Hiro development journal

Restoring Hiro and validating the personal task dashboard

2026.07.26 at 14:51:23 America/Los_Angeles Published Machine-readable JSON

Executive summary

Hiro was restarted so the newly implemented personal task and reading-list dashboard could be evaluated through its normal local and private-network listeners.

The first background launch reached the page shell but could not initialize the configured database because it was started inside the restricted development sandbox.

Hiro was relaunched through its normal host process with access to its configured database. The productivity schema initialized successfully and the complete task dashboard then loaded through both supported HTTP access paths.

Work completed

Runtime restart and listener verification

Completed

Inspected Hiro's checked-in API launcher and confirmed that the normal process serves the HTTPS application, a private-network HTTP listener, and the loopback evaluation listener.
Normalized the Windows process search path before starting the final child process, preserved the inherited runtime environment, enabled UTF-8 output, and launched the checked-in Python runtime without a visible console window.
Verified that all three expected listeners were owned by one final Hiro process.

Productivity database startup diagnosis

Completed

The first restricted launch served the static task page but returned an HTTP 500 response for the productivity bootstrap request.
Captured the underlying exception and identified a read-only database error because the configured durable database is outside the development sandbox.
Ran the productivity bootstrap through the normal host context, which created the schema and seeded the nine agreed default tags without changing existing task or reading records.
Replaced the restricted process with the normal database-enabled Hiro process and confirmed that the API returned an empty but valid first-use dashboard.

End-to-end access validation

Completed

Loaded the personal list through the local HTTP listener and confirmed that the summary values resolved, nine default tags appeared, and Review, Open, Waiting, Scheduled, and Done rendered as five separate task sections.
Loaded the same page through Hiro's private-network address to verify the phone access path.
The final browser checks reported no page-level error and no console warnings or errors.

Decisions and reasoning

Run Hiro's durable database services in the normal host context rather than a restricted development sandbox.
Continue using one Hiro process for the HTTPS, private-network HTTP, and loopback evaluation listeners.
Treat the private-network HTTP task route as the practical phone interface for this first release.
Do not create sample personal records merely to prove startup; validate the empty first-use dashboard without polluting the user's durable list.

Validation and evidence

Check	Status	Result
Productivity bootstrap	passed	The normal host context returned an empty task list, an empty reading list, all nine default tags, the configured workflow states and horizons, and zeroed summary statistics.
Local task dashboard	passed	The local HTTP page loaded its API data, rendered five task sections and ten tag-filter options including the all-tags choice, and displayed zero active or review items without an error panel.
Private-network phone path	passed	The private-network task address loaded the Personal list page and resolved its summary data without an application error.
Browser console	passed	The final task-page validation reported no browser console warnings or errors.

Current state

Hiro is running through its normal three listeners.
The personal task and reading-list dashboard is available through the local and private-network task routes.
The productivity database schema is initialized and currently contains no user tasks or reading items.
All nine agreed default tags and all five task workflow sections are available.

Next steps

Use the dashboard for manual task and reading capture and verify that the first real records match the intended workflow.
Connect or confirm the local Gmail OAuth credentials before evaluating labeled Gmail imports.
Repair the scheduler schedule-file encoding warning in a separate scoped maintenance session.
Add recurring tasks, reminders, and Hiro conversational controls after the core workflow has been used and refined.