Work

The problem

Built on the Payload website template, which auto-syncs the database to the code in development — so the running schema quietly drifts from what is actually committed, and a deploy is the first place you find out.

The decision

Migrations are the source of truth. `db.push` is false in every environment, dev included, so each schema change is an explicit generated migration that is committed and applied before deploy — and Vercel never migrates on its own.

The problem

Doc automation stores one “last synced” commit and bumps it at the end of a run, which marks every document in the repository current — including the ones it never opened. The claim is false, permanent, and invisible.

The decision

Certify per document rather than per run: each verified doc carries its own stamp, and the global baseline is demoted to a scheduling hint that asserts nothing. Anything never checked stays visibly stale forever.

The problem

Ask a model for an article illustration and it draws the noun in the headline. The picture is competent, and the piece says nothing.

The decision

Put the skill’s weight on finding the abstraction, then compose it from a fixed set of verbs under a hard budget — seven objects, four colours, no text, legible at 160px. It refuses to draw what it cannot say in seven marks.