Early decisions from setting up a pleasant launch cockpit where a creative collaborator can run observable experiments without first becoming a project manager.

A WhatsApp screenshot, a live CMS, a repository full of operating context, and four annotated images. This is what context engineering looks like when it helps a real person use new software.

Voice dictation, computer use, terminal agents, parallel work, client systems, prompt governance, private telemetry, and a way to check whether speed is improving or hiding my judgment.

A 37-day trace of how I work with agents: hundreds of one-turn dispatches, a small number of deep systems arcs, and 6.4 billion cache-heavy tokens behind them.