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A gate that never runs isn't a gate
An IPC contract test, a release smoke test, a dependency audit with 18 surprise advisories, and a contrast check broken the whole time it wasn't running.
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Greenhouse
Development
Seed tray: the ideas that vanished for a week
A captured idea in Greenhouse vanished for a full week. The fix was a Seed tray zone with a countdown, and no button to skip the wait.
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Harvest shelf: giving Greenhouse's released items somewhere to land
Releasing a project was write-only: the database stamped a timestamp, a badge branch could never render, and the entire payoff of the pipeline was invisible.
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Two notes nobody ever saw
Greenhouse saved a capture note and a handoff note faithfully, but showed neither: one had no field in the wire type, the other's command was never called.
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The fix I talked myself out of
A 'don't build this' recommendation built on two unverified assumptions, and the one-line Tauri activation-policy fix that was sitting there the whole time.
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The config that got baked into every vault, forever
Stage names serialized into every config.yaml at creation time made translation and templates a per-vault migration - until the words stopped being data.
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Two stats, two definitions of "captured"
The streak and the badge computed the same concept two different ways, and imports were quietly crediting six-month-old ideas as today's creative act.
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Windows support: not now, maybe never
An untracked PRD commitment with zero CI, zero path-handling audit, and zero pressure behind it - resolved in fifteen minutes by actually making the call.
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The empty database that looked perfectly healthy
SQLite treats a zero-byte file as a valid fresh database, so every corruption check passed - and the backup pruning would have deleted the good copies within a week.
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The vault-review card that never rotated
"Keep" set a client-side flag, and a comment promised the pick would change tomorrow. It never did. The fix: one nullable column and distrust of comments.
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