Written alongside the releases: why NeuroSquad works the way it does, what we measured, and what broke on the way.
Launching a CLI in a terminal is the easy tenth of an integration. The rest is statuses, sessions, tools and interruption — and every CLI needs a different way in.
Two releases in one morning opened the canvas to code we did not write. The hard part was not the features — it was keeping the promise that an agent reaches only what an arrow gives it.
An idle canvas with three agent cards was using a full CPU core. The culprit was a cartoon. Here is what we measured, what we changed, and the card that now sits on every canvas.
The installer went from 550 MB to 96 MB in a day, then got rewritten from scratch. What went wrong with the old one, and how updates now install without ever breaking the copy you have.
Three weeks after the first commit, the first public build. What problem it solves, and the three decisions everything else in the app is built on.