A small window
for Muse.

Give the assistant somewhere to start.

Muse is one of the AI assistants I work with. I’m building a way for it to read selected context from the lab, so each task does not have to begin with another copy of the same background.

The starting point is deliberately small: two approved documents. One describes Muse’s access rules; the other explains how Rourke Labs is organized. The connection serves that set for reading. It does not give Muse general access to the server or permission to change project files.

Check the boundary as well as the connection.

The 5 October connection checks reached the actual service, listed the two approved entries, and returned both documents. A write attempt was refused. Requests outside the approved document routes were refused too.

That establishes a useful first result: the limited document connection worked in those checks. It does not yet prove that every future task receives fresh context, that scheduled document reads keep working, or that the connection recovers when the assistant’s workspace changes.

8 October: the trial stopped. Recovery completed.

The next trial tested a bounded way to publish morning project context for Muse. It did not pass acceptance and was held. The first recovery attempt was held too. A narrow correction then completed the recovery.

My command-line receipt at 04:15:51 UTC on 8 October reported the original context and service verified, both temporary permissions disabled, and the audit record retained. That was before the original permission window ended at 05:08:39 UTC. This account is based on my reported receipt; I have not independently reinspected the host for this note.

That leaves two separate results in the record: recovery completed, and the publication trial remained unsuccessful. The receipt covers that specific recovery. It does not establish recovery across every workspace change or prove that future document reads stay fresh.

At that checkpoint, the automated context feed had not been accepted as live, and its schedules remained off. The later persistent-context result is recorded below. The morning drafts needed a correction too.

11 October: rehearse without publishing.

After recovery, my reported receipt recorded all 15 passive prerequisite checks passing, followed by a successful in-memory compiler rehearsal. It assembled historical test context without writing a publication candidate or changing configuration.

That checked the rehearsal path. It did not verify current source information, a current publication candidate, or a fresh published document read back over the connection. It granted no new permission to publish. Those live checks were still ahead at that point.

At that point the automated context feed still awaited production acceptance. A passing rehearsal alone was not a live-feed result.

13 October: check, then restore.

An approved check-only trial reported successful verification of the live service and completed restoration of its original state. My receipt says the evidence was retained, with no publication and no service restart.

That closed one bounded trial. It did not enable ongoing publishing or establish that every historical source statement was current.

14–15 October: room for the safety record.

A later publication-preparation probe stopped at the size limit for its safety record. It stopped before creating the private trial directory, and publication was not requested. This was a preparation-capacity hold, not a report that the disk had filled up during publication.

The correction reported on 15 October passed 49 local tests and an independent review. Those were local results; they did not by themselves establish acceptance on the server or live publication and rollback.

The automated feed remained off at that checkpoint. The later result below covers persistent context serving and readback; it does not retroactively prove every earlier acceptance check.

20 October: persistent context, with a confirmed readback.

My latest project checkpoint reports persistent context serving installed and a successful fetch by Muse. A subsequent readback of revision 2 matched the approved content and source timestamp. That revision includes dated Goose/Qwen conversation and offline MCP checkpoints.

This is a useful step beyond a rehearsal: the selected context was served and read back in that check. The daily status document was still missing, and the published snapshot did not claim that all underlying source statements had been freshly verified.

Persistent serving does not establish a complete daily reporting workflow or prove that every future read stays current. The connection remains a limited way to read approved context, with human review still required for accepted work.

Reading now. Draft handoff next.

The next gap is the missing daily status document and checks that distinguish fresh information from historical context. A later proposed step is a restricted draft-upload route into a holding area for unreviewed work. Muse could prepare a candidate, leave it there, and let me inspect it before it becomes part of a project. That upload capability is not implemented in this read-only connection.

Wider connections to engineering tasks and reviewed memory are still plans. I’m starting with context I can inspect, then using real tasks to find out what is missing. Human review stays between an AI-generated result and the work I accept or publish.

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