12 19:38Z and latest successful End-to-End Install Tests run 27394423414 on 2026-06-12 04:25Z; gh release list --limit 10 shows v0.3.3 as latest; root npm outdated --json returned {}; root and website npm audit --omit=dev found 0 vulnerabilities; npm test passed 198/198; npm run typecheck; npm run build; npm pack --dry-run; node bin/feynman.js --version; and cd website && npm run build all passed.
- Failed / learned: No actionable remote issue, PR, dependency, audit, CI, release, or local validation failure was present in this sweep.
- Blockers: None.
- Next: On the next sweep, only dig deeper if a new issue/PR opens, a workflow regresses, or one of the validation commands starts failing.

2026-06-12 06:22 PDT — daily-issue-sweep

- Objective: Sweep live GitHub issues/PRs, dependency/audit freshness, CI/release state, and repo-local validation for safe actionable fixes.
- Changed: No repo code changes; recorded that there are still no open GitHub issues, PR #173's Windows explorer hardening is already present in src/system/open-url.ts plus tests/open-url.test.ts, and PR #175's MiniMax M3 preference is already present in src/model/catalog.ts.
- Verified: gh issue list --json ... returned []; gh pr list still shows only #173, #175, and #176; gh run list --limit 12 shows the latest Publish and Release and End-to-End Install Tests runs succeeded on 2026-06-12; gh release list --limit 10 shows v0.3.3 as latest; root npm outdated --json returned {}; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities; npm test passed 198/198; npm run typecheck; npm run build; npm pack --dry-run; node bin/feynman.js --version; and cd website && npm run build all passed.
- Failed / learned: PR #176 is still the only open change not reflected in main, but its diff only adds README sponsorship copy plus atlascloud labels/setup-list entries. It still lacks repo-local runtime proof that Atlas Cloud is a validated Feynman provider contract rather than an OpenAI-compatible custom-provider marketing claim.
- Blockers: Need actual Atlas runtime evidence for #176 such as a docs-backed API contract plus a real models.json or setup-path verification before it is safe to merge or port.
- Next: Keep #173 and #175 treated as stale/superseded by main; require concrete provider integration evidence before touching #176.

2026-06-11 23:18 PDT — daily-issue-sweep

- Objective: Sweep live GitHub issues/PRs plus local dependency, CI, release, and validation health for actionable safe fixes.
- Changed: No repo code changes; recorded that main already contains the Windows open-url hardening and the MiniMax M3 research preference that open PRs #173 and #175 propose.
- Verified: gh issue list showed no open issues; gh pr list showed only #173, #175, and #176; gh run list showed the latest Publish and Release and End-to-End Install Tests runs green for v0.3.3; gh release list shows v0.3.3 as latest; npm audit --omit=dev returned zero vulns; npm outdated --json returned {}; npm test passed 198/198; npm run typecheck; npm run build; npm pack --dry-run; and node bin/feynman.js --version returned 0.3.3.
- Failed / learned: PR #176 is the only still-open change not already present in main, but the current PR evidence only shows label/sort-order/API-key-list docs wiring; it does not show a verified Atlas Cloud runtime path or model-catalog proof beyond README marketing copy.
- Blockers: Need actual provider integration evidence for #176 before treating it as safe to merge or port.
- Next: Either close #173 and #175 as stale/superseded, or comment with main evidence; ask #176 for a real runtime repro or docs-backed provider contract before merging.

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- Objective: ...
- Changed: ...
- Verified: ...
- Failed / learned: ...
- Blockers: ...
- Next: ...

2026-06-11 19:54 PDT — pi-subagents-userdir

- Objective: Fix the userDir is not defined Pi subagent launch failure and make Feynman's pi-subagents patcher fail closed when upstream patch anchors drift.
- Changed: Made grouped pi-subagents source edits transactional, stopped rewriting the current upstream getAgentDir() agents path shape, repaired already half-patched current agents.ts inputs, and updated runtime/patch regression fixtures.
- Verified: npm test, npm run typecheck, focused patch tests, and live/tarball pi-subagents patch invariant checks passed.
- Failed / learned: Current upstream [email protected] already honors PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR, and Feynman already sets it alongside FEYNMAN_CODING_AGENT_DIR; the old agents path rewrite is unnecessary for that shape and caused the mixed-state failure.
- Blockers: None.
- Next: Release when ready; do not re-enable current-shape agents path rewrites unless upstream stops honoring PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR.

2026-05-16 17:43 PDT — hindsight-memory-preset

- Objective: Address issue #166 by making Hindsight memory installable through Feynman's optional package preset system.
- Changed: Added a hindsight optional preset for @luxusai/pi-hindsight, added hindsight and pi-hindsight update aliases, bumped the package to 0.2.58, and updated release, package-stack, and setup docs.
- Verified: Live npm metadata and README for Hindsight Pi packages were checked; full root tests, typecheck, root build, root and website production audits, website build, package dry-run, package-list smoke, and a temp-home feynman packages install hindsight smoke passed locally.
- Failed / learned: The issue body was empty, but live npm package research found multiple Hindsight Pi packages; @luxusai/pi-hindsight is the most current docs-backed fit for Feynman's newer Pi runtime namespace while remaining optional.
- Blockers: Need commit, push, release workflow confirmation, npm latest verification, and issue update.
- Next: Push main, watch release CI, verify npm latest, then update and close #166.

2026-05-15 03:07 PDT — editor-input-contrast

- Objective: Fix issue #165, where macOS/iTerm users could not read typed text in Feynman's dark interactive input box.
- Changed: Centralized the Pi TUI editor/theme patch, added an explicit editor input foreground, applied the patch to package-local Pi files, launch-time runtime patching, and the vendored runtime archive path; bumped the package to 0.2.57; added release notes; and updated the website lockfile devalue transitive to 5.8.1 after audit flagged the older release.
- Verified: Focused Pi TUI tests, full root tests, typecheck, root build, root production audit, website production audit, website build, runtime archive content inspection, package dry-run, packed tarball inspection, and clean installed-tarball feynman --version plus feynman doctor passed locally.
- Failed / learned: The placeholder was readable because it already used a themed foreground; typed input inherited the terminal default foreground after Feynman added the dark editor background.
- Blockers: Need commit, push, release workflow confirmation, npm latest verification, and issue closure.
- Next: Push main, watch release CI, verify npm latest, then close #165.

2026-05-13 11:55 PDT — audit-detail-sweep

- Objective: Tighten the current Feynman release line after a broad detail sweep.
- Changed: Bumped the root protobufjs override to 7.5.8, refreshed the lockfile, added 0.2.56 release notes, and kept the package line publishable with a new patch version.
- Verified: Tracker and PR lists were empty; root tests, typecheck, build, root and website production audits, website build, diff whitespace check, package dry-run, and clean installed-tarball feynman --version plus feynman doctor passed after the override refresh.
- Failed / learned: The first root production audit exposed a new protobufjs <=7.5.5 advisory from the existing override, so 0.2.55 needed a follow-up security patch rather than a no-op sweep.
- Blockers: Need commit, push, release workflow confirmation, and npm latest verification for 0.2.56.
- Next: Push main, watch release CI, then verify npm latest.

2026-05-09 16:20 PDT — skills-install-targets

- Objective: Make standalone skills installs unambiguous for Codex, Claude/agent repo-local use, and OpenCode.
- Changed: Added explicit Codex installer scopes, documented target-specific commands, and added Codex smoke coverage.
- Verified: Focused installer tests, full root test suite, root typecheck, root build, package dry-run, diff whitespace check, website typecheck, and website build passed locally.
- Failed / learned: The existing default was already Codex, but the named scopes did not expose that clearly.
- Blockers: None.
- Next: Push 0.2.50 and answer issue #161 with the Codex, repo-local, and OpenCode commands.

2026-05-09 17:05 PDT — pi-package-peer-deps

- Objective: Address the missing peer-runtime dependency class reported as a follow-up on issue #80 and stop the issue monitor from missing new comments.
- Changed: Updated the issue heartbeat to include new comments; changed Pi package npm installs/updates to install the pinned Pi runtime peer packages beside Pi packages; bumped to 0.2.51.
- Verified: Focused package-manager tests, full root test suite, root typecheck, root build, package dry-run, diff whitespace check, website typecheck, and website build passed locally.
- Failed / learned: The pasted @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent imports do not match the current npm tarballs for [email protected] or [email protected], which currently import @mariozechner/*; the real Feynman-side bug is legacy peer dependency mode leaving peer-only runtime packages absent.
- Blockers: None.
- Next: Push 0.2.51, watch release CI, and report the monitor/fix status.

2026-05-07 15:05 PDT — node24-core-researcher

- Objective: Fix the Node 24 regression from the default Pi package set while keeping Feynman focused on the core AI researcher path.
- Changed: Restored Node 24 support, slimmed default packages to alphaXiv/subagents/doc parsing/web access, moved memory and session search to optional presets, and upgraded the website stack to patched Astro 6/Vite 7 with the current content-layer config.
- Verified: Root build, typecheck, full tests, package dry-run, native bundle build, website build/typecheck/lint, and production audits passed locally.
- Failed / learned: The native bundle and website build still had stale assumptions: native validation expected better-sqlite3, and the Astro 6 upgrade needed the Vite override lifted to Vite 7 before static pages rendered.
- Blockers: None.
- Next: Push main and use release CI to publish 0.2.49.

2026-05-07 04:00 PDT — pi-runtime-refresh

- Objective: Run another broad Feynman health sweep and take useful dependency/runtime fixes without bloating the wrapper.
- Changed: Updated @mariozechner/pi-ai and @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent to 0.73.0; updated @clack/prompts to 1.3.0; bumped the package to 0.2.45; added release notes.
- Verified: Working tree started clean; open GitHub issues and PRs were empty; latest main release workflow was green; npm test passed with 154/154; typecheck, root build, website build, feynman doctor, npm audit --omit=dev, and npm pack --dry-run passed; JSONL RPC get_state plus bash returned FEYNMAN_RPC_OK; release CI published npm 0.2.45, built native bundles, and created the GitHub release; global [email protected] installed and passed doctor plus RPC smoke.
- Failed / learned: TypeScript 6.0.3 is available as a major upgrade, but this pass intentionally did not take that compiler jump because the runtime wrapper benefit is low relative to release risk.
- Blockers: None for the runtime refresh.
- Next: Keep TypeScript 6 as a separate deliberate migration, not part of a runtime refresh.

2026-05-07 05:20 PDT — ml-recipe-workflow

- Objective: Review and finish the pending ML recipe workflow instead of leaving it as unverified local drift.
- Changed: Added the /recipe workflow, read-only Hugging Face Hub inspection tools, researcher recipe-mode guidance, docs, and focused Hugging Face tool tests; bumped the package to 0.2.46.
- Verified: Context7 docs for Hugging Face.js confirm the Hub list/download model; live Hub checks returned HTTP 200 for dataset metadata, dataset tree, model tree, and README reads; mocked unit tests cover tool registration, auth, encoded URLs, limits, and truncation; npm test passed with 156/156; typecheck, root build, website build, CLI help, and git diff --check passed.
- Failed / learned: The global 0.2.45 release correctly did not include the pending recipe workflow, so this needs its own versioned release instead of being described under 0.2.45.
- Blockers: Need post-bump pack/audit validation, commit, push, release workflow confirmation, and global install update to 0.2.46.
- Next: Run final validation, push main, watch release CI, then install @companion-ai/[email protected] globally.

2026-05-07 05:35 PDT — docs-test-cleanup

- Objective: Clear the remaining local doc/test corrections without pushing a duplicate package version.
- Changed: Linked upstream Pi and Hugging Face docs from README and website docs; clarified Hugging Face binary-file refusal behavior; tightened the binary-refusal test assertion; bumped the package to 0.2.47.
- Verified: Pending final validation before push.
- Failed / learned: 0.2.46 released successfully, so any further pushed changes need a new package version to keep the release workflow green.
- Blockers: Need validation, push, release workflow confirmation, and global install update to 0.2.47.
- Next: Run tests/build/audit/pack, push main, watch release CI, then install latest globally.

2026-05-06 19:04 PDT — audit-cleanup

- Objective: Run a broad maintenance pass after tracker cleanup and fix anything that materially helps Feynman.
- Changed: Updated transitive dependency override pins for basic-ftp, hono, express-rate-limit, ip-address, AWS XML parsing dependencies, and MCP SDK resolution; bumped the package to 0.2.44; added release notes.
- Verified: Open GitHub issues and PRs were both empty; installed CLI and npm latest were 0.2.43 before this pass; full npm test passed with 154/154; typecheck, root build, website build, feynman doctor, and production npm audit --omit=dev passed.
- Failed / learned: The remaining audit issues were caused by repo-level overrides pinning vulnerable transitive versions; local npm min-release-age=7 required disabling the delay to install newly patched Hono.
- Blockers: Need final post-bump validation, commit, push, release workflow confirmation, and installed CLI update.
- Next: Re-run validation after the version bump, push main, watch release CI, then install @companion-ai/[email protected] globally.

2026-05-06 03:34 PDT — web-search-config-perms

- Objective: Integrate the remaining open PR for web-search credential file permissions and ship it through the npm release path.
- Changed: Restricted .feynman/web-search.json to 0600 after writes, added POSIX regression coverage, bumped the package to 0.2.43, and added release notes.
- Verified: Focused pi-web-access test passed; final post-bump npm test passed with 154/154; typecheck, build, diff check, package-lock version check, and npm pack --dry-run passed.
- Failed / learned: A code-only commit would not publish because 0.2.42 was already on npm, so this fix needs a version bump.
- Blockers: Need push, GitHub Actions release confirmation, and PR #154 closure.
- Next: Push main, watch the release workflow, then close PR #154 as integrated.

2026-05-06 00:00 local — github-issues-150-153

- Objective: Read the current Feynman GitHub issues and fix the open tracker items end to end.
- Changed: Fixed bundled package seeding so copied runtime packages satisfy startup package checks; seeded bundles before interactive setup reports missing packages; restricted Feynman and sqlite-backed native package support to Node 22; moved release CI to Node 22; restored token-based npm publishing; made GitHub native releases independent of the npm publish result; applied the biomedical literature review docs from PR #152; bumped the package to 0.2.41.
- Verified: Ran npm test with 151/151 passing, npm run typecheck, npm run build, cd website && npm run build, node bin/feynman.js --version, and a fresh FEYNMAN_HOME package-detection smoke that reported zero missing startup packages.
- Failed / learned: The package seeding bug was not just missing files; copied bundled packages were present but not counted as seeded because the check only recognized symlink targets.
- Blockers: npm publish is still blocked by registry credentials returning 404 for @companion-ai/[email protected]; GitHub native release still needs observation.
- Next: Confirm the follow-up release run publishes the GitHub native bundles, then close/comment issues #150, #151, #153 and PR #152.

2026-04-12 00:00 local — capital-france

- Objective: Run an unattended deep-research workflow for the question "What is the capital of France?"
- Changed: Created plan artifact at outputs/.plans/capital-france.md; scoped the workflow as a narrow fact-verification run with direct lead-agent evidence gathering instead of researcher subagents.
- Verified: Read existing CHANGELOG.md and recalled prior saved plan memory for capital-france before finalizing the new run plan.
- Failed / learned: None yet.
- Blockers: Need at least two current independent authoritative sources and a quick ambiguity check before drafting.
- Next: Collect current official/public sources, resolve any legal nuance, then draft and verify the brief.

2026-04-12 00:20 local — capital-france

- Objective: Complete evidence gathering and ambiguity check for the capital-of-France workflow.
- Changed: Wrote notes/capital-france-research-web.md and notes/capital-france-legal-context.md; identified Insee (2024) and a Sénat report as the two main corroborating sources.
- Verified: Cross-read current public French sources that explicitly describe Paris as the capital/capital city of France; found no current contradiction.
- Failed / learned: The Presidency homepage was useful contextual support but not explicit enough to carry the core claim alone.
- Blockers: Need citation pass and final review pass before promotion.
- Next: Draft the brief, then run verifier and reviewer passes.

2026-04-12 00:35 local — capital-france

- Objective: Move from gathered evidence to a citable draft.
- Changed: Wrote outputs/.drafts/capital-france-draft.md and updated the plan ledger to mark drafting complete.
- Verified: Kept the core claim narrowly scoped to what the Insee and Sénat sources explicitly support; treated the Élysée page as contextual only.
- Failed / learned: None.
- Blockers: Need verifier URL/citation pass and reviewer verification pass before final promotion.
- Next: Run verifier on the draft, then review and promote the final brief.

2026-04-12 00:50 local — capital-france

- Objective: Complete citation, verification, and final promotion for the capital-of-France workflow.
- Changed: Produced outputs/capital-france-brief.md, ran verification into notes/capital-france-verification.md, promoted the final brief to outputs/capital-france.md, and wrote outputs/capital-france.provenance.md.
- Verified: Reviewer found no FATAL or MAJOR issues. Core claim remains backed by two independent French public-institution sources, with Insee as the primary explicit source and the Sénat report as corroboration.
- Failed / learned: The runtime did not expose a named verifier subagent, so I used an available worker in a verifier-equivalent role and recorded that deviation in the plan.
- Blockers: None.
- Next: If needed, extend the brief with deeper legal-historical sourcing, but the narrow factual question is sufficiently answered.

2026-04-12 10:05 local — capital-france

- Objective: Run the citation-verification pass on the capital-of-France draft and promote a final cited brief.
- Changed: Verified the three draft source URLs were live (HTTP 200 at check time), added numbered inline citations, downgraded unsupported phrasing around the Élysée/context and broad ambiguity claims, and wrote outputs/capital-france-brief.md.
- Verified: Confirmed Insee explicitly says Paris is the capital of France; confirmed the Sénat report describes Paris’s capital status and the presence of national institutions; confirmed the Élysée homepage is contextual only and not explicit enough to carry the core claim.
- Failed / learned: The draft wording about the Presidency being seated in Paris was not directly supported by the cited homepage, so it was removed rather than carried forward.
- Blockers: Reviewer pass still pending if the workflow requires an adversarial final check.
- Next: If needed, run a final reviewer pass; otherwise use outputs/capital-france-brief.md as the canonical brief.

2026-04-12 10:20 local — capital-france

- Objective: Close the workflow with final review, final artifact promotion, and provenance.
- Changed: Ran a reviewer pass recorded in notes/capital-france-verification.md; promoted the cited brief into outputs/capital-france.md; wrote outputs/capital-france.provenance.md; updated the run plan to mark all tasks complete.
- Verified: Reviewer verdict was PASS WITH MINOR REVISIONS only; those minor wording fixes were applied before delivery.
- Failed / learned: The runtime did not expose a project-named verifier agent, so the citation pass used an available worker agent as a verifier-equivalent step.
- Blockers: None.
- Next: Optional only — produce a legal memorandum on the basis of Paris's capital status if requested.

2026-04-14 12:00 local — capital-belgium

- Objective: Run a deep-research workflow for the question "What is the capital of Belgium?"
- Changed: Created plan artifact at outputs/.plans/capital-belgium.md; gathered evidence into notes/capital-belgium-research-web.md from Belgium.be, FPS Foreign Affairs, Britannica, and a Belgian Senate constitution check.
- Verified: Found two explicit current Belgian government statements that Brussels is the federal capital of Belgium, plus independent Britannica corroboration; no conflicting nuance surfaced in the consulted legal text.
- Failed / learned: This is narrow enough that researcher subagents would add overhead without increasing evidence quality.
- Blockers: Need draft, citation/URL verification pass, final review pass, and promotion.
- Next: Draft the brief, run verifier-equivalent and reviewer passes, then promote final output with provenance.

2026-04-14 12:25 local — capital-belgium

- Objective: Complete citation, verification, and final promotion for the capital-of-Belgium workflow.
- Changed: Wrote outputs/.drafts/capital-belgium-draft.md; produced cited brief outputs/capital-belgium-brief.md; ran verification into notes/capital-belgium-verification.md; promoted final output to outputs/capital-belgium.md; wrote outputs/capital-belgium.provenance.md; updated the plan ledger and verification log.
- Verified: Core claim is now backed by Belgium.be, Belgian Foreign Affairs, Britannica, and direct constitutional text from Senate-hosted Article 194 stating that Brussels is the capital of Belgium and the seat of the federal government.
- Failed / learned: The runtime did not expose a named verifier subagent, so a worker performed a verifier-equivalent citation/URL check; reviewer surfaced a stronger constitutional source than the first draft had emphasized.
- Blockers: None.
- Next: Optional only — if requested, expand this into a legal-historical note on Brussels’s capital status and the distinction between city, region, and federal institutions.

2026-03-25 00:00 local — scaling-laws

- Objective: Set up a deep research workflow for scaling laws.
- Changed: Created plan artifact at outputs/.plans/scaling-laws.md; defined 4 disjoint researcher dimensions and acceptance criteria.
- Verified: Read CHANGELOG.md and checked prior memory for related plan scaling-laws-implications.
- Failed / learned: No prior run-specific changelog entries existed beyond the template.
- Blockers: Waiting for user confirmation before launching researcher round 1.
- Next: On confirmation, spawn 4 parallel researcher subagents and begin evidence collection.

2026-03-25 00:30 local — scaling-laws (T4 inference/time-scale pass)

- Objective: Complete T4 on inference/test-time scaling and reasoning-time compute, scoped to 2023–2026.
- Changed: Wrote notes/scaling-laws-research-inference.md; updated outputs/.plans/scaling-laws.md to mark T4 done and log the inference-scaling verification pass.
- Verified: Cross-read 13 primary/official sources covering Tree-of-Thoughts, PRMs, repeated sampling, compute-optimal test-time scaling, provable laws, o1, DeepSeek-R1, s1, verifier failures, Anthropic extended thinking, and OpenAI reasoning API docs.
- Failed / learned: OpenAI blog fetch for learning-to-reason-with-llms returned malformed content, so the note leans on the o1 system card and API docs instead of that blog post.
- Blockers: T2 and T5 remain open before final synthesis; no single unified law for inference-time scaling emerged from public sources.
- Next: Complete T5 implications synthesis, then reconcile T3/T4 with foundational T2 before drafting the cited brief.

2026-03-25 11:20 local — scaling-laws (T6 draft synthesis)

- Objective: Synthesize the four research notes into a single user-facing draft brief for the scaling-laws workflow.
- Changed: Wrote outputs/.drafts/scaling-laws-draft.md with an executive summary, curated reading list, qualitative meta-analysis, core-paper comparison table, explicit training-vs-inference distinction, and numbered inline citations with direct-URL sources.
- Verified: Cross-checked the draft against notes/scaling-laws-research-foundations.md, notes/scaling-laws-research-revisions.md, notes/scaling-laws-research-inference.md, and notes/scaling-laws-research-implications.md to ensure the brief explicitly states the literature is too heterogeneous for a pooled effect-size estimate.
- Failed / learned: The requested temp-run context.md and plan.md were absent, so the synthesis used outputs/.plans/scaling-laws.md plus the four note files as the working context.
- Blockers: Citation/claim verification pass still pending; this draft should be treated as pre-verification.
- Next: Run verifier/reviewer passes, then promote the draft into the final cited brief and provenance sidecar.

2026-03-25 11:28 local — scaling-laws (final brief + pdf)

- Objective: Deliver a paper guide and qualitative meta-analysis on AI scaling laws.
- Changed: Finalized outputs/scaling-laws.md and sidecar outputs/scaling-laws.provenance.md; rendered preview PDF at outputs/scaling-laws.pdf; updated plan ledger and verification log in outputs/.plans/scaling-laws.md.
- Verified: Ran a reviewer pass recorded in notes/scaling-laws-verification.md; spot-checked key primary papers via alpha-backed reads for Kaplan 2020, Chinchilla 2022, and Snell 2024; confirmed PDF render output exists.
- Failed / learned: A pooled statistical meta-analysis would be misleading because the literature mixes heterogeneous outcomes, scaling axes, and evaluation regimes; final deliverable uses a qualitative meta-analysis instead.
- Blockers: None for this brief.
- Next: If needed, extend into a narrower sub-survey (e.g. only pretraining laws, only inference-time scaling, or only post-Chinchilla data-quality revisions).

2026-03-25 14:52 local — skills-only-install

- Objective: Let users download the Feynman research skills without installing the full terminal runtime.
- Changed: Added standalone skills-only installers at scripts/install/install-skills.sh and scripts/install/install-skills.ps1; synced website-public copies; documented user-level and repo-local install flows in README.md, website/src/content/docs/getting-started/installation.md, and website/src/pages/index.astro.
- Verified: Ran sh -n scripts/install/install-skills.sh; ran node scripts/sync-website-installers.mjs; ran cd website && npm run build; executed sh scripts/install/install-skills.sh --dir <tmp> and confirmed extracted SKILL.md files land in the target directory.
- Failed / learned: PowerShell installer behavior was not executed locally because PowerShell is not installed in this environment.
- Blockers: None for the Unix installer flow; Windows remains syntax-only by inspection.
- Next: If users want this exposed more prominently, add a dedicated docs/reference page and a homepage-specific skills-only CTA instead of a text link.

2026-03-26 18:08 PDT — installer-release-unification

- Objective: Remove the moving edge installer channel and unify installs on tagged releases only.
- Changed: Updated scripts/install/install.sh, scripts/install/install.ps1, scripts/install/install-skills.sh, and scripts/install/install-skills.ps1 so the default target is the latest tagged release, latest-version resolution uses public GitHub release pages instead of api.github.com, and explicit edge requests now fail with a removal message; removed the release-edge job from .github/workflows/publish.yml; updated README.md and website/src/content/docs/getting-started/installation.md; re-synced website/public/install*.
- Verified: Ran sh -n on the Unix installer copies; confirmed sh scripts/install/install.sh edge and sh scripts/install/install-skills.sh edge --dir <tmp> fail with the intended removal message; executed sh scripts/install/install.sh into temp dirs and confirmed the installed binary reports 0.2.14; executed sh scripts/install/install-skills.sh --dir <tmp> and confirmed extracted SKILL.md files; ran cd website && npm run build.
- Failed / learned: The install failure was caused by unauthenticated GitHub API rate limiting on the edge path, so renaming channels without removing the API dependency would not have fixed the root cause.
- Blockers: npm run build still emits a pre-existing duplicate-content warning for getting-started/installation; the build succeeds.
- Next: If desired, remove the now-unused stable alias too and clean up the duplicate docs-content warning separately.

2026-03-27 11:58 PDT — release-0.2.15

- Objective: Make the non-Anthropic subagent/auth fixes and contributor-guide updates releasable to tagged-install users instead of leaving them only on main.
- Changed: Bumped the package version from 0.2.14 to 0.2.15 in package.json and package-lock.json; updated pinned installer examples in README.md and website/src/content/docs/getting-started/installation.md; aligned the local-development docs example to the npm-based root workflow; added CONTRIBUTING.md plus the bundled skills/contributing/SKILL.md.
- Verified: Confirmed the publish workflow keys off package.json versus the currently published npm version; confirmed local npm test, npm run typecheck, and npm run build pass before the release bump.
- Failed / learned: The open subagent issue is fixed on main but still user-visible on tagged installs until a fresh release is cut.
- Blockers: Need the GitHub publish workflow to finish successfully before the issue can be honestly closed as released.
- Next: Push 0.2.15, monitor the publish workflow, then update and close the relevant GitHub issue/PR once the release is live.

2026-03-28 15:15 PDT — pi-subagents-agent-dir-compat

- Objective: Debug why tagged installs can still fail subagent/auth flows after 0.2.15 when users are not on Anthropic.
- Changed: Added scripts/lib/pi-subagents-patch.mjs plus type declarations and wired scripts/patch-embedded-pi.mjs to rewrite vendored pi-subagents runtime files so they resolve user-scoped paths from PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR instead of hardcoded ~/.pi/agent; added tests/pi-subagents-patch.test.ts.
- Verified: Materialized .feynman/npm, inspected the shipped [email protected] sources, confirmed the hardcoded ~/.pi/agent paths in index.ts, agents.ts, artifacts.ts, run-history.ts, skills.ts, and chain-clarify.ts; ran node scripts/patch-embedded-pi.mjs; ran npm test, npm run typecheck, and npm run build.
- Failed / learned: The earlier 0.2.15 fix only proved that Feynman exported PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR to the top-level Pi child; it did not cover vendored extension code that still hardcoded .pi paths internally.
- Blockers: Users still need a release containing this patch before tagged installs benefit from it.
- Next: Cut the next release and verify a tagged install exercises subagents without reading from ~/.pi/agent.

2026-03-28 21:46 PDT — release-0.2.16

- Objective: Ship the vendored pi-subagents agent-dir compatibility fix to tagged installs.
- Changed: Bumped the package version from 0.2.15 to 0.2.16 in package.json and package-lock.json; updated pinned installer examples in README.md and website/src/content/docs/getting-started/installation.md.
- Verified: Re-ran npm test, npm run typecheck, and npm run build; ran cd website && npm run build; ran npm pack and confirmed the 0.2.16 tarball includes the new scripts/lib/pi-subagents-patch.* files.
- Failed / learned: An initial local build:native-bundle check failed because npm pack and build:native-bundle were run in parallel, and prepack intentionally removes dist/release; rerunning npm run build:native-bundle sequentially succeeded.
- Blockers: None in the repo; publishing still depends on the GitHub workflow running on the bumped version.
- Next: Push the 0.2.16 release bump and monitor npm/GitHub release publication.

2026-03-31 10:45 PDT — pi-maintenance-issues-prs

- Objective: Triage open Pi-related issues/PRs, fix the concrete package update regression, and refresh Pi dependencies against current upstream releases.
- Changed: Pinned direct package-manager operations (feynman update, feynman packages install) to Feynman's npm prefix by exporting FEYNMAN_NPM_PREFIX, NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX, and npm_config_prefix before invoking Pi's DefaultPackageManager; bumped @mariozechner/pi-ai and @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent from 0.62.0 to 0.64.0; adapted src/model/registry.ts to the new ModelRegistry.create(...) factory; integrated PR #15's /feynman-model command on top of current main.
- Verified: Ran npm test, npm run typecheck, and npm run build successfully after the dependency bump and PR integration; confirmed upstream [email protected] still uses npm install -g for user-scope package updates, so the Feynman-side prefix fix is still required.
- Failed / learned: PR #14 is a stale branch with no clean merge path against current main; the only user-facing delta is the ValiChord prompt/skill addition, and the branch also carries unrelated release churn plus demo-style material, so it was not merged in this pass.
- Blockers: None in the local repo state; remote merge/push still depends on repository credentials and branch policy.
- Next: If remote write access is available, commit and push the validated maintenance changes, then close issue #22 and resolve PR #15 as merged while leaving PR #14 unmerged pending a cleaned-up, non-promotional resubmission.

2026-03-31 12:05 PDT — pi-backlog-cleanup-round-2

- Objective: Finish the remaining high-confidence open tracker items after the Pi 0.64.0 upgrade instead of leaving the issue list half-reconciled.
- Changed: Added a Windows extension-loader patch helper so Feynman rewrites Pi extension imports to file:// URLs on Windows before interactive startup; added /commands, /tools, and /capabilities discovery commands and surfaced /hotkeys plus /service-tier in help metadata; added explicit service-tier support via feynman model tier, --service-tier, status/doctor output, and a provider-payload hook that passes service_tier only to supported OpenAI/OpenAI Codex/Anthropic models; added Exa provider recognition to Feynman's web-search status layer and vendored pi-web-access.
- Verified: Ran npm test, npm run typecheck, and npm run build; smoke-imported the modified vendored pi-web-access modules with node --import tsx.
- Failed / learned: The remaining ValiChord PR is still stale and mixes a real prompt/skill update with unrelated branch churn; it is a review/triage item, not a clean merge candidate.
- Blockers: No local build blockers remain; issue/PR closure still depends on the final push landing on main.
- Next: Push the verified cleanup commit, then close issues fixed by the dependency bump plus the new discoverability/service-tier/Windows patches, and close the stale ValiChord PR explicitly instead of leaving it open indefinitely.

2026-04-09 09:37 PDT — windows-startup-import-specifiers

- Objective: Fix Windows startup failures where feynman exits before the Pi child process initializes.
- Changed: Converted the Node preload module paths passed via node --import in src/pi/launch.ts to file:// specifiers using a new toNodeImportSpecifier(...) helper in src/pi/runtime.ts; expanded scripts/patch-embedded-pi.mjs so it also patches the bundled workspace copy of Pi's extension loader when present.
- Verified: Added a regression test in tests/pi-runtime.test.ts covering absolute-path to file:// conversion for preload imports; ran npm test, npm run typecheck, and npm run build.
- Failed / learned: The raw Windows ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME stack is more consistent with Node rejecting the child-process --import C:\\... preload before Pi starts than with a normal in-app extension load failure.
- Blockers: Windows runtime execution was not available locally, so the fix is verified by code path inspection and automated tests rather than an actual Windows shell run.
- Next: Ask the affected user to reinstall or update to the next published package once released, and confirm the Windows REPL now starts from a normal PowerShell session.

2026-04-09 11:02 PDT — tracker-hardening-pass

- Objective: Triage the open repo backlog, land the highest-signal fixes locally, and add guardrails against stale promotional workflow content.
- Changed: Hardened Windows launch paths in bin/feynman.js, scripts/build-native-bundle.mjs, and scripts/install/install.ps1; set npm prefix overrides earlier in scripts/patch-embedded-pi.mjs; added a pi-web-access runtime patch helper plus FEYNMAN_WEB_SEARCH_CONFIG env wiring so bundled web search reads the same ~/.feynman/web-search.json that doctor/status report; taught src/pi/web-access.ts to honor the legacy route key; fixed bundled skill references and expanded the skills-only installers/docs to ship the prompt and guidance files those skills reference; added regression tests for config paths, catalog snapshot edges, skill-path packaging, pi-web-access patching, and blocked promotional content.
- Verified: Ran npm test, npm run typecheck, and npm run build successfully after the full maintenance pass.
- Failed / learned: The skills-only install issue was not just docs drift; the shipped SKILL.md files referenced prompt paths that only made sense after installation, so the repo needed both path normalization and packaging changes.
- Blockers: Remote issue/PR closure and merge actions still depend on the final reviewed branch state being pushed.
- Next: Push the validated fixes, close the duplicate Windows/reporting issues they supersede, reject the promotional ValiChord PR explicitly, and then review whether the remaining docs-only or feature PRs should be merged separately.

2026-04-09 10:28 PDT — verification-and-security-pass

- Objective: Run a deeper install/security verification pass against the post-cleanup 0.2.17 tree instead of assuming the earlier targeted fixes covered the shipped artifacts.
- Changed: Reworked extensions/research-tools/header.ts to use @mariozechner/pi-tui width-aware helpers for truncation/wrapping so wide Unicode text does not overflow custom header rows; changed src/pi/launch.ts to stop mirroring child crash signals back onto the parent process and instead emit a conventional exit code; added FEYNMAN_INSTALL_SKILLS_ARCHIVE_URL overrides to the skills installers for pre-release smoke testing; aligned root and website dependency trees with patched transitive versions using npm overrides; fixed src/pi/web-access.ts so search status respects FEYNMAN_HOME semantics instead of hardcoding the current shell home directory; added tests/pi-launch.test.ts.
- Verified: Ran npm test, npm run typecheck, npm run build, cd website && npm run build, npm run build:native-bundle; smoke-tested scripts/install/install.sh against a locally served dist/release/feynman-0.2.17-darwin-arm64.tar.gz; smoke-tested scripts/install/install-skills.sh against a local source archive; confirmed installed feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman doctor, and packaged feynman search status work from the installed bundle; npm audit --omit=dev is clean in the root app and website after overrides.
- Failed / learned: The first packaged search status smoke test still showed the user home path because the native bundle had been built before the FEYNMAN_HOME path fix; rebuilding the native bundle resolved that mismatch.
- Blockers: PowerShell runtime was unavailable locally, so Windows installer execution remained code-path validated rather than actually executed.
- Next: Push the second-pass hardening commit, then keep issue #46 and issue #47 open until users on the affected Linux/CJK environments confirm whether the launcher/header fixes fully resolve them.

2026-04-09 10:36 PDT — remaining-tracker-triage-pass

- Objective: Reduce the remaining open tracker items by landing the lowest-risk missing docs/catalog updates and a targeted Cloud Code Assist compatibility patch instead of only hand-triaging them.
- Changed: Added MiniMax M2.7 recommendation preferences in src/model/catalog.ts; documented model switching, authenticated-provider visibility, and /feynman-model subagent overrides in website/src/content/docs/getting-started/configuration.md and website/src/content/docs/reference/slash-commands.md; added a runtime patch helper in scripts/lib/pi-google-legacy-schema-patch.mjs and wired scripts/patch-embedded-pi.mjs to normalize JSON Schema const into enum for the legacy parameters field used by Cloud Code Assist Claude models.
- Verified: Ran npm test, npm run typecheck, npm run build, and cd website && npm run build after the patch/helper/docs changes.
- Failed / learned: The MiniMax provider catalog in Pi already uses canonical IDs like MiniMax-M2.7, so the only failure during validation was a test assertion using the wrong casing rather than a runtime bug.
- Blockers: The Cloud Code Assist fix is validated by targeted patch tests and code-path review rather than an end-to-end Google account repro in this environment.
- Next: Push the tracker-triage commit, close the docs/MiniMax PRs as superseded by main, close the support-style model issues against the new docs, and decide whether the remaining feature requests should be left open or closed as not planned/upstream-dependent.

2026-04-10 10:22 PDT — web-access-stale-override-fix

- Objective: Fix the new ctx.modelRegistry.getApiKeyAndHeaders is not a function / stale search-filter.js report without reintroducing broad vendor drift.
- Changed: Removed the stale .feynman/vendor-overrides/pi-web-access/* files and removed syncVendorOverride from scripts/patch-embedded-pi.mjs; kept the targeted pi-web-access runtime config-path patch; added feynman search set <provider> [api-key] and feynman search clear commands with a shared save path in src/pi/web-access.ts.
- Verified: Ran npm test, npm run typecheck, npm run build; ran node scripts/patch-embedded-pi.mjs, confirmed the installed pi-web-access/index.ts has no search-filter / condense helper references, and smoke-imported ./.feynman/npm/node_modules/pi-web-access/index.ts; ran npm pack --dry-run and confirmed stale vendor-overrides files are no longer in the package tarball.
- Failed / learned: The public Linux installer Docker test was attempted but Docker Desktop became unresponsive even for simple docker run node:22-bookworm node -v commands; the earlier Linux npm-artifact container smoke remains valid, but this specific public-installer run is blocked by the local Docker daemon.
- Blockers: Issue #54 is too underspecified to fix directly without logs; public Linux installer behavior still needs a stable Docker daemon or a real Linux shell to reproduce the user's exact npm errors.
- Next: Push the stale-override fix, close PR #52 and PR #53 as superseded/merged-by-main once pushed, and ask for logs on issue #54 instead of guessing.

2026-04-10 10:49 PDT — rpc-and-website-verification-pass

- Objective: Exercise the Feynman wrapper's RPC mode and the website quality gates that were not fully covered by the prior passes.
- Changed: Added --mode <text|json|rpc> pass-through support in the Feynman wrapper and skipped terminal clearing in RPC mode; added @astrojs/check to the website dev dependencies, fixed React Refresh lint violations in the generated UI components by exporting only components, and added safe website dependency overrides for dev-audit findings.
- Verified: Ran a JSONL RPC smoke test through node bin/feynman.js --mode rpc with get_state; ran npm test, npm run typecheck, npm run build, cd website && npm run lint, cd website && npm run typecheck, cd website && npm run build, full root npm audit, full website npm audit, and npm run build:native-bundle.
- Failed / learned: Website typecheck was previously a no-op prompt because @astrojs/check was missing; installing it exposed dev-audit findings that needed explicit overrides before the full website audit was clean.
- Blockers: Docker Desktop remained unreliable after restart attempts, so this pass still does not include a second successful public-installer Linux Docker run.
- Next: Push the RPC/website verification commit and keep future Docker/public-installer validation separate from repo correctness unless Docker is stable.

2026-04-12 09:32 PDT — pi-0.66.1-upgrade-pass

- Objective: Update Feynman from Pi 0.64.0 to the current 0.66.1 packages and absorb any downstream SDK/runtime compatibility changes instead of leaving the repo pinned behind upstream.
- Changed: Bumped @mariozechner/pi-ai and @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent to 0.66.1 plus @companion-ai/alpha-hub to 0.1.3 in package.json and package-lock.json; updated extensions/research-tools.ts to stop listening for the removed session_switch extension event and rely on session_start, which now carries startup/reload/new/resume/fork reasons in Pi 0.66.x.
- Verified: Ran npm test, npm run typecheck, and npm run build successfully after the upgrade; smoke-ran node bin/feynman.js --version, node bin/feynman.js doctor, and node bin/feynman.js status successfully; checked upstream package diffs and confirmed the breaking change that affected this repo was the typed extension lifecycle change in pi-coding-agent, while pi-ai mainly brought refreshed provider/model catalog code including Bedrock/OpenAI provider updates and new generated model entries.
- Failed / learned: ctx7 resolved Pi correctly to /badlogic/pi-mono, but its docs snapshot was not release-note oriented; the concrete downstream-impact analysis came from the actual 0.64.00.66.1 package diffs and local validation, not from prose docs alone.
- Failed / learned: The first post-upgrade CLI smoke test failed before Feynman startup because @companion-ai/[email protected] shipped a zero-byte src/lib/auth.js; bumping to 0.1.3 fixed that adjacent runtime blocker.
- Blockers: npm install reports two high-severity vulnerabilities remain in the dependency tree; this pass focused on the Pi upgrade and did not remediate unrelated audit findings.
- Next: Push the Pi upgrade, then decide whether to layer the pending model-command fixes on top of this branch or land them separately to keep the dependency bump easy to review.

2026-04-12 13:00 PDT — model-command-and-bedrock-fix-pass

- Objective: Finish the remaining user-facing model-management regressions instead of stopping at the Pi dependency bump.
- Changed: Updated src/model/commands.ts so feynman model login <provider> resolves both OAuth and API-key providers; feynman model logout <provider> clears either auth mode; feynman model set accepts both provider/model and provider:model; ambiguous bare model IDs now prefer explicitly configured providers from auth storage; added an amazon-bedrock setup path that validates the AWS credential chain with the AWS SDK and stores Pi's <authenticated> sentinel so Bedrock models appear in model list; synced src/cli.ts, metadata/commands.mjs, README.md, and the website docs to the new behavior.
- Verified: Added regression tests in tests/model-harness.test.ts for provider:model, API-key provider resolution, and ambiguous bare-ID handling; ran npm test, npm run typecheck, npm run build, and cd website && npm run build; exercised command-level flows against throwaway FEYNMAN_HOME directories: interactive node bin/feynman.js model login google, node bin/feynman.js model set google:gemini-3-pro-preview, node bin/feynman.js model set gpt-5.4 with only OpenAI configured, and node bin/feynman.js model login amazon-bedrock; confirmed model list shows Bedrock models after the new setup path; ran a live one-shot prompt node bin/feynman.js --prompt "Reply with exactly OK" and got OK.
- Failed / learned: The website build still emits duplicate-id warnings for a handful of docs pages, but it completes successfully; those warnings predate this pass and were not introduced by the model-command edits.
- Blockers: The Bedrock path is verified with the current shell's AWS credential chain, not with a fresh machine lacking AWS config; broader upstream Pi behavior around IMDS/default-profile autodiscovery without the sentinel is still outside this repo.
- Next: Commit and push the combined Pi/model/docs maintenance branch, then decide whether to tackle the deeper search/deepresearch hang issues separately or leave them for focused repro work.

2026-04-12 13:35 PDT — workflow-unattended-and-search-curator-fix-pass

- Objective: Fix the remaining workflow deadlocks instead of leaving deepresearch and terminal web search half-functional after the maintenance push.
- Changed: Updated the built-in research workflow prompts (deepresearch, lit, review, audit, compare, draft, watch) so they present the plan and continue automatically rather than blocking for approval; extended the pi-web-access runtime patch so Feynman rewrites its default workflow from browser-based summary-review to none; added explicit workflow: "none" persistence in src/search/commands.ts and src/pi/web-access.ts, plus surfaced the workflow in doctor/status-style output.
- Verified: Reproduced the original deepresearch failure mode in print mode, where the run created outputs/.plans/capital-france.md and then stopped waiting for user confirmation; after the prompt changes, reran deepresearch "What is the capital of France?" and confirmed it progressed beyond planning and produced outputs/.drafts/capital-france-draft.md; inspected [email protected] and confirmed the exact waiting for summary approval... string and summary-review default live in that package; added regression tests for the new pi-web-access patch and workflow-none status handling; reran npm test, npm run typecheck, and npm run build; smoke-tested feynman search set exa exa_test_key under a throwaway FEYNMAN_HOME and confirmed it writes "workflow": "none" to web-search.json.
- Failed / learned: The long-running deepresearch session still spends substantial time in later reasoning/writing steps for even a narrow query, but the plan-confirmation deadlock itself is resolved; the remaining slowness is model/workflow behavior, not the original stop-after-plan bug.
- Blockers: I did not install and execute the full optional pi-session-search package locally, so the terminal summary approval fix is validated by source inspection plus the Feynman patch path and config persistence rather than a local end-to-end package install.
- Next: Commit and push the workflow/search fix pass, then close or answer the remaining deepresearch/search issues with the specific root causes and shipped fixes.

2026-04-12 14:05 PDT — final-artifact-hardening-pass

- Objective: Reduce the chance of unattended research workflows stopping at intermediate artifacts like <slug>-brief.md without promoting the final deliverable and provenance sidecar.
- Changed: Tightened prompts/deepresearch.md so the agent must verify on disk that the plan, draft, cited brief, promoted final output, and provenance sidecar all exist before stopping; tightened prompts/lit.md so it explicitly checks for the final output plus provenance sidecar instead of stopping at an intermediate cited draft.
- Verified: Cross-read the current deepresearch/lit deliver steps after the earlier unattended-run reproductions and confirmed the missing enforcement point was the final on-disk artifact check, not the naming convention itself.
- Failed / learned: This is still prompt-level enforcement rather than a deterministic post-processing hook, so it improves completion reliability but does not provide the same guarantees as a dedicated artifact-finalization wrapper.
- Blockers: I did not rerun a full broad deepresearch workflow end-to-end after this prompt-only hardening because those runs are materially longer and more expensive than the narrow reproductions already used to isolate the earlier deadlocks.
- Next: Commit and push the prompt hardening, then, if needed, add a deterministic wrapper around final artifact promotion instead of relying only on prompt adherence.

2026-04-14 09:30 PDT — wsl-login-and-uninstall-docs-pass

- Objective: Fix the remaining WSL setup blocker and close the last actionable support issue instead of leaving the tracker open after the earlier workflow/model fixes.
- Changed: Added a dedicated alpha-hub auth patch helper and tests; extended the alphaXiv login patch so WSL uses wslview when available and falls back to cmd.exe /c start, while also printing the auth URL explicitly for manual copy/paste if browser launch still fails; documented standalone uninstall steps in README.md and website/src/content/docs/getting-started/installation.md.
- Verified: Added regression tests for the alpha-hub auth patch, reran npm test, npm run typecheck, and npm run build, and smoke-checked the patched alpha-hub source rewrite to confirm it injects both the WSL browser path and the explicit auth URL logging.
- Failed / learned: This repo can patch alpha-hub's login UX reliably, but it still does not ship a destructive feynman uninstall command; the practical fix for the support issue is documented uninstall steps rather than a rushed cross-platform remover.
- Blockers: I did not run a true WSL shell here, so the WSL fix is validated by the deterministic source patch plus tests rather than an actual Windows-hosted browser-launch repro.
- Next: Push the WSL/login pass and close the stale issues and PRs that are already superseded by main.

2026-04-14 09:35 PDT — review-findings-and-audit-cleanup

- Objective: Fix the remaining concrete issues found in the deeper review pass instead of stopping at tracker cleanup.
- Changed: Updated the pi-web-access patch so Feynman defaults search workflow to none without disabling explicit summary-review; softened the research workflow prompts so only unattended/one-shot runs auto-continue while interactive users still get a chance to request plan changes; corrected uninstall docs to mention ~/.ahub alongside ~/.feynman; bumped the root basic-ftp override from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2.
- Verified: Ran npm test, npm run typecheck, npm run build, cd website && npm run build, and npm audit; root audit is now clean.
- Failed / learned: Astro still emits a duplicate-content-id warning for website/src/content/docs/getting-started/installation.md, but the website build succeeds and I did not identify a low-risk repo-side fix for that warning in this pass.
- Blockers: The duplicate-id warning remains as a build warning only, not a failing correctness gate.
- Next: If desired, isolate the Astro duplicate-id warning separately with a minimal reproduction rather than mixing it into runtime/CLI maintenance.

2026-04-14 10:55 PDT — summarize-workflow-restore

- Objective: Restore the useful summarization workflow that had been closed in PR #69 without being merged.
- Changed: Added prompts/summarize.md as a top-level CLI workflow so feynman summarize <source> is available again; kept the RLM-based tiering approach from the original proposal and aligned Tier 3 confirmation behavior with the repo's unattended-run conventions.
- Verified: Confirmed feynman summarize <source> appears in CLI help; ran node bin/feynman.js summarize /tmp/feynman-summary-smoke.txt against a local smoke file and verified it produced outputs/feynman-summary-smoke-summary.md plus the raw fetched note artifact under outputs/.notes/.
- Failed / learned: None in the restored Tier 1 path; broader Tier 2/Tier 3 behavior still depends on runtime/model/tool availability, just like the other prompt-driven workflows.
- Blockers: None for the prompt restoration itself.
- Next: If desired, add dedicated docs for summarize and decide whether to reopen PR #69 for historical continuity or leave it closed as superseded by the landed equivalent on main.

2026-05-11 09:17 PDT — issue-162-163-runtime-followup

- Objective: Fix the current actionable GitHub reports after the org migration and keep issue checking on a daily repair loop.
- Changed: Updated the check-new-issues heartbeat to run daily and attempt actionable fixes; added a final alphaXiv REST fast-search fallback after the removed MCP search tools and discover_papers; aliased @earendil-works/ Pi runtime imports to the same initialized bundled runtime as @mariozechner/; wired that loader patch into the vendored runtime archive path; bumped Feynman to v0.2.53.
- Verified: Focused alpha-hub and Pi extension-loader regression tests passed locally; full npm test, npm run typecheck, root npm run build, node scripts/prepare-runtime-workspace.mjs, package dry-run, and website build with Node 24 passed; the packaged runtime archive contains the alphaXiv REST fallback and dual namespace loader aliases; GitHub release v0.2.53 built all native assets.
- Failed / learned: The previous v0.2.52 search patch was too narrow because it assumed discover_papers was always present when the older search tools disappeared. The first v0.2.53 publish workflow failed at npm publish with ENEEDAUTH after the org move, while GitHub native release assets succeeded.
- Blockers: npm latest remains 0.2.52 until the npm trusted publisher is updated for companion-inc/feynman or an NPM_TOKEN secret is provided.
- Next: Re-run the publish workflow after npm auth is fixed, then report release evidence on issues #162 and #163.

2026-05-11 09:50 PDT — packed-install-e2e

- Objective: Run a true packed-install E2E for the latest Feynman runtime fixes.
- Changed: Fixed packed npm installs that hoist dependencies outside Feynman's package root by falling back to the vendored .feynman/npm Pi runtime; patched both package-local and vendored runtime node_modules; bumped Feynman to v0.2.54.
- Verified: Focused runtime tests, full npm test, npm run typecheck, root build, runtime workspace prep, packed tarball install into a clean temp prefix/home, feynman doctor, prompt launch past Pi resolution, issue-specific installed runtime patch inspection, node bin/feynman.js --version, diff whitespace check, and website build with Node 24 passed.
- Failed / learned: The first packed-install E2E showed feynman --mode json --prompt ... failed before Pi launch with Pi CLI not found because runtime resolution only checked package-local node_modules.
- Blockers: npm publishing is still externally blocked until npm trusted publishing or NPM_TOKEN is updated for companion-inc/feynman.
- Next: Push v0.2.54, watch release CI, and rerun npm publish after npm trust/secret access is fixed.

2026-04-12 13:20 PDT — capital-france (citation verification brief)

- Objective: Verify citations in the capital-of-France draft and produce a cited verifier brief.
- Changed: Read outputs/.drafts/capital-france-draft.md, notes/capital-france-research-web.md, and notes/capital-france-legal-context.md; fetched the three draft URLs directly; wrote notes/capital-france-brief.md with inline numbered citations and a numbered direct-URL sources list.
- Verified: Confirmed the Insee, Sénat, and Élysée URLs were reachable on 2026-04-12; confirmed Insee and Sénat support the core claim that Paris is the capital of France; marked the Élysée homepage as contextual-only support.
- Failed / learned: The Élysée homepage does not explicitly state the core claim, so it should not be used as sole evidence for capital status.
- Blockers: None for the verifier brief; any stronger legal memo would still need a more direct constitutional/statutory basis if that specific question is asked.
- Next: Promote the brief into the final output or downgrade/remove any claim that leans on the Élysée URL alone.

2026-04-20 17:25 PDT — gemini-browser-fallback-opt-in

- Objective: Stop /deepresearch web search from reaching Chromium cookie access by default after users reported macOS Keychain prompts from Gemini Web fallback.
- Changed: Updated the pi-web-access runtime patch so isGeminiWebAvailable returns unavailable unless web-search.json explicitly sets geminiBrowser/allowBrowserAuth/browserAuth true; changed search status output and docs to report Gemini browser fallback as disabled by default; made feynman search set and feynman search clear write geminiBrowser: false; corrected web-search docs to recommend Exa, Perplexity, or Gemini API keys for /deepresearch.
- Verified: Added regression coverage for the browser fallback opt-in patch and status output; ran focused web-access/search-command tests, full npm test, npm run typecheck, root npm run build, and website npm run build.
- Failed / learned: Website build still emits duplicate-content-id warnings for docs pages, but it completes; this pass did not address the pre-existing Astro warning.
- Blockers: Did not run a live /deepresearch smoke test because the risk being fixed is source-level keychain probing, which is covered by the deterministic pi-web-access patch tests.
- Next: Release the runtime patch and answer the security concern by explaining that browser-cookie access is now explicit opt-in rather than the default fallback.

2026-05-03 21:19 PDT — github-issues-e2e

- Objective: Read all currently open GitHub issues, separate concrete regressions from feature-scale requests, and finish the scoped fixes with source, CLI, installer, runtime, and RPC verification.
- Changed: Added a reusable pi-tui patch that truncates overwide rendered lines with sliceByColumn instead of crashing; wired that patch into startup node_modules patching and vendored runtime preparation; added explicit OpenCode skills installer support for .opencode/skills/feynman on Unix and PowerShell; synced README, website docs, and public website installer copies; wrote outputs/.plans/github-issues-e2e.md as the run ledger.
- Verified: Checked current Pi and OpenCode docs through Context7; confirmed latest upstream pi-tui still has the terminal-width throw so upgrading alone would not fix #148; ran focused patch/installer tests, full npm test (146 tests), npm run typecheck, root npm run build, and website npm run build; ran node scripts/prepare-runtime-workspace.mjs and extracted .feynman/runtime-workspace.tgz to verify the packaged pi-tui patch and pruneVersion: 5; smoke-tested feynman --help, feynman search status, and --mode rpc with a temp custom model plus JSONL get_state.
- Failed / learned: A direct CLI smoke with /usr/local/bin/node failed because that shell resolves Node 20.17.0, below Feynman's >=20.19.0 floor; rerunning with the bundled supported Node 24.14.0 passed. The first RPC smoke from the repo cwd loaded project-local optional packages and hit the existing pi-web-access source parse issue, so the accepted RPC smoke used an isolated --cwd and temp settings to test the RPC protocol itself.
- Blockers: Issues #135-#139 are larger provider/runtime backend feature proposals, not safe one-pass bug fixes; they were read and classified but not implemented here.
- Next: Close or respond to #148 and #143 with the shipped fixes and test evidence, then decide separately whether the provider/runtime proposals belong in a roadmap issue or implementation specs.

2026-05-03 23:40 PDT — pi-upstream-alignment

- Objective: Keep Feynman as a thin wrapper over upstream Pi runtime behavior while preserving the curated package stack and Feynman research/theme surface.
- Changed: Upgraded direct Pi packages to @mariozechner/[email protected] and @mariozechner/[email protected]; restored the curated core package stack with @devkade/pi-opentelemetry; extended pi-web-access patches for current upstream gemini-web-config.ts and older gemini-web.ts; wired pi-web-access and pi-tui patches into the vendored runtime archive path; bumped runtime archive pruneVersion to 6; documented the run in outputs/.plans/pi-upstream-alignment.md.
- Verified: Ran Context7 against current Pi docs; ran npm test (147 tests), npm run typecheck, root npm run build, and website npm run build; rebuilt .feynman/runtime-workspace.tgz with bundled Node 24.14.0; extracted the archive and verified the packaged pi-tui, pi-web-access, and manifest patches; ran live one-shot prompts via stored Anthropic OAuth and received OK and 42; reran feynman model list and confirmed Anthropic models; ran isolated RPC get_state successfully with a temp custom model; ran feynman search status and confirmed Gemini browser fallback remains disabled.
- Failed / learned: The packaging script initially omitted the pi-web-access patch path, so the local installed package was fixed but the release archive was not; wiring the patch into prepare-runtime-workspace.mjs fixed the packaged path. No env API keys were present for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Google, Exa, Perplexity, Mistral, or OpenRouter, so live non-Anthropic provider/API-search checks remain blocked.
- Blockers: Live web search through Exa/Perplexity/Gemini API could not be tested without keys; browser-cookie Gemini fallback is intentionally disabled by default. /usr/local/bin/node remains below Feynman's Node floor, so supported runtime smokes used the bundled Node.
- Next: Review/stage the intended subset, then split unrelated pre-existing local changes if needed before commit/release.

2026-05-04 01:45 PDT — pi-thin-wrapper-live-e2e

- Objective: Finish the Pi-thin-wrapper cleanup with local credentials, live providers, RPC, and packaged runtime verification instead of relying only on unit tests.
- Changed: Removed the Feynman-only Anthropic model overlay so createModelRegistry now trusts upstream Pi's model catalog; moved the pi-web-access /search to /web-results rename into the shared patch path so local and archived runtimes match; removed the stale Google legacy schema patch that no longer matches @mariozechner/[email protected].
- Verified: Used local credentials without printing secret values; live Feynman one-shots passed for Anthropic OAuth, Anthropic API key, OpenAI API key, Gemini API key, and OpenRouter API key; direct pi-web-access smokes passed for Exa no-key MCP fallback and Gemini API search; Perplexity correctly reported unavailable because no key was found; final RPC get_state and get_available_models passed through feynman --mode rpc; rebuilt and extracted .feynman/runtime-workspace.tgz and verified packaged web-results, FEYNMAN_WEB_SEARCH_CONFIG, Gemini browser opt-in aliases, escaped Gemini messaging, pi-tui truncation, pruneVersion: 6, Pi 0.72.1, and @devkade/pi-opentelemetry; ran full npm test (144 tests), npm run typecheck, root npm run build, and website npm run build with the bundled Node 24.14.0.
- Failed / learned: OpenCode OAuth stores for Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI were expired, while usable API keys existed in project env files; the first OpenAI final sentinel used hyphens while also asking for no punctuation, so the model removed the hyphens and the smoke was rerun with OAIFINALOK; Perplexity remains blocked by no local key.
- Blockers: No Perplexity live API check until a real PERPLEXITY_API_KEY is provided; /usr/local/bin/node is still 20.17.0, below Feynman's runtime floor.
- Next: Stage the intended repo changes, keep the Feynman theme/package stack, and avoid adding provider aliases or runtime patches unless they are backed by upstream gaps plus packaged-runtime tests.

2026-05-04 19:46 PDT — telemetry-noise-removal

- Objective: Remove the default OpenTelemetry package from Feynman so local and public TUI sessions do not show telemetry status noise or invite end-user telemetry setup by default.
- Changed: Removed @devkade/pi-opentelemetry from the bundled package stack and user-facing docs; removed default OTEL service env injection; kept a legacy settings prune path so existing default installs that only gained telemetry from the curated stack are normalized back to the current core package list; added startup pruning for stale bundled-package symlinks so upgrades remove the old @opentelemetry links from Feynman's managed npm prefix.
- Changed: Reviewed open GitHub issues and PRs, folded in the useful parts of PRs #133, #144, and #149, and left PR #141 unmerged because the local geminiBrowser opt-in path is stricter and already patched into the vendored runtime.
- Verified: Ran npm test (150 tests), npm run typecheck, root npm run build, and website npm run build; repacked and globally installed @companion-ai/[email protected]; confirmed the packaged tarball and active settings contain no telemetry package; confirmed the installed startup path removes leftover @opentelemetry symlinks; ran a live one-shot through the installed CLI, RPC get_state/get_available_models, direct Gemini API web search, and an actual TUI launch with no otel active footer.
- Failed / learned: Historical changelog entries still mention earlier telemetry verification because those entries describe past runs; the first stale-link check ran before feynman status had finished, so it still saw old links until the newly installed startup pruning executed.
- Blockers: None for source removal.
- Next: Commit and push the validated cleanup.

2026-05-05 22:17 PDT — rpc-package-sync-fix

- Objective: Re-test the shipped issue fixes through the real installed/RPC path after discovering v0.2.41 had not been exercised deeply enough.
- Changed: Added an embedded Pi package-manager patch so runtime npm installs include --legacy-peer-deps; wired it into packaged runtime preparation; bumped Feynman to v0.2.42; documented the release.
- Verified: Reproduced the v0.2.41 RPC startup failure in the real release binary from the repo cwd: Pi attempted project package sync for @aliou/pi-processes and failed on peer dependency resolution before RPC could complete. After the patch, local 0.2.42 RPC accepted a JSONL prompt, streamed Feynman RPC OK, emitted turn_end, and emitted agent_end.
- Failed / learned: Running feynman --mode rpc "prompt" is not a valid deep RPC smoke; the actual protocol requires JSON-line commands on stdin and keeping stdin open.
- Blockers: Need push v0.2.42, wait for native release assets, then re-run the same RPC smoke against the released native asset before closing this loop.
- Next: Commit, push, verify CI/native release, and test the released v0.2.42 asset end to end.

2026-05-09 18:38 PDT — issue-158-160-runtime-sweep

- Objective: Address the current open tracker items rather than only the already-shipped package-peer fix.
- Changed: Added top-of-prompt tool discipline to every workflow; extended the Pi agent-core runtime patch to normalize common hallucinated tool aliases (search_web to web_search, bare fetch / WebFetch / read_url_content to fetch_content); patched bundled alpha-hub search to fall back to discover_papers when alphaXiv removes older search tool names; seeded bundled runtime packages before package updates; included typebox plus both legacy @mariozechner/ and current @earendil-works/ Pi runtime peers; applied the Windows docker-probe fix from PR #157; bumped to v0.2.52.
- Verified: npm test, npm run typecheck, npm run build, root and website production npm audit, website typecheck/build, feynman doctor, feynman update, npm pack --dry-run, and runtime archive extraction all passed. The installed Feynman prefix now has bundled links for typebox and @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent.
- Failed / learned: The public alphaXiv MCP docs still list the older search tools, but issue #159 reports a live authenticated tools/list response with only discover_papers; the fix therefore keeps old-tool calls first and only falls back on specific Tool ... not found failures. The comment on issue #160 cited old pi-btw / pi-markdown-preview versions, but the current npm tarballs are the ones importing @earendil-works/*, so the repair path covers both namespaces.
- Blockers: Push/release and GitHub issue/PR comments are still pending in this run.
- Next: Commit, push v0.2.52, wait for the publish workflow, then close/comment the resolved tracker items with exact release evidence.

2026-06-08 22:20 PDT — issue-update-sweep

- Objective: Bring Feynman up to date, fold in actionable current GitHub issue/PR fixes, and set up a once-daily repo sweep.
- Changed: Updated root and website dependencies/overrides to current safe in-range versions; made launch-time runtime patching cover package-local and vendored alpha-hub, pi-web-access, pi-subagents, and Pi package-manager modules; added current [email protected] src/... patch targets; made normal interactive feynman launches pass Pi --continue while --new-session, RPC/JSON, and prompt/workflow launches stay fresh; switched Windows URL opening to explorer; made package installs prefer adjacent npm-cli.js on Windows; added MiniMax-M3 to research model preferences; updated regression coverage.
- Verified: npm install in root and website/ reported zero vulnerabilities; npm test passed 177 tests; npm run typecheck, root npm run build, root and website npm audit --omit=dev, website npm run typecheck, website npm run build, and npm pack --dry-run all passed. npm pack --dry-run rebuilt and included .feynman/runtime-workspace.tgz.
- Failed / learned: GitHub issue #171 has only a title and no reproduction/body, so it remains evidence-blocked rather than patched speculatively. npm outdated still reports only major-version jumps outside declared ranges: root @types/node@25, and website ESLint/Globals/TypeScript majors.
- Next: Review/stage the intended changes, decide whether to release/comment on issues #167-#173, and handle #171 only after a reproducible ByteString source is available.

2026-06-08 23:50 PDT — opencode-pi-hermes-sweep

- Objective: Re-check the broader OpenCode, OpenClaw, Pi, and Hermes references before calling the repo current.
- Changed: Promoted OpenCode Zen and OpenCode Go to first-class Feynman model recommendations and provider ordering; centralized settings/model recommendation selection; migrated direct Pi imports and dependencies to @earendil-works/@0.74.2; kept legacy @mariozechner/ compatibility through runtime aliases; updated runtime path resolution, patching, embedded patching, pruning, and runtime workspace preparation for both package scopes; updated regression coverage.
- Verified: Official OpenCode docs, Context7 docs lookup, local OpenClaw provider/Hermes migration docs, Pi package docs/registry, npm dist-tags, local Hermes status, live GitHub issues #167-#172, PRs #173-#175, and latest main GitHub Actions status were checked. Focused model/runtime tests passed 72 tests; full npm test passed 184 tests; root typecheck/build/audit, website lint/typecheck/build/audit, npm pack --dry-run, runtime archive inspection, node bin/feynman.js --version, doctor, search status, packages list, update, native bundle build, and extracted native launcher --version/--help all passed. Direct live/tool smokes passed for patched alphaXiv search and parallel web_search with includeContent: true.
- Failed / learned: The first runtime archive manifest inspection used the wrong path and was rerun successfully against npm/.runtime-manifest.json. Latest Pi 0.79.0 requires Node >=22.19.0, so Feynman remains on the legacy-node20 dist-tag while it declares Node >=20.19.0 <25.
- Next: Decide separately whether to raise Feynman's Node floor and move Pi to the latest 0.79.x line; otherwise stage/release the Node 20-compatible sweep and close/comment the covered tracker items with the validation evidence.

2026-06-11 — open-issue fix sweep and v0.2.59 prep

- Objective: Fix all open GitHub issues (#167-#172, #177), test, and release.
- Changed: Patched alpha-hub's parsePaperSearchResults to handle the structured JSON payloads alphaXiv search tools now return (#167 — the MCP tools work; the old numbered-text parser silently dropped every result). Closed three web_search hang holes (#169): cancel-then-assign on the shared pendingCurate slot so a clobbered parallel curate session resolves instead of leaking (pi-agent-core's Promise.all otherwise withholds every toolResult in the batch), a 90s deadline around each search() call in both execute loops, and a 2-minute browser-connect deadline in the curator watchdog (previously if (!browserConnected) return skipped never-connected sessions forever). Made scripts/check-node-version.mjs warn-and-continue on too-new Node so npm upgrades stop rolling back and pinning users to old releases (#177); the bin/feynman.js runtime gate still blocks with instructions. Added src/system/self-update.ts + a feynman update notice when a newer CLI release exists on the registry, with install-type-specific upgrade command. Staged the prior uncommitted sweep (earendil scope migration, pi-subagents src/ patch targets for #172, Windows npm-cli.js spawn for #170, --continue resume for #168).
- Verified: 192 tests pass, typecheck, build. Live smokes: all five alpha_search modes return 10 results through the patched parser and end-to-end through the model (RESULT_COUNT=10); two parallel web_search toolCalls with includeContent:true returned toolResults and the turn completed; feynman update, doctor, --version clean; patches apply idempotently to the installed workspace sources and parse as TS.
- Failed / learned: Issue #171 (ByteString 20320 on Chinese Windows) is still evidence-blocked — title-only issue, no stack trace; no header construction in Feynman/alpha-hub/pi-web-access uses OS-identity or user strings, so the throw site is unknown. Asked the reporter for the full trace rather than patching speculatively.
- Next: Push, watch publish workflow for v0.2.59, then comment on the fixed issues with release evidence.

2026-06-11 (later) — Node 25, #171 root cause, multi-OS e2e

- Objective: Finish the "fix everything, test everything end to end" pass — verify the Windows fixes on real Windows machines, support Node 25, and root-cause #171.
- Changed: Raised MAX_NODE_MAJOR to 25 / engines to <26 after the full suite and live CLI smokes passed on Node 20.20.2, 24.14.0, and 25.9.0 locally. Reproduced #171 deterministically: a models.json custom provider header containing Chinese characters produces undici's ByteString error verbatim; added scripts/lib/pi-model-registry-patch.mjs which validates header values and API keys at request assembly in Pi's getApiKeyAndHeaders and throws an error naming the provider, header, index, and code point. Added .github/workflows/e2e.yml (workflow_dispatch): installs the published package on ubuntu/macos/windows runners at Node 24 and 25, asserts launch-time patches applied (#167, #172 sources), and runs live model + subagent smokes via an OPENAI_API_KEY repo secret.
- Verified: 194 tests on Node 24 and 25 (192 on Node 20 before the new tests), typecheck/build, live repro before/after shows the cryptic error replaced by the actionable one, clean-provider smoke unaffected. Daytona was considered for Windows access but no API keys exist on this machine and Daytona sandboxes are Linux; GitHub Actions windows-latest runners are the Windows machines.
- Next: Push v0.2.60, dispatch the e2e workflow against the published version, comment on #171/#177 with results.

2026-06-11 (e2e findings) — Windows workspace extraction and npm spawn fixes

- Objective: Act on the first multi-OS e2e run's findings.
- Changed: The e2e run proved install/version/update pass on real Windows (Node 24+25) but caught two live Windows bugs in scripts/patch-embedded-pi.mjs: tar extraction of runtime-workspace.tgz fails because GNU tar parses "C:\..." as a remote host, and the npm fallback spawns bare "npm" without a shell (EINVAL) — together these produced the "[feynman] npm failed while setting up bundled packages" loop from #177/#170 reports. Fixed by extracting with cwd-relative paths and invoking npm via the shared scripts/lib/npm-command.mjs helper (node + npm-cli.js); package-ops.ts now imports the same helper. Also patch the workspace alpha-hub copy at launch and tightened the e2e workflow assertions to require the patch on every existing copy.
- Verified: 194 tests, typecheck, build, pack includes the new lib files, bsdtar relative extraction sanity-checked locally.
- Next: Release v0.2.61, re-run e2e workflow, expect all 5 matrix jobs green.

2026-06-11 (Pi 0.79 upgrade) — runtime modernization sweep

- Objective: Update everything — Pi runtime to latest, prune dead code/deps, keep e2e green.
- Changed: Pi 0.74.2 → 0.79.1 (all four packages, direct deps now include pi-agent-core/pi-tui/undici; dropped unused dotenv). Node floor 20.19 → 22.19 (Pi requirement; Node 20 is EOL), cap stays 25. OAuth login gained onDeviceCode/onSelect handlers for Pi's new callback contract. pi-tui editor patch rebuilt for the 0.76+ Unicode rework: dual import anchors, upstream IME fix (emitCursorMarker = focused) folded in, and an unknown-layout guard so a future import change can never again produce a render that references an unimported helper. Deleted pi-package-manager-patch (upstreamed in Pi 0.76 as getNpmInstallArgs --legacy-peer-deps). PI_RUNTIME_FALLBACK_VERSION 0.79.1. Model-recommendation tests updated for the 0.79 catalog (opus-4-8, MiniMax-M3). e2e matrix gained ubuntu/node 22. Website in-range dep updates. Kept the extension-loader alias halves (self-deactivating, still cover mixed-scope transitions) and the @mariozechner aliases (upgrade path).
- Verified: 192 tests/typecheck/build/pack on Node 24; tests also green on Node 22 floor logic and 25; workspace rebuilt at 0.79.1; live smokes on 0.79.1 (alpha_search=10, parallel web_search BOTH_OK, subagent SUBAGENT_DONE); patched editor exercised directly via render harness (placeholder/text/narrow/unfocused — no ReferenceError); project-trust audit: headless runs default untrusted without prompting, explicit --extension unaffected.
- Failed / learned: pi-tui 0.76 changed the editor import line, which made the old patch half-apply (render rewritten, import missing) — patches that rewrite a body must fail closed when their import anchor is unknown. Pi upstreamed our --legacy-peer-deps patch in 0.76 (#4907).
- Next: Push v0.3.0, watch publish, dispatch e2e (now incl. node 22), update memory.

2026-06-12 — deep e2e in Daytona + remaining upgrades

- Objective: Test everything in depth myself; upgrade what remained.
- Changed: Website dev majors (eslint 10.4, @eslint/js 10, globals 17, typescript 6.0) after dropping the stale global [email protected] override that forced the v1 API onto eslint's minimatch (CVE fixed in-range on both major lines; audit clean). publish.yml artifact actions v4 → upload v7 / download v8. e2e workflow: auth fixture corrected to Pi's type: "api_key" (was "key", which AuthStorage silently ignores) and a text-mode model smoke added — json mode tolerates a malformed credential, text/interactive does not, so CI previously could not catch interactive auth breakage.
- Verified (Daytona clean-room, published 0.3.0): interactive TUI via tmux — patched editor rendered, typed prompt answered, token/cost status bar live; /quit + relaunch resumed the session (model recalled a number from the prior session, #168 end to end); full feynman lit workflow produced outputs/lora-paper.md + provenance record; both npm-global and standalone-installer installs; both json and text one-shot modes. Local: website lint/typecheck/build green on the new majors, 192 root tests pass.
- Failed / learned: my interactive "No API key" scare was my own malformed auth fixture, not a product bug — Pi stores API keys as type: "api_key"; json-mode one-shots resolve keys leniently while interactive is strict, which had masked the bad fixture in every earlier CI smoke. Local sandboxed Bash cannot allocate ptys (tmux/script fail) — interactive testing needs the Daytona box.
- Next: Push, verify CI, dispatch e2e with the new text-mode smoke.

2026-06-12 — windows-subagent-spawn

- Objective: Root-cause and fix the Windows-only subagent spawn regression in published @companion-ai/[email protected] without pushing.
- Changed: Upgraded the pi-subagents pi-spawn.ts patch to recover the real Pi CLI from the Feynman wrapper's argv2 main-module argument when argv1 is pi-cli-wrapper.js; made pi-cli-wrapper.ts stamp FEYNMAN_PI_CLI_PATH from piMainPath if the env var is missing; added regression coverage for fresh and already-patched pi-spawn.ts sources.
- Verified: Extracted the published 0.3.0 tarball and runtime workspace into /tmp/codex-172, wrote /tmp/codex-172/FINDINGS.md, confirmed the earlier green Windows run was actually 0.2.61 while the failing run was 0.3.0, ran focused patch/runtime tests (32 passed), full npm test (194 passed), npm run typecheck, and git diff --check.
- Failed / learned: The exact first trigger that bypassed FEYNMAN_PI_CLI_PATH inside the Windows child is not directly logged; the proven failure is wrapper invocation without the required Pi main-module argument, causing --mode to be imported as a module path.
- Next: Review/stage the intended fix, then publish and rerun the Windows e2e smoke from the released package.

2026-06-12 (codex-assisted) — Windows subagent spawn recurrence fixed (v0.3.1)

- Objective: Root-cause the Windows-only return of the #172 --mode failure caught by the e2e run on 0.3.0.
- Changed: Dispatched the investigation to codex (gpt-5.5 xhigh) with a full spec; it audited the published 0.3.0 tarball + runtime workspace and proved the defect: with FEYNMAN_PI_CLI_PATH absent/unusable in the child, pi-spawn skips the wrapper argv1 but the fallback chain can still land back on the wrapper without the Pi main path. Fix (codex, reviewed here): pi-spawn now derives cli.js from argv[2] (the real Pi main module the wrapper was launched with) when argv1 is the wrapper, and pi-cli-wrapper.ts self-heals FEYNMAN_PI_CLI_PATH from its piMainPath. I caught and fixed one flaw in codex's patch: the SpawnDeps argv2 interface insertion wasn't idempotent (re-appended on every launch); guarded + regression test added. Also corrected the record: the "passing 0.3.0" comparison run was actually 0.2.61 — and the earlier 0.3.0 e2e pass on Windows used the malformed auth fixture, so its subagent smoke was weaker evidence than it appeared.
- Verified: 195 tests, typecheck, build; patch applies idempotently to the live workspace source; e2e workflow on 0.3.1 (esp. windows subagent smoke) is the deterministic gate.
- Failed / learned: codex exec hangs without stdin EOF in background shells — pipe the spec via stdin. Patch modules that append interface members must guard against re-application.

2026-06-12 (evidence-driven) — npm-global patch root closes #172 for real (v0.3.2)

- Objective: Kill the recurring Windows --mode failure with runtime evidence instead of theory.
- Changed: CI instrumentation (console.error injected into getPiSpawnCommand on the runner) proved the patched pi-spawn NEVER EXECUTES on Windows — "NO DIAG LINES". The executing copy is Pi's user-scope package root at ~/.feynman/npm-global/lib/node_modules/pi-subagents: a symlink into the patched workspace on macOS/Linux, but a real unpatched directory on Windows when junction creation falls back or feynman update reinstalls. Added that root to patchPiRuntimeNodeModules (now takes feynmanAgentDir) and to patch-embedded-pi's pi-subagents loop (realpath-deduped so the symlinked case isn't double-patched). Also shipped codex's agents.ts userDir repair + transactional patch groups, and hardened the e2e subagent smoke to require RESULT=PONG relayed from the child.
- Verified: 197 tests/typecheck/build; launcher patches the npm-global copy locally; local subagent returns RESULT=PONG live.
- Failed / learned: three releases patched the right code in the wrong place — the lesson is to instrument the failing runtime and let it tell you WHICH file executes before patching anything. CI asserts that check "a patched copy exists" are weaker than "the loaded copy is patched".

2026-06-18 — paper-rank-ai-researcher model synthesis handoff

- Objective: Continue the PaperRank AI-researcher workflow toward model-backed synthesis while preserving deterministic evidence and auditability.
- Changed: Added default <slug>-synthesis-packet.json and <slug>-synthesis-prompt.md artifacts, --synthesis-top, and optional --synthesize model synthesis that writes <slug>-model-synthesis.md. The model bridge now uses Feynman's recommended available research model by default instead of inheriting a stale chat default; --synthesis-model or --model still explicitly overrides it. Added default <slug>-score-audit.md so each paper has user-readable component scores, normalized applied weights, contribution math, field role, critique status, source excerpts, missing evidence, and rubric checks. The packet includes ranked-paper score explanations, field roles, critique summaries, rubric gaps, bounded source-span excerpts, source references, and verification limits while omitting raw full-text bodies. The report, memo, dashboard, provenance, CLI JSON summary, README, website docs, release notes, and plan now expose the model handoff and score-audit state.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank/root test run passed 216 tests, including bounded packet/prompt assertions, deterministic injected model-synthesis artifact generation, CLI fixture E2E, and raw full-text omission checks. After the stale-default bug was caught, npm test -- tests/model-harness.test.ts tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 217 tests with a regression asserting no-explicit-model synthesis resolves to openai/gpt-5.5 instead of stale openai/gpt-4.1-mini. After the score-audit addition, npm test -- tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 217 tests with assertions for the score-audit artifact, applied weights, contribution math, why-rank section, rubric checks, report/dashboard/provenance links, CLI JSON path, and raw full-text omission. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check passed. A live no-explicit-model feynman rank "mechanistic interpretability sparse autoencoders" --limit 2 --source-fixture tests/fixtures/openalex-rank.json --synthesize --json smoke generated model synthesis from openai/gpt-5.5, wrote packet/prompt/model-synthesis artifacts, and omitted raw full text from the synthesis packet. A live OpenAlex/alphaXiv feynman rank "mechanistic interpretability sparse autoencoders" --limit 3 --expand-citations 1 --full-text-top 1 --critique-top 2 --synthesis-top 3 --json smoke returned 3 ranked papers, 16 graph papers, 13 expanded papers, 1/1 full text available, 2 critiques, and a score-audit artifact with applied weights, contribution math, why-rank, rubric checks, source evidence, report/dashboard/provenance links, and no raw full-text field.
- Next: Consider a richer interactive graph exploration surface or empirical score calibration against real researcher read-order decisions.

2026-06-18 — paper-rank-sensitivity

- Objective: Make PaperRank show whether the read order is robust to the scoring weights rather than treating the default weight vector as absolute.
- Changed: Added default <slug>-rank-sensitivity.json with balanced, influence-heavy, method/reproducibility-heavy, frontier-heavy, and topic-heavy profiles. The artifact reruns the same score signals with the same missing-component normalization, records per-profile rank/score/applied weights, rank range, score range, stable/sensitive/volatile labels, and drivers for each paper. The report, research memo, dashboard, provenance, CLI JSON summary, README, website docs, release notes, and plan now expose rank-sensitivity state.
- Verified: npm test -- tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 218 tests with fixture assertions for sensitivity generation, profile counts, per-paper profile ranks, report/dashboard/provenance links, JSON summary counts/path, and raw full-text omission. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check passed. Live OpenAlex/alphaXiv smoke returned 3 ranked papers, 16 graph papers, 13 expanded papers, 1/1 full text available, 2 critiques, 5 sensitivity profiles, 3 sensitivity papers, report/dashboard/provenance sensitivity links, score-audit contribution math, and no raw full-text leakage. A no-explicit-model synthesis smoke generated with openai/gpt-5.5, wrote model synthesis plus sensitivity artifacts, and omitted raw full text.
- Next: Consider a richer interactive graph exploration surface or empirical score calibration against real researcher read-order decisions.

2026-06-18 — paper-rank-score-calibration

- Objective: Make PaperRank distinguish uncalibrated product weights from empirically checked read-order preferences.
- Changed: Added always-written <slug>-score-calibration.json, --calibration-fixture, and FEYNMAN_RANK_CALIBRATION_FIXTURE. The fixture accepts rankedPaperIds and pairwise preferences, derives pairwise order checks, evaluates default and sensitivity-profile agreement rates, counts out-of-run preferences as ignored, and records not_provided when no fixture exists. Report, research memo, dashboard, provenance, CLI JSON summary, README, website docs, release notes, command metadata, and plan now expose calibration status.
- Verified: npm test -- tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 220 tests with fixture assertions for evaluated calibration, default agreement, ignored preferences, CLI --calibration-fixture, default not_provided artifact state, report/dashboard/provenance links, JSON summary counts/path, and raw full-text omission. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check passed. Live OpenAlex/alphaXiv calibration smoke returned 3 ranked papers, 16 graph papers, 13 expanded papers, 1/1 full text available, 2 critiques, calibration status insufficient_overlap, 7 ignored preferences, report/dashboard/provenance calibration links, and no raw full-text leakage.
- Next: Collect real researcher read-order fixtures for empirical weight learning or build a richer interactive graph exploration surface.

2026-06-18 12:18 PDT — paper-rank-graph-explorer

- Objective: Make the citation graph inspectable as an AI-researcher surface rather than only a static dashboard snapshot or JSON artifact.
- Changed: Added default <slug>-graph-explorer.html with searchable/filterable seed and expanded graph nodes, clickable citation graph nodes, paper detail panel, local citation links, source URLs, score summaries, field roles, critique verdicts, graph degree/PageRank values, and explicit limits. Wired the artifact into report, dashboard, provenance, CLI output/JSON artifacts, README, website docs, release notes, command metadata, tests, and the durable PaperRank plan. The explorer embeds bounded graph metadata and omits raw full-text bodies.
- Verified: node --import tsx --test --test-concurrency=1 tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 19 tests with graph-explorer artifact/path/link/no-raw-full-text assertions. npm test passed 220 tests; npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check passed. Live OpenAlex/alphaXiv smoke returned 3 ranked papers, 16 graph papers, 13 expanded papers, 1/1 full text available, 2 critiques, calibration status insufficient_overlap, explorer/report/dashboard/provenance links present, and no raw full-text leakage. Chrome headless opened the generated explorer and verified search/filter/click-detail interaction over 16 graph nodes. A no-explicit-model synthesis smoke generated with openai/gpt-5.5, wrote model synthesis plus graph explorer, and kept raw full text out of the synthesis packet and explorer.
- Next: Collect real researcher read-order fixtures for empirical weight learning and use them to decide whether PaperRank should alter its default weight profiles.

2026-06-18 12:27 PDT — paper-rank-calibration-template

- Objective: Give PaperRank a safe path from transparent scoring hypotheses to empirical researcher read-order data.
- Changed: Added default <slug>-calibration-template.json and <slug>-calibration-guide.md. The template uses the same source, rankedPaperIds, and preferences fields consumed by --calibration-fixture, but leaves rankedPaperIds and preferences empty by default so an unchanged template cannot validate PaperRank against its own order. It includes candidate paper summaries and pairwise questions for data collection. The guide explains how to fill the fixture and re-run calibration. Report, dashboard, provenance, CLI output/JSON artifacts, README, website docs, release notes, command metadata, tests, and the durable plan now expose the calibration handoff.
- Verified: node --import tsx --test --test-concurrency=1 tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 19 tests with calibration-template and calibration-guide artifact/path/link/schema/empty-field/pairwise/no-raw-full-text assertions. npm test passed 220 tests; npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check passed. Live OpenAlex/alphaXiv smoke returned 3 ranked papers, 16 graph papers, 13 expanded papers, 1/1 full text available, 2 critiques, calibration status insufficient_overlap, an empty-safe calibration template with 3 candidate papers and 2 pairwise questions, calibration guide instructions, report/dashboard/provenance links, and no raw full-text leakage.
- Next: Collect filled researcher preference fixtures across multiple topics and use them to compare or recommend topic-specific weighting profiles.

2026-06-18 12:40 PDT — paper-rank-replication-plan

- Objective: Turn PaperRank from read-order triage into an actionable AI-researcher workflow that tells the user what to verify next.
- Changed: Added default <slug>-replication-plan.md. The plan turns ranked papers, reviewer concerns, rubric gaps, source-span markers, field roles, rank sensitivity, calibration status, graph context, and model-synthesis state into priority reproduction targets, evidence already found, checks to perform, acceptance criteria, artifact pointers, and cross-paper verification gates. Report, dashboard, provenance, CLI output/JSON artifacts, README, website docs, release notes, command metadata, tests, and the durable plan now expose the replication plan. The artifact explicitly says it is not a completed replication and omits raw full-text bodies.
- Verified: node --import tsx --test --test-concurrency=1 tests/paper-rank.test.ts passed 19 tests with replication-plan artifact/path/link/content/no-raw-full-text assertions. npm test passed 220 tests; npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check passed. CLI help shows the replication-plan description. Live OpenAlex/alphaXiv/model-synthesis smoke returned 3 ranked papers, 16 graph papers, 13 expanded papers, 1/1 full text available, 2 critiques, synthesis status generated with openai/gpt-5.5, calibration status insufficient_overlap, replication-plan report/dashboard/provenance links, priority targets, acceptance criteria, cross-paper checks, and no raw full-text leakage.
- Next: Use filled preference fixtures and completed reproduction notes to decide whether PaperRank should recommend topic-specific weight profiles or schedule actual replication runs.

2026-06-20 08:13 PDT — posthog-telemetry

- Objective: Create a Feynman PostHog project and route useful analytics, logs, and traces into it.
- Changed: Created PostHog workspace/project Feynman with project ID 478873 after the existing Companion org hit its 6-project limit. Added first-party telemetry in src/telemetry/posthog.ts: posthog-node events, OpenTelemetry logs, OpenTelemetry traces, CLI command lifecycle events, PaperRank run events, PaperRank model-synthesis events, hashed error metadata, and Pi child OTLP env propagation. Telemetry avoids raw prompts, rank topics, filesystem paths, paper text, and model prompt bodies.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, focused telemetry/runtime tests, npm run build, and npm test passed with 234 tests. Live fixture smoke wrote a PaperRank result with temp FEYNMAN_HOME. PostHog Activity showed feynman_command_started, feynman_paperrank_started, feynman_command_completed, and feynman_paperrank_completed; Logs showed the Feynman command/PaperRank log messages; Tracing showed feynman.cli.command and feynman.paperrank.run spans with OK status.
- Next: Add model-synthesis cost/token properties only after the model layer exposes reliable usage numbers.

2026-06-20 10:37 PDT — posthog-companion-project

- Objective: Move Feynman telemetry into the existing Companion PostHog organization and clean up the stale project slot.
- Changed: Put stale Companion PostHog project prod (169469) into PostHog pending-deletion state after verifying it was superseded by active projects. Renamed Companion Web (389330) to Companion, Companion Web Staging (391525) to Companion Staging, and Companion Web Dev (391691) to Companion Dev; project IDs and tokens are unchanged. Created Feynman inside the Companion organization as project 479027 and repointed Feynman defaults from the temporary standalone project 478873 to 479027.
- Verified: PostHog project-list API showed the renamed Companion projects and new Companion-org Feynman project. prod loaded Project Pending Deletion after confirmation. npm run typecheck, focused telemetry/Pi tests, npm run build, and npm test passed with 234 tests. Live fixture smoke emitted into project 479027; PostHog showed Feynman event definitions/events, 4 logs, and 2 OK spans for feynman-cli.

2026-06-20 11:18 PDT — posthog-pi-otel

- Objective: Wire Pi plugin/runtime observability through an existing Pi telemetry package instead of a custom Feynman extension.
- Changed: Added pi-otel to the core Pi package set and bundled settings; configured Pi child env for PostHog's AI OTLP endpoint with metadata-only content capture; kept first-party Feynman events/logs/traces on the existing PostHog project defaults.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, npm run build, and full npm test passed with 236 tests. Rebuilt/checked the vendored runtime archive and verified bundled pi-otel has a Pi extension manifest plus no pi.cwd/cwd attributes. A live bundled-extension smoke wired pi-otel to PostHog AI OTLP with metadata_only capture, then PostHog AI Observability showed trace 067f310b5c0b579459c57407eaed45de with pi.interaction, pi.turn, pi.llm_request, and pi.tool.read_file; trace detail/raw views did not contain the smoke prompt/output/tool/path sentinel strings or pi.cwd. A normal fixture rank smoke emitted fresh Activity events, Logs, and Tracing spans in project 479027. Follow-up audit narrowed the pi-otel patch from a broad HTTPS bypass to a probeEndpoint() default-port fix, rebuilt the runtime archive, and verified trace fa86a360ccd9a5d9eec6d5b10f17c85a with raw privacy checks clean.
- Next: Delete the temporary standalone Feynman organization/project only after an explicit confirmation, since project deletion is irreversible and the code no longer points to it.

2026-06-22 01:14 PDT — telemetry-off-and-readback

- Objective: Verify the PostHog route after the reference audit and close the inherited-telemetry leak when telemetry is disabled.
- Changed: getPostHogOtelEnv() now clears Feynman/PostHog, generic OTLP, Pi OTel, and OTel service env keys before returning child-process telemetry env. When FEYNMAN_TELEMETRY=off, Pi child processes no longer inherit a parent shell's private collectors or content-capture settings.
- Verified: Focused telemetry/runtime tests passed 31/31. A live smoke emitted feynman_telemetry_smoke into PostHog project 479027; HogQL read-back with a personal key returned that event at 2026-06-22T08:04:27.907Z. The same smoke emitted one PostHog log row at 2026-06-22T08:04:27.468Z for service feynman-cli-smoke with body feynman telemetry smoke. Querying the project token against the private HogQL API returned 403 authentication_failed, matching PostHog's private-API boundary; the local CLI credential returned permission_denied for project 479027, while the Companion staging personal key could read the Feynman project.
- Failed / learned: Generic traces and spans HogQL tables are not exposed under those names for this project, and this synthetic smoke did not create $ai_ rows in posthog.ai_events because it did not execute an LLM/provider call. Prior Pi OTel live UI traces remain the trace-side proof for agent/model spans.
- Next: Use the Companion PostHog personal key, not the project token or old CLI token, for future read-back checks on project 479027.

2026-06-22 05:58 PDT — paper-access-pmid-pmcid

- Objective: Tighten the single-paper access resolver for the AI-researcher loop instead of adding another adjacent workflow.
- Changed: feynman paper now treats explicit PMID and PMCID inputs as first-class paper identifiers, routes them through OpenAlex exact pmid/pmcid filters, and keeps title searches from accidentally matching PMID/PMCID substrings. Public CLI metadata, README, website docs, and release notes now name PMID/PMCID support on the existing paper-access surface.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank/content-policy tests passed 81/81 with exact OpenAlex ID, PMID, and PMCID routing regressions. Full npm test passed 311/311; npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, production audits, npm pack --dry-run, and diff checks passed. A live compiled binary smoke for feynman paper pmid:29456894 --fetch-full-text --json resolved OpenAlex W2741809807, found PMCID PMC5815332, fetched Europe PMC fullTextXML, and generated artifacts without a raw full-text string field. Live compiled binary smokes for short and URL OpenAlex IDs resolved the same work through the packaged entrypoint.
- Next: Keep paper-access improvements inside exact identifier/source routing unless a real researcher task proves a broader retrieval connector is necessary.

2026-06-22 06:03 PDT — paper-access-title-match

- Objective: Prevent a weak title query from silently anchoring a research run on the wrong OpenAlex result.
- Changed: feynman paper <title> now asks OpenAlex for multiple candidates, scores title overlap, accepts the best sufficiently related title, and rejects unrelated title-search results instead of blindly taking the first provider hit. Exact DOI, arXiv ID, OpenAlex ID, PMID, and PMCID paths remain exact-filter lookups.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank/content-policy tests passed 83/83 with regressions for matching title candidates, rejecting unrelated title hits, and preserving exact identifier routes. Full npm test passed 313/313; root typecheck/build, website lint/typecheck/build, root/website production audits, npm pack --dry-run, and diff checks passed. A live compiled binary smoke for the title Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Features in Language Models resolved OpenAlex W4386839891, DOI 10.48550/arxiv.2309.08600, and arXiv 2309.08600 through the packaged entrypoint. A live compiled binary PMID full-text smoke still resolved OpenAlex W2741809807, found PMCID PMC5815332, fetched Europe PMC fullTextXML, and generated artifacts without a raw full-text string field.
- Next: Keep title search as a guarded resolver path; use feynman rank for broad discovery.

2026-06-22 06:13 PDT — non-pro-model-surface-wording

- Objective: Keep the visible model setup surface aligned with the no-Pro policy after the reference audit.
- Changed: The successful feynman model set message now says it set the non-Pro default model, and the installation docs post-install setup handoff now says setup selects a non-Pro default model. Added regressions for the command output string and installation-doc wording.
- Verified: Focused model/content-policy tests passed 66/66. A stale generic-model wording scan found only the new regression assertions and corrected source string for Non-Pro default model set to.
- Next: Run the broad package gates again, then stage the wording fix with the existing AI-researcher package. Commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-22 06:23 PDT — paperrank-provenance-product-language

- Objective: Keep generated PaperRank provenance as a real research audit trail, not a test-fixture-shaped artifact.
- Changed: Default PaperRank provenance now says calibration artifacts require a preference file and reproduction artifacts require reproduction notes. Removed the stale reproduction fixture / needs repair wording from generated provenance and added a default-run regression.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank/content-policy tests passed 83/83. Full npm test passed 313/313. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, website build, root/website production audits, npm pack --dry-run, and diff checks passed. A compiled bin/feynman.js rank ... --json smoke generated provenance with preference file is supplied and reproduction notes are supplied, and no stale fixture wording.
- Next: Keep reviewing generated artifacts for decision-corrupting wording or broken pointers; commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-22 06:31 PDT — paperrank-review-boundary-language

- Objective: Keep generated PaperRank artifacts framed as research triage and source inspection, not academic peer-review authority.
- Changed: Replaced the remaining generated peer-review verdict boundary text in the score audit and provenance with claim-validation/reproduction language. Added regressions so the phrase does not return in PaperRank copy or generated default artifacts.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank/content-policy tests passed 83/83 and the stale active-surface scan found the old phrases only in negative regression assertions. Full npm test passed 313/313. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, website build, root/website production audits, diff checks, and npm pack --dry-run passed. Rendered website internal-link check passed with 33 HTML files and 0 missing links. A compiled bin/feynman.js rank ... --json smoke generated score-audit/provenance artifacts with no stale peer-review verdict or fixture wording.
- Next: Stage the final PaperRank wording patch with the existing AI-researcher package. Commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-22 06:44 PDT — paperrank-peer-review-frame-removal

- Objective: Remove the remaining peer-review frame from PaperRank, which is a read-first ranking and verification-planning workflow rather than a review workflow.
- Changed: Replaced PaperRank methodology, report, synthesis-prompt, replication-plan, and workflow-doc mentions of peer review with claim-validation/reproduction language. Added regressions so PaperRank source/docs and generated score audit, report, synthesis prompt, and replication plan do not reintroduce peer review.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank/content-policy tests passed 83/83. Targeted scans found peer review in PaperRank files only inside negative regression assertions; remaining active mentions are review-workflow boundary text or biomedical evidence-type labels. Full npm test passed 313/313. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, website build, root/website production audits, diff checks, and npm pack --dry-run passed. Rendered website internal-link check passed with 33 HTML files and 0 missing links. A compiled no-model bin/feynman.js rank ... --json smoke checked generated report, score audit, provenance, and replication plan for stale peer-review/fixture wording. A parallel compiled smoke with --synthesize was stopped before using it as evidence because it entered the model path; synthesis-prompt wording is covered by focused tests.
- Next: Stage the final PaperRank peer-review frame removal with the existing AI-researcher package. Commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-22 06:58 PDT — paperrank-release-artifact-truth

- Objective: Keep public release docs aligned with PaperRank's lean default artifact boundary.
- Changed: Fixed the website release note that still claimed every PaperRank run writes an empty-safe reproduction notes template. It now says reproduction ledgers, notes templates, and replication plans are written only when --reproduction-notes supplies completed reproduction evidence. Added a content-policy guard for the stale sentence.
- Verified: Focused content-policy tests passed 32/32. Full npm test passed 313/313. npm run typecheck passed. Website build passed and generated 33 pages. Rendered website internal-link check passed with 33 HTML files and 0 missing links. Active stale-sentence scan found the removed reproduction-template claim only in the new negative regression assertion.
- Next: Stage the release-doc artifact-boundary fix with the existing AI-researcher package. Commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-22 07:28 PDT — source-access-promise-boundary

- Objective: Keep source-access docs honest and bounded so Feynman reads available evidence instead of implying arbitrary complete web or paper access.
- Changed: Tightened web-search docs from complete page content to provider-available page text, and tightened alphaXiv docs from broad full-text access to citation metadata, discussion threads, and source-specific paper text when available. Added content-policy guards for the stale phrases.
- Verified: Focused content-policy tests passed 32/32. Full npm test passed 313/313. npm run typecheck, website typecheck, and website build passed; website build generated 33 pages. Rendered website internal-link check passed with 33 HTML files and 0 missing links. Active scan found the removed complete-content/full-text-access phrases only in negative regression assertions.
- Next: Stage the source-access promise-boundary fix with the existing AI-researcher package. Commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-22 07:43 PDT — session-search-session-dir-fix

- Objective: Make the optional session-search package actually recall Feynman research sessions instead of looking in upstream Pi's default session directory.
- Changed: Added a carried pi-session-search patch that makes its indexer prefer FEYNMAN_SESSION_DIR or PI_SESSION_DIR before falling back to ~/.pi/agent/sessions. Wired the patch through runtime startup, vendored runtime workspace preparation, and the embedded postinstall patch script. Added direct patch tests and runtime-root coverage for package-local, vendored, user-global, and Pi-agent npm installs. Also tightened preview docs so optional preview rendering is described as renderer-dependent, not guaranteed perfect LaTeX/table rendering.
- Verified: npm view still reports 0.79.10 for all four scoped Pi runtime packages. Focused package/runtime/content tests passed 75/75. Full npm test passed 315/315. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website typecheck, and website build passed; website build generated 33 pages. Rendered website internal-link check passed with 33 HTML files and 0 missing links. Root and website production audits reported 0 vulnerabilities. npm pack --dry-run passed and packed 132 files, including the new session-search patch helper.
- Next: Stage the session-search runtime fix with the existing AI-researcher package. Commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-22 07:47 PDT — package-install-runtime-patch

- Objective: Make optional Pi package installs and updates leave Feynman's patched research runtime correct immediately, not only after a later launch-time patch pass.
- Changed: installPackageSources and updateConfiguredPackages now run the runtime patch pass after successful installs or updates, so freshly installed Pi packages in Feynman's user npm prefix are patched before the command returns. Added regressions that simulate supported Node 22 session-search installs/updates and inspect the installed @kaiserlich-dev/pi-session-search/extensions/indexer.ts file for Feynman's session directory handoff.
- Verified: Focused package/runtime/content tests passed 84/84, including package install and update regressions for the patched session-search indexer. Full npm test passed 317/317. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, root and website production audits, rendered website internal-link check, npm pack --dry-run, and diff checks passed. Website build generated 33 pages; rendered link check found 0 missing internal targets.
- Next: Stage the package-operation patch with the existing AI-researcher package. Commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-22 07:52 PDT — paperrank-generated-fixture-language

- Objective: Keep generated PaperRank artifacts in researcher-facing product language instead of leaking stale test-fixture terminology.
- Changed: Replaced generated synthesis-packet wording from explicit fixture to explicit reproduction notes file, and replaced the calibration-guide limit from small fixture to small preference file. Added regressions covering both generated artifacts and the active PaperRank source/docs surface.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank/content-policy tests passed 83/83. Targeted stale-language scan now finds the removed fixture phrases only in negative regression assertions. Full npm test passed 317/317. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website lint/typecheck/build, root and website production audits, rendered website internal-link check, npm pack --dry-run, and diff checks passed. Website build generated 33 pages; rendered link check found 0 missing internal targets.
- Next: Stage the generated-artifact wording fix with the existing AI-researcher package. Commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-22 08:01 PDT — telemetry-child-env-scrub

- Objective: Keep Feynman's observability useful without leaking or inheriting private parent-shell OTEL/Pi telemetry settings into the research runtime.
- Changed: The PostHog OTEL child-env builder now starts from a scrubbed telemetry environment and clears inherited OTEL logs/metrics routes, resource attributes, exporter controls, Pi OTEL disable/service overrides, and OTEL log level before setting Feynman's PostHog trace/log routes. Added regressions for enabled and disabled telemetry paths.
- Verified: Focused telemetry/runtime/content tests passed 57/57. Full npm test passed 318/318. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website typecheck/lint/build, root and website production audits, rendered website internal-link check, npm pack --dry-run, and diff checks passed. Website build generated 33 pages; rendered link check found 0 missing internal targets; pack dry-run included 132 files.
- Next: Stage the telemetry scrub with the existing AI-researcher package. Commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-22 08:07 PDT — paper-access-source-label-escaping

- Objective: Keep single-paper access reports safe when provider or test fetchers return source labels, so generated Markdown cannot be shaped by untrusted labels.
- Changed: Escaped the full-text source label in paper-access Markdown reports and added a regression with a provider label containing a pipe, newline heading, and Markdown link syntax.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank/content-policy tests passed 84/84. Full npm test passed 319/319. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website typecheck/lint/build, root and website production audits, rendered website internal-link check, npm pack --dry-run, and diff checks passed. Website build generated 33 pages; rendered link check found 0 missing internal targets; pack dry-run included 132 files.
- Next: Stage the generated-artifact boundary fix with the existing AI-researcher package. Commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-22 08:14 PDT — paperrank-markdown-html-escaping

- Objective: Keep PaperRank and paper-access Markdown artifacts structurally trustworthy when provider-controlled paper titles, source labels, or evidence text contain HTML-like input.
- Changed: The shared Markdown escape helper now entity-escapes &, <, and > before Markdown control characters, so paper/provider text cannot render as raw HTML in generated reports. Extended paper-access regressions with hostile title and full-text source labels containing raw HTML tags.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank/content-policy tests passed 84/84. Full npm test passed 319/319. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website typecheck/lint/build, root and website production audits, rendered website internal-link check, npm pack --dry-run, and diff checks passed. Website build generated 33 pages; rendered link check found 0 missing internal targets; pack dry-run included 132 files.
- Next: Stage the Markdown/HTML escaping hardening with the existing AI-researcher package and continue the generated-artifact audit. Commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-22 08:18 PDT — paperrank-provenance-source-meta-fence

- Objective: Keep PaperRank provenance auditable when source metadata contains Markdown backticks, headings, or HTML-like text.
- Changed: Provenance now writes source metadata as a fenced JSON block using the existing adaptive fence helper instead of an inline code span. Added a regression where fixture metadata contains a triple-backtick sequence, injected heading text, and script-like markup, then asserted the metadata stays under the source-meta fence.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank/content-policy tests passed 84/84. Full npm test passed 319/319. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website typecheck/lint/build, root and website production audits, rendered website internal-link check, npm pack --dry-run, and diff checks passed. Website build generated 33 pages; rendered link check found 0 missing internal targets; pack dry-run included 132 files.
- Next: Stage the provenance fence fix with the existing AI-researcher package and continue artifact-boundary review. Commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-22 08:22 PDT — paperrank-model-synthesis-html-escape

- Objective: Keep model-generated PaperRank synthesis readable while preventing raw HTML from rendering inside the audit artifact.
- Changed: *-model-synthesis.md now escapes raw HTML characters in model synthesis text while preserving line breaks and Markdown structure. Extended the generated-synthesis regression with model output containing raw <script> and <img> tags, and asserted the artifact renders escaped text instead of raw tags.
- Verified: Focused PaperRank/content-policy tests passed 84/84. Full npm test passed 319/319. npm run typecheck, npm run build, website typecheck/lint/build, root and website production audits, rendered website internal-link check, npm pack --dry-run, and diff checks passed. Website build generated 33 pages; rendered link check found 0 missing internal targets; pack dry-run included 132 files.
- Next: Stage the synthesis HTML escape with the existing AI-researcher package and continue artifact-boundary review. Commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-22 08:31 PDT — installed-tarball-e2e-research-smoke

- Objective: Prove the staged package works as an installed user-facing research CLI, not only through source tests.
- Changed: No product code changed. Ran a clean tarball install under /tmp/feynman-e2e.kvlIB5, then exercised the installed feynman binary with fresh FEYNMAN_HOME directories and telemetry disabled.
- Verified: npm pack produced @companion-ai/[email protected] with 132 files; clean temp npm install --omit=dev installed 364 packages with 0 vulnerabilities; installed feynman --version returned 0.3.4. Installed CLI smokes passed for top-level help, bundled feynman alpha --help, PaperRank fixture run with citation expansion/full-text/critique (4 ranked papers, 6 graph papers, 2/2 full-text available, 2 critiques, 10 artifacts), and paper-access fixture run with full text available. Live provider smokes passed: feynman paper 10.7717/peerj.4375 --fetch-full-text --json resolved via OpenAlex with 12 access candidates and available full text, and feynman alpha search "sparse autoencoders" returned 10 parsed result rows.
- Next: Keep the package staged as the current local release candidate; commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-23 04:50 PDT — code-organization-reference-pass

- Objective: Deeply compare Feynman's shape against Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, and Hugging Face ML Intern, then apply only the structural improvements that keep Feynman a simple, potent AI researcher.
- Changed: Added a durable code-organization research handbook under outputs/.plans/code-organization-review/, cloned/read the reference repos in _agent-research/feynman-code-organization/, and added scripts/check-architecture.mjs plus npm run architecture:check. The guard names existing oversized debt (src/rank/paper-rank.ts, tests/paper-rank.test.ts, src/cli.ts), warns on files nearing core debt (src/model/commands.ts, scripts/patch-embedded-pi.mjs), and blocks new unallowlisted oversized files or domain modules importing CLI/UI/setup layers.
- Verified: npm run architecture:check passed and checked 114 source files. No user-facing feature surface was added; the next recommended implementation step is mechanical PaperRank/CLI extraction, followed by a ResearchRun/research-recipe artifact contract.
- Next: Split PaperRank into papers/evidence/rank/artifact modules without changing ranking behavior, then split CLI command handlers and keep the architecture guard green.

2026-06-22 08:48 PDT — contributor-pr-intake-and-legacy-alias-fix

- Objective: Turn contributor intake into a repeatable AI-researcher product loop and port only the PR changes that fix real package reliability.
- Changed: Reactivated the existing Codex automation check-new-issues as Feynman AI researcher intake sweep, with explicit PR/issue classification rules, feature-fight criteria, and no push/merge/comment authority. Evaluated open PRs: #179 is not mergeable as-is because it adds a separate Bernoulli prompt tree and outreach/admin workflow; #181 fixes issue #180, so ported its root-cause package fix. resolveRuntimePeerSpec now reads both name and version from installed runtime package manifests and emits npm: alias specs when legacy @mariozechner/ directories contain current @earendil-works/ package names.
- Verified: Focused package/runtime tests passed 27/27. Full npm test passed 320/320. npm run typecheck, npm run build, root production audit, npm pack --dry-run, diff checks, and clean installed-tarball smoke passed. The installed tarball returned 0.3.4 and feynman packages list rendered the core/optional package surface from a fresh temp install.
- Next: Stage the alias fix and automation notebook entry with the existing AI-researcher package. Commit/push/release remains unauthorized.

2026-06-23 05:31 PDT — code-organization-daytona-hardening

- Objective: Finish the deep code-organization pass with clean install/runtime proof, keep Feynman focused on AI research, and remove the Daytona pack/install failure.
- Changed: Added the architecture guard and durable code-organization notes; patched Pi package metadata before CLI import so fresh source installs use Feynman's .feynman config; made runtime workspace preparation install current Pi packages once and symlink legacy @mariozechner/ aliases to @earendil-works/ instead of installing duplicate dependency trees.
- Verified: Daytona fresh clone passed npm ci, npm run architecture:check, npm test (323/323), npm run typecheck, isolated npm run build, root production audit, diff checks, website install/lint/typecheck/build/audit, rendered internal-link check (33 HTML files, 0 missing links), and npm pack --dry-run (133 files, 50.9 MB, shasum 85d92d0cffb5f01296a0599b45ac93b6b2771b62). The vendored runtime package prep completed in 27 seconds and legacy Pi namespace entries were verified as symlinks.
- Next: Commit and push this release candidate, then split PaperRank into source/access/evidence/rank/artifact modules before adding any plugin or MCP public surface.

2026-06-23 14:08 PDT — research-run-product-spine

- Objective: Turn the BioNeMo-style lesson into a Feynman product repair without adding a random life-science workflow.
- Changed: Added the first code-level ResearchRun contract and validator, added research-plugin manifest validation with entity_extractors and experiment_runners, and made PaperRank emit <slug>-research-run.json as the typed spine for sources, papers, tools, artifacts, verification state, constraints, and next actions. Updated PaperRank docs and the architecture handbook to treat molecular diagram parsing as an entity extractor and BioNeMo-style model calls as experiment runners.
- Verified: Full local root suite passed 325/325; local typecheck, build, architecture guard, root audit, diff check, website lint/typecheck/build/audit, rendered docs link check (33 HTML files, 0 missing internal links), and npm pack --dry-run passed. After the final manifest completion-marker ordering fix, local root tests, typecheck, build, architecture guard, diff check, and package dry-run were rerun; final pack shasum is 0442fe1352718f10b347c53b182b84d335713451. Local installed-tarball E2E installed the package into a fresh temp project, returned version 0.3.4, ran PaperRank through the shipped binary, and verified the emitted feynman.researchRun.v1 manifest with 4 papers, top paper WFOUNDATION, 11 artifacts, and rawFullTextStored: false. Daytona sandbox feynman-researchrun-e2e passed clean npm ci, architecture guard, npm test (325/325), typecheck, build, root audit, and npm pack --dry-run; sandbox was deleted after verification.
- Next: Commit and push this focused product-architecture patch, then continue into mechanical PaperRank module extraction. The next install-speed target is reducing the 51-52 MB vendored runtime archive and 417-package runtime prep path.

2026-07-01 00:52 PDT — open-science-workbench-chat-provenance

- Objective: Move Feynman's local open-science workbench closer to the real Claude Science session shape instead of stopping at a static artifact dashboard.
- Changed: Read Pi 0.80.3 SDK/RPC/session docs and matched the UI to the observed Claude Science composer/session-options/artifact menu behavior. Workbench sessions now default to Delegation off, Auto-review off, Memory off, Specialist None, Compute Local, with a legacy migration for old auto-created all-on Default sessions. The composer advertises @ artifacts, # sessions, and / skills; running turns label the send action as Steer; transcript tool cards show Pi inputs/details; artifact previews now have a More menu and inline Code/Review provenance overlay.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test passed (346/346). In-app browser smoke on the live local reference-audit route verified the new composer placeholder, Specialist None/default-off config rows, artifact More menu, and inline Provenance Code/Review overlay.
- Next: Add direct notebook/composer code execution and first-class structured verification checks so Feynman can run and review new scientific work from the UI, not only inspect existing artifacts.

2026-07-01 01:22 PDT — open-science-workbench-notebook-checks

- Objective: Make the workbench behave more like Claude Science's active experiment surface by letting users run notebook cells and record verification checks from inside the app.
- Changed: Added a persisted notebook execution runner for Python, R, and Bash. The Notebook pane now exposes Run cell with Explore/Check mode; executions run in the local workspace, persist under .feynman/workbench/notebook-executions/, and flow back into the execution ledger as code cells with output, exit/duration details, and exact evidence paths. Check-mode executions now create structured state.checks records and render in the Provenance pane beside existing verification artifacts.
- Verified: Rechecked Pi RPC/session docs and Claude Science runtime evidence for execution-log, compute submit-cell, artifact-version, and verification-check primitives. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, targeted tests/workbench.test.ts, and full npm test passed (348/348). Fresh-server in-app browser smoke on reference-audit executed a Bash Check cell, rendered the verified notebook cell, and showed the new pass record in Provenance Checks.
- Next: Wire Customize/Agent to discovered Feynman specialists, skills, MCP packages, prompt templates, and compute choices from real local resources.

2026-07-01 01:46 PDT — open-science-workbench-resource-customize

- Objective: Make the open-science workbench's Customize/chat layer structurally closer to Claude Science by wiring it to real Feynman/Pi resources instead of static placeholder cards.
- Changed: Added typed resource groups to workbench state for specialists, skills, prompt templates, connectors, compute, permissions, credentials, storage, and memory. Customize now discovers .feynman/agents/.md, skills//SKILL.md, prompts/.md, configured Pi packages, and project extensions, then renders them as action cards. Specialist cards update the active chat session config; skill/prompt cards insert the real Pi command into the composer. Pi command messages starting with / or ! now reach Pi raw so RPC can expand skills, prompt templates, extension commands, and bash-style input instead of losing command semantics inside the workbench context wrapper. Fixed a resource-card overlap bug that physically covered action buttons.
- Verified: Rechecked Claude Science public docs/news, local Claude Science runtime assets/DB shape, and Pi 0.80.3 RPC/skills/extensions/prompt-template/package/session docs. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, targeted tests/workbench.test.ts, and full npm test passed (349/349). Fresh-server in-app browser smoke on reference-audit verified live resource counts, /skill:literature-review insertion, Researcher specialist session update, no console errors, and the fixed hit target after the card-layout patch.
- Next: Add artifact version history and lineage drawers from local artifacts, execution records, Pi messages, and notebook execution records; then promote resource discovery to live Pi get_commands where command provenance matters.

2026-07-01 02:03 PDT — open-science-workbench-artifact-versions

- Objective: Close the Claude Science artifact-version/provenance gap with a real version model instead of a static v1 label.
- Changed: Added first-class artifactVersions to workbench state. Versions are derived from scanned artifacts and explicit Pi/chat/notebook producer records, with content type, file size, SHA-256 checksum, source, parent link, producer execution/source ids, agent name, language, code, producer messages, environment details, input/output paths, checkpoint/intermediate flags, and annotations. Artifact preview now has a Versions tab; Lineage renders version rows beside upstream/downstream artifacts; metadata export includes the version graph. Fixed the Versions header spacing after browser screenshot review.
- Verified: Relaunched and drove the installed Claude Science app, inspected its local SQLite schema/runtime assets for artifact_versions, artifact_dependencies, execution logs, provenance drawers, lineage messages, and environment snapshots; reread Pi 0.80.3 RPC/SDK/session/package/extension docs. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, targeted tests/workbench.test.ts, and full npm test passed (349/349). Fresh-server browser smoke on reference-audit verified 122 artifacts, 122 artifact versions, the rendered Versions tab, the Lineage tab version row, full checksum metadata for outputs/reference-audit/handoff.md, and no console/page errors.
- Next: Promote notebook execution from isolated local processes to persistent kernel/Pi RPC continuity where variable/env continuity matters, and upgrade resource discovery to live Pi get_commands for command provenance.

2026-07-01 02:24 PDT — open-science-workbench-persistent-kernels

- Objective: Make the Notebook runner behave like a continuing research session instead of a per-cell process launcher.
- Changed: Added long-lived Python and Bash session kernels keyed by workbench session, with explicit Session kernel versus Isolated process runtime selection in the Notebook UI. Python cells now preserve variables across runs; Bash cells preserve env and cwd across runs. Notebook records persist executionMode and kernelId, the execution ledger labels session-kernel provenance, and server shutdown closes both Pi RPC clients and notebook kernels. Split kernel lifecycle code into src/workbench/notebook-kernels.ts so notebook-execution.ts stays focused.
- Verified: Re-read Pi 0.80.3 SDK/RPC/session docs for embedded sessions, JSONL session trees, and bash execution semantics. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, targeted tests/workbench.test.ts, and full npm test passed (351/351). Fresh-server in-app browser smoke on reference-audit verified the chat/composer surface, Runtime default Session kernel, a two-cell Python UI run where the second cell printed 124 from state defined in the first cell, zero console errors, and screenshot /tmp/feynman-notebook-kernel-smoke.png.
- Next: Promote resource discovery to live Pi get_commands and richer connector/package state, then persist before/after artifact snapshots for mutations during active workbench sessions.

2026-07-01 03:12 PDT — open-science-workbench-live-pi-commands

- Objective: Replace the remaining guessed command/resource layer with live Pi command provenance so the workbench chat surface behaves like a real local science agent cockpit.
- Changed: Added Pi RPC get_commands integration for the workbench. Opening Customize now asks the active Pi session for invokable extension commands, prompt templates, and skill commands, merges a live Pi Commands resource group after Skills, preserves Pi's canonical sourceInfo provenance, and inserts the exact slash command into the composer. The command normalizer keeps older location/path fields only as a compatibility fallback.
- Verified: Rechecked the current Claude Science page for persistent kernels, traceable artifacts, scientific databases, skills, connectors, internal APIs, ELNs, and pipeline connectors; reread installed Pi RPC/extension docs and source for get_commands and sourceInfo. The authenticated local endpoint returned 91 live Pi commands and the in-app browser verified Pi Commands 91 items, real command cards such as /audit and /deepresearch, /audit composer insertion, and zero console errors on reference-audit. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, targeted workbench tests, and full npm test passed (352/352).
- Next: Add richer connector/package detail, grant, credential, and enable/disable state; then persist before/after artifact snapshots for notebook/chat mutations.

2026-07-01 03:44 PDT — open-science-workbench-connector-state

- Objective: Move Connector cards from discovered labels toward the live control-plane state Claude Science exposes for skills/connectors/credentials.
- Changed: Connector resources now parse Pi package settings in string and object-filter form, read installed package manifests from .feynman/npm/node_modules, show package versions, declared Pi extension/skill/prompt/theme counts, core versus optional state, installed/not-installed tags, and package filter details. Added real package action metadata, a token-protected /api/resources/package route, and UI Enable/Disable buttons that mutate project .feynman/settings.json and refresh state. Split package connector scanning into src/workbench/package-resources.ts.
- Verified: Rechecked Pi package docs for package sources, filtering, enable/disable, scope, and deduplication. Live state showed five configured core package cards with versions/counts plus available pi-memory and pi-hindsight optional cards. The package route was live-tested by enabling npm:@samfp/pi-memory, verifying configured state, disabling it, and confirming settings returned to the five core package sources. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, targeted workbench/package tests, and full npm test passed (354/354). Browser automation failed to attach after earlier snapshot timeouts, so this slice's rendered proof used server HTML plus authenticated state/API.
- Next: Persist before/after artifact snapshots for live notebook/chat mutations, then add connector-specific credential/grant diagnostics.

2026-07-01 04:20 PDT — open-science-workbench-artifact-snapshots

- Objective: Make artifact history real during live notebook/chat work instead of reconstructing every version from the current file.
- Changed: Added persisted before/after artifact snapshots under .feynman/workbench/artifact-snapshots/ for notebook cells and Pi-backed chat turns. Notebook execution records now store snapshotIds; chat turns record changed outputs/, papers/, and notes/ artifacts even when the assistant reply omits the path. Artifact versions now prefer persisted snapshot checksums/content paths and expose snapshot id/path, previous snapshot path, previous checksum/size, and content-changed state in Versions, Lineage, and metadata export.
- Verified: Re-read Pi 0.80.3 RPC/session docs and Feynman's Pi chat wrapper. Focused temp-workspace tests proved notebook and chat mutations persist exact before/after content and render snapshot-backed artifact versions. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, targeted workbench/snapshot tests, and full npm test passed (356/356). Fresh-server browser smoke on reference-audit verified the in-page Pi chat/composer, Pi session file identity, and files/notebook/execution/compute/agent/provenance panes on the current code.
- Next: Add connector-specific credential/grant diagnostics, then expose snapshot diff/restore controls now that before/after content exists.

2026-07-01 08:56 PDT — open-science-workbench-chat-context-diagnostics

- Objective: Respond to the source-backed gap that the workbench chat must actually use the local research session state, not merely sit beside notebook and connector panes.
- Changed: Re-read Pi RPC/SDK/session/package/security docs and rechecked the current Claude Science public page plus local Claude Science runtime/SQLite shape. Normal workbench chat prompts now include the latest executed notebook cells from the same session, including code, output, runtime, artifact paths, and snapshot ids, while raw Pi / and ! command inputs still pass through untouched. Connector cards now render first-class diagnostics for project config, install state, declared package resources, active filters, preset class, and the Pi trust/grant boundary.
- Verified: Targeted tests prove notebook output is included in the next same-session prompt and excluded across sessions, and package-resource tests prove connector diagnostics cover settings, install paths, filters, disabled core packages, optional presets, and trust boundaries. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, targeted workbench/package tests, and full npm test passed (357/357). Fresh server at http://127.0.0.1:6174/?token=hs__bXKzFHXIAJGG3cMNp33MyRt7W8NW returned authenticated state with 4 projects, 43 runs, 122 artifacts, 8 connectors, and connector diagnostics. Playwright screenshot verified the deep-linked project route renders transcript, composer, files, and artifact preview. Codex blocked direct Computer Use against its own in-app browser window, and transient Playwright Test package imports were not available without adding a repo dependency, so clicked Customize-panel visual verification is API/state-backed rather than screenshot-backed.
- Next: Add user-visible snapshot diff/restore controls for the persisted artifact snapshots.

2026-07-01 09:22 PDT — open-science-workbench-snapshot-diff-restore

- Objective: Make persisted artifact snapshots user-controllable in the workbench so researchers can inspect and restore saved scientific outputs instead of only seeing that history exists.
- Changed: Added snapshot-backed artifact version actions. The Versions tab now shows Diff and Restore controls for saved snapshots, renders bounded inline text diffs with added/removed/context lines, reports binary snapshots explicitly, and sends restore actions through a token-protected server route. Restores validate that artifact paths stay under outputs/, papers/, or notes/, validate snapshot content stays inside .feynman/workbench/artifact-snapshots/files/, write the selected snapshot back to the workspace, and record the restore as a new workspace snapshot event for auditability.
- Verified: Re-read the installed Pi 0.80.3 extension/session docs, local Claude Science runtime/schema evidence for artifact versions and provenance, current OpenCode source for session UI/runtime split, and Microsoft Conductor source/docs for dashboard/event/gate visibility. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, targeted workbench snapshot/action tests, focused workbench tests, and full npm test passed (361/361). The diff/restore endpoints were exercised through a live temp workbench server and verified to restore file content while creating a new restore version. The real workbench was restarted on 127.0.0.1:6174; in-app browser smoke verified the fresh reference-audit route, chat composer, Versions tab, selected Handoff artifact, and zero console errors. The real workspace currently has 0 snapshot-backed versions, so no fake artifact was created just to display Diff/Restore buttons.
- Next: Continue into richer connector credential/grant surfaces and environment snapshots; the first real notebook/chat artifact mutation will expose the Diff/Restore controls in the live workspace.

2026-07-01 10:27 PDT — open-science-workbench-mutable-settings

- Objective: Make the Claude Science-shaped Customize/Settings surface actually mutable instead of only inventorying resources.
- Changed: Added local settings persistence under .feynman/workbench/settings.json plus authenticated /api/resources/settings upsert/remove routes. Customize now has add/remove flows for custom MCP-style connectors, SSH compute hosts, allowed domains, environment-backed credential references, permission grants, and memory categories. The records flow back into the same resource groups, and the client click delegation now handles text-node targets so settings submit/remove buttons work reliably.
- Verified: Re-drove installed Claude Science Settings forms and reread Pi 0.80.3 settings/package/extension/RPC docs. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, focused workbench/settings tests, and full npm test passed (363/363). Fresh in-app browser smoke on reference-audit verified all mutable forms, then added and removed a temporary allowed domain through the UI; the real settings file returned to empty custom arrays after cleanup.
- Next: Bridge saved custom connectors, credentials, and grants into real Pi/MCP execution/enforcement paths and record richer notebook/Pi environment snapshots.

2026-07-01 11:57 PDT — open-science-workbench-connector-approval

- Objective: Move custom connector chat behavior closer to Claude Science by replacing the blunt allow-only gate with persisted ask requests and Claude-shaped connector setup fields.
- Changed: Custom connector settings now store per-connector skipApprovals and expose Remote/Local, remote URL, command line, OAuth client/server/scopes, headers helper, environment variables, description, and skip-approval fields. feynman_connector_call now creates a pending ask permission grant before any connector HTTP request or local process spawn when a tool is missing approval, while skip approvals acts as an explicit connector-level allow. Permission cards now render Allow, Block, and Remove actions for pending ask grants.
- Verified: Re-drove installed Claude Science connector Settings and inspected its local runtime/SQLite MCP tables and built-in stdio/HTTP MCP logs; reread Pi 0.80.3 extension/session docs. npm run typecheck, npm run build, and focused connector/settings/context tests passed. Earlier in the slice the full test suite passed (372/372). Fresh in-app browser smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6177/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit?token=science-parity-20260701c verified project rendering, connector form fields, pending ask Allow/Block/Remove actions, exact scope encoding, and cleanup back to zero permission grants.
- Next: Add SSE connector transport, move ask approval from Settings-only into the chat transcript as an approval card, then add agent-specific connector assignment/excluded-tool semantics.

2026-07-01 17:49 PDT — open-science-workbench-compute-jobs

- Objective: Make the Compute pane behave like a Claude Science control-plane surface by showing real job history, not only provider inventory.
- Changed: Added computeJobs to workbench state from persisted notebook executions. Jobs now capture provider/tier/status/intent/session/project/run/language/environment/command, Modal remote URL and handle, script path, input/output paths, timing, and bounded error detail. The Compute pane now renders job history first, with cloud-run links and session-kernel rows, then provider setup cards. Compute-specific CSS moved to src/workbench/ui-style-compute.ts.
- Verified: Rechecked installed Claude Science local runtime/DB/log evidence and the public Claude Science page for compute providers, compute usage, execution logs, environment snapshots, lineage, and provider surfaces. Full npm test passed (377/377); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed. Fresh server /api/state returned 5 compute jobs and 2 Modal jobs; Playwright/Chrome smoke on the reference-audit run verified the rendered Compute pane shows 5 jobs, Modal cloud rows, cloud-run links, and stable status-pill geometry.
- Next: Add managed scientific environment discovery so the local R/Python notebook kernels can use configured conda/micromamba runtimes when system tools are missing.

2026-07-01 18:05 PDT — open-science-workbench-managed-runtimes

- Objective: Make local notebook execution use managed scientific runtimes the way Claude Science does, instead of failing when only system R is missing.
- Changed: Added a shared notebook runtime resolver. It prefers explicit env configuration, then managed local scientific runtimes, then PATH. R session kernels, isolated R cells, Python cells, and environment snapshots now use that resolver. On this Mac, R/Rscript resolve to the installed Claude Science conda env under ~/.claude-science/conda/envs/r/bin/. Customize → General now shows a Notebook runtimes card with command source diagnostics.
- Verified: Focused R tests passed, including isolated R through FEYNMAN_RSCRIPT with the exact executable recorded in the environment snapshot. A live temp-workspace R smoke with no R env vars set used /Users/advaitpaliwal/.claude-science/conda/envs/r/bin/R, preserved session state, printed 42, and recorded R version 4.5.3 (2026-03-11). Full npm test passed (378/378); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed. Fresh server /api/state and Playwright/Chrome Customize → General smoke verified the managed runtime card.
- Next: Add live queued/running compute lifecycle controls and first-class managed environment create/list/install flows.

2026-07-01 18:54 PDT — open-science-workbench-compute-lifecycle

- Objective: Close the Claude Science compute lifecycle gap by making notebook jobs visible and controllable while they are running.
- Changed: Notebook execution now creates a stable job id before launch, tracks active jobs in /api/state, and supports /api/compute/job/action for cancel/terminate and retry. Local process cells, Modal CLI cells, and persistent session kernels now terminate process groups on Stop. Modal cancellations append pending terminate records under .feynman/workbench/compute-pending-terminate.jsonl. The Notebook pane now shows Stop while a cell runs, and Compute rows expose Stop for active jobs plus Retry for stored notebook jobs.
- Verified: Focused lifecycle tests prove an authenticated long-running Bash job appears as running, Stop persists a stopped compute record, Retry creates a completed rerun, and Modal cancellation records a pending terminate row. Full npm test passed (383/383); npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed. Fresh server http://127.0.0.1:6191/?token=compute-lifecycle-20260702 browser smoke verified Notebook Stop, Compute row Retry, one stopped plus one completed matching compute job, zero console errors, and screenshot /tmp/feynman-compute-lifecycle-smoke.png.
- Next: Run a bounded Modal-backed research/replication job that returns real artifacts, then wire remaining NVIDIA NIM and connector OAuth gaps.

2026-07-01 19:05 PDT — open-science-workbench-reviewer-strip

- Objective: Make the transcript feel like Claude Science's reviewed research flow by surfacing verification confidence inline, not only in a separate provenance pane.
- Changed: Added a compact transcript reviewer strip sourced from real state.checks records. The strip shows reviewer status and check count, expands into individual pass/fail/warning rows, and routes Jump to claim to Provenance checks/evidence plus Go to transcript to the Execution trace.
- Verified: Re-drove the installed Claude Science example project and observed the live reviewer strip/action pattern. Fresh server http://127.0.0.1:6192/projects/verification/frames/reference-audit?token=reviewer-strip-20260702 browser smoke verified one reviewer strip, five expanded checks, working claim/transcript actions, zero console errors, and screenshot /tmp/feynman-reviewer-strip-smoke.png. npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test passed (383/383).
- Next: Run a bounded Modal-backed research/replication job that returns real artifacts, then wire remaining NVIDIA NIM and connector OAuth gaps.

2026-07-01 19:14 PDT — open-science-workbench-modal-replication

- Objective: Prove the cloud-compute research loop with a real Modal-backed analysis that returns artifacts into the Feynman workbench, not just a smoke cell.
- Changed: Ran a Modal cloud Python notebook job through the authenticated /api/notebook/execute product path with executionMode: "modal". The job generated a bounded Michaelis-Menten parameter-recovery analysis and returned outputs/modal-replication-demo/brief.md, outputs/modal-replication-demo/fit-grid.csv, and outputs/modal-replication-demo/summary.json through the Modal artifact collector.
- Verified: Execution 5c67ac47-9f74-4e95-851c-e95329edd276 completed with Modal remote run https://modal.com/apps/companion/main/ap-nn6L8TyxGLxlNVxiau9AtB, three output paths, and three artifact snapshots. Fresh browser smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6192/projects/workspace/frames/modal-replication-demo?token=reviewer-strip-20260702 verified the new workspace run, returned artifacts, Compute pane cloud job row, Notebook pane code/output provenance, zero console/page errors, and screenshots /tmp/feynman-modal-replication-run.png, /tmp/feynman-modal-replication-compute.png, and /tmp/feynman-modal-replication-notebook.png. git diff --check and full npm test passed (383/383) after the generated workspace artifacts landed.
- Next: Implement connector OAuth handshake beyond stored OAuth metadata, then wire NVIDIA hosted NIM calls when NVIDIA_API_KEY is available.

2026-07-01 19:48 PDT — open-science-workbench-connector-oauth

- Objective: Close the connector OAuth gap so custom science connectors can authenticate like the Claude Science connector surface instead of only storing OAuth metadata.
- Changed: Added local OAuth token and pending-state stores, PKCE start/callback/disconnect API routes, Customize/resource Connect/Reconnect/Disconnect OAuth actions, bearer-token injection for Streamable HTTP/SSE connector requests, and redacted OAuth diagnostics. Duplicate callback loads now return the already persisted token for recently completed states, so browser/provider retries do not turn a successful connection into a false state-missing failure page.
- Verified: Focused OAuth/connector/settings tests passed (12/12), including PKCE exchange, duplicate callback idempotence, disconnect cleanup, redacted diagnostics, and bearer Authorization forwarding into MCP requests. Fresh browser smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6194/projects/workspace/frames/modal-replication-demo?token=oauth-clean-smoke-20260702 completed a real Customize OAuth popup/callback through a local provider, reloaded the route, showed Disconnect OAuth, captured /tmp/feynman-oauth-connector-smoke.png, restored settings/token files, and recorded zero browser console or failed-response errors. git diff --check, npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and full npm test passed (385/385).
- Next: Wire NVIDIA hosted NIM calls once NVIDIA_API_KEY is present, and visually verify Diff/Restore on the next real snapshot-backed mutation.

2026-07-01 19:52 PDT — open-science-workbench-diff-restore-visual

- Objective: Close the remaining visual verification gap for artifact version Diff/Restore controls on a real snapshot-backed workspace artifact.
- Changed: No product code changed in this slice. The smoke temporarily added a valid JSON field to outputs/modal-replication-demo/summary.json, used the live browser UI to open the artifact Versions pane, clicked Diff, clicked Restore, and let the workbench record the restore action through the existing artifact-version path.
- Verified: Fresh browser smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6196/projects/workspace/frames/modal-replication-demo?token=VizUS6A9Y3ZzBRytMzwmCYhNpsvbyEX7 rendered the snapshot diff, restored the saved snapshot, and returned outputs/modal-replication-demo/summary.json to checksum 3c0ffb448e54595441e0ddb573dea95d9df3dc7358f5cdada824468fe897d6d0. Screenshots: /tmp/feynman-diff-restore-diff.png and /tmp/feynman-diff-restore-restored.png. Browser console and failed-response counts were zero.
- Next: Wire NVIDIA hosted NIM calls once NVIDIA_API_KEY is present.

2026-07-01 20:09 PDT — open-science-workbench-annotations

- Objective: Close the Claude Science artifact feedback loop where researchers mark an artifact and ask the agent to revise from that marked context.
- Changed: Added local artifact annotation persistence under .feynman/workbench/annotations.json, authenticated /api/artifact/annotation upsert/remove, artifactAnnotations in /api/state, annotation records attached to artifact versions, an Annotations tab in the artifact preview, selection-to-anchor capture for text previews, save/delete controls, and a revision-request bridge into the real chat composer. Workbench chat prompts now include matching artifact annotations so Pi sees saved revision notes during follow-up turns.
- Verified: Focused annotation/workbench tests passed (27/27) for storage, state/version exposure, API mutation, and prompt injection. Fresh browser smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6204/?token=hONlJxNcv4GEKynI7PKPtLhj2_7wmg9J saved a real annotation, verified state, populated the composer with the revision request, measured no annotation-panel horizontal overflow, captured /tmp/feynman-artifact-annotation-smoke.png, recorded zero browser errors, and removed the smoke annotation. Final gate passed: git diff --check, npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and full npm test (388/388).
- Next: Wire NVIDIA hosted NIM calls once NVIDIA_API_KEY is present.

2026-07-01 20:30 PDT — open-science-workbench-new-sessions

- Objective: Match Claude Science's project-local New session affordance so Feynman can start a blank research chat frame instead of only treating artifact groups as sessions.
- Changed: Persisted chat sessions now appear as first-class workbench runs with source: "chat" and status: "chat", project/session counts include chat-only frames, and the session rail has a New button backed by authenticated /api/chat/session/new. Blank frames navigate to /projects/<project>/frames/<session-id>, open with no selected artifact, and render an empty transcript rather than seeded artifact messages. The chat-run conversion and new-session tests live in split files to keep architecture limits intact.
- Verified: Re-drove the installed Claude Science example project and observed the real New project-session control before implementing. Focused new-session/workbench tests passed (26/26), and a fresh Playwright smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6204/?token=M_b2Y0RWVAlAphyYUMsHfwqWwt1ZBaqF clicked New, landed on /projects/workspace/frames/session-20260702032846-709a90, saw a chat session with 0 artifacts, rendered No transcript yet, confirmed zero active artifact rows and zero console errors, captured /tmp/feynman-new-session-smoke.png, and removed the temporary session file. Final gate passed: git diff --check, npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and full npm test (390/390).
- Next: Continue Claude Science parity on session files/lineage and richer chat-side approval or tool activity surfaces.

2026-07-01 21:02 PDT — open-science-workbench-files-session-tools-and-models

- Objective: Continue Claude Science parity by making Files a first-class project rail surface, making the chat transcript read like a science session with visible tools/agents/compute/review state, and adding a real model selector that routes into Pi instead of a cosmetic dropdown.
- Changed: Added Claude-style project rail actions (New, Customize, Files) and moved New out of the session header. The Files rail opens a project-wide artifact browser with search, source selector, grid/list toggles, grouped session sections, upload cards, thumbnails for image artifacts, and stable list fallback. Added transcript jump controls plus a bounded science-session tool shelf that renders real Feynman resources as grouped chips: research commands fill the composer, specialist chips update session config, connector chips open Customize, and compute chips open the Compute pane. Added a composer model-selector that defaults to Auto, can pin a provider/model value per session, persists through the chat config API, and passes that value to Pi as explicitModelSpec. Split new helpers into src/workbench/ui-client-science-tools.ts and src/workbench/ui-client-model-selector.ts so architecture stays green.
- Verified: Re-drove the installed Claude Science app, including dashboard/project/files/customize/session screenshots and route/API/testid traces, before implementing. Focused Files/New/model tests passed (8/8). Fresh Playwright smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6210/projects/workspace/frames/open-science-workbench?token=688ja4Amkp1ylwJt9uiaY7QZIHwqL3mW verified 4 tool groups, 22 real tool chips, visible bounded tool-shelf geometry, skill-chip-to-composer insertion, compute-chip right-pane switching, zero console errors, zero failed responses, and screenshot /tmp/feynman-science-session-tool-shelf.png. A second Playwright smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6210/projects/workspace/frames/open-science-workbench?token=Xxchw4rYq_Npb-aTOnU4dTYqB1CaiVe_ pinned openai/gpt-5.5, verified persisted session config, cleared back to Auto, recorded zero console/network errors, and captured /tmp/feynman-model-selector-smoke.png. Final gate passed: git diff --check, npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and full npm test (393/393).
- Next: Continue Claude Science parity on turn-level artifact opening, composer attachment/import affordances, and live tool/activity trace density.

2026-07-02 01:28 PDT — open-science-workbench-focused-layout-and-pdf-text

- Objective: Remove the crowded three-column workbench frame and move closer to Claude Science's focused project/chat plus artifact-drawer structure while adding document-grade PDF selection anchors.
- Changed: Reworked the active frame into a single centered science session column with the project sidebar hidden, the transcript capped, the composer visible in the first viewport, and the Files/artifact drawer below the chat instead of squeezing the chat from the side. Muted scrollbar styling and disabled horizontal page overflow. Added pdfjs-dist PDF text extraction through /api/file/pdf-text, split PDF/selection client scripts out of the preview bundle, rendered selectable PDF text pages under the PDF iframe, and persisted PDF annotation page/line/prefix metadata into Pi revision prompts.
- Verified: Live in-app browser on http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=Vw1tKOGiTyDv9WUylMEPsP07O3quWKKf measured composer input at 568-628.6px in a 720px viewport, drawer start at 655.6px, project sidebar display:none, zero horizontal overflow offenders, muted scrollbar colors, and zero console errors; screenshot /tmp/feynman-open-science-workbench-final.png. Live PDF route extracted 11 pages from outputs/scaling-laws.pdf without truncation. Focused annotation/files tests passed (7/7), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test passed (408/408).
- Next: Continue Claude Science parity by making live Pi tool/activity cards and artifact opening feel native inside the transcript, then wire remaining connector/tool approvals into the chat flow.

2026-07-02 01:50 PDT — open-science-workbench-claude-frame-density

- Objective: Correct the workbench structure back toward the installed Claude Science project frame after the focused single-column pass proved too unlike the reference and too crowded in practice.
- Changed: Added ui-style-frame.ts as the final layout override to restore the desktop left project rail, center transcript/composer, and right files/activity/preview split. Removed top-level page scrolling and horizontal overflow, wrapped the right-pane tabs instead of forcing a horizontal scrollbar, compacted the transcript execution plan to a single next-step card, compacted the research trace to one latest-artifact row, and made transcript tool groups open the right-side Activity pane filtered to tools.
- Verified: Live in-app browser on http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=hLeE2tyPWWPFMZ6A7ZsMKmwQCIiv8Ecj measured a 1280x720 three-pane frame with no horizontal overflow, document scroll height equal to viewport height, body overflow hidden, project/sidebar/conversation/right-pane heights all 664px, zero inline plan rows, one compact plan preview row, and one tool-group activity opener. Clicking the compact tool group switched the right pane to Activity, activated the Tools filter, showed two activity rows, and recorded zero console errors. Screenshots: /tmp/feynman-frame-final-rendered.png and /tmp/feynman-frame-activity.png. Gates passed: focused workbench HTML tests (2/2), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check; full npm test passed earlier in the slice before the final density compaction (408/408).
- Next: Continue Claude Science parity by making generated artifact tiles and open artifact tabs behave like the Claude right-pane tab strip, then wire viewport context from the active preview into chat turns.

2026-07-02 02:25 PDT — open-science-workbench-artifact-tabs-context

- Objective: Continue Claude Science parity by making the right pane behave like an artifact/file tab workspace and by giving chat turns the active preview context.
- Changed: Added open artifact tabs with active/close behavior, capped at eight paths, plus a viewportContext payload for chat, stream, and steer requests. Workbench prompts now include the active preview path, open artifact tabs, selected preview tab, right pane tab, and bounded previews for open text artifacts. The frame now uses a wider left rail, capped project switcher, single-row horizontally scrollable right-pane mode tabs, and compact right-pane file rows so artifacts are selectable without being clipped by the preview pane.
- Verified: Installed Claude Science source showed openTabs, activeTabId, artifact tab binding, and viewport_context as the reference behavior. Live in-app browser verified two artifact tabs could open, the active tab changed, closing the last tab reduced the count to 0, reset the preview header to Preview / ready, kept body/document overflow off, and kept the right mode tabs to a single 47px row. Latest served HTML on http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/active-plans/frames/code-organization-review?token=-L1Qfu5Blf4n_cSblY--q4Y6VL5qmc4w includes the new three-pane grid, compact right-pane file-row CSS, and explicit closeArtifactTab path. Gates passed: focused workbench tests (6/6), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (409/409).
- Next: Continue Claude Science parity on actual chat/tool execution affordances: streaming Pi tool calls into the transcript with less chrome, and making open artifact tabs feed every message turn while the user chats in the same project frame.

2026-07-02 02:52 PDT — open-science-workbench-transcript-tool-density

- Objective: Make the active Feynman frame feel like a Claude Science-style research chat instead of a crowded debug dashboard, especially around Pi/tool activity and visible scrollbars.
- Changed: Collapsed transcript tool events into a single compact bundle with an Activity jump, auto-opening only for approvals/errors. Collapsed the science session tool shelf into a 42px Session tools row with status chips, kept the full tool grid available behind the drawer, widened the center conversation by resizing the three-pane frame, hid the transcript scrollbar while preserving scroll, and fixed first-render transcript scroll so the Pi status card is not clipped on load.
- Verified: Live served frame at http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=PhwLFMn5VKpJ38mjTyAYHsa8xQVC4v1V rendered the center-first three-pane layout with scrollbarWidth: none, first-render scrollTop: 0, closed Session tools row at 42px, closed tool bundle at 48px, and visible Activity jump. Final screenshot kept at outputs/playwright/open-science-workbench-frame-1440-final.png. Gates passed: focused workbench tests (29/29), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (409/409).
- Next: Continue Claude Science parity on live chat execution: richer approval prompts, real running tool progress, and tighter message/artifact handoff while preserving the now-compact frame.

2026-07-02 03:34 PDT — open-science-workbench-frame-declutter-and-native-previews

- Objective: Correct the active Open Science Workbench frame after the visible UI still felt crowded, with too many transcript cards and exposed scrollbars compared with the Claude Science research-chat frame.
- Changed: Collapsed the transcript's trace, plan, and reviewer card stack into one compact Research state strip with Plan/Notebook/Review actions. Kept Files, Activity, Plan, and Notebook as primary right-pane modes and moved Library, Execution, Compute, Agent, and Provenance behind a More selector. Moved artifact preview secondary tabs behind a More selector. Hid internal transcript/right-pane/preview scrollbars while preserving scroll. Split the new research-state and science-preview code into dedicated modules so the architecture gate stays green. Added shared file-type handling plus genome, molecule, and mmCIF/PDB preview paths for science artifacts.
- Verified: Fresh server http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=k_oJ0u1Y9nwhiNSmJksAqtMOMZ0u3Wzg rendered a two-column frame with project-sidebar display:none, no horizontal overflow, body overflow:hidden, transcript/right-pane/preview scrollbarWidth:none, one Research state strip, zero rendered trace cards, zero rendered plan cards, zero rendered reviewer cards, one artifact tray, four primary right tabs plus More, preview More selector, zero console errors, zero failed responses, and screenshot outputs/playwright/open-science-workbench-frame-1440-final.png. Final gates passed: focused workbench tests (25/25), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (409/409).
- Next: Continue Claude Science parity on live chat/tool execution and live science connector/database execution.

2026-07-02 03:58 PDT — open-science-workbench-claude-quiet-frame

- Objective: Correct the still-crowded active frame against the live installed Claude Science app, whose first screen is a quiet project list and whose deeper project/session surfaces keep files and artifacts behind explicit workspace affordances.
- Changed: Reworked the active frame default into a centered 1016px session/chat column with no permanent right rail, hid the transcript header/Pi strip/science tool shelf/session action buttons from the first viewport, moved New, Files, and Workspace into the top bar, changed the right pane into a slide-in workspace drawer with Close, routed Files to the full artifact overlay, and split drawer behavior into src/workbench/ui-client-workspace.ts. Removed stale research-trace/reviewer-card client code after the compact Research state strip replaced those surfaces.
- Verified: Fresh server http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=j3xplTFrbdyk-FeWK2V1zPjonOH9zuo2 rendered the default frame with controlGrid: 1016px, conversationRect.width: 1016, right pane hidden off-canvas at x:1442, horizontalOverflow:0, bodyOverflowY:hidden, transcript header/Pi strip/science tools/session actions all display:none, and screenshot outputs/playwright/open-science-workbench-declutter-chat.png. The Workspace button opened the drawer at x:880, Close hid it again, and Files opened the full overlay with the drawer still hidden; screenshots: outputs/playwright/open-science-workbench-declutter-workspace.png and outputs/playwright/open-science-workbench-declutter-files.png. Gates passed: focused workbench tests (25/25), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (409/409).
- Next: Continue Claude Science parity on live chat/tool execution and live science connector/database execution.

2026-07-02 04:10 PDT — open-science-workbench-chat-frame-cleanup

- Objective: Remove the remaining visible crowding in the Claude-style active frame after the first quiet-frame pass still exposed internal Pi/tool noise and a bulky research-state block in the default chat.
- Changed: Filtered completed low-signal internal Pi session/tool events out of the default transcript while preserving active, failed, output-bearing, and approval-bearing tool events. Compacted Research state into a skinny status row with clickable state pills instead of duplicated action buttons. Reduced the session header to a quiet title row, tightened the frame vertical spacing, and made turn artifact cards smaller so the chat remains the first-viewport focus.
- Verified: Restarted the local workbench at http://127.0.0.1:6174/?token=gzldpwh2Jc93yqi2bS90P6Hlg-455Jkv and opened the patched frame in the in-app browser at /projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench. Headless browser metrics showed horizontalOverflow:0, bodyOverflowY:hidden, no visible scrollbars, a 44px session header, zero visible transcript tool groups, one compact state row, and screenshot outputs/playwright/open-science-workbench-quiet-v2.png. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, focused workbench tests (25/25), and full npm test (409/409).
- Next: Continue Claude Science parity on live science connector/database execution and richer running-tool/approval progress without reintroducing dashboard chrome.

- Objective: Move Feynman closer to Claude Science's bundled science database behavior by making core public database search executable from chat without requiring the user to add an MCP connector first.
- Changed: Added the read-only Pi tool feynman_science_database_search for PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, and ChEMBL. Workbench chat prompts now advertise the built-in database path even in a clean workspace, and the PubMed, Clinical Trials, and ChEMBL connector cards now show as configured built-in read-only sources with the executable tool listed.
- Verified: Focused tests passed for the new tool and prompt/resource exposure (10/10). A live smoke called the real public APIs and returned PubMed PMID 30684591 with DOI 10.1016/j.canlet.2019.01.017, ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04397926, and ChEMBL molecule CHEMBL941. The restarted workbench at http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=vDUiiuw3S85PVwK3gWt1M1PxEjxuL1Hp showed PubMed, Clinical Trials, and ChEMBL as CONFIGURED built-in database tools in Customize, kept horizontalOverflow:0, and returned to the quiet chat frame. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (412/412).
- Next: Continue on richer running-tool/approval progress without reintroducing dashboard chrome, then broaden the built-in database set beyond PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, and ChEMBL.

2026-07-02 04:43 PDT — open-science-workbench-tool-progress

- Objective: Make live Pi/tool activity read like Claude Science's scientific work log instead of a raw debug feed, while keeping the quiet chat frame and hidden scrollbars.
- Changed: The Pi stream mapper now keeps raw toolName for provenance and promotes human_description to the visible transcript label. Transcript tool groups now render one compact research-progress header, progress chips, plan/environment/artifact/database/code classification, human step summaries, and stripped argument details so the user sees Running ESMFold on IS621 sequence rather than raw bash/JSON noise.
- Verified: Focused workbench tests passed (25/25). Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (412/412). Fresh browser metrics on http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=fCnVsluWSNNZKc9Ieo2mHQSSdW4xuxgr showed horizontalOverflow:0, bodyOverflowY:hidden, transcript scrollbarWidth:none, one compact state row, and zero persisted transcript tool groups after removing the temporary smoke session. A non-persistent smoke frame rendered Claude-shaped tool progress with human labels, active/plan/artifact/environment chips, and screenshot outputs/playwright/open-science-workbench-tool-progress-smoke.jpg.
- Next: Broaden live science database/tool execution beyond PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, and ChEMBL, then improve PDF text-selection rectangle anchoring.

2026-07-02 04:55 PDT — open-science-workbench-expanded-databases

- Objective: Move the built-in database tool closer to Claude Science's broad science-search behavior without depending on custom MCP setup or anonymous APIs that are currently rate-limited.
- Changed: Expanded feynman_science_database_search from PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, and ChEMBL to seven no-setup public sources: PubMed, Europe PMC, Crossref, arXiv, DataCite, ClinicalTrials.gov, and ChEMBL. The tool now normalizes PMIDs/PMCIDs, arXiv IDs, DOIs, dataset DOI metadata, NCT IDs, ChEMBL IDs, citation counts, source URLs, and endpoint provenance. Customize marks all seven as configured built-in database tools, and the workbench prompt advertises the expanded source list.
- Verified: OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar anonymous searches were probed and returned rate-limit responses, so they were left out of the no-setup built-ins. Focused database/settings/context tests passed (11/11). Live tool smokes returned Crossref DOI 10.1089/crispr.2020.29090.ede, Europe PMC PMID 36357583, arXiv ID 2607.01232v1, and DataCite DOI 10.17632/ys4gwt7m6n.1. Browser state and Customize UI on http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=620MatmBZMg3AGe93SsO04HWZr1813aO showed all seven sources configured with feynman_science_database_search and horizontalOverflow:0. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (413/413).
- Next: Improve PDF text-selection rectangle anchoring, then add deeper specialty public databases where the API is stable enough for a no-setup built-in.

2026-07-02 05:22 PDT — open-science-workbench-pdf-text-selection-rectangles

- Objective: Make PDF selections behave like visible scientific artifact annotations rather than metadata-only line anchors.
- Changed: PDF text selections now capture selected rectangle coordinates from the extracted text layer, carry those coordinates through the refinement panel and annotation save API, render saved PDF text-selection markers as quiet green boxes over the selectable text, clear draft markers after save, and remove the nested scrollbar from the PDF text layer.
- Verified: Focused annotation/files tests passed (7/7), npm run typecheck, npm run build, git diff --check, and the full suite passed (413/413) before the final duplicate-marker cleanup, with focused tests/typecheck/build rerun afterward. Rebuilt browser smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6174/projects/workspace/frames/scaling-laws?token=Lnirs5Lc5QknwV1cOvC7N_W4hNf59kpt rendered one marker for a temporary annotation on outputs/scaling-laws.pdf, measured pdfLayerOverflowY: visible and horizontalOverflow:0, captured outputs/playwright/open-science-workbench-pdf-selection-marker-centered.jpg, and removed the temporary annotation afterward. The active Open Science Workbench frame also measured bodyOverflowY:hidden, no horizontal or vertical document overflow, transcript scrollbarWidth:none, zero visible tool groups, one compact state row, one artifact card, and the workspace drawer off-canvas.
- Next: Add deeper specialty public science sources where no-setup API behavior is stable enough, and keep exact PDF-renderer glyph anchoring as a later renderer-level improvement.

2026-07-02 08:54 PDT — react-shell-artifact-inspector

- Objective: Continue the React/Vite workbench migration by replacing the cramped raw artifact text dump with a Claude Science-shaped artifact inspector backed by Feynman's real version, execution, and verification state.
- Changed: Added workbench-web/src/artifacts.ts for artifact preview classification, CSV/TSV parsing, download URLs, byte formatting, and provenance selectors. The React Files panel now opens artifacts into Preview and Provenance modes with download/copy-path actions, bounded internal text scrolling, table/image/PDF/text preview paths, file metadata, version rows, execution rows, verification rows, and a wider/muted-scrollbar right rail.
- Verified: In-app browser smoke on http://127.0.0.1:51274/app-shell/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=cxf8y2kVEXs0PJs3Zjpv1WGORRRtWyfc selected the real Open Science Workbench artifact, verified the encoded download route, measured no document overflow, kept the panel scroller bounded, and rendered Provenance sections Versions, Execution, and Verification; screenshot outputs/playwright/feynman-react-shell-artifact-preview.png. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build:workbench-web, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, focused React shell tests (4/4), and full npm test (419/419).
- Next: Continue React/Vite parity on Files overlay parity, Customize mutations, notebook/compute panes, artifact edit/diff/restore actions, and annotation/refinement flows before flipping the default /projects/... route.

2026-07-02 09:02 PDT — react-shell-files-scope-browser

- Objective: Make the React Files surface behave like a project/workspace file browser instead of a cramped current-run-only list.
- Changed: Added workbench-web/src/files.ts for Run/Project/Workspace artifact scoping, scope counts, category counts, category filtering, and search filtering. The Files panel now renders compact scope tabs, category chips, run-aware file row metadata, and an internally scrolling artifact list that can handle the whole workspace without creating page overflow.
- Verified: In-app browser smoke on the React shell measured Project scope with 53 artifacts and Workspace scope with 202 artifacts, category filters including plan/data/visual/output groups, zero document overflow, side panel 410x720 at x=870, and empty app console warnings/errors; screenshot artifact saved at outputs/playwright/feynman-react-shell-files-scope.png. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build:workbench-web, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, focused React shell tests (5/5), and full npm test (420/420).
- Next: Continue React/Vite parity on full Files overlay/import/upload actions, Customize mutations, notebook/compute panes, artifact edit/diff/restore actions, and annotation/refinement flows before flipping the default /projects/... route.

2026-07-02 09:16 PDT — react-shell-artifact-edit-version-actions

- Objective: Bring Claude Science-style editable artifact history into the React/Vite shell without faking the behavior.
- Changed: Added React artifact action helpers for the existing authenticated /api/artifact/edit, /api/artifact/version/diff, and /api/artifact/version/restore contracts. The selected artifact inspector now has an Edit action for text artifacts, an inline textarea editor with Save/Cancel and disabled-save state, preview refresh after save, per-version Diff/Restore controls, and a bounded diff panel with added/removed counts.
- Verified: In-app browser smoke opened the real Open Science Workbench markdown artifact, loaded a 92 KB inline editor with Save disabled before changes and no document overflow, then selected outputs/modal-replication-demo/summary.json from Workspace scope and rendered a saved snapshot diff showing +1/-2, two Diff buttons, two Restore buttons, and no horizontal diff scroll. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build:workbench-web, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (421/421).
- Next: Continue React/Vite parity on full Files overlay/import/upload actions, Customize mutations, notebook/compute panes, and annotation/refinement flows before flipping the default /projects/... route.

2026-07-02 09:28 PDT — react-shell-files-overlay-import

- Objective: Bring Claude Science-style Files browsing and import into the React/Vite shell using the real Feynman attachment APIs.
- Changed: Added workbench-web/src/uploads.ts for attachment download/filter/preview helpers. The React shell now has a hidden multi-file input, composer and Files-panel Import controls, selectable upload rows, upload preview/download/remove actions, and a full-viewport Files overlay with scope tabs, search, category filters, upload rows, artifact rows, and shared selected preview behavior.
- Verified: Seeded a disposable react-import-smoke.csv through the authenticated /api/chat/attachment endpoint, reloaded the React shell, verified the visible upload row, preview text, exact download route, full overlay geometry, and no document overflow, then removed the upload through the React UI and confirmed the session had no smoke attachment left. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build:workbench-web, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, focused React shell tests (7/7), and full npm test (422/422).
- Next: Continue React/Vite parity on Customize mutations, notebook/compute panes, and annotation/refinement flows before flipping the default /projects/... route.

2026-07-02 09:39 PDT — react-shell-customize-actions

- Objective: Make the React Customize surface actionable instead of a read-only catalog.
- Changed: Added workbench-web/src/resources.ts for resource action derivation. React Customize cards now show metadata, diagnostics, tags, and actions for inserting Pi commands, selecting specialists, toggling package sources, removing stored settings records, and connector OAuth connect/disconnect.
- Verified: Browser smoke rendered 42 resource cards with 14 action buttons, inserted /skill:alpha-research into the composer, selected the Researcher specialist through /api/chat/config, measured no document overflow, then reset the session config back to Specialist None and reloaded the route to clear local composer text. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build:workbench-web, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, focused React shell tests (8/8), and full npm test (423/423).
- Next: Continue React/Vite parity on notebook/compute panes and annotation/refinement flows before flipping the default /projects/... route.

2026-07-02 10:41 PDT — standalone-feynman-correction

- Objective: Make Feynman stand alone while keeping Claude Science as a local reference/extraction source only.
- Changed: Removed the product path that registered Claude Science Bio MCP as a custom local connector and removed onboarding/settings dependence on ~/.claude-science. Onboarding now suggests and grants Feynman Bio Tools through builtin:feynman_science_database_search; the connector catalog leads with a configured Feynman-owned bio tools resource; the installed app is represented only as an internal reference diagnostic. Seed fixtures now live under outputs/open-science-seeds/ and scan as Open Science Seed Workflows. R runtime resolution no longer borrows the Claude Science private R conda env.
- Verified: Source/state grep found no banned connector/runtime strings after cleanup. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (427/427). Fresh server http://127.0.0.1:6224/app-shell/?token=open-science-standalone-20260702 showed onboarding Feynman Bio Tools, connector catalog headed by Feynman Bio Tools, Open Science Seed Workflows with 4 seed runs, no Claude Science Bio MCP, no horizontal overflow, and zero browser console errors. Screenshots: outputs/playwright/feynman-standalone-launcher.png, outputs/playwright/feynman-standalone-customize.png, and outputs/playwright/feynman-standalone-connectors.png.
- Next: Continue React/Vite parity on notebook/compute panes and annotation/refinement flows, with Claude Science used as a blueprint only.

2026-07-02 10:56 PDT — react-shell-notebook-lifecycle

- Objective: Bring the React/Vite Notebook pane up to the existing Feynman notebook/compute lifecycle instead of leaving it as a run-only editor.
- Changed: Added stable notebook job ids, active-state polling during notebook execution, a React Stop button backed by /api/compute/job/action, and a managed-environment form backed by /api/notebook/environment. The Notebook Env tab now exposes Python/R create/install controls, action output, session kernels, and environment rows inside the bounded right pane.
- Verified: Checked the relevant React controlled-form and Radix Tabs docs before changing the form/tab surface. Focused compute/environment/React tests passed (15/15). Browser smoke on http://127.0.0.1:60062/app-shell/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=react-notebook-lifecycle-20260702 rendered the Env controls, ran a disposable long Bash cell, observed the running compute job in /api/state, stopped it through React, rendered a stopped Compute row with Retry, measured no document overflow, and recorded zero console or failed-response errors. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (427/427). Screenshots: outputs/playwright/feynman-react-shell-notebook-lifecycle.png and outputs/playwright/feynman-react-shell-notebook-env.png.
- Next: Continue React/Vite parity on annotation/refinement flows, with Claude Science remaining a blueprint rather than a Feynman runtime dependency.

2026-07-02 11:18 PDT — react-shell-annotation-refinement

- Objective: Bring Claude Science-shaped artifact annotation and refinement into the React/Vite shell while keeping the implementation Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added workbench-web/src/artifact-refinement.ts for text-selection, annotation, suggest/apply, and diff helpers. The React artifact inspector now captures selected text from previews and unchanged editors, opens a bounded refinement panel, saves revision notes through /api/artifact/annotation, requests Ask/Draft edit suggestions through /api/artifact/refinement/suggest, applies edits through /api/artifact/refinement/apply, refreshes preview content, records version snapshots, and renders removable annotation rows in both the side Files panel and full Files overlay.
- Verified: Focused annotation/edit/React tests passed (21/21). Browser smoke in a temporary workspace selected Original claim., saved a Feynman annotation, generated a deterministic edit suggestion, applied it to the artifact file, verified a version record through /api/state, captured outputs/playwright/feynman-react-refinement-smoke.png, and reported zero console or failed-response errors. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (428/428).
- Next: Run exact React-vs-legacy parity checks and prepare the default /projects/... route flip, while keeping media-region React annotations and exact PDF glyph anchoring as separate artifact-preview follow-ups.

2026-07-02 11:48 PDT — react-shell-media-annotations

- Objective: Bring the React/Vite artifact inspector to parity with Feynman's existing image/PDF point-region annotation model without depending on Claude Science at runtime.
- Changed: Image and PDF previews now expose a React Annotate toolbar, point/drag-region capture, percent geometry and PDF page metadata, draft and saved media markers, annotation save/remove rows, and Use in chat composer insertion. Media artifacts now stay on the media preview path instead of fetching binary/PDF/image files through text preview.
- Verified: Focused React/refinement/annotation tests passed (16/16). Browser smoke in a temporary workspace saved an image region annotation and a PDF point annotation, verified persisted /api/state anchors, rendered saved markers, inserted the image annotation into chat, captured outputs/playwright/feynman-react-media-annotations.png, and reported zero console or failed-response errors. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (428/428).
- Next: Run exact React-vs-legacy parity checks and prepare the default /projects/... route flip, with exact PDF renderer glyph anchoring left as the artifact-preview follow-up.

2026-07-02 15:08 PDT — react-shell-default-route

- Objective: Make the React/Vite workbench the default Feynman product route instead of a side /app-shell preview.
- Changed: /, /index.html, /projects, and /projects/... now serve the authenticated React workbench index. /app-shell/... remains as a dev/smoke alias and asset namespace. React route helpers now parse and generate both default product paths and /app-shell alias paths, so navigation stays in the route family the user opened.
- Verified: Browser smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6244/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=... mounted the React shell at /projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench, loaded assets from /app-shell/assets, rendered Open Science Workbench and Files, reported no legacy shell, no document overflow, zero console errors, and zero failed responses; /app-shell/projects/... and / launcher also loaded. Screenshot: outputs/playwright/feynman-react-default-route-flip.png. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, focused React/server tests, and full npm test (429/429).
- Next: Continue post-flip React hardening on artifact action/menu parity and edge-case route/browser behavior, with exact PDF renderer glyph anchoring left as the artifact-preview follow-up.

2026-07-02 18:26 PDT — react-artifact-action-menu

- Objective: Close the post-flip React artifact action/menu gap using Feynman-owned APIs and keep Claude Science as a reference only.
- Changed: The React artifact inspector now exposes Star/Unstar, Hide/Unhide, Rename, Delete/Restore, View context, Copy link, Export metadata, and configured cloud export. Hidden/deleted artifacts render a bounded recovery list in the side Files panel and full Files overlay, artifact links select via ?artifact=..., and metadata export includes version, execution, annotation, check, preview, and link context.
- Verified: Focused helper/API tests passed (14/14). Browser smoke in a disposable workspace on /projects/workspace/frames/react-action-smoke selected from the artifact query link, starred, renamed, opened context, copied a deep link, downloaded metadata, exported to a configured local target, verified the cloud export ledger, hid/unhid, deleted/restored, reloaded the copied link, measured no horizontal overflow, and recorded zero console errors and zero failed responses. Screenshot: outputs/playwright/feynman-react-artifact-actions-smoke.png. Gates passed: git diff --check, npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and full npm test (429/429).
- Next: Continue post-flip React hardening on live Pi/tool approval progress, less common route/action edge cases, and shrinking legacy string-rendered shell code once direct callers are covered.

2026-07-02 18:47 PDT — react-tool-approval-progress

- Objective: Bring live Pi/tool progress and connector approval cards into the default React workbench without introducing any Claude Science runtime dependency.
- Changed: Added workbench-web/src/tool-activity.ts for Feynman-owned tool-event normalization, status labels, connector approval scope parsing, and permission-record creation. The React transcript now shows compact research-activity cards with bounded payload details, turns pending connector grants into inline Allow tool, Block, Allow connector, and Open Permissions actions, and writes decisions through the existing /api/resources/settings endpoint.
- Verified: Rechecked the installed Claude Science bundle for inline tool/approval structure and Feynman's Pi stream/connector grant code for the actual event contract. Browser smoke in a disposable workspace rendered a complete feynman_science_database_search event and a pending feynman_connector_call approval, clicked Allow tool, observed /api/resources/settings return 200, verified /api/state contained connector:lab-mcp:search_pubmed | allow, measured no horizontal overflow, and recorded zero console errors and zero failed responses. Screenshot: outputs/playwright/feynman-react-tool-activity-smoke.png. Gates passed: git diff --check, npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, focused React/connector tests (20/20), and full npm test (430/430).
- Next: Continue post-flip React hardening on route/browser edge cases, post-approval retry/continuation, and legacy string-rendered shell retirement once direct callers are covered.

2026-07-02 18:54 PDT — react-tool-approval-retry

- Objective: Let an approved connector call continue from the same activity card after Pi stops on the approval gate.
- Changed: Added a Retry approved tool action for approved connector cards. It sends a normal streamed chat continuation through the same authenticated path as the composer, including connector name, tool name, grant scope, and original arguments. Refactored the React send path into sendChatText so form submit and approval retry share optimistic transcript, steer-while-busy, stream parsing, and state refresh behavior.
- Verified: Browser smoke in a disposable workspace rendered a pending Local Lab MCP approval, allowed it, retried from the approved card, verified the second streamed user message carried Grant: connector:lab-mcp:search_pubmed, verified the second assistant response rendered a successful Run Local Lab MCP search_pubmed event with PMID 98765, confirmed /api/state still held the allow grant, measured no horizontal overflow, and recorded zero console errors and zero failed responses. Screenshot: outputs/playwright/feynman-react-tool-retry-smoke.png. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, focused React/connector tests (20/20), and full npm test (430/430).
- Next: Continue post-flip React route/browser edge-case hardening and retire legacy string-rendered shell code only after direct callers are covered.

2026-07-02 19:04 PDT — react-route-canonicalization

- Objective: Harden default React project/frame routes before retiring legacy shell code.
- Changed: Added state-backed route canonicalization in workbench-web/src/routes.ts and wired React initial load plus browser back/forward to resolve stale /projects/:projectId/frames/:runSlug links. Known routes stay stable, stale frame slugs fall back to the project primary run, unknown projects fall back to the default workbench route, invalid ?artifact= queries are stripped, and valid artifact deep links are preserved on the canonical route.
- Verified: Browser smoke in a disposable workspace opened a stale run with an invalid artifact query and observed replacement to /projects/workspace/frames/route-smoke, then opened a stale run with ?artifact=outputs%2Froute-smoke.md and observed replacement to /projects/workspace/frames/route-smoke?artifact=outputs%2Froute-smoke.md with the artifact inspector selected. No horizontal overflow, zero console errors, and zero failed responses. Screenshot: outputs/playwright/feynman-react-route-canonical-smoke.png. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, focused React tests (13/13), and full npm test (431/431).
- Next: Audit direct callers of the legacy string-rendered shell and retire or shrink only the covered legacy paths.

2026-07-02 19:17 PDT — react-legacy-shell-retirement

- Objective: Remove the obsolete string-rendered workbench shell now that authenticated product routes serve the React/Vite workbench.
- Changed: Converted the last renderWorkbenchHtml static test into a React source/CSS contract test covering Files, artifact recovery/actions, refinement, media annotations, chat tool activity, connector approvals, Notebook, Compute, and Customize. Deleted the orphaned src/workbench/ui.ts, src/workbench/ui-client-, and src/workbench/ui-style- legacy shell modules. Production now has one workbench UI path: src/workbench/static-shell.ts serving the Vite app and /app-shell/assets.
- Verified: Import scan found no remaining renderWorkbenchHtml, WORKBENCH__SCRIPT, WORKBENCH__STYLES, ui-client-, or ui-style- references in source/tests/workbench-web. Focused React/source tests passed (15/15), combined workbench/server tests passed (38/38), and full npm test passed (431/431). Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check. Temp Chrome smoke on http://127.0.0.1:6255/projects/active-plans/frames/open-science-workbench?token=... loaded /app-shell/assets/index-C7ZTOfMm.js, rendered .app-shell, opened the React Files overlay, found no legacy .dashboard-view/.control-view DOM, measured no horizontal overflow, and recorded zero console errors and zero failed responses. Screenshot: outputs/playwright/feynman-react-legacy-retirement-smoke.png.
- Next: Deepen Feynman-owned variant/clinical database coverage beyond gnomAD, keeping exact PDF renderer glyph anchoring as the later artifact-preview follow-up.

2026-07-02 19:36 PDT — feynman-owned-variant-databases

- Objective: Deepen the standalone Feynman Bio Tools connector with owned variant/clinical database coverage instead of depending on Claude Science at runtime.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-variants.ts with ClinVar, dbSNP, and CADD adapters behind feynman_science_database_search. ClinVar uses NCBI ESearch/ESummary and normalizes VCV/RCV-style accessions, review status, genes, locations, rsIDs, and supporting submissions. dbSNP uses NCBI Variation Services RefSNP lookup and normalizes placements, HGVS/SPDI alleles, frequencies, ClinVar cross-references, citations, and gene context. CADD uses the official single-SNV API with explicit version parsing and RawScore/PHRED output. Runtime prompt context, Settings resources, and Feynman Bio Tools source counts now include ClinVar, dbSNP, and CADD.
- Verified: Official ClinVar/E-utilities, NCBI Variation Services, and CADD API docs were checked, with installed Claude Science modules used only as reference structure. Focused mocked database/context/settings tests passed (14/14). Live API smoke through the actual tool returned one normalized ClinVar record for APOE rs7412, one dbSNP record for rs7412, and one CADD record for GRCh38-v1.7 19-44908822-C-T. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (432/432).
- Next: Continue deeper Feynman-owned variant utilities: HGVS/SPDI normalization, structural/mitochondrial variant lookup, batch variant handling, and cancer/clinical curation sources.

2026-07-02 19:52 PDT — feynman-owned-hgvs-spdi-normalization

- Objective: Turn the next Claude Science-style variant utility into a Feynman-owned science source instead of a runtime dependency on the local reference app.
- Changed: Added the variation source to feynman_science_database_search for NCBI Variation Services HGVS/SPDI normalization. The tool now accepts HGVS or SPDI input, supports optional assembly=..., returns contextual SPDI, canonical representative SPDI when available, right-shifted HGVS, VCF fields, RSIDs when available, endpoint provenance, and scoped warnings for recoverable endpoint failures. Settings and runtime context expose it as NCBI Variation Services under Feynman Bio Tools.
- Verified: Official NCBI Variation Services OpenAPI docs and the NCBI SPDI/HGVS service example were checked. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (14/14). Live smoke through the actual Feynman tool returned HGVS contextual/canonical output for NM_000518.4:c.27dupG; SPDI smoke for NC_000001.10:12345:0:C returned contextual/canonical SPDI, HGVS, VCF fields, and an RSID warning instead of failing. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (432/432).
- Next: Continue Feynman-owned variant coverage with structural-variant, mitochondrial-variant, batch-variant, and cancer/clinical curation flows.

2026-07-02 20:00 PDT — feynman-owned-batch-hgvs-normalization

- Objective: Add responsible batch variant normalization to the Feynman-owned science connector instead of leaving HGVS/SPDI parity at one variant per call.
- Changed: The variation source now accepts newline- or semicolon-separated HGVS lists and calls NCBI Variation Services POST /hgvs/batch/contextuals once. Batch results preserve input order, per-input HGVS validity, contextual SPDI objects/strings, endpoint provenance, truncation state, and optional assembly parameter. SPDI remains single-input because the public batch endpoint is HGVS-specific.
- Verified: Official NCBI Variation OpenAPI batch docs were checked and a live POST with two HGVS expressions returned valid contextual SPDI rows. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (14/14) including the exact POST body. Live Feynman-tool smoke returned NM_000518.4:76:G:GG and NC_000001.10:12344:T:A for a two-item batch. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (432/432).
- Next: Continue Feynman-owned variant coverage with structural-variant, mitochondrial-variant, and cancer/clinical curation flows.

2026-07-02 20:16 PDT — feynman-owned-gnomad-sv-mitochondrial

- Objective: Close the structural-variant and mitochondrial-variant parity gap with Feynman-owned gnomAD GraphQL code, using Claude Science only as a local reference.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-gnomad.ts and routed source: "gnomad" through it. The tool now supports rsID/short variant search, direct short variant lookup, gene constraint, sv:<gene>, sv-id:<id> or raw SV IDs, mito:<gene>, mito:<start>-<stop>, and mito-id:<id> or raw M-... IDs. Structural consequence genes are bounded with geneCount and genesTruncated to keep chat output usable. Runtime prompt context and Settings resources now describe gnomAD short/SV/mitochondrial fields, including heteroplasmy.
- Verified: Official gnomAD browser/API source and live GraphQL probes confirmed the gnomad_sv_r4 structural and gnomad_r4 mitochondrial query families. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (14/14). Live Feynman-tool smoke returned TP53 SVs from gnomad_sv_r4, chrM 1-50 mitochondrial variants with M-3-T-C and maxHeteroplasmy: 0.997, and single mitochondrial variant M-3243-A-G with rs199474657. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (432/432).
- Next: Continue Feynman-owned cancer/clinical curation sources; keep exact PDF renderer glyph anchoring as the artifact-preview follow-up.

2026-07-02 20:33 PDT — feynman-owned-civic-cancer-curation

- Objective: Add the next cancer/clinical curation slice as Feynman-owned code, with Claude Science kept as a reference source only.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-civic.ts and routed source: "civic" through feynman_science_database_search. The tool now searches CIViC molecular profiles, accepted evidence items, accepted assertions, and exact Entrez gene records through CIViC's public GraphQL API. Runtime prompt context, Settings resources, and Feynman Bio Tools source lists now preserve CIViC profile/evidence/assertion ids, AMP levels, evidence levels, diseases, therapies, and PubMed-backed source URLs.
- Verified: CIViC API docs/GraphiQL/help pages and live public GraphQL probes confirmed the query families. Focused database/context/settings tests passed (15/15) after splitting CIViC coverage into tests/science-database-civic.test.ts, keeping the shared science database test under the hard architecture cap. Live Feynman-tool smoke for BRAF V600E returned accepted evidence count 94, assertion AID7, 109 accepted evidence items, and PubMed source https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23031422/. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (433/433).
- Next: Continue exact PDF renderer glyph anchoring, then add broader Feynman-owned clinical/canceromics utilities where public APIs are stable enough.

2026-07-02 20:56 PDT — react-pdf-renderer-glyph-anchoring

- Objective: Replace the raw PDF iframe with Feynman-owned PDF.js rendering and exact page-local text/region anchors, using Claude Science only as a reference for behavior.
- Changed: Added a React PdfArtifactPreview backed by bundled pdfjs-dist, the PDF.js worker asset, rendered page canvases, selectable text layers, same-page selection capture, line/prefix inference, saved highlight rectangles, and per-page region annotation overlays. Annotation persistence, exported artifact metadata, and Pi prompt context now carry rects arrays in addition to page, line, and bounding-box coordinates. PDF text selections are saved as durable artifact annotations and chat context rather than pretending binary PDFs are inline-editable text artifacts. The static workbench server now serves .mjs assets as JavaScript so the bundled PDF worker loads in Chromium.
- Verified: Official PDF.js examples and the installed pdfjs-dist 6.1.200 API/types were checked, while the installed Claude Science PdfPreview bundle was used only as a reference shape. Focused annotation/refinement/source tests passed (21/21). Headless rendered browser smoke in a disposable workspace loaded the real React workbench, rendered one PDF canvas and text layer, selected TP53 responder signal, saved a PDF text annotation, re-rendered one saved highlight, persisted a rectangle-backed page/line anchor, measured no document overflow, and recorded zero console warnings/errors. Screenshot: outputs/playwright/feynman-react-pdf-renderer-smoke.png. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (433/433).
- Next: Continue broader Feynman-owned clinical/canceromics utilities where public APIs are stable enough; keep NVIDIA hosted execution blocked until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-02 21:12 PDT — feynman-owned-cbioportal-canceromics

- Objective: Add the next broader clinical/canceromics utility as Feynman-owned code, using Claude Science only as a local reference and extraction source.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-cbioportal.ts and routed source: "cbioportal" through the existing feynman_science_database_search tool. The source now supports cBioPortal study search, exact study detail with sample/patient counts and molecular profiles, cancer-type lookup, sample listing, clinical-attribute listing, and bounded gene mutation rows via cBioPortal's public REST API. Settings/Customize now lists cBioPortal as a configured Directory source, backs the Cancer Models preset with the built-in source, and runtime prompt context preserves cBioPortal study IDs, cancer type IDs, molecular profile IDs, sample/patient IDs, gene symbols, Entrez IDs, mutation coordinates, protein changes, source URLs, and endpoint provenance.
- Verified: Official cBioPortal API docs and live /api/v2/api-docs/REST probes confirmed the study, profile, clinical-attribute, sample, cancer-type, gene, and mutation-fetch route shapes. The installed Claude Science cbioportal_studies module was used only as reference structure. Focused mocked cBioPortal/context/settings tests passed (10/10), focused science database tests passed (9/9), and live Feynman-tool smoke returned melanoma study search results, msk_impact_2017 detail with 10945 samples and mutation/CNA/SV profiles, plus BRAF mutation rows with total count 592. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (435/435).
- Next: Continue broader Feynman-owned clinical/canceromics utilities with ClinGen, Open Targets, DepMap download-compatible paths, and COSMIC-compatible public routes where stable/no-setup access exists.

2026-07-02 21:23 PDT — feynman-owned-open-targets-clinical-genomics

- Objective: Add Open Targets as a Feynman-owned clinical-genomics source for target-disease-drug evidence, without exposing a raw Claude Science GraphQL connector or requiring ~/.claude-science.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-open-targets.ts and routed source: "opentargets" through feynman_science_database_search. The source supports entity search, exact target records with associated diseases and clinical candidates, disease records with associated targets and clinical candidates, disease-target and disease-drug focused modes, drug mechanism records, and bounded target-disease evidence rows. Settings/Customize now lists Open Targets as a configured Directory source and backs the Human Genetics preset with the built-in source. Runtime prompt context now preserves Open Targets Ensembl IDs, EFO/MONDO IDs, ChEMBL drug IDs, association scores, datasource IDs, clinical stages, mechanisms/action types, source URLs, and endpoint provenance.
- Verified: Official Open Targets GraphQL docs and live public GraphQL probes confirmed search, target, disease, drug, disease-target, disease-drug, and evidence query shapes. The installed Claude Science mcp_clinical_genomics/open_targets.py and wrapper tools were used only as reference structure. Focused mocked Open Targets/context/settings tests passed (10/10), focused science database tests passed (11/11), and live Feynman-tool smoke returned BRAF melanoma search hits, BRAF target disease/candidate context, cancer-associated targets, bevacizumab mechanism, and BRAF-melanoma evidence rows. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (437/437).
- Next: Continue broader Feynman-owned clinical/canceromics utilities with ClinGen, DepMap download-compatible paths, and COSMIC-compatible public routes where stable/no-setup access exists.

2026-07-02 21:38 PDT — feynman-owned-clingen-clinical-curation

- Objective: Add ClinGen as a Feynman-owned clinical curation source for gene validity, dosage sensitivity, actionability, and VCEP variant classifications without depending on the local Claude Science runtime.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-clingen.ts and routed source: "clingen" through feynman_science_database_search. Plain gene queries such as BRCA1 now assemble a ClinGen summary; focused modes include validity:BRCA1, dosage:BRCA1, region:ISCA-..., actionability:BRCA1 adult, classifications:BRCA1, caid:CA003681, cv:55607, and hgvs:NM_007294.4:c.5509T>G. Settings/Customize now lists ClinGen as a configured Directory source, and runtime context preserves CGGV assertion IDs, HGNC IDs, MONDO IDs, dosage labels, actionability document IDs, CAIDs, ClinVar variation IDs, evidence codes, expert panels, source URLs, and endpoint provenance.
- Verified: Official ClinGen File Downloads & APIs, Actionability API wiki, ERepo API wiki, and terms/citation page were checked; the installed Claude Science clingen_curations module was used only as reference structure. Focused mocked ClinGen/context/settings tests passed (11/11), combined science database tests passed (14/14), and live Feynman-tool smoke returned BRCA1 validity, dosage, ERepo classification, and HGVS classification records. The actionability host returned a transient nginx 502 during direct live probes, and Feynman now returns bounded warnings for that endpoint instead of failing the whole source. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (440/440).
- Next: Evaluate DepMap download-compatible paths and COSMIC-compatible public routes; implement only the public/no-setup source that returns useful bounded evidence.

2026-07-02 21:50 PDT — feynman-owned-depmap-cosmic-canceromics

- Objective: Add DepMap/COSMIC-compatible clinical-canceromics sources as Feynman-owned code, using Claude Science only as a local reference and avoiding account-gated runtime dependencies.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-depmap.ts and extensions/research-tools/science-database-cosmic.ts, then routed source: "depmap" and source: "cosmic" through feynman_science_database_search. DepMap uses the public Sanger Cell Model Passports JSON:API for model search/detail, model lists, gene lookup, and gene-scoped CRISPR dependency rows. COSMIC uses the public NLM Clinical Tables COSMIC route for bounded mutation search with GRCh37/38 selection. Settings/Customize now lists DepMap and COSMIC as configured Directory sources, and runtime context preserves COSMIC mutation IDs, legacy/genomic mutation IDs, COSG/COSO IDs, GRCh versions, mutation fields, primary site/histology, PubMed IDs, DepMap SIDM/SIDG/HGNC IDs, tissue/cancer type labels, model availability flags, dependency scores, source URLs, and endpoint provenance.
- Verified: Official Sanger DepMap API docs, Cell Model Passports Swagger JSON, NLM Clinical Tables COSMIC docs, and COSMIC licensing/access pages were checked; the installed Claude Science depmap_models module was used only as reference structure. The Broad DepMap download-file index currently returns a Turnstile verification page to command-line fetches, so it was not shipped as a no-setup built-in runtime dependency. Focused mocked DepMap/COSMIC/context/settings tests passed (10/10), combined science database tests passed (16/16), and live Feynman-tool smoke returned SNU-1033 / SIDM00192, Large Intestine, Colorectal Carcinoma, BRAF / SIDG02491, a BRAF@SIDM00192 dependency row, and COSMIC BRAF V600E mutation 224203145 with PubMed IDs. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (442/442).
- Next: Continue hosted NVIDIA execution once NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally or deepen long-tail artifact preview/action states.

2026-07-05 00:26 EDT — cancer-models-named-tool-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science reference cancer-models bio-tool stub while keeping Feynman standalone and Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added exact reference-name query modes for the cancer-models domain inside feynman_science_database_search. cBioPortal now accepts cbioportal_list_studies, cbioportal_get_study, cbioportal_clinical_attributes, cbioportal_mutations_in_gene, cbioportal_mutation_frequency, and cbioportal_cna_in_gene; DepMap now accepts list_models, get_model, search_models, search_genes, and gene_dependencies. The cBioPortal adapter now implements cross-study mutation frequency and discrete CNA event retrieval through the public cBioPortal REST API with endpoint provenance.
- Verified: Installed Claude Science mcp_cancer_models, cbioportal_studies, and depmap_models were used only as local reference structure; official cBioPortal REST API docs and Swagger were checked for the public API surface. Focused cBioPortal/DepMap/COSMIC tests passed (6/6), broader science database tests passed (61/61), full npm test passed (558/558), root/workbench typecheck passed, root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages), architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check passed, and npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 390, shasum f22f0e0e879917dc03ebfc3ec41936b88b1bcc49. The gap manifest now marks cancer-models done and updates Bio Tool coverage to 78 done / 169 stub / 0 missing.
- Next: Continue the remaining stubbed bio-tool domains, starting with the highest-impact chemistry or expression domain exact-name probes.

2026-07-05 00:54 EDT — chemistry-named-tool-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science reference chemistry bio-tool stub while keeping Feynman standalone and Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added exact reference-name query modes for the chemistry domain inside feynman_science_database_search. PubChem now accepts pubchem_search_compounds, pubchem_get_compounds, pubchem_similarity_search, pubchem_get_bioassay_summary, and pubchem_get_safety; ChEBI accepts chebi_search, chebi_get_entity, and chebi_get_ontology; BindingDB accepts bindingdb_ligands_by_target and bindingdb_targets_by_compound; Rhea accepts rhea_search_reactions and rhea_get_reaction. Updated README, release notes, website workbench docs, command metadata, prompt guidance, and the 1:1 parity trackers.
- Verified: Installed Claude Science mcp_chemistry, pubchem_compounds, chebi_ontology, and rhea_reactions were used only as local reference structure; official PubChem PUG REST/PUG View, ChEBI API, BindingDB REST, and Rhea REST/SPARQL docs were checked for the public API surface. Focused PubChem/ChEBI/BindingDB/Rhea tests passed (12/12), broader science database tests passed (65/65), full npm test passed (562/562), root/workbench typecheck passed, root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages), architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings only after moving chemistry out of science-database-reference-parity.ts, git diff --check passed, and npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 391, shasum 2db740ee9b525d9e26ca20478635f70528e1a93b. The gap manifest now marks chemistry done and updates Bio Tool coverage to 90 done / 157 stub / 0 missing.
- Next: Continue the remaining stubbed bio-tool domains, likely clinical-genomics or expression exact-name probes.

2026-07-05 01:23 EDT — clinical-genomics-named-tool-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science reference clinical-genomics bio-tool stub while keeping Feynman standalone and Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added exact reference-name query modes for CIViC, ClinGen, and Open Targets inside feynman_science_database_search. CIViC now accepts civic_search_genes, civic_gene_variants, civic_get_variant, civic_search_variants, civic_get_evidence_item, civic_search_evidence, civic_get_assertion, civic_search_assertions, civic_get_molecular_profile, civic_search_molecular_profiles, civic_search_diseases, and civic_search_therapies; ClinGen accepts clingen_gene_validity, clingen_dosage_sensitivity, clingen_actionability, and clingen_variant_classifications; Open Targets accepts open_targets_graphql, open_targets_disease_drugs, open_targets_disease_targets, and open_targets_drug. Updated README, release notes, website workbench docs, command metadata, prompt guidance, and the 1:1 parity trackers.
- Verified: Installed Claude Science mcp_clinical_genomics, civic_evidence, and clingen_curations were used only as local reference structure; official CIViC GraphQL, ClinGen API/download, and Open Targets GraphQL docs were checked for the public API surface. Focused CIViC/ClinGen/Open Targets tests passed (9/9), broader science database tests passed (68/68), full npm test passed (565/565), root/workbench typecheck passed, root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages), architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check passed, and npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 391, shasum be0f60dc0dbc10675b3066f171c843de63571e59. The gap manifest now marks clinical-genomics done and updates Bio Tool coverage to 110 done / 137 stub / 0 missing.
- Next: Continue the remaining stubbed bio-tool domains, likely expression or genes-ontologies exact-name probes.

2026-07-05 02:09 EDT — expression-named-tool-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science reference expression bio-tool stub while keeping Feynman standalone and Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Split GTEx into extensions/research-tools/science-database-gtex.ts and added exact reference-name query modes for GTEx dataset info, tissue sites, sample info, gene resolution, median expression, expression summaries, gene-expression rows, top expressed genes, eGene rows, single-tissue eQTLs, multi-tissue eQTLs, and dynamic eQTL checks. Added exact PanglaoDB query aliases for marker genes, gene-to-cell-type lookup, and options over the existing checksum-verified marker TSV. Updated README, release notes, website docs, command metadata, prompt guidance, and the 1:1 parity trackers.
- Verified: Installed Claude Science mcp_expression, gtex_expression, and panglaodb_markers were used only as local reference structure; official GTEx API docs and PanglaoDB marker pages were checked for the public API/source-data surface. Focused expression tests passed (2/2) for all 15 exact reference expression tool names, broader science database tests passed (70/70), full npm test passed (567/567), root/workbench typecheck passed, root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages), architecture check passed with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check passed, and npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 392, shasum e032f14333d14dcfd666b0e1543c3ced566b39ce. The gap manifest now marks expression done and updates Bio Tool coverage to 125 done / 122 stub / 0 missing.
- Next: Continue the remaining stubbed bio-tool domains, likely genes-ontologies or genomes exact-name probes.

2026-07-02 22:03 PDT — react-science-artifact-previews

- Objective: Bring React artifact previews closer to Claude Science’s scientific artifact behavior without relying on Claude Science runtime code.
- Changed: Added native React inspector previews for sequence/FASTA, genome/variant interval files, molecule files, and PDB/mmCIF structure files. The preview parsers live in workbench-web/src/artifacts.ts, and the React inspector now renders compact stats, chips, and row tables for those artifact kinds instead of falling back to raw text.
- Verified: Focused React shell tests passed (13/13) with FASTA/VCF/SDF/PDB parser coverage. A disposable workbench server rendered FASTA, VCF, SDF, and PDB artifacts through Playwright CLI screenshots waiting on .science-preview: outputs/playwright/feynman-react-science-preview-fasta.png, outputs/playwright/feynman-react-science-preview-vcf.png, outputs/playwright/feynman-react-science-preview-sdf.png, and outputs/playwright/feynman-react-science-preview-pdb.png. Gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and full npm test (442/442).
- Next: Continue hosted NVIDIA execution once NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally or deepen remaining long-tail artifact action/viewer states.

2026-07-02 22:16 PDT — standalone-reference-boundary

- Objective: Make the Claude Science local install a blueprint/debug input only, not a default runtime or product resource.
- Changed: Normal Settings/Customize resource builds no longer read or display the local Claude Science install. The reference extractor is now gated behind FEYNMAN_DEBUG_CLAUDE_SCIENCE_REFERENCE=1 or true, and the unused extractor field that assembled a Claude Science local MCP server command was removed. The default product resource path starts with Feynman Bio Tools and remains backed by builtin:feynman_science_database_search.
- Verified: Focused settings/React tests passed (16/16) and assert the default resource build exposes Feynman Bio Tools first with no visible Claude Science resource. Source grep found no Claude Science Bio MCP, operon-mcp, run_server.py, .claude-science/conda, or bioConnectorCommand path in src/, tests/, workbench-web/, or extensions/ beyond the explicit debug extractor and reference-only test.
- Next: Continue hosted NVIDIA execution once NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally or deepen remaining long-tail artifact action/viewer states.

2026-07-03 — react-rdkit-3dmol-science-viewers

- Objective: Replace the text-only molecule/structure preview gap with Feynman-owned scientific renderers, using Claude Science only as the reference shape.
- Changed: Added workbench-web/src/science-viewers.tsx with lazy RDKit.js SVG rendering for SMILES/MOL/SDF and lazy 3Dmol WebGL rendering for MOL/SDF/PDB/mmCIF/CIF. Added the bundled RDKit WASM asset path, served .wasm as application/wasm, and kept the existing compact parser/stat cards above the visual render panes.
- Verified: Official RDKit.js and 3Dmol docs were checked before coding. Focused React/source tests passed (15/15), npm run typecheck:workbench-web, npm run build:workbench-web, and npm run typecheck passed before browser smoke. Disposable-workspace Playwright smoke rendered caffeine SMILES, ethanol SDF, and a mini PDB with ready RDKit/3Dmol panes, horizontalOverflow:0, nonblank renderer screenshots, a correctly served RDKit_minimal-*.wasm response, and no failed responses. A 390px mobile smoke also passed for RDKit and 3Dmol with zero horizontal overflow and nonblank render panes. Final gates passed: git diff --check, npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and full npm test (442/442). Screenshots: outputs/playwright/feynman-rdkit-smiles-preview.png, outputs/playwright/feynman-rdkit-3dmol-sdf-preview.png, outputs/playwright/feynman-3dmol-pdb-preview.png, outputs/playwright/feynman-rdkit-smiles-mobile.png, and outputs/playwright/feynman-3dmol-pdb-mobile.png.
- Next: Add Claude-style 3Dmol viewer mode controls for structure artifacts, then continue hosted NVIDIA execution once NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally or deepen remaining long-tail artifact action/viewer states.

2026-07-03 — react-3dmol-viewer-controls

- Objective: Close the next Claude Science structure-viewer gap by giving Feynman's 3Dmol pane real display modes instead of a single fixed render style.
- Changed: Added a compact in-pane 3Dmol toolbar. Structure previews now support Cartoon, Stick, Sphere, Surface, Line, and Reset; molecule 3D previews support Ball, Stick, Sphere, Line, and Reset. Surface mode uses 3Dmol's VDW surface path with a Feynman-green tint, and the controls wrap within the artifact pane on narrow screens.
- Verified: Installed 3Dmol README/types were checked for setStyle, supported style families, addSurface, and SurfaceType.VDW. Focused React/source tests passed (15/15), npm run typecheck:workbench-web, and npm run build:workbench-web passed. Disposable-workspace Playwright smoke clicked Cartoon, Surface, Line, and Reset on a PDB artifact, verified the active mode/status, measured horizontalOverflow:0, recorded zero failed responses, and confirmed a nonblank visibly green Surface render. A 390px mobile smoke verified the toolbar wraps to two rows with zero horizontal overflow. Final gates passed: git diff --check, npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, focused React/source tests (15/15), and full npm test (442/442). Screenshots: outputs/playwright/feynman-3dmol-pdb-surface-controls.png, outputs/playwright/feynman-3dmol-pdb-surface-render.png, and outputs/playwright/feynman-3dmol-pdb-controls-mobile.png.
- Next: Continue hosted NVIDIA execution once NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally or deepen remaining long-tail artifact action/viewer states.

2026-07-03 — science-skill-pack-parity

- Objective: Close the bundled science-skill catalog gap while keeping Claude Science as a local reference only and Feynman as the standalone product.
- Changed: Added Feynman-owned skill entries for the reference-shaped science app structure: structure prediction, protein design, regulatory genomics, single-cell analysis, figure and paper workflows, PDF exploration, indication dossiers, compute setup, Modal/SSH remote compute, managed endpoints, endpoint use, customization, skill creation, product self-knowledge, and session self-awareness. Added outputs/.plans/claude-science-1to1.md as the hard parity tracker for the active 1:1 goal.
- Verified: Added tests/skill-paths.test.ts coverage that requires the Feynman-owned science workbench skill pack and rejects local reference-runtime path leakage inside those skills. Two focused invocations both covered the full suite and passed (443/443 each). Gates passed: git diff --check, npm run typecheck, npm run build, and npm run architecture:check.
- Next: With no NVIDIA_API_KEY present locally, continue the next fully verifiable 1:1 slice: richer Feynman-owned seed workflow fixtures or remaining long-tail artifact action states.

2026-07-03 — ketcher-chemistry-editing-parity

- Objective: Close Claude Science-style molecule editing parity while keeping Feynman standalone and Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added a lazy standalone Ketcher editor to the molecule artifact preview using ketcher-react and ketcher-standalone. SMILES/MOL/SDF artifacts can be opened in Ketcher, exported, and saved through Feynman's artifact edit/version endpoint. The Ketcher loader now shims browser global only for that dependency, and Save is separated from Copy so clipboard permission failures cannot block persistence. The backend editable artifact policy now accepts the same previewable science text formats used by the workbench scanner.
- Verified: npm run typecheck, npm run build, source/workbench tests (443/443), and molecule edit regression tests (444/444) passed. Disposable-workspace Playwright smokes verified onboarding-created project/session state, selected outputs/ethanol.smi, opened Ketcher, rendered SVG content with no horizontal document overflow, saved SMILES through /api/artifact/edit with HTTP 200, and downloaded final artifact content as CCO. Screenshot: outputs/playwright/feynman-ketcher-editor-smoke.png.
- Next: Continue the 1:1 goal with richer Feynman-owned seed workflow fixtures or remaining long-tail artifact action states while hosted NVIDIA execution remains blocked on missing NVIDIA_API_KEY.

2026-07-03 — html-report-artifact-preview-parity

- Objective: Close the scientific HTML report preview gap exposed by the packaged CRISPR seed workflow and Feynman's own graph/report artifacts.
- Changed: .html and .htm are now first-class previewable artifact extensions with text/html content types and html language metadata. The React artifact classifier now routes HTML reports to a dedicated sandboxed iframe preview instead of the raw text preview, and the Files side panel uses the wider science-artifact layout for HTML reports so self-contained science reports are readable in place.
- Verified: Full npm test passed (452/452). Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and npm pack --dry-run (321 files). Disposable-workspace browser smoke opened outputs/design_report.html at /projects/workspace/frames/design_report, verified the iframe rendered CRISPR Kinome Design Report with two table rows, kept sandbox="", used the widened side panel, measured no horizontal overflow (1440/1440), recorded zero console/page/request failures, and captured outputs/playwright/feynman-html-report-preview.png.
- Next: Continue the active 1:1 parity goal on concrete remaining artifact/viewer gaps, especially tree/NPY/NPZ-class science artifacts, while hosted NVIDIA execution remains blocked on missing NVIDIA_API_KEY.

2026-07-03 — phylogenetic-tree-artifact-preview-parity

- Objective: Close the phylogenetic tree artifact gap exposed by the packaged extremophile seed workflow while keeping the viewer Feynman-owned.
- Changed: .nwk, .newick, .tree, .treefile, and .iqtree are now previewable text artifacts with Newick/IQ-TREE metadata. The React artifact classifier routes them to a tree science preview, extracts embedded Newick from IQ-TREE reports, parses branch/leaf/support statistics with patristic, and renders an interactive TidyTree SVG viewer with horizontal, vertical, circular, weighted, tree, dendrogram, labels, and reset controls. The integration avoids TidyTree's old d3.event recenter path and keeps React-owned loading text out of the imperative SVG mount node.
- Verified: Full npm test passed (452/452). Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, and npm pack --dry-run (323 files). Disposable-workspace browser smoke opened the owned outputs/open-science-seeds/example_extremophile/nif3_rooted.nwk seed artifact at /projects/workspace/frames/example_extremophile, rendered TidyTree NEWICK | 45 leaves | horizontal weighted with 89 circles and 89 paths, switched to circular mode, toggled labels without removing geometry, measured no horizontal overflow (1440/1440), recorded zero console/page/request failures, and captured outputs/playwright/feynman-tidytree-newick-preview.png.
- Next: Continue the active 1:1 parity goal on concrete remaining artifact/viewer gaps, especially NPY/NPZ tensor-like science artifacts, while hosted NVIDIA execution remains blocked on missing NVIDIA_API_KEY.

2026-07-03 02:18 PDT — intake-sweep-clean-queue-validation

- Objective: Run the recurring Feynman intake sweep against live GitHub issues, PRs, branches/forks, release state, package freshness, and local validation without disturbing the active dirty workbench/science-viewer slice.
- Checked: Open issues were #182 (feynman alpha login) and #184 (thesis-help request); open PR list was empty. #182 stays deferred to the alphaXiv/alpha-hub callback boundary unless a fresh Feynman-local repro appears; #184 is outside Feynman's AI-researcher repo/product bar and needs no code change. origin only has main and fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning; recent public forks checked were identical to main or behind it, with no ahead contributor branch. Latest GitHub release and npm package remain v0.3.5 / 0.3.5; bundled Pi packages are current at 0.80.3; @companion-ai/alpha-hub remains current at 0.1.3.
- Verified: Gates passed: npm run architecture:check, npm run typecheck, npm run build, full npm test (452/452), root npm audit --omit=dev, website npm run lint, website npm run typecheck, website npm run build, website npm audit --omit=dev, git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run --json, actual npm pack --json, and temp installed-tarball smoke for feynman --version, feynman --help, and feynman alpha status. The first package dry run failed because an earlier package process was still installing into ignored .feynman/npm; after that process finished, the rerun passed.
- Next: No intake-sweep code change is needed. Continue the active workbench/science-viewer lane separately; keep future sweeps read-only unless a queue item reproduces as a Feynman-local research-loop defect.

2026-07-03 — json-artifact-preview-parity

- Objective: Close the JSON seed-artifact viewer gap exposed by the packaged open-science workflows while keeping Feynman standalone and library-backed.
- Changed: Added JSON/JSONL as a first-class React artifact preview kind. The preview uses react-json-view-lite, structured JSON.parse/JSONL parsing, summary stats, top-level key chips, invalid JSONL line reporting, and Summary/Expand/Collapse tree modes. Artifact deep links now open the Files panel on mobile only when an artifact is explicitly linked, so JSON deep links render without undoing the chat-first mobile frame.
- Verified: Focused JSON/React shell tests passed (16/16) with classifier/parser coverage for real seed top5.json, real seed signature_genes.json, JSONL records, and invalid-line reporting. Disposable-server browser smoke opened outputs/open-science-seeds/example_enzyme_engineering/top5.json, rendered JSON artifact preview, clicked Expand and Summary, showed 5 items and 46 nodes, measured no horizontal overflow on desktop (1280/1280) or mobile (390/390), recorded zero console/page/request failures, and captured outputs/playwright/feynman-json-preview.png, outputs/playwright/feynman-json-preview-focused.png, and outputs/playwright/feynman-json-preview-mobile.png. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (455/455), and npm pack --dry-run (323 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps from reference and seed-workflow probes.

2026-07-03 03:18 PDT — composer-action-menu-parity

- Objective: Match the Claude Science composer action structure while keeping the actions Feynman-owned and backed by the existing workbench APIs.
- Changed: Replaced the loose file/open controls in the React composer with a compact plus menu containing Attach files, Your files, View plan, Request review, and Save as skill. The closed composer now keeps the reference-shaped visible controls: plus, @ artifact reference, # session reference, / command insertion, and send/stop. View plan opens or generates a local workbench plan artifact through /api/chat/plan/generate; Request review dispatches the existing /api/chat/review/request path; Save as skill inserts /skill:skill-creator.
- Verified: Focused composer/source tests passed (17/17), npm run typecheck:workbench-web, npm run build:workbench-web, and git diff --check passed before the browser smoke. Fresh disposable-server Playwright smoke opened the owned seed workflow route, verified the closed composer controls, opened the plus menu with labels in order, inserted /skill:skill-creator, opened the Files overlay from Your files, generated and opened outputs/.plans/example_enzyme_engineering.workbench-plan.json from View plan, measured no horizontal overflow on desktop (1280/1280) or mobile (390/390), recorded zero console/page/request failures, and captured outputs/playwright/feynman-composer-action-menu.png, outputs/playwright/feynman-composer-view-plan.png, and outputs/playwright/feynman-composer-action-menu-mobile.png. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (455/455), and npm pack --dry-run (323 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps from reference and seed-workflow probes.

2026-07-03 03:35 PDT — session-model-menu-parity

- Objective: Match the Claude Science session/model control-plane shape in the React topbar while keeping model selection Feynman-owned and state-backed.
- Changed: Added a model-status snapshot to authenticated workbench state using Feynman's existing model catalog and CLI auth/settings paths. The React topbar now exposes a Model menu with Default, the top available authenticated model specs, and More models; it also exposes Session options for Delegation, Auto-review, Memory, Specialist, and Compute. Menu actions persist through /api/chat/config, so selected specialist/model/session toggles flow into the Pi prompt and launch path instead of being visual-only.
- Verified: Focused source/API tests passed (12/12) and assert the visible model/session controls plus /api/state model status. A first Playwright smoke caught a real layout bug where the model menu covered the session button; the topbar was fixed to keep two menu buttons on one row and ellipsize the title. Fresh disposable-server Playwright smoke then verified both topbar buttons, model menu, session options, state-backed current/recommended model data, desktop/mobile no-overflow measurements (1280/1280, 390/390), zero console/page/request failures, and screenshots outputs/playwright/feynman-model-menu.png, outputs/playwright/feynman-session-options-menu.png, and outputs/playwright/feynman-session-options-menu-mobile.png. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (456/456), and npm pack --dry-run (323 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps from reference and seed-workflow probes.

2026-07-03 03:53 PDT — plan-control-plane-parity

- Objective: Match Claude Science's awaiting-plan-approval product structure with a Feynman-owned actionable plan artifact surface.
- Changed: Generated feynman.workbenchPlan.v1 artifacts now render as first-class workbench plans instead of generic JSON. The React artifact inspector shows plan status, feasibility, task summary, execution steps, linked artifact chips, Approve/Reject/Reopen controls, and per-step Pending/Running/Complete/Blocked controls. The controls call /api/chat/plan/action and /api/chat/plan/step, updating the durable plan file and chat session through existing Feynman APIs.
- Verified: Focused source/API tests passed (25/25). Fresh rebuilt-server Playwright smoke opened View plan on the seed workflow route, verified the plan preview, clicked Approve, verified Reopen, returned the plan to awaiting_approval, measured no horizontal overflow on desktop (1280/1280) or mobile (390/390), recorded zero console/page/request failures, and captured outputs/playwright/feynman-plan-preview.png, outputs/playwright/feynman-plan-preview-approved.png, and outputs/playwright/feynman-plan-preview-mobile.png. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (456/456), and npm pack --dry-run (323 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps from reference and seed-workflow probes; hosted NVIDIA execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 04:07 PDT — launcher-queue-parity

- Objective: Match the Claude Science dashboard now-zone structure with a standalone Feynman launcher queue.
- Changed: Added a Research queue to the React launcher. It derives Plan ready, Needs revision, Running/Queued, Failed/Stopped, Completed/Verified cards from Feynman's generated plans and compute jobs. Plan-ready cards open the matching project/session with the generated plan artifact already selected, so awaiting approval is visible before entering a frame and actionable after click-through.
- Verified: Focused source/web checks passed. Fresh rebuilt-server Playwright smoke verified the launcher Research queue, one Plan ready card, six queue cards, click-through into the plan artifact, no horizontal overflow on desktop (1280/1280) or mobile (390/390), zero console/page/request failures, and screenshots outputs/playwright/feynman-launcher-queue.png, outputs/playwright/feynman-launcher-queue-plan-open.png, and outputs/playwright/feynman-launcher-queue-mobile.png. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (456/456), and npm pack --dry-run (323 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps from reference and seed-workflow probes; hosted NVIDIA execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 04:19 PDT — dashboard-command-palette-parity

- Objective: Match the Claude Science dashboard command palette while keeping search and routing Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added a global Search command palette to the React launcher and workbench. mod+k and the visible Search button open a grouped modal over Feynman's projects, sessions, artifacts, and New project action. Artifact rows use durable filenames and deep-link into the selected artifact viewer with artifact= preserved in the route.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science bundle was checked for DashboardCommandPalette, mod+k, grouped projects/results, Search projects, artifacts, sessions..., and a New project row. Focused source tests passed, npm run typecheck:workbench-web passed, and npm run build:workbench-web passed. Fresh rebuilt-server Playwright smoke verified keyboard open, visible Search open, plddt.npy artifact search, click-through to outputs/open-science-seeds/example_enzyme_engineering/plddt.npy, rendered tensor preview, desktop/mobile no-overflow (1280/1280, 390/390), mobile palette width 370px, zero console/page/request failures, and screenshots outputs/playwright/feynman-command-palette.png, outputs/playwright/feynman-command-palette-artifact-open.png, and outputs/playwright/feynman-command-palette-mobile.png. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (456/456), and npm pack --dry-run (323 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps from reference and seed-workflow probes; hosted NVIDIA execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 04:46 PDT — msa-alignment-preview-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science MSA/alignment preview gap using Feynman-owned artifact classification and a packaged viewer dependency.
- Changed: Added msa as a first-class React artifact kind. Feynman now detects aligned FASTA content plus dedicated alignment extensions, parses FASTA/CLUSTAL/Stockholm/plain alignment rows, computes sequence/column/gap/conserved/variable/consensus stats, and renders a Nightingale-backed alignment canvas with a Feynman-owned label rail so the drawer opens readable and green-styled.
- Verified: @nightingale-elements/[email protected] package source was checked for the web-component contract. Focused React/source tests passed (18/18 after splitting MSA coverage into its own file), npm run typecheck passed, npm run build passed, npm run architecture:check passed, and git diff --check passed. Fresh rebuilt-server Playwright smoke opened outputs/open-science-seeds/example_extremophile/nif3_aligned.fasta, verified 45 sequences, 488 columns, 42.3% gaps, the first label row at the stage origin, Nightingale custom element registration, 2 canvases, color switch to nucleotide, desktop/mobile no body overflow, zero console/page failures, and screenshots outputs/playwright/feynman-msa-preview-panel-final.png, outputs/playwright/feynman-msa-render-stage-final.png, outputs/playwright/feynman-msa-preview.png, and outputs/playwright/feynman-msa-preview-mobile.png. Final gates passed: full npm test (457/457) and npm pack --dry-run (324 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps from reference and seed-workflow probes.

2026-07-03 05:13 PDT — compute-provider-control-plane-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science compute-provider control-plane gap while keeping Modal, NVIDIA, SSH, Pi, and local providers Feynman-owned and standalone.
- Changed: Promoted compute providers into canonical workbench state with enabled/checked state, tier, detail, diagnostics, tool metadata, and actions. The Compute pane Providers tab now shows Local Workspace, Pi Research Agents, Artifact Provenance, Modal, NVIDIA BioNeMo NIM, and configured SSH hosts with persisted Enable/Disable controls and SSH removal. Provider preferences are saved in .feynman/workbench/settings.json; disabled SSH hosts drop out of runtime context, and disabled model endpoints are marked disabled for Pi prompts. Settings/Customize now reads the same canonical providers instead of duplicating Modal/NVIDIA/SSH rows.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science bundle was checked for useComputeProviders, provider checked state, provider details/probing, SSH add/remove, inference-provider remove, and managed endpoint stop actions. Focused gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run architecture:check, npm run build, git diff --check, and 47 targeted workbench tests. In-app browser smoke opened /projects/seed-workflows/frames/example_enzyme_engineering, rendered the Compute Providers tab with 5 provider rows, Modal, NVIDIA BioNeMo NIM, feynman_model_endpoint_call, NVIDIA_API_KEY, Session enabled state, action buttons, zero console errors, and no horizontal overflow (1280/1280); metrics are saved at outputs/playwright/feynman-compute-provider-control.json. Final gates passed: full npm test (458/458) and npm pack --dry-run (326 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 parity gaps from reference and seed-workflow probes. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 05:31 PDT — model-endpoint-compute-history-parity

- Objective: Close the managed-endpoint history gap from the Claude Science compute-provider reference without adding any runtime dependency on ~/.claude-science.
- Changed: Added a Feynman-owned endpoint usage scanner that reads outputs/model-endpoints/*.provenance.md sidecars and promotes saved hosted/self-hosted model endpoint calls into the workbench compute timeline and execution ledger. Endpoint records now carry provider, model, endpoint URL, auth source, status, sequence length, output format, command, provenance path, and output artifacts; the Compute tab shows them beside notebook and Modal jobs.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science bundle was checked for useComputeProviders, removeInferenceProvider, managed endpoint invalidation, and stopManagedEndpoint. Focused tests passed for hosted ESMFold output, missing hosted credential failure, self-hosted AlphaFold2 output, Modal job preservation, and endpoint-history promotion (5/5). npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, and git diff --check passed. A temporary-workspace browser smoke opened /projects/workspace/frames/model-endpoints, verified Model endpoint: ESMFold, NVIDIA BioNeMo NIM, 200 OK, no horizontal overflow (1440/1440), and zero console errors; metrics are saved at outputs/playwright/feynman-model-endpoint-compute-frame.json. Final gates passed: full npm test (459/459) and npm pack --dry-run (327 files).
- Next: Continue only on the next concrete reference/seed parity gap. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 05:40 PDT — capabilities-directory-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science capabilities/connectors directory gap while keeping Feynman standalone and Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Reworked the React Customize panel into a full capabilities directory instead of a capped sampler. It now shows catalog counts, search, status filters, group filters, diagnostics, tool chips, and tag chips across Skills, Connectors, Specialists, Memory, Compute, Network, Permissions, Credentials, Storage, Usage, and General. Feynman Bio Tools remains the visible science connector; no normal product path depends on ~/.claude-science.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science bundle was checked for its capabilities/connectors/skills/permissions shelf, connector directory tiles, and research model skill directory copy. Focused React/resource tests passed (16/16). Temporary-workspace browser smoke verified Customize renders 119 resource cards across 9 groups, including Feynman Bio Tools, Open Targets, Clinical Trials, and ZINC; search for Open Targets keeps feynman_science_database_search visible, no horizontal overflow appears (1440/1440), and browser console errors stayed at zero. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build:workbench-web, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (460/460), and npm pack --dry-run (327 files).
- Next: Continue only on the next concrete reference/seed parity gap. Hosted NVIDIA ESMFold execution remains credential-gated until NVIDIA_API_KEY exists locally.

2026-07-03 06:48 PDT — transcript-annotations-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science transcript annotation/bookmark gap while keeping transcript state Feynman-owned and usable by the Pi-backed research loop.
- Changed: Added .feynman/workbench/transcript-annotations.json, state.transcriptAnnotations, summary.transcriptAnnotationCount, authenticated /api/transcript/annotation mutations, Pi prompt context injection for saved transcript bookmarks, and compact chat UI controls for bookmarking a message, rendering the saved anchor/note, using it in chat, and removing it.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for transcript_annotations, and the reference bundle was checked for AnnotatableBlock, text-annotation anchor/highlight test ids, and detached bookmark hooks. Focused transcript/server/source tests passed. Disposable-workspace browser smoke clicked Bookmark transcript message, rendered the bookmark row with Use in chat and Remove, verified one transcript annotation in /api/state, measured no horizontal overflow (1440/1440), and recorded zero console errors or failed requests. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (466/466), and npm pack --dry-run (332 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 06:55 PDT — frame-system-prompts-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science frame_system_prompts structural gap while keeping prompt snapshots Feynman-owned and tied to the local workbench state.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/frame-system-prompts.ts, state.frameSystemPrompts, and web type exports. Each Feynman chat frame now carries a stable standalone-Feynman prompt contract, dynamic workspace/project/session/config/resource context, SHA-256 payload hash, and update timestamp through /api/state.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for frame_system_prompts schema and payload shape. Focused state/server tests passed for stable boundary text, dynamic project/frame/config/model/resource context, and 64-character hashes. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (468/468), and npm pack --dry-run (333 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 07:05 PDT — directory-attachments-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science directory_attachments structural gap while keeping connector attachment state Feynman-owned and derived from Feynman's own connector catalog/settings.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/directory-attachments.ts, state.directoryAttachments, web type exports, and sanitized custom connector settingsRecord metadata for assigned specialists, excluded tools, and stored timestamps. Configured built-in/package/custom connectors now expose stable server UUIDs, agent names, local user id, connector kind/source/status, excluded tools, tool names, and created timestamps through /api/state.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for directory_attachments schema and row shape. Focused connector/settings tests passed for built-in PubMed/Feynman Bio Tools rows, no Claude Science product-source leakage, custom Lab MCP rows split across Researcher and Verifier, excluded-tool preservation, stable UUID shape, and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: focused tests (14/14), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (470/470), and npm pack --dry-run (334 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 07:14 PDT — mcp-tool-grants-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science mcp_tool_grants structural gap while keeping approvals and grants backed by Feynman's own permission settings.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/mcp-tool-grants.ts, state.mcpToolGrants, and web type exports. Permission grants now expose Claude-style rows with deterministic grant UUIDs, local user id, server id, tool name, decision, source scope, optional description, settings record id, and created timestamp through /api/state.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for mcp_tool_grants schema and row shape. Focused grant/connector/settings tests passed for connector grant parsing, built-in tool grant parsing, stable UUID shape, local user id, decision/source preservation, and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: focused tests (16/16), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (472/472), and npm pack --dry-run (335 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 07:45 PDT — custom-mcp-ledgers-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science custom_mcp_servers and mcp_agent_assignments structural gap while keeping connector runtime behavior backed by Feynman's own custom connector settings.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/custom-mcp-ledgers.ts, src/workbench/mcp-ledgers.ts, src/workbench/mcp-types.ts, state.customMcpServers, and state.mcpAgentAssignments. Custom connectors now expose Claude-style server rows with stable UUIDs, local user id, name, description, URL/transport/OAuth/header metadata, source, resource identifier, settings record id, and timestamps; assigned specialists now expose per-agent assignment rows with excluded-tool lists. src/workbench/types.ts was split back under the 800-line warning threshold.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for both schemas and row shapes. Focused custom MCP/connector/settings/grant tests passed for remote Streamable HTTP rows, local command rows, OAuth/header metadata, stable UUIDs, default feynman assignment, Researcher/Verifier assignments, excluded-tool preservation, and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: focused tests (18/18), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (474/474), and npm pack --dry-run (338 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 08:14 PDT — skill-agent-ledgers-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science custom_skills, agent_skill_assignments, and custom_agent_prompts structural gap while keeping skills and specialists Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/skill-ledgers.ts, src/workbench/skill-types.ts, state.customSkills, state.agentSkillAssignments, and state.customAgentPrompts. Project skills//SKILL.md now expose Claude-style custom skill rows with stable UUIDs, local user id, name, description, content snapshot, source, path, and timestamps. The same skills produce default feynman assignment rows, and .feynman/agents/.md now expose custom agent prompt rows through /api/state.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for all three reference schemas and row shapes. Focused state/server tests passed for custom skill content, deterministic UUIDs, default skill assignment, custom agent prompt capture, and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: focused tests (28/28), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (476/476), and npm pack --dry-run (340 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 10:23 PDT — artifact-folders-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science artifact_folders structural gap while keeping Files organization derived from Feynman's own projects, runs, and artifacts.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/artifact-folders.ts, src/workbench/ledger-types.ts, src/workbench/state-ledgers.ts, and state.artifactFolders. Feynman now exposes one User Uploads folder per project plus conversation folders for project runs, with stable UUIDs, project ids, root frame ids, sort order, folder-role flags, artifact counts, and timestamps. The scanner now uses a shared state-ledger aggregator for artifact folders, MCP ledgers, and skill ledgers, reducing src/workbench/scan.ts to 1193 lines.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for artifact_folders schema and local rows. Focused ledger/server tests passed for user-upload folders, conversation folders, stable UUIDs, run/root-frame linkage, artifact counts, timestamps, and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: focused tests (33/33), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (478/478), and npm pack --dry-run (343 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 10:32 PDT — user-agents-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science user_agents structural gap while keeping the default agent profile Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/user-agents.ts, expanded src/workbench/ledger-types.ts, and added state.userAgents. Feynman now exposes a default FEYNMAN user-agent profile derived from .feynman/SYSTEM.md and local skill rows, including stable UUID, local user id, display name, description, system prompt, icon/color keys, tags, sorted skill names, enabled state, tombstones, unrestricted flag, and timestamps through /api/state.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for user_agents schema and the local default OPERON row. Focused tests passed for the Feynman user-agent row, system prompt capture, skill list derivation, stable UUIDs, enabled/tombstone/unrestricted fields, timestamps, and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: focused tests (31/31), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (480/480), and npm pack --dry-run (344 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 10:42 PDT — capability-settings-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science capability_settings structural gap while keeping capability state derived from Feynman's own Settings/Customize resources.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/capability-settings.ts, expanded src/workbench/ledger-types.ts, and added state.capabilitySettings. Feynman now emits Claude-style user/kind/key/enabled/updated rows from resource groups and compute provider state, including disabled compute providers, denied permission grants, configured allowed domains, settings record ownership, source/status metadata, and timestamps through /api/state.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB and migration were checked for the capability_settings schema. Focused tests passed for resource-derived rows, disabled nvidia-bionemo, configured allowed-domain ownership, denied permission-grant disable state, timestamps, and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: focused tests (10/10), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (482/482), and npm pack --dry-run (345 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 10:49 PDT — host-grants-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science host_grants structural gap while keeping file-access grants derived from Feynman's own research artifact boundaries.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/host-grants.ts, expanded src/workbench/ledger-types.ts, and added state.hostGrants. Feynman now emits Claude-style host grant rows for outputs, papers, notes, and CHANGELOG.md, with stable UUIDs, local user id, absolute host paths, mount names, rw artifact modes, ro lab-notebook mode, source labels, existence flags, and timestamps through /api/state.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB and migrations were checked for the host_grants schema and mode column. Focused tests passed for stable UUIDs, local user id, absolute host paths, mount modes, timestamps, and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: focused tests (8/8), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (484/484), and npm pack --dry-run (346 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 10:58 PDT — compute-providers-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science compute_providers structural gap while keeping provider records derived from Feynman's own compute control plane.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/compute-provider-records.ts, expanded src/workbench/ledger-types.ts, and added state.computeProviders. Feynman now emits Claude-style compute provider rows with provider name/display name, family, memory markdown, environments, memory revision, scratch roots, schedulers, probe timestamps, data roots, SSH overrides, enabled state, scratch-root source, home, inference config, app/modal names, egress policy, status, tier, and settings ownership through /api/state.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for the compute_providers schema. Focused tests passed for local workspace rows, disabled nvidia-bionemo, NVIDIA inference config/data roots, SSH scheduler/scratch root/overrides, settings ownership, and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: focused tests (10/10), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (486/486), and npm pack --dry-run (347 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 11:08 PDT — compute-usage-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science compute_usage and compute_pending_terminate structural gap while keeping usage rows derived from Feynman's own notebook/model endpoint compute history.
- Changed: Expanded src/workbench/compute-usage.ts, src/workbench/ledger-types.ts, and state with computeUsage and computePendingTerminates. Feynman now emits Claude-style compute usage rows with stable ids, job ids, environment, tier, provider, frame/project ids, started/ended timestamps, active-job expiry timestamps, and status. Pending termination rows now expose sandbox id, provider, enqueue timestamp, attempts, job id, remote handle when present, and pending status through /api/state.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for the compute_usage and compute_pending_terminate schemas. Focused tests passed for running usage rows without endedAt, stopped usage rows with endedAt, provider/frame/project mapping, active expiry timestamps, and Modal pending-terminate rows. Final gates passed: focused tests (5/5), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (486/486), and npm pack --dry-run (347 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 11:16 PDT — memory-categories-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science memory_categories structural gap while keeping memory categories derived from Feynman's own settings.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/memory-categories.ts, expanded src/workbench/ledger-types.ts, and added state.memoryCategories. Feynman now emits Claude-style memory category rows with stable ids, local user id, name, lowercased unique name, guidance, auto-recall state, created/updated timestamps, and settings record ownership through /api/state.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for the memory_categories schema. Focused tests passed for settings-derived category rows, stable UUID shape, lowercased names, guidance, auto-recall state, timestamps, settings ownership, and authenticated settings mutation returning the ledger through state. Final gates passed: focused tests (8/8), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (486/486), and npm pack --dry-run (348 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 11:25 PDT — cloud-credentials-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science cloud_credentials structural gap while keeping credentials derived from Feynman's own Settings/Cloud export credential references.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/cloud-credentials.ts, expanded src/workbench/ledger-types.ts, and added state.cloudCredentials. Feynman now emits Claude-style cloud credential rows with stable ids, local user id, provider, name, credential type, env-backed encrypted credential reference, safe default bucket/container metadata, created/updated timestamps, status, env var, and settings ownership through /api/state without exposing raw credential values or cloud target secrets.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for the cloud_credentials schema. Focused tests passed for configured local export rows, missing S3 rows, stable UUID shape, env-reference payloads, default bucket parsing, status, timestamps, settings ownership, and authenticated cloud-export API state exposure. Final gates passed: focused tests (8/8), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (486/486), and npm pack --dry-run (349 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 11:34 PDT — managed-endpoints-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science managed_endpoints structural gap while deriving endpoint rows from Feynman's own runtime model endpoint inventory.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/managed-endpoints.ts, expanded src/workbench/ledger-types.ts, and added state.managedEndpoints. Feynman now emits Claude-style managed endpoint rows with name, URL, port, credential name, skill name, start/stop scripts, readiness path, approved script hash, state, state-changed timestamp, last error, created timestamp, registered-by metadata, provider, models, and sanitized credential status through /api/state.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for the managed_endpoints schema, and the reference bundle was checked for hosted/managed endpoint registration and detail rendering. Focused tests passed for the NVIDIA BioNeMo/NIM endpoint row, HTTPS port/live path parsing, credential name, claimed skill, empty hosted start/stop scripts, stable 64-character approved hash, missing-credential stopped state, present-credential live state, registered-by metadata, model list, timestamps, and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: focused tests (8/8), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (487/487), and npm pack --dry-run (350 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 11:41 PDT — oauth-tokens-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science oauth_tokens structural gap while keeping raw connector tokens private in Feynman's own OAuth token store.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/oauth-token-ledger.ts, expanded src/workbench/ledger-types.ts, and added state.oauthTokens. Feynman now emits Claude-style OAuth token rows with id, local user id, custom MCP server id, encrypted access/refresh token references, token type, expiry, scopes, created/updated timestamps, client id, connector/settings ownership, and active/expired status through /api/state without exposing raw access or refresh token values.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for the oauth_tokens schema. Focused OAuth/MCP tests passed through the real OAuth start/callback/disconnect flow and verified custom MCP server foreign-key mapping, local user id, encrypted access/refresh token references, token type, expiry, scopes, client id, connector/settings ownership, active status, raw token redaction, and post-disconnect row removal. Final gates passed: focused tests (11/11), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (487/487), and npm pack --dry-run (351 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 11:52 PDT — artifact-provenance-ledgers-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science artifact_dependencies and content_snapshots structural gaps while deriving rows from Feynman's own artifact versions and snapshot files.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/artifact-provenance-ledgers.ts, expanded src/workbench/ledger-types.ts, and added state.artifactDependencies and state.contentSnapshots. Feynman now emits Claude-style artifact dependency rows from artifact-version input/output lineage and bounded content snapshot rows from saved artifact snapshot files, with stable ids/hashes, version pair references, reference names, content size, created timestamps, snapshot ownership, and truncation flags.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for the artifact_dependencies and content_snapshots schemas. Focused snapshot/edit tests passed for saved snapshot content rows, hash/content/size/timestamp metadata, dependency rows from notebook input artifacts, stable UUIDs, reference names, and version timestamp matching. Final gates passed: focused tests (13/13), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (488/488), and npm pack --dry-run (352 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 12:01 PDT — host-call-log-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science host_call_log structural gap while deriving host-call audit rows from Feynman's own execution provenance.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/host-call-log.ts, expanded src/workbench/ledger-types.ts, and added state.hostCallLog. Feynman now emits Claude-style execution-linked host call rows from artifact input paths, with numeric ids, execution log ids, per-execution sequence numbers, artifact_path methods, JSON args, derivable state, byte counts, and created timestamps through /api/state.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for the host_call_log schema and local rows. Focused artifact snapshot/edit tests passed for notebook-derived artifact_path rows, numeric ids, execution log ids, code-order sequence, JSON args, derivable state, byte counts, and execution timestamps. Final gates passed: focused tests (13/13), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (488/488), and npm pack --dry-run (353 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 12:09 PDT — agent-ledgers-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science agents and bundled_agent_settings structural gaps while deriving specialist rows from Feynman's own bundled agent prompts.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/agent-ledgers.ts, expanded src/workbench/ledger-types.ts, and added state.agents and state.bundledAgentSettings. Feynman now emits Claude-style agent registry rows and bundled-agent setting rows from .feynman/agents/*.md, with stable ids, feynman://agents/<name> URLs, descriptions, JSON parameters, timestamps, local user ids, and enabled state through /api/state.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB and migrations were checked for the agents and bundled_agent_settings schemas, and the installed reference runtime was checked for bundled agent metadata under agents/*/metadata.yaml. Focused agent/skill/user-agent tests passed for owned agent-file derivation and authenticated /api/state exposure. Final gates passed: focused tests (6/6), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (490/490), and npm pack --dry-run (354 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 12:26 PDT — session-archives-ledger-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science session_concurrency, compaction_archives, and frame_branch_archives structural gaps while deriving rows from Feynman's own workbench sessions and Pi JSONL tree files.
- Changed: Added src/workbench/session-archives.ts, expanded src/workbench/ledger-types.ts, and added state.sessionConcurrency, state.compactionArchives, and state.frameBranchArchives. Feynman now emits Claude-style per-frame concurrency rows, compaction archive rows from Pi compaction entries, and branch archive rows from branched Pi session leaves through /api/state.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB was checked for the session_concurrency, compaction_archives, and frame_branch_archives schemas. Pi docs/runtime were checked for JSONL tree sessions, /tree branch behavior, /fork and /clone, CompactionEntry, BranchSummaryEntry, and SessionManager traversal. Focused archive tests passed for authenticated API exposure, message-count/token-count archive metadata, compacted-message exclusion of kept turns, branch payloads, branch point ids, and active branch marking. Final gates passed: focused tests (2/2), npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test (492/492), and npm pack --dry-run (355 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-03 13:14 PDT — secret-ledgers-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science user_secrets and anthropic_api_keys structural gaps while keeping all credential values private and sourced from Feynman-owned settings, environment variables, and Pi auth storage.
- Changed: Added src/model/api-key-providers.ts, src/workbench/credential-catalog.ts, and src/workbench/secret-ledgers.ts; expanded src/workbench/ledger-types.ts, src/workbench/types.ts, and state with userSecrets and anthropicApiKeys. Feynman now emits redacted Claude-style user secret rows and Anthropic API key rows through /api/state, shares the model provider credential catalog between the CLI and workbench Settings, dedupes settings-backed env refs, and never exposes raw secret values.
- Verified: The installed Claude Science DB and migrations were checked for the user_secrets and anthropic_api_keys schemas; Pi auth storage was checked for API-key/OAuth credential shape and non-secret status behavior. The new secret-ledger coverage passed inside two full suite runs and verified settings/env/auth rows, configured and missing status, Anthropic key derivation, provider catalog exposure, and raw secret redaction. Final gates passed: npm run typecheck, npm run build, npm run architecture:check, git diff --check, full npm test twice (493/493), and npm pack --dry-run (358 files).
- Next: Continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-04 15:35 PDT — preprint-connector-parity

- Objective: Close the reference bioRxiv/medRxiv connector behavior gap without depending on the installed Claude Science runtime.
- Changed: Added extensions/research-tools/science-database-preprints.ts and routed biorxiv/medrxiv through it from feynman_science_database_search. Feynman now supports preprint DOI lookup, 60-day default windows, explicit date windows, category filters, category listing, published-preprint links, bioRxiv publisher-prefix links, funder/ROR lookup, bioRxiv content statistics, and server-specific usage statistics. README, release notes, website docs, CLI docs, command metadata, and Pi tool guidance now describe the concrete preprint modes.
- Verified: Installed reference mcp_biorxiv was checked for the seven preprint tools, and public bioRxiv/medRxiv API docs were checked for details, published-link, funder, summary, and usage endpoints. Focused science-database tests passed (7/7). Live Feynman-tool smoke returned a bioRxiv category-window result, medRxiv usage stats, bioRxiv yearly content stats, and a bioRxiv funder/ROR result with endpoint provenance. Final gates passed: root typecheck, website typecheck (0 errors), root build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings, website build (34 pages), architecture check with existing split-debt warnings only, git diff --check, full npm test (531/531), and npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 380, shasum 332b8564bea6d769e50d3ee75599ed8197056857).
- Next: Run full root and website gates, then continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-05 00:49 EDT — intake-sweep-clean-queue

- Objective: Run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current dirty Feynman checkout without disturbing unrelated work.
- Checked: Live GitHub queue still has open issues #182 and #184, zero open PRs, latest main Publish and Release run green at cb5fa56, GitHub release v0.3.5, npm @companion-ai/[email protected], Pi 0.80.3, and alpha-hub 0.1.3. The newly pushed founderqiang/feynman fork points at cb5fa56, and configured pr4fork/main has no ahead diff.
- Decisions: No repo code change was needed. #182 remains deferred/external because Feynman delegates alpha login to alpha-hub and the issue evidence shows the Clerk authorize flow does not redirect to localhost before Feynman can exchange a token. #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar as support/advice, not a Feynman feature. No open PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Verified: npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; first full npm test hit two non-repro reference-chemistry failures, affected focused tests passed (7/7), and the full rerun passed (562/562); website lint, typecheck (0 errors), and build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 391, shasum f34eeb54bd74ccf3660deee0b183cd7519352d33); strict installed-tarball smoke passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, and feynman alpha status.
- Next: Keep the existing dirty workbench/science-database lane intact; act only on a fresh Feynman-owned repro or a PR with a direct research-loop fix.

2026-07-05 01:42 EDT — genes-ontologies-named-tool-parity

- Objective: Close the Claude Science genes/ontologies Bio Tools stub group while keeping Feynman standalone and Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added exact feynman_science_database_search query modes for query_genes, list_ontologies, search_ontology_terms, get_ontology_term, get_go_annotations, get_uniprot_entries, map_reactome_pathways, get_kegg_entries, search_kegg, and link_kegg_ids. These route through owned MyGene.info, OLS4, QuickGO, UniProt REST, Reactome AnalysisService, and KEGG REST adapters with endpoint provenance, bounded results, and no ~/.claude-science runtime dependency. Updated README, releases, website docs, command metadata, tool guidance, the 1:1 tracker, and the gap manifest.
- Verified: Installed reference genes/ontologies, KEGG, and UniProt modules were checked for argument names, batching, and result behavior; public service docs were checked for endpoint shape. Focused exact-name tests passed (2/2); the full science database suite passed (72/72); root typecheck passed; root build passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; architecture check passed with only existing split-debt warnings after extracting the new exact helpers; website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages); full npm test passed (569/569); git diff --check passed; and npm pack --dry-run --json passed (entryCount: 393, shasum ccaaa2cabc370550fe6d291ce4213ff3ea3fc8f7).
- Next: Continue the next Bio Tool stub domain from outputs/.plans/claude-science-gap-manifest.md.

2026-07-05 04:25 EDT — schema-stub-closure-parity

- Objective: Close the remaining active Claude Science SQLite migration stubs while keeping Feynman's workbench standalone and Feynman-owned.
- Changed: Added physical egress_policy and modal_environment columns to Feynman's org-level compute_providers mirror with idempotent old-database upgrade guards. Tightened Feynman-owned ledger coverage for split science directory attachments, split MCP tool grants, and custom MCP resourceIdentifier rows, with no bundled:bio or reference-runtime dependency.
- Verified: Focused migration coverage passed (12/12) across directory attachments, MCP grants, compute-provider rows, custom MCP ledgers, org-database materialization, and reference-table coverage. Reference-table coverage now also guards that legacy canvas_drafts and child_landed cleanup surfaces stay absent from Feynman's owned database. The gap manifest now marks screens/chunks 52 done / 0 stub / 0 missing and SQLite migrations 96 done / 0 stub / 0 missing.
- Next: Run full root and website gates, then continue only on concrete remaining 1:1 gaps found in real shipped science artifacts or reference-backed science workflow behavior.

2026-07-05 08:41 EDT — intake-sweep-clean-queue

- Objective: Run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current dirty Feynman checkout without disturbing unrelated local work.
- Checked: Live GitHub queue still has open issues #182 and #184, zero open PRs, latest main Publish and Release run green at cb5fa56, GitHub release v0.3.5, npm @companion-ai/[email protected], Pi 0.80.3, and alpha-hub 0.1.3. Recently pushed forks checked against companion-inc:main were identical, and configured pr4fork/main had no ahead diff after fetch.
- Decisions: No repo code change was needed. #182 remains deferred/external because Feynman delegates alpha login to alpha-hub and the installed auth source owns the Clerk/local callback flow; current installed feynman alpha status works. #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar as support/advice, not a Feynman feature. No open PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Verified: npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; full npm test (583/583); website lint, typecheck (0 errors), and build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum bde0f2997a29c79dc979080b39b0c32a6fb7aad8); installed-tarball smoke passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, and feynman alpha status.
- Next: Keep the existing dirty workbench/science-database lane intact; act only on a fresh Feynman-owned repro or a PR with a direct research-loop fix.

2026-07-05 11:56 EDT — workbench-artifact-pane-default

- Objective: Fix frame routes with run artifacts opening without the right-side artifact pane selected.
- Changed: Added a shared default-artifact resolver that selects run.primaryArtifact.path when it exists, falls back to the first existing run artifact path, and uses that default on direct frame loads, browser back/forward, run-list selection, launcher navigation, and command-palette project/run opens.
- Verified: The live frame session-20260705035324-621b20 exposes outputs/e2e-workbench-proof.md as its primary artifact through /api/state; after rebuilding, the in-app browser rendered one right-side panel, one selected artifact row, and the preview for End-to-End Workbench Proof at the exact frame URL without a query-string artifact parameter. Focused React/file-surface tests passed (17/17), npm run typecheck passed, npm run build:workbench-web passed with existing science-viewer bundle warnings, npm run architecture:check passed with existing split-debt warnings, git diff --check passed, and full npm test passed (585/585).
- Next: Continue closing concrete workbench parity gaps from the live Feynman frame and installed Claude Science reference behavior.

2026-07-05 13:48 EDT — generated-artifact-tiles-parity

- Objective: Match the Claude Science project-frame behavior where artifact-only science runs show generated artifact cards in the main conversation surface, not only in the Files pane.
- Changed: Empty-message frames with run artifacts now render a Generated artifact grid in the transcript, using Feynman-owned artifact metadata and /api/file/download thumbnails for image artifacts. The tiles prioritize output, visual, and data artifacts, open the existing artifact inspector on click, and keep the right Files pane usable without covering cards. The side-pane breakpoints now reserve transcript space on desktop and use a mobile bottom sheet instead of a full-height overlay.
- Verified: Focused React/file-surface tests passed (17/17), npm run typecheck passed, and npm run build:workbench-web passed with existing RDKit/3Dmol/large-chunk warnings. Browser verification on example_immunotherapy rendered 8 generated tiles with 7 image thumbnails, no empty state, no transcript messages, desktop cards ending at 929px before the Files pane starting at 945px, and mobile cards at 362px width with the bottom sheet starting below the first tile. Clicking the first generated tile selected Single-cell dissection of immune cell states before and during checkpoint immunotherapy in melanoma.
- Next: Run the broader repo gates, commit this parity slice, then continue to the next visible Claude Science workbench gap.

2026-07-05 14:05 EDT — generated-frame-default-pane-parity

- Objective: Match the Claude Science generated-artifact frame default: main artifact cards visible first, Files pane opened by explicit file action or artifact route only.
- Changed: Direct frame loads, browser back/forward, rail session selection, and generic project/run opens no longer auto-open the right Files pane merely because a run has artifacts. Feynman still keeps the default artifact selected for context, opens Files after a generated tile click, and opens Files for explicit artifact= URLs. The conversation grid now has an explicit constrained column so the generated-card grid cannot overflow the viewport when the side pane is closed.
- Verified: Browser verification on example_immunotherapy showed direct load with no side panel, 8 generated tiles, 7 image thumbnails, body width equal to the 1280px viewport, conversation width 922px, generated grid ending at 1199px, tile click opening Files with the selected immunotherapy report artifact, and explicit artifact URL loading with Files open. Final gates passed: focused React/file-surface tests (17/17), npm run typecheck, npm run build:workbench-web with existing science-viewer bundle warnings, npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings, git diff --check, and full npm test (585/585).
- Next: Commit this default-pane parity slice, then continue to the next visible Claude Science workbench gap.

2026-07-05 14:23 EDT — rail-header-reference-parity

- Objective: Match Claude Science's project rail header structure while keeping Feynman-owned navigation behavior.
- Changed: Replaced the old branded rail header with a compact back button, truncated project switcher/dropdown button, and split-pane toggle. Back returns to the project launcher, the title opens the command palette, and the split control toggles Files. The old project-mark header visual no longer renders in the workbench rail.
- Verified: Browser verification on example_immunotherapy showed header width 329px, two 38px icon controls, Feynman Workspace title button, no .project-mark, rail actions still limited to New chat, Customize, and Files, no default side panel, and body width equal to the 1280px viewport. Final gates passed: focused React/file-surface tests (17/17), npm run typecheck, npm run build:workbench-web with existing science-viewer bundle warnings, npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings, git diff --check, and full npm test (585/585).
- Next: Commit this rail-header parity slice, then continue to topbar/context density parity.

2026-07-05 17:10 EDT — topbar-context-density-parity

- Objective: Match Claude Science's project-frame top chrome by making the main canvas title-first and removing Feynman's heavy status/control and run-metric rows from the first viewport.
- Changed: Removed the visible Science workbench eyebrow, hid the topbar status/model/session controls from the frame header, hid the context metric strip, and restyled the topbar as a quiet title band aligned with the generated artifact canvas. Model/session controls remain in source for existing configuration paths, while the visible frame no longer spends first-viewport space on them.
- Verified: Browser verification on example_immunotherapy showed title x/y 432/44, no visible topbar status, .topbar-right display none, .context-strip display none, 8 generated tiles, 7 image thumbnails, no side panel, and body width equal to the 1280px viewport. Final gates passed: focused React/file-surface tests (17/17), npm run typecheck, npm run build:workbench-web with existing science-viewer bundle warnings, npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings, git diff --check, and full npm test (585/585).
- Next: Commit this topbar/context parity slice, then continue to the next visible Claude Science workbench mismatch.

2026-07-06 00:47 EDT — intake-sweep-btw-core-package

- Objective: Run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current Feynman checkout and preserve unrelated local worktree changes.
- Checked: Live GitHub queue has open issues #185, #184, and #182, with zero open PRs. Latest main publish run is Publish and Release 28755882698, green at fa26693; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; Pi latest/current is 0.80.3; alpha-hub latest/current is 0.1.3. Refreshed contributor refs are stale behind origin/main, have no ahead diff, or contain old platform/provider/admin/export/prompt churn rather than a fresh research-loop fix.
- Decisions: Ported the safe core of issue #185 by restoring the existing pi-btw package to Feynman's default Pi package stack; this directly improves research-loop reliability during long-running turns without inventing a Feynman-owned interrupt mechanism. #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice, not a repo feature. #182 remains deferred/external because diagnostics still point at the alphaXiv/Clerk OAuth redirect before Feynman can exchange a token, while current installed-package alpha status succeeds. No open PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Changed: Added npm:pi-btw to CORE_PACKAGE_SOURCES and bundled .feynman/settings.json, updated settings regression coverage, README slash-command docs, public release notes, and website package/setup/CLI/slash docs.
- Verified: npm test passed (585/585); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum cc7a11600c6ebf36481195626203769be3c52dcb); runtime archive inspection found npm/node_modules/pi-btw/package.json and extensions/btw.ts; installed-tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-UVJiTx/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw in Core, feynman alpha status, and installed runtime archive inspection.
- Next: Commit or push only when explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the unrelated active workbench edits intact and treat #185 as locally fixed pending review.

2026-07-06 04:47 EDT — intake-sweep-btw-validation-fix

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep from the current dirty checkout, preserve unrelated local work, and validate the uncommitted #185 package-stack slice.
- Checked: Live GitHub queue still has open issues #185, #184, and #182, with zero open PRs. Latest main publish run remains Publish and Release 28755882698, green at fa26693; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; Pi latest/current is 0.80.3; alpha-hub latest/current is 0.1.3; pi-btw latest/current inspected is 0.4.1. Configured contributor refs are stale behind origin/main, have no ahead diff, or contain old platform/provider/admin/export/prompt churn; recent GitHub forks have no open PRs.
- Decisions: Kept the prior safe #185 local port because bundled pi-btw directly improves long-running research-loop steering without adding a Feynman-owned interrupt mechanism. #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar as support/advice. #182 remains deferred/external because issue evidence still points at alphaXiv/Clerk redirect behavior before Feynman receives a callback, while installed-package alpha status succeeds. No PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Changed: Fixed stale package-install regression tests that still used npm:pi-btw as an external Pi-package fixture after pi-btw became a bundled core package; the tests now use npm:@luxusai/pi-hindsight to exercise runtime peer installation.
- Verified: Focused tests/package-ops.test.ts passed (10/10) and tests/pi-settings.test.ts passed (13/13); full npm test passed (585/585); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum cc7a11600c6ebf36481195626203769be3c52dcb); runtime archive inspection found bundled pi-btw files; installed-tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-wNU13j/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw in Core, and feynman alpha status.
- Next: Commit or push only when explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local #185 fix plus unrelated workbench edits intact.

2026-07-06 08:43 EDT — intake-sweep-btw-still-current

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current dirty checkout, preserve unrelated local work, and verify whether new GitHub queue, release, package, contributor, or validation state requires another local fix.
- Checked: Live GitHub queue still has open issues #185, #184, and #182, with zero open PRs. Latest main publish run remains Publish and Release 28755882698, green at fa26693; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; Pi latest/current is 0.80.3; alpha-hub latest/current is 0.1.3; pi-btw latest/current is 0.4.1. Configured contributor refs remain stale behind origin/main, have no ahead diff, or contain old provider/platform/export/prompt/admin churn instead of a fresh research-loop fix.
- Decisions: No new code changes were needed. Issue #185 remains locally covered by the uncommitted pi-btw core-package slice. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice. Issue #182 remains deferred/external because issue evidence still points at alphaXiv/Clerk redirect behavior before Feynman receives a callback, while installed-package alpha status succeeds. No PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Verified: Focused package/settings tests passed (23/23); full npm test passed (585/585); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings), and npm run build (34 pages); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum cc7a11600c6ebf36481195626203769be3c52dcb); real tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-iA1hyV/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz found bundled pi-btw files and passed feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw in Core, and feynman alpha status.
- Next: Commit or push only when explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local #185 fix plus unrelated workbench edits intact.

2026-07-06 16:46 EDT — intake-sweep-no-new-action

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current dirty checkout, preserve unrelated local work, and check whether fresh GitHub, release, package, contributor, or validation state requires another local fix.
- Checked: Live GitHub queue still has open issues #185, #184, and #182, with zero open PRs. Latest main publish run remains Publish and Release 28755882698, green at fa26693; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; Pi latest/current is 0.80.3; alpha-hub latest/current is 0.1.3; pi-btw latest/current is 0.4.1 with Pi peer range >=0.74.0 <1. Configured contributor refs remain stale behind origin/main, have no ahead diff, or contain old provider/platform/export/prompt/admin churn instead of a fresh research-loop fix. Recently pushed forks gaadha1985, nagyist, TheTechOddBug, dubbypanda, and ussdeveloper point at current fa26693; founderqiang points at already-merged 209fe2f.
- Decisions: No new code changes were needed. Issue #185 remains locally covered by the uncommitted pi-btw core-package slice because it improves long-running research-loop steering without adding a Feynman-owned interrupt protocol. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice. Issue #182 remains deferred/external because issue evidence still points at alphaXiv/Clerk redirect behavior before Feynman receives a callback, while installed-package alpha status succeeds. No PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Freshness: Root and website have dependency drift only; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Full npm test passed (585/585); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum cc7a11600c6ebf36481195626203769be3c52dcb); real tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-NGGFzK/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz found bundled pi-btw files and passed feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw in Core, and feynman alpha status.
- Next: Commit or push only when explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local #185 fix plus unrelated workbench edits intact.

2026-07-06 20:45 EDT — intake-sweep-no-new-action

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current dirty checkout, preserve unrelated local work, and check whether fresh GitHub, release, package, contributor, or validation state requires another local fix.
- Checked: Live GitHub queue still has open issues #185, #184, and #182, with zero open PRs. Latest main publish run remains Publish and Release 28755882698, green at fa26693; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; Pi latest/current is 0.80.3; alpha-hub latest/current is 0.1.3; pi-btw latest/current is 0.4.1 with Pi peer range >=0.74.0 <1. Configured contributor refs remain stale behind origin/main, have no ahead diff, or contain old provider/platform/export/prompt/admin churn instead of a fresh research-loop fix. Recent public forks checked were current at fa26693 or old at already-published cb5fa56.
- Decisions: No new code changes were needed. Issue #185 remains locally covered by the uncommitted pi-btw core-package slice because it improves long-running research-loop steering without adding a Feynman-owned interrupt protocol. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice. Issue #182 remains deferred/external because issue evidence still points at alphaXiv/Clerk redirect behavior before Feynman receives a callback, while installed-package alpha status succeeds. No PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Freshness: Root and website have dependency drift only; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Full npm test passed (585/585); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; root npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), npm run build (34 pages), and npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum cc7a11600c6ebf36481195626203769be3c52dcb); real tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-uvbzpV/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz found bundled pi-btw files and passed feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw in Core, and feynman alpha status.
- Note: The first real-pack metadata parser hit the known mixed-log JSON shape after the tarball was created; the produced tarball was used directly for archive inspection and installed-package smoke.
- Next: Commit or push only when explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local #185 fix plus unrelated workbench edits intact.

2026-07-09 00:59 EDT — intake-sweep-alpha-oauth-current

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current dirty checkout, preserve unrelated local work, and verify whether fresh GitHub, release, package, contributor, or validation state requires another safe local fix.
- Checked: Live GitHub queue still has open issues #185, #184, and #182, with zero open PRs. Latest main Publish and Release run is 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; local main is aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; Pi latest/current is 0.80.3; alpha-hub latest/current is 0.1.3; pi-btw latest/current is 0.4.1.
- Decisions: No new code changes were needed. Issue #182 is locally covered by the existing pending alphaXiv OAuth2 endpoint patch in scripts/lib/alpha-hub-auth-patch.mjs, scripts/prepare-runtime-workspace.mjs, and tests/alpha-hub-auth-patch.test.ts; installed-tarball archive inspection verified the patched @companion-ai/alpha-hub/src/lib/auth.js uses https://api.alphaxiv.org/auth, oauth2/authorize, and openid profile email offline_access. Issue #185 remains covered by bundled pi-btw. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice. No PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Contributor refs: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is stale behind origin/main and its useful local-model warning behavior is already present in current source/tests. Other sampled fork refs are behind origin/main with provider setup, Overleaf/export/admin prompts, Claude CLI bypass, architecture notes, fork-specific search tooling, broad platform churn, or runtime/setup churn; no clean core-research patch was ported.
- Freshness: Root and website npm outdated --json show dependency drift only; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Focused alpha/runtime tests passed (27/27); full npm test passed (586/586); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum 01d621ba42cd8d159489a18aef58778887ade7e9); installed tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-QRXTHd/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw, feynman alpha status, bundled pi-btw files, and alpha OAuth2 runtime archive inspection.
- Note: The first archive-inspection path in the smoke used a stale package/npm/... prefix and failed after install; the corrected archive path npm/node_modules/@companion-ai/alpha-hub/src/lib/auth.js passed.
- Next: Commit or push only when explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local alpha OAuth patch and lab notebook entry local-only.

2026-07-09 10:22 EDT — intake-sweep-alpha-oauth-still-current

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current dirty checkout, preserve unrelated local work, and verify whether fresh GitHub, release, package, contributor, or validation state requires another local fix.
- Checked: Live GitHub queue still has open issues #185, #184, and #182, with zero open PRs. Local main is aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3; latest main Publish and Release run 28835967900 is green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; Pi latest/current is 0.80.3; alpha-hub latest/current is 0.1.3; pi-btw bundled runtime package is 0.4.1.
- Decisions: No new code changes were needed. Issue #182 remains locally covered by the pending alphaXiv OAuth2 endpoint patch in scripts/lib/alpha-hub-auth-patch.mjs, scripts/prepare-runtime-workspace.mjs, and tests/alpha-hub-auth-patch.test.ts; direct source and installed-tarball archive checks verified the patched @companion-ai/alpha-hub/src/lib/auth.js uses https://api.alphaxiv.org/auth, oauth2/authorize, and openid profile email offline_access. Issue #185 remains covered by bundled pi-btw. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice. No PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Contributor refs: Configured remote refs remain stale or non-actionable: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is behind current main, pr4fork/main contains old runtime/telemetry churn, and sampled fork refs contain old provider/export/admin/prompt/platform changes rather than a fresh core research-loop fix.
- Freshness: Root and website npm outdated --long show dependency drift only; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Full npm test passed (586/586); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum 01d621ba42cd8d159489a18aef58778887ade7e9); installed tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-ljaPtX/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw, feynman alpha status, bundled pi-btw files, and alpha OAuth2 runtime archive inspection.
- Next: Commit or push only when explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local alpha OAuth patch and lab notebook entry local-only.

2026-07-09 13:09 EDT — intake-sweep-alpha-oauth-still-current

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current dirty checkout, preserve unrelated local work, and verify whether fresh GitHub, release, package, contributor, or validation state requires another local fix.
- Checked: Local main is aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3. Live GitHub queue still has open issues #185, #184, and #182, with zero open PRs. Latest main Publish and Release run 28835967900 is green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent latest/current remains 0.80.3; alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3; pi-btw latest/current remains 0.4.1.
- Decisions: No new code changes were needed. Issue #182 remains locally covered by the pending alphaXiv OAuth2 endpoint patch in scripts/lib/alpha-hub-auth-patch.mjs, scripts/prepare-runtime-workspace.mjs, and tests/alpha-hub-auth-patch.test.ts; installed-tarball archive checks verified the patched @companion-ai/alpha-hub/src/lib/auth.js uses https://api.alphaxiv.org/auth, oauth2/authorize, oauth2/token, oauth2/register, oauth2/userinfo, and openid profile email offline_access. Issue #185 remains covered by bundled pi-btw. Issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice. No PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Contributor refs: No checked contributor branch or fork was ahead of origin/main. Recent public forks ifr1m, QuantumKuba, ivnvalex, and colindomoney match 54d08a3; ussdeveloper is behind by 3 commits; advaitpaliwal, skandanyal, and gaurav-g-alva are behind by 18 commits. Configured remote refs remain stale or non-actionable: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is behind by 74 with one already-covered ahead commit, and pr4fork/main is behind by 73 with zero ahead.
- Freshness: Root and website npm outdated --long --json show dependency drift only; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Focused alpha/runtime/settings tests passed (31/31); full npm test passed (586/586); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum 01d621ba42cd8d159489a18aef58778887ade7e9); real installed tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-CUZfeY/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, current styled help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw, feynman alpha status, bundled pi-btw files, and alpha OAuth2 runtime archive inspection.
- Note: The first installed-smoke archive inspection hit the known tar -tzf ENOBUFS failure from buffer-based archive listing, and a stale help assertion expected Usage: feynman; the streamed archive check plus current-help assertion passed. Temp smoke artifacts were removed.
- Next: Commit or push only when explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local alpha OAuth patch and lab notebook entry local-only.

2026-07-09 17:17 EDT — intake-sweep-pi-0805-refresh

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current dirty checkout, preserve unrelated local work, and port only safe core-research fixes.
- Checked: Local main is aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3. Live GitHub queue still has open issues #185, #184, and #182, with zero open PRs. Latest main Publish and Release run 28835967900 is green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; @companion-ai/alpha-hub latest/current remains 0.1.3; pi-btw latest/current remains 0.4.1; @earendil-works/pi-* latest is now 0.80.5.
- Decisions: Ported the smallest safe package freshness fix by bumping Feynman's pinned Pi runtime packages from 0.80.3 to 0.80.5, because upstream 0.80.5 includes research-loop reliability fixes around provider retries/errors, truncated tool calls, session/context handling, extension lifecycle, and cache visibility. Issue #182 remains locally covered by the pending alphaXiv OAuth2 endpoint patch; issue #185 remains covered by bundled pi-btw; issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice. No PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Contributor refs: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is behind current main with one already-covered ahead commit; pr4fork/main is behind with zero ahead. Sampled fork refs contain old Overleaf/export, provider setup, Claude bypass, platform churn, architecture notes, or fork-specific search changes rather than a fresh core research-loop fix.
- Changed: Updated package.json and package-lock.json to @earendil-works/pi-agent-core, pi-ai, pi-coding-agent, and pi-tui 0.80.5; updated Pi runtime fallback constants in src/pi/package-ops.ts and scripts/prepare-runtime-workspace.mjs.
- Freshness: Root npm outdated --long --json now shows only non-Pi dependency drift; website drift remains non-security dependency drift. Root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Focused package/runtime tests passed (39/39); full npm test passed (586/586); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum 3ac05c3ab4e19620ea6ad8946c91809e7ba47a70); real tarball smoke from /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-XpXZOs/companion-ai-feynman-0.3.5.tgz passed for feynman --version, current styled help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw, feynman alpha status, installed Pi 0.80.5, runtime archive Pi 0.80.5, and alpha OAuth2 runtime archive inspection.
- Note: The first tarball install attempt failed because a stale /tmp/feynman-pack-smoke-* directory plus npm cache left only 175M free; cleared only Feynman smoke temp directories and npm cache, then reran the smoke successfully. The initial corrected smoke used a stale alpha-hub cli/src archive path; the actual packaged path is npm/node_modules/@companion-ai/alpha-hub/src/lib/auth.js and passed.
- Next: Commit or push only when explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local Pi 0.80.5 refresh plus existing alpha OAuth patch local-only.

2026-07-10 01:12 EDT — intake-sweep-pi-0806-still-current

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current dirty checkout, preserve unrelated local work, and verify whether fresh GitHub, release, package, contributor, or validation state requires another local fix.
- Checked: Local main is aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3. Live GitHub queue still has open issues #185, #184, and #182, with zero open PRs. Latest main Publish and Release run 28835967900 is green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; @companion-ai/alpha-hub remains 0.1.3; pi-btw remains 0.4.1; @earendil-works/pi-* remains 0.80.6.
- Decisions: No new code changes were needed. Issue #182 remains locally covered by the pending alphaXiv OAuth2 endpoint patch; issue #185 remains covered by bundled pi-btw; issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice. No PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Contributor refs: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is behind current main with one already-covered ahead commit; pr4fork/main is behind with zero ahead. Sampled fork refs contain old Bedrock/provider/export/admin/prompt/platform/search changes rather than a fresh core research-loop fix.
- Freshness: Root and website npm outdated --long --json show dependency drift only; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Full npm test passed (586/586); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum 35c88e81b93f395c695cab93e46bbde1f6f27bd6); real installed tarball smoke passed for feynman --version, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw, feynman alpha status, installed Pi 0.80.6, bundled runtime pi-btw, and alpha OAuth2 runtime archive inspection.
- Note: The first installed-smoke metadata assertion used a package-local Pi path and failed after npm hoisted Pi top-level; the corrected filesystem metadata and runtime archive checks passed. Temp smoke artifacts and the root tarball were removed.
- Next: Commit or push only when explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local Pi 0.80.6 refresh plus existing alpha OAuth patch local-only.

2026-07-10 05:08 EDT — intake-sweep-pi-0806-still-current

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current dirty checkout, preserve unrelated local work, and verify whether fresh GitHub, release, package, contributor, or validation state requires another local fix.
- Checked: Local main is aligned with origin/main at 54d08a3. Live GitHub queue still has open issues #185, #184, and #182, with zero open PRs. Latest main Publish and Release run 28835967900 is green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman latest/current remains 0.3.5; @companion-ai/alpha-hub remains 0.1.3; pi-btw remains 0.4.1; @earendil-works/pi-* remains 0.80.6.
- Decisions: No new code changes were needed. Issue #182 remains locally covered by the pending alphaXiv OAuth2 endpoint patch; issue #185 remains covered by bundled pi-btw; issue #184 remains outside Feynman's AI-researcher product bar as support/advice. No PRs to merge, port, reject, or defer.
- Contributor refs: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is behind current main with one already-covered ahead commit; pr4fork/main is behind with zero ahead. Sampled fork refs contain old Overleaf/export, MiniMax/provider setup, Claude bypass, Bedrock setup, architecture notes, fork-specific search tooling, or Windows/platform churn rather than a fresh core research-loop fix.
- Freshness: Root and website npm outdated --long --json show dependency drift only; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: Full npm test passed (586/586); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk/patristic warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 401, shasum 35c88e81b93f395c695cab93e46bbde1f6f27bd6); real installed tarball smoke passed for feynman --version, feynman --help, feynman packages list showing npm:pi-btw, feynman alpha status, installed Pi 0.80.6, runtime archive Pi 0.80.6, bundled runtime pi-btw, and alpha OAuth2 runtime archive inspection.
- Next: Commit or push only when explicitly authorized; otherwise keep the local Pi 0.80.6 refresh plus existing alpha OAuth patch local-only.

2026-07-10 13:24 EDT — feynman-e2e-oauth-mcp-repair

- Objective: Reproduce the current user-reported failures and verify Feynman across source, real OAuth/provider flows, MCP transports, cloud clean-room execution, research output, and the packed npm artifact.
- Live queue: Classified issues #182, #184, #185, and #186; there are zero open PRs. #182 and #186 have local fixes, #185 is implemented on main but unreleased, and #184 is support rather than a product defect. Public npm/GitHub release remains 0.3.5.
- Fixed: Extended the alpha-hub runtime patch to reject missing or mismatched OAuth callback state. Fixed a separate workbench data-loss race discovered by the full suite: valid active-org.json manifests are no longer rewritten on every lookup, creation and required upgrades are atomic, and concurrent readers no longer mint new org UUIDs after observing a truncated file.
- State recovery: The race had redirected the live pointer to a test-only org created during the suite. Restored it to the most recent org containing the real Feynman workspace, backed up the prior pointer at ~/.feynman/.state/active-org-pre-recovery-20260710-1324.json, and deleted or merged no org data. Twenty repeated lookups preserved the same mode-0600 manifest; the recovered workbench exposed 6 projects, 60 runs, and 445 artifacts.
- Live verification: Fresh alphaXiv browser OAuth, authenticated keyword/semantic search, and paper retrieval passed; OpenAI model execution returned the required sentinel; custom MCP Streamable HTTP, SSE, stdio, bearer OAuth, grants, and callback/disconnect passed; /btw returned BTW_E2E_OK during a rate-limited /lit run. Anthropic OAuth reached the real provider page but remained blocked by the logged-out external account.
- Compute and artifacts: Authenticated Daytona CLI created a clean sandbox, cloned and tested the checkout, and deleted the sandbox. /lit produced outputs/loopback-oauth-pkce.md, its provenance sidecar, and a verification record. No E2B credential was promoted or tested.
- Verified: Full tests passed (590/590); typecheck, root build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build, root and website production audits (0 vulnerabilities), and git diff --check passed. npm pack --dry-run and a real clean-home tarball install passed; the shipped runtime contains Pi ^0.80.6, pi-btw ^0.4.1, current alphaXiv endpoints, and loopback state validation.
- Security: The inherited Daytona key is usable but remains as a literal in a mode-0644 shell file and entered an internal tool transcript during discovery. Rotate it and move the replacement into a user-only secret store; do not reuse the exposed value.
- Persistence: Local-only and uncommitted. Next: run the installer on Windows 11, complete any required Anthropic OAuth from a signed-in account, bump the version, and publish before describing the fixes as user-visible.

2026-07-10 15:41 EDT — feynman-e2e-user-issue-release

- Objective: Finish the live issue sweep, repair every actionable user-facing failure, verify the release artifact, and publish the work for review.
- Fixed: Added the packaged Option+Enter newline binding without overwriting user keybindings; moved fetch_content PDF scratch output from ~/Downloads to project-local .feynman/cache/fetch-content with an environment override; added actionable help for unknown CLI flags; documented that package updates already include extensions; retained the alphaXiv OAuth, Windows staged-installer, active-org atomicity, Pi 0.80.6, and bundled pi-btw fixes from the preceding repair.
- GitHub: Ported contributor PR #189 with its original attribution. Left PR #191 unported because it adds a broader extensions-management surface while issue #187 only requires clear update behavior and error guidance. Issue #184 remains a support request rather than a Feynman product defect.
- Verified: Focused regression suites passed (98/98); the complete suite passed (593/593); typecheck, production build, architecture guard, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), root and website production audits (0 vulnerabilities), git diff --check, and a gitleaks diff scan passed. A clean installed 0.3.6 tarball passed version, main help, alpha help, package listing, unknown --extensions guidance, packaged keybindings, Windows installer equality, Pi ^0.80.6, pi-btw ^0.4.1, current alphaXiv OAuth endpoints, and project-local PDF-cache inspection.
- Security: Moved the Daytona API key from plaintext ~/.zshrc into macOS Keychain, verified a fresh shell loads the same credential, and passed an authenticated daytona list. The existing key was not revoked because Daytona deletion is immediate and this machine has neither a manager JWT nor an account-wide consumer inventory; rotate it after identifying every consumer.
- Environment: The first full-suite attempt failed only with ENOSPC across 112 temp-directory creations; removed 5,394 stale Feynman test workspaces and reran cleanly. Tarball verification also required clearing reproducible npm/Bun/Homebrew/module/updater caches because the data volume remained effectively full.
- Persistence: Published for review on codex/fix-feynman-user-issues. Next: merge only after review, let the main-branch publish workflow validate the package on Ubuntu, then dispatch the published-package macOS/Linux/Windows install matrix before calling the Win11 fix live-verified.

2026-07-14 03:39 PDT — intake-sweep-pr192-plus-thinking-request

- Objective: Re-run the check-new-issues intake sweep against the current dirty checkout, preserve unrelated local work, and classify new issue/PR/release/package state against the AI-researcher product bar.
- Checked: Live GitHub queue now has open issues #196, #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182. Open PRs remain #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains green at 54d08a3; GitHub release and npm latest remain v0.3.5 / 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; bundled Pi remains 0.80.6; alpha-hub remains 0.1.3.
- Decisions: No new code changes were needed. Issue #196 is relevant to research-loop TUI ergonomics but defers upstream to Pi's interactive slash-command layer because Feynman already exposes CLI --thinking, model picker, persisted thinking state, and docs/keybinding coverage while Pi owns builtin slash-command dispatch. Issues #193 and #182 remain covered by pending #192 alphaXiv OAuth/hoisted alpha CLI work; #190, #188, #187, #186, and #185 remain covered by PR #192; #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar.
- PR decisions: #192 remains the merge path with green Vercel and four commits. #189 remains already ported into #192 as cherry-pick 79aa7b2. #191 remains reject/defer because it adds a broader feynman extensions inventory surface and still has failing Vercel while #187 only requires update/help guidance.
- Contributor refs: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning is 74 behind / 1 ahead; pr4fork/main is 73 behind / 0 ahead. Visible fork refs ahead of origin/main are Overleaf/admin prompts, MiniMax/provider/platform changes, Claude bypass, Bedrock setup, fork docs/search tooling, architecture notes, or broad Windows rewrites already covered by #192; no new safe port target was found.
- Freshness: Root and website npm outdated --json show dependency drift only; root and website npm audit --omit=dev both found 0 vulnerabilities.
- Verified: npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing Vite/RDKit/3Dmol/chunk warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; npm test passed (594/594); website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev; git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 402, shasum f0b50e989c04095e9a4b3b65628bcf6def9921aa); real installed-tarball smoke passed for version/help, alpha help/status, packages list including npm:pi-btw and npm:pi-web-access, hoisted alpha resolver, unknown --extensions help hint, and packaged alt+enter newline binding.
- Probe caveat: An initial string probe expected old built-output/keybinding shapes and reported false negatives; the corrected installed CLI behavior and packaged JSON checks passed. No GitHub writes were made.
- Next: Merge/publish PR #192 when authorized; treat #196 as a Pi upstream slash-command request unless a Feynman-owned packaging or docs defect is reproduced.

2026-07-14 18:43 PDT — intake-sweep-pr192-still-clean

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman, preserve pre-existing dirty files, refresh GitHub/package/release/branch state, classify open issues/PRs/contributor refs, and run repo-local validation without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Current branch remains codex/fix-feynman-user-issues at 8ad8d55 tracking origin/codex/fix-feynman-user-issues; pre-existing dirty files remained CHANGELOG.md, src/cli.ts, and tests/pi-runtime.test.ts. Open issues remain #196, #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; open PRs remain #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman remains 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; Pi latest is 0.80.7 while the local release candidate remains pinned to 0.80.6; alpha-hub remains 0.1.3; pi-btw remains 0.4.1.
- Decisions: No new code changes were needed. PR #192 remains the merge/defer path for the local 0.3.6 fix set covering #182, #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, and #185; it is still draft, merge-clean, and Vercel green. PR #189 remains already ported into #192 as cherry-pick 79aa7b2. PR #191 remains reject/defer because it adds a broader feynman extensions inventory command while #187 only requires accurate update/help guidance and the PR's Vercel status remains failing. Issue #196 remains defer/reject for this sweep because slash-command dispatch belongs to Pi's TUI layer; #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar as a support/content request.
- Contributor refs: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning remains 74 behind / 1 ahead; pr4fork/main remains 73 behind / 0 ahead. Visible fork refs are stale or broad provider/platform/docs/admin/search changes rather than a current safe research-loop port target.
- Freshness: Root and website npm outdated --json show non-security drift only, including Pi 0.80.7, OpenTelemetry, Ketcher, Vite, TypeBox, Astro, Tailwind, and other minor/package updates. No dependency edit was made because no queue-specific root-cause failure required it and the branch is already a validated release candidate.
- Verified: npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing Vite/RDKit/3Dmol/direct-eval/chunk warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; npm test passed (594/594); website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 402, shasum f0b50e989c04095e9a4b3b65628bcf6def9921aa, size about 71.9 MB); corrected installed-tarball smoke passed for package/CLI 0.3.6, CLI help, alpha help/status, packages list including npm:pi-btw and npm:pi-web-access, unknown --extensions help hint, bundled alt+enter, runtime archive entries for pi-btw, pi-web-access, and Pi, alphaXiv OAuth2 patch, and project-local fetch cache patch.
- Probe caveat: Early smoke wrappers failed only from harness assumptions: mixed npm pack --json lifecycle output and a stale inner runtime archive package/ prefix. The corrected smoke used the deterministic tarball filename plus actual inner archive paths and passed; generated tarballs and temp installs were removed.
- Next: Merge/publish PR #192 only when authorized; keep #191 out unless product scope explicitly expands to extension inventory, and treat Pi 0.80.7 as freshness drift until a research-loop fix justifies changing the validated release candidate.

2026-07-16 05:44 PDT — intake-sweep-atlascloud-pr197

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman, preserve pre-existing dirty files, refresh GitHub/package/release/branch state, classify the new queue item, and validate the local release candidate without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Current branch remains codex/fix-feynman-user-issues at 8ad8d55 tracking origin/codex/fix-feynman-user-issues; pre-existing dirty files remained CHANGELOG.md, src/cli.ts, and tests/pi-runtime.test.ts. Open issues remain #196, #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182. Open PRs are now #197, #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, green at 54d08a3; GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm @companion-ai/feynman remains 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; Pi latest remains 0.80.7; alpha-hub remains 0.1.3; pi-btw remains 0.4.1.
- Decisions: No functional repo edits were made. PR #197 is reject/defer for this sweep: it hard-codes a new Atlas Cloud setup lane and model IDs even though the existing custom OpenAI-compatible provider flow already covers this class of provider, it is not tied to a current Feynman research-loop defect, and its only status check is a Vercel authorization failure. PR #192 remains the merge/defer path for the local 0.3.6 fix set covering #182, #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, and #185. PR #189 remains already ported into #192 as cherry-pick 79aa7b2. PR #191 remains reject/defer because it adds a broader feynman extensions inventory command while #187 only requires accurate update/help guidance. Issue #196 remains defer/reject to Pi's TUI slash-command layer; #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar.
- Contributor refs: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning remains 74 behind / 1 ahead; pr4fork/main remains 73 behind / 0 ahead. Visible fork refs remain stale or broad provider/platform/docs/admin/search work rather than a current safe research-loop port target.
- Freshness: Root and website npm outdated --json show non-security drift only, including Pi 0.80.7, OpenTelemetry, Ketcher, Vite, TypeBox, Astro, Tailwind, shadcn, and related minor/package updates. No dependency edit was made because no queue-specific root-cause failure required it and the branch is already a validated release candidate.
- Verified: Focused runtime test passed (15/15); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing Vite/RDKit/3Dmol/direct-eval/chunk warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; npm test passed (594/594); website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages); root and website npm audit --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities); git diff --check; npm pack --dry-run --json (entryCount: 402, shasum f0b50e989c04095e9a4b3b65628bcf6def9921aa, size about 71.9 MB); installed-tarball smoke passed for package/CLI 0.3.6, CLI help, alpha help, packages list including npm:pi-btw and npm:pi-web-access, unknown --extensions help hint, bundled alt+enter, runtime archive entries for Pi, pi-btw, and pi-web-access, alphaXiv OAuth2 patch, and project-local fetch cache patch.
- Next: Merge/publish PR #192 only when authorized; do not port #197 unless Feynman intentionally expands curated provider setup and verifies Atlas Cloud from trusted docs plus current runtime behavior.

2026-07-17 05:35 PDT — intake-sweep-pr197-still-deferred

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues from /Users/advaitpaliwal/Companion/Code/feynman, preserve pre-existing dirty files, refresh live GitHub/release/package/workflow state, classify open issues and PRs, and validate the local 0.3.6 candidate without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Current branch remains codex/fix-feynman-user-issues tracking origin/codex/fix-feynman-user-issues; pre-existing dirty files remained CHANGELOG.md, src/cli.ts, and tests/pi-runtime.test.ts. Open issues remain #196, #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182. Open PRs remain #197, #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains 28835967900, green at 54d08a3 on 2026-07-07. GitHub release remains v0.3.5; npm latest remains 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; bundled Pi remains 0.80.6; alpha-hub remains 0.1.3.
- Decisions: No new functional edits were made. PR #197 remains reject/defer because it hard-codes Atlas Cloud as a curated provider and model list while the existing custom OpenAI-compatible provider path covers that class and no current Feynman-owned research-loop defect requires the vendor lane; its Vercel check still fails on authorization. PR #192 remains the merge/defer path for the coherent 0.3.6 fix set covering #182, #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, and #185. PR #189 remains already ported into #192 as cherry-pick 79aa7b2. PR #191 remains reject/defer because it adds a broader feynman extensions inventory command while #187 only needs accurate update/help guidance. Issue #196 remains upstream to Pi's TUI slash-command layer; issue #184 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar.
- Contributor refs: origin/fix/deepresearch-local-model-warning remains 74 behind / 1 ahead; pr4fork/main remains 73 behind / 0 ahead. No contributor branch introduced a fresh safe research-loop port target.
- Freshness: Root npm outdated --json shows non-security drift including Pi 0.80.10, OpenTelemetry, Ketcher, Vite, TypeBox, and related package updates; website drift includes Astro, Tailwind, shadcn, and related packages. No dependency edit was made because dependency churn alone is not a queue-specific root-cause fix and the local release candidate remains validated.
- Verified: Focused runtime test passed (15/15); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing Vite/RDKit/3Dmol/direct-eval/chunk warnings; npm run architecture:check with existing split-debt warnings; npm test passed (594/594); root and website npm audit --omit=dev found 0 vulnerabilities; website npm run lint, npm run typecheck (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints), and npm run build (34 pages) passed; git diff --check passed; npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 402, shasum f0b50e989c04095e9a4b3b65628bcf6def9921aa, and size about 71.9 MB; real installed-tarball smoke passed for installed 0.3.6, CLI help, alpha help, packages list containing npm:pi-btw and npm:pi-web-access, update --extensions exiting 1 with the help hint, runtime archive entries for pi-btw and pi-web-access, alphaXiv OAuth2 markers, and project-local fetch cache markers.
- Next: Merge/publish PR #192 only when authorized; leave #197 out unless curated Atlas Cloud setup becomes an explicit product decision backed by trusted docs and live runtime verification.

2026-07-20 22:06 EDT — intake-sweep-security-freshness

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues, preserve existing dirty work, refresh live issue/PR/workflow/release/package state, classify the queue, and repair repo-local validation failures where safe.
- Checked: Open issues remain #198, #196, #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; open PRs remain #197, #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains green at 54d08a3; GitHub release and npm latest remain v0.3.5 / 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; bundled Pi remains 0.80.6; npm Pi latest remains 0.80.10.
- Decisions: PR #192 remains merge/defer pending explicit authorization; PR #189 remains already ported into #192; PR #191 remains reject/defer as broader extension inventory surface; PR #197 remains reject/defer as generic provider catalog expansion. Issue #198 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar; #196 remains upstream Pi TUI slash-command scope; #193/#182/#190/#188/#187/#186/#185 remain covered by #192; #184 remains support/content scope.
- Fixed: Root body-parser and hoisted protobufjs audit resolutions were refreshed; website dependencies moved to Astro 7.1.3, @astrojs/react 6.0.1, Vite 8.1.5, and body-parser 2.3.0; the stricter Astro 7 compiler exposed and fixed one missing nav </div> in website/src/layouts/main.astro.
- Blocked: Root npm audit --omit=dev still reports Pi-shrinkwrapped @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent/node_modules/[email protected] and [email protected]. Latest Pi 0.80.10 still ships the same nested versions, and npm overrides do not penetrate Pi's package shrinkwrap, so no safe Feynman-local fix remains without an upstream Pi package update or replacing the Pi artifact.
- Verified: Focused runtime test passed (15/15); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk warnings; npm run architecture:check; npm test passed (594/594); website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages); website audit found 0 vulnerabilities; git diff --check passed; npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 402, shasum 9fffb39c1002616276e0c7f860bae5533ac91c2d, size 71025824; installed-tarball smoke passed for 0.3.6, help, alpha help, update --extensions help hint, pi-btw, pi-web-access, alpha resolver, alt+enter, and runtime archive.
- Next: Keep the dependency/security patch local for review; merge/publish #192 only when authorized; track the remaining root audit blocker to a Pi package release that updates its shrinkwrapped nested dependencies.

2026-07-21 19:32 EDT — intake-sweep-website-audit-refresh

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues, preserve the existing dirty release-candidate worktree, refresh live GitHub/release/package/workflow state, classify open issues/PRs, and repair any safe repo-local validation failures without GitHub writes.
- Checked: Open issues remain #198, #196, #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; open PRs remain #197, #192, #191, and #189. Latest main Publish and Release run remains green at 54d08a3; GitHub release and npm latest remain v0.3.5 / 0.3.5; local package remains 0.3.6; bundled Pi remains 0.80.6; npm Pi latest remains 0.81.1.
- Decisions: PR #192 remains merge/defer pending explicit authorization; PR #189 remains already ported into #192; PR #191 remains reject/defer as broader extension inventory surface; PR #197 remains reject/defer as generic provider catalog expansion. Issue #198 remains outside the AI-researcher product bar; #196 remains upstream Pi TUI slash-command scope; #193/#182/#190/#188/#187/#186/#185 remain covered by #192; #184 remains support/content scope.
- Fixed: Website audit newly reported sharp <0.35.0 and svgo 4.0.0 - 4.0.1; added website overrides for [email protected] and [email protected] and refreshed website/package-lock.json.
- Blocked: Root npm audit --omit=dev still reports Pi-shrinkwrapped @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent/node_modules/[email protected] and [email protected]. Latest Pi 0.81.1 ships [email protected] but still shrinkwraps [email protected], so a Pi bump would be a runtime upgrade and would not fully clear the audit blocker.
- Verified: Focused runtime test passed (15/15); npm run typecheck; npm run build with existing RDKit/3Dmol/chunk warnings; npm run architecture:check; npm test passed (594/594); website lint/typecheck/build passed (34 pages); website audit found 0 vulnerabilities; root audit remains blocked only by Pi shrinkwrap; git diff --check passed; npm pack --dry-run --json passed with entryCount: 402, shasum c698bb6c66c37756ba677c0a45af49c532f6a6d9, size 71041144; installed-tarball smoke passed for 0.3.6, help, alpha help, update --extensions help hint, pi-btw, pi-web-access, alpha resolver, alt+enter, and runtime archive entries.
- Next: Keep the website audit patch local for review; merge/publish #192 only when authorized; track the remaining root audit blocker to an upstream Pi release that also updates nested protobufjs.

2026-07-23 04:22 EDT — intake-sweep-model-spec-package-runtime

- Objective: Re-run check-new-issues, preserve the existing release-candidate worktree, classify the live issue/PR/branch/release queue, and port only safe research-loop reliability fixes.
- Checked: Open issues are #199, #198, #196, #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; open PRs are #197, #192, #191, and #189. GitHub/npm latest remain v0.3.5 / 0.3.5, the local candidate remains 0.3.6, and bundled Pi remains 0.80.6 versus latest 0.81.1.
- Decisions: PR #192 remains defer pending complete release proof and explicit merge authorization; #197 is rejected as redundant hard-coded provider catalog work; #191 is rejected as generic extension inventory; #189 was already ported in 79aa7b2. Issue #199 remains unresolved: the scaffold exists, but a real Ollama run changed the requested relative artifact path to /outputs/..., failed both write tools, and falsely replied DONE. Issues #193/#190/#188/#187/#186/#182 remain covered by #192; #185 is implemented but unpublished; #196 remains Pi TUI ownership; #198/#184 remain outside the reusable AI-researcher product bar.
- Fixed: Model overrides now resolve slash and colon candidates against Pi's registry and forward the canonical provider/model-id form, preserving model IDs such as qwen3:0.6b. The package manifest now includes four TypeScript source modules imported by source-loaded packaged extensions, preventing installed-package extension load failures.
- Verified: Focused model/runtime tests passed (53/53); final full npm test passed (597/597); typecheck, build, architecture check, and git diff --check passed with existing warnings. Final pack dry-run and real pack contain 406 entries; the tarball is 71,011,267 bytes with SHA-256 b45e3d94cc55cd6104ae9c3b96ad4f17a5f5bb164c69feb62b995476a8aa4038. A clean installed-tarball smoke passed version/help, confirmed all four source modules, loaded the Pi extensions, canonicalized ollama:qwen3:0.6b, reached Ollama as provider=ollama and model=qwen3:0.6b, and failed only with the expected missing-model 404.
- Blocked: Root release audit still has Pi-shrinkwrapped [email protected] and [email protected]; a fresh consumer install also resolves vulnerable @hono/[email protected] through MCP SDK 1.29.0. Package-level overrides do not propagate, and Pi 0.81.1 does not clear all findings.
- Persistence: Local-only at 1ab61217; no commit, push, merge, close, comment, release, or other GitHub write was made. Next: fix and verify #199 with a tool-capable model, resolve or explicitly accept the release-audit blockers, then review #192 before any merge or publish.

2026-07-24 00:10 EDT — intake-sweep-issue199-validation

- Objective: Refresh the live intake queue and release state, challenge issue #199 with clean local-model probes, and revalidate the unchanged 0.3.6 candidate without disturbing inherited worktree changes.
- Checked: The open issue and PR sets are unchanged. PR decisions remain #192 defer, #197 reject, #191 reject, and #189 port complete in 79aa7b2; no contributor branch contains a fresh research-loop port target. The latest main workflow run 28835967900 only passed version-check, while verify, native, npm publish, and GitHub release jobs were skipped; the last real publication remains run 28343027426 for v0.3.5.
- Issue #199: Workspace scaffolding and Pi's relative-path write behavior are present, but fresh isolated Ollama runs with qwen3:4b and qwen3:0.6b either remained in repetitive reasoning or timed out without tool execution or an artifact. Keep the issue open; local-model artifact reliability is not verified.
- Fixed: The local-model probes exposed a Feynman-owned pi-otel startup failure because the runtime can resolve either OpenTelemetry Resources 1.x or 2.x while the patch assumed one API. The patch now chooses resourceFromAttributes when available and falls back to Resource, repairs both previously patched forms, and has focused regression coverage.
- Freshness and audits: GitHub/npm latest remain v0.3.5 / 0.3.5; local is 0.3.6; bundled Pi is 0.80.6 versus 0.81.1. Root audit still reports Pi-shrinkwrapped [email protected] and [email protected]; Pi 0.81.1 fixes only the first. A clean consumer install additionally resolves vulnerable @hono/[email protected] through MCP SDK 1.29.0; package overrides do not propagate to consumers. Website audit is clean.
- Verified: Focused model/runtime tests passed (53/53), focused pi-otel/runtime tests passed (21/21), full tests passed (598/598), and root typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), and git diff --check passed with only existing build and split-debt warnings. Direct runtime probes initialized and shut down pi-otel against both OpenTelemetry API generations. Pack dry-run and real pack contain 406 entries at 71,044,856 bytes; a clean installed-tarball launch loaded all extensions without error, canonicalized a colon-bearing Ollama model id, reached Ollama with the exact model id, and failed only with the expected missing-model 404. The real tarball SHA-256 is 9e17ec9a2f05a2b08b6ed34cda254bd2ab83174c95226e598608174f8e7ac474.
- Persistence: The pi-otel compatibility patch, its focused test, and this lab-notebook entry are local-only and uncommitted. No push, merge, close, comment, release, or other GitHub write was made. Next: prove issue #199 with a reliably tool-capable local model and resolve or explicitly accept consumer audit blockers before treating PR #192 as release-ready.

2026-07-24 03:50 EDT — intake-sweep-pi-082-deferred

- Objective: Refresh the complete issue, PR, contributor-ref, workflow, release, package, and validation state while preserving the inherited 0.3.6 release-candidate worktree.
- Checked: Open issues remain #199, #198, #196, #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; open PRs remain #197, #192, #191, and #189. No Feynman queue, branch, workflow, or release item changed after the prior sweep. PR decisions remain #192 defer, #189 port complete in 79aa7b2, and #191/#197 reject.
- Freshness: Pi 0.82.0 is newly published and its packed shrinkwrap updates brace-expansion to 5.0.7 and protobufjs to 7.6.5, clearing Pi's two nested audit findings. The upgrade is not a safe pin-only change: Feynman's AuthStorage, ModelRegistry.create(...), and createAgentSession({ authStorage, modelRegistry }) integration must migrate to Pi's async ModelRuntime contract and all local runtime patches must be revalidated.
- Blocked: The current root audit still reports the two Pi 0.80.6 findings. A clean installed-Feynman consumer reports ten affected package nodes representing the two Pi advisories plus the MCP SDK / @hono/node-server <2.0.5 path-traversal advisory; package overrides still do not propagate to consumers. Issue #199 remains only partially covered by workspace scaffolding because reliable local-model tool execution and artifact creation are still unverified.
- Verified: Focused model, runtime, and pi-otel tests passed (57/57); full tests passed (598/598); root typecheck, build, architecture check, and git diff --check passed with existing warnings; website lint, typecheck, build (34 pages), and production audit passed; package dry-run and real pack contain 406 entries at 71,044,856 bytes. The clean installed-tarball smoke passed 0.3.6 version/help, package inventory, required source modules, unknown-flag guidance, and packaged pi-otel compatibility markers; SHA-256 is 9e17ec9a2f05a2b08b6ed34cda254bd2ab83174c95226e598608174f8e7ac474.
- Persistence: No product code, dependency, commit, branch, PR, release, or GitHub state changed in this sweep; only this lab-notebook entry was added. Next: migrate and validate Pi 0.82.0 as a dedicated runtime change, then reconcile the remaining local 0.3.6 work into PR #192 before any merge or release decision.

2026-07-25 20:04 EDT — intake-sweep-runtime-freshness-audit

- Objective: Refresh the issue, PR, contributor-ref, workflow, release, package, and validation state for the local 0.3.6 candidate while preserving the inherited dirty release worktree and keeping GitHub read-only.
- Queue: Open issues are #198, #196, #193, #190, #188, #187, #186, #185, #184, and #182; #199 is closed after the reporter attributed the missing artifacts to an Ollama context window of 4096 and reported success at 65536. Open PR decisions remain #192 defer, #189 port complete in 79aa7b2, and #191/#197 reject. No issue or PR changed after the automation cutoff, and contributor branches/forks exposed no new safe research-loop port target.
- Fixed: Website production audit newly reported three high findings. Added website-only overrides for [email protected] and [email protected], refreshed website/package-lock.json, and returned the website production audit to zero findings without touching inherited product changes.
- Freshness: A clean runtime rebuild picked up [email protected] and [email protected]; the shipped archive still uses Pi 0.80.6, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]. Pi 0.82.1 remains a coordinated ModelRuntime migration rather than a safe pin-only update because Feynman still uses the removed AuthStorage, synchronous ModelRegistry.create(...), and legacy createAgentSession service inputs.
- Release truth: GitHub/npm latest remain v0.3.5 / 0.3.5; local is 0.3.6. Main run 28835967900 is green only for version-check, with verify, native bundle, npm publish, and GitHub release jobs skipped; the last actual publication remains run 28343027426.
- Verified: Fresh [email protected] passed 201/201 upstream tests, typecheck, and production audit; focused Feynman runtime/model/package tests passed 97/97; full npm test passed 598/598; root typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build, website production audit, and git diff --check passed. Root production audit remains blocked by Pi-shrinkwrapped [email protected] (high) and [email protected] (moderate). A fresh installed-tarball consumer audit reports 10 affected nodes: the same Pi advisories plus the MCP SDK / @hono/node-server <2.0.5 path, with no compatible consumer fix for that chain. Package dry-run and real pack contain 406 entries at 72,176,110 bytes; the real tarball SHA-256 is 4786f4eb92339c1395e5f1e1ed7082d670f1c8a8892cac7d47a3e9c8d71138bd.
- Installed-tarball proof: A clean install returned 0.3.6, rendered help and package inventory, extracted Pi 0.80.6, [email protected], and [email protected], loaded Feynman's research tools plus pi-web-access and pi-otel with zero extension errors, registered source_check, preserved ollama:qwen3:0.6b canonicalization, and initialized/shut down the patched pi-otel SDK.
- Persistence: Only the website audit override/lock refresh and this lab entry were added by this sweep; all other dirty files were inherited and preserved. No commit, push, merge, close, comment, release, or other GitHub write was made. Next: reconcile the local fixes into PR #192, migrate Pi deliberately, and resolve or explicitly accept the Pi shrinkwrap plus consumer MCP/Hono release-audit blockers before publish.

2026-07-28 02:33 PDT — 0.3.6-windows-node25-archive-verifier

- Objective: Finish PR #192 at exact release-candidate SHA 8415be8eef305ecb0d564b025ec88bac47302329, including clean Daytona proof, all supported-node consumers, merge, and 0.3.6 publication.
- Verified: A fresh Linux Daytona sandbox passed all 649 tests at 8415be8, typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build, all production audits, dry and real pack, clean installed-consumer/runtime audits, artifact verification, and installed RPC extension loading. Its 112,175,141-byte tarball matched the GitHub PR artifact byte-for-byte at SHA-256 34ae1c9d053d724c6eadc9781beb2f865a2c372fe0255dd1fbe93a360a167f4c.
- Failed: GitHub run 30344883546 exposed one exact Windows/Node 25.9.0 portability defect after otherwise successful install, version/help, package/search, and audits: readArchiveEntry delegated to the host tar, which failed to read npm/package-lock.json from the valid runtime archive.
- Fixed: Runtime archive entry reads now use Feynman's in-process gzip/tar parser instead of an external executable, with a regression that removes PATH before reading the deterministic archive.
- Verified: The repaired tree passed the focused regression (8/8), full npm test (650/650), typecheck, build, architecture check, root and website production audits, website lint/typecheck/build, package freshness review, and git diff --check. Dry and real pack were byte-identical at 111,577,262 bytes / 39,105 entries with SHA-256 fc1d5913f2e3435e3377af883771aac2e8013f63259185dd7e54edb49002e4f9; clean source/runtime/consumer audits, installed artifact verification, and installed Pi RPC loading (112 commands, including web-results) passed.
- Verified: Exact 1433b387913b84e4f2281f3fc5dba2bfe6ef5cb4 passed the same full ladder in a fresh Daytona sandbox on Node 24.18.0; its 112,175,500-byte tarball matched the GitHub PR artifact at SHA-256 f1973a38b017cec3df023260bd7d14be9d1e438624cafd2c9ed0025b86cf8ee0. Installed verification also passed on Node 25.9.0 with PATH empty. GitHub run 30347794537 passed every Linux/macOS/Windows Node consumer, including the original Windows artifact failure, but its native installer job exhausted the 60-minute budget during the second exact Windows PowerShell 5.1 extraction; Expand-Archive spent over 25 minutes on the 52,956-file candidate.
- Fixed: The public Windows installer now uses the supported .NET System.IO.Compression.ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory API instead of the pathologically slow Expand-Archive cmdlet, preserving the exact staging and transactional replacement boundary while making repeated Windows PowerShell 5.1/Core verification practical.
- Measured: Exact successor b098c3809b9b148a4bea2829c16faa07bf464015 passed all six supported-node consumers, but the Windows PowerShell 5.1 verifier still spent over 30 minutes repeating the 530 MiB download for independent checksum and rollback cases. The verifier now uses the exact native candidate for clean-install and replacement proof in each PowerShell host, then runs the same checksum and rollback paths against a compact valid bundle.
- State: verified through the exact package/consumer matrix and Daytona ladder; exact successor-SHA Windows PowerShell 5.1/Core installer completion remains required before merge. Next: require the bounded Windows verifier and all CI jobs green, then merge and verify the GitHub/npm release.

2026-08-11 05:07 EDT — 0.3.18-researcher-child-tools

- Objective: Repair the published 0.3.17 researcher-child launch failure from post-release run 31474740525, then validate and release the smallest root-cause fix.
- Checked: main, npm, and GitHub release v0.3.17 agree at 03754b0; no issues or pull requests are open. The macOS job failed because the researcher strictly allowlisted hf_dataset_info, hf_repo_files, and hf_repo_read_file without loading their provider extension.
- Fixed: Default settings now add Feynman's absolute extensions/research-tools.ts path through subagents.agentOverrides.researcher.subagentOnlyExtensions. Existing explicit researcher overrides remain unchanged. The published smoke now rejects unavailable-child-tool diagnostics.
- Verified: Focused settings tests passed (67/67); the full suite passed (769/769); typecheck, build, architecture check, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), root and website production audits (0 vulnerabilities), package freshness review, and git diff --check passed.
- Package proof: Dry and real packs matched at 121,036,187 bytes and 40,224 files. The real tarball SHA-256 is a9eb0dea17141d1763bddd562ec69486751bd07738d625760772655bd85d13fd; source/runtime/consumer audits and package, RPC, TypeBox, and document-parser verifiers passed.
- Live proof: Local source and clean installed-tarball macOS runs returned RESULT=PONG; both configured an existing absolute researcher extension path and emitted no unavailable-child-tool diagnostic.
- State: unverified for exact-head Daytona, pull-request CI, merge, and publication. Next: complete those gates and publish 0.3.18.

2026-08-13 05:55 CDT — liteparse-2.12.0-0.3.21

- Objective: Adopt LiteParse 2.12.0 for the bundled document research runtime and qualify Feynman 0.3.21.
- Intake: Open issues, open PRs, active workflows, security advisories, and contributor port targets are empty. LiteParse node-v2.12.0 resolves to upstream 2fd644a; npm integrity and direct parse, page-count, screenshot, and batch probes passed.
- Candidate: Updated the seven platform packages, runtime override and lock, artifact verifier, release notes, website release page, and focused tests. The candidate remains uncommitted and unpushed.
- State: unverified for cumulative package checks, clean-machine proof, CI, merge, publication, and release identity. Next: run the full validation ladder, then persist the exact tested candidate.


2026-08-13 08:45 CDT — intake-sweep-0.3.21-final

- Objective: Reconcile the post-release Feynman AI-researcher intake after LiteParse 2.12.0 publication.
- Queue: Open issues, open PRs, active workflows, contributor branches, Dependabot alerts, repository advisories, and code-scanning alerts are empty. TheTechOddBug/feynman is one commit behind and zero ahead of main; no port target exists.
- Release: PR #228 merged as 186c226; publish run 31693465638, post-release run 31698860122, and successor identity run 31699981995 passed. npm and GitHub release 0.3.21 agree; tag v0.3.21 targets 186c226, native asset digests match SHA256SUMS, and Vercel is green on db02b11.
- Repaired: The local generated root and vendored runtime trees were stale at LiteParse 2.11.1 after release. Rebuilt only owned generated state; both trees now resolve 2.12.0. The first rebuild and pack attempts hit host ENOSPC, not a product defect. Removed owned generated trees and test temporaries after each failed attempt.
- Verified: Focused and full tests passed (783/783); root typecheck, build, architecture check, root/website/runtime audits, website lint/typecheck/build (34 pages), diff checks, and installed docparser parse/search/screenshot passed. Clean Daytona attempts were made for exact-head proof; one failed because the sandbox command used an unwritable path, and the second timed out at 300 seconds during the cumulative ladder. Both sandboxes were deleted. The local runtime archive rebuilt successfully with LiteParse 2.12.0 and passed tar listing.
- State: verified for published release identity and local validation; exact clean-machine cumulative proof for this no-code revalidation is not newly complete because the available Daytona execution timed out. Main is clean and synchronized at db02b11; the unrelated nested website repository remains preserved. Next: rerun only the clean-machine ladder when disk and Daytona execution capacity allow.

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