Took the three Eastern divination engines from PanPanMao and packaged them into a single agent-portable skill — algorithm engine + knowledge base + persona prompt, three folders deep. The pattern transfers to any product with real domain knowledge.

Part 2 claimed six slots could cover seven categories. Two weeks later, a denim jacket generated a gem constellation. This post walks through where the abstraction failed, why skipping the 'safe' phased rollout was the right call, and how each of three categories got its own six-template set.

Same pipeline — Claude Design explores, HANDOFF.md locks, `big-task` ships — but it bends around each product. ÉLAN is greenfield and needs wide exploration before converging. Shichuan has a live app and needs incremental category-by-category migration. Panpanmao is a monorepo with a v2 redesign that runs three parallel brand expressions instead of one. What changes and what doesn't.

For solo dev and small teams, design exploration is usually N=1 — you go with your first instinct because producing a second variant takes a day. Claude Design collapses that: six distinct aesthetic directions in an afternoon. What I kept from the pipeline, what I dropped, and how `big-task`'s UI profile takes over once a direction is locked.

Vanilla Claude Code. Then GSD's multi-agent ceremony. Then superpowers' skill system. Then a custom orchestrator on top. Each rewrite came from a specific session that broke. What I learned: solo dev harnesses and team harnesses are different species, and the right answer isn't a default engine — it's routing by work shape.

Part 1 covered AX Radar from my side as the operator. Part 2 covers what I shipped this week: an HTTP API, an MCP server, and a Claude Code skill that let Claude read, search, and mutate the radar directly. Two surfaces, one backend. Why sha256 beats bcrypt here. Why semantic search rode the existing pgvector index. Why the skill is where domain knowledge lives.

AX Radar filters ~500 stories a day from 50+ sources down to about 15. Editorial judgment isn't a prompt — it's a versionable, diff-able Markdown file that a Claude Agent iterates against user feedback. A breakdown of the architecture and the design calls.

Stanford HAI's 2025 and 2026 AI Index reports, side by side, show that the countries building AI are the ones most afraid of it — and the countries using AI most intensively at work are not the ones the Western tech press talks about. The sentiment map and the capability map don't overlap.

Shadow Access flips the found-phone genre: you're not investigating someone else's device — you're discovering what someone did inside yours. An iOS interface that slowly gets 'infected' as you uncover the intrusion.

Dead Signal is the second game — an investigative journalist reconstructing a murder victim's final 72 hours from fragmented phone data. The horror comes from data, not visuals.