Build Log

Build ForgeKit Briefing — a Strategic Synthesis Surface

August 30, 2026

Built Alloy's new Briefing page — an evidence-cited, ~60-second strategic synthesis distinct from OS Vitals' engine-room telemetry — found and fixed 3 real credential-provisioning gaps that had been silently hiding real canvas-1/canvas-2 activity from every existing OS Vitals view, then rebuilt the page's actual copy and layout after Zeb correctly called the first version 'a sprawl of text' that technically satisfied every checked requirement but didn't actually read like a briefing.

BriefingEmpty CanvasMedinaCHFOwner LoopEvidence DisciplineAI Synthesis

credential/provisioning gaps found and fixed

new lib/briefing/*.ts files

real MedinaCHF owner requests classified

Timeline

Orient

Mapped 9 real evidence sources across Alloy + MedinaCHF

Explore agent + direct file reads

Crucible

Architect persona locked the EvidenceClaim adapter contract

2-round exchange, npm run crucible:architect

Diagnose

Found the real Empty Canvas credential-plumbing bug

GitHub secret vs. Vercel env var mismatch

Fix

Rotated/provisioned 3 readonly DB credentials, verified live

canvas-1, canvas-2, MedinaCHF

Build

Shipped lib/briefing/* + the Briefing page/cockpit

8 sections, citation-verified AI synthesis

Verify

Ran the full pipeline against real live data twice

confirmed all 6 Charge validation specimens

Rework

Rebuilt copy + layout after Zeb called it unreadable

plain language, real hierarchy, deduplicated

What shipped

products/alloy/lib/briefing/types.ts — EvidenceClaim/EvidenceRef contract + all section result types

products/alloy/lib/briefing/medinachf-request-language.ts — new bounded analysis of admin_intents.raw_text

products/alloy/lib/briefing/where-we-are.ts — AI synthesis + deterministic citation-verification pass

products/alloy/lib/briefing/what-changed.ts, what-were-learning.ts, trends.ts, attention.ts, direction.ts, research-landscape.ts — adapters over existing os-vitals compute functions

products/alloy/lib/briefing/index.ts — top-level aggregator

products/alloy/components/briefing/BriefingCockpit.tsx — the page UI

products/alloy/app/w/[slug]/briefing/page.tsx — the route

3 production credential fixes: CANVAS_1_READONLY_DATABASE_URL, CANVAS_2_READONLY_DATABASE_URL (rotated + added to Alloy Vercel), MEDINACHF_READONLY_DATABASE_URL (new least-privilege role provisioned + added to Alloy Vercel)

products/alloy/lib/os-vitals/sessions.ts — extended RawSession to read learning[] (previously discarded by this reader despite existing on 267/294 real session JSONs)

products/alloy/lib/os-vitals/since-last-visit.ts — pageId made a parameter (default-preserved) so Briefing tracks its own since-last-visit independently of OS Vitals