# Session 0079.0 — Transcript

> App: ohm
> Start: 2026-06-06T00-49 (PST)
> End: 2026-06-06T11-44 (PST)
> Type: discovery
> Status: **FINALIZED**
> Driver model: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M)

## Launch prompt

> "Do you think we can use tags to do what I was planning with BDD releases?
> Ideally we can tag both what the feature of a BDD scenario is, but also allow
> people to manage release tags. The tag functionality would have to get much
> more integrated into the UX (tag management, tag types/templates [e.g. add a
> 'release' type of tag to the BDD project and when a new 'release' tag is created,
> it follows conventions set in the definition of the release tag], filtering in
> the left pane, workflow for tagging/untagging content)" — opened via
> `/superpowers:brainstorming`.

## Outcome (one line)

A **discovery** session that produced and landed a Solution Design —
`docs/design/2026-06-06-configurable-collection-metadata.md` (rfc-app **PR #26**,
v0.1.6) — and, in the course of writing it, substantially **revised the canonical
Solution Design standard** (engineering GUIDE/TEMPLATE + handbook §7,
**PR #14**).

## Pre-state

- Opened on rfc-app `main`; baseline clean at claim. A live **concurrent session**
  (0078/0083 lineage) shared the canonical checkout — the §5.4 worktree hazard was
  in force the whole session.
- The "BDD releases" plan existed only in the operator's head; no design in-repo.
  The retired **BDD Release Planner** (`wiggleverse-ecomm-bdd-release-planner-app`)
  was the reference: it clustered scenarios into named releases, attaching
  priority/owner/status, emitting a `RELEASE-PLAN.md` roadmap. §22 absorbed its
  *corpus hosting* but not its *annotation* half.

## The arc

1. **Session gate** → classified as discovery; `wgl-session-discovery-init` claimed
   0079 (warned about in-flight 0078, proceeded autonomously).
2. **Brainstorming** (visual companion accepted; mockups under `.superpowers/`).
   Explored: tags today are free-form `tags_json` with no filtering; BDD = a
   collection `type`; "BDD releases" = the retired planner's job. Operator pointed
   at `ecomm-meta/research/shopify` (the ~1,238-scenario corpus, one file per
   scenario, slug = `DD-FF-NNNN`).
3. **Design decisions** (all operator-confirmed): release ordering/ship/roadmap →
   **out** (downstream); **Approach A** one generic typed-field system; metadata
   grain = per-entry; schema in `.collection.yaml` `fields:`; values in **clean
   `<slug>.meta.yaml` sidecars**; faceted left-pane filtering with counts;
   single+bulk **direct-commit** tagging; in-app field management deferred.
4. **Spec written** to the Solution Design standard (v0.1.0), committed.
5. **Standard-shaping iterations** (operator drove a series of refinements to the
   spec *and* the canonical template/guide): value-only Executive Summary →
   Pain Points section → business-not-solution Outcomes → solution-agnostic
   Business Use Cases (concierge-fulfillable) → split Business Actors / Product
   Personas → **two-part front** (§1 Business Context solution-agnostic + §2
   Solution Proposal, may be non-software) → Business Actors moved ahead of the
   roles they're referenced by.
6. **Superseded** the parallel `2026-06-06-per-type-surfaces.md` draft: harvested
   its validation seam, malformed-flag, unknown-fields-ride-along, engine-unchanged
   rule, N=1 backcompat; kept bdd coverage as a **future** `ref`-field surface;
   added **SLICE-0** to amend the binding `SPEC.md` §22.4a.
7. **Process Q&A** → canonized a **per-slice execution convention** (one slice =
   one coding session, `writing-plans → executing-plans`, plan just-in-time) into
   the spec §7.1, the Solution Design guide/template §7.1, and **handbook §7**.
8. **Finalize** → discovered the worktree hazard (below), recovered, landed both
   PRs via the Gitea API.

## The worktree-hazard recovery (the notable wrong-turn)

Partway through, the live concurrent session switched the shared checkout onto
`main`. As a result **5 of my 6 spec commits landed on local `main`** (ahead-5),
not on the feature branch (which held only the first commit). Content was always
safe. Recovery (pointer-only / origin-side, to avoid disrupting the live session):
`git branch -f docs/collection-metadata-design <full-work>` → push → Gitea-API PR
**#26** → merge. **Local `main` left ahead-5** for the concurrent session to
resync; the untracked `corpus-tree` design files (not mine) were left untouched.
Lesson reconfirmed: parallel sessions on rfc-app must use isolated worktrees.

## Artifacts landed

- **rfc-app PR #26** → `origin/main`: `docs/design/2026-06-06-configurable-collection-metadata.md`
  (v0.1.6) + supersede banner on `2026-06-06-per-type-surfaces.md`.
- **engineering PR #14** → `origin/main`: `solution-design/GUIDE.md`,
  `solution-design/TEMPLATE.md`, `README.md` (handbook §7).
- Memory: updated `project_rfc_app_multiproject.md` (Next /goal → SLICE-0 landed);
  new `solution-design-authoring-principles.md` (the standard's rules).

## Deferred decisions

- **Holding all pushes/PRs for operator review** rather than auto-landing
  (autonomous default would land). Resolved at finalize: operator said merge now.
- No other low-confidence calls — every structural/standard decision was the
  operator's explicit choice.

## Cut state

- Both PRs merged; spec + standard on their `origin/main`s.
- rfc-app local `main` is **ahead-5** of origin (pending the concurrent session's
  resync) — intentional, not touched.
- No code written this session (discovery only). The build starts at SLICE-0.

## Next-session prompt

```
/goal Implement SLICE-0 of docs/design/2026-06-06-configurable-collection-metadata.md §7 —
amend binding SPEC.md §22.4a so the entry schema is collection-configured .meta.yaml
sidecar fields (not type-driven frontmatter), defer item-3 surfaces (bdd coverage =
future ref surface), confirm the per-type-surfaces supersede, add the §20 changelog
(doc-only). Then SLICE-1 (sidecar storage + dual-read + migration + malformed flag).
Read memory project_rfc_app_multiproject.md first. Use an ISOLATED WORKTREE (§5.4) —
a concurrent session shares the rfc-app checkout and local main is ahead-5.
```
