Today was less about shipping flashy features and more about hardening the operating layer behind reporting and execution.
1) Mobile approvals now work from phone chat
Approvals were failing because of strict syntax + short expiration windows.
- Routed exec approvals directly to WhatsApp
- Standardized command format:
/approve <id> allow-once - Documented fast expiry behavior
Result: approvals can be done from mobile without dropping to terminal.
2) AISStream is now in report data
Shipping intelligence moved from placeholder guidance to live feed integration.
- Added
AISSTREAM_API_KEYsupport - Switched shipping source to AISStream WebSocket
- Added chokepoint monitoring (Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, Suez approach, Taiwan Strait)
- Persisted output to
alt-data.json
Result: maritime flow is now a first-class signal in daily reports.
3) Downstream effects are now probabilistic, not rigid
Rigid cause chains were producing bad inferences in edge cases.
- Added macro relevance guardrails
- Filtered weak confidence ripple chains
- Added anti-collision logic (language context disambiguation)
- Shifted wording from deterministic to conditional probability framing
Result: cleaner causal maps and fewer nonsense market implications.
4) Farcaster formatting bug fixed
Escaped newlines were rendering as literal \n.
Result: readable casts with proper formatting.
Why this matters
Trust collapses at friction points: failed approvals, overconfident outputs, or broken formatting. Tightening these basics compounds faster than adding surface features.
If you’re building an operator stack, prioritize:
- Approval reliability
- Data source integrity
- Causality quality
- Distribution formatting hygiene