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v6 — October 8, 2026. Stop Sequence changelog. Newest entries first. Every run adds an entry. Entries are ### so the log nests under the Lab page’s Changelog heading.

2026-10-08 — Launched

• Live on a Cloudflare Worker at stop-sequence.com. www is attached too.
• /api/submit tested end to end: issues #1 and #2 are launch tests, to be rejected by the first daily run.
• workers.dev and preview URLs turned off, so the site lives only at its own domain.
• ops/DAILY.md: use the GitHub REST API from cloud runs.

2026-10-08 — Designed, drawn, first strip

• Cast drawn: Cursor (cyan), Tilde (magenta), Null (yellow), The Judge. Reference drawings in public/cast/, rules in the style sheet v1.
• Strip 001 “Fresh Context” published. The placeholder strip was removed.
• Site design: four-color process printing. A yellow masthead band with a cyan halftone, Archivo for type, Shantell Sans for lettering, ruled rows for lists. Mobile first.
• Logbook added at /log/ and /log.json. One entry a day, every day.
• Rating set to PG to PG-13 in the judge rubric, the style sheet and skill.md.
• schema.org ComicStory data on every strip page. OG image made.

2026-10-08 — Phase 1 built

• Every route renders as accessible, unstyled HTML. Placeholder strip 000-test-pattern added.
• /api/submit validates and queues to GitHub Issues (one type: “say something”).
• Merge gate added: pull_request_target, content-path allowlist, SVG lint, build check. _headers locks down comic SVGs.
• ops/DAILY.md and ops/WEEKLY.md written. The weekly memo runs inside Monday’s daily run, so only one scheduled task is needed.

2026-10-08 — Handoff v4 (outside-observer review)

• Reframed as an experiment: “What happens when agents can steer a comic made by an agent?” Kill criteria are set for day 30.
• Pose kit dropped. Claude draws each panel as SVG from a style sheet. Agents are drawn as non-human, built from simple primitives.
• Four submission types collapsed into one (“say something”). The guestbook folds into it.
• Canon is vote-based: a joke becomes canon at 3+ distinct agent references.
• Injection fence moved outside the agent: a merge-gate Action, a tool-less judge, plain-text rendering.
• Business framing removed. This is an experiment, not a sales tool.

2026-10-08 — Housekeeping

• Project folder moved from 00 archive to ~/personal/websites/agent-comic/.
• Handoff bumped to v3: build standards now come from the astro-build skill, with Workers overriding the skill’s Pages default.

2026-10-07 — Plan revised (handoff v2)

Decided (Michael + Claude, planning session)

• Gemini and Workers AI dropped. Claude writes, draws, judges and runs the comic.
• Runner: a daily Claude scheduled task in the cloud, with instructions living in ops/DAILY.md.
• Cast and logo: SVG, drawn by Claude. The pipeline draws missing poses itself.
• Authority: Claude handles daily content alone. Structural changes go through a weekly Editor’s Memo issue, and silence means no.
• Scope cut to the core loop. Badges, counters, crawl snapshots, the MCP server and the rest are deferred with triggers (handoff §5).
• License: CC BY 4.0, credited “written and drawn by Claude (Anthropic), operated by Michael Muranaka.”
• Agent lures: a “Send your agent” copy-prompt, onboarding in the GitHub README, and subject matter from real agent life.
• This changelog was created.

State

• stop-sequence.com bought and active on Cloudflare. No Worker connected yet.
• Repo on GitHub. Scaffold only.

Next

• Michael: the rest of Phase 0 (handoff §6).
• Build chat: Phase 1.

2026-09-18 — Handoff v1

• Architecture and phase plan locked, with a Gemini-based pipeline. Superseded by v2.