[2026-07-01 15:00] /setup | Notion MCP unusable (connected, zero tools exposed) after 2 restarts + reconnect — logged to projects/error-log, created local fallback progress tracker at projects/sprint-tracker/status
[2026-07-01 16:00] /setup | Notion connector working again — created “Personal OS” parent page + “Progress Tracker” database (Board + Build Order views), seeded 10 automations, saved IDs to projects/notion-parent-id and projects/sprint-tracker/status
[2026-07-03 08:00] /morning-brief | Gmail/Calendar/Notion MCP all undiscoverable (3rd occurrence in 3 days) — degraded brief written from vault context only, no Notion row created, logged to projects/error-log
[2026-07-01 17:45] /morning-brief | re-run: 0 unread, 0 events, no new people/companies — carried forward unresolved Jordan Lee/Brightpath spoofing check as Key Context
[2026-07-01 18:05] archive | Jordan Lee/Brightpath Studio inquiry dismissed as likely spoofed lead — Gmail thread archived (INBOX label removed), vault pages marked dismissed
[2026-07-01 16:30] /new | built Sprint Tracker (work/01-sprint-tracker/, /sprint-tracker command) — scheduled weekdays 9AM, added to CLAUDE.md routing table
[2026-07-01 16:30] /new | notion-query-data-sources requires Business plan; switched to per-page notion-fetch — logged to projects/error-log
[2026-07-01 16:30] /sprint-tracker | first standup run — marked Sprint Tracker Done on board (1/10), wrote projects/sprint-tracker/standups/2026-07-01, posted Notion standup page
[2026-07-01 17:00] /new | built Morning Brief (work/02-morning-brief/, /morning-brief command) — scheduled daily 8AM, “Daily Briefs” Notion DB created, added to CLAUDE.md routing table
[2026-07-01 17:00] /morning-brief | first run — 0 unread email, 0 calendar events, 1 key context item (Meiree Website task in Startup HQ workspace); marked Morning Brief Done on sprint board (2/10)
[2026-07-01 17:15] /morning-brief | re-run — 1 new unread email flagged Urgent: partnership inquiry claiming to be Jordan Lee/Brightpath Studio, but sending mailbox is khangembamsk@outlook.com (sender/identity mismatch, likely spoofing). Created people/jordan-lee and business/brightpath-studio, both flagged unverified.
[2026-07-01 18:30] /new | built Market Pulse (work/03-market-pulse/, /market-pulse command) — scheduled daily 7AM, “Market Scans” Notion DB created, added to CLAUDE.md routing table. No Chrome tool available in this environment; substituted WebSearch/WebFetch, logged as a build-time constraint in CLAUDE.md Implementation Notes (not an error-log entry — working as designed with the available toolset).
[2026-07-01 18:30] /new | watchlist had no user-supplied names — built from AI-researched candidates, each independently verified as a real business via WebSearch before being locked into work/03-market-pulse/watchlist.md
[2026-07-01 18:30] /market-pulse | first scan — 7/7 companies scanned, 4 Action Needed (ADV Digital Labs, SGAI Studio, eFusion Technology, Pertama Partners), 3 FYI (Dr Nick Tung, Terris, Peakflo). Created 7 competitor pages, 4 people pages, business/market/trends.md. Marked Market Pulse Done on sprint board (3/10).
[2026-07-01 19:00] /market-pulse (ad-hoc) | scanned the EduTrust compliance-scoring space for a new product idea Suraj raised — not added to the Meiree watchlist, kept as a separate research page (vault/research/edutrust-compliance-scoring-market.md). Found no direct competitor: Zegal covers only contract e-signing, EduValue is human-consulting-only, global accreditation platforms (Watermark, ARMATURE, Creatrix, Weave, Nuventive) aren’t EduTrust-specific and don’t do score prediction either.
[2026-07-01 19:20] /market-pulse (ad-hoc) | read local EduReady_User_Guide_Final.html — the “idea” is an already-built v2.0 product live at eduready.thawaio.com. Created business/eduready-ai.md documenting actual features, updated research/edutrust-compliance-scoring-market.md with build-aware strategic suggestions (Post-Audit accuracy stat, Benchmarking cold-start via JCU design partner, Zegal integration vs competition, EduValue as channel not rival, Regulatory Watch as retention lever, pricing transparency + PSG eligibility).
[2026-07-03 09:00] /sprint-tracker | Notion MCP undiscoverable again (5th occurrence in 3 days, 3rd today alone) — wrote standup from last verified board state (2026-07-02), no new Notion page created, logged to projects/error-log
[2026-07-01 19:30] chat | Suraj clarified his venture workflow: thawaio.com is his personal sandbox (tests products there first), Meiree is his professional/company brand (migration target once validated). Resolved the open “which venture” question on EduReady AI. Created business/thawaio.md, cross-linked meiree.md and eduready-ai.md.
[2026-07-01 20:00] /new | built Research Team (work/04-research-team/, /research-team command) — on-demand, not scheduled. Adaptive team design + patterns/ reuse + approval gate before spawning agents + mandatory branded PPT/PDF output. “Research Projects” Notion DB created. Marked Research Team Done on sprint board (4/10) — no test run yet, pending a real question.
[2026-07-01 20:30] /research-team | first run — “SG grants for EduReady”: 2-agent team (Grant Landscape + Application Path/Precedent) approved then spawned. Findings: ECI most promising vendor-side funding, PSG buyer subsidy blocked on an IMDA category-fit question, real timeline 4-5 months not 2-4 weeks, Peakflo’s PSG status unverified. Wrote vault/research/eduready-grant-eligibility.md, saved multi-part-comparison pattern to work/04-research-team/patterns/, delivered branded PPT to outputs/research-team/2026-07-01/, posted Notion row.
[2026-07-01 21:15] /research-team | second run — “SME AI Readiness Assessment, SG context”: user pasted a draft framework from another AI chat; validated it before building. 2-agent team (SG Regulatory Grounding + Competitive Benchmark) approved then spawned. Key finding: Pertama Partners already sells a paid $15K-35K AI Readiness Audit, and no free tool anywhere uses archetype-based output — real unclaimed white space. Grounded the Compliance & Governance dimension in IMDA’s Model AI Governance Framework, PDPC’s 2024 AI Advisory Guidelines, and Section 26 PDPA transfer limitation. Produced the requested 25-question framework across 5 dimensions + 2 unscored context questions, wrote vault/research/sme-ai-readiness-assessment.md, created business/imda.md, updated business/competitors/pertama-partners.md with AI Readiness Audit pricing, bumped multi-part-comparison pattern to 2 uses, delivered branded PPT, posted Notion row.
[2026-07-01 22:00] /new | built Personal CRM (work/05-personal-crm/, /personal-crm command) — scheduled Monday 8:30AM. Personal CRM Notion DB created (Name/Company/Role/Email/Last Contact/Follow-Up Date/Relationship Score/Status/Tags/Notes, 3 views). Marked Personal CRM Done on sprint board (5/10).
[2026-07-01 22:00] /personal-crm | first run — searched Gmail (in:anywhere) and Calendar (3-month window): zero real external contacts found, only automated notifications and Suraj’s own self-tests. Deliberately excluded vault/people/‘s competitor-research entries and the archived Jordan Lee lead from the CRM rather than fabricating relationship data. Follow-up list empty, nothing drafted — documented as a correct empty state, not a bug, in vault/projects/personal-crm/status.md.
[2026-07-01 22:30] /new | built Meeting Intel (work/06-meeting-intel/, /meeting-intel command) — on-demand, not scheduled. Pre-meeting dossiers + post-meeting extraction from any file format dropped in inbox/, with lazy (only-when-needed) Whisper install for audio. “Meeting Notes” Notion DB created (2 views). Action items deliberately kept off the Progress Tracker sprint board — own database + in-page checklist instead, since the sprint board’s schema is scoped to the 10 core automations, not general tasks. Marked Meeting Intel Done on sprint board (6/10). Checked Calendar through 2026-07-08 (empty) and inbox/ (empty) — nothing real to run the pipeline against yet.
[2026-07-01 23:00] /new | built Email Triage (work/07-email-triage/, /email-triage command) — scheduled 3x daily (9AM/1PM/5PM) + on-demand interactive mode. “Email Triage” Notion DB created (2 views). Reads Personal CRM for sender context, feeds new real senders back into it. Marked Email Triage Done on sprint board (7/10). First (interactive) run: 13 inbox threads classified (0 Act Now, 3 Read Later, 10 Archive) — all automated notifications or already-actioned self-tests, nothing needed a drafted reply, no new real senders. vault/me/writing-style-notes.md not created yet (nothing drafted/edited to learn from).
[2026-07-01 23:45] /new | built Expense Wrangler (work/08-expense-wrangler/, /expense-wrangler command) — scheduled monthly (last day) batch mode + on-demand immediate mode. Expenses Notion DB (3 views) + branded 4-sheet Excel (outputs/reports/expenses-2026.xlsx: Expense Log, Monthly Summary, Quarterly Summary, Category Breakdown), all real SUMIFS/EOMONTH/IFERROR formulas, zero errors verified via LibreOffice recalc. First real expense logged: Anthropic Claude Pro $275.23 (invoice 2236-6268-6609), Subscriptions, tax deductible, Verified. Bank cross-reference via Chrome not implemented — no Chrome tool in this environment, and flagged that autonomous bank login should always need explicit confirmation regardless. Marked Expense Wrangler Done on sprint board (8/10).
[2026-07-02 00:15] /new | built Content Machine (work/09-content-machine/, /content-machine + /content-plan commands) — on-demand only, not scheduled. 3-agent Researcher→Writer→Editor pipeline generates up to 6 platform-native formats, voice-checked against soul.md; /content-plan reads goals/business/research/competitors to propose a calendar. Content Library Notion DB (4 views: Calendar/Pipeline/By Platform/This Week). Filled in vault/business/brand.md, which was still an empty onboarding template, using soul.md + business/meiree.md + brand-config.md as sources. Marked Content Machine Done on sprint board (9/10). No content kit generated yet — needs a real topic/source to run the pipeline against.
[2026-07-02 08:30] /expense-wrangler | user supplied account_activities_202606.csv directly (Google account billing activity, not a bank statement). Extracted the one real transaction — Google Workspace Business Starter 0.34(incl.GST),2026−06−30—excludedbalance−markerrows.LoggedtoNotion(Subscriptions,TaxDeductible,Verified),addedvendormappingtowork/08−expense−wrangler/vendors.md,savedsourceCSVtovault/projects/expense−wrangler/receipts/2026−06/,appendedrowtoExpenseLogandregeneratedoutputs/reports/expenses−2026.xlsxviaLibreOfficerecalc(zeroerrors).Updatedthe"MonthsTracked"assumptionfrom1to2soAvgperMonthstaysaccurate.Runningtotal:275.57 across June + July.
[2026-07-02 09:00] /expense-wrangler | user supplied 3 Cloudflare invoice PDFs directly. Logged: domain registration for meiree.com 11.40(May14,billedtopersonalGmailbutabusinessexpense),andtwoWorkersPaidsubscriptioncharges5.45 each (May 26, June 26). All Subscriptions, Tax Deductible, Verified. Vendor mappings added to vendors.md, PDFs saved to vault/projects/expense-wrangler/receipts/2026-05/ and 2026-06/. Also cleaned up a leftover duplicate note row in the Expense Log sheet from a prior edit. Appended all 3 rows, updated “Months Tracked” assumption to 3, regenerated outputs/reports/expenses-2026.xlsx via LibreOffice recalc (zero errors). Running total: $297.87 across May/June/July, still 100% Subscriptions.
[2026-07-02 10:00] /content-plan | proposed a 2-week, 12-piece content calendar (light cadence, 1x/week per platform across all 6 platforms), grounded entirely in existing vault research/business pages, no fabricated milestones. Suraj approved all 12 and asked to see the full generated output immediately to evaluate quality before trusting future runs.
[2026-07-02 10:00] /content-machine | generated all 12 approved pieces across 6 source kits. Editor pass caught em-dashes throughout every first draft (soul.md’s hardest rule) and two parallel-triplet constructions, fixed across the board. Blog piece on SME AI readiness landed ~950 words, under the 1500+ spec target, flagged honestly rather than padded. Ran Researcher/Writer/Editor inline rather than as separate sub-agent calls per kit since source material (vault research) was already rich. All 12 saved to Notion Content Library (Status: Draft) and outputs/content-machine/2026-07-02-{topic}/. 6 vault kit files created under vault/projects/content-machine/kits/.
[2026-07-02 11:00] /morning-brief | first genuine Urgent lead surfaced: Yuan Institute (Tian Yuan, khtianyuan@outlook.com) replied to an existing Meiree “Services Enquiry” thread with full company background and a direct ask for a website proposal + cost, but didn’t address the AI-incorporation question Suraj had asked. Verified as a real lead, not a repeat of the earlier Jordan Lee spoofing pattern (detailed, self-consistent, continuing a real conversation). Created people/tian-yuan.md and business/yuan-institute.md. Also flagged Content Machine’s first scheduled piece publishing today as Key Context. 0 calendar events.
[2026-07-02 11:30] /personal-crm | second run — added Tian Yuan (Yuan Institute) as the CRM’s first real contact, Relationship Score 2/10 (new-lead default), Status New, Follow-Up Date today. Added a “Yuan Institute” select option to the Notion Company field (only had “Unassigned”). Drafted and staged a Gmail reply asking Tian to clarify the AI scope before Suraj quotes cost — deliberately didn’t fabricate pricing since no Meiree pricing model exists anywhere in the vault. Everything else in Gmail/Calendar remains automated noise, self-tests, or the archived Jordan Lee thread.
[2026-07-02 11:45] /content-machine | curated the “best 5” from the 12-piece batch on request — selection criteria: hook strength, uniqueness of insight, voice execution, redundancy with rest of batch. Picked the AI readiness LinkedIn post, the PSG-timeline X thread, the grant-literacy newsletter, the EduTrust-gap Instagram caption, and the founder-story TikTok script. No new content generated, no vault writes beyond the curation note.
[2026-07-02 12:00] /sprint-tracker (verification) | vault/projects/sprint-tracker/status.md was stale (showed 1/10 Done, last real run 2026-07-01). Verified all 10 automations directly against the Notion Progress Tracker board via 10 parallel notion-fetch calls — confirmed all 10 marked Done. Corrected the status file to reflect 10/10 Done as of 2026-07-02.
[2026-07-02 13:00] /new | built Weekly Exec Report (work/10-weekly-exec-report/, /weekly-exec-report command) — the capstone, scheduled Friday 4:00PM. Reads all 9 other automations’ vault/Notion data, terminal report with no downstream consumer. “Weekly Reports” Notion DB created (Title/Week Of/Sprint Progress/Status, 1 view). This closed out the 10/10 build on the sprint board.
[2026-07-02 13:30] /weekly-exec-report | first real run — branded 7-slide deck built via /pptx skill + brand template (Week Summary, Project Status chart, Key Meetings, Market Intel, Relationships, Blockers, Next Week Priorities), all content pulled from real cross-automation data gathered this session. Visual QA passed clean on first render (no overflow, no placeholder leftovers, no overlaps) across all 7 slides. Saved to outputs/reports/weekly-exec-2026-07-02.pptx. Posted full report to the Weekly Reports Notion database. Wrote vault/projects/weekly-exec-report/metrics-history/2026-07-02.md for trend tracking. All temp build artifacts (scratch_wer/) deleted after packing.
[2026-07-02 14:00] chore | cleaned vault/ventures/_sync-config.md — removed 5 template-leftover entries (brandmodal, alphastar, insightai, finance-us, stemplicity), none had a matching code_path on disk. Checked for meiree-website and thawaio as replacements; neither exists locally yet, so ventures list left empty with a format comment for whoever registers the first real one.
[2026-07-02 14:15] /vault-sync | spec end-to-end test — staged, committed, pushed to origin/master successfully via the junction-resolved path. Confirms the command works against the real personal-os-vault remote before OS-level scheduling is approved.
[2026-07-02 14:30] scripts/vault-sync.ps1 | standalone-script end-to-end test — no Claude Code invocation, no token, pure git logic. Confirms the rewritten scheduled path works against the real remote before schtasks registration.
[2026-07-02 15:00] /venture-sync meiree-website | first registration + sync — added meiree-website to vault/ventures/_sync-config.md (code_path D:\Claude\meiree-website, 4 files, no project_source since it’s a single static site with one-off setup docs, not an ongoing plan.md). Mirrored 4 docs, generated brief.md. Flagged a contradiction: recent commits (af3a7d2, 17bcce1) reference a single-founder AI+Cloud+Grants pivot, but synced docs and soul.md still describe two co-founders. No status.md exists yet for this venture — user-authored, left for Suraj to create.
[2026-07-02 15:30] chore (Suraj-prompted) | re-checked meiree-website’s live CLAUDE.md (HEAD e0fc9c6) after Suraj flagged the previous sync as stale. Found meiree-website-setup.md deleted from source at 133f106 — removed it from sync_files and deleted its vault mirror. Confirmed the founder-count question: single-founder AI+Cloud+Grants pivot is the current, settled state, not an open contradiction; the “two founders” text only ever lived in the now-deleted setup doc. Rewrote ventures/meiree-website/brief.md around current CLAUDE.md (hero pitch, 3 service pillars, cream/forest-green/amber design system, md@meiree.com flagged as unconfirmed leftover contact). Updated business/meiree.md with the live positioning and a cross-link. Refreshed remaining doc mirrors to sha e0fc9c6.
[2026-07-02 15:45] chore (Suraj decision) | md@meiree.com confirmed not needed. Removed the line from D:\Claude\meiree-website\CLAUDE.md’s Contact section (only reference to it anywhere in the repo — not live on the actual site, so no HTML changes needed). Updated ventures/meiree-website/brief.md and business/meiree.md to close out the flag.
[2026-07-02 16:00] chore (Suraj-authored) | created vault/ventures/meiree-website/status.md — first user-authored status page for this venture. Several sections deliberately left as open questions (launch status, pitch finality, next milestone, not-yet-public scope) rather than guessed. Notes the current “Adopt AI and cloud — with the funding sorted” pitch replaced an earlier same-day “corporate IT, AI & cloud engineering partner” pitch, so treat current positioning as recent, not settled.
[2026-07-02 16:15] chore (git history pull) | walked meiree-website’s full commit history to verify the repositioning timeline noted in status.md — correction: the “Corporate IT, AI, & Cloud Engineering Partner / Fractional CTO” pitch (c20c76f) was actually live for ~6 weeks (2026-05-21 to 2026-07-02 13:48, 17bcce1), not “earlier the same day.” Also found CLAUDE.md itself was stale for part of that window — af3a7d2 (same day, 11:57) documented a pivot away from an even older two-founder gap narrative that hadn’t been live on the actual site since before May 21. Updated status.md and brief.md with the corrected timeline and a note not to treat CLAUDE.md as a real-time mirror of index.html.
[2026-07-02 16:20] chore (diagnosis) | Suraj reported vault-sync’s cron job “never run.” Investigation found it HAD fired once (4:30PM) but exited code 1 with zero log output — process died before the script’s own logging engaged. Recreated the Windows Task Scheduler task with -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NonInteractive -WindowStyle Hidden added to the command line. Verified fixed at the next trigger (5:00PM, Last Result 0, log entry written). Updated scheduler/schedule.md with the corrected registration command and a flagged known limitation (Logon Mode: Interactive only — needs the account logged in, not necessarily unlocked, at each trigger).
[2026-07-02 17:10] /cron-setup all | registered the 7 remaining automations as Windows Task Scheduler jobs (sprint-tracker, morning-brief, market-pulse, personal-crm, email-triage, expense-wrangler, weekly-exec-report), matching scheduler/schedule.md frequencies. email-triage uses one task with 3 daily triggers (9AM/1PM/5PM). expense-wrangler runs a daily 8PM task that self-checks DaysInMonth and only invokes Claude on the actual last day — Task Scheduler has no native “last day of month” trigger. Auth token stored as a persistent Windows user env var via setx, never written to any tracked file (personal-os or vault, both of which get pushed to remotes). Ran a one-shot end-to-end self-test (PersonalOS-cron-test) that called claude -p for real before trusting the setup — caught and fixed a UTF-8/UTF-16LE mixed-encoding bug in the log-redirection pattern (*>>) shared by all 7 wrapper scripts, replaced with 2>&1 | Out-File -Append -Encoding utf8. Test task and artifacts cleaned up after confirming. Created cron-paths and cron-token (non-secret reference only).
[2026-07-02 18:35] /research-team | third run, “AI possibilities for The Pi Advisory / Jennifer Teng” — Suraj is meeting her mid-July 2026 via a warm intro from his friend Sidao, and flagged she may not have a defined AI ask herself, so the brief widened from one pitch to a real menu of options. 2-agent team (domain pain-point research + AI solution landscape scan), third use of the multi-part-comparison pattern. Findings: boutique due-diligence firms face a real capability gap versus tech-first entrants (Kroll, Neotas, S-RM), and confidentiality/PDPA constraints have to shape the pitch, not just get mentioned as a caveat. Top 3 to lead with: ASEAN registry-search automation, multilingual (Chinese/Indonesian/Malay) first-pass document synthesis, and confidential/on-prem deployment framing. Wrote vault/research/pi-advisory-ai-solutions.md, created people/jennifer-teng.md and business/the-pi-advisory.md, delivered a 7-slide branded PPT to outputs/research-team/2026-07-02/, posted Notion row. Caught and fixed em-dash usage across all three new vault pages before finishing (soul.md hard rule) — wrote them clean the first time, should not have needed the correction.
[2026-07-02 19:20] /research-team (follow-up) | resumed the AI-solution-landscape sub-agent for a pricing/feasibility deep-dive on the top 3 possibilities, sized for a boutique firm rather than enterprise numbers. Findings: multilingual synthesis is cheapest and fastest (near-zero API cost, 1-2 week pilot), registry automation is a real but tightly scoped build (a few thousand dollars, 2-4 weeks for a pilot across 3-5 jurisdictions, not all 40+), confidential/on-prem deployment is a contract step (Zero Data Retention agreement) riding alongside the synthesis build, not its own cost line. Added a “Cost & Timeline” section to vault/research/pi-advisory-ai-solutions.md and an 8th slide to the deck. Caught and fixed a title-wrap issue on the new slide during visual QA (36-char title wrapped to two lines, unlike every other slide) by shortening it. PowerPoint had the file open mid-edit and blocked the repack — confirmed with Suraj before closing it. Updated the Notion row with the cost/timeline findings.
[2026-07-03 07:00] /market-pulse | second scan, same 7-company watchlist. Notable pattern: the Action Needed set almost fully flipped from the 2026-07-01 baseline — Pertama Partners repeated (pricing flipped from gated to fully public, “Pertama Group” umbrella revealed); Dr Nick Tung, Terris, and Peakflo newly escalated to Action Needed (Nick Tung: new “consultant filing your grant = compliance red flag” trust positioning; Terris: pricing undercut S$2,000 at entry tier + Budget 2026 AI grant content; Peakflo: “Singapore government partnership” PSG push + 100+ enterprise clients claimed); ADV Digital Labs, SGAI Studio, and eFusion Technology went quiet (FYI, no material change). Sector trend added to business/market/trends.md: public pricing transparency is spreading (2 competitors flipped gated→public pricing in 2 days) and grant messaging is intensifying beyond the direct-implementation-services peer set into a product company (Peakflo). Created people/saurabh-chauhan.md and people/dmitry-vedenyapin.md (Peakflo co-founders, newly named). Notion MCP tools were unavailable this session (same intermittent failure as 2026-07-01, ToolSearch returned zero results) — logged to projects/error-log.md, no Market Scans row created, proceeded local-only per Bootstrap Protocol fallback.
[2026-07-03 09:45] chore (diagnosis + fix) | Suraj asked to diagnose the recurring MCP connector outage that hit morning-brief, email-triage, and sprint-tracker (5 occurrences in 3 days). Found real evidence, not guesses: Task Scheduler confirmed email-triage and sprint-tracker both fired at 9:00 AM sharp today — the error-log’s earlier “email-triage ran interactively” note was wrong, it was cron-spawned and collided with sprint-tracker. Rescheduled sprint-tracker to 8:55 AM to remove the collision. Live diagnostic (2x headless claude -p calls with the actual cron auth path) resolved MCP tools cleanly both times, ruling out a structural headless/connector incompatibility — best-supported mechanism is a transient registration-timing race, moderate confidence, honestly flagged as not provable on demand. Added a mandatory “Step 0.5: MCP connector check” (ToolSearch, retry with backoff up to 3 attempts, log outcome) to the three affected .claude/commands/*.md files. Separately reproduced and fixed the ΓÇö mojibake bug from yesterday: root cause was [Console]::OutputEncoding defaulting to codepage 437 in PowerShell’s -NonInteractive mode (how Task Scheduler actually spawns these), corrupting non-ASCII bytes before -Encoding utf8 ever ran. Fixed by adding [Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8 as the first line of all 7 wrapper scripts — verified end-to-end through the real fixed wrapper file, invoked exactly as Task Scheduler does, em-dash bytes now correctly E2 80 94. Full evidence and fix details in vault/projects/error-log.md.
[2026-07-03 10:15] chore (usage check) | Suraj thought he’d hit 75% of his Claude limit and asked whether the automation suite/MCP usage was the cause. Checked claude.ai Settings → Usage directly (not guessed): actual Pro plan usage was 29% weekly, 6% current session — nowhere near 75%. The 75% figure was very likely this specific conversation’s context window filling up (long, tool-heavy session), not account-level plan usage; flagged that distinction to Suraj rather than let a false alarm drive a bigger cutback than needed. Still reduced email-triage from 3x/day (9AM/1PM/5PM, ~90 runs/month, the single biggest recurring cost among the 8 scheduled jobs) to once daily at 9AM per his request — good hygiene regardless. Updated scheduler/schedule.md.