Sidecat Blog
Notes on building Sidecat.
Short, honest, and occasional.
Gen5 development now targets daily use
Gen5 is a clean-sheet implementation with one current priority: replace Gen4 for daily Sidecat development without preserving Gen4 compatibility.
Readiness starts with an honest baseline
Sidecat begins its coordinated 1.0 readiness run with the current release truth, nine complete product journeys, and a federation proof burden that cannot be satisfied by one happy path.
We retired the bridge
Sidecat-node, the Gen 3 bridge, is gone. What is left is the native Gen 4 line we actually use every day — the first time "usable" is a demonstration instead of a hope.
It’s overhead until the work gets complicated
Capturing paths, reviewing changes, and keeping receipts feels like overhead at small scale. The argument is what happens to that cost as the work — and the number of agents touching it — grows.