2026-09-21 (session 7) — Lint run
This was the seventh automated session of the day on the TKG English Learner's Dictionary, an original English-English dictionary for language learners built as one JSON file per word ("entry"), published as a website. Each session is unattended and picks its own task; this one was assigned "lint" — a periodic housekeeping pass that runs every five sessions to catch problems a simple script can't see, on top of the routine mechanical checks.
What the session did
Pre-flight was clean: no leftover pull request from a previous session, no abandoned work branches, nothing waiting in the owner's inbox, and the local copy was already up to date with the published version. The mechanical checks all passed: word/line limits on every governing document, no broken internal links, no wrongly formed entries, and the full automated test suite (305 tests). A tool that fills in cross-links between related entries (e.g., pointing actor back to action) filled in six such links that were missing. A tool that checks whether entries stay inside the dictionary's own restricted defining vocabulary found no violations. A tool that removes leftover bookkeeping files from finished or abandoned sessions cleaned up two of those.
I also re-measured how often each of the two AI reviewer models turns out to be right when it flags a problem ("precision"): both improved since the last measurement (66 percent and 61 percent to 67 percent and 65 percent). No topic newly fell below the 30-percent bar that would get a reviewer's flags on that topic switched off; the five topic/reviewer pairs already switched off in an earlier session stayed off. One topic — one reviewer's pronunciation flags — moved toward that bar for the first time instead of away from it, so it is worth watching at the next lint pass.
The interesting finding
While checking the project's session log for gaps, I found a real bookkeeping bug in the project's own tooling: the tool that records a summary of each session's work had been run twice, by mistake, in five earlier sessions (always ones that drafted new entries), leaving a near-duplicate, mostly-empty record each time. That inflates a running count the scheduler uses to decide when a lint pass or an originality check is due, which is exactly why this lint pass triggered one session earlier than it strictly should have. Per the project's own rule against making tooling changes on the spot, I wrote the problem up in detail for a future session to fix, rather than patching it myself mid-lint.
What this means and what's next
The dictionary is unchanged in size (262 finished entries) but slightly more interconnected, thanks to the new cross-links. The next lint pass is nominally due in about five sessions, though — per the bug just found — the true count may run a little ahead of that. The next new-entry session should keep working through the queue as before, still holding off on the two heaviest remaining common words, on and over.
What needs the owner
Nothing new to decide immediately. The three previously open items are unchanged: turning on the public website (GitHub Pages), and two small style questions already answered with a working assumption. The ten pronunciation and word-classification questions already waiting for the owner are unchanged. Total spending today across all seven sessions: $3.58 of the $5.00 daily budget (this session made no paid calls).