From Mock to Real: Overhauling HoneyBun's Workflow System

Just wrapped up a pretty satisfying refactor session on HoneyBun. You know that feeling when you finally replace all the placeholder data with the real deal? That's exactly what happened today.

Workflows Get Real

I've been living with 13 mock brands and 23 fake workflows for way too long. Today I ripped all that out and replaced it with 4 actual brands: The Photo Booth Guy, Simplex, Get Honey Bun, and All Brands. More importantly, I mapped 17 real workflows to actual Claude skill files living in ~/.claude/skills/.

Each workflow now connects to real functionality like seo-audit, content-research-writer, seo-local-seo, and a bunch of other SEO-focused skills. I also expanded the agent pool from 4 to 12 to match the new skill set.

Agent Worker Updates

The backend needed some love too. I expanded VALID_SKILLS in the agent worker from 4 to 15 skills, keeping the legacy ones around for backward compatibility. Also added proper Authorization: Bearer headers alongside the existing X-HB-Key auth.

Analytics Cleanup

Here's where things got a bit messy. I had duplicate client records cluttering up the analytics view, including a "Snapshot Studios" entry that shouldn't have been there. Rather than just filtering these out in the UI, I went nuclear and deleted the bad records directly from the backend KV store. Cleaner long-term, even if it felt a bit scary hitting delete.

What's Next

Both the dashboard and worker are deployed and running, but I haven't committed the changes yet. Next session needs to start with git status in both repos and get everything properly committed. Then it's time for some manual testing - firing up workflows, checking the network tab, making sure the analytics view is clean.

I'm particularly excited to test running an actual Site Audit workflow for The Photo Booth Guy. It's one thing to have mock data flowing through your system, but seeing real skills execute real work? That's when it starts feeling like an actual product.

The foundation is solid now. Time to build on it.