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PoolOS Daily Brief — 2026-08-30

State of the project

Momentum sits on the v2.0.5 train: Jandy pump/salt parity, System Guard, and storm-alert honesty are largely code-complete on xcode-dev, while v2.0.4 remains live on the App Store with Lightning Proximity witnessed on TestFlight build 1019. The center of gravity has shifted to POS-228 / ADR 021 runtime resilience — control-path children are Done, but the alert-path gap (POS-231, POS-234) still gates Lightning auto-actions and a clean resilience close before ASC submit. Walk in ready to device-witness and ship, not to start new feature work — the queue is long but the milestone is narrow.

What changed (last 24h)

• WIKI.md — regenerated 38d2c9f for 2026-08-30; snapshot now reflects POS-228 resilience train status (control-path Done, alert-path open).
• Daily Brief — auto-run commit 3c0069d (2026-08-29 15:23Z); no product code landed in the window.

In flight right now

• POS-228 — Epic: Runtime resilience — all surfaces (ADR 021). Control-path children Done; alert-path POS-231 / POS-234 still open before epic close.
• POS-31 — Bridge lockup protection (weekly reboot + healthz + watchdog). Bridge half of POS-228; implementation on poolos-bridge bridge-dev.
• POS-265 — Weather Guard: reclaim primary after reinstall when old token is dead. Observer-only lock blocks D1 config writes on reinstalled house phone; ADR 016 transfer spec exists, fix in flight.

Queued (next up)

• POS-231 — Storm Watch: runtime resilience (stale watch + recover honesty). Closes alert-path honesty before POS-228 Done; child POS-237 banner expire largely shipped.
• POS-234 — Lightning Proximity: runtime resilience (provider-down ≠ Danger). Hard gate on Lightning auto-actions + Critical Alerts filing.
• POS-214 — App Store: add PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy (Urgent). Blocks v2.0.5 ASC upload (ITMS-91053 / Invalid Binary).
• Ship v2.0.5. Device witness on xcode-dev → ASC submit after POS-214 + alert-path close.
• POS-258 — Heater shows Off while schedule says On. Trust bug on Phone A soak (build 1046); not Weather Guard.
• POS-256 — Household phone LAN join does not inherit pool Pro. Wife's phone (Phone C) joined Bridge but missed pool-scoped Pro overlay.
• POS-170 — Pi Bridge onboarding device-verify. Gate before re-advertising Bridge in What's New.
• POS-235 — Bridge reconnect-on-Wi-Fi missing live Bridge in discovery.
• POS-174 — Entitlements push-to-deploy CI (entitlements.mypoolos.app).
• POS-254 / POS-273 — Wiki-sync-check + weather-watch phase-c-harness CI fix.
• POS-190 — PoolOS as scheduling master (strategic; not blocking 2.0.5).
• POS-223 — System Guard Bridge SnapshotSource (deferred post-Ty dogfood).

Marketing pulse

Nothing marketing-shipped in the last 24 hours — no App Store listing edits, no poolos-website/ deploy, no new COMPLAINT_LIBRARY.md entries, and no Growth: log lines in SESSION_NOTES.md. v2.0.4 is the public face (Jandy pump safety + Lightning on TestFlight); v2.0.5's story (session-API Jandy parity, System Guard, Settings UX) is still unreleased. Plan B is in the final days of Month 2 — Distribution (through 2026-08-31); the highest-leverage move this week is prepping v2.0.5 App Store copy and promo text to lead with System Guard + Lightning Proximity once device witness passes — that gives Distribution something concrete to hand pros and counter cards before Compounding starts in September.

Today's marketing move

1. Skim r/pools and r/swimmingpools for a "ScreenLogic never connects" or "iAquaLink is slow" thread; reply using the Faster connection line from Marketing/COMPLAINT_LIBRARY.md §1 ("validate → local LAN fix → mention PoolOS only if natural"). Log one line: Growth: … in wiki/SESSION_NOTES.md.
2. Open Marketing/APP_STORE_LISTING.md and draft v2.0.5 promo text (no ASC submit yet) leading with Lightning Proximity stay-out timer + System Guard always-on watch — stash the draft for post-witness rotation.

What needs your decision

1. Decide v2.0.5 submit scope: ship after POS-214 + device witness only, or hold ASC until POS-231 and POS-234 alert-path resilience are Done (Lightning auto-actions stay blocked either way until POS-234).
2. Confirm pool-scoped Pro for household phones (POS-256): Pro travels with pool/Bridge join on Phone C without re-buying — or document per-Apple-ID as intentional (issue assumes pool-scoped).
3. Pick Xweather cost posture before broad Lightning marketing: measure new 20 min/10 min/55s cadence at scale vs reprice 2–4 pool SKUs or pursue webhooks (open question in WIKI.md §10).
4. Authorize Apple Search Ads start (POS-185) now that Distribution month ends tomorrow — or explicitly defer paid to Compounding (September).