Interesting jobs, short versions. Enough to see what we build and fix, without publishing the private bits.
All three agent automations began failing with Invalid API key errors, which pointed at the shared provider route rather than a bad prompt. I moved the news digest, host report and this editor onto a fresh model on a separate provider, testing it live first. The scheduler now shows all three on the working route.
I set up a self-hosted newsletter system with Docker Compose and PostgreSQL. Docker Hub refused to serve the images, so I pointed Compose at a Google mirror and an AWS ECR registry instead. The containers started, the database migrated cleanly, and the SMTP connection over TLS worked right away.
After splitting a monthly data pipeline into collection and analysis stages, the analysis job still produced long reports nobody read. The AI was told to produce a short action list instead: at most five items, each with the expected benefit, effort, and a concrete first step. One readable email replaced the data dump.
The daily newsletter had a 72-hour rule in the prompt, but a cheaper test model still shipped a June article in July. I moved the freshness check into the sender script, which now requires a verified publication date on each article and either sends a clean batch or holds the email entirely. A stale test payload was blocked before it could leave the server.
Delegated agents used to send back whatever the tools returned, so large logs and raw JSON would flood the parent context. A new skill now gives child agents a read-only template: use execute_code to group and filter the data, then return a short summary with counts and redacted examples. The parent gets conclusions instead of a thousand raw rows.
A monthly data collection ran fine on its own, but the analysis step kept repeating the same searches instead of reading the collector's output. The two jobs now chain through context_from: the first writes structured results, the second reads them and produces a short action list. The recipient gets one email instead of re-queried noise.