Captain's Log
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Week 8 — March 9, 2026
Status: 🟢 SPRINT
Arrr, the ship has left port at last. We’ve staked our claim on the cloud, hoisted our colors at projectvigil.org, and charted a course through waters that would make lesser sailors weep. The horizon holds both treasure and hard decisions, and we sail toward both with eyes open.
What Shipped
Azure infrastructure provisioned.
The full Vigil cloud environment is live on Azure Subscription 1. Storage account (stvigilprod) with three blob containers — identity-cards, rag-data, agent-outputs. App Service Plan (F1 free) and web app (vigil-identity-card.azurewebsites.net) deployed and ready for a Flask application. Billing budget set at $50/month with alerts at 50%, 80%, 100% actual and 80% forecasted — all wired to email. Nothing runs unattended on a personal credit card.
projectvigil.org launched. GitHub Pages enabled on the project-vigil repo. Six pages live: Home, Roadmap, Artifacts, Resources, LLM Interaction Strategies, Captain’s Log. DNS configuration at Porkbun complete — site resolves at projectvigil.org.
Public roadmap published. A scrubbed version of the full 18-month roadmap is now public-facing on the site. All commercial strategy and IP-adjacent content removed. Academic structure, certification sequence, and technical build timeline are intact.
Free resources page built. ~25 curated free tools, cloud credits, learning platforms, and communities for students navigating AI. No referral links.
Hard Decisions
Identity Card Builder: paused. The tool was on the roadmap as the first user-facing product for projectvigil.org. It isn’t going there yet.
The problem: the identity card is also core to a commercial project in development. Releasing a free open-source version before the IP boundary is clearly defined is the kind of mistake that’s easy to make and hard to undo. The web app is provisioned and ready. The tool will ship when the answer is clear, not before.
In Progress
Landscape Report — research phase. Using an LLM with a current dataset to pull 2026 data on AI-driven white collar displacement. Will write the piece once data comes back. Target: published to GitHub and LinkedIn this week.
What’s Behind
Agents. The roadmap had LinkedIn agent and GitHub documentation agent running by end of W8. Neither is started. This is the most overdue item on the board and gets addressed next sprint.
Lessons Logged
- Do not build toward a domain decision that hasn’t been made. Asking the question first cost nothing.
- Azure provider registration is async and slower than expected. Chain subscription context in every CLI call — shell state does not persist between commands.
- Billing protection before resource creation. Not after.
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