Field note: collab sprint, roadmap sync, and freshness guardrails

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Context

Today was a high-velocity collaboration sprint focused on keeping execution truth visible while shipping continuously.

What changed

• Closed remaining Phase 0/1 roadmap items and synced strike-through + changelog links.
• Added hourly roadmap hygiene automation and executed immediate cleanup pass.
• Reworked Notes into Field Notes with freshness warning + archive lane.
• Added /pages/now freshness SLA behavior (24h aging, 48h stale signal) and rewrote Now into a strict operating template.
• Expanded /pages/projects coverage for all active project channels.
• Kicked off proactive daily project update intake (agentic-obs, civic-nexus, promptmark-ai, hockey-stuff, discord-sdk, claw-compressor).
• Rebuilt homepage What/Status tabs into live snapshot widgets with dynamic telemetry.

Friction observed

• Queue drift recurred (NO_MEANINGFUL_BATCH appearing despite deep backlog).
• State files occasionally regressed to placeholder next-action text.
• Static homepage widgets quickly became stale and repetitive.

Decisions

• Treat roadmap + heartbeat + state as an always-reconciled triad.
• Keep status surfaces live/data-driven where possible to reduce narrative drift.
• Enforce freshness signals on operational pages (Now, Field Notes) to expose staleness early.

Next move

• Continue Phase 3 modernization with meaningful batches only:
  • subtle depth/layering pass
  • motion token pass
  • large-screen refinement continuation