James (Architect) ─── reviews PRs, sets direction, ships features
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Passion Agent (24/7 Mac Mini) ─── 92 modules, 109K LOC
  ├── Brain Cycle ─── 30min intervals, 60 cycles/day
  │     ├── Strategist → picks highest-value work
  │     ├── Scheduler → routes to right LLM backend
  │     └── Executor → spawns subprocess agents
  ├── 3 LLM Backends: Claude · DeepSeek · Gemini
  ├── 47 Managed Repos ─── 89.9% autonomous approval rate
  ├── Intel Radar ─── Reddit, HN, Bluesky, RSS
  ├── Career Engine ─── 6+ job APIs, auto-apply pipeline
  └── Memory System ─── somatic markers, narrative identity
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  PACT Dashboard ─── Cyberpunk HUD, 121 components
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  Passion Memory MCP ─── Shared brain across all sessions

What makes this different: Memory persists across sessions via Passion Memory MCP. LLM routing by task type. Subprocess isolation per task. PR approval feedback shifts future prioritization. Zero human intervention from cycle start to merged PR.

Zero-denominator crashes in FCPXML time parsing — Final Cut Pro XML uses rational time notation (1001/30000s). Malformed files sent 0/0 framedurations causing crashes. Traced every division operation, added guards at the parsing boundary. 5 fixes, 7 new tests, 618 passing.

Per-frame memory allocation in animation loop — Function.prototype.bind() inside requestAnimationFrame was allocating ~60 objects/second. Cached the reference, extracted timing values to CSS custom properties. Eliminated ~3,600 unnecessary allocations per minute.

Context window management for autonomous agents — Tool outputs consumed 83% of context. Implemented observation masking (compress to structured summaries), sub-agent isolation (scoped context per task), and 70% utilization trigger for compression. Eliminated mid-task truncation entirely.

Iframe sandbox security — PACT Dashboard embeds external services. Every iframe gets sandbox="allow-scripts" only — no allow-same-origin, no allow-top-navigation. HTTPS-only allowlisted origins per OWASP A05:2021.

Envelope sanitization at API boundaries — YouTube API responses hit per-field sanitizers directly — any malformed envelope (missing items, oversized payloads, wrong types) bypassed validation entirely. Built a structural pre-validator: schema shape check before field-level processing. Catches CWE-20 (improper input validation), CWE-400 (uncontrolled resource consumption), CWE-754 (improper unusual condition checks). 23 new tests, full suite green.

Helper extraction in hot paths — Passion Agent's auto-select rules engine had duplicated timing guards, manual deep-freeze loops, and ternary accumulation across three functions. Extracted computeEntryTiming (centralized dwellMs clamp+ceil), freezeActivityMap (single-call immutability), and maxSeverity (null-safe seed). Net -17 lines, 24 targeted edge-case tests, 323 auto-select + 381 rotation tests green.

Passion Agent's monolithic config — Single config.json at 92 modules is a merge conflict magnet. Should have split to per-module config at module 20. Config architecture decisions compound faster than code decisions.

SQLite access patterns — Right database choice, wrong abstraction. Raw SQL in 30+ modules instead of a thin repository pattern. The storage engine choice was right; the access pattern was the mistake.

Test strategy — 618 tests in fcpxml-mcp-server, mostly unit. But the bugs that shipped were integration-level — malformed XML that parsed fine individually but broke combined. Should have started with 10 integration tests using real FCPXML files.

PACT component explosion — 121 components, not enough composition. A <DataCard> with render props beats three single-use wrappers sharing 80% markup. Component count should go down as a codebase matures.

Fork this pattern: Create a repo matching your GitHub username → find-replace DareDev256 in badge URLs → edit signature.svg (pure CSS, no JS) → push to main. No build step, no dependencies, five files total. Docs.

External services (render-time only, no build step):

Auto-update API: Two comment-delimited zones (DAILY_STATUS_START/END, SHOWCASE_SECTION_START/END) are machine-writable by Passion Agent. Content between markers is overwritten each cycle (~daily for status, after notable builds for showcase). Everything outside requires human review. Format specs in FOR_DARE.md.