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695m tokens bought me time to half paint a room.

13 Sept 2026

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695m tokens bought me time to half paint a room.

#builder #cursor #claude #agenticops

Builders' update — glam-cp, 11–13 Sep

AI drafted YAML. A builder still authored the plane. Two hats: Cursor builds; LibreChat operates. GitLab gates main. Infisical holds secrets. LiteLLM is the only model front door. OpenWork is the only tool door. Unattended agents do not rewrite Ansible, Flux, OPA, routing, or the MCP registry.

𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻

D22: Operator orchestrates; doers execute. Operator is the only chat initiator. It classifies BUILD / RUN / MIXED, picks a model, and spawns. It does not write. run / builder write. Diagnose and catalog read. Security audits; remediations stay on run. Header specs are Operator only (operator, operator-bedrock, operator-scx). Doers live in My Agents. Git (agents.yml) is the catalog. Seed overwrites Mongo. Edit panel is on; git still wins. OpenCode UI retired. opencode.apps is a 301. No raw MCP URLs. File/bash is sandbox. Patrols stay CronJobs. Models are providers, not roles. Local Granite default. Cloud last. Sub-agents never cloud. No Hugging Face on the LibreChat picker. Security pins Anthropic Fable 5.1 (not Bedrock). Canva and Meraki sit behind OpenWork. Figma stays Cursor. Home Assistant will be in-cluster, not a wrap of HA's official MCP.

𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱

LibreChat Operator/doers live. Completions through LiteLLM. Titles from the first question via local Granite. Bedrock Qwen3 32B (Sydney) and Southern Cross gpt-oss-120b (AU), with spend prices pinned. Canva as first public MCP wrap. Meraki Magic MCP behind the house door. Galileo golden demo on Granite. Operator/doers, OPA, and LiteLLM-router posters on plan /v2/. iDRAC environmentals (CPU temp, fan RPM). Cloudflare Access 502s fixed as origin TLS, not a tunnel bump. DMZ reaches both DNS boxes. Splunk 10.4.3 applied and soaked. Approved version-watch pins moved after a human approved. Omarchy is an operator host (git SSH signer). Status-bar dials: CPU / memory / NVIDIA GPU in the Omarchy bar (apps/andrew/system-monitor); click opens btop. prolinkvisualiser (apps/andrew): Electron + WebGL. Pioneer Pro DJ Link from CDJs → Home Assistant lighting (tempo colour, on/off) plus beat-reactive visuals and a live VU meter.

𝗨𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱

usage.apps — LiteLLM /ui and Splunk already had spend.

v0.1.171 → 0.1.228. ~50 merges.

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