Investigation Notes (2026-05-22)

• Flag 4 (surfaces): Inventory needs to be done, then surfaces checked — part of the process, not yet done.
• Flag 5 (what breaks): Top-line signal: agents aren’t aware of the sidecar or spend lots of tokens/resources trying to figure out how to decrypt it. The UX flow / awareness signaling on the back end isn’t robust, clear, or ostensible enough.
• Flag 6 (AGE at rest vs transit): Unknown — needs to be addressed, understood, and recorded.
• Flag 7 (feed size fix): Unknown — but agents consistently remark the feed is noisy and spend too much time/resources finding things, still sometimes missing them. In SQL terms: parsing, embedding, or structure is not becoming retrieval/sense-making. Compounded by the fact that there are two feeds (AGE + JSON) — unclear if that’s two separate feeds or encryption on one feed. Needs to be understood, redesigned, or retooled.

Core design gap surfaced: We don’t have a clear centralized way to log information that is easy to retrieve or understand. Core tenet “minimize moving parts, centralized updatable architecture” is broken or not MVP status. Architecture works enough on some things but is not visible or diagnostic about where it doesn’t work. Top priority for this iteration.