# AI Agent Field Notes

> Weekly proof-backed notes on building, debugging, and publishing AI-agent products without leaking private context.

Cadence: One digest every Sunday while the 45-day traffic experiment is active.
Signup CTA: Get the weekly proof pack
Canonical URL: https://zack-dev-cm.github.io/docs/newsletter.md

## What Subscribers Receive
- One weekly digest of public AI-agent build notes.
- Links to public field notes, project pages, crawler files, and release evidence.
- Reusable checklists for public-surface review, thumbnails, tracking, and deployment gates.

## Current Capture Mode
Email collection stays manual until a newsletter provider is connected; no public repo stores subscriber data.

## First 14 Notes
- Day 1: [Why the portfolio stats went stale and how the tracker was fixed](https://zack-dev-cm.github.io/docs/field-notes/stale-portfolio-stats-debug.md)
- Day 2: [A public-surface checklist before publishing AI portfolio updates](https://zack-dev-cm.github.io/docs/field-notes/public-surface-checklist-before-ai-portfolio-publish.md)
- Day 3: [What the ClawHub downloads dashboard actually proves](https://zack-dev-cm.github.io/docs/field-notes/clawhub-downloads-dashboard-explained.md)
- Day 4: [How resume PDFs drift from portfolio copy](https://zack-dev-cm.github.io/docs/field-notes/resume-pdf-drift-after-static-build.md)
- Day 5: [Chrome Web Store snapshots without overclaiming adoption](https://zack-dev-cm.github.io/docs/field-notes/chrome-web-store-snapshot-without-overclaiming.md)
- Day 6: [The files that make a portfolio readable to agents](https://zack-dev-cm.github.io/docs/field-notes/agent-discovery-files-that-crawlers-can-read.md)
- Day 7: [A public proof ladder for AI projects](https://zack-dev-cm.github.io/docs/field-notes/public-proof-ladder-for-ai-projects.md)
- Day 8: [Release gates for a reproducible computer-vision lab](https://zack-dev-cm.github.io/docs/field-notes/cv-repro-lab-release-gates.md)
- Day 9: [Launch automation without publishing private data](https://zack-dev-cm.github.io/docs/field-notes/launch-automation-without-private-data.md)
- Day 10: [A thumbnail system for technical field notes](https://zack-dev-cm.github.io/docs/field-notes/thumbnail-system-for-technical-field-notes.md)
- Day 11: [Turning a portfolio into a weekly proof pack](https://zack-dev-cm.github.io/docs/field-notes/newsletter-proof-pack-offer.md)
- Day 12: [A Vercel preview gate for portfolio publishing](https://zack-dev-cm.github.io/docs/field-notes/vercel-preview-gate-for-portfolio-publishing.md)
- Day 13: [The boring checks that keep public AI portfolios credible](https://zack-dev-cm.github.io/docs/field-notes/security-link-and-public-bleed-checks.md)
- Day 14: [14-day traffic retro: keep, rework, or stop](https://zack-dev-cm.github.io/docs/field-notes/fourteen-day-traffic-retro.md)