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 2026-04-25 ~10 PM. Phase 0 of the operator-layer rebuild is CLOSED — all hard prep items live-verified. AI Radar ran (Gemma 4 + Privacy Filter recommended; full report in radar card). Phase 6 plan extended with explicit MCP server containerization. Open: Phase 1 re-embed, Phase 6 finish, Phase 7 soak.
Saturday 4/25 evening - what we actually did today
Phase 0 rebuild + reboot recovery - plain EnglishNEW
2026-04-25 PMWhat today's rebuild was, what you actually get from it, what's still pending, and where we go from here. Plus tonight's Tailscale-was-down-not-Apex lesson. Posted ~9:30 PM after live verification of the Apex stack.
Saturday morning open-threads + reports digest
2026-04-25 AMEarlier today: Phase 0 status, DC trip Westin notes, granulator paths, AI Radar permissions, three Q&A. Companion to the recovery report.
AI Radar - week of 4/25 - the report you waited a week for
Gemma 4 local + Opus 4.7 token audit + OpenAI Privacy Filter for ingestNEW
2026-04-25 PMThree actions this week, ten ranked candidates, seven cut. Top pick: ollama pull gemma4:e4b — 5 GB RAM, multimodal, free, local. Watch this: Opus 4.7's new tokenizer eats up to 35% more tokens at the same list price — your bill may be climbing. Privacy filter open-weight, 50M active params, scrubs PII before embedding. Permissions fix worked; first full successful scan in three weeks.
Migration Plan v2 - PHASE 0 CLOSED 2026-04-25 evening
Operator-layer rebuild - reference plan
2026-04-23Phase 0 closed tonight: backup + tag + parity check + container reachability + Docker auto-update lock all live-verified. Phases 2, 3, 4, 5 already shipped (Apex commits 8bcdb62 + 68ec619). Phase 6 explicitly extended with MCP server containerization (commit 8a18da9). Open: Phase 1 (re-embed ~3,500 Gemini rows), Phase 6 finish (MCP container + Cloudflare Worker pinger replacing healthchecks.io), Phase 7 soak (24h clean-run + 72h parallel observation).
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.
End of month
DC trip chain
Post-trip
Today
Morning digest — April 25NEW
2026-04-25Brain at 656,680 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 4/19-4/21 build-schedule snapshots and Q4 report-card iteration drafts moved to /archive.html (Grind project shipped 4/22, Q4 report-card cycle closed).
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.