OPS · Operator Command Center

The founder’s mirror

/most tracks the agents. This page tracks the operator. VR&E stages, Code Platoon cohort, mentor lineup, LLM-from-scratch progress, and the equipment inventory — all in one honest sheet. Nothing here is pipeline fluff; every line is a ship-or-not decision.

VR&E stage

2 / 5

Ch 31 active

Cohort target

Dakota

Summer 2026

Mentors

$590/mo base

LLM units

1 / 8

Raschka Ch 2

Kit installed

2 / 17

2 of 17

API keys wired

18 / 31

local .env only

hardware: M4 Max Studio (128 GB · custom) BACKORDER → ETA August 2026 · M4 Pro Mini bridged locally

Title 38 · Ch 31

VR&E timeline

Five stages from effective-date anchor to SMC-L vacatur. Counselor Montenegro owns stages 2–3; the CUE engine owns 4–5.

1
Effective-date anchor established
done
38 CFR § 3.400
Original claim in record; SMC-L chronology locked to 1996 STR packet.
2
VR&E enrollment — Counselor Montenegro
active
38 USC Ch 31 · Form 28-1902w
Danielle M. Montenegro assigned. IEP draft pending vocational assessment.
3
Retroactive induction petition
next
38 CFR § 21.282
Argument: prior unmet needs under § 21.156; retroactive entitlement to cover Code Platoon + mentors.
4
Secondary-condition strike (CUE)
gated
38 CFR § 3.310(b) · § 4.127
Post-IEP: file CUE motion on secondary conditions mis-rated since 1996. SMC-L path.
5
Aid & Attendance / SMC upgrade
gated
38 CFR § 3.352(a)
Final stage. 7-ADL matrix feeds directly from /dossier engine.

Skill ramp

Code Platoon — cohort board

$16,500 tuition per cohort · veteran-priority admissions · GI Bill / VR&E eligible. String / Array / Math challenges complete before seat assignment.

Dakota

applying

Full-Stack · Python/Django/React

2026 Summer (Jul 6 – Dec 18)

Part-time · evenings · veteran priority

Best ladder → job-ready stack. Mirrors Singulariti's own FastAPI+Next split.

Juliet

watching

Data Science · Python/Pandas/ML

2027 Winter (Jan 11 – Jun 25)

Part-time · evenings

Second choice. Useful for the CUE detection lattice, not the priority.

Eagle

backup

On-Demand · async cohort

Rolling

Self-paced

Backup if Dakota admissions challenge is missed.

MentorCruise

Mentor procurement matrix

Base bundle (Shay + Alvarez): $590/mo · +Nikolov on-demand: $1,040/mo full stack

Jared Shay

architect

Systems architect · distributed backends

$350 / mo

Weekly 1h · async reviews

The top slot. Architecture for the Sovereign Bridge + 38 CFR engines.

Javier Alvarez Valle

ai-science

AI scientist · LLM eval / Bayesian

$240 / mo

Biweekly 1h

Keeps the CUE detection math honest. Reviews model choices.

Nikola Nikolov

strike

On-demand senior · hot fires

$450 / mo

Ad-hoc · SLA same-day

Break-glass resource when a strike deadline is hours away.

Leoson Hoay

senior

ML engineer · applied DL

$180 / mo

Weekly async

Mid-tier sparring partner for Raschka exercises.

Sheng Wei Pang

mid

Frontend / systems generalist

$120 / mo

Weekly async

Entry tier; good for Next.js + TypeScript unknowns.

Raschka · Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)

LLM-from-scratch · 8-unit ladder

Every unit ends with code you can run. Units 7 and 8 plug directly back into the CUE lattice.

#	Unit	Book ref	Status
1	Text → tokens (BPE)	Ch 2	coded
2	Attention from first principles	Ch 3	reading
3	GPT architecture block	Ch 4	queued
4	Pre-training loop + loss	Ch 5	queued
5	Fine-tuning: classifier head	Ch 6	queued
6	Instruction fine-tuning	Ch 7	queued
7	Evaluation + honest benchmarks	App E	queued
8	Deploy as a CUE-lattice co-pilot	capstone	queued

Kit · Brewfile-driven

Equipment & software inventory

Installed on the current M-series box vs. pending vs. ordered. Terminal-install (brew) marked so you can rebuild a Mac in one command when the M4s arrive.

brew

Homebrewpending

Prereq for everything below — `curl` install

brew

node / python@3.12 / uv / pipxpending

Core runtimes

brew

git / gh / ripgrep / jq / httpiepending

Terminal toolchain

cask

VS Codeinstalled

Already on box

store

Xcodeinstalled

Already on box; needed for code-signing

cask

Cursorpending

AI-native VS Code fork; sits alongside

cask

Warp / Ghosttypending

Modern terminal replacement

cask

OrbStackpending

Lighter Docker on Apple Silicon

cask

Obsidianpending

Second brain — dossier drafts + mission journal

cask

Zoteropending

38 CFR + Raschka citation manager

web

Claude Desktop / ChatGPT Desktoppending

Install the .dmg from vendor sites

web

Apple Developer Program ($99/yr)pending

Required for code-signing the Bridge binary

web

Vercel Pro ($20/mo)pending

1TB bandwidth; Singulariti is past hobby tier

web

GitHub Copilot Propending

Pairs with VS Code + Cursor

M4 Max Studio · 128 GB (custom)ordered

BACKORDER — ETA August 2026. Apex logic node (studio_ip 192.168.1.100). Custom-spec build.

M4 Pro Mini · 64 GBordered

Vision/OCR node — mini_ip 192.168.1.101

USB4 8TB external (vault)ordered

/Volumes/8TB_External/MAKAIVELLI_VAULT

One-shot rebuild

# new Mac, zero to battle-ready:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
brew install node python@3.12 git gh uv pipx ripgrep jq httpie
brew install --cask warp cursor ghostty rectangle raycast obsidian zotero orbstack

Secrets inventory · names only

API keys + provider slots

What the platform is wired to speak to. Values stay in the local .env and never leave the trust boundary (CLAUDE.md rule #6). If a slot says 'held' it means the key exists in your password manager but is not yet plugged into the runtime.

wired

AnthropicANTHROPIC_API_KEY

Claude cold-brain reasoning (Opus 4.7)

wired

Google Gemini (primary)GEMINI_API_KEY

Hyper-agent Gemini 3.2 Pro core

wired

Google Gemini (backup)GEMINI_API_KEY_2

Rate-limit failover / 1M context passes

pending

OpenAIOPENAI_API_KEY

Embeddings · Whisper transcription

wired

ElevenLabs — APIELEVENLABS_API_KEY

Voice synthesis for BLUE + SHADOW + CIPHER

wired

ElevenLabs — BLUE voice IDELEVENLABS_VOICE_BLUE

BLUE's actual voice profile

wired

ElevenLabs — SHADOW voice IDELEVENLABS_VOICE_SHADOW

SHADOW's voice profile

wired

ElevenLabs — CIPHER voice IDELEVENLABS_VOICE_CIPHER

CIPHER's voice profile

wired

ElevenLabs — SecretELEVENLABS_API_SECRET

Webhook signing for ElevenLabs callbacks

wired

Inworld AI — KeyINWORLD_API_KEY

Character-AI runtime (the 'Nworld' key — for Blue's persona side)

wired

Inworld AI — SecretINWORLD_API_SECRET

Webhook + session signing for Inworld

pending

Google OAuth — Client SecretGOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET

Google sign-in for veteran portal

held

ID.me — Client SecretIDME_CLIENT_SECRET

Veteran identity verification (ID.me OAuth)

wired

JWT — Server SecretJWT_SECRET

Singulariti session signing

pending

S3 — Secret Access KeyS3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Encrypted C-File object storage (PHI inside trust boundary)

wired

Pinecone — VeteranPINECONE_API_KEY_VETERAN

Veteran-facing vector index

wired

Pinecone — ForensicPINECONE_API_KEY_FORENSIC

Forensic/C-File evidence index

wired

Stripe — SecretSTRIPE_SECRET_KEY

Checkout + subscription billing

wired

Stripe — PublishableSTRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY

Client-side checkout

wired

Stripe — WebhookSTRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET

Event verification from Stripe

pending

PerplexityPERPLEXITY_API_KEY

Real-time 38 CFR + case-law search

pending

Groq / DeepSeek / xAIGROQ_API_KEY + siblings

Cheap fast brains for hybrid short-loops

pending

Hugging FaceHF_TOKEN

Fine-tune hosting (post-Raschka unit 8)

wired

Vercel tokenVERCEL_TOKEN

Programmatic deploys

wired

GitHub tokenGITHUB_TOKEN

CI/CD + gh CLI

pending

Sentry DSNSENTRY_DSN

Error + PHI-safe traces

pending

PostHogNEXT_PUBLIC_POSTHOG_KEY

Product analytics (no PHI)

held

LinearLINEAR_API_KEY

Issue tracker automation

pending

ResendRESEND_API_KEY

Transactional email to veterans

held

Twilio / SendGridTWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN

SMS crisis-followup · backup email

held

Supabase / NeonDATABASE_URL

Postgres for audit log + user state

display policy: provider_names + env_var_names + purposes only · never values · never tokens · never last-4

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VR&E timeline

Effective-date anchor established

VR&E enrollment — Counselor Montenegro

Retroactive induction petition

Secondary-condition strike (CUE)

Aid & Attendance / SMC upgrade

Code Platoon — cohort board

Dakota

Juliet

Eagle

Mentor procurement matrix

Jared Shay

Javier Alvarez Valle

Nikola Nikolov

Leoson Hoay

Sheng Wei Pang

LLM-from-scratch · 8-unit ladder

Equipment & software inventory

API keys + provider slots