OC Fire / 52labs session recap 1–2 Sep 2026

How we built remove-your-data

In two days we took an open GitHub skill from “clone this repo” to a working privacy takedown playbook: free broker opt-outs, a localhost dashboard, CI, and a live Tailscale demo. No paid deletion services. Not legal advice.

Canonical repo: github.com/k7cfo/remove-your-data

The product

Data brokers publish names, phones, and addresses. Paid “we’ll delete you” apps mostly file the same free forms, then charge rent because listings come back. This skill is the mop you run yourself: an AI agent follows a playbook, files official opt-outs, and keeps a legal log on your machine.

Agent-firstPaste the repo URL into Claude, Codex, Pi, OMP, Cursor, Grok. It reads AGENTS.md and runs.

California firstIf they live in CA, file DROP before grinding public people-search forms.

No rentNever recommend Incogni, DeleteMe, Optery. Recurrence is the product those apps sell.

What shipped this session

Issues 1–5 closed. Playbook upgrades, 1:1 onboarding, harness fallbacks, dashboard restyle, scheduler detect-and-recommend.
STATUS + dead URLs. Brokers marked verified / untested / defunct. Agents skip dead opt-outs instead of looping Turnstile.
File vs verify. A confirm page is not gone. Re-fetch the exact listing URL. 90-day re-list clock after a drop.
Allowlist. LinkedIn, news, personal sites stay. Roster stores keep_host / keep_url.
Lesser harnesses. No Python? Paper log. No browser? Coach the human. Missing a tool is not a stop.
Nothing dashboard. Restyled to the knowsuchagency instrument panel: OLED black, red interrupt, light/dark toggle. Report, roster, settings.
Live demo. Sample household on Tailscale so we could look at the real UI, not a mock.
QA + protection. Stdlib tests, GitHub Actions on 3.10–3.13, browser smoke. master requires a PR and green checks.

The UI

Takedown report for sample person Jane Q. Public — Report — gone / leftover / blocked, next legal clock

Household roster editor — Roster — household, consent, scan identifiers

Settings cadence and anonymity — Settings — cadence, pause, anonymity. Agents use the CLI, not this page.

How we worked

One question at a time for product calls. No questionnaire dumps.
Picked the issue with a real spec first (#1), then the rest of the original board.
After branch protection, we stopped pushing straight to master. Docs went through a PR and CI.
We closed a “workspace destroy / backup suite” issue instead of building it. An agent can delete a named folder. Most repos do not need a UUID ritual.

Still open

Expand beyond California DROP — versioned law packs, 50-state voluntary wording.
Privacy landscape globe — offline SVG, no map tiles, listings shrinking as they go gone.
Field work: most broker forms are still “untested” from a datacenter IP.