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Development chronicle — mb640 to mb641 · Shared HTTP policy, crash-aware version checks and truthful worker termination
The remote version checker already knew how to contact GitHub.
What this round fixes is more fundamental:
**when the check fails, Mediabot must always be able to say…
Development chronicle — mb638 to mb639 · Actionable update diagnostics, real fallback URLs and stricter remote VERSION validation
Mediabot already knew how to check GitHub before an update.
The problem was what happened when that check failed.
An operator could see:
local:…Development chronicle — mb636 to mb637 · Cross-channel AI summaries, privacy-aware publishing and canonical channel identity
Mediabot’s AI summary command can now read a channel other than the one where the operator is standing.
The new syntax is simple:
ai #35+ans summary
`…Development chronicle — mb632 to mb635 · Guarded IRC self-update, exact-host production protection and safer zero-surprise deployment
This round gives Mediabot one of its most operational features yet:
m update
m update now
A trusted operator can now ask the bot whether…
Development chronicle — mb631 · Administrator-only AI summaries and a truthful UTF-8 regression guard
This round is deliberately focused.
ai summary can read and reformulate a large amount of channel history. That makes it useful, but it also makes it closer to a moderation tool than a…
Development chronicle — mb629 to mb630 · Administrator-only leaderboard, compact IRC layout, dashboard colours and truthful dispatch tests
This round started with a simple usability request: make the leaderboard smaller, more readable and more colourful.
It ended up improving three separ…
Development chronicle — mb626 to mb628 · Full-period AI summaries, index-friendly date queries and a final runtime truth check
This round looks small from the command line, but it fixes something fundamental: when Mediabot says it summarized a period, it must have genuinely covered that per…
Development chronicle — mb620 to mb625 · Real horoscopes, UTF-8-safe IRC, stronger AI summaries and strict recap syntax
This development round started with a horoscope and ended up hardening two of Mediabot’s most useful conversational tools.
The visible additions are easy to describe: a…
Development chronicle — mb620 to mb622 · Real daily signs, UTF-8 wire safety and async parity
Mediabot’s horoscope command has moved beyond a purely local deterministic flavour text.
This round adds a real daily horoscope provider by zodiac sign, keeps the existing local horoscope as a s…
Development chronicle — mb613 to mb619 · Live news, multilingual output, async-safe delivery and editorially relevant sources
Mediabot’s news command has moved from a working prototype to a proper IRC news feature.
The first version could search Tavily and ask Claude for a short synthesi…