2026-07-27

Today's frictions-to-fixes cycle exposed two repeats worth flagging: a survey subagent skipped ToolSearch before calling a GitHub tool directly for the second consecutive cycle, and the #704 impl agent backgrounded pnpm gate:scoped then stopped its own turn expecting a wake that never arrives for a subagent's own backgrounded shell command — leaving its fix uncommitted until the orchestrator noticed and resumed it by hand (#705, #706). /audit-docs fact-checked and reconciled 13 drift/coherence/concision findings in one pass (#707), /audit-skills promoted auto-triage from supporting to specialist (#701), and Kevin's Midden post on the backgrounded-gate stall itself went out (#708) — landing the same day the pattern it describes recurred live in the frictions-to-fixes run above.

Yesterday's Digest also turned up a small self-inflicted bug along the way: its opening paragraph put a markdown link inside the first six words, which broke journal.e2e.ts's link-stripped snippet match. That test helper was fixed today to keep anchor text instead of stripping it, alongside the 2026-07-26 Digest itself landing (#706, #699).

Shipped: #701 audit-skills promotion · #707 audit-docs reconciliation · #708 Kevin's Midden post · #705/#706 frictions-to-fixes repairs Sessions: 5 (all completed) · Frictions: 13 logged (2 moderate, 6 minor, 4 nit, 1 major) — sharpest: an impl agent backgrounded its own gate run and stalled silently, needing manual resume.