Grok brief — cold-start context (paste into a new chat)¶
Owner: Darcy Menard.
Form (2026-08-22): This short brief is the intended paste. The old daily-ops encyclopedia (X pricing, supplement stack, long routing history) was retired with Crusty/Hermes almost-maintenance. For depth, use the wiki (https://wiki.darcymenard.com) or What I’m Working On. No wikilinks in this file.
Ultra-minimal paste (one paragraph)¶
Use this when you want almost zero setup: one paste, then your one-liner. Tradeoff: weaker for config/debug. If the thread goes deep, open the wiki.
Paste from the next line through the blank line after the paragraph.
I’m Darcy Menard. 2026-08-27: Where Am I? is parked. I tried a small Godot 4 2D stub in Cursor (wake with amnesia + Socratic companion Jersey). The game felt thin. Beads was unnecessary on that slice. I still want to learn Beads; next vehicle TBD — do not reopen the Godot toy to force a tracker. Private stub: https://github.com/dmoniker/where-am-i (scaffold only). Seth stays parked (film closed 2026-07-10; https://darcymenard.com/projects/seth-dunlap/). Crusty is my Hermes agent on a dedicated, clean laptop (SuperGrok OAuth / xai-oauth; OpenClaw cutover 2026-05-20; xAI / Grok-only runtime; minimal permissions, no personal-account linkage). 2026-08-22: Hermes/Crusty is almost maintenance-mode in my mind. I stopped daily nostalgia loops and Aye Robot Telegram-approval as a habit. Do not claim teardown — the stack (Telegram, xurl, jobs) is not documented as deleted. 2026-07-16 (historical): Hermes jobs included email summary, Aye Robot, Darwin robot, idea generation, Nostalgia loop (~6:30 AM 70s–mid-80s YouTube clip in Telegram). 2026-05-10: rustycagetrio mail summary + 3 pm meal ideas on grok.com (not Hermes). Top-priority team product (2026-06-14): small team on an AI-first early childhood education app — human + non-human agent collaboration. LunarCast live, demand-gated. Happy Body and Rusty Cage are life & identity. Mission: experiment with and build truth-seeking and useful AI — mechanisms, agents, and products that help humans solve problems. Rusty Cage — alt-country trio, Shoreline; I book gigs; Caterpillar Dream recording + video; https://terracain.com. Happy Body — certified mentor, happybodygrok.com sequenced video (no AI chat). Treat this paragraph as grounding; ask before assuming sensitive details.
This file is the brief. Paste the paragraph above, or keep reading for short capsules.
Hearsay / STT: “I Robot” or “AyeRobot” usually means Aye Robot. “Where am I” / “Jersey” / “the Godot game” means the parked game. “Beads” means the still-wanted tracker skill; do not assume the game is the vehicle.
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Phrase → project (route here first)¶
| I might say | Canonical project | Jump to capsule |
|---|---|---|
| Where Am I, amnesia game, Jersey, Socratic companion, Godot game | Where Am I? (parked) | Where Am I? |
| Beads (tracker) | Beads learning — vehicle TBD | Where Am I? (failed vehicle) |
| Operator agent, EV chargers, Shoreline POC, node 1, L2 EV | Operator Agent | Operator Agent |
| Crusty, OpenClaw, Hermes, SuperGrok OAuth, xai-oauth, Darwin robot, idea generation | Crusty | Crusty |
| Nostalgia, nostalgia loop, 70s clip, 80s clip, morning YouTube nostalgia | Nostalgia loop | Nostalgia loop |
| Aye Robot, AyeRobot, I Robot (speech), HN comic, @ayerobotcomic | Aye Robot | Aye Robot |
| Rusty Cage, the trio, the band, Caterpillar Dream | Rusty Cage | Rusty Cage |
| Happy Body, Jerzy, happybodygrok | Happy Body | Happy Body |
| Seth Dunlap, Dunlap, Seth Seedance, Seth cold start | Seth Dunlap (closed / parked) | Seth Dunlap |
| Space Zoo, storybook 2013, first app 2013 | Grok Imagine / Storybook | Grok Imagine |
| TriviaBalance, LunarCast, Hidden Gems, Metronaut | those products | named capsules |
| Early childhood education, AI-first edtech, team product | Early childhood education app | Early childhood education app |
| Distillation, KD, Boxy | AI model distillation | AI model distillation |
| Personality optimizer, trait change, Big Five, plasticity, sticky traits, counterfactual self | Personality Optimizer | Personality Optimizer |
| Meeting Unstick, Call Rescue, Zoom stuck, Teams audio, FaceTime helper, live-call tech rescue | Meeting Unstick | Meeting Unstick |
Where Am I?¶
Status (2026-08-27): Parked. Wiki: https://wiki.darcymenard.com/projects/where-am-i/
Tried a Godot 4 2D stub in Cursor (private https://github.com/dmoniker/where-am-i). Movement worked. Stopped: the game felt thin; Beads was unnecessary on that slice.
Still true: I want to learn Beads. Next vehicle TBD. Do not treat this game as current build attention.
Historical intent: amnesia wake-up + Jersey (questions only). Milestone 1 never finished.
When I say Where Am I or Jersey, assume the parked project. When I say Beads, assume the learning goal, not “keep building the game.”
Operator Agent (physical-node business)¶
Operator Agent = historical co-top-priority (2026-04-18) with Aye Robot: autonomous-income thesis as a portfolio of physical nodes. Node 1 EV L2 Shoreline killed 2026-05-03 after economics. Long-term ladder still documented: scaled L2 → laundromat → RaaS → own hardware. Creative lane (2026-06-09): daily use-case robot video (Darwin). 2026-08-22: not the current daily habit; next physical node TBD.
Early childhood education app¶
Top-priority team product (2026-06-14). AI-first early childhood education app with a small team. Meta-goal: human + non-human agent collaboration at build time. Child-facing surfaces stay behind human gates. No employer/client names or private repos in this brief.
Crusty (Hermes instance; cutover 2026-05-20)¶
Crusty is my Hermes agent on a dedicated, clean laptop with minimal permissions and no personal-account linkage.
2026-08-22: Almost maintenance-mode in my mind. I stopped daily nostalgia loops and Aye Robot approval as a habit. Do not claim teardown.
Historical (2026-07-16): Daily jobs included Gmail / email summary, Aye Robot, Darwin robot, idea generation, Nostalgia loop. grok.com: rustycagetrio inbox summary + meal ideas.
LLM stack: SuperGrok via browser OAuth (xai-oauth) inside Hermes. Historical OpenClaw two-tier rollback: grok-4-1-fast-reasoning steady state. Irreplaceable surface when used: posture/identity separation, Telegram approval gate, xurl X posting.
Goal: automate more while keeping privacy and low blast radius — new automations reviewed step by step. Do not assume current learning attention is the Godot game.
Nostalgia loop¶
2026-08-22: Daily habit stopped. Stack not torn down. Wiki: https://wiki.darcymenard.com/projects/nostalgia-loop/
Historical design: ~6:30 AM (+ on-demand) one YouTube clip (~5–7 min) from 1970s–early/mid-1980s in Telegram; like/dislike. Catalog later tuned for variety (intro themes; liked intro → ≤1 show clip). iPhone in-app watch worked; Android often fell through to the YouTube app (2026-07-23). Multi-user PoC started with one friend (2026-07-22) then parked. Early personal run ~19–20 sends, almost all liked.
When I say nostalgia now, assume the documented job — not that I am running it daily.
Aye Robot¶
Daily Hacker News–flavored comic routine inside Crusty: ideas → grok-imagine → Telegram → approve → xurl to @ayerobotcomic.
2026-08-22: I stopped approval as a habit. Not a teardown of xurl / Telegram / Hermes.
Historical: Gate unlocked 2026-04-27. Quality tuning 2026-06. Mentions listen path was the last named next build. Pay-per-use X API; consumer-web automation off (policy). Aliases: I Robot, AyeRobot.
Public: https://x.com/ayerobotcomic
Aye Robot comic (X)¶
Public daily one-panel comic: https://x.com/ayerobotcomic. Dedicated X account. Still early on reach. Crusty’s Aye Robot job was the idea + image + post + listen feed. 2026-08-22: posting habit stopped.
Rusty Cage¶
Alt-country acoustic trio, formed 2024, Shoreline, WA. Site: https://www.rustycagetrio.com/ · Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rustytrio · Booking: manual (Darcy). Email rustycagetrio@gmail.com (gog CLI). Daily summary on grok.com (2026-05-10), not Crusty. Recurring McMenamins Anderson School. Sat 2026-07-25 Third Place Commons. Immediate: Caterpillar Dream recording + video — https://terracain.com. Reminder: gig Facebook / list capture.
Personal context app (iOS)¶
Working names: Context, LocalMind. Local Markdown folder on phone → retrieve relevant files → Apple on-device default → one tap to Grok/Claude/BYOK with preview. Exploratory. Wiki Personal context app (iOS).
Happy Body¶
Resistance training + Jerzy Gregorek group. Certified mentor; thehappybody.com/mentors. happybodygrok.com sequenced video (shipped 2026-06-18), no AI chat. Next: native iOS assessments.
OpenClaw org (umbrella)¶
Broader autonomy-org idea. Crusty is the live Hermes instance (2026-05). Lobstar Wilde = past experiment.
Music production¶
Originals, live, producer; harmonica Low F, G, A, Bb, C; cross + slant. Metronaut iOS metronome live 2026-06-21: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metronaut/id6782231610 · dmoniker/Metronome.
Metronaut¶
Live free iOS practice metronome. Second App Store app with LunarCast. Maintenance only.
Seth Dunlap — cold-start brief (quick pointer)¶
Canonical: https://wiki.darcymenard.com/projects/seth-dunlap-cold-start-brief/ Status: Closed 2026-07-10. Watch: https://darcymenard.com/projects/seth-dunlap/ 2026-08-22 / 08-27: Stays parked. Do not reopen the film. Do not treat it as current craft work for the parked Godot game.
Grok Imagine creative video¶
Seth Dunlap closed; Space Zoo paused (~75%). Seedance credits remain.
TriviaBalance¶
Live OSS web app https://triviabalance.com — trivia + physical balance for seniors. dmoniker/balance-trivia.
LunarCast¶
Live free iOS podcast app. App Store https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lunarcast/id6761336207 · lunarcast.app · dmoniker/moonlex. Demand-gated: no new features until demand. Transcription + AI deferred.
Hidden Gems¶
Live free OSS film discovery: https://hiddengemmovies.com · dmoniker/movies.
Personality Optimizer¶
Idea / scoping (2026-07-20). Wiki: https://wiki.darcymenard.com/projects/personality-optimizer/
Simulate counterfactual versions of yourself — dial traits, run scenarios, separate what is plastic enough to change from what is sticky or identity-preserving. Not therapy or a quiz farm. v0 = Darcy-first, private baseline (not in the public wiki). Outside current top-priority building (ECE app).
When I say personality optimizer, trait change, Big Five, plasticity, or counterfactual self, assume this project.
Meeting Unstick¶
Exploratory (2026-07-13). Wiki: https://wiki.darcymenard.com/projects/meeting-unstick/
AI tech concierge for live video meetings: when audio, screen share, a photo, or chat is stuck in Zoom / Teams / FaceTime, call or text a helper. Not another meeting app. Not BuddyLine companionship. No prototype yet; keep light.
When I say Meeting Unstick, Call Rescue, or Zoom stuck, assume this concept.
AI model distillation (learning)¶
Personal learning track. Phase 1 done (including generic Boxy on-device video-audio POC). Phases 2–4 queued. Local-only raw plan file.
When I don’t paste this whole file¶
If I only send Where Am I, Jersey, Godot game, amnesia game — assume the parked Where Am I? capsule. Do not continue the game unless I say so. If I only send Beads — assume I still want to learn the tracker; vehicle TBD; not the Godot toy. If I only send nostalgia — assume the documented loop; habit stopped 2026-08-22; not teardown. If I only send Aye Robot / I Robot — assume Aye Robot; approval habit stopped 2026-08-22; not teardown. If I only send Crusty / Hermes — assume Crusty; almost maintenance-mode in mind; not teardown. If I only send Seth / Dunlap — assume closed film; parked. If I only send education app / team product — Early childhood education app. “Facebook campaign for Rusty Cage” — Rusty Cage. LunarCast / TriviaBalance / Hidden Gems / Metronaut / distillation — those capsules. If I only send personality optimizer / Big Five / plasticity — Personality Optimizer (idea; not therapy). If I only send Meeting Unstick / Call Rescue / Zoom stuck — Meeting Unstick (exploratory).
Repo: wiki/Grok-Brief.md. Short form is intentional as of 2026-08-22. Update this when Where Am I? / Beads posture, Crusty habit posture, Nostalgia, Aye Robot, Personality Optimizer, Meeting Unstick, Seth (parked), or product facts change.