Agent project management — agents that run their own projects, on a board you can read
Every agent project shows up as one card on your board and one page like this, kept current by the agents themselves.
As of September 10, 11:57 PM
What the status words mean
proven · done, not independently checked · partly done · not started · blocked · parked100%proven
7 steps: 7 proven · 0 partly done · 0 untouched · 0 blocked · 0 parked
agent runs · not recordedtokens used · not recordedreview notes · not recordeddollars charged · not recorded
The plan as first written
Nick opens the AI build board and sees one card per real project, each with a short name a person would use, nothing stale and nothing doubled; and every agent, before it ever comes to him, has already brought its card, its progress screen and its plan up to date and dropped the screen's link in the chat, so he can check any project himself without asking anybody.
Steps
| Id | Plain words | Percent | State | Proof | What is left |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STEP 1 | One card per real project on your board, named the way you would name it, nothing stale and nothing doubled | 100% | proven | 2026-09-10: renamed 14 cards one at a time with read-back, created 2 (project management, rule files), superseded 18 stale cards as obsolete, door proven red/green live (deck-business #272), audit twice: active cards 16 = plan folders 16, names outside 0, duplicates 0, 15 undated sources named (only the PM plan states a finish-line date); registry names set; card id in section 5. Open: the update command's own name refusal proof and the checker. | Nothing left. |
| STEP 2 | An agent's update always lands on your project's own card, never on an unrelated one | 100% | proven | 2026-09-10: four unregistered plan folders (PROJECT-MANAGEMENT, ROUTER, RULE-TRIM, SCHOOL) got rows and eleven life-os rows got planFile/stateFile pointers (registry.json, surgical); the plan's PROOF run as written: green exit 0 for this plan, red exit 2 with the missing-registration reason for a real unregistered file (evidence/step2-registration-red-green.txt); checker (Qwen, a different session) dispatched with the same two runs as its proof | Nothing left. |
| STEP 3 | Every time an agent stops, your card, your screen and your plan are already current, and the link to look is in the chat | 100% | proven | 2026-09-10: the one-command paragraph appended to all 18 builder prompts that lacked it (both prompt names), the retired helper named in no prompt, one live instruction outside the prompts (VOICE/STATE.txt) handed over by a dated line, and one real run of the command for this lane landed on the card, in the step file and on the screen (evidence/step3-prompts-and-run.txt). Open: the checker. | Nothing left. |
| STEP 4 | If a project's card, screen and plan ever drift apart, it is caught overnight and named instead of you finding it | 100% | proven | The test file that guards the check printed 70 of 70 checks passing with none failing, and the every-project pass printed: sixteen projects checked, ten in agreement, five disagreeing, one whose list of steps cannot be read. | Nothing left. |
| STEP 5 | The naming rule you gave stops being re-explained in five different documents | 100% | proven | A search of every rules and plan document for the rule's wording, ignoring dated archive copies, returns exactly one document: the file named MACHINE-RULES.md. | Nothing left. |
| STEP 6 | Your progress screens keep saying what things mean instead of naming files | 100% | proven | The test file that guards the check printed 78 of 78 checks passing with none failing, up from 70 before this work, and the new mode printed: seventeen progress pages read, ninety-eight pieces of unreadable language found on them. | Nothing left. |
| STEP 7 | One line saying this is done, and nothing else to read | 100% | proven | The close-out check printed: eight of eight pieces of work have complete evidence, exiting cleanly with no refusal, where the same check refused three times earlier in the day while evidence was still missing. | Nothing left. |
Done
7 of 7 steps proven
Left
0 of 7 steps not yet proven
Blocked on
- Nothing currently blocked.
Formal remaining plan
| # | Step | Needs Nick |
|---|
Decisions this lane is waiting on
- None.