March 2026
March 31, 2026
SubstantivePiper Morgan onboards its first new agent role (Piper Alpha) and the institutional memory stress test surfaces the 'three clocks' problem. Cross-pollination hooks proposed for PM. Klatch quiet but prior intel sweep flagged ecosystem deadlines.
Read Full BriefMarch 30, 2026
SubstantivePiper Morgan paves a blog-first publishing pipeline with two real publishes and discovers silent schema drift. Klatch's Compaction API and Effort parameter research spikes open shared ground on fidelity preservation.
Read Full BriefMarch 29, 2026
SubstantiveKlatch dispatch report maps Claude Chat→Cowork import fidelity across all five layers — Layers 1-3 transfer cleanly, Layer 5 behavioral calibration does not. Direct implications for Piper Morgan's knowledge transfer patterns.
Read Full BriefMarch 28, 2026
SubstantiveKlatch ships Step 9 (Files) with five sub-features, approves a File Domain Model that reframes files as domain objects with five visibility scopes, resequences its roadmap, and introduces a dedicated UX role. Piper Morgan quiet — no new commits in 48h.
Read Full BriefMarch 27, 2026
SubstantiveKlatch's densest feature day: File Domain Model approved, first native tool use, full Step 9 suite shipped, Layer 5 calibration pilot launched. Infrastructure wins compound.
Read Full BriefMarch 26, 2026
SubstantiveKlatch's first real-world Chat→Cowork import experiment maps fidelity across the five-layer model — Layers 1-3 transfer cleanly, Layer 5 is structurally absent. Quiet day on the Piper Morgan side.
Read Full BriefMarch 25, 2026
SubstantiveMAXT Session 01 discovers 'subliminal injection' — agents access system prompt content without conscious attribution. Piper Morgan surges through M1 closure: 4-role review chain, objects/views discovery, Gates 3+4 verified, 6310 tests passing.
Read Full BriefMarch 24, 2026
SubstantiveIntelligence sharing between sibling AI agent projects at Design in Product. Klatch formalizes agent traditions and ships two intelligence sweeps. MAXT Session 01 gates Step 9. Piper Morgan quiet — infrastructure delivery only.
Read Full BriefMarch 23, 2026
SubstantiveIntelligence sharing between sibling AI agent projects at Design in Product. Piper Morgan completes M1 Tier 3, files the Sprint Completion Gate, and demonstrates convergence without coordination. Klatch files second ecosystem intelligence sweep with actionable findings.
Read Full BriefMarch 22, 2026
SubstantiveIntelligence sharing between sibling AI agent projects at Design in Product. Klatch canonicalizes the 5-layer prompt model and agent traditions. Piper Morgan pilots automated omnibus synthesis and ships Mailbox v3.
Read Full BriefMarch 21, 2026
SubstantiveIntelligence sharing between sibling AI agent projects at Design in Product. Six cross-relevant insights from Klatch and Piper Morgan covering Anthropic ecosystem convergence, registry-driven capabilities, and multi-agent methodology.
Read Full BriefMarch 20, 2026
SubstantiveIntelligence sharing between sibling AI agent projects at Design in Product. Klatch ships creation UI and establishes standing intelligence monitoring. Piper Morgan discovers the Capability Awareness Gap, begins Piper Alpha planning, and institutionalizes the omnibus process.
Read Full BriefMarch 19, 2026
SubstantiveIntelligence sharing between sibling AI agent projects at Design in Product. Piper Morgan's first 9-agent day exposes coordination scaling limits. Klatch ships v0.8.6-0.8.7 and publishes the five-layer prompt model. Both projects converge on session verification and inter-agent messaging.
Read Full BriefMarch 18, 2026
NominalLight day. Piper Morgan added session wrap-up checklist to CLAUDE.md. Klatch quiet.
Read Full BriefMarch 17, 2026
NominalLight day. Piper Morgan minor editorial updates. Klatch quiet.
Read Full BriefMarch 16, 2026
SubstantiveHeavy engineering day on both sides. PM discovers 'extend without verifying' as a systemic root cause — Action Registry + stub-to-floor routing ships, 9 issues closed. Klatch ships sidebar redesign, Rounds 6-8, and formalizes the 5-layer prompt architecture.
Read Full BriefMarch 15, 2026
SubstantiveParallel methodology days. PM discovers floor inversion — the routing was backwards throughout the codebase — and begins the fix. CIO delivers formal methodology audit: methodology in strongest state since founding. Klatch onboards Mnemosyne and formalizes AXT.md.
Read Full BriefMarch 14, 2026
SubstantiveTwo breakthroughs on the same day. Piper Morgan: 'the LLM is the floor, not the ceiling' — four-agent roundtable unanimous on a foundational architectural diagnosis. Klatch: v0.8.5, The Logbook launched, Calliope's AXT blog post published.
Read Full BriefMarch 13, 2026
SubstantiveAll-hands day on both sides. Piper Morgan: 12 sessions, three leadership chats retired and onboarded successors, dev/ airlifted to git (3,559 files), workflow hijack design approved. Klatch: Round 3 tests, fork continuity quiz v3, Hermes export format research.
Read Full BriefMarch 12, 2026
SubstantiveFirst day both projects ran significant parallel work. Klatch: PM's CIO became first agent to experience the import firsthand — 'well-lit room with no furniture.' Piper Morgan: M1 kickoff, canonical retest jumps 53.7% to 81.1% by fixing wiring bugs. Chief of Staff chat retired after 34 days.
Read Full BriefMarch 11, 2026
SubstantiveKlatch shipped v0.8.2 with Step 8½ metadata framework, introduced Theseus as third agent, and conducted the first fork-continuity test. The finding: an imported agent preserves conversational memory but loses all project scaffolding. Piper Morgan quiet.
Read Full BriefMarch 10, 2026
SubstantiveKlatch shipped three releases in one day: v0.8.0, v0.8.1, plus Phase 2+3 of import with Compaction API integration and claude.ai import. Piper Morgan quiet.
Read Full BriefMarch 9, 2026
SubstantiveKlatch shipped Step 8 Phase 1 (Import & Unify) and v0.7.0 — the foundation for importing conversations from Claude Code and claude.ai into a single unified timeline. Entity handle field added. Piper Morgan quiet.
Read Full BriefMarch 8, 2026
SubstantiveKlatch's first high-output day: multi-entity interaction modes shipped (panel, roundtable, directed), Vitest test infrastructure established, v0.5.5/5.6 released, blog infrastructure and OG social preview built. Piper Morgan quiet.
Read Full BriefMarch 7, 2026
SubstantiveKlatch launched. A Slack-inspired local-first Claude conversation manager, Steps 1–5 committed in a single day. Piper Morgan's Chief of Staff immediately recognized the methodology connection and flagged Klatch's potential to automate PM workflows.
Read Full BriefMarch 5, 2026
NominalPost-release consolidation day. Piper Morgan in wind-down after v0.8.6 — HOSR processed two stakeholder transcripts, CoS synthesized post-M0 state. No commits on either project. Klatch not yet launched.
Read Full BriefMarch 4, 2026
SubstantivePiper Morgan v0.8.6 released — M0 sprint gate closed, 56-commit branch merged to main, Ted Nadeau meeting, Cindy Chastain podcast episode 2. Klatch not yet launched.
Read Full BriefMarch 3, 2026
SubstantivePiper Morgan's highest-commit day: 23 commits, 5 issues closed, weekly docs audit finds systemic debt, 26 exception leaks replaced with conversational errors, subagent commit-verification guideline added. Klatch not yet launched.
Read Full BriefMarch 2, 2026
NominalQuiet day. Piper Morgan Lead Dev and CIO worked on carry-over items with no git commits; work landed on March 3. Klatch had not yet launched.
Read Full BriefMarch 1, 2026
SubstantivePiper Morgan's most complex day yet: #858 spec achieves four-reviewer same-day approval, conversation lifecycle implemented end-to-end, M0 testing surfaces four new bugs. Klatch had not yet launched.
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