Buddy Lab · Field Map · 2026-06-24 · generated from status.yaml

The trail to the north star

Where we started, where we stand, and the climb still ahead — read against the one constraint that never gets crossed off: a live, hosted, multi-family product real households actually use.

Fidelity A

The trail — milestones

Single-file generator, hand-run

shipped

Three-account hardened infra

shipped

Basecamp dashboard live

shipped

Infra wall healed — runtime runs as agent

shipped

Ratings → grounding loop

shipped

Slice 2a — weather-drift + surgical refresh

shipped

Slice 2b-1 — morning cron self-fires

shipped

Phase 1 drained + triage complete

shipped

Decision point — route ratified (autonomy ladder)

shipped

Stage-2 verification floor — judge + char-suite + fail-closed

shipped

Weekly superintendent review — deterministic facts + LLM prose

shipped

You are here

The route is ratified and the Stage-2 verification floor is live — an LLM judge (advisory, calibrating toward blocking), a character suite, and fail-closed safety gates now stand between the generator and a child. The active climb is the autonomy drain: earning the judge's promotion on measured agreement and making the lab's own views self-maintaining. Delivery and the multi-family leap are the named gaps ahead, each held behind a deliberate gate.

Slice 2b-3 — day-roll + calibration

ahead

Email-PDF delivery

ahead

Live, hosted, multi-family product

ahead

Operating system for autonomous app development

the north-star summit

Fidelity B

Trail conditions — capability maturity

Capability

Prototype

Hardened

Autonomous

Multi‑tenant

Infrastructure

Orchestration

Grounding

Delivery

Generation

Multi-family

achieved current frontier ahead

46% to north star
(achieved + ½‑frontier ÷ 24 cells · 11.0/24) single-tenant track ≈ 60% · multi-tenant column = the gap

Where to invest next. Infrastructure and orchestration still lead at autonomous (single-tenant). Generation has firmed — its prototype is solid and hardening is the live frontier now, no longer the weak link. The short bars left are delivery, still behind the deploy-model decision (#31) that gates the email-PDF push, and the multi-family column — unbuilt by definition and the gap that keeps the north star out of reach. The next real unlock is ratifying the deploy model so delivery can climb.

Revision log · 2026-06-24 · regenerated from status.yaml

2026-06-24 · regenerated from canonical status.yaml. Climb-strip advanced: decision node resolved (route ratified); Stage-2 verification floor and weekly superintendent review added as shipped milestones; autonomy drain is the current you-are-here. Maturity grid: generation hardened (prototype now solid). North-star % recomputed from the grid. This map is now generated by render_fieldmap.py — status.yaml is canonical, the HTML is output.

Fidelity A (timeline) + B (maturity grid) — this map.
Fidelity C — illustrated trail map, milestones as markers, pinnacle as summit — scoped separately next session.
Stages and placements reflect single-tenant reality; the multi-tenant column is the north-star gap, intentionally empty.