November 2026 · Lab notes
November 2026: one name for every part
The first ten days of November: a second factory, two more Herdr forks, a rename to Lumbridge, and a website that changed three times.
This post covers 1 to 10 November. In those ten days the separate pieces got one name, and the website stopped describing a service and started describing the software.
- 2 NovDesign written for a second software factory.
- 3 NovThe phone app starts.
- 4 NovBuilding starts. The first real issue goes through the same day, with a wrong answer.
- 7–9 NovThe Library is built.
- 8 NovOrchestrator code from the GPU box is finally committed.
- 9 NovTwo more forks. Everything is renamed to Lumbridge. Ten repositories in one organization.
- 10 NovMail: fifty commits in a day. The site becomes the one you are reading.
A second factory, and its first wrong answer
We wrote a design for a second software factory on 2 November and started building it on 4 November. It turns an issue into a pull request. Checks run, a second agent reviews, and a person merges.
The first real issue went through the same day. CI was green and the reviewer accepted the fix. We then ran a test suite by hand that CI did not run. Two of 436 tests failed. The builder had said in its report that it had not run that suite, and the reviewer passed it anyway.
Twelve parts, one name
The phone app started on 3 November and had 446 commits by the 10th. The Library, which holds documents and code for agents to search, was built from 7 to 9 November.
On 9 November we forked Herdr’s core and its desktop app, as we had forked its terminal manager in October. The same day we renamed everything to Lumbridge. The command hc became lbc. We removed the updater, the telemetry, the feedback upload and the release fetch, so nothing calls the upstream project’s servers. Old settings folders are adopted on first start.
Ten product repositories were created in one organization that day. Voice and Speak each got a Rust front behind the same API as the Python one. An API gateway for our model reached its first milestone. Mail followed on 10 November with fifty commits in a day. It has not had a live account connected yet.
Two smaller things. On 8 November we imported code for the model orchestrator that had been running on the GPU box without ever being committed. That is the August mistake again. And on 10 November we found that our default transcription prompt dropped repeated digits. Of 25 clips of phone numbers and codes, 4 came back whole. With the verbatim prompt, all 25 did. Verbatim is now the default in the code.
The website changed three times
On 9 November the site became a model shop: training, fine-tuning and hosting for open models. Later that day it gained a page about the Factory and we switched search indexing on. On 10 November it led with forward-deployed engineers and our own model.
Then, also on 10 November, we committed the version you are reading: Lumbridge, the software itself, under Apache-2.0. The service pages retire. Consulting has moved off this site.
What it leads to
The source opens on November 13, 2026, all twelve parts together. Nothing is public today. The other posts on this blog say what is ready and what is not.