Mark's Reports
Every report lives here until you say take it down.
Calendar below. Today's digest + upcoming follow. Research + build infra + archive further down.
Last updated 2026-04-23 late evening - cleaned archive, ingest pipeline fixed (TP3_USE_LOCAL_LLM flag + reduced concurrency), migration plan v2 awaiting sign-off.
Migration Plan v2 - AWAITING YOUR SIGN-OFF
Operator-layer rebuild - reviewed, revised, readyNEW
2026-04-23You greenlit Option B. Plan drafted, independently reviewed (2 showstoppers + 4 sequencing errors + 7 naive assumptions all caught), revised as v2. 19h active execution + 24h clean-run + 72h parallel soak. Fits the weekend, done before DC trip. Nothing touches production until you say "go v2."
Fresh Eyes Review - 2026-04-23
Is TP3 healthy? Three agents. One verdict.NEW
2026-04-23Three independent agents reviewed the stack - clean-slate architect, post-mortem engineer, external research. Verdict: your direction is right, the plumbing is wrong. Keep the 646K rows, rebuild the operator layer. Meta's Limitless acquisition + Zuck's two 2026 projects confirm the category is real; you're on the frontier, not behind. Three paths forward with tradeoffs + recommendation inside.
Calendar - next 6 weeks
Snapshot from 2026-04-23. Refreshed when Claude commits a new snapshot to memory.
Today - Friday April 24
This week
End of month
DC trip chain
Post-trip
Today
Morning digest — April 24NEW
2026-04-24Brain at 653,006 rows. Effectiveness checks live, Who-is-Mark pills above. Auto-generated.
Pearl Method granulator — real options, real pricesNEW
2026-04-24Actual vendors, actual prices, actual links. Yushunxin SXYZ-600 (~$1,500 landed on Amex via Alibaba Trade Assurance) is the pick. Mars Mineral DP-14 and used-market paths compared. Nothing purchased — sourcing map only.
Legacy Soil research
The design + science behind the Pearl Method. All live. Nothing archived.
The Pearl Method - how it works (slide deck)NEW
2026-04-2313-slide teaching deck. Three lineages (pan granulation + nerikomi + room-temp silicate), chemistry + mechanical stack, size philosophy, what we don't do, competitive differentiation, 15 linked videos + Hoadley book.
Patio pearling - practice starter guide
2026-04-22~$145 minimum kit. Four-zone patio workspace. Day 0-10+ process (bone meal + colloidal silica, hand-roll, 72h cure, Paraloid, polish, tung oil). Common failure modes + safety + success criteria.
Pearl size, density, stability - every lever
2026-04-22Granulator mechanics vs chemistry vs layered core-build. Pan-granulator ceiling 20-40mm. Bimodal packing 80%+ density (McGeary 1961). Layered build -> projected 80mm. References + honest caveats.
Legacy Soil cement launch plan
2026-04-19Pet-mortality cement products plan (Stream A - archived context, Mark is pivoting to pearl-only direction).
Legacy Soil morning brief (4/19)
2026-04-19Early-stage strategy brief.
Build & infra
TP3, agents, coordination. Living docs on top, recent work below, older snapshots behind the fold.
Agent coordination overview
(living doc)Capability matrix + channel matrix across Claude Code / Cursor / Jules / Antigravity / Gemini CLI.
MCP server map
(living doc)All MCP servers across G16 + Apex + claude.ai + mobile.
Heartbeat protocol
(living doc)Expected agent names + silence thresholds.
Memory setup vs field
(living doc)Git-backed shared memory architecture.
Gemini billing audit
2026-04-20Cost audit that preceded the 4/22 budget-exceeded incident. Led to killing cloud fallback.
Older build-schedule snapshots (7 files, 4/19-4/21)
Build schedule - 4/21 evening
2026-04-21Evening update.
Build schedule - 4/21
2026-04-216 shipped, 5 net-new backlog.
Build schedule - 4/20
2026-04-20Prior version.
Overnight handoff - 4/21
2026-04-21Between-sessions handoff.
Special update - 4/21
2026-04-21Out-of-band status.
Missed builds - 4/20
2026-04-20What didn't ship and why.
MAPS cross-file audit
2026-04-19Inconsistencies in MAPS/. PR #27 merged.
Report cards - iteration archive (6 files, 4/20)
Morning digest archive
Every daily digest, newest first. Click any date to read that day's state.
Apps & Tools
Bidet AI - Clean Classroom feature brief
2026-04-14Tab for turning class transcripts into Google Classroom notes. Two real class recordings reviewed. Ready for build.
Comment generator v2 - paste into Claude project
2026-04-13Calendar-aware, voice-anchored report-card comment generator.
Plans & Strategy
Local LLM harness - LiteLLM + Gemma + Apex 3090
2026-04-14No hardware upgrade needed. LiteLLM Proxy on Apex wraps Ollama + Gemma 4 + 4 free cloud backends. 4-hour build plan.
Email integration plan - all 4 accounts
2026-04-14Honest path forward per account.
"Who is Mark Barnett" - research plan
2026-04-13Armed, waiting on personal info bundle.