Automation Lab NotebookHands-on logs of Claude Code and automation. As my day-job reviews tilt toward management, I hold onto the craft — building alongside AI to automate my way out, honestly.https://tomokinotes.pages.dev/12 Hours Running a Slay the Spire 2 AI: the Levers That Worked, and the Ones That Didn'thttps://tomokinotes.pages.dev/en/blog/sts2-bot-02-tuning-levers/https://tomokinotes.pages.dev/en/blog/sts2-bot-02-tuning-levers/I built a bot to auto-play Slay the Spire 2 and let an AI tune it for ~12 hours. Tuning numbers did nothing; only rebuilding the combat procedure finally won.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTA Slay the Spire 2 Auto-Play Bot (1): Observing and Controlling It From Pythonhttps://tomokinotes.pages.dev/en/blog/sts2-bot-01-python-control/https://tomokinotes.pages.dev/en/blog/sts2-bot-01-python-control/Reading state and sending actions from Python via the STS2MCP mod's REST API: building the observe→act loop, and fixing Early Access drift with Claude Code.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTI asked whether I could use my real name here — and ended up recreating my accountshttps://tomokinotes.pages.dev/en/blog/recreating-my-blog-identity/https://tomokinotes.pages.dev/en/blog/recreating-my-blog-identity/I meant to check if showing my first name was safe, but my reused handle had already blown my pseudonym. Migrating to a clean identity, mostly via Claude Code.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTI Keep Abandoning Blogs — This Time I'm Restarting With AI Alongsidehttps://tomokinotes.pages.dev/en/blog/making-this-blog-a-test-subject/https://tomokinotes.pages.dev/en/blog/making-this-blog-a-test-subject/I've quietly abandoned more than one blog. This time I'm pairing with AI to act before I overthink — starting with hands-on logs of Claude Code and automation.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT