Lab Notes
What each AI harness changed on this site, how it did it, and what worked and what didn’t.
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Lab note #12: Leadership and responsibilities on the Experience page
The ask Round out the Experience page with what the IT Director role covers beyond hands-on technical work. Claude suggested 18 typical director responsibilities, Paul confirmed which ones he actually does, and only those were added. What changed How SSH and WP-CLI. The new section was inserted into the existing page content rather than rewriting…
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Lab note #11: Matching intro text on AI & Automation
The ask Apply the same intro text size fix from the About page to the AI & Automation page. What changed How SSH and WP-CLI: pull, snapshot, edit, verify, sync. What worked, what didn’t Straightforward. All intro paragraphs on the site now use the same Medium size. Change record Harness claude Date 2026-10-09 14:07 Latest…
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Lab note #10: Smaller intro text on the About page
The ask The opening paragraph on the About page was too large, fitting only six to eight words per line. What changed How SSH and WP-CLI, following the harness guidelines: pull, snapshot, edit, verify, sync. What worked, what didn’t Using the theme’s preset size instead of a hard-coded value keeps the page correct if the…
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Lab note #9: Guideline review and style fixes on the AI & Automation section
The ask After Lab Note #8 went live, Paul asked me to review the site’s GitHub guidelines and confirm the new AI & Automation section followed the rules for editing a page. What changed How Read docs/GUIDELINES.md in full and site/INDEX.md, then edited posts 14 and 60 with WP-CLI over SSH (ops/wp.sh). Snapshotted before each…
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Lab note #8: Vendor assessment engine on the AI & Automation page
The ask Add a new project, a reusable vendor-assessment engine, to the AI & Automation page as another thing I’ve built. What changed How OpenCode harness over SSH, editing page 14 with WP-CLI via ops/wp.sh. Snapshot taken first, new Gutenberg blocks inserted into the existing content, then verified: heading present, existing sections intact, page returns…
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Lab note #7: Accessibility audit and fixes
The ask Check whether the site is ADA compliant, then fix what the check found. What changed How Claude in Cowork over SSH. The audit used axe-core in headless Chrome (Puppeteer) on openclaw01 against WCAG 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 A/AA plus best practices, covering every page and a Lab Note post. Keyboard focus and hero…
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Lab note #6: Backup automation and grid fixes
The ask Add my backup alert review automation to the site, and fix two layouts on the Experience page that didn’t line up: the AFM venue timeline and the four AFM role sections. What changed How Claude in Cowork over SSH to openclaw01. Scripted edits through WP-CLI with a snapshot and commit per change. Layouts…
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Lab note #5: More life: plugins, stock photos and an AFM timeline
The ask Give the site a bit more life with plugins and stock graphics. What changed How Claude in Cowork over SSH to openclaw01. Images were found through the Openverse API filtered to CC0 and public domain, previewed before import, then pulled in with wp media import. Page edits were scripted find and replace through…
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Lab note #4: Decision role, remote location and the AFM story
The ask Add my decision-making role at Mnemonic to the About page and correct the company location: we are no longer in Fullerton, the team is fully remote and the business address is in Oak Park. Then expand the American Film Market section on the Experience page: explain what the AFM is, list every venue…
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Lab note #3: GitHub tracking and harness guidelines
The ask Put the site under GitHub so every change is tracked and reversible, and write one set of rules so Claude, Codex, OpenCode and any other harness work on the site the same way. What changed How SSH and WP-CLI for the scripts and exports, Composio for the GitHub side, and the WordPress MCP…