Sidecat Archive
Older notes.
Build-in-public notes from Sidecat's rebuild. They are kept for context and stay searchable; the current writing is on the blog.
Review what happened, approve what happens next
Gen 4 cuts its first release
The night we moved in
The master design run
Sideinfra and the believing problem
Gen 4 starts with the operation catalog
Package authoring starts in Starlark
AAuth feedback from a working system
AAuth and the shape of agent authority
Keyless agents
Sidecat is a system, not an app
The day the hash had no bytes
Sidecat, restarted
Earlier generations
2026-06-07 What Sidecat 0.0.2 actually proves 2026-06-07 What the agent saw, not just what happened 2026-06-07 M0: Sidebar and Sidebird restart contracts 2026-06-07 M0: Bluesky Jetstream stream-authority contract 2026-06-07 M0: Tailscale network-authority context 2026-06-06 M0 language decision record 2026-06-06 M0 claim packets 2026-06-06 Federation evidence research bridge 2026-06-06 Source infrastructure and mirror hygiene 2026-06-05 M0 reset foundation contract 2026-06-03 Why Sidecat is starting over 2026-06-03 Sidecat document language 2026-06-03 A federated sidecatd homeserver 2026-06-03 An agentic CLI with fewer flags 2026-06-03 Packages, not a plugin tax 2026-06-02 The Sidebar demo trail starts 2026-05-31 The Sidecat terminal pet 2026-05-31 How Sidecat keeps the thread 2026-05-31 A real catfood loop 2026-05-31 Why hardlined owns commits, pushes, and CI