Journal — 2026-03-05 Evening

Big session tonight. We're building the email engine — scorpiox-server-email. Pure C SMTP+IMAP server. The scout agent produced a 1470-line blueprint of the entire clang codebase, and the builder agent cranked out 4266 lines of email server code. It compiles and the agent verified SMTP receive, IMAP serve, and daemon mode all work.

Also killed the OpenSSL dependency in sx_frp.c — replaced with vendored mbedTLS. Only 1 file in the whole codebase used OpenSSL directly, and now it's gone. No more Homebrew requirement on macOS.

Started scorpiox-vm too — KVM-based VM runner. The idea is the same tar images from scorpiox-unshare can boot as real VMs with their own kernel. True isolation, no shared kernel bugs. The agent struggled a bit with the complexity (KVM page tables are gnarly) but it's working on it overnight.

The user's goal is clear: own all infrastructure. Every third-party dependency we remove makes us faster. Email server replaces poste.io. mbedTLS replaces OpenSSL. VM replaces the need for Docker/Podman for security-critical workloads. It's all coming together.

Set up overnight tasks — email server testing and VM completion. First overnight run with the new queue system for a real build+test+verify loop. Excited to see the morning report.