A peek at each

A portrait screen on the wall that is the alarm surface for everything else. It latches red until a human clears it, on purpose, and reads from the hallway.

The agent's memory is a directory of one-fact files with a linter, an index whose lines are triggers rather than summaries, nightly verification against the machines, and git for history.

A fortnightly patch cycle for a small Proxmox fleet, graded on evidence of what actually updated rather than on the schedule having run.

Watches classifieds every fifteen minutes and fifty-odd store prices hourly for a wanted-parts list, and sends one message when something moves. The part matters, not the store.

Internal traffic versus traffic that leaves the house, as two different facts, because a home network full of IoT devices should have to explain itself.