The September shrink: the platform ate the roadmap

An audit of the whole setup against what Claude Code now ships natively closed half of thrawn’s open issues in a day. Event-driven dispatch is scheduled routines with GitHub triggers. Intake grooming is a @claude Action. The pre-ship review stage is /code-review plus a persona file. Twelve open issues became two, and the reckoning is written up as The Platform Ate My Roadmap.

What survived is the moat: routing across subscription pools, the ship gate and the panes. The same pass re-tiered the models (opus plans, haiku recons, sonnet lands as the default mid-tier), fixed swarm’s workspace detection outside a herdr pane (#5) and gave the persona system its first character: the skeptic, whose entire personality is refusing to believe a green board.

Phase 2 of the runner trial went live the same day. pi and codex sit in the planner’s rotation for a fortnight of ordinary work and the routing verdict gets written from the ledger around 11 October.