# scar (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover scar. Page: Feed: --- ## [Seven ways a check goes green without checking](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/seven-ways-a-check-goes-green/) _2026-08-19 · Victor Del Puerto_ I moved 177 entries out of an index and the consistency check went green without looking at any of them. Over nineteen days I collected twenty-four of these across modules that never met, and they sort into seven structurally different reasons a check cannot produce a red result. ## [Renewed Memorandum of Understanding between SCAR, IASC and AFoPS](https://scar.org/scar-news/renewed-mou-scar-iasc-afops) _2026-08-19 · Johanna Grabow · SCAR_ The post Renewed Memorandum of Understanding between SCAR, IASC and AFoPS appeared first on SCAR . ## [Norway to Host Fifth International Polar Year Coordination Office, in Partnership with the Republic of Korea and Chile](https://scar.org/scar-news/ipy5-host) _2026-08-12 · Johanna Grabow · SCAR_ The post Norway to Host Fifth International Polar Year Coordination Office, in Partnership with the Republic of Korea and Chile appeared first on SCAR . ## [Pacing, Zommed Out](https://sector36.substack.com/p/pacing-zommed-out) _2026-08-07 · Vlad Rișcuția · Dispatches from Sector 36_ A macro view on pacing for Sector 36 ## [26: Turn](https://sector36.substack.com/p/26-turn) _2026-07-31 · Vlad Rișcuția · Dispatches from Sector 36_ This is chapter twenty-six (Part 4: Asset Allocation), in which Elena enacts vengeance ## [SYNCHRONY: A new observing system for the Southern Ocean](https://scar.org/scar-news/synchrony-a-new-observing-system-for-the-southern-ocean) _2026-07-31 · Johanna Grabow · SCAR_ The post SYNCHRONY: A new observing system for the Southern Ocean appeared first on SCAR . ## [COP31 Cryosphere Pavilion: Call for Side Events and ECS Volunteers](https://scar.org/community-news/cop31-cryosphere-pavilion-call-for-side-events-and-ecs-volunteers) _2026-07-30 · Johanna Grabow · SCAR_ The post COP31 Cryosphere Pavilion: Call for Side Events and ECS Volunteers appeared first on SCAR . ## [SCARFISH Horizon Scan – Shaping the future of Southern Ocean Fish Research](https://scar.org/scar-news/life-sciences/scarfish/scarfish-horizon-scan) _2026-07-29 · Johanna Grabow · SCAR_ The post SCARFISH Horizon Scan – Shaping the future of Southern Ocean Fish Research appeared first on SCAR . ## [SCARFISH Executive group 2026-27 member announcement](https://scar.org/scar-news/life-sciences/scarfish/scarfish-excom) _2026-07-29 · Johanna Grabow · SCAR_ The post SCARFISH Executive group 2026-27 member announcement appeared first on SCAR . ## [A knowledge base is a graph, not a folder](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/a-knowledge-base-is-a-graph/) _2026-07-27 · Victor Del Puerto_ An agent knew the manual's minimum radius cold and still got the curve wrong, because the number was only the start of the question. Why a domain agent reasons better from a graph of criteria than from a persona prompt, and what that structure caught in real road-geometry and brand reviews. ## [Meet Claude, the AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9m5iXx8Ksejk) _2026-07-27 · **Sponsored**_ Conversational AI to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and help with tasks. ## [\[Declassified\] Operation Flytrap: After-Action Report](https://sector36.substack.com/p/declassified-operation-flytrap-after) _2026-07-24 · Vlad Rișcuția · Dispatches from Sector 36_ Declassified document ## [You can't measure a memory hook by the times it spoke](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/you-cant-measure-a-hook-by-the-times-it-spoke/) _2026-07-20 · Victor Del Puerto_ I tagged sixty hook activations, concluded retrieval was fine, and wrote down a verdict. Then I measured the prompts where the hook said nothing at all, and the number flipped. ## [25: Deus Machina](https://sector36.substack.com/p/25-deus-machina) _2026-07-17 · Vlad Rișcuția · Dispatches from Sector 36_ This is chapter twenty-five (Part 4: Asset Allocation), in which Commissar Vesper deals with the aftermath of her mission failure ## [Shut Up & Write!](https://sector36.substack.com/p/shut-up-and-write) _2026-07-10 · Vlad Rișcuția · Dispatches from Sector 36_ A shout out to the community ## [Ninety days of scars](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/ninety-days-of-scars/) _2026-07-10 · Victor Del Puerto_ Ninety days ago I started enforcing corrections outside the model. This week I pulled the first real metrics, and it is a mixed result. The busiest hook gets ignored 62% of the time, two of my own tools disagreed about the same number, and the dashboard stayed green while a whole layer was dead. ## [Antarctic Bottom Water: How it Contributes to the Global Ocean Circulation](https://scar.org/scar-news/underwater-waterfalls) _2026-07-08 · Johanna Grabow · SCAR_ The post Antarctic Bottom Water: How it Contributes to the Global Ocean Circulation appeared first on SCAR . ## [24: Black Market](https://sector36.substack.com/p/24-black-market) _2026-07-03 · Vlad Rișcuția · Dispatches from Sector 36_ This is chapter twenty-four (Part 4: Asset Allocation), in which the Charon crew visits the black market on the docks of Horizon Station ## [2026 SCAR Medal Recipients Announced](https://scar.org/scar-news/2026-scar-medal-winners) _2026-07-01 · Johanna Grabow · SCAR_ The post 2026 SCAR Medal Recipients Announced appeared first on SCAR . ## [Pride around the world, inclusion throughout the year](https://scar.org/scar-news/groups-excom/edi-new/2026-pride-month) _2026-07-01 · Johanna Grabow · SCAR_ The post Pride around the world, inclusion throughout the year appeared first on SCAR . ## [INSTANT IPY5 Discussion Forum](https://scar.org/scar-news/programmes/instant-news/ipy5-discussion-forum) _2026-07-01 · Johanna Grabow · SCAR_ The post INSTANT IPY5 Discussion Forum appeared first on SCAR . ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/4VKCaPacIou7) _2026-07-01 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [Designing the Tauran Shipwreck](https://sector36.substack.com/p/designing-the-tauran-shipwreck) _2026-06-26 · Vlad Rișcuția · Dispatches from Sector 36_ A behind-the-scenes look at Corridors, my favorite chapter ## [23: Corridors](https://sector36.substack.com/p/23-corridors) _2026-06-19 · Vlad Rișcuția · Dispatches from Sector 36_ This is chapter twenty-three (Part 4: Asset Allocation), in which Marcus explores a slumbering alien ship ## [The optimization you wrote isn't the one that runs](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/the-optimization-you-wrote-isnt-the-one-that-runs/) _2026-06-19 · Victor Del Puerto_ I had the optimization written and approved, and a week later it still wasn't what ran. The fix wasn't a better design. It was making the trigger deterministic and leaving the judgment to the model. ## [Does this only work in Claude Code?](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/cross-agent-enforcement/) _2026-06-17 · Victor Del Puerto_ The most common objection to the Lucy Syndrome framework is that it's a Claude Code trick. It isn't. OpenAI shipped a native hook API for Codex, and the same functional scar now fires unchanged in both runtimes with identical deny semantics — the difference quarantined in a thin adapter. That is the empirical test of invariant I4: enforcement that runs outside the model's trust boundary belongs to… ## [Darle al agente la fuente de verdad real](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/darle-al-agente-la-fuente-de-verdad-real/) _2026-06-16 · Victor Del Puerto_ Un agente de IA que llamo MARCO colocó 26 obras de drenaje en el software de diseño vial a partir de una planilla. Lo interesante no fue la velocidad, sino encontrar en qué archivo vivía el pie de talud real, y convertir esa solución en una skill reutilizable. ## [Give the agent the real source of truth](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/give-the-agent-the-real-source-of-truth/) _2026-06-16 · Victor Del Puerto_ An AI setup I call MARCO placed 26 drainage culverts into our road-design software from a one-column list. The speed wasn't the interesting part. What mattered was finding which file held the real toe of the slope, and turning the fix into a reusable skill. ## [Sector 36 on Apple Books](https://sector36.substack.com/p/sector-36-on-apple-books) _2026-06-12 · Vlad Rișcuția · Dispatches from Sector 36_ Now available ## [Anatomy of a four-minute boot](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/anatomy-of-a-four-minute-boot/) _2026-06-10 · Victor Del Puerto_ Where my Claude Code sessions actually spent their first four minutes, and what cut it to thirty seconds without losing any context. Hooks were three seconds of the problem. The model's diligence was the rest. ## [How do you know a correction held? Instrumenting an agent in production](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/how-do-you-know-a-correction-held/) _2026-06-09 · Victor Del Puerto_ Functional scars make a correction persist. They don't tell you whether the system as a whole is getting better. So I instrumented every session — deterministic, zero-token, never blocking — and let a monthly pass turn the evidence into mechanism changes. The first thing the data caught was me. ## [22: Hope](https://sector36.substack.com/p/22-hope) _2026-06-05 · Vlad Rișcuția · Dispatches from Sector 36_ This is chapter twenty-two, the first chapter of Part 4: Asset Allocation ## [AI publishing with human taste (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/DWLoSHVPpxoY) _2026-06-05 · **Sponsored**_ Convert AI research into blogs, podcasts, and newsletters with optional human review. ## [The same scar, two agents](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/scars-across-agents/) _2026-06-03 · Victor Del Puerto_ fscars 0.4.0 promotes the Codex adapter from instructions to native hooks. A correction you write once now fires deterministically in both Claude Code and Codex — and the scar itself does not change. Here is how each side works, and the one honest limitation. ## [Calibrate against your own voice](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/callus-voice-calibration/) _2026-06-02 · Victor Del Puerto_ AI detectors flag non-native English as machine-written. callus scores your draft against your own voice instead. pip install callus. ## [A month of functional scars: 934 fires, one broken validation loop, and what it cost](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/a-month-of-scars/) _2026-05-26 · Victor Del Puerto_ I wired ten functional scars into my own workspace and let them run for a month. Half the signal came from one hook with documented false positives, and 3,838 captured opportunities sat unread. Here are the numbers and what they forced me to build. ## [The Pixar precedent: vibe coding has been here before](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/the-pixar-precedent/) _2026-05-18 · Victor Del Puerto_ Debates over disruptive tools follow a pattern. The vibe coding fight is at a recognisable stage of it. Notes from someone who passed through an earlier version of the same argument. ## [Functional Scars — turning corrections into a primitive](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/functional-scars/) _2026-05-09 · Victor Del Puerto_ fscars 0.1.0 is out — a bolt-on correction primitive for AI coding agents, built on the framework from the Lucy Syndrome paper. Apache 2.0, pip install fscars. ## [From memory to scar: a four-layer progression](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/from-memory-to-scar/) _2026-05-06 · Victor Del Puerto_ Anthropic shipped managed memory stores in April. They sit at the third of four layers. The fourth, hooks, is the one that closes the Lucy loop. ## [The Lucy Syndrome: Why LLMs Forget Corrections](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/lucy-syndrome-overview/) _2026-04-10 · Victor Del Puerto_ LLMs don't remember yesterday. That gap has a name, a causal mechanism, and a fix that doesn't require better memory. ## [The Lucy Syndrome and AI](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/lucy-syndrome/) _2026-04-09 · Victor Del Puerto_ LLMs don't remember yesterday — and that gap has a name. A five-part essay on the Lucy Syndrome, functional scars, and what it takes for a production system to actually learn. ## [Questions and answers](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/questions-and-answers/) _2026-04-09 · Victor Del Puerto_ Questions about the Lucy Syndrome essay — its scope, its method, and what functional scars actually look like in operation. Compiled from real conversations and updated as new questions arrive. ## [Where this came from](https://victordelpuerto.com/posts/where-this-came-from/) _2026-04-09 · Victor Del Puerto_ The informal companion to the Lucy Syndrome essay — how the observation started, how the system around it took shape, and why an operator in Paraguay ended up writing about model amnesia.