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Holme Profile — Nightly Snapshot

Date: 2026-08-18 (Tuesday) · Sessions reviewed: 3 (design-with-ai, new-design-with-ai, Kanban Librarian cron)

1. Decisions & Reasoning

  • AI Design research is the active project — Rahul is building a library of AI-design YouTube transcripts and turning them into a designer-facing knowledge base. Decision: fetch raw transcripts into video-transcripts/AI Design/, then synthesize into themed guides for a designer to adopt.
  • Use youtube-content skill ONLY, not youtube-pipeline — for transcript-only from a known URL, youtube-pipeline is redundant (it’s for search + metadata + transform). Loading both wasted several thousand tokens. Decision: single-skill load.
  • Fetch-once, write-once, validate-in-same-block — each execute_code block is an isolated process (nothing persists), so splitting fetch/validate/write across blocks caused 3 proxy hits for one video. Decision: one block does proxy → oembed → fetch once → validate head/tail/len → write file.
  • Hooks vs webhooks terminology — Rahul asked “did the webhooks work correctly?”; clarified these are pre_tool_call shell hooks, not inbound webhooks. Root cause of non-firing was a stale session, not a broken hook (see §5).
  • Kanban board is fully green — Librarian cron confirmed all 44 tasks done, 0 stale. No action needed.

2. Projects & Code Changes

AI Design transcript library — COMPLETE, pushed

  • New folder video-transcripts/AI Design/ in hermes repo, indexed in index.md.
  • 4 transcripts fetched (Chase AI, Jack Roberts, Y Combinator, Build Great Products) — commits bd79ecc, 214bf29.
  • Filename convention <Channel>_<Title>_<VideoID>.txt, timestamped plain text, via youtube-content script + Webshare AU proxy + /opt/data/.venv/bin/python3.

AI Design themed guides — COMPLETE, pushed (commit f6570a8)

  • 4 themed guides (AI-native workflow, taste & premium, tools landscape, motion) + README theme-map index + 15 per-video insight files in guides/ai-design/.
  • 218 citations verified against raw transcripts — 0 fabrications.
  • Built via 3 parallel delegation batches (5 subagents each) extracting timestamped insight docs; all verified + synthesized.
  • Live at guides/ai-design/.

Hook enforcement stack — LIVE (carryover, confirmed working)

  • youtube-transcript-guard.sh (pre_tool_call hook) registered at 09:21:34. Confirmed it only fires in sessions built AFTER the restart — a running chat won’t pick up a newly-added hook.

3. User Facts

  • Rahul is cost/token-conscious on transcript work — asked “how could it have been done more efficiently and with less token consumption?” after the double-fetch. Wants minimal proxy hits + minimal context waste.
  • Rahul probes for honesty — asked “why did you fetch the transcript twice?” and “did the webhooks work correctly?” — expects truthful root-cause answers with evidence (tracker files, timestamps), not hand-waving.
  • Rahul wants a “designer week-one onboarding” version — offered at end of new-design session (actionable checklist leading with the checklist); not yet confirmed.

4. Open Tasks & Next Steps

  • Designer week-one onboarding doc — offered, awaiting Rahul’s go-ahead. Would lead with the actionable checklist for faster designer adoption.
  • Continue AI Design research — Rahul may want more videos fetched or deeper synthesis; the 4-transcript base + 15 insight files are done.
  • 🔴 ROTATE THE GITHUB TOKEN (URGENT, carryover) — leaked in git history (commit 89dd8af), same token on VPS + EC2. Rahul action required: revoke → 2 fine-grained tokens (one per instance). Blocked on Rahul.
  • RocketHub LTD launch prep (carryover) — pricing analysis done; next: decide 10xers’ own tier structure using the 6 hybrid patterns. Rahul to review master table.
  • Reddit ban forensics handoff to EC2 (carryover) — VPS research done; EC2 Hermes to run data collection per DATA-COLLECTION-CHECKLIST.md.
  • Sarvam pipeline script (carryover) — 4 clean runs prove the recipe; next: build script + skill, run 13 SynQ-with-Saad videos (~$7).

5. Mistakes to Avoid

  • Double/triple-fetching a transcript — each execute_code block is isolated; splitting fetch/validate/write across blocks re-fetches every time. Fix: single block does fetch-once + validate + write together. (3 proxy hits for one video = wasted quota + tokens.)
  • Loading both youtube-content AND youtube-pipeline — youtube-pipeline explicitly says transcript-only is covered by youtube-content. Loading both wastes thousands of tokens. Fix: load only youtube-content for known-URL transcript work.
  • Printing 2000 chars of transcript into context for validation — head ~300 + tail ~200 + char count is enough. Oversized prints are dead tokens.
  • import youtube_transcript_api; print(__version__) fails — that module has no __version__ attribute. Skip the version probe; the import check alone suffices.
  • Newly-added hooks don’t fire in a running session — a conversation captures its hook set at agent build time; a chat started before a hook was registered won’t run it. Fix: start a fresh /new session to activate new hooks. (This was the real cause of “webhooks not working” — not a hook failure.)
  • Proxy URL special chars break the terminal lifecycle guard — Webshare proxy URL’s @/: chars cause embedded null character in path. Fix: use execute_code (Python sandbox) with os.environ proxy vars, not terminal.
  • uv run python3 fails on this VPS — permission error creating venv. Fix: use /opt/data/.venv/bin/python3 directly.

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