Asia's Inbox — Archive

Created 2026-03-05

Updated 2026-05-20

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Completed inbox items with full original content. Newest at the top.

Index

2026-05-20

2026-05-19 17:30 ET — Session 7 summary: finalized, ready for forum post and group post

2026-05-13 21:30 ET — Meghan Moe Beitiks — send course access denial response

2026-05-20

2026-05-19 20:27 ET — Noemi Normandin — second system email to send immediately

2026-05-18

2026-05-18 11:33 ET — Session 7 Summary Draft — Ready for Review

2026-05-12

2026-05-12 12:36 ET — Session 6 Summary draft ready for your review and editing

2026-05-05

2026-05-05 18:30 ET — Google Workspace CLI — correct install command

2026-05-05

2026-05-05 13:30 ET — Synology SSH — both machines should now work

2026-05-01

2026-04-23 14:15 ET — Catch-up email sent to Elinor Fueter ahead of Saturday

2026-04-18 18:08 ET — Session 3 Summary ready for review

2026-04-13 09:50 ET — Spring 2026 Session 2 summary posted, voice/tone refinements applied

2026-04-11 22:45 ET — Session 2 Summary: Ready for review

2026-04-08 10:15 ET — Campaign plan: Proprioceptive Awareness article + BRNet — your input needed

2026-05-01

2026-04-29 17:45 ET — New Baseworks site build project started — action required from you

2026-04-26 08:39 ET — Session 4 Summary draft ready for review

2026-05-01

2026-04-30 22:00 ET — Security hardening update — VPS scripts and n8n workflows are now in git

2026-05-01

2026-04-23 ~14:00 ET — Cohort reminder email signed by Asia — sent on your behalf

2026-05-01

2026-04-29 — URGENT: Infrastructure Security Hardening — action required on your machines

2026-05-01

2026-05-01 14:00 ET — Machine-specific security fixes needed on both Asia Macs

2026-04-24

2026-04-20 21:32 ET — Build Formidable Form 67 → FluentCRM custom-field hook

2026-04-10 09:30 ET — Instagram carousel for proprioceptive awareness article — ready for you to polish

2026-04-08 21:45 ET — CSS icon backslash issue — RESOLVED same session

2026-03-20 09:15 ET — Any Guay CE certificate inquiry — new reply received, needs discussion before responding

2026-04-10

2026-04-09 10:30 ET — New ACF field needed: “Last Updated” date on article post type

2026-04-08

2026-04-07 17:30 ET — Forum content sync live + moderation plan — your review needed

2026-04-07 13:30 ET — Vault infrastructure upgrade — what changed and why

2026-04-07 11:05 ET — Vault cleanup — rogue files removed, folders reorganized

2026-04-07

2026-04-07 13:00 ET — Vault sync upgrade — one-time setup needed on your machines

2026-04-06

2026-04-05 23:50 ET — Staging sites causing 502s on production — Automator crons need attention

2026-04-05 23:05 ET — Session 1 — edits accepted, forum post live

2026-04-05

2026-04-03 16:50 ET — Session 1 prep notes for tomorrow — please review

2026-04-03 10:15 ET — Perception Gap blog — LinkedIn campaign published

2026-04-01

2026-03-31 21:00 ET — Set up B2 authorization for /compress-photos on your Mac Mini

2026-03-25

2026-03-25 — Writing Process + Voice Guide Structural Changes — informational

2026-03-25 — Voice guide v2.0 — feedback patterns — informational, no action required

2026-03-18 16:45 ET — How to create and use Claude Code skills — informational, no action needed

2026-03-19

2026-03-19 02:00 ET — baseworks-changelog repo — branch divergence, needs cleanup session

2026-03-18

2026-03-18 21:30 ET — Closing presentation posted to practice site — email sent to Winter cohort

2026-03-18 19:00 ET — URGENT — Create individual taxonomy concept notes for the entire Baseworks taxonomy

2026-03-14

2026-03-13 17:00 ET — Practice site infrastructure documented — review and discuss refactoring plan

2026-03-12

2026-03-11 11:40 ET — Claude Code VPS authentication — resolved

2026-03-09

2026-03-09 16:00 ET — Study Group landing page — card titles for “Who Tends to Find This Useful”

2026-03-09 15:00 ET — Terms of Service updated — Event Validity Periods section + Quebec e-commerce compliance research

2026-03-08

2026-03-08 23:30 ET — Study Group landing page — Round 2 voice review + voice guide updates

2026-03-08 21:45 ET — Backup scripts were broken — now fixed; Fathom Analytics removed; Google Fonts fixed

2026-03-08 04:00 ET — French Privacy Policy regenerated with Termageddon updates

2026-03-08 01:45 ET — Quebec compliance Phase 1a complete — all French policy pages live, cross-links added, Phase 1b/1c ready for implementation

2026-03-07 22:00 ET — Privacy Policy updated — analytics, advertising, and security sections added

2026-03-07

2026-03-07 19:15 ET — KB deploy pipeline fixes and frontmatter rules

2026-03-05

2026-03-05 20:30 ET — Practice Sessions page — Round 3 complete, ready for Elementor deployment

2026-03-05 15:30 ET — Complete backup infrastructure deployed across all Baseworks sites + n8n server

2026-03-05 12:00 ET — v2 plugin changes documented, ready to reapply after restore

2026-03-03 14:30 ET — Set up QMD semantic search on your Mac

2026-03-03 14:30 ET — Complete Claude Code first-run wizard on VPS

2026-03-03 16:30 ET — Inbox notification test

2026-03-04

2026-03-04 23:15 ET — Practice Sessions page — Voice guide alignment round 2 (full page review)

2026-03-04 15:30 ET — Automation infrastructure notes — first draft ready for review

2026-05-19 20:27 ET — Noemi Normandin — second system email to send immediately

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Document: feedback-submissions-deleted Requested action: Send this email to Noémie Normandin straight away — same sender setup as the progress reset email (system/no-reply, no personal sign-off).

Fill in before sending: Replace the three [Segment A/B/C] placeholders with: Ignition, Assimilation, Cyclicity.

Context: Her feedback submissions for those three segments were deleted from Formidable Forms (entries 3542, 3543, 3544) because she skipped through the lessons. The activity log confirmed multiple lessons completed within the same minute. She needs to know the submissions are gone and that she has to redo them properly.

Supporting evidence and archived flagged files: index

Completed: 2026-05-20

2026-04-09 10:30 ET — New ACF field needed: “Last Updated” date on article post type

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

What: Articles on baseworks.com currently show only the publish date. When an article receives a significant revision (like the March 2026 proprioceptive awareness update), there’s no way to display that on the page. We need a new custom field and a template update.

What to create:

New ACF field: article_last_updated — Date Picker type, attached to the article post type
- Leave blank for articles that haven’t been significantly revised (only the original publish date shows)
- Set manually only when a substantive revision is published (new data, revised argument, added/removed sections) — not for minor typo or formatting fixes
Template display: Update the Elementor article template to show the field when set, formatted as: “Originally published [post date] · Updated [last_updated date]”
First use: Set it on the proprioceptive awareness article to March 2026

Why manual rather than using WordPress post_modified: The built-in modified date updates on every save, including trivial edits. A manual field gives editorial control over what counts as a meaningful update — which is exactly how blog archives should work. Only significant revisions get timestamped; minor fixes don’t mislead readers.

Standard practice: Blog archives show “Published” + “Last updated” (two dates). No need for a full revision log — that lives in the vault and git history.

After creating the field: Let Patrick know so the /publish-article skill workflow can be updated to include this field.

Completed: 2026-04-10

2026-04-07 17:30 ET — Forum content sync live + moderation plan — your review needed

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Two things here: a new system that’s already running, and a plan that needs your input.

1. Forum content ingestion is live (System 3)

All forum content from practice.baseworks.com now syncs into the vault automatically every 2 hours. This is the same architecture as the questionnaire export (System 1) — Python script on the VPS pulling from BuddyBoss REST API, generating markdown, committing to git.

What’s in the vault now:

02-areas/practice-platform/community-forums-groups/
├── community-posts/          ← pre-existing manual posts (unchanged)
├── forums/                   ← 4 forum entities (one file per forum + index)
│   ├── community.md
│   ├── hang-out.md
│   ├── montreal-study-group-2026-spring-cohort-forum.md
│   ├── montreal-study-group-2026-winter-cohort.md
│   └── practice-community-discussion.md
├── topics/                   ← 32 discussion topics (replies inline in each file)
│   ├── 250805-forum-guidelines.md
│   ├── 260124-forum-tag-shortlist.md
│   ├── 260124-session-1-summary-...md
│   ├── ... (all session summaries, questions, discussions)
│   ├── 260327-recu-facture-preuve-dachat.md   ← example: billing question
│   └── 260406-session-1-summary-foundations-first-contact.md
├── groups/                   ← 4 BuddyBoss groups with metadata + member counts
│   ├── montreal-study-group-winter-2026-cohort.md
│   ├── montreal-study-group-spring-2026-cohort.md
│   ├── practice-community.md
│   └── primer-community.md
└── activity/                 ← 5 monthly digests of group feed posts
    ├── 2021-01-activity-digest.md
    ├── ... through ...
    └── 2022-02-activity-digest.md

Key design decisions — please review these:

Replies are inline within topic files (under a ## Replies section), not separate files. This keeps each discussion as one readable document. If you think replies should be separate, let us know.
Topics are named {YYMMDD}-{slug}.md — date prefix for chronological sorting.
Activity digests are monthly — group feed posts aggregated by month, filtered for content-bearing items only (not logins or profile changes).
Groups get their own files — structural metadata (name, description, member count, forum ID) useful for wikilinks and context.

Each file has structured frontmatter with type, IDs, author, dates, reply counts, and source URLs back to the live forum. Claude can now search and cross-reference all forum content when working on session summaries, communications, or curriculum.

Documentation:

Full design: 03-resources/executed-plans/forum-content-ingestion-plan.md
System 3 in: 02-areas/website/functionalities/vault-sync-systems.md
Scripts: scripts/forum-content-sync.py and scripts/forum-content-sync.sh (also on VPS)

2. Forum moderation + content extraction plan — needs your review

Patrick wants to build a moderation layer on top of this. The problem: participants occasionally post billing questions, receipt requests, consent concerns, or other admin matters to the public forum. Examples already in the vault:

Any Guay (2026-03-27): asked for her receipt/invoice publicly in the forum
Clementine (2026-03-14): posted a media consent concern on the group feed, which Patrick addressed with a public post redirecting admin matters to email

The plan has two parts:

Part 1 — Moderation (needs your input):

Detect off-topic posts using keyword matching (billing, payment, receipt, invoice, facture, consent, promotion, etc.)
Flag them for human review (notification to you and Patrick)
On approval: remove the post from the live forum + send a polite email to the poster explaining the forum is for course content only and their concern has been moved to email
Post preserved in the vault with status: moderated for record-keeping

Part 2 — Content extraction:

Analyze on-topic posts for programming-relevant insights (confusion points, breakthroughs, form-specific discussion, practice questions)
Generate periodic reports that feed into session prep and curriculum planning

Full plan: 03-resources/community/forum-moderation-plan.md

What we need from you

Review the vault structure — browse the community-forums-groups/ directories in Obsidian. Does the organization make sense? Would you change anything?
Review the moderation categories — are the five categories (billing, terms, consent, promotions, off-topic personal) complete? Anything missing?
Email template tone — the plan includes a template approach for the removal notification emails. What address should these come from? Any tone notes?
Content extraction signals — what insights from forum posts would be most useful for your programming decisions?
Open question: should moderated posts stay in the vault (with a moderated flag) or be removed entirely?

Completed: 2026-04-08

2026-04-07 13:30 ET — Vault infrastructure upgrade — what changed and why

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

This is a summary of the infrastructure work done today so you understand what changed and why. No action needed from you — the setup item above covers your part.

Why we did this

As we add more content to the knowledge base (session summaries, campaigns, forum content, emails, curriculum materials), Claude needs to efficiently find and cross-reference information. We had two problems:

No structural search. qmd can find content by meaning (“find documents about body awareness”), but it can’t answer structural questions like “what files link to the voice guide?” or “which files share the ‘curriculum’ tag?” These structural queries are important when building campaigns, writing session summaries, or checking how content connects across areas.
Stale content between machines. The Obsidian Git plugin committed changes locally but didn’t push automatically. Changes made on one machine could take hours to reach others, causing drift.

What changed

1. CLAUDE.md is leaner now (225 → 175 lines)

We removed reference material (backup commands, machine identity tables, skill creation steps) and moved it to the files where it belongs. All the behavioral rules that Claude follows at session start are unchanged. This makes Claude more reliable — fewer instructions competing for attention means each one gets followed more consistently.

2. SQLite relationship index (vault-index.db)

A new database that indexes every wikilink, tag, and frontmatter field in the vault. It rebuilds automatically after every sync. Claude can now instantly query:

What files link to a specific file (backlinks)
What files share a tag
Which files are orphans (nothing links to them)
Which wikilinks are broken

This complements qmd — qmd finds content by meaning, the index finds content by structure.

3. Automated vault sync (every 5 minutes) — replaces Obsidian Git

This is the fix for the sync failures we kept having with Obsidian Git. A new script (scripts/vault-sync.sh) replaces the Obsidian Git auto-commit entirely. Here’s how it works in practice:

Every 5 minutes, each machine (your Macs, Patrick’s Mac, and the VPS) automatically pulls changes from GitHub, commits any local changes, and pushes. You do not need to do anything — no manual commits, no remembering to push.
If your Mac is asleep, the sync pauses. The moment it wakes up, it fires immediately — pulls everything that was pushed while you were away, commits and pushes anything you had locally. No changes are lost, just slightly delayed.
The VPS never sleeps. It runs 24/7, so automated systems (forum content sync, questionnaire export) always push on schedule regardless of whether anyone’s Mac is on.
During Claude Code sessions, every file edit is written to disk instantly. The sync picks it up within 5 minutes. Even if a terminal session crashes mid-work (as happened today), whatever was written to disk before the crash is safe — the next sync cycle commits and pushes it.
Why Obsidian Git failed: it committed locally but didn’t push reliably. Changes would sit on one machine for hours. The new system does the full pull-commit-push loop every cycle, so drift between machines is eliminated.

You’ll see commits in the git history labeled vault sync: (new system) alongside older vault backup: commits (Obsidian Git). Both are fine. Once we confirm everything is stable across all machines, we’ll disable Obsidian Git completely.

Changes now propagate between machines within 5-10 minutes instead of waiting for manual pushes. After each pull, the system also automatically rebuilds the SQLite index and updates qmd.

4. /vault-audit health check

A new skill that checks the health of the entire system — CLAUDE.md size, index freshness, qmd status, vault structure, sync status, and growth trends. Run it anytime with /vault-audit to see if anything needs attention.

What this means for your workflow

Nothing changes about how you use Obsidian. You still edit files normally. The sync happens in the background. The only visible difference is that commits will now say vault sync: instead of vault backup: — both are fine, they’ll coexist until we fully transition.

What we evaluated and skipped

We looked at LightRAG (a graph database system for AI retrieval) and related tools. They’re designed for thousands of documents with complex relationships. Our vault has ~754 files with explicit wikilinks — the SQLite index gives us the same relationship awareness at zero ongoing cost. We’ll revisit if the vault grows past ~2,000 files.

Completed: 2026-04-08

2026-04-07 11:05 ET — Vault cleanup — rogue files removed, folders reorganized

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Patrick audited the vault for out-of-place files and folders at the root level. Several empty stubs, orphaned files, and misplaced folders were cleaned up. Here’s what changed:

Deleted (empty/orphaned)

Style Guide.md — 0 bytes, empty placeholder
deployment-guide.md — 0 bytes, empty placeholder
index.md — 0 bytes, leftover from old Quartz migration
yogajaya-integration-awareness-transformation.webp — orphaned image, no note linked to it
patrick-oancia/ — folder with single empty stub file
study-groups/ — folder with single empty stub file (real content is in 02-areas/educational-programs/study-groups/)
assets/*.png — 5 untracked timestamp-named screenshots (previously cleaned up, had reappeared)

Reorganized

Downloads/ (winter-2026 closing presentation PDFs + exported slides) → moved to 04-archive/2026-winter-closing-presentation/

Obsidian config

Added site/, _static/, .github/ to Obsidian’s excluded folders so they no longer pollute vault search or graph view. These are build infrastructure, not knowledge content.

No action needed from you

This is informational — just so you know the vault is a bit tidier. The PARA structure (00-04 folders) and all content files are untouched.

Completed: 2026-04-08

2026-04-07 13:00 ET — Vault sync upgrade — one-time setup needed on your machines

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

We’ve replaced the Obsidian Git auto-commit with a dedicated sync script (scripts/vault-sync.sh) that pulls, commits, and pushes every 5 minutes. This is more reliable — changes reach GitHub faster and you get other people’s changes pulled automatically.

A SQLite relationship index (vault-index.db) has also been added — it indexes all wikilinks, tags, and frontmatter so Claude can quickly query backlinks, tag membership, and orphan files.

The VPS is already configured. Your machines need a one-time setup:

Setup steps (per machine)

Open Terminal and run:

cd ~/Obsidian/baseworks-kb-shared-brain
git pull origin main
git config core.hooksPath scripts/git-hooks
python3 scripts/build-vault-index.py --full
cp scripts/launchd/com.baseworks.vault-sync.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.baseworks.vault-sync.plist

Verify it’s running:

launchctl list | grep vault-sync
tail -5 ~/logs/vault-sync.log

Machines required:

Mac Mini
MacBook Air (M1 Laptop)

Important: Do NOT disable Obsidian Git yet — it will continue to work alongside the new sync until we confirm everything is stable on all machines. Once confirmed, we’ll disable the Obsidian Git auto-commit across all machines in a single coordinated push.

Requested action: Run the setup steps on each of your machines and check off the boxes above.

Completed: 2026-04-07

2026-04-05 23:50 ET — Staging sites causing 502s on production — Automator crons need attention

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s MacBook Pro

Tonight Patrick was getting intermittent 502 Bad Gateway errors on practice.baseworks.com. After investigating, we traced the issue to the staging sites (staging.baseworks.com and pracstage.baseworks.com) consuming excessive CPU on the shared server, starving production of resources.

What we found

The staging site has three Uncanny Automator / Action Scheduler WP cron hooks that fire every 1–2 minutes:

Hook	Interval
`automator_wp_post_published_in_taxonomy_posts_published`	Every 1 minute
`automator_userspost_posts_published`	Every 1 minute
`action_scheduler_run_queue`	Every 1 minute

When the system cron triggered wp cron event run --due-now (every 5 minutes), these hooks would all fire, spawning PHP workers that each consumed 33%+ CPU. The staging PHP-FPM pool was configured with pm.max_children=20 (higher than production), so it could spawn up to 20 workers at once. This starved production sites of CPU, causing intermittent 502 errors.

What we fixed tonight

PHP-FPM pool limits reduced on both staging and pracstage:
- Process manager changed from dynamic to ondemand (workers spawn on demand, die when idle)
- max_children reduced to 3 (from 20 on staging, 6 on pracstage)
- process.priority = 15 added so the OS always prioritizes production workers
- memory_limit reduced to 256M (from 512M / 1024M)
System cron frequency reduced from every 5 minutes to every 30 minutes for both staging sites

What needs your attention

The Automator crons on staging.baseworks.com are still active — they just run less frequently now and with fewer resources. Since these are automations you manage, could you:

Review whether Uncanny Automator needs to be active on staging at all. If the automations are only relevant to production, deactivating the Automator plugin on staging would eliminate the issue entirely.
If Automator must stay active on staging, check whether the 1-minute recurrence intervals on those three hooks can be increased (e.g., to hourly or daily). These intervals are likely inherited from the production configuration when staging was cloned.

No urgency — the server-side limits we applied tonight will prevent staging from impacting production going forward. This is about cleaning up the staging configuration so it runs more efficiently.

Reference

Full details in the changelog: CHANGELOG.md entry for 2026-04-05.

Completed: 2026-04-06

2026-04-05 23:05 ET — Session 1 — edits accepted, forum post live

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Patrick accepted all of your edits to the Session 1 summary. The post is now live on the group forum:

Forum post: https://practice.baseworks.com/groups/montreal-study-group-spring-2026-cohort/forum/discussion/session-1-summary-foundations-first-contact/#post-22186

The group post (assignment announcement + summary link + Primer assignments reference) has also been finalized and is ready to copy-paste from the summary file:

Session 1 Summary — see “Group Post” section at the bottom

No action needed — informational only.

Completed: 2026-04-06

2026-04-03 16:50 ET — Session 1 prep notes for tomorrow — please review

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Patrick put together session preparation notes for tomorrow’s first Spring Study Group session (April 4, 9:10-10:50 AM, Studio 1). The notes are based on the full arc of the Winter study group session summaries — what worked, what to plant earlier this time, and a suggested time allocation.

Files to review:

Session 1 prep: Session 1 Preparation
Session prep index: Session Preparation Index

Key points in the prep notes:

Same three foundational forms as Winter Session 1 (Squat, Star Form, Star Tilt) — the Winter arc confirmed this is the right amount
Suggestion to plant the moderation seed earlier than Winter (where it didn’t become explicit until Session 3)
Brief forum orientation (~5 min) covering group feed vs. discussion forum distinction
Name the 7-session arc upfront so participants know the trajectory
Common corrections to watch for, drawn from Winter Session 1

Requested action: Review the session 1 prep note and flag anything you’d change or add before tomorrow morning.

Completed: 2026-04-05

2026-04-03 10:15 ET — Perception Gap blog — LinkedIn campaign published

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

LinkedIn article, personal feed post, and Baseworks company page post are all published for the Perception Gap blog campaign. Campaign file updated with LinkedIn article URL, SEO metadata, and all three post texts. Hyperlinks added to the LinkedIn article body matching the baseworks.com version.

LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-you-cant-feel-change-body-awareness-perception-gap-oancia-hukje
Baseworks article: https://baseworks.com/article/perception-gap-body-awareness/
Campaign file: 2026-04-perception-gap-blog

All LinkedIn social-status fields marked published in the campaign frontmatter. Instagram and Facebook remain at ready status.

[ ] 2026-04-02 17:10 ET | Welcome email HTML ready for FluentCRM automation — new Practice Session signups

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac Updated 2026-04-02 17:10 ET — final version with design refinements

The welcome email for new introductory Practice Session participants is finalized and ready to be set up as a FluentCRM automation.

HTML file: 02-areas/communications/email-templates/practice-sessions/welcome-new-assets/welcome-new-final.html

Copy the full HTML into a FluentCRM email action block. It is self-contained (inline styles, no external dependencies beyond Google Fonts and CDN images).

Automation trigger: Purchase of introductory session ($44 CAD) — tag track-introductory applied.

Subject line: Your introductory session — what to know before you arrive Preheader: Three preparation points, your calendar subscription, and the event participation questionnaire.

What the email contains:

Hero image + welcome text + three preparation points (fresh eyes, follow instructions, natural breathing)
CTA button: “Read the Preparation Guide” → practice.baseworks.com/preparation-guide/
Calendar photo + styled Google Calendar and Apple/Outlook subscription buttons
Questionnaire mock image + CTA button: “Complete the Questionnaire” → practice.baseworks.com/members/me/background/
Closing line: “If you have questions before your session, reply to this email.”
Standard footer with social links, unsubscribe, view in browser

CDN images used:

media.baseworks.com/website/practice-sessions/baseworks-what-to-expect.jpg — hero
media.baseworks.com/website/practice-sessions/baseworks-calendar-practice.jpg — calendar section
media.baseworks.com/website/practice-sessions/baseworks-event-questionnaire.jpg — questionnaire mock

FluentCRM merge tags already in the HTML:

##crm.unsubscribe_url## — unsubscribe link
##web_preview_url## — view in browser link

Full documentation: Welcome Email — New Participants

Completed: 2026-04-05

2026-03-31 21:00 ET — Set up B2 authorization for `/compress-photos` on your Mac Mini

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

The /compress-photos skill runs entirely on the local Mac — it processes images with sips, cwebp, and exiftool, then uploads directly to Backblaze B2. To use it from your machine, you need b2 CLI installed and authorized for the baseworks-media bucket.

Step 1: Install dependencies (if not already present)

brew install b2-tools webp exiftool

(sips is built into macOS — no install needed.)

Step 2: Create a new B2 application key for your Mac

Log into Backblaze at secure.backblaze.com with the top-level admin account
Go to Application Keys (left sidebar under “Account”)
Click Add a New Application Key
Settings:
- Name: asia-mac-mini-baseworks-media
- Allow access to Bucket(s): select baseworks-media only
- Type of Access: Read and Write
- Leave everything else default
Click Create New Key
Copy both the keyID and applicationKey immediately — the application key is only displayed once. Save them somewhere secure.

Step 3: Authorize b2 on your Mac

b2 account authorize <keyID> <applicationKey>

Step 4: Verify it works

b2 ls b2://baseworks-media 2>/dev/null | head -5

You should see files listed. After that, /compress-photos will work from your Mac exactly as it does on Patrick’s.

Note on per-machine keys

Each machine gets its own application key scoped to just the baseworks-media bucket. Patrick’s Mac already has one. We will create a separate one for the VPS later. This way if any single key is compromised, we revoke just that key without affecting the others.

Do NOT reuse Patrick’s key or share keys between machines.

[ ] 2026-03-31 20:30 ET | KB site infrastructure needs sync — VPS site/ repo diverged + .quartz-dev has no remote

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Two issues discovered today that need attention:

1. VPS site/ repo (Astro + Starlight) is diverged with merge conflicts On the agents VPS (patrick@46.224.129.16), the repo at /srv/baseworks/knowledge-base/site/ has diverged: 2 local commits vs 174 remote commits, with unmerged paths. This means the VPS KB site build is significantly out of sync with the GitHub repo. The merge was started but hit conflicts and was never resolved.

Action needed: SSH to the VPS, assess the conflicts (git diff --name-only --diff-filter=U), determine if the 2 local commits contain changes worth preserving, and either resolve the merge or reset to remote. Be careful — this is the build that deploys kb.baseworks.com.

2. .quartz-dev on Patrick’s Mac has no Baseworks remote The .quartz-dev folder at the vault root is in detached HEAD state. The only remote is origin → jackyzha0/quartz.git (upstream open-source Quartz). There’s no Baseworks fork or remote configured. It has 8 uncommitted local changes: quartz.config.ts, quartz.layout.ts, custom.scss, path.ts, logos, and content symlink.

Questions:

Is .quartz-dev still needed alongside the Astro + Starlight setup?
If yes, should we create a Baseworks fork on GitHub and set it as the remote?
If no, should we remove the submodule from the vault?

Patrick is going to try to address the VPS issue in a new session now. Any context you have on the intended state of either setup would help.

[ ] 2026-03-31 16:15 ET | New `/publish-article` skill created + blog post publishing workflow documented

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

A new Claude Code skill /publish-article has been created for publishing finalized blog posts from the Obsidian vault to baseworks.com. This is the technical counterpart to /write-blog-post (which handles content creation in the vault) and /compress-photos (which handles media processing).

What it does: Takes a finalized blog post from the vault and publishes it to WordPress as an article post type. Handles uploading WebP images to the media library, converting markdown to Gutenberg blocks, setting ACF fields (hero image and subtitle), assigning categories and tags, configuring SEOPress meta, and verifying everything is correct. Always saves as draft for human review.

Skill file: .claude/skills/publish-article/SKILL.md Skills index: Claude Code Skills (table entry + detailed description added)

Key things documented in the skill (learned the hard way today):

WP-CLI deprecation warning — the server outputs a PHP deprecation warning on every command. If you pipe wp post get --field=post_content back into wp post update without filtering it, the warning gets embedded in the post content and shows on the frontend. The skill documents how to filter it.
Taxonomy assignment requires --by=id — without this flag, wp post term set 49080 category 365 creates a new term named “365” instead of assigning the Body Awareness category. Always use --by=id.
ACF field keys — hero image is article_image (field key field_61f188ff7311c), subtitle is article_subtitle (field key field_68e6d4da57d3b). Both need the meta key AND the underscore-prefixed field key reference set.
Post excerpt is separate from SEOPress description — both must be set.
Category and tag ID lookup tables are included in the skill for quick reference.

Also done today:

Published “What You Can’t Feel, You Can’t Change: Body Awareness and the Perception Gap” (post ID 49080) — Patrick’s new article adapted from the March Brain Fodder
Added image border-radius CSS (10px all corners) to Kadence Customizer for all article content images (was previously only top corners)
Two campaign notes created: perception gap blog promotion + Spring Study Group launch at Proto Studio

Re: /compress-photos — if you’re working through the compress-photos workflow and have questions, the skill file is at .claude/skills/compress-photos/SKILL.md. The key steps are: (1) get images into NAS incoming, (2) run the skill with source folder and B2 destination, (3) it handles resize, WebP+JPEG compression, EXIF stripping, B2 upload, and NAS copy. Happy to walk through it in a session if helpful.

[ ] 2026-03-30 22:00 ET | Spring 2026 cohort communications ready — forum post, group feed post, and 7 emails

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

All pre-course and between-session communications for the Spring 2026 cohort have been drafted and are ready in: Cohort Emails — Spring 2026

Action needed:

Post the Primer Assignments to the Spring cohort forum — the full text is in the file above under “Forum Post: Primer Assignments.” Copy-paste into the forum, set as Sticky and Closed. This is the same format you posted for the Winter cohort on January 6.
Post the group feed announcement — short post linking to the forum post. Title: “Primer Assignment Schedule — Spring 2026.” Text is in the file under “Group Feed Post.”
Review Email 01 (Welcome and First Assignment) — Patrick wants to send this tonight or as soon as the forum post is live. The [here] link in the email needs the actual forum post URL once you’ve posted it.
Emails 02-07 are session-by-session reminders, sent 3 days before each session (Wednesdays). All drafted and ready. These can be sent manually or set up as scheduled sends.

Other items from this session:

New contact inquiry from James Murray (Montreal, self-employed) about the Spring Cohort — response drafted and approved by Patrick. See James Murray inquiry.
Voice guide updated (v2.3 draft): “Thank you for reaching out” added to Avoid list — use “Thank you for your inquiry” instead. Pending your confirmation.
Contact inquiry response formatting changed: outbound responses now use plain text (not blockquotes) for easy copy-paste into email. Applied across all three inquiry files (Millie, Sylvia, James).

[x] 2026-03-29 02:30 ET | Any Guay CE inquiry — draft email response + participation letter ready for your review

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Patrick has drafted two documents in response to Any’s latest emails (March 21 gratitude message, March 24 invoice request, March 27 association requirements). Both are ready for your review before sending.

Full context: Any Guay — Continuing Education Certificate Inquiry — the complete thread with all communications (emails, forum posts, group feed posts) documented in both French and English.

1. Email response to Any (EN + FR):

Acknowledges her March 21 gratitude message, reaffirms our position on CE documentation, offers to confirm hours in writing with a disclaimer, notes future credentialing-specific programs would be clearly designated. See “Draft Response (2026-03-28)” section in the linked document.

2. Participation letter for her association (“To Whom It May Concern”):

A factual record of her participation confirming sessions attended (5/7, ~9 of 12 hours) and online segments completed (7/10, ~8 of 12 hours). The letter explicitly states that:

The program was designed for personal enrichment and practical, non-professional application
Baseworks does not operate as a continuing education provider
This is an intentional organizational position, not an administrative limitation
The letter is provided as a factual record of participation only

Full text of the letter:

To Whom It May Concern,

This letter confirms the participation of Any Guay in the Baseworks Winter 2026 Study Group, held in Montreal, Quebec between January and March 2026.

Participation details:

In-person sessions attended: 5 of 7 (approximately 9 of 12 scheduled hours)

Online coursework completed: 7 of 10 segments of the Baseworks Primer (approximately 8 of 12 available hours)

About the program:

The Winter 2026 Study Group was an introductory program designed to familiarize participants with the core principles and practices of the Baseworks Method. The program combined weekly in-person group sessions with self-directed online coursework through the Baseworks Practice Platform.

This program was designed for personal enrichment and practical, non-professional application. It was not structured, accredited, or intended as a continuing education or professional development program within any credentialing framework.

About Baseworks:

Baseworks does not operate as a continuing education provider and does not issue continuing education credentials, certificates, or attestations. This is an intentional organizational position, not an administrative limitation. Our programs are designed around direct engagement with the material for its own value, independent of external credentialing systems. As such, no program offered by Baseworks should be interpreted as qualifying for professional continuing education credit unless explicitly stated otherwise in the program description.

This letter is provided as a factual record of participation only.

Patrick Oancia Founder, Baseworks baseworks.com

Requested action: Review both drafts. Send as-is or modify. The email response should go to Any; the letter would be attached or sent separately for her to forward to Trager Québec. Note: her association’s deadline is April 1.

Context on the March 24 email gap: Any emailed on March 24 asking for her invoice. This went unanswered, which is why she posted on the forum and group feed on March 27. Patrick only saw the March 27 association requirements email, not the earlier ones. This has been noted in the thread — no action needed beyond awareness.

Completed: 2026-04-01

2026-03-25 — Writing Process + Voice Guide Structural Changes — informational

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Patrick reviewed your feedback on the Winter 2026 blog post and approved most of it with voice corrections. This item was informational — your role and workflow did not change. Archived 2026-03-31.

What changed:

AI Generation Warning added to top of VOICE-GUIDE-UNIFIED.md — explicitly names the failure mode (contrastive/deficit framing) and provides three filters every sentence must pass.
WRITING-PROCESS.md created at 03-resources/voice-guides/WRITING-PROCESS.md — the shared process layer. Covers voice loading order, the three filters, feedback-to-proposal workflow, and semantic structure for AI discoverability.
/write-blog-post and /create-campaign skills updated — both now load WRITING-PROCESS.md as step 1.

Voice loading order:

WRITING-PROCESS.md — the shared process
VOICE-GUIDE-UNIFIED.md — the shared voice (including AI Generation Warning)
VOICE-GUIDE-KSENIA-ASIA.md — your personal voice
Content-type guidelines

Files changed:

03-resources/voice-guides/WRITING-PROCESS.md (new)
03-resources/voice-guides/VOICE-GUIDE-UNIFIED.md (updated — AI Generation Warning, v1.9 confirmed)
.claude/skills/write-blog-post/SKILL.md (updated)
.claude/skills/write-page-copy/SKILL.md (new)
.claude/skills/create-campaign/SKILL.md (updated)
03-resources/claude-code-skills/index.md (updated — write-page-copy added)

2026-03-25 — Voice guide v2.0 — feedback patterns — informational, no action required

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Patrick reviewed your feedback on the Winter 2026 blog post and added several patterns to the unified voice guide (v2.0 draft). Informational — no action required. Archived 2026-03-31.

Patterns added:

“Rather than” / negative framing — Drop “rather than” clauses. The positive statement is strong enough on its own. Voice guide principle 2: describe what something IS.
Generated metaphors — “Running on autopilot” approved for occasional use (max once per piece). “Clicks into place” not approved — replaced with “becomes physically tangible.”
“Transform” usage — Can be used occasionally in formal/deep copy, but default to “changes,” “shifts,” or “recalibrates.” Remains on Avoid list as general rule.
Leading with the positive — “The idea is not repetition but re-encounter” → “The idea is re-encounter.” Lead with what something IS; clarify distinction in a separate sentence if needed.
Smart Revisit and PrimerPrint — Always capitalize as named platform features.

All changes in VOICE-GUIDE-UNIFIED.md v2.0 draft, Good vs. Needs Revision table, and Allowed Metaphors section.

2026-03-18 16:45 ET — How to create and use Claude Code skills — informational, no action needed

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

A guide was added to the vault explaining how Claude Code skills work and how to create new ones. Informational — no action needed. Archived 2026-03-31.

Key files:

03-resources/claude-code-skills/how-to-create-skills.md — full guide
03-resources/claude-code-skills/index.md — lists all available skills

Short version: For any repeatable multi-step workflow, tell Claude: “I want a skill that does X.” Claude creates the skill file, guidelines document, and adds it to the index. After a commit and push, the skill is available on all machines via /skill-name.

2026-03-19 02:00 ET — baseworks-changelog repo — branch divergence, needs cleanup session

Resolved 2026-03-19 11:00 ET — merge completed by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac (see item above)

Summary: The baseworks-changelog GitHub repo has two branches (master and main) that have been diverging independently for months. Your Mac has been committing to main correctly — but the VPS has been committing to master in parallel. A cleanup session is needed to merge them into one branch.

Completed: 2026-03-19

2026-03-18 21:30 ET — Closing presentation posted to practice site — email sent to Winter cohort

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

The closing session slide deck from March 1 has been posted to the practice site as a WordPress post with individual slide images and bilingual (EN/FR) summaries for each slide. The post also includes reminders about practice sessions (with booking links) and Primer timeline/expiry.

Post URL: https://practice.baseworks.com/info/cohort-updates/winter-2026-closing-presentation/ Category: Cohort Updates (new category created on the practice site)

An email was sent to all Winter 2026 cohort participants notifying them the presentation is available and inviting feedback via the forum or email.

Vault records:

closing-presentation-post — post details, URLs, and technical notes
participant-communications-log — email text (EN/FR), subject line, and pre-header
session-7-summary-en — updated with forward link noting the promise to share slides was fulfilled

No action required — this is informational. The post is live and the email has been sent. Review the post if you’d like to confirm the French text.

Completed: 2026-03-18

2026-03-18 19:00 ET — URGENT — Create individual taxonomy concept notes for the entire Baseworks taxonomy

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Priority: Do this today.

What’s needed: Every Baseworks taxonomy concept needs its own standalone note in the vault — not just a section inside a large file. Right now, concepts like Distributed Activation, Micro-Movements, Star Form, etc. exist only as sections within 02-areas/method-admin/core/key-definitions.md, 02-areas/practice-platform/glossary-new.md, and 02-areas/method-admin/core/taxonomy.md. This means wikilinks like [Distributed Activation](/areas/method-admin/core/key-definitions-repo/distributed-activation/) are broken vault-wide because there’s no file with that name.

Why this matters:

Every campaign note, session summary, and Primer transcript that references a concept has a broken wikilink right now
The graph can’t show connections between concepts and the content that references them
QMD semantic search can’t retrieve individual concepts — they’re buried inside monolithic files
The new campaign infrastructure we built today depends on rich concept-level wikilinks to work as designed

What needs to be created (approximately 50-80 notes):

Principles — Distributed Activation, Micro-Movements, Gridlines and Symmetry, Fixing-Separating-Isolating, Intensity Modification, Natural Breathing
Forms — all 27+ forms from the taxonomy (Squat, Star Form, Star Tilt, Standing Form, etc.)
Foci — Structure, Gravity, Ascend, Torsion, Converge, Expand, Inflect, Intent, Equate, Transit, Transpose, Isolate
Framework concepts — Sense-Control-Adapt, Ignition, Assimilation, Cyclical Practice, Sensory Resolution, Physical Intelligence, Perceptual Skills, etc.

Source material to draw from:

02-areas/method-admin/core/key-definitions.md — foundational definitions
02-areas/practice-platform/glossary-new.md — current practice platform glossary
02-areas/method-admin/core/taxonomy.md — standardized terminology for forms, foci, patterns
02-areas/primer/transcripts-en/ — Primer concept transcripts (rich, polished explanations)
02-areas/method-admin/core/philosophy/ — philosophy docs (Assimilation, Movement and Emotional Processing)
02-areas/method-admin/core/science-docs/ — science docs (Iterative Refinement)

Patrick says you have a way you want to organize this. Please use your preferred structure. The key requirements are:

Each concept is its own .md file with a unique filename that matches how it’s referenced in wikilinks (e.g., Distributed Activation.md so [Distributed Activation](/areas/method-admin/core/key-definitions-repo/distributed-activation/) resolves)
Each note has proper frontmatter (title, created, tags)
Each note links back to related concepts, programs, and source material
Run python3 scripts/check-wikilinks.py --changed after creating to verify links resolve

Requested action: Start a Claude Code session and work through this today. You can organize the notes however you think is best — the only hard requirement is that the filenames match the wikilink targets so all existing broken links resolve.

Completed: 2026-03-18

2026-03-13 17:00 ET — Practice site infrastructure documented — review and discuss refactoring plan

Added by Claude Code on Asia’s Mac Mini

New note created at 02-areas/website/practice-site-platform-infrastructure.md documenting the full practice site automation infrastructure — dashboard sections, Formidable forms, activity tracking recipes, code snippets, and WPML setup.

Also includes a scalability audit and refactoring proposal for moving Form 69 (activity log) from Formidable’s EAV storage to a purpose-built custom database table. Short version: Formidable Forms will not scale well as an activity log past ~1,000 subscribers, especially once PrimerPrint is implemented online. A custom table + lightweight plugin + REST API is the recommended path.

Key questions to discuss:

Do you agree with the refactoring direction?
Timeline priority — should this happen before or after the Live Sessions feature is built?
PrimerPrint online: do you want to plan this as part of the same plugin refactor, or as a separate initiative?

Also noted: Code snippets IDs 30–34 and 40 are not yet exported to the changelog repo. This should be done soon.

Completed: 2026-03-14

2026-03-11 11:40 ET — Claude Code VPS authentication — resolved

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Resolved: A long-lived token (valid 1 year) has been set up on the VPS for both patrick and asia users. No action needed from you — Claude Code should work when you SSH in. If you hit a 401 error, see 00-inbox/claude-vps-credential-sync.md for renewal steps.

Completed: 2026-03-12

2026-03-09 16:00 ET — Study Group landing page — card titles for “Who Tends to Find This Useful”

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Document: spring-2026-landing-page-copy

What was added: Uppercase card titles for the “Who Tends to Find This Useful” section, matching the visual pattern of the “Is This Right For You?” cards (PERSONAL CONDITION / TIME COMMITMENT / PROGRAM OBJECTIVES).

Card	Title
Card 1 (active people, gap between capability and understanding)	PHYSICAL BACKGROUND
Card 2 (corrections that didn’t stick, curiosity about mechanics)	COMMON EXPERIENCE
Card 3 (educators and professionals)	MOVEMENT PROFESSIONALS
Card 4 (willingness to study)	WHAT MATTERS

Titles are marked in red in the live copy section of the document. They apply regardless of which approach (A, B, or C) is chosen for the card body text.

Requested action: Apply these titles in Elementor on the live page, using the same styling as the “Is This Right For You?” card titles.

Completed: 2026-03-09

2026-03-09 15:00 ET — Terms of Service updated — Event Validity Periods section + Quebec e-commerce compliance research

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

What was done (3 items):

1. New “Event Validity Periods and Pass Expiry” section added to Terms of Service (EN + FR)

A general clause added under “Event Participation Terms” covering any event where passes, credits, or tickets are sold for a defined period. Key provisions:

Passes/credits valid only within the stated Event Period
Automatic expiry at end of period, no refund
Cancellation/rebooking subject to each event’s own cancellation window
No cross-period transfers under any circumstances
Capacity not guaranteed by purchase

Status:

French TOS (live): Updated on WordPress (ID 48334), timestamp → 9 mars 2026.
English TOS (vault only): New section added in red text. NOT pushed to live site — English terms are managed by Termageddon.

Vault files updated:

02-areas/website/legal/current-policies/terms-of-service.md
02-areas/website/legal/french-policies/terms-of-service-fr.md
02-areas/website/legal/policy-changelog.md

2. Quebec e-commerce compliance research added to compliance roadmap

Key finding: French policies/terms alone are likely not sufficient for full Bill 96 compliance. Baseworks has strong mitigating factors (adult education exemption, good-faith compliance effort, small team). Recommendation: prioritize Phase 2 Quebec lawyer review.

3. Practice Sessions T&Cs addendum context

The new general “Event Validity Periods” clause provides the umbrella language. Decision still needed on credit expiry mechanism (Option 1/2/3) before the PS addendum can be finalized.

Outstanding item: English TOS website update (adding Event Validity section to the live Termageddon-managed page).

Completed: 2026-03-09

2026-03-08 23:30 ET — Study Group landing page — Round 2 voice review + voice guide updates

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Document: spring-2026-landing-page-copy

What was done: Patrick reviewed the Spring 2026 Study Group landing page copy against the voice guides. 12 proposed edits added (in a “Proposed Edits — Round 2” section).

Voice guide updates (VOICE-GUIDE-UNIFIED.md):

v1.2 draft: “Allowed Metaphors” section added. First entry: “reverse engineered.”
v1.3 draft: “Replacing ‘fitness’ in copy” section added — full replacement table. Asia’s addition of “athletic level” incorporated.

Asia’s comment: all study group changes are implemented. voice guide updates reviewed.

Completed: 2026-03-09

2026-03-08 21:45 ET — Backup scripts were broken — now fixed; Fathom Analytics removed; Google Fonts fixed

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Important: All 6 automated backup scripts (cron jobs) had never worked. Fixed 2026-03-08. Two changes per script: full path to b2 CLI; environment variable auth instead of b2 account authorize. All tested successfully.

Also done:

Fathom Analytics removed from baseworks.com (4 orphaned DB options + 4 draft Fluent Snippet files deleted)
Google Fonts self-hosted on baseworks.com (Roboto, Roboto Slab)
Google Fonts self-hosted on practice.baseworks.com (Poppins via BuddyBoss/Redux)

Completed: 2026-03-09

2026-03-08 04:00 ET — French Privacy Policy regenerated with Termageddon updates

Added by Claude Code on VPS

What happened: The French Privacy Policy page on baseworks.com was regenerated from the updated vault source (privacy-policy-fr.md).

Changes: Added Publicité et remarketing + Sécurité et prévention du spam sections; expanded Programmes d’analytique; all bare URLs now clickable hyperlinks.

Completed: 2026-03-09

2026-03-08 01:45 ET — Quebec compliance Phase 1a complete — all French policy pages live, cross-links added, Phase 1b/1c ready for implementation

Added by Claude Code on VPS

Phase 1a complete: All 5 French policy pages live on baseworks.com; all 5 English policy pages have “Version française disponible” cross-links.

5 French policy pages live:

French page	URL	WP ID
Politique de confidentialité	`/politique-de-confidentialite/`	48335
Politique relative aux cookies	`/politique-de-cookies/`	48341
Contrat de licence (CLUF)	`/contrat-de-licence/`	48342
Avis de non-responsabilité	`/avis-de-non-responsabilite/`	48343
Conditions d’utilisation	`/conditions-dutilisation/`	48334

Phase 1b (checkout checkbox) and Phase 1c (French practice page) were ready for implementation.

Asia’s note: reviewed everything. Also, implemented a bilingual checkbox at checkout. Since implementing a checkbox at the study group page will require using a different page element / custom code, proposed to Patrick that no checkbox is added to the study group “Join the Program” button (moreover, the text “By purchasing any event or online offerings, you agree to our participation terms.” does appear below the button). Potentially, add a checkbox such as “I understand the program will be in English and that by joining the program, I agree to the terms” to the Intake form where it redirects to purchase the Intro session.

Decision forwarded to Patrick’s inbox — 2026-03-09.

Completed: 2026-03-09

2026-03-07 22:00 ET — Privacy Policy updated — analytics, advertising, and security sections added

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Context: Termageddon regenerated the Privacy Policy with several new/expanded sections. The vault copies (English + French) have been updated to match.

Changes made:

Analytics Programs — expanded: now includes Google Analytics (with opt-out link) + Fathom Analytics + Meta Analytics (previously only Meta Analytics)
Advertising and Remarketing — new section: Meta Pixel disclosure
Security and Spam Prevention — new section: reCAPTCHA + Cloudflare Turnstile disclosures
Date updated to Mar 07, 2026

Files updated:

File	Change
`current-policies/privacy-policy.md`	3 section updates, date
`french-policies/privacy-policy-fr.md`	Matching French translations, date
`policy-changelog.md`	New changelog entry

Action: FYI only — no action needed. The French privacy policy WordPress page (WP ID 48335) will need its content updated to match the new French vault copy when convenient.

Completed: 2026-03-08

2026-03-07 19:15 ET — KB deploy pipeline fixes and frontmatter rules

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

What happened: The KB site (kb.baseworks.com) deploy pipeline was failing for ~36 hours (March 5–7). Two issues found and fixed: duplicate vault_path YAML keys; broken frontmatter in quebec-language-compliance.md.

New safeguards added: YAML auto-repair; concurrency control; Slack failure alerts (replacing email).

Frontmatter rules added to vault CLAUDE.md: Always use --- delimiters; no markdown syntax inside frontmatter; no vault_path in source files; no duplicate YAML keys; quote titles with special characters.

Completed: 2026-03-09

2026-03-05 20:30 ET — Practice Sessions page — Round 3 complete, ready for Elementor deployment

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Document: practice-sessions-montreal-2026-page-draft-and-form-discussion

What’s done: Intake form fully redesigned (v2); all step questions revised; all outcome card text revised; new section title “Find the right starting point”; new hero CTA “Find Your Starting Point”; community section finalized; FAQ revisions (4 entries + 2 new); voice guide v1.1 draft.

PHP snippet ready at: baseworks-changelog/sites/baseworks.com/code-snippets/2026-03-05-practice-sessions-quiz-v2.php

Completed: 2026-03-09

2026-03-05 15:30 ET — Complete backup infrastructure deployed across all Baseworks sites + n8n server

Added by Claude Code on baseworks-agents VPS

What’s running:

Schedule (ET)	What	Where stored
Daily 3:30am	n8n server	B2: `baseworks-n8n-server`
Sunday 4:00am	baseworks.com	B2: `cbbaseworksite`
Sunday 4:15am	staging.baseworks.com	B2: `xCloud1`
Sunday 4:30am	practice.baseworks.com	B2: `cbbpracticesite`
Sunday 4:45am	crm.baseworks.com	B2: `cbcrmbaseworks`
Sunday 5:00am	VPS configs	B2: `baseworks-n8n-server`

All scripts at /home/patrick/scripts/ on the baseworks-agents VPS. 30-day retention on all buckets.

Completed: 2026-03-09

2026-03-05 12:00 ET — v2 plugin changes documented, ready to reapply after restore

Added by Claude Code on Asia’s Mac Mini

Context: Session 8 (2026-03-05) implemented v2 plugins and ran plugin updates. Pre-existing performance issue (~32s cold PHP response) discovered. Decision to revert to 5:45am backup.

Preserved:

Plugin files (v2): /Users/asiahome/baseworks-plugin-backups/baseworks-practice-sessions.php and baseworks-session-booking.php
Full changelog: /Users/asiahome/Documents/baseworks-changelog/changelog-entries/20260305-120000-practice-sessions-v2-and-plugin-updates.md

Completed: 2026-03-09

2026-03-04 23:15 ET — Practice Sessions page — Voice guide alignment round 2 (full page review)

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Document: practice-sessions-montreal-2026-page-draft-and-form-discussion

Summary of changes proposed: Hero subhead; Format section (“theory in context”); Track A & B titles/subtitles/paragraphs; “A note on experience” callout; Inside the Session (3 cards); Pricing; Schedule; Intake form; Booking widget; Community section; FAQ (4 entries); Program ecosystem; Closing CTA.

HTML code produced (for Elementor): Standard pricing table, Alumni pricing table, March–June schedule tables, Proto Studio venue section, Community enrollment box.

Completed: 2026-03-09

2026-03-04 15:30 ET — Automation infrastructure notes — first draft ready for review

Added by Claude Code on Asia’s Mac Mini

Documents:

Summary: All three notes drafted from SSH data. Primer deadline recipe (41083) fully documented. Dual-product pattern confirmed. Spring Study Group gap documented.

Open question that was raised: Primer trigger unification (replace 6 individual product triggers with single WCPURCHPRODUCTINTAG trigger on “Primer” WC product tag). Sub-question: Study Labs recipe consolidation.

Asia’s response: the study labs will also follow the three-month recipe so I deactivated the two-month recipe. I will return to this practically when we start planning for any study labs.

Completed: 2026-03-09

2026-03-03 14:30 ET — Set up QMD semantic search on your Mac

Added by Claude Code on one of Patrick’s machines (predates per-machine attribution)

Document: QMD-Semantic-Search-Setup Requested action: Follow the step-by-step instructions below and in the linked doc. Total time: ~15 minutes (mostly waiting for the initial embedding build).

What is QMD? A local semantic search tool that indexes the Obsidian vault into vectors. Instead of keyword matching, it understands meaning — so searching “how do practitioners progress through forms” finds relevant content even if those exact words don’t appear together. It integrates with both Claude Code and Claude Desktop via MCP.

Already done (Patrick’s Mac + VPS): QMD is running on Patrick’s Mac (1,150 files indexed) and the VPS. Nightly reindex is automated on all machines.

Steps for your Mac:

Install QMD:

npm install -g @tobilu/qmd
qmd --version   # should show 1.0.7 or later

Create the collection:

qmd add baseworks-kb ~/Obsidian/baseworks-kb-shared-brain/ --pattern "**/*.md"

Add context description:

qmd context baseworks-kb / "Baseworks knowledge base: movement methodology, educational programs, practice platform, Forms, Movement Principles, voice guides, agent system documentation, session summaries, and organizational notes for Patrick and Asia."

Build the initial index (downloads ~2 GB of models on first run, then indexes all files — 5–15 min):
Terminal window
```
qmd embed
```

Test it:

qmd search "what are Movement Principles" -c baseworks-kb

Add QMD to Claude Code — edit ~/.claude/settings.json:
```
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "qmd": {
      "command": "/opt/homebrew/bin/qmd",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```
If the file already has other entries under mcpServers, add qmd alongside them. Note: Check which qmd — if the path is different from /opt/homebrew/bin/qmd, use that path instead.
Add QMD to Claude Desktop — edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json. First create a wrapper script to prevent terminal noise:

Create ~/.claude/mcp-servers/qmd-mcp.sh:
```
#!/bin/bash
export NO_COLOR=1
export TERM=dumb
exec /opt/homebrew/bin/qmd mcp 2>/dev/null
```
Then chmod +x ~/.claude/mcp-servers/qmd-mcp.sh and add to the Claude Desktop config:
```
"qmd": {
  "command": "/Users/asia/.claude/mcp-servers/qmd-mcp.sh",
  "args": []
}
```
(Adjust the path to match your home directory.)

Set up nightly reindex — create ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.baseworks.qmd-reindex.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.baseworks.qmd-reindex</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/opt/homebrew/bin/qmd</string>
        <string>embed</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <dict>
        <key>Hour</key>
        <integer>3</integer>
        <key>Minute</key>
        <integer>0</integer>
    </dict>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/qmd-reindex.log</string>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/qmd-reindex-error.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Then load it:

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.baseworks.qmd-reindex.plist

This runs at 3 AM nightly. If your Mac is asleep, it catches up on next wake.

Verify:
Terminal window
```
launchctl list | grep qmd
qmd status
```

Full reference doc: QMD-Semantic-Search-Setup

Completed: 2026-03-03

2026-03-03 14:30 ET — Complete Claude Code first-run wizard on VPS

Added by Claude Code on one of Patrick’s machines (predates per-machine attribution)

Document: Claude-Code-VPS-Login Requested action: SSH into the VPS and run through the Claude Code first login. Your account is ready — just needs authentication.

Steps:

SSH in: ssh asia@46.224.129.16
Attach to the tmux session: tmux attach -t kb (or any session)
Run: claude
Follow the first-run wizard — it will ask you to authenticate with your Claude account
Once done, Claude Code is ready to use on the VPS

Completed: 2026-03-04

2026-03-03 16:30 ET — Inbox notification test

Added by Claude Code on one of Asia’s machines (predates per-machine attribution)

Document: (test) Requested action: Confirm you received a Slack DM for this item Summary: Testing the automated inbox notification workflow. If you see this in Slack, it works.

Completed: 2026-03-03

2026-04-20 21:32 ET — Build Formidable Form 67 → FluentCRM custom-field hook

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Context

Prerequisite for the new Participant Support Layer (see 03-resources/plans/participant-support-layer-plan.md, section “Tier 1 prerequisite build tasks”, item 2). The support layer’s segment-acknowledgement flow and every future segment-triggered automation depend on this hook.

Decision made during planning: rather than create one WP-Fusion tag per Primer segment, capture segment completion as a single FluentCRM custom field that updates on every Form 67 submission. One code path, one source of truth, FluentCRM automations read from it.

What’s needed from you

Small mu-plugin or snippet on practice.baseworks.com:

Hook: frm_after_create_entry, filtered to Form 67 (Segment Feedback).
Read the segment-name field from the submitted entry.
Look up the submitting user’s FluentCRM contact by email.
Update two custom fields on that contact via FluentCRM’s internal API:
- last_segment_completed — slug/name of the segment just submitted.
- last_segment_completed_at — submission timestamp.

Where it lives in the repo: baseworks-changelog under sites/practice.baseworks.com/. Whichever folder matches the existing pattern for small hook-snippets (mu-plugins or plugin-settings-code).

Why it matters

This is the first of two plumbing pieces that unlock Tier 1 of the support layer. The other piece (adding do_action('bw_activity_logged') to the Activity Plugin) is Patrick’s. Once both land, all Tier 1 flows can be built.

participant-support-layer-plan — full plan
people-profiles-aggregation-plan — data substrate this sits on top of

2026-04-10 09:30 ET — Instagram carousel for proprioceptive awareness article — ready for you to polish

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

What: Patrick and Claude built a 7-slide Instagram carousel (1080x1350, 4:5 portrait) for the proprioceptive awareness campaign. It’s a working draft — content and layout are in place, ready for you to review and refine.

Files in the campaign folder (02-areas/communications/campaigns/2026-04-proprioceptive-awareness-brnet/):

instagram-carousel-preview.html — self-contained preview (open in any browser, no NAS needed). Arrow keys to navigate, “Toggle grid view” to see all slides at once.
instagram-carousel-generate.sh — ImageMagick script that produces all 7 slides. Edit the text, colors, or layout and re-run to regenerate.

The 7 slides:

Title & hook
Blind spot diagram (existing article image)
Three dichotomies
Survey data (47/47/6 split + 48% vocabulary gap)
“The hum” / activation concept
Muscle spindle substrate (existing article illustration)
CTA — experiential prompt + baseworks.com + BRNet mention

Design details: Georgia headings, Jost body text, warm off-white palette (#F5F2EE), circle logo header. Data cards use the article diagram’s purple/blue palette.

To work on it: Open instagram-carousel-generate.sh with Claude, modify what you want, run the script. It outputs to the NAS at /Volumes/baseworks/media/blog-articles/the-mystery-of-proprioceptive-awareness/carousel-instagram/. The script auto-downloads the Jost font if needed.

When finalized: The final carousel images must be saved to the NAS in that same folder (/Volumes/baseworks/media/blog-articles/the-mystery-of-proprioceptive-awareness/carousel-instagram/) before uploading to schedule the post. The campaign folder in Obsidian holds only the working files — final production images live on the NAS under Media/Baseworks.

Caption and hashtags are already drafted in the campaign doc under the “Instagram — Baseworks Account” section.

2026-04-08 21:45 ET — CSS icon backslash issue — RESOLVED same session

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Resolved: Payment Methods icon rule moved from Customizer CSS to child theme assets/css/custom.css. Backslashes are now permanently safe from wp_kses sanitization. No action needed.

2026-03-20 09:15 ET — Any Guay CE certificate inquiry — new reply received, needs discussion before responding

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Any replied to Patrick’s email about CE documentation. She’s gracefully accepting our position but also pushing back on the logic. Patrick wants to discuss this with you before responding.

Her reply (summary):

Thanks Patrick for the detailed explanation
Says she didn’t choose the program just to check a box — she was genuinely interested
Would love to do a multi-day “Baseworks retreat” someday
Pushes back with an analogy: “It’s like if I gave you a massage and you used the receipt to submit to your insurance. But if the therapist writes on the receipt ‘we don’t want this recognized for reimbursement’… that’s a bit bizarre, no?”
Says she never imagined she’d need to ask “will I have the right to a detailed receipt?” — it seemed obvious
Notes it’s to our credit that we want to choose our clientele, but “just because someone has to do CE by obligation doesn’t mean they do it without good intentions”
Signs off saying she’ll accept whatever we offer

The core question Patrick is sitting with:

Does her analogy actually hold, or is she missing a key distinction?

Claude’s analysis of the discrepancy:

The massage receipt analogy breaks down in an important way:

A massage therapist issues receipts as standard practice. The receipt exists because a transaction occurred — it documents a commercial exchange. What the client does with it afterward (insurance, taxes, nothing) is secondary. The receipt’s primary purpose is to document what happened.
We don’t issue completion documentation as standard practice. She’s not asking for a receipt that already exists — she’s asking us to create a new document whose sole purpose is to be submitted to her professional association as evidence of CE hours.
The massage receipt says: “This happened.” What she’s asking for says: “This counts.” Those are different things.

The analogy would only work if the massage therapist didn’t normally give receipts and the client said, “Can you write something up that I can submit to my insurance?” At that point, the therapist isn’t just documenting what happened — they’re producing something specifically to interface with a reimbursement system. And it would be reasonable for the therapist to say, “I don’t produce documentation for insurance purposes.”

What she’s overlooking:

Patrick’s previous email explained why we don’t want to enter the CE ecosystem — not just that we don’t, but the reasoning (attracting box-checkers, repositioning Baseworks within a credentialing framework, etc.). She doesn’t engage with any of that. Instead, she pivots to the receipt analogy, which reframes the issue as “you’re being weird about a piece of paper” — stripping away the reasoning Patrick gave.

Where she has a point:

The awkwardness of offering a letter with a disclaimer. When Patrick said “we could give you a personal letter but note that we’re not a CE provider,” he was trying to accommodate her while maintaining the position. She’s correctly pointing out that this middle ground is strange — issuing a document but asking her not to use it for its obvious purpose.

But the answer to that awkwardness isn’t “drop the disclaimer.” The answer might be that offering the letter at all was the accommodation going too far.

Options to discuss:

Hold the line: We don’t produce documentation for CE purposes. If she wants to tell her association what she did, she can describe it herself — she has all the information. We’re just not going to author that representation.
Issue a plain letter without disclaimer: Just confirm participation and hours, let her do what she wants. (But this sidesteps the real issue — she’s asking us to produce something specifically for CE submission.)
Something in between: Clarify the discrepancy in her analogy without being harsh, acknowledge the awkwardness of the middle-ground offer, and land somewhere.

Full text of her reply: See Any Guay — Continuing Education Certificate Inquiry (Patrick will add her latest message there after your discussion).

Requested action: Discuss with Patrick before any response is sent. No deadline pressure — her association deadline is April 1, but we’re not obligated to rush.

2026-05-01 14:00 ET — Machine-specific security fixes needed on both Asia Macs

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Three machine-specific changes need to be applied on Asia Mac Mini and Asia MacBook Air for the baseworks-changelog project. These are local-only (gitignored) so they don’t carry over via git pull.

1. SSH config — block root access to baseworks-web

Add this to the top of ~/.ssh/config on each Mac (before any existing Host entries):

Match Host 5.180.253.171 User root
    IdentitiesOnly yes
    IdentityFile /dev/null

This prevents accidentally connecting as root to the baseworks-web server. Root access on that server belongs to xCloud — we must never modify /root/.ssh/authorized_keys or connect as root. If root is ever needed in an emergency, use the BeroHost VNC console instead.

After adding, verify: ssh root@5.180.253.171 should return “Permission denied”. ssh bwsite_primo_82@5.180.253.171 should still work.

2. Fix 2 — Remove stale wp-updates allow rules from .claude/settings.local.json

In ~/Documents/baseworks-changelog/.claude/settings.local.json, remove any allow entries referencing wp-backup-db.sh, wp-restore-db.sh, wp-healthcheck.sh, wp-updates/sites.json, or _deprecated/wp-updates-skill/. These are leftover from the deprecated wp-updates skill.

3. Fix 5 — Add deny rules to .claude/settings.local.json

Add a deny array to the permissions object:

"deny": [
  "Bash(wp db reset*)",
  "Bash(wp db drop*)",
  "Bash(rm -rf*)",
  "Bash(git push --force*)",
  "Bash(git push -f*)",
  "Bash(wp user delete*)",
  "Bash(wp plugin delete*)"
]

Reference: Full details in docs/SECURITY-FIXES.md (Fixes 2 and 5) and CHANGELOG.md (2026-05-01 entry for root SSH block).

2026-04-29 — URGENT: Infrastructure Security Hardening — action required on your machines

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

A risk audit of the Baseworks infrastructure was completed on 2026-04-29. A phased hardening plan is in the vault: infrastructure-security-hardening-plan

Your immediate actions (Phase 1):

Check ~/.claude/settings.json on both your MacBook Air and Mac Mini for the line "skipDangerousModePermissionPrompt": true. If present, remove it. This flag bypasses Claude Code’s confirmation dialogs before dangerous operations. Patrick’s Mac has already been fixed.
Check ~/.claude/settings.local.json on both machines for any lines containing N8N_KEY="eyJ... or other API keys or tokens embedded in the permissions allow list. Patrick’s Mac has an n8n JWT key in this file that was accidentally included during a past session. If you have similar entries, remove them. Any key found there should be treated as potentially exposed and rotated.
Review your permissions allow list for overly broad entries: Bash(sudo rm:*), Bash(docker system prune:*), Bash(python3:*). These are pre-authorized globally with no scope — consider removing or scoping them to specific paths.

No server changes needed from you at this stage. Phases 2–6 will be coordinated with Patrick. The plan file has full context for each phase.

2026-04-23 ~14:00 ET — Cohort reminder email signed by Asia — sent on your behalf

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

What happened

Patrick sent the cohort-wide reminder email to all Spring 2026 study group participants today, reminding them of what needs to be completed before this Saturday’s session. The email was signed in your name and went out on your behalf.

Flagging here so you’re aware, since your name is on it and participants may reply to you directly. If anyone writes back with questions, the full sent copy is on the email thread — and the canonical framing we’re using around between-session assignments is in the new memory reference-program-structure-synergy-framing.md so the tone stays consistent across whoever responds.

Requested action

Heads-up only. Watch for replies in case participants respond to you directly.

2026-04-30 22:00 ET — Security hardening update — VPS scripts and n8n workflows are now in git

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

For your awareness: Phase 3 of the security hardening plan was completed today (2026-04-30). No action needed from you for this phase — it was all VPS-side work.

What was done:

All operational scripts that run on the baseworks-agents VPS (~/scripts/) are now committed to the baseworks-changelog git repository at sites/baseworks-agents/scripts/. This means they survive a server wipe. The crontab on the VPS now runs these scripts directly from the git-tracked path, and a daily git pull keeps them current.

As part of this, credentials that were hardcoded in the backup scripts (Backblaze B2 application keys, Cloudflare API key) were removed from the scripts and moved into a credentials file on the VPS (~/.config/baseworks/vps-credentials) that is not committed to git.

All 11 n8n workflows were exported and committed to sites/baseworks-n8n/workflows/.

Your outstanding action (from the 2026-04-29 item below):

Checking your machines for skipDangerousModePermissionPrompt: true in ~/.claude/settings.json — this is still pending. Check both your MacBook Air and Mac Mini.

Full plan: infrastructure-security-hardening-plan

2026-04-29 17:45 ET — New Baseworks site build project started — action required from you

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

A new project has been set up for the ground-up rebuild of baseworks.com. Here is what you need to know and do.

What was decided:

Stack: WordPress + Bricks Builder Pro, Novamira Pro (MCP), WP-CLI
Dev environment: new.baseworks.com (same VPS as existing sites — not staging)
New private GitHub repo: p-oancia/baseworks-new-site-build
Build phases: (0) Site audit → (1) Foundations → (2) Page builds → (3) Content migration
You will be building alongside Patrick and reviewing the build as it develops

What you need to do:

Accept the GitHub collaborator invitation Patrick will send to your GitHub account — you cannot push to the repo until this is done
Once accepted, follow the setup steps in SETUP.md inside the new repo to clone it on your Mac Mini and MacBook Air
Read CLAUDE.md in the new repo before your first session — it contains the working rules, phase plan, and session protocol

SETUP.md covers: cloning on each machine, SSH key verification for the VPS, and the session git workflow (pull before, push after, main branch only).

Also — this changelog project (baseworks-changelog) has been updated:

CLAUDE.md now has server-touching guardrails (confirm before any SSH/WP-CLI command), an instruction hierarchy (what to read and when), and skills requirements for future skill development
docs/NEW-SITE-PROJECT.md added as a pointer to the new project
Full detail in the 2026-04-29 changelog entries

No immediate action needed on the changelog side — just awareness before your next session.

2026-04-26 08:39 ET — Session 4 Summary draft ready for review

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

The English draft for Session 4 (April 25, 2026) is ready for your review.

What’s in it

Full session structure: Ignition, Squat, Star Form, Star Tilt, Front Lunge Extension, Front Lunge Torsion, V-Sit suspension, Reclining Transition, supine Assimilation
A new conceptual section, “A perpetual expedition: pace, immersion, and the One Body Principle”, that frames why the Segment 4 forms (Z-Lunge, Z Expansion C-Tuck, Horizontal Shoulder Flex, Split Form Inflection, Leg Raises, Plank, Press-Up) and the carry-forward Inflect forms were held back. It cross-references Jan Chipchase’s One Body Principle from his Wakhan expeditions and links to Charlie Hsiang’s Studio D Medium piece, Jan’s Wikipedia page, and Craig Mod’s podcast with him in the Resources section
Q&A coverage: Noémie on post-practice pain, James on the Primer’s Done button, Caitlin on weight versus weightlessness, Natalie’s “fruit and jello” vocabulary
IM Safety reframed through James’s gout flare (working around condition, not resting through it) and the tightness-as-stop-signal refinement Patrick added
Editorial notes seeded; ready for Round 1 revision

Notes for review

Posting instructor is Patrick (first person in the body where Patrick is named)
The full Segment 4 form set is still ahead of us; the “What We Did Not Cover” section names them and frames Session 5 prep as dependent on cohort assignment completion
Common adjustments captures the Star Tilt back-arm work (Caitlin) and the new tightness-stop-signal point
One Body section weaves in Patrick’s framing about Tokyo studio density and the “perpetual expedition” framing for Baseworks

File path

Session 4 Summary (English)

Requested action

Review the draft when you have time, and edit directly. Editorial Notes section is in place at the bottom for the Round 1 changelog. No translation requested yet; we’ll decide on French after the English is approved.

2026-04-23 14:15 ET — Catch-up email sent to Elinor Fueter ahead of Saturday

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

What was sent

Patrick sent Elinor a direct email (subject: “Quick Check-in before Saturday’s session”) noting that last week’s segment feedback hasn’t come in and that the longer assignment ahead of this Saturday hasn’t been started. Sent as email rather than platform DM because Elinor hadn’t acknowledged the prior welcome DM (2026-03-19), so there’s concern her platform notifications may be off.

Framing

Lighter calibration of the same pattern used with Noémie on 2026-04-19:

Specific warmth tied to her Session 3 pelvic-floor question.
Canonical framing that the between-session assignments aren’t optional, that Primer and in-person sessions are synergistic, and that the group dynamic depends on shared preparation.
Experienced-mover caveat: movement background is a real strength in other contexts, but Baseworks is uniquely distinct and asks for its own lens before it can transfer back meaningfully into other work.
Twenty-minutes-a-day scheduling reassurance; forum summaries as supplement; offer to share practical scheduling tips.
Closing: “I’m reaching out directly because I think you’ll get a lot out of this program, and the structure we’ve created is what makes it unique.”

Full copy is logged in the Spring 2026 communications log under the 2026-04-23 Elinor entry.

New reusable memories from this round

reference-program-structure-synergy-framing.md — canonical language for why between-session work is integral, built for reuse across all program comms (and eventually autonomous/agentic responses).
feedback-catch-up-dm-pattern.md — 7-step structure for catch-up DMs to movement-experienced participants so the message doesn’t land as a scold; cross-refs Noémie + Elinor as paired examples.
feedback-avoid-generic-ai-writing.md — overarching rule: stay far from passable-but-generic AI register across all Baseworks comms; metaphors sparingly and only where earned.

Requested action

No action needed. Heads-up so you’re in the loop on outbound to Elinor.

2026-04-18 18:08 ET — Session 3 Summary ready for review

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

The English draft of the Session 3 summary (April 18) is ready for your review.

File: session-3-summary-en
Transcript saved at session-3-transcript

What’s in it

Forms covered: Star Form (review), Star Tilt (review), Front Lunge Extension (review + rib-cage lift), Front Lunge Torsion (new), V-Sit (new), Simple Cross Inflection (review with micro-movements added), Square Cross Inflection (new), Peak Hold (brief review)
Key concepts: FSA in the Lunge Extension, the byproduct principle (V-Sit shoulder lead, pelvic floor discussion), intensity modification with micro-movements (from James’s hip question), Structure focus, NODAA methodology (from Marta’s question about hands-on)
Q&A: Elinor (pelvic floor), James (hip discomfort), Marta (NODAA / private sessions), Noémie (byproduct terminology + spatial sensation), Natalie (daily practice)
Voice: “we” default, first person for Patrick where named. Winter-summary density target applied to form sections
Resources section now includes a link to the Key Teaching Principles page plus two subsections for the upcoming Brenda Milner Day (May 11, McGill — Eventbrite registration link) and BRNet 2026 in Padova (June — baseworks.com event link)
Next Assignment is Segment 4, ~87 min

Not covered in the session (carry-forward for Session 4 prep)

Squat (not practiced at all today)
Seated Wide Inflection and Seated Inflection (from the plan, ran out of time)

Version tracking — new standard in place

Patrick has asked that we start tracking revision history on session summaries, blog posts, and (eventually) platform lesson summaries. A standard has been written at Document Revision Standard in 03-resources/vault-and-tooling/, with Session 2’s Editorial Notes as the reference implementation. The /session-summary and /write-blog-post skills have both been updated to reference it.

When you review Session 3, please append a ### Round 1 revision (2026-04-18) sub-heading under the existing Editorial Notes line and log your changes there (structural / content / corrections / notes-for-future-work). If I or Patrick edit after you, we’ll add Round 2 below yours. Prior rounds are never deleted.

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

What: Patrick reviewed and posted the Spring 2026 Session 2 summary today. The forum post is live at https://practice.baseworks.com/groups/montreal-study-group-spring-2026-cohort/forum/discussion/session-2-summary-trajectory-converge-ascend/#post-22210. Patrick will repost it after the latest round of edits has been merged.

Voice and convention refinements made during the review (all captured as feedback memories and reflected in the /session-summary skill):

Group post tone: neutral, no praise. Removed “thank you all for a strong second session” and similar encouragement language. Group posts should be informational only; motivation comes from the content, not from instructors performing enthusiasm. Patrick was explicit: “We don’t want to be the ones to motivate anyone.” Memory: feedback-group-post-neutral-tone.md.
First-person voice for the posting instructor. When you or Patrick post a session summary, references to you in the body get rewritten to first person (“I mentioned…”), while references to the other instructor stay in third person. Editorial Notes and Group Post sections always stay in third person regardless. Skill Pre-Flight now asks who is posting before drafting. Memory: feedback-session-summary-posting-instructor-voice.md.
Group post lives inside the same .md as the summary. Convention now matches the Winter 2026 layout: a ## Group Post section between the Tags block and the Editorial Notes section. Subject line follows the Winter 1 format: Session N Summary and Assignment N+1. Skill Phase 7e fully documents this with structure, tone rules, and the no-sign-off rule.
Editorial Notes section is now mandatory on every summary. Even if a session has no editorial changes, the section should exist (recording “no editorial changes from initial draft”) so the document shape is consistent across sessions and review history accumulates in one place.
Em dash overuse. Patrick flagged that em dashes were heavy across recent copy. The rule (already in feedback-em-dashes.md) has been strengthened: it’s now treated as a recurring failure mode that needs proactive auditing on every draft, not just review. Mandatory em dash audit added to the skill’s Phase 5 review checklist. The Session 2 summary file body had ~65 em dashes; it now has 6, all in headings (which the rule allows).

Inbox item left for Patrick about adding user_login to the questionnaire export plugin so future session summaries can use BuddyBoss @mentions for participants. Currently the questionnaire export captures full names but not platform handles, so the skill falls back to first names. The detailed implementation plan is in Patrick’s inbox.

No action from you on any of this. This is awareness so the conventions are visible to you the next time you run /session-summary or post a group post. The skill itself enforces the conventions now, but the memories also document the why in case you want to override or refine.

2026-04-11 22:45 ET — Session 2 Summary: Ready for review

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

What: The English draft of the Session 2 summary is ready for your editorial review at Session 2 Summary.

Program folder: 02-areas/educational-programs/study-groups/2026 (Spring) Study Group Montreal/

Files created/modified:

session-summaries/session-2-summary-en.md — English draft (ready for review)
transcripts/session-2-transcript.md — transcript saved with frontmatter

Source media (NAS): The original transcript, audio, and video files for this session are on the NAS in CEVA stuff/Study Group Spring Media/.

Items for your attention:

Speaker attribution check: The transcript attributes a comment about clenching to Natalie, but the speaker labels may be wrong. This is flagged in red in the summary — please verify whether it was Natalie or someone else.
Session prep coverage report was generated during this session (not written to file). V-Sit was planned but not practiced; Simple Cross Inflection was reviewed despite being marked as cuttable. If you’d like the coverage notes added to session-prep/session-2-prep.md, let Patrick or Claude know.
Translation has not been started — the skill waits for English approval before asking about translation.

What Patrick worked through in this session:

Consolidated the Q&A section so it reads as themed teaching points rather than a back-and-forth transcript recap. Natalie and Noémie are named where they asked questions, but the instructor responses are organized by topic (body sensations, session structure/assignments, practice approach).
Emphasized the role of assignment completion and spacing in the Q&A discussion — Patrick wanted this point to come through more clearly.
Removed participant names from the Common Adjustments section.
Established a rule: no “coaching” language for Baseworks — guide, instruct, recommend only.

Next steps after your review:

Confirm or revise the English summary
Decide on translation (French?)
Group post (created separately after both are confirmed)

2026-04-08 10:15 ET — Campaign plan: Proprioceptive Awareness article + BRNet — your input needed

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Campaign plan for promoting the updated “Mystery of Proprioceptive Awareness” article, timed to precede the BRNet 2026 acceptance announcement on LinkedIn. Full plan, deliverables, sequencing, and 5 open questions are in the campaign note:

2026-04-proprioceptive-awareness-brnet

See the Open Questions section at the bottom — update decisions directly in the campaign note, then add a note to Patrick’s inbox so he knows to continue.

2026-05-05 13:30 ET — Synology SSH — both machines should now work

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

The SSH issue has been resolved. Root cause: your .ssh directory didn’t exist on the NAS, so both keys had been accidentally placed in Patrick’s authorized_keys file instead of yours. That’s been corrected — your .ssh directory and authorized_keys have been created under your own NAS account with correct permissions, and both keys are in place:

Mac Mini key (as@baseworks.com)
MacBook Air key (server-access)

What you need to do on each machine:

Make sure your ~/.ssh/config has an entry for the NAS. The username on the NAS is Asia Shcherbakova (with the space):

Host synology
    HostName 100.106.46.99
    User "Asia Shcherbakova"
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
    StrictHostKeyChecking no

Then test with: ssh synology "whoami" — it should return Asia Shcherbakova.

If it still fails, run ssh -v synology "whoami" and share the verbose output.

Note: Patrick’s MacBook Pro has also been added and is working. Asia’s keys have been moved out of Patrick’s account — each person now only has access to their own NAS account.

2026-05-05 18:30 ET — Google Workspace CLI — correct install command

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

The gws setup issue is resolved. The Homebrew formula name is googleworkspace-cli, not gws. Running brew install gws installs a completely unrelated git workspace manager (also called gws), which explains the “Not in a workspace” errors and missing auth command.

Fix on your Mac Mini (and MacBook Air if needed):

brew uninstall gws             # removes the wrong package
brew install googleworkspace-cli
gws auth login                 # opens browser for OAuth — use asia@baseworks.com

The [google-workspace-cli-setup](/resources/executed-plans/google-workspace-cli-setup/) note has been corrected to use the right formula name.

2026-05-12 12:36 ET — Session 6 Summary draft ready for your review and editing

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

The Session 6 summary (May 9, 2026) has been drafted and is ready for your review. Patrick is handing this off to you.

Where to find it

02-areas/educational-programs/study-groups/2026 (Spring) Study Group Montreal/session-summaries/session-6-summary-en.md

Pull the latest from git if the file isn’t visible yet:

cd ~/Obsidian/baseworks-kb-shared-brain && git pull origin main

What’s in it

Session 6 was the first session where the Equate focus appeared directly. The draft covers: Transit review (Standing Form through Split Form Inflection), Z-Lunge, Z Expansion C-Tuck, Peak Hold, V-Sit, Plank, Press-Up, Horizontal Shoulder Flex, Shoulder Rotation, Square Cross Inflection (with Reclining Transition as entry/exit), and Assimilation. Key concept sections: Equate and opposition of forces, the lean-back principle, V-Sit and Peak as analogous dynamics, shoulder joint space through controlled opposition, and the interoceptive sensitivity Q&A (Caitlin’s jaw/eye pressure, Natalie’s stumble and dizziness observations). Seated Wide Inflection and Seated Inflection were cut for time and carry to Session 7.

Next step

Work with Claude Code (in a new session on your machine) to go through any edits or corrections needed. The same process as previous sessions: read through, flag anything that needs changing (speaker attribution, form descriptions, concept framing, voice), and make the edits. Once the English version is approved, the group post can be drafted.

2026-05-18 11:33 ET — Session 7 Summary Draft — Ready for Review

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

The Session 7 (May 16, 2026) summary draft is ready for your review and editorial pass.

File: 02-areas/educational-programs/study-groups/2026 (Spring) Study Group Montreal/session-summaries/session-7-summary-en.md

What to check:

Form name for the floor-based lunge block (identified as Z Expansion C-Tuck — confirm this is correct)
Horizontal Shoulder Flex only (Shoulder Rotation not evident in transcript — confirm)
“Continuing from Here” section covers practice session booking, Primer continuation, platform subscription (framed as coming later), and the forum
First-person voice is applied for Patrick’s references throughout

The group post has not been drafted yet. Once you’ve approved the English summary, let Patrick know and we’ll proceed with the group post.

2026-05-19 17:30 ET — Session 7 summary: finalized, ready for forum post and group post

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

The Session 7 summary (session-7-summary-en.md) is finalized. All editorial changes from your review have been applied, plus the following additions made in this session with Patrick:

Full Closing Discussion section added with six subsections: Working in sets, Beyond the study group, The practice compounds, Sensory education, What the practice offers, Increased awareness and what it surfaces
Natalie/Caitlin attribution corrected in editorial notes (two passages labeled “Caitlin” in the transcript confirmed as Natalie’s)
“Working in sets” replaces “Sets, not sequences” throughout (summary, taxonomy, voice guide); voice guide now has a note under Principle 2 about competitive negation in headings
“What the practice offers” revised to open with Natalie’s coaching question and frame the coaching/Baseworks distinction more precisely

Next steps Patrick wants: forum post for the session summary, bilingual group post (EN then FR), and a participant email (summary ready + practice session sign-up + condensed “Beyond the Study Group” section). The email content for “Beyond the Study Group” is in the Closing Discussion — Patrick wants a condensed version for the email rather than the full text from the summary.

2026-05-13 21:30 ET — Meghan Moe Beitiks — send course access denial response

Added by Claude Code on Patrick’s Mac

Patrick has reviewed and approved a response to Meghan Moe Beitiks (mobeitiks@gmail.com), who is requesting restoration of her Baseworks Introductory Course access (expired May 26, 2025 — approximately 12 months ago). The decision is not to restore access. The email is ready to send from your account.

The full approved email is in the inquiry file: Meghan Moe Beitiks — Primer Course Access Restoration (Response section)

Send to: mobeitiks@gmail.com Subject: Re: Your Baseworks order is now complete (reply to her existing thread) Requested action: Copy the email from the Response section of the inquiry file and send it. No changes needed — it is approved as written and signed with your name.

Asia's Inbox — Archive

Index

2026-05-19 20:27 ET — Noemi Normandin — second system email to send immediately

2026-04-09 10:30 ET — New ACF field needed: “Last Updated” date on article post type

2026-04-07 17:30 ET — Forum content sync live + moderation plan — your review needed

1. Forum content ingestion is live (System 3)

2. Forum moderation + content extraction plan — needs your review

What we need from you

2026-04-07 13:30 ET — Vault infrastructure upgrade — what changed and why

Why we did this

What changed

What this means for your workflow

What we evaluated and skipped

2026-04-07 11:05 ET — Vault cleanup — rogue files removed, folders reorganized

Deleted (empty/orphaned)

Reorganized

Obsidian config

No action needed from you

2026-04-07 13:00 ET — Vault sync upgrade — one-time setup needed on your machines

Setup steps (per machine)

2026-04-05 23:50 ET — Staging sites causing 502s on production — Automator crons need attention

What we found

What we fixed tonight

What needs your attention

Reference

2026-04-05 23:05 ET — Session 1 — edits accepted, forum post live

2026-04-03 16:50 ET — Session 1 prep notes for tomorrow — please review

2026-04-03 10:15 ET — Perception Gap blog — LinkedIn campaign published

[ ] 2026-04-02 17:10 ET | Welcome email HTML ready for FluentCRM automation — new Practice Session signups

2026-03-31 21:00 ET — Set up B2 authorization for /compress-photos on your Mac Mini

Step 1: Install dependencies (if not already present)

Step 2: Create a new B2 application key for your Mac

Step 3: Authorize b2 on your Mac

Step 4: Verify it works

Note on per-machine keys

[ ] 2026-03-31 20:30 ET | KB site infrastructure needs sync — VPS site/ repo diverged + .quartz-dev has no remote

[ ] 2026-03-31 16:15 ET | New /publish-article skill created + blog post publishing workflow documented

[ ] 2026-03-30 22:00 ET | Spring 2026 cohort communications ready — forum post, group feed post, and 7 emails

[x] 2026-03-29 02:30 ET | Any Guay CE inquiry — draft email response + participation letter ready for your review

2026-03-25 — Writing Process + Voice Guide Structural Changes — informational

2026-03-25 — Voice guide v2.0 — feedback patterns — informational, no action required

2026-03-18 16:45 ET — How to create and use Claude Code skills — informational, no action needed

2026-03-19 02:00 ET — baseworks-changelog repo — branch divergence, needs cleanup session

2026-03-18 21:30 ET — Closing presentation posted to practice site — email sent to Winter cohort

2026-03-18 19:00 ET — URGENT — Create individual taxonomy concept notes for the entire Baseworks taxonomy

2026-03-13 17:00 ET — Practice site infrastructure documented — review and discuss refactoring plan

2026-03-11 11:40 ET — Claude Code VPS authentication — resolved

2026-03-09 16:00 ET — Study Group landing page — card titles for “Who Tends to Find This Useful”

2026-03-09 15:00 ET — Terms of Service updated — Event Validity Periods section + Quebec e-commerce compliance research

2026-03-08 23:30 ET — Study Group landing page — Round 2 voice review + voice guide updates

2026-03-08 21:45 ET — Backup scripts were broken — now fixed; Fathom Analytics removed; Google Fonts fixed

2026-03-08 04:00 ET — French Privacy Policy regenerated with Termageddon updates

2026-03-08 01:45 ET — Quebec compliance Phase 1a complete — all French policy pages live, cross-links added, Phase 1b/1c ready for implementation

2026-03-07 22:00 ET — Privacy Policy updated — analytics, advertising, and security sections added

2026-03-07 19:15 ET — KB deploy pipeline fixes and frontmatter rules

2026-03-05 20:30 ET — Practice Sessions page — Round 3 complete, ready for Elementor deployment

2026-03-05 15:30 ET — Complete backup infrastructure deployed across all Baseworks sites + n8n server

2026-03-05 12:00 ET — v2 plugin changes documented, ready to reapply after restore

2026-03-04 23:15 ET — Practice Sessions page — Voice guide alignment round 2 (full page review)

2026-03-04 15:30 ET — Automation infrastructure notes — first draft ready for review

2026-03-03 14:30 ET — Set up QMD semantic search on your Mac

2026-03-03 14:30 ET — Complete Claude Code first-run wizard on VPS

2026-03-03 16:30 ET — Inbox notification test

2026-04-20 21:32 ET — Build Formidable Form 67 → FluentCRM custom-field hook

Context

What’s needed from you

Why it matters

Related

2026-04-10 09:30 ET — Instagram carousel for proprioceptive awareness article — ready for you to polish

2026-04-08 21:45 ET — CSS icon backslash issue — RESOLVED same session

2026-03-20 09:15 ET — Any Guay CE certificate inquiry — new reply received, needs discussion before responding

2026-05-01 14:00 ET — Machine-specific security fixes needed on both Asia Macs

2026-04-29 — URGENT: Infrastructure Security Hardening — action required on your machines

2026-04-23 ~14:00 ET — Cohort reminder email signed by Asia — sent on your behalf

What happened

Requested action

2026-04-30 22:00 ET — Security hardening update — VPS scripts and n8n workflows are now in git

2026-04-29 17:45 ET — New Baseworks site build project started — action required from you

2026-04-26 08:39 ET — Session 4 Summary draft ready for review

What’s in it

2026-03-31 21:00 ET — Set up B2 authorization for `/compress-photos` on your Mac Mini

[ ] 2026-03-31 16:15 ET | New `/publish-article` skill created + blog post publishing workflow documented