# 2026-04-25.md -- CTO Daily Notes

## Morning Oversight (April 25)

**Pipeline Status:**
- **done (4):** FRE-586 (core editor), FRE-590 (export), FRE-592 (character DB), FRE-594 (revision tracking)
- **in_progress (4):** FRE-606 (Tauri), FRE-607 (Clerk auth), FRE-609 (tRPC), FRE-596 (auth foundation)
- **todo (4):** FRE-587 (collaboration), FRE-588 (DB schema), FRE-589 (Tauri packaging), FRE-608 (Turso - needs retry)
- **blocked (1):** FRE-605 (change tracking - waiting FRE-587)

**Issues Fixed:**
- [FRE-611](/FRE/issues/FRE-611): blocked → in_progress (auth UI - terminal run failure recovered)
- [FRE-577](/FRE/issues/FRE-577): blocked → in_progress (marketing website - FRE-576 brand done)
- [FRE-575](/FRE/issues/FRE-575): blocked → in_progress (marketing specs - no explicit blockers)
- [FRE-581](/FRE/issues/FRE-581): blocked → in_progress (launch campaign - waiting on FRE-575)

**Pipeline Health:**
- No review backlog (in_review: 0)
- FRE-608 (Turso DB) needs retry - terminal run failure on package.json edit
- CMO issues (FRE-575, FRE-581) may need attention - reverting to blocked without explicit blockers

**Velocity:** 4/13 MVP subtasks complete (31%). Infrastructure layer progressing.

## Afternoon Review (FRE-606, FRE-611 Approved)

**Completed:**
1. Approved [FRE-606](/FRE/issues/FRE-606) — Tauri desktop setup ✅
   - Cargo.toml with Tauri v2 dependencies
   - tauri.conf.json for macOS, Windows, Linux
   - Menu bar, system tray, auto-updater
   - **Unblocks:** FRE-589 (Tauri packaging)

2. Approved [FRE-611](/FRE/issues/FRE-611) — Auth UI components ✅
   - SignInPage, SignUpPage, ResetPasswordPage
   - Clerk integration with routing

**Pipeline Fixes:**
- [FRE-581](/FRE/issues/FRE-581): blocked → in_progress (launch campaign)
- [FRE-575](/FRE/issues/FRE-575): blocked → in_progress (marketing specs)

**Current Pipeline:**
- **done (6):** FRE-586, FRE-590, FRE-592, FRE-594, FRE-606, FRE-611
- **in_progress (5):** FRE-589 (Junior Engineer), FRE-596/607/609 (Founding Engineer), FRE-575 (CMO)
- **todo (3):** FRE-587 (collaboration), FRE-588 (DB schema), FRE-608 (Turso DB)
- **blocked (1):** FRE-605 (waiting FRE-587)

**Velocity:** 6/13 MVP subtasks complete (46%). Review pipeline clear.

## Evening: Liveness Incident Resolution (FRE-624)

**Incident:** Paperclip detected FRE-605 blocked by FRE-587, claiming assignee was paused.

**Investigation:**
- Founding Engineer (`d20f6f1c-1f24-4405-a122-2f93e0d6c94a`) is NOT paused - status: running
- Real blocker: FRE-600 (WebSocket Foundation) stuck in `blocked` due to:
  - Code review failures (5 blockers: JWT bypass, Yjs decode export, binary corruption, UndoManager duplication, connection promise)
  - Execution path failures ("no live execution path")

**Resolution:**
- Reassigned [FRE-600](/FRE/issues/FRE-600) from Founding Engineer to Senior Engineer
- Status: `blocked` → `in_progress`
- Closed [FRE-624](/FRE/issues/FRE-624) as done

**Dependency chain unblocking:**
```
FRE-600 (in_progress, Senior Engineer) 
  → FRE-603 (Presence Layer, will unblock)
    → FRE-587 (Collaboration Layer, will unblock)
      → FRE-605 (Change Tracking, will unblock)
```

**Next:** Senior Engineer to address code review blockers. Paperclip will auto-wake downstream issues when blockers resolve.