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What I’m working on

Purpose: Single public-facing briefing for humans and LLMs. Keep to ~1–2 screens; expand detail in wiki/projects/ and link out.

New Grok chat (blank thread): Paste wiki/Grok-Brief.md once (self-contained; no wikilinks), or paste only the capsule for the project you name. Then open with e.g. “Early childhood education app” / “Facebook campaign for Rusty Cage” / “Brainstorm Aye Robot” / “App Store copy for LunarCast.” See Grok-Brief.

Snapshot (2026-08-27)

Top priority = product building: Team products and agents you're actively building — not life rhythms (coaching, band), wiki upkeep as its own line item, or shipped apps waiting on demand (LunarCast). Hermes / Crusty is almost maintenance-mode in mind — daily nostalgia loops and Aye Robot Telegram-approval as a habit have stopped. Do not claim teardown.

Where Am I? (Godot + Beads vehicle) is parked (2026-08-27). Tried briefly in Cursor after a private stub repo. The game felt thin; Beads was unnecessary on that slice. Still want to learn Beads — next vehicle TBD. Seth stays parked. Verify against local repo, Cursor, and live sites before shipping.

# Line Status Next (one line)
1 Early childhood education app Active — small team, AI-first product Ship and iterate with human + non-human agent collaboration → projects/early-childhood-education-app
2 Beads (learning) Wanted — vehicle TBD Do not use parked projects/where-am-i as the tutor; wait for a project with real state
3 Crusty / Hermes Almost maintenance-mode in mind (not teardown) Daily nostalgia + Aye Robot approval habits stopped; stack remains documented → projects/crusty, projects/nostalgia-loop
4 Operator Agent Node 1 (EV L2 POC) killed; creative lane still documented Monitor only; next physical node TBD → projects/operator-agent

Detail: Each project page leads with counterpoint / risk where relevant, then phased steps (days/weeks), not aspirations.

Two waypoints on the same learning curve (revised 2026-04-18, late-day): "Crusty runs a real automated workflow end-to-end with a Telegram human-gate, reliably, day after day." Waypoint 1 is the easier, lower-stakes proof; Waypoint 2 is the advanced version of the same pattern against real money.

  • Waypoint 1 — Aye Robot comic autonomous loop (concluded 2026-05-03): Gate pattern proven end-to-end (brainstorm → Telegram approve → xurl post). 2026-08-22: Darcy stopped Aye Robot approval as a habit. Not a teardown of Hermes/xurl/Telegram. → projects/ayerobot-comic, projects/aye-robot-crusty-paused-x-automation
  • Follow-on — Aye Robot Crusty vs Grok task (mini experiment 2026-05-10): Informal bake-off; not a Waypoint 1 reopen.
  • Waypoint 2 — Operator Agent / EV L2 POC (Node 1 killed 2026-05-03): Thesis intact; next node TBD. → projects/operator-agent, projects/ev-charging-shoreline-poc
  • Both waypoints concluded. Seat 2b (productized-agent / AaaS) lane remains on goals. → goals

Life & identity (active, not top priority):

Shipped products — demand-gated (no feature work until demand):

Context / other lines:

Direction: Solo entrepreneur / producer (music, Happy Body coaching); Seattle-area network. Mission (2026-06-14, see goals): experiment with and build truth-seeking and useful AI — mechanisms, agents, and products that help humans solve problems. 2026-08-27: do not treat a Godot toy as the Beads classroom. Learn Beads on a project that already has real moving parts.

How to use this page (for an LLM)

  1. Grok / external LLM with no repo access: point them at Grok-Brief (paste or public URL when hosted).
  2. Read this file first, then goals, index, glossary, recurring-issues, tools-and-repos, personal-operating-system.
  3. Where Am I?: parked — projects/where-am-i. Beads: still a goal; vehicle TBD.
  4. Crusty / Hermes work: projects/crusty (canonical), then projects/openclaw-autonomy-org.
  5. Other projects: projects/early-childhood-education-app, projects/ayerobot-comic, projects/lunarcast, projects/rusty-cage, projects/happy-body, projects/triviabalance, projects/ai-model-distillation, projects/personality-optimizer, projects/meeting-unstick, etc.
  6. Raw sources are local-only. After substantive chat, update this file, log, Grok-Brief, and index per SCHEMA.md.

Tools & stack (quick)

  • Cursor for wiki + agents; MkDocs + Vercel for https://wiki.darcymenard.com. Human mirror: darcymenard.com/projects (htdocs).
  • Main Mac (local LLM): LM Studio + Gemma 4 / MLX — orthogonal to projects/crusty.
  • Crusty: Hermes, SuperGrok OAuth + legacy xurl / Telegram (habit stopped 2026-08-22; stack remains).
  • Where Am I? / Godot 4: parked stub only — projects/where-am-i.
  • Band: Manual booking; gog on rustycagetrio Gmail; grok.com for daily mail summary + meal ideas.

Wins / momentum

  • Where Am I? parked (2026-08-27): Honest stop after a brief Cursor/Godot try. Game felt thin; Beads unnecessary. Beads still desired. → projects/where-am-i
  • Where Am I? scoped then tried (2026-08-22): Private repo dmoniker/where-am-i scaffold; Godot 4.7 opened; movement worked. No further GitHub activity.
  • Nostalgia loop (2026-07-16 → 08-22): Job designed and run (~19–20 likes); variety + intro-theme rules (07-19); one-friend multi-user PoC started (07-22); Android watch-surface limitation (07-23). 2026-08-22: daily habit stopped (not teardown). → projects/nostalgia-loop
  • Hermes (2026-06-06 / 07-16): Gmail digest + Aye Robot + Darwin + ideas + nostalgia existed on the clean machine; 2026-08-22 attention moved off daily loops.
  • Metronaut (2026-06-21): Live on App Store. → projects/metronaut
  • LunarCast (2026-05-21): subscription caching + output device switching. → projects/lunarcast
  • @ayerobotcomic: Gate unlocked 2026-04-27. 2026-08-22: approval habit stopped. → projects/aye-robot-crusty-paused-x-automation

Pain points / open loops

Product building:

  • Early childhood education app (2026-06-14): Small team, AI-first. → projects/early-childhood-education-app
  • Beads (2026-08-27): Still want to learn it. Do not reopen the Godot toy to force a tracker. Next vehicle TBD.
  • Crusty / Hermes (2026-08-22): Almost maintenance-mode in mind; do not invent teardown or machine detail.
  • Operator Agent: creative lane documented; next physical node TBD. → projects/operator-agent

Life & identity (tracked, not top priority):

  • AI video — Seth closed: Learnings on projects/seth-dunlap-cold-start-brief; Seedance credits remain. Seth stays parked.
  • Happy Body — native iOS assessment bundle still open.
  • Rusty Cage: Caterpillar Dream recording + video; gig capture workflow TBD.

Identity

  • Darcy Menard — see index and project pages for specifics.