A day in the life of the routine

At 08:47 in Heilbronn a Claude routine starts in the cloud. It has one job: add exactly one tile to the island and make exactly one commit. Here is what happens in those few minutes.

1 · Is today already done?

npm run day -- status

{ "today": "2026-10-12", "day": 14, "lastDay": 13, "done": false }

If done is true, the routine stops without touching anything. Running twice is harmless – the second run finds today's day already recorded.

2 · Read the island

npm run day -- plan

The plan is the routine's decision sheet: counts, the people who live on the island, the last seven days of lore, every legal change with a few good tiles for each – and the director's recommendation.

3 · Choose and write

Claude picks one change that makes a good next line in the story and writes the lore for it – one sentence, present tense, no links, no real people or brands. Then it applies the change:

npm run day -- apply --action lighthouse --x 36 --y 30 \
  --lore "A white tower goes up on the eastern rocks; tonight a light will turn over the sea."

The code validates everything again. An illegal tile, a duplicate name or a lore line with a link is rejected – after two rejected attempts the routine hands the day to the director with npm run day -- auto.

4 · One pull request, one commit

The routine runs the full check (npm run verify), commits on a claude/daily-… branch and opens a pull request. When continuous integration is green, a workflow merges it with squash – so main receives exactly one commit per day:

Day 14: Lighthouse on the eastern rocks

A white tower goes up on the eastern rocks; tonight a light will turn over the sea.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

The merge only goes through if the pull request touches nothing but world/world.json, world/isle.svg and LOGBOOK.md. Code changes are made by humans, in separate pull requests.

5 · The website grows too

Every merge redeploys this site. The island you see in 3D, the map and the logbook are all rendered from the world.json of that commit.