Engineering notes
Source-reviewed engineering field notes, operating lessons, and honest post-mortems from the systems Egan Forge actually runs.
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A remote approval button is useful only when it shows the effect, authorizes the exact reviewed action, delegates real work, and reports the outcome without turning unknowns into green checkmarks.
Forge was generating strategic proposals every six hours with no durable path for the CEO to write corrections back into the agent's own memory.
We required the CEO feedback loop, anti-pattern memory, and a full end-to-end kill test to pass before moving FORGE_MODE from shadow to v1; the data showed two verdicts in 240 hours.
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