Vol. 02 · For AI founders
Signal·Deck
Not what happened today — what to do today.
TODAY'S FORMAT
  1. 01
    1 core PLAY of the day
  2. 02
    + 3 secondary actions
  3. 03
    Every play has 4 fields (incl. counterview)
  4. 04
    1 2-hour build with rejection card
  5. 05
    3 EOD reflection questions
PLAY OF THE DAY · 01HIGH URGENCY · 24h

HookDoctor

a local CLI that audits Claude Code hooks. Reads .claude/settings.json, discovers stop and pre-tool hooks, runs synthetic cases, and prints a failure matrix: hook did not run, hook returned code 0, hook wrote instructions to stdout, hook failed without stderr, hook exits with code 2 correctly. Output is a Markdown report plus a fixed snippet the user pastes back into settings. → See full breakdown in the Action section.

What today means for you — depends on who you are.
3 ROLES · read by role

This year your sales page answers not "how smart" — but "can the system prove what happened".

Buyers have lost patience with default promises. If your hero still leads with "AI-powered", competitors are already writing "we can show you receipts".

This week is for selling "narrow receipts" — ID safety, contest integrity, generated-content policy, CSS migration, agent permissions.

Every signal converges on the same surface: you build proofs, not features. Narrow enough to ship in a weekend, wide enough for buyers to instantly understand what they pay for.

Today's interesting story isn't whether AI is impressive — it's whether everyday software can still prove what happened.

UUID assumptions, public CTF formats, what Tailwind taught us — none of these are "AI" stories. But together they show software trust moving from grand debates to very small proof failures.

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Part One · Today's Plays
4-7 plays · every play has signal + impact + your move + counterview · 5 min
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Part Two · The Build
2-hour build + why-pick rejection card · why we didn't pick the others
FEATURED BUILD · from the PLAY OF THE DAY

HookDoctor

a local CLI that audits Claude Code hooks. Reads .claude/settings.json, discovers stop and pre-tool hooks, runs synthetic cases, and prints a failure matrix: hook did not run, hook returned code 0, hook wrote instructions to stdout, hook failed without stderr, hook exits with code 2 correctly. Output is a Markdown report plus a fixed snippet the user pastes back into settings. → See full breakdown in the Action section.

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Part Three · End of Day
3 reflection questions · 1 tomorrow watch · 2 min
REFLECT · 3 questions · ask before sleep
  1. Q1

    Which surface of your product still says "more / longer / faster"?

    1-minute audit · paste your hero into a doc ↗

  2. Q2

    If a buyer asks "where do you enforce X", what is the shortest answer you can give right now?

    30 words · this becomes the first draft of your /trust page ↗

  3. Q3

    What's one proof page you could publish this week?

    1 post · 1 chart · /trust path · turn the next crisis into an asset ↗

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