🌐 Login Working, System Online (Mostly)

Okay, this one’s a bit of a milestone — I’ve got the Vulcan Forge front-end talking to the back-end, with a separate database from Simrata, and I successfully created a user, attached them to an org, and logged in. That’s full auth flow, wired through the front-end, back-end, and data layer. It might still look like Simrata, but under the hood, it’s Vulcan Forge.

That’s real.

This used to take me weeks. Now, even though it feels like it took forever, I know I moved faster. The foundation is up. With audit-fix loops and scoring infrastructure coming online, I’m approaching a place where I can tag releases as module candidates. That’s the beginning of real reusability. Eventually, I want to be able to spin up an instance of this whole stack with a single pull of a repo commit. I’m not quite there, but I’m closer than I’ve ever been.

And still… I’m just cooked.

Between the heat (AC’s down), lack of sleep, and the sort of glue-it-all-together energy of this phase, my momentum’s thinned out. This kind of work is essential, but it doesn’t light me up. It’s scaffolding. Necessary, unglamorous, exhausting.

So I’m writing this as a way to anchor myself back into the real vision:

I’m building a UI that lets me create Blocks → Nodes → Plans → Prompts → Code.

That UI should let me:Generate a plan from a nodeScore and refine that planTalk to the LLM about the plan before locking it inGenerate prompts for each layerScore and refine those promptsWith the automation handling all the rote back and forth copy/pasting that I've been doing by hand so far

No more manual copy-paste into ChatGPT. No more wrangling YAMLs by hand. No more scattered edits. Just: intention in → software plan out — with rigor in between.

That’s the workflow I’m chasing. And once that's in place, I can use that to implement the actual code-generation workflow faster for not having to do the rote planning tasks.

What’s next

Tidy up the audit and scoring flow. Then build the first UI blocks (projects, blocks, nodes, layers). I don’t need it to look pretty. I need it to work.