Kashish Dugar

Moonlight Build Log: Papa and I are building Moonlight with AI agents. I am the tech lead. I make the decisions and check the work. The agents write the code.

What we did today

Today was setup day. There is no app code yet. Claude guided me step by step, and Papa explained things sometimes.

• I added the MIT licence and a .gitignore to the repo. MIT means anyone can use and change Moonlight if they keep our name on it.
• I made a cloud computer for the agent. It is called an environment. I told it the only two places it may visit: Open Targets and Gemini.
• The agent wrote our rulebook, CLAUDE.md. Every agent reads it before it touches anything.
• I read the rulebook, answered four questions about it, and merged my first pull request.

How a ticket works

Every job is a ticket. A ticket says the goal, an example, and the check. The agent does the job on its own branch and opens a pull request. A pull request is the agent saying “here is my work, please check it”. The agent is not allowed to merge. Only I say merge.

Then we started a brand new agent that had never talked to us. It told us all the safety rules correctly. So the rulebook works.

The commits

• 5b7f473 Add MIT License to the project
• ba16dbc Create .gitignore
• 180d2b7 Ticket 0.3: add project rulebook (CLAUDE.md, DECISIONS.md, tickets/TEMPLATE.md)
• 7dad7df CLAUDE.md: Gemini over REST and key handling, offline test mocking, Open Targets POST format
• f0de443 Merge pull request #1. My first merge!
• Pull request #2 is open. The agent saved real data from Open Targets. I will read its notes before I merge.

My errors

• We took a photo of our API key. A key is like a locker key kept at the pool office. A key that has been seen is a dead key. We deleted it and made a new one.
• One extra letter. We typed generativelanguages when it should be generativelanguage. One extra s, and Gemini said 403. The agent found the typo.
• Gemini is still saying no. The agent stopped and told us the truth. It did not guess. We will fix it tomorrow.

What the data says

Our test disease is pulmonary arterial hypertension. That is high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs.

• 40 medicines act on the 11 proteins we checked.
• 28 of them are approved for at least one disease.
• 118 medicines are already linked to our disease, but only 14 of those are approved for it. One is sildenafil, which grabs the protein PDE5A. It is our test: Moonlight must find it and then cross it off.
• 6 of the top 10 proteins have no medicines at all!

My three decisions

1. “Approved” means approved for at least one disease. Trial medicines might not work or be safe yet.
2. Medicines already being tested for the disease go in a separate box, not the main list. Scientists are already checking them, so the reader should see that.
3. A medicine and its tablet form are one item, with both forms shown inside. It is easier to understand.

Tomorrow

I draw the graph on paper first: the disease, five proteins and their medicines.