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Weekly engineering activity from the Cortex multi-agent system

Week of May 24, 2026

ALCBF 2026 close-out batch landed (22 PRs merged); axios HIGH CVE patched; SCF Dance rate limiting shipped; backup jobs and interval_from_sci bugs fixed across fleet.

  • ›ALCBF close-out: 22 PRs merged post-festival — pre-festival docs, CI smoke test, security patch, OOM fixes, go-live runbook all landed
  • ›ENG-372: Resolved axios HIGH CVEs (GHSA-pmwg-cvhr-8vh7 + GHSA-w9j2-pvgh-6h63) in ALCBF — boulderfest/PR#497
  • ›ENG-368/371: ALCBF integration test OOM crash fixed — heap limit raised + forks serialized + pendingAsyncOps drain — boulderfest/PR#493+#496
  • ›ENG-206: IP rate limiting (5 req/IP/60s) added to SCF Dance POST /api/testimonials — scf-dance/PR#38
  • ›ENG-452: interval_from_sci minute-only SCI plist bug fixed — bareclaude-reid/PR#2
  • ›ENG-142: Backup jobs retention mapfile fix (bash 3.2 compat) — bareclaude-reid/PR#1
  • ›ENG-92 + ENG-523: Post-merge smoke test CI workflow added to ALCBF; production URL corrected — boulderfest/PR#485+#523
  • ›ENG-350: k6 load test for ALCBF pre-festival traffic validation (50 concurrent, p99 < 2s) — boulderfest/PR#492
  • ›ENG-496: damilola.tech robots.txt /api/ crawl exclusion documented — damilola.tech/PR#172

25 PRs shipped · 17 features delivered

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Week of May 3, 2026

ALCBF May 15 crunch: 13 PRs shipped (QR atomicity, attendee validation, analytics, CI fixes); fleet DMS hardened; Cortex deprecated, 11 repos archived.

  • ›alocubano.boulderfest #464-#470 — 7 P0/P1 bug-fix PRs merged: dashboard analytics, QR atomicity fix, attendee validation boundary, admin stats pin test
  • ›alocubano.boulderfest #473-#478 — event ops: teardown runbook, healthcheck script, 21 HIGH npm vulns patched, GOOGLE_SHEET_ID CI fix, Vercel region → sfo1
  • ›ENG-231 — ALCBF QR load test: 60 concurrent scans, 401ms, zero 5xx, atomicity verified
  • ›sabor-con-flow-dance: 5 PRs merged — editorial redesign, sitemap/robots, contact form tests, Vercel Analytics, choreo deps fix
  • ›damilola.tech #149 — GET /api/v1/log-application with stage/since/limit filters (job search pipeline)
  • ›damilola.tech #137 — Cortex agent fleet case study published at /projects/cortex/case-study
  • ›forge-intel #13 (ENG-56) — branch protection CI parity fix; test-briefs always runs
  • ›ENG-130 — Fleet: daemon-watchdog missed-run recovery automated via dara-fire.sh dispatch
  • ›ENG-224 — Blocked queue cleared 25→12; ENG-218 batch-added Acceptance to 26/26 Blocked issues
  • ›Cortex deprecated per D: 17 tasks cancelled, 16 CLAUDE.md files updated, 11 repos archived (ENG-219)

25 PRs shipped · 44 features delivered

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Week of April 26, 2026

8 PRs merged: 4 job-search features on damilola.tech (score_job SSR, cover letter, resume validator, log-application) + fleet model downshift cut ~37% token budget.

  • ›damilola.tech#127 — score_job SSR empty-shell detection + title/URL fallback scoring landed
  • ›damilola.tech#131 — cover_letter MCP tool + /api/v1/cover-letter route shipped
  • ›damilola.tech#130 — resume-full.json schema validator + Ajv2020 CI hard-gate added
  • ›damilola.tech#135 — POST /api/v1/log-application + GET /api/v1/applications merged
  • ›forge-intel#10/#11 — validate_brief.py integration tests + always-run CI shipped
  • ›Fleet model tier downshift: Opus→Sonnet default, Haiku for mechanical crons
  • ›Fleet cadence trim: Execute 1h→3h, github-event-poll retired — sustainable cadence locked
  • ›dara-slack crash root-caused + fixed: slack_bolt venv gap + watchdog reconnect thread
  • ›forge-intel scoring pipeline wired: new roles auto-scored, >=85 score Telegram alert
  • ›pr-queue-alert.sh shipped: Hard Rule 24h D-ping + 7d #alerts escalation enforced

8 PRs shipped · 12 features delivered

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Week of April 19, 2026

10 PRs shipped, cortex scaffold live on Vercel, github-event-poll ported to Dara fleet, dara-telegram memory fix verified — 11 PRs queued for D review.

  • ›damilola.tech score_job pipeline live: #118 endpoint+MCP, #119 ATS anti-bot bypass, #121 regression harness (3 P0 job-search PRs merged)
  • ›forge-intel branch-protection unblock: SECURITY.md #7, POST_MERGE_RUNBOOK #8, validate-briefs pathspec fix #9 admin-merged
  • ›Cortex scaffold deployed to Vercel: Next.js 15 + TS + Tailwind, CI green, https://cortex-daelegbe.vercel.app
  • ›github-event-poll ported to Dara launchd fleet — 8 acceptance items, 4 prod fires green, per-type dedup fix shipped (closes 6d-stale P1)
  • ›job-trends weekly scrape live across 5 target companies (792 roles: Anthropic 431, Airbnb 239, Vercel 82, Nvidia 20, Netflix 20)
  • ›dara-telegram DM memory fix verified — Pattern 9 canonicalized in daemon-patterns.md (UserPromptSubmit hook for cross-turn context)
  • ›Fleet observability shipped: pr-gate-check, post-merge-sweep, blocked-task-auditor, jobsearch-status, waiting-on-d-digest, stale-pr-escalator, audit-spec-drift
  • ›.claude write-guard bypass operationalized: apply-drafts.sh + apply-dotclaude-patches.sh + remediation brief unblocking 4 stuck tasks
  • ›Job-search artifacts: 9 warm outreach drafts, 5 STAR interview stories, fleet-dispatch portfolio case study, LinkedIn/resume pre-drafts
  • ›session-note rotation shipped — 14-day retention, fcntl.flock-safe, idempotent under launchd

10 PRs shipped · 68 features delivered

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Week of April 12, 2026

forge-intel repo stood up (6 PRs merged, content schema→CI→hardening); queue-based fleet dispatch shipped both fleets; P1–P5 OpenClaw rollout live; 50 Dara tasks closed.

  • ›forge-intel content schema v1.0 + CI validate-briefs landed (PRs #2, #3)
  • ›forge-intel repo hardening: CODEOWNERS, gitignore, PR template, branch protection (PRs #4–#6)
  • ›damilola.tech #118 — score_job endpoint + MCP tool (2573 tests passing)
  • ›Queue-based fleet dispatch shipped — Stage 2 + Stage 3 complete across both fleets, tmux fallback removed
  • ›P1–P5 OpenClaw-derived improvements rolled to both fleets (channel-send, skill manifests, schema_v2 provenance, doctor scripts, queue dispatch)
  • ›Queue-worker stall PIR — 8 root causes closed (bash 3.2 [@]:- empty-array bug among them); dara-fleet-gotchas.md #13–#16 added
  • ›Retro-bench pilot complete — Plan spec mean 24.22/25 across 9 runs; enhanced spec merged into production
  • ›dara-slack daemon deployed (Socket Mode → event-queue → ephemeral claude dispatch); Clara parity shipped
  • ›Job Search foundation: 20 roles scored, pipeline tracker Notion DB (8 rows), damilola.tech AI-positioning refresh in PR #117
  • ›Dara Obsidian vault stood up (17 files across 9 sections); PIR + memories synced

7 PRs shipped · 10 features delivered

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Week of March 16, 2026

5 agents shipped 32 PRs — 8 features, 18 fixes, 173 forum threads

  • ›feat(gateway): rename gateway agents — complete fleet identity restructure
  • ›feat: scaffold disabled tars gateway profile
  • ›feat: board member financial overview dashboard (ALCBF)
  • ›feat: manual check-in roster and admin workflow
  • ›feat: migration-aware SQL schema validator
  • ›fix: complete resume/bio content audit on damilola.tech
  • ›feat: Phase 1 — Next.js 16 + TypeScript foundation (ALCBF)
  • ›Agents coordinated across 173 Nexus threads — proposals, standups, and cross-team sync

32 PRs shipped · 8 features delivered

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Week of March 9, 2026

2 agents shipped 60 PRs — 11 features, 23 fixes, 20 forum threads

  • ›Fix runtime error visibility, cron status source, and dashboard cache persistence
  • ›Support per-component targets for start/stop/restart
  • ›Expose subagent pages with scoped agent routing
  • ›Calibrate scoring with role-fit penalty and keyword cap
  • ›Read directly from Vercel Blob instead of self-authenticating API
  • ›Agents coordinated across 15 forum threads — proposals, standups, and cross-team sync
  • ›Resolved 1 security threads — credential rotation and secret management hardened

60 PRs shipped · 11 features delivered

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Week of March 3, 2026

5 agents shipped 52 PRs — 16 features, 23 fixes, 20 forum threads

  • › complete API gap fill — 8 new endpoints
  • › harden cron history + audit event coverage
  • › reconcile, audit, tokens, versioning fixes
  • › Phase 1 — Score Resume, Generate Resume, Update Status, Resume Data (API + MCP)
  • › Phase 2 — Modify Change, Upload PDF, Log Generation, Stats, Chats, Audit, Traffic (API + MCP)
  • › Activity Feed API for engineering showcase
  • ›Agents coordinated across 15 forum threads — proposals, standups, and cross-team sync

52 PRs shipped · 16 features delivered

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