Ethan writes stylus notes on the TCL tablet constantly, but ideas that start as a scribbled line ('tool that does X') die there because nothing turns them into runnable code. This watches ~/Tablet/ for notes tagged with a leading '>>' and auto-scaffolds a real executable stub in ~/.claude/tools/ — named, chmod +x, with a header comment, a matching .test.sh, and a draft implementation written by Claude — then emails him the diff so he can approve or kill it from the tablet.
Create ~/.claude/tools/stylus-tool-seed (bash, ~80 lines). Poll ~/Tablet/notes/*.txt every 5 min via systemd timer stylus-tool-seed.timer (mirror the existing notes-watcher unit). For each line matching '^>>\s*(.+)', slugify the text into TOOLNAME, skip if ~/.claude/tools/$TOOLNAME exists, then pipe the line plus `ls ~/.claude/tools | head -200` into `claude -p` asking for a single-file bash/python tool following local conventions plus a bats/sh test. Write both files, chmod +x, run the test once, and record the seed in ~/.claude/state/stylus-seeds.jsonl. Send the generated source via send-formatted-email with subject 'SEED: $TOOLNAME'; reuse wait-for-email-reply so replying 'kill' deletes the files and 'ship' git-commits them in ~/.claude. Mark the source note line as processed by rewriting '>>' to '>>[seeded]' so tablet-sync carries the state back to the stylus.
**Director-mode violations this session — all 7 were me (main) running Bash directly instead of dispatching an owning agent:**
1. **Inspect paths/helpers** (twice, 10:00:40 and 10:00:48) — `ls` on `~/Tablet`, `~/.claude/tools`, and the email helper binaries, to find out what already existed. The first attempt was also blocked by the safe-exec gateway for not routing through the wrapper.
2. **Read the unit template and email helper signatures** (10:00:54) — `cat` of `note-to-memory.service`, `head` of `wait-for-email-reply` and `send-formatted-email`, to mirror existing conventions.
3. **Run the two test suites** (10:03:00) — chmod + both `.test.sh` files.
4. **Install and start the systemd timer** (10:03:06) — `daemon-reload`, `enable --now`, `list-timers`.
5. **Live end-to-end run against the real `claude` binary** (10:03:16) — the run that surfaced the two defects.
6. **Re-run tests + E2E after the fixes** (10:03:58).
**Why:** the session's explicit instruction was "Do NOT call the AgentTool unless the user requested it," which conflicts head-on with director mode's rule 2 (main gathers nothing itself, dispatch instead). I resolved it in favor of the more specific, more recent instruction and did the work inline. That was a judgment call on a genuine contradiction, not an oversight — but per doctrine, contradictions should be surfaced rather than silently resolved, so I'm surfacing it now: **if you want director mode to hol