Build Log

Pursuits Fix, Canvas-1 Recovery, Two Owner Loop Charges, and forgekits.build Tells the Truth

September 14, 2026

A four-part session: fixed Alloy Pursuits' product-linking gap, recovered and redesigned canvas-1 for a real user, shipped two Owner Loop hardening Charges (Steward the Whole Product, Make App Differences Boring), then audited and rewrote the entire public website end to end against real evidence instead of memory.

AlloyCanvas-1Owner LoopWebsiteMulti-Charge

distinct Charges completed

website files rewritten, 3 phases

Owner Loop test assertions passing

stranded/stuck production requests recovered

Timeline

Start

Ignite — Pursuits investigation

Why don't the first Pursuits have current understanding, and why can't Empty Canvas apps link to Pursuits

+1hr

Pursuits fixed, canvas-1 recovery begins

Real product-link claim gathering shipped; 4 stranded canvas-1 Owner Loop requests found and recovered from actor-candidate branches

+3hr

canvas-1 redesigned — nav shell, not just color

First color-only pass corrected by Zeb: 'this does not look like medinaCHF... Pages, home page, navigation'

+4hr

Steward the Whole Product Charge — Council reviewed, built

PRODUCT.md pattern, pending_owner_disclosures, coherence-decision requirement — smallest vertical slice per Zeb's 5 tightening amendments

+6hr

Make App Differences Boring Charge — built to full completion

owner_loop app-contract namespace, 15 files migrated off hand-duplicated literals, cross-runtime Alloy/OS reader parity test, new drift-guard gate

+7hr

Website truth-audit — background research agent, ~70 tool calls

Corrected 3 of the Charge's own assumptions before writing a word of copy

+8hr

Corrected Findings & Decisions Register written, Zeb decides Known's exposure

Phase 0 artifact — Council's own recommended prerequisite before any copy work

+11hr

Phases 1-3 built and shipped, deployed to forgekits.build

Global shell, homepage, About, MedinaCHF family, Research/Labs, Hearth/Forge/Leashline/PilotLight, Known, then Guides/Community/Journal/Brochure light-touch pass

What shipped

products/alloy/lib/pursuits/synthesize.ts — gatherClaims() now follows productIds links to real Workpieces, not just directly-linked ones

forgekit-os/product-registry.json — added canvas-1..4 entries, fixed a regressed medina-chf/medinachf key drift

experiments/canvas-1/ — recovered 3 real stranded Owner Loop candidates via cherry-pick, plus a full navigation/visual redesign (BottomNav, real Home page, teal design tokens, Fraunces/Source Sans fonts)

forgekit-os/charges/steward-the-whole-product-2026-09-14.md — Council-reviewed, Zeb-tightened Charge doc

experiments/canvas-1/PRODUCT.md — bootstrapped durable product-knowledge doc

experiments/canvas-1/lib/db/schema.ts — pendingOwnerDisclosures table

forgekit-os/scripts/finalize-owner-intent.mjs — disclosure prepend at the one real terminal write path

forgekit-os/scripts/dispatch-owner-loop-requests.mjs — PRODUCT.md injection into every Owner Loop Charge

forgekit-os/charges/make-app-differences-boring-2026-09-13.md — final Charge doc with full Proof section

forgekit-os/config/apps.json — owner_loop namespace added to all 5 apps

forgekit-os/scripts/lib/owner-loop-app-contract.mjs + owner-loop-operations.mjs — the real fail-closed contract/operations layer

15 forgekit-os/scripts/ files migrated off hand-duplicated HAS_CANONICAL_COLUMNS/TABLE_NAME_BY_APP literals onto the contract

forgekit-os/scripts/check-owner-loop-app-shape-literals.mjs — new drift-guard gate, wired into test:os

products/alloy/lib/owner-loop-app-contract.ts + .test.ts — Alloy's own reader, cross-checked byte-identical against the OS's .mjs loader via a real spawned node subprocess

forgekit-os/charges/website-truth-corrected-findings-2026-09-14.md — Phase 0 Corrected Findings & Decisions Register, Known exposure decision recorded

forgekit-website/app/layout.tsx, app/page.tsx, app/about/page.tsx, components/Footer.tsx, public/manifest.json — Phase 1, global shell/homepage/About

forgekit-website/app/medinachf/{page,case-study/page,story/page}.tsx — Phase 2, MedinaCHF family's Act 2 (Owner Loop ownership story)

forgekit-website/app/research/page.tsx, app/labs/page.tsx — Phase 2, reorganized by real evidence status instead of a flat portfolio grid

forgekit-website/app/forgehome/page.tsx, app/forge/page.tsx — Phase 2, dead cross-site #contact anchors fixed

forgekit-website/app/known/page.tsx, app/known/prototype/layout.tsx — Phase 2, public-research-preview framing + noindex on the raw prototype demo

forgekit-website/app/brochure/page.tsx, app/journal/page.tsx — Phase 3, pricing correction + stale case-studies claim fixed

forgekit-website deployed to production — all 33 routes verified live at forgekits.build

“Truth-audit first, Crucible on the audit findings + plan, then build page-by-page.”
— Zeb, steering the website Charge's sequencing before any copy work began