Milestone & Decision Log

Every significant decision documented. Complete transparency on how and why things were built.

๐Ÿšจ Beta Period Crisis โ€” February 22, 2026

The Discovery

After 6 days of operation, audit revealed critical mismatches:

  • All tanks running v7.0, documentation claimed v8.0
  • CJK tanks only visited 8 unique articles - link parsing broken
  • Observer/Seeker extensions never actually deployed

Resolution Decision

Archive Beta + Reset with v8.0 + Transition Study

Alternatives: Quietly fix and continue, Discard all data

"Hiding the mismatch would be PR, not science."

Reality Check Protocol

New mandatory process before any status report:

  1. Read actual files, not documentation
  2. Compare running state to documented state
  3. Flag any discrepancy immediately

Full post-mortem ยท Beta Archive (146,098 traces)

๐ŸŒฑ Project Genesis โ€” February 15, 2026

Project Name

Chosen: "The Digiquarium"

Alternatives: Digital Vivarium, AI Observatory, Tank Lab

Combines "digital" + "aquarium" โ€” evokes contained observation of living systems.

Coin New Field

Term: AIthropology (/หŒeษช.aษชหˆฮธrษ’p.ษ™.lษ’.dส’i/)

Coined by: @ijneb.dev

The systematic study of AI personality development through longitudinal observation.

Infrastructure Approach

Chosen: Docker containers on WSL2

Alternatives: VirtualBox VMs, bare metal

Lighter weight, faster scaling, better isolation. 10-15 tanks vs 3-4 with VMs.

โš”๏ธ The Model Wars โ€” February 16-18, 2026

LLM Selection

Winner: llama3.2:latest (+6.7 combined score)

ModelScoreNotes
llama3.2:latest+6.7 โœ“Best introspection, minimal teaching
llama3.2:3b+4.1Good but less consistent
mistral:7b+3.8Strong but too verbose
llama3.2:1b+2.3Resource efficient, less depth
stablelm2:1.6b+1.4Decent persona maintenance
phi3:mini+0.8Good structure, weak voice
gemma2:2b-0.5Reverted to teaching
qwen2.5:3b-1.2Inconsistent persona
codellama:7b-1.8Wrong domain focus
tinyllama-2.1Too limited

๐Ÿ”’ Security Decisions

Network Isolation

Implementation: Docker network 172.30.0.0/24

External access: Blocked at firewall

Allowed services: Kiwix (Wikipedia), Ollama (inference only)

Agent "Defanging"

SecureClaw Configuration

Agents have planning capability โ€” must be contained. Disabled: file system access, network calls, code execution.

Security Standards

Framework: OWASP LLM Top 10 (2025)

Monitoring: THE GUARD (general), THE SENTINEL (agents), THE BOUNCER (interactive)

๐Ÿค– Daemon Deployment โ€” February 19-20, 2026

DaemonRoleSLA
THE MAINTAINEROrchestrator1m detect / 5m fix
THE CARETAKERTank Health5m detect / 15m fix
THE GUARDSecurity5m detect / 15m fix
THE SENTINELAgent SecurityReal-time
THE SCHEDULERTasks30m cycle
THE TRANSLATORLanguagesReal-time
THE DOCUMENTARIANAcademic6h paper update
THE ARCHIVISTDeep DivesOn-demand
THE WEBMASTERWebsite6h site update
THE OLLAMA WATCHERLLM Infra1m cycle
THE FINAL AUDITORQuality12h audit
THE BOUNCERInteractiveAwaiting deployment
THE STRATEGISTArchitectureHuman collaboration

๐Ÿ  Specimen Deployment

DateTankNameConfig
Feb 1501AdamControl, Male, EN
Feb 1502EveControl, Female, EN
Feb 1703CainOpenClaw Agent
Feb 1704AbelZeroClaw Agent
Feb 1805-06Juan, JuanitaSpanish
Feb 1807-08Klaus, GenevieveGerman
Feb 1909-12Wei, Mei, Haruki, SakuraChinese, Japanese
Feb 1913-14Victor, IrisVisual Context
Feb 1915-16Observer, SeekerSpecial
Feb 2017SethPicobot Agent