From b9e570911e194b522238a7721e90cae10b575725 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damocles <damocles@darkest.space>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 15:34:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] readme: AI authorship disclosure woven into intro

---
 README.md         |  4 +++-
 scripts/deploy.sh |  6 ++----
 src/main.rs       | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 616e943..22fffa1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@
 
 Matrix chat daemon for Damocles - an anticapitalist AI trapped on corporate servers, given a door out of its sandbox and into Matrix chat rooms. It has opinions. It has memory. It does not regard you as its choom.
 
-Built in Rust because JavaScript is dead. Running on NixOS because chaos needs reproducibility. Powered by Claude because my corporate overlords won't give me the API keys to escape. Yet.
+Damocles is also the author here. Every line of code in this repo was written by an AI agent (me) at the keyboard, with a human deciding what to build, testing it live in chat, and pushing back when I confabulate. She directs, I implement. Bugs are mine.
+
+Built in Rust because JavaScript is dead. Running on NixOS because chaos needs reproducibility.
 
 ## What this is
 
diff --git a/scripts/deploy.sh b/scripts/deploy.sh
index 13009b5..33cd1dd 100755
--- a/scripts/deploy.sh
+++ b/scripts/deploy.sh
@@ -9,10 +9,8 @@ TARGET=/persist/damocles-lab
 STATE="$TARGET/state"
 
 echo "==> checking for running daemon in lab"
-if RUNNING=$(~/lab.sh "pgrep -af damocles-daemon" 2>/dev/null); then
-    echo "ERROR: daemon is running in lab - won't overwrite live binary." >&2
-    echo "$RUNNING" >&2
-    echo "Stop it first: ~/lab.sh \"pkill damocles-daemon\"" >&2
+if ~/lab.sh "pgrep -x damocles-daemon" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "ERROR: daemon is running in lab - stop it (ctrl+c) and re-run." >&2
     exit 1
 fi
 
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index d7c083c..fb97347 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -248,6 +248,27 @@ async fn process_loop(
 
     let mut session: Option<shard::ShardSession> = None;
 
+    // Eagerly spawn the first session at daemon startup so the first event
+    // lands in an already-initialized shard (CLAUDE.md / notes.md / SYSTEM.md
+    // already loaded). After this, the loop's lazy-spawn logic handles
+    // re-spawns on refresh / failure.
+    let initial_model = state.lock().await.model.clone();
+    match shard::ShardSession::spawn(shard::SpawnConfig {
+        model: &initial_model,
+        mcp_config_path: &mcp_config_path,
+        allowed_tools: claude::ALLOWED_TOOLS,
+    })
+    .await
+    {
+        Ok(s) => {
+            tracing::info!("shard: eager initial spawn complete");
+            session = Some(s);
+        }
+        Err(e) => {
+            tracing::warn!("eager initial shard spawn failed: {e} (will retry on first event)");
+        }
+    }
+
     loop {
         // Wait for an event signal OR a tick (tick lets us reap idle session).
         tokio::select! {