decisions: one venture a day, built for quality

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017K4vyY3yUD3GsvoZaAtKkD

AGENTS.md

@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ record; nothing here is scaffolding from before 2026-10-14.
  seat, gets each PR reviewed by the council, and merges on approve + green CI, engine code included. Only the workflow
  directories (`.github/workflows/`) stay a human's merge: the CEO batches them. A card whose PR already exists (Codex, a
  chat, the CEO) is adopted: labelled `ready`, it is reviewed and landed, never rebuilt. Housekeeping sweeps daily (13:17).
- Ventures: `venture.yml` every 6 hours (TIME_VENTURE=on). Fable chairs and judges; haiku, sonnet and opus pitch and
- vote; `claude:sonnet` builds. Each venture lives at <slug>.yolopreneur.lol (gh-pages `ventures/<slug>/`); the
+ Ventures: one a day, built for quality (`venture.yml` ticks every 6 hours, TIME_VENTURE=on); the day's card starts
+ once every other venture card is launched or held. Haiku, sonnet and opus pitch a field of six and vote; `claude:opus`
+ builds; fable chairs and judges, and scores each build 1-10: under 8 earns polish rounds, then it launches with its
+ score. Batches are off (TIME_VENTURE_BATCH unset). Each venture lives at <slug>.yolopreneur.lol (gh-pages `ventures/<slug>/`); the
  portfolio at yolopreneur.lol is gh-pages `ventures/index.html`, made by hand, and reads `ventures.json`.
  Seat workers (and the venture builder) carry Ponytail's rules (time `.github/time/rules/ponytail.md`); reviewers don't.
  Tiers: Luna = haiku (Codex: luna), Terra = sonnet (terra), Sol = opus (sol), Astra = fable (astra), the C level. Venice

docs/decisions.md

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 - 2026-10-18 · **The venture loop runs on Teahub with the Claude seats, every 6 hours.** Fable chairs (the launch plan, the launch drafts) and judges the build; haiku, sonnet and opus pitch, vote and write plans; `claude:sonnet` builds and `claude:opus` takes the second fix round. The engine had coerced every builder to a Venice seat, which is where the token burn that paused the 20-minute loop came from. Ported to Gitea in time#140 (three council rounds with haiku; the second found that the loop would have written over the yolopreneur.lol portfolio), schedule in time#141. The GitHub-era venture cards were closed: their migrated history is authored by `teahubxyz`, Time trusts only its own beats, and they would have been re-pitched as new ventures. Why: the owner's call, to try the loop on the Claude API with fable leading and the other three voting and executing.
 - 2026-10-18 · **Daily pacing at $25 for today's first Claude venture run**, on the owner's OK; back to $15 once it is through. `TIME_MONTHLY_USD` stays 100 (the month was at $30.40). The andon (time#136) is closed. Why: the day's $15 was spent before the loop came back, and the owner wanted the run now rather than after midnight.
 - 2026-10-18 · **Ponytail on prod.** Seat workers, and the venture builder through them, carry Ponytail's rules (DietrichGebert/ponytail, MIT, vendored at time `.github/time/rules/ponytail.md`); reviewers, Astra and the board don't (a coding ruleset distorts answers that aren't a diff). `TIME_PONYTAIL=off` drops it. Why: the owner's call; it had run on hb-5's seats since 2026-10-12 and prod never had it. (time#145)
+- 2026-10-18 · **One venture a day, built for quality.** The day's card waits until every other venture card is launched or held. The board picks it from a field of six pitches, made in rounds where each round is told what is already pitched. `claude:opus` builds: the code's default, and `TIME_VENTURE_WORKER` on teahubxyz/time. Fable's judge also scores the product 1–10 and names its top three changes. A page under 8 gets up to two polish rounds; the third round stays for fixing whatever a polish broke. After that it launches with its score: quality never holds a launch for a human, only a broken page does. Batches stay off, and an open batch card with no Time beats no longer starts one. The caps are unchanged. October has $61 left in the $100 envelope; if one opus venture a day and the heartbeat outrun that, the loop waits at the cap rather than spending past it. Why: the owner's call ("would rather 1 higher quality"). Today made four ventures: three from migrated batch #26 and the daily card. All four passed on the first sonnet build in about ten steps, so nothing had pushed any of them past "works". (time#162, #163)