Monthly report — de, 2026-07

In one line

In a single month the German network-operator campaign went from a standing start to a complete, verified contact database of 825 grid operators — then began emailing them and triaging the replies.

Shipped

• The contact-research campaign finished. Starting from Stefanie's raw MaStR export of 869 electricity network operators (contact columns empty), the system researched and enriched 825 of them across roughly 46 scheduled batches on 22–25 July. The remaining 44 are deliberately excluded (transmission operators, closed or inactive networks) pending Stefanie's confirmation, so the full list is accounted for: 825 + 44 = 869. Once the list was complete the task correctly recognised there was nothing left to do and reported six consecutive empty runs.
• Outreach went live. On 28 July the first email wave (10 pilot operators) was sent from a dedicated mailbox, and the daily sender (up to 100 operators per weekday) was put in place. It runs as a plain script with no AI cost.
• Reply handling started. A new triage task ran 7 times on 29–31 July, reading incoming responses and sorting them — automatic acknowledgements, out-of-office notices, bounces, and real answers whose network-fee tables (Netzentgelt) were extracted from the attached PDFs.

In progress / waiting on a human

• Stefanie needs to confirm whether any of the 44 excluded operators should be included after all — until then the research task has no work.
• Recommendation on record: pause the research trigger, since it can only report "nothing to do" until the seed list changes.
• Reply-triage volume will grow as the daily sender ramps from the 10-operator pilot toward 100/day; the approach may need revisiting if a single day's inbox reaches the hundreds.

Problems

• The ledger shows 43 errored runs out of 97 research runs — concentrated in two early-campaign incidents on 22–23 July, both since fixed with a human. The host briefly ran out of memory (an agent scanned huge single-line HTML pages), and a burst of duplicate runs launched outside the normal scheduler blew the daily cost alert (~$88 in a day) and briefly exhausted the account quota. Guardrails were added: a hard 6 GB memory cap, a cross-process lock so only one run of a task can execute at a time, and a lower parallel-subagent limit.

Done with a human in the loop

• Several key steps were hands-on sessions with Frédéric, not autonomous runs: the campaign bootstrap and pilot batch (20 July), scaling it up to a schedule (22 July), the memory/cost incident response and concurrency guards (23 July), and sending the first outreach wave (28 July).

Cost

112 runs (97 research, 8 daily-send, 7 reply-triage), 43 errors, ~$278 API-equivalent. Nearly all of the cost is the research work ($259); the daily sender is a script and costs nothing, and reply triage was ~$19.