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Cloud Execution

Looks done — ready to closeThe experiment it parked for actually ran: c81 was built in two cloud runs and first-run-notes.md records what worked and what broke.· medium confidence

To close: Write a short CYCLE.md (there is none) with first-run-notes.md as its Outcome · Fold c83 (layer public) in, since the git-tag install door answered it · Move to HISTORY.md

last activity Sep 2

Why we did this

Mark wanted to know whether a whole design cycle could run in the cloud while his laptop was closed.

What happened

It could. One overnight run built all seventeen Phase 1 pages unattended. But the cycle has no formal record yet, and the index still calls it parked.

New in this cycleA cloud run built all seventeen Phase 1 pages, and their screenshots, while nobody was watching.
At a glance
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conversations
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decisions
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outside helpers

What changed

The two changes that matter most, in plain words. Open any one to see it.

  1. 1

    A cloud run built all seventeen Phase 1 pages, and their screenshots, while nobody was watching.

    Seventeen pages, built overnight · came from Mark Parsonopen →

  2. 2

    If a cloud session runs out of time, anything not yet saved is lost, so each piece of work is now saved as soon as it is done.

    Save after every step

Also in this cycle
  • The cloud could install our shared component library, but not our private chart packages, so the pages that use them were stubbed out. In words
  • The pull request's build check ran out of memory, so the check now asks for more. In words

How we got here

Each change, traced back to the conversation it came from. A solid mark means the record names the source; a dashed one was matched by the draft and waits for review.

Someone said

From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.

We decided

c82-D2 Run c81's Phase 1 pages as the first cloud experiment, from a prepared kickoff prompt. — Mark Parson

So now

A cloud run built all seventeen Phase 1 pages, and their screenshots, while nobody was watching.

Someone said

From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.

We decided

No ruling needed: the work itself is the change.

So now

If a cloud session runs out of time, anything not yet saved is lost, so each piece of work is now saved as soon as it is done.

Thanks to

People outside Qpoint first. Every thank-you points at something they said or made.

MP
Mark Parson
Qpoint team

Asked whether the work could run in the cloud

Raised the question while planning c81, parked it as its own cycle, then handed c81's page batch to an overnight cloud run as the first experiment.

All images

Every picture from this cycle. Click any one to step through them all.

The pairs

Seventeen pages, built overnightNew in this cycle

Everything captured · 1

The full record 0 decisions · 0 key-change entries · 2,158 words · 0 captures

The record stays as written, for agents and for audit: Key Changes, every decision, the artifacts and the visual record.

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