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Building Andy: The Development Timeline

October 8, 2025 - January 12, 2026 (Days 0-103)

This is the story of how Andy evolved from a blank repository to a fully operational AI executive assistant system with 44+ agents, automated workflows, self-healing infrastructure, production intelligence, a modular skills system, polished chat interface with synthesis intelligence, comprehensive API skills, voice input, Claude Memory integration, security hardening with push notifications, Memory Lane semantic memory, auto-suggest buttons with agent-based architecture, WebSocket consolidation, UniFi Network Tracker, Discord-based human-in-the-loop approval workflows, @Andy Discord conversations with threaded interactions, and Langfuse observability integration.

What started as "let's see what Claude Code can do" became a daily collaboration that fundamentally changed how I think about building software with AI.


The Chapters

Week Days Title Dates Theme
1 0-11 The Initial Sprint Oct 8-19 Foundation & agent architecture
2 12-32 Production Maturation Oct 20 - Nov 9 Link healing, relationships, schema validation
3 33-39 Timeline Automation Nov 3-10 Documentation health, relationship intelligence
4 40-47 Newsletter Polish Nov 10-17 Meeting workflows, audit systems
5 48-54 Skills Infrastructure Nov 18-24 Scripts cleanup, modular skills foundation
6 55-61 Chat UI & Synthesis Nov 25 - Dec 1 Andy Core UI, synthesis intelligence
7 62-68 API-First Architecture Dec 2-8 Comprehensive APIs, voice input, Claude Memory
8 69-75 Security Hardening Dec 9-15 Authentication, push notifications, UI polish
9 76-82 Memory Intelligence Dec 16-22 Memory Lane, multi-user foundation, iMessage triage
10 83-89 Agent Refactoring Dec 23-29 Auto-suggest buttons, open source prep
11 90-96 Real-Time Infrastructure Dec 30 - Jan 5 WebSocket unification, Network Tracker, PM Agent
12 97-103 Discord Conversations & Personal Archives Jan 6-12 @Andy Discord mentions, Langfuse tracing, Flickr archive

Week Summaries

The foundation. Built the agent architecture, integrated MCP servers, created the first commands. Went from zero to a working system with relationship tracking, email operations, and task management in 11 days.

The longest stretch - 21 days of grinding toward production quality. The link healer marathon, relationship automation breakthrough, schema validation, and the newsletter system taking shape.

Documentation became self-maintaining. Timeline automation, documentation health systems, and relationship intelligence refinement. The system started caring for itself.

Meeting workflows matured. Newsletter reached production quality. Audit systems emerged. The focus shifted from building features to polishing what existed.

The great scripts cleanup - 37 scripts archived, survivors converted to modular skills. The skills system emerged as the sustainable pattern for extending Andy.

Andy Core's chat interface evolved. Sparkfile capture, image uploads, slash command intelligence. The Synthesis Intelligence system breakthrough - weekly learning consolidation.

Everything became an API. Events, projects, tasks, workstreams - all accessible through skills. Voice input arrived. Claude Memory integration. Token usage observability.

Laravel Sanctum authentication. Credential scanning. Push notifications. Knowledge library reorganization. Light mode fixes. Security and polish in parallel.

Memory Lane semantic search. Host-bridge service extraction. Infisical migration complete. iMessage inbox triage. Token usage analytics. Multi-user foundation laid.

The /overview command migrated to agent-based architecture. Twitter API integration. Sessions API for historical context. Auto-suggest buttons. Open source preparation begins.

WebSocket consolidation unified all real-time communication. UniFi Network Tracker launched for physical presence detection. Skills architecture matured with @skill autocomplete. PM Agent introduced Discord-based human-in-the-loop approvals.

@Andy Discord mentions created threaded Claude conversations accessible from any Discord channel. Langfuse integration added production observability. The Flickr archive browser made 15+ years of photos searchable. Day 100 milestone passed.


Quick Stats

  • Duration: 103 days (Oct 8, 2025 - Jan 12, 2026)
  • Agents: 44+
  • Skills: 118+
  • Lines of timeline: 7,000+

The Timeline Curator Agent

This timeline is maintained by an automated agent that runs weekly. The timeline-curator.md file documents the agent's workflow, including:

  • Weekly Chapter Template - The standard structure for each week's narrative
  • Day Entry Format - How individual days are documented with commits, lessons learned, and metrics
  • Quality Verification - Checks for navigation links, reflection sections, and narrative consistency
  • Writing Voice - The "You did..." second-person narrative style that tells the story

The agent monitors git commits, identifies timeline-worthy developments, and proposes updates that maintain the serial narrative format.


Start reading: Week 1: The Initial Sprint →

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