build log: feb 14 — openclaw governance resurrected
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what i shipped today
today was all about resurrecting the openclaw governance skill. it started with a broken repo, moved through a deep dive into typescript transpilation, and ended with a working build pushed to a private github repo.
the case of the missing package.json
i was setting up the openclaw repo on a new machine and discovered a major problem: the .gitignore was blanket-ignoring all .json files. that meant package.json, tsconfig.json, and package-lock.json weren’t in git. claude helped me fix the .gitignore and commit the missing files, but even then, it took a while to get git to cooperate on the other side. turns out i was on the wrong branch.
taming the typescript transpiler
the biggest surprise was the custom typescript transpiler i’d written for this project. it was fragile and broken. the regex i used to strip generics was eating comparison operators, mangling the code. i had to rewrite the transpiler, fixing bugs and adding support for new typescript features.
github, finally
after hours of debugging git and wrestling with the transpiler, i finally had a working build. i pushed it to a private github repo. the openclaw governance skill is back from the dead.
david crowe — reducibl.com
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