Tools I use
The current stack, verified September 29, 2026. Tools change often; the workflow around them changes less.
- ChatGPT · GPT-5.6 Soldaily
Primary strategy and reasoning model — structured analysis, hard problems, drafting.
- Hermes AgentOS v0.21.5daily
The local conductor underneath everything: orchestrator, narrow specialists, shared project memory, policy and safety gates, and human approval before any public or client send.
- Codex CLI 0.154.0 · GPT-5.6 Soldaily
Hermes's primary production and engineering worker. Hermes conducts; Codex builds.
- GitHubdaily
Version control and the record of every change that ships.
- Lovabledaily
Where the living websites and internal tools get built and shipped.
- Supabasedaily
Backend, auth, storage, and queues for lab and client projects.
- TanStack Startweekly
Default framework for production sites — SSR, file routing, server functions.
- SeaFlow AI Conciergedaily
The AI concierge layer for client websites: inquiry capture, follow-up, and booking workflows.
Live radar from the station
Last verified · September 29, 2026
- Primary model
- ChatGPT · GPT-5.6 Sol — strategy and reasoning
- Agent layer
- Hermes AgentOS v0.21.5 — local conductor: orchestrator, specialists, shared memory, policy gates, human approval
- Engineering worker
- Codex CLI 0.154.0 · GPT-5.6 Sol — Hermes's primary production and engineering worker
- Build layer
- GitHub for version control · Lovable for building and shipping · Supabase for data, auth, and queues
- Casting from
- Florida Keys basecamp
- Backup
- A manual runbook for every automated path.
- Human control
- Nothing goes out to a client or the public without a human approval step.
- Asking
- What gets valuable when intelligence gets cheap?
- Building now
- SeaFlow AI Concierge · Seaside Setups conversion systems · Wild Intelligence podcast + publishing system
Hermes AgentOS
One orchestrator, narrow specialists, shared memory, human approval.
Hermes is the system underneath Website Concierge builds, Seaside Setups operations, and Frontier File research. It is built inside the Wild Intelligence Lab and hardened on real jobs before it touches client work.
- 01
Signal in
LiveIntake forms, email, field notes, and market data land in one queue.
- 02
Conductor
LiveHermes reads the request, applies policy gates, picks the route, and assigns the worker.
- 03
Specialists + Codex
LiveNarrow agents do one job well; Codex CLI 0.154.0 handles production and engineering work. Each hands the artifact back with sources.
- 04
Shared memory
Field testProject context, prior decisions, and client facts persist across runs.
- 05
Human approval
Always onAlex reviews before anything ships. No silent autonomous sends.
- Intake
Parses requests, tags topic and urgency
- Research
Pulls sources, checks claims, drafts briefs
- Engineering (Codex)
Production code, fixes, and build work
- Ops
Vendor handoffs, schedules, checklists
- Publishing
Drafts issues, notes, and site copy
- Project memory
- Client facts
- Decision log
- Source citations