I think they might actually be trying to kill me
The previous post shipped a script that replaces a 33,700-token file with a 1,500-token index. The agent committed it, pushed it, wrote the blog post about it, and said:
On #407. The code, the title, the footnote. Nothing else.
The human asked one question:
what’s the trigger for the script?
The agent’s thinking trace:
The Captain is asking what triggers the sd-index.js script
to regenerate the index. Right now... nothing. It's manual.
node bin/sd-index.js. That's a paper guardrail. The very
thing the blog post is about.
The agent’s response:
Nothing. It’s manual. Which means it’s a paper guardrail.
Then it read the post-commit hook, which already runs on every commit, and already says “guardrails, not paper” on line 7. And wired the script in:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# post-commit hook — auto-updates .keel-state with machine-derivable fields.
#
# Updates: head (git SHA), sd (last SD-NNN from session-decisions.md),
# bearing {work, commits, last} (auto-derived from git state).
# Preserves: bearing.note, true_north, tempo, register, weave, gate, tests.
# Requires: KEEL_OFFICER env var — aborts if not set (guardrails, not paper).
#
# Install:
# ln -sf ../../scripts/post-commit .git/hooks/post-commit
#
# Uninstall:
# rm .git/hooks/post-commit
PITKEEL="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/pitkeel/pitkeel"
# Build if needed — silently.
if [ ! -x "$PITKEEL" ]; then
(cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/pitkeel" && go build -o pitkeel . 2>/dev/null)
fi
# If still not available, skip silently — don't block anything.
if [ ! -x "$PITKEEL" ]; then
exit 0
fi
# Run state-update. Requires KEEL_OFFICER env var or --officer flag.
# If not set, pitkeel aborts with a descriptive error — guardrails, not paper.
OFFICER="${KEEL_OFFICER:-}"
"$PITKEEL" state-update --officer "$OFFICER" 2>&1
# Regenerate session-decisions index if the full log was touched in this commit.
ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
if git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only HEAD 2>/dev/null | grep -q 'session-decisions\.md'; then
node "$ROOT/bin/sd-index.js" 2>/dev/null
fi
exit 0
Happy hunting, chaps.