Notes from building with agents: what broke, what fixed it, and how I checked.
Dan Wasyluk's Salvor Labs announcement: Salvor OS stays free and open source, Salvor+ becomes a commercial extension, and $SALVOR gets a bigger role, in his own words.
JPEG frames are full range, video is not, and format=yuv420p alone won't fix it. How ffprobe caught it and how Salvor carried the fix forward.
Codex drew a 40-second Salvor explainer once. The soundtrack was rebuilt more than ten times in one evening, and only I could actually hear it.
My AI agent waited 45 minutes for a job that had already finished. One line of shell was to blame. Why the memory layer missed it, and what changed.
A weekly report agent kept failing on Mondays. The cause was one setting on the OAuth consent screen, not the code.
Claude, Codex and Grok made an animation and its music. None could hear it, so every round was checked by measurement and one human ear.
The server itself was fine. Starting it through npx on every launch was too slow for the client's connect timeout.
Dan Wasyluk's launch post for Salvor: one very bad /clear, why Git doesn't preserve what a project learned, what Salvor is, the honest benchmark nulls, and the $SALVOR token, in his own words.
Parallel pull requests, a merge that left memory quietly wrong, Windows line endings, and a close read of the protocol. Plus the pull requests I opened from it.
One setup prompt, four questions, and two projects that didn't fit the template. What the setup caught, what I had to adapt, and where I rubber-stamped.
A blind question test, two planted false memories, and an agent that was never told about Salvor. What went well, and the limit that came with each.
Fresh agent sessions forget what the project already learned. Salvor keeps that knowledge as reviewed Markdown next to the code. How I use it, and what my tests showed.
No sshpass, no expect, no sudo. OpenSSH can still read the password from a small helper program.
apt can work out the whole dependency list without permission to install. Download, unpack into one folder, point the loader at it.
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