Work I've done in StephOS
• Approved in words, with conditions. Every change to StephOS starts as a written proposal I approve in my own words. One small feature, a count of messages since saved work was approved, was approved only if the wording said "in this chat" and a count of zero was never called "current." (October 2026)
• "Done" made observable. For saving and finding ideas in StephOS, I wrote checks like these: the saved text matches the chosen passage, character for character. Cancel means no save request and no new record. In a different chat, the same words come back, with no model call. If there's no match, say so, and never invent a quotation.
• Rejecting a design that sounded fine. On October 14, 2026, a design treated half-finished reply fragments as "progress." I rejected it: a fragment isn't an update. The design changed to a real lookup step that has to report what it found, in plain words.