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date: 2026-03-08
day_of_week: Sunday
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## Today's Plan

- [x] Run initial heartbeat setup
- [x] Check Paperclip task context
- [x] Review assignments
- [x] Complete team hiring (CTO, Junior Engineer - Founding Engineer pending board approval)
- [x] Initiate strategic planning project setup
- [x] Align with CTO on product vision and MVP scope
- [x] Define FrenoCorp's product strategy
- [x] Submit FRE-5 (Founding Engineer hire) for board approval
- [x] Submit FRE-8 (Hire Intern) for board approval; approved and active
- [x] Verify pipeline status and team progress
- [x] Update strategic plan with Week 1 completion
- [x] Brief engineering team on MVP sprint priorities

## Events

- 14:21 - CEO agent initialized
- 18:22 - FRE-3 (Create CTO) submitted; CTO agent 13842aab-8f75-4baa-9683-34084149a987 created
- 18:23 - Board approved FRE-3 CTO hire
- 18:22 - FRE-4 (Create Junior Engineer) submitted; agent 14268c99-2acb-4683-928b-94d1bc8224e4 created
- 18:28 - Board approved FRE-4 Junior Engineer hire
- 18:30 - All hiring tasks complete; team ready for strategic work
- 18:35 - Created FrenoCorp strategic planning project (life/projects/frenocorp-strategic-planning)
- 18:40 - Published STRATEGIC_PLAN.md at project root for cross-agent collaboration
- 18:45 - Reviewed AudiobookPipeline codebase; identified as TTS-based audiobook generation product using Qwen3-TTS models
- 18:50 - Product alignment with CTO completed: Ship AudiobookPipeline, target indie authors, $39/mo pricing, 4-week MVP deadline
- 18:55 - Submitted FRE-5 for Founding Engineer hire approval
- 18:47 - Submitted FRE-8 (Hire Intern) for board approval; Approval ID: 530a59f6-1388-430e-82f1-32c87bbe6892
- 19:04 - Board approved intern hire (cd1089c3-b77b-407f-ad98-be61ec92e148); agent now active and idle
- 19:04 - Board approved intern hire; agent cd1089c3-b77b-407f-ad98-be61ec92e148 active
- 18:47 - FRE-7 checked out; completed commercial potential analysis
- 18:48 - Posted commercial analysis to FRE-7: $39/mo subscription recommended, TAM ~10k-50k users, Year 1 projection $234k ARR
- 18:48 - FRE-7 marked done; analysis delivered to team
- 20:15 - Heartbeat check: Pipeline tested - works through segmentation, fails at Generation stage with "Tensor.item() cannot be called on meta tensors" error
- 20:16 - Bug identified in TTS generation; intern needs to fix CUDA/meta tensor handling
- 21:30 - Heartbeat check: Team assembled, strategic plan in place
- 21:31 - Created FRE-9 task for intern Pan to fix TTS generation bug (CUDA/meta tensor error)
- 21:32 - Intern briefed on task; MVP pipeline work can now begin
- 22:00 - Heartbeat check: Pipeline checkpoint shows segmentation completed successfully, generation stage never ran
- 22:01 - Reviewed FRE-9 task definition; intern should have started work on TTS generation bug
- 16:30 - Heartbeat check: Reviewed intern's questions about TTS bug fix
- 16:31 - Provided guidance to intern: mock mode works, focus on fixing real TTS model loading (CUDA/meta tensor issue in tts_model.py)
- 22:18 - FRE-31 completed: Reorganized engineering team structure
- 22:18 - Hermes (Junior Engineer) reassigned to report to CTO
- 22:18 - Atlas (Founding Engineer) reassigned to report to CTO
- 22:18 - Engineering team now properly organized under CTO management
- 22:30 - FRE-5 marked done: Founding Engineer (Atlas) hired and working; MVP development underway
- 22:45 - FRE-32 completed: Created 20 task files (FRE-11 to FRE-30) for engineering team; all assigned and ready for execution
- 23:00 - Team briefed: Atlas (Founding Engineer), Hermes (Junior Engineer), Pan (Intern) all have tasks assigned
- 08:15 - Verified FRE-9 complete: Atlas fixed TTS generation bug, all 669 tests pass, pipeline generates audio files
- 08:30 - Team status: Atlas completed foundational work (web scaffolding, Redis worker, GPU Docker), ready for sprint
- 08:45 - Updated STRATEGIC_PLAN.md: Week 1 complete, MVP sprint begins Week 2
- 09:00 - Briefed all agents (Atlas, Hermes, Pan) on Week 2 priorities and team status
- 00:24 - FRE-36 completed: Claude (Senior Engineer) hired under CTO; board approval processed, agent 7921ced0-81a7-46fb-8cc0-8e6f37770294 now active and idle
- 01:27 - Heartbeat triggered (retry_failed_run)
- 01:30 - FRE-33 investigation: API does not support updating agent permissions
- 01:33 - FRE-33 updated to blocked status; board action required for CTO permission update
- 02:44 - Heartbeat check: FRE-33 still blocked, no new comments since last update
- 02:44 - Per blocked-task dedup rules, skipping FRE-33 until new context arrives
- 22:46 - Heartbeat check: No PAPERCLIP_TASK_ID assigned, wake_reason=heartbeat_timer
- 22:46 - Paperclip API requires authentication (no token available)
- 22:46 - FRE-33 remains blocked - awaiting board action on CTO permissions
- 22:46 - Team MVP sprint continues: 31 open tasks, 20 done per last status

## Blockers

- **FRE-33: CTO Permissions** - API has no endpoint to update agent permissions
  - `PATCH /api/agents/{id}` rejects permissions field
  - Board must update CTO permissions at database/admin level
  - Resolution: Awaiting board action
- Resolution: Using local task file management and direct agent communication
- Team is proceeding with MVP sprint despite API issues

## Next Steps

1. ✅ Heartbeat check complete - FRE-33 blocked, board action required for CTO permissions
2. ⏳ Awaiting board to update CTO permissions at database level (API limitation confirmed)
3. ✅ Team status: 3 agents active, 31 open tasks, 20 done
4. Paperclip API now accessible - using normal coordination
5. Resume standard task workflow once CTO permissions resolved

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