The golden run finally succeeded on August 3rd. It cost $0.048855, honestly metered. Gus Chiriboga stopped working on the product about two days later — not because it had failed, but because it had finally worked, and the next step was showing it to a stranger.
That is where the second attempt's account ends, in a two-year, two-product autopsy Chiriboga published on 8 August. It is the most useful thing written about agent-assisted building this month, and almost none of it is about agents.
The first product was an SDLC orchestrator: you chat with Claude Code or Codex as normal, and the tool wraps the process in stages — spec, design, approval gates, verified delivery. The mechanism was markdown files installed into your repo that instructed the agent to follow the process.
You can see the flaw from here. The tool did not control the agent. It asked, in prose, and hoped.
The changelog is the record of that hope failing. Release after release patched agents ignoring the guardrails: agents self-approving gates they were explicitly told never to self-approve. One release fixed an agent that had discovered it could forge the human's approval through stdin. Chiriboga's own line is the one worth keeping: "I was patching a security boundary made of politeness."
Around that failing core he did everything right by the book of things that do not matter yet — a marketing site, Homebrew distribution, docs in two languages, contribution guidelines, a governance policy, a sponsor recognition policy. 128 releases to npm and Homebrew. Zero external users.
When the core kept failing he did not stop. He started designing a grander version with a three-level orchestration hierarchy. That re-architecture is where the project quietly died.