# You told the agent to use pnpm once this week.

_The Trace Letter, week of 2026-10-19._

17 sessions across 4 projects. 30 prompts, 6 corrections.

## What you worked on

**fieldnotes**

- Draft posts (2 sessions)
- Tag pages
- OG images
- Style footnotes
- Reading time on posts

**ledger**

- Upgrade Next and fix the build
- Account balance history (2 sessions)
- Keyboard shortcuts (2 sessions)
- Fix rounding in split transactions

**relay**

- Retry failed deliveries with exponential backoff, max 6 tries
- Rate limit deliveries per endpoint, 10/s default
- Filter the delivery log by status and endpoint
- Let customers rotate their signing secret with a 24h overlap

**tidepool**

- Tide chart scrubbing

## Where it went sideways

- Reading time on posts (fieldnotes): 1 correction
- Fix rounding in split transactions (ledger): 1 correction
- Style footnotes (fieldnotes): 1 correction

## The habit that cost the most

> pnpm, not npm

Trace drafted this for `/Users/you/code/ledger/CLAUDE.md`:

    Use pnpm for installs and scripts (`pnpm install`, `pnpm run <script>`). Never npm.

## What held

- Use pnpm for installs and scripts (`pnpm install`, `pnpm run <script>`). Never npm.

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