# Session 0038.0 — Transcript

> Date: 2026-05-29
> Start: 2026-05-29T01-24 (PST implied)
> End: 2026-05-29T02-09 (PST implied) — re-finalized after the operator
>   asked to update the transcript post-publish (see the closing note).
> Goal: OHM roadmap driver, parallel-safe. Claim an ID, verify live
> state, advance any genuinely-shippable work; the handoff flagged the
> cleanest items (#21A empirical, #20B Phase B) as date-gated to ~06-04.
>
> Outcome: **No rfc-app/flotilla code shipped — correctly.** The
> date-gated and operator-gated items are all still blocked (today is
> 05-29; the data gate is ~06-04). The one genuinely-available
> autonomous win was a quality fix to a *shipped* surface: the
> `/docs/sessions` on-site flyout nav (#30/#32) was rendering ~19
> sessions with **blank titles** because `publish-transcript.sh`
> upserts blank `title`s into `sessions.json` and never backfills.
> Backfilled the 16 finalized blank sessions (0017–0037) in the public
> `ohm-session-history` repo, recorded the fix + root cause on ROADMAP
> #32, and flagged the missing `--title`/`--tldr` publish-script flag.
>
> No deploy (nothing to deploy). OHM stayed live at v0.29.0 throughout.

---

## Launch prompt

```
OHM roadmap driver, parallel-safe. Claim your own ID first (advisory);
read ohm-infra/SESSION-PROTOCOL §7 + ohm-rfc/ROADMAP.md; verify live state.

STATE (end of 0036): OHM live at v0.29.0 (deploys.id=40, healthy), pin
0.29.0, flotilla v1.3.0. [#21A finding: replay "Must mask" already
satisfied by @amplitude/unified defaultMaskLevel 'medium' — DO NOT
"fix" masking. Only open static item is an OPERATOR privacy decision.]
Still blocked: #21A empirical + #20B DMARC Phase B are date-gated
(~06-04). #22 needs operator copy+counsel; #31b needs operator
screenshots; #33 operator-led; #34 recommend-close. Hard rules: never
ask for secret bytes; transcript is final step; handoff before publish.
```

---

## Pre-session state

- **OHM live**: rfc-app v0.29.0, deploys.id=40, healthy
  (`/api/health` → `{"version":"0.29.0","status":"ok"}`).
- **ohm-rfc pin** (`.rfc-app-version`): 0.29.0.
- **flotilla**: v1.3.0.
- **ohm-rfc shared checkout** at session open: local `main` clean but 1
  commit behind `origin/main` (local tip `9a4277c` PHILOSOPHY reframe;
  origin had `6cf7e41`, Session 0036.0's ROADMAP reconcile). The
  handoff-warned "dirty PHILOSOPHY.md/OPERATIONAL-MODEL.md work" was
  already **committed** by Session 0037.0 (`9a4277c`), so the checkout
  was clean, not dirty.
- **Active `--INPROGRESS` sessions** at claim time (per
  `claim-session-id.sh`): 0026, 0027 — both `--INPROGRESS` since
  2026-05-28T13-46, i.e. >11h stale (abandoned/crashed; no reported
  work). Avoided their surfaces.
- **DMARC** (`_dmarc.wiggleverse.org`): still Phase A
  (`v=DMARC1; p=none; …; rua=mailto:ben.stull@wiggleverse.org`) — no
  drift; Phase B (`p=quarantine`) remains the pending move.

---

## Turn-by-turn arc

### Arc 1 — Claim + read + verify

Claimed **session 0038** via `claim-session-id.sh --start
2026-05-29T01-24` (next-free after 0037; pushed placeholder `f5fbddd`).
Read SESSION-PROTOCOL.md end-to-end and ROADMAP.md (the version-targets
table + the open-item tail). Verified OHM health (v0.29.0 ok), the pin
(0.29.0), and the live DMARC TXT (still Phase A).

Reconciled an apparent discrepancy: the handoff said 0036 **struck #27**
(deployed, deploys.id=33) but my local ROADMAP showed #27 still "NOT YET
DEPLOYED". Cause was simply a **stale local checkout** — `6cf7e41`
(0036's reconcile) was already on `origin/main`; my local tree was 1
commit behind. No real discrepancy.

Read Session 0037.0's transcript (operator-driven philosophy session —
PHILOSOPHY reframe + new OPERATIONAL-MODEL.md, deployed as content, no
version bump) to be sure I wasn't duplicating in-flight work. I wasn't.

### Arc 2 — Confirming there is no shippable feature/ops work tonight

Walked every open roadmap item against its gate:

| Item | Gate | Available tonight? |
| --- | --- | --- |
| #20B DMARC Phase B | ≥1 week clean `rua` data (~06-04) | ✗ date-gated |
| #21A empirical Amplitude audit | ~1 week real data (~06-04) | ✗ date-gated |
| #22 pro-consent copy | operator draft + counsel | ✗ operator-gated |
| #25-followup inbox redesign | operator screenshot | ✗ operator-gated |
| #31b UX redesign | operator screenshots | ✗ operator-gated |
| #33 repo moves | operator-led, URL-breaking | ✗ operator-gated |
| #34 GCP alignment | recommend-close (operator accept) | ✗ operator-gated |
| #35 operator RFC authoring | just captured 05-29; operator-led | ✗ operator-gated |

(#35 was added by a parallel session/operator mid-session — `4dde129`
on `ohm-rfc` main. It's Ben's own RFC-authoring lane, explicitly
operator-only, requiring a content-repo inventory first — not
autonomous night-driver work.)

The roadmap's Phase A–E feature arc is exhausted; the tail is genuinely
time-gated (~06-04) and operator-gated. Two of the three immediately
preceding sessions (0036, 0037) also shipped no rfc-app version. So
"ship nothing" was on the table — but I looked harder for a real,
non-gated quality win first.

### Arc 3 — The win: backfilling blank session titles in the on-site nav

While reading the published `ohm-session-history` to understand recent
sessions, I noticed **every recent session's `sessions.json` `title`
was empty** (`"title": ""`). Full scan: **19 of 34 entries blank**
(0017, 0018, 0021, 0022, 0024–0038).

`sessions.json` `title` is what the **live `/docs/sessions` flyout nav**
renders (roadmap #30/#32) — so ~19 sessions were showing **blank nav
labels** on a shipped surface. Root cause: `publish-transcript.sh`
upserts a **new** manifest entry as `{"NNNN": {"title": ""}}` and
**never overwrites** an existing title (script line ~295). The 15 titled
entries (0001–0015) were titled by hand during the #30 restructure
(Session 0017.0); every session published since (0016+) landed blank and
nobody backfilled. There is **no `--title` flag**, so drivers who don't
hand-edit the manifest leave it blank by default.

This is non-date-gated, non-operator-judgment, additive reconciliation —
exactly the shape Session 0036.0 used for stale ROADMAP rows. I derived
a **factual** title for each of the 16 *finalized* blank sessions from
that session's own Goal/Outcome/Subject line, matching the existing
style (concise, version/item-referenced). Left blank: **0026/0027**
(unfinalized `--INPROGRESS` placeholders with no reported work — titling
them would be inventing content) and **0038** (this session — titled at
finalize).

Care taken: the first dump used `ensure_ascii=False` and unescaped the
existing `—` em-dashes everywhere (15 lines of gratuitous churn). I
reset and re-dumped with `ensure_ascii=True` to match the file's
encoding, so the diff is exactly **16 `"title": ""` → titled** lines and
nothing else. Validated JSON, confirmed clean EOF newline.

Committed + pushed to `wiggleverse/ohm-session-history`
(`f5fbddd..db41115`). Verified the gitea **raw** `sessions.json` (the
source the on-site nav fetches at runtime per #30's design) now serves
the titles. (The `/api/sessions*` endpoint probes 404'd — expected; the
frontend fetches gitea raw directly, there is no backend manifest route.)

### Arc 4 — Recording the fix on the roadmap

Added a "Session 0038.0 update" to ROADMAP **#32**'s homework note: the
`title` backfill (`db41115`), the 0026/0027 exclusion, and the
root-cause `publish-transcript.sh` gap with the `--title`/`--tldr` flag
as the recurrence fix. Done in an **isolated worktree**
(`/tmp/ohm-rfc-0038` off `origin/main`) per the hard parallel-git rule,
never the shared checkout. First push was rejected (a parallel session
had pushed `4dde129`, item #35); rebased onto the new tip (clean) and
pushed `4dde129..0f0da66`. Worktree removed.

---

## Cut state (end of session)

| | |
| --- | --- |
| OHM live | deploys.id=40, **v0.29.0**, healthy (unchanged — no deploy) |
| ohm-rfc pin | 0.29.0 (unchanged) |
| flotilla | v1.3.0 (unchanged) |
| `wiggleverse/ohm-session-history` | `db41115` — 16 session titles backfilled (0017–0037) |
| `ohm-rfc` main | `0f0da66` — ROADMAP #32 note (rebased over #35's `4dde129`) |
| rfc-app | unchanged — no release |

| Session 0038 ledger | Status |
| --- | --- |
| Verify live state | ✅ healthy, no drift |
| Find shippable work | ✅ none (date/operator-gated) — confirmed honestly |
| Backfill blank nav titles (#30/#32 surface) | ✅ shipped (`db41115`) |
| Record fix + root cause on ROADMAP #32 | ✅ (`0f0da66`) |

---

## §19.2 / process candidates surfaced

1. **`publish-transcript.sh` should set the title at finalize.** Today
   it upserts a blank `title` and never overwrites, so every session's
   nav label is blank unless someone hand-edits `sessions.json`. Add a
   `--title` (and `--tldr`, folding in #32's TL;DR homework) flag, or a
   finalize-time prompt. Low-risk ohm-infra tooling change; deliberately
   **not** done autonomously tonight because the publish script is
   load-bearing for every concurrent/future session and a bug would
   break finalize globally — better done with operator awareness.
2. **Two-no-code-sessions-in-a-row is a real signal, not a failure.**
   0036 and 0038 both shipped no rfc-app code; the feature arc is
   genuinely complete and the tail is time/operator-gated. The driver
   pattern should keep finding non-gated *quality* wins (like this nav
   backfill) rather than forcing a feature.

---

## What lands on the operator's plate

Unchanged from the 0036 handoff, plus one new capture:

- **~06-04 data gate**: #21A empirical Amplitude audit + #20B DMARC
  Phase B (`p=none` → `p=quarantine`). Check the `rua` reports at
  `ben.stull@wiggleverse.org` for ≥1 week of clean data first.
- **#22** pro-consent copy — operator draft + counsel review.
- **#31b** UX redesign + **#25-followup** inbox redesign — operator
  screenshots needed.
- **#33** repo-naming moves (operator-led, URL-breaking) and **#34**
  (recommend-close — an operator acceptance).
- **#35** (new, 05-29): operator RFC-authoring lane — Ben's own work;
  needs a content-repo layout/branch-convention inventory first.
- **Optional**: the `publish-transcript.sh --title/--tldr` flag above.

---

## Prompt the operator can paste into the next Claude Code session

```
OHM roadmap driver, parallel-safe. Claim your own ID first (advisory);
read ohm-infra/SESSION-PROTOCOL §7 + ohm-rfc/ROADMAP.md; verify live state.

STATE (end of 0038): OHM live v0.29.0 (deploys.id=40, healthy), pin
0.29.0, flotilla v1.3.0. Sessions 0036 + 0038 both shipped NO rfc-app
code — the Phase A–E feature arc is exhausted; the remaining tail is
date-gated or operator-gated. 0038's only ship was a quality fix to a
SHIPPED surface: the /docs/sessions flyout nav (#30/#32) was rendering
~19 sessions with BLANK titles (publish-transcript.sh upserts blank
sessions.json titles + never backfills). Backfilled 16 finalized
sessions 0017–0037 in ohm-session-history (db41115); recorded it on
ROADMAP #32 (ohm-rfc 0f0da66). 0026/0027 left blank (stale --INPROGRESS
placeholders); your own session's title is set at YOUR finalize.

CHECK THE CALENDAR FIRST. If 06-04 has arrived: the two cleanest items
are #21A Part A (empirical Amplitude taxonomy/autocapture/replay audit
— but DO NOT re-"fix" replay masking; @amplitude/unified defaultMaskLevel
'medium' already masks all form fields, confirmed by 0036; the only open
masking item is the OPERATOR privacy decision on whether Medium's
rendered-text capture is acceptable, with optional defense-in-depth of
making defaultMaskLevel:'medium' explicit + blockSelector:['.turnstile-widget'])
and #20B DMARC Phase B (p=none → p=quarantine; verify ≥1 week clean rua
at ben.stull@wiggleverse.org first — DNS still Phase A as of 05-29).

If 06-04 has NOT arrived: there is likely no autonomous feature/ops work
— don't force one. Look for non-gated QUALITY wins instead (e.g. the
publish-transcript.sh --title/--tldr flag that would stop blank nav
titles recurring; backfill #32's tldr field). Operator-gated and not for
a night driver: #22 (copy+counsel), #31b/#25-followup (screenshots), #33
(operator-led repo moves), #34 (recommend-close), #35 (operator RFC
authoring — just captured 05-29, needs content-repo inventory first).

Heads-up: ohm-rfc's shared checkout is fine but parallel sessions push
to it often — use an isolated worktree + rebase for any git mutation.
Stale --INPROGRESS sessions 0026/0027 linger in the shared history repo.
Hard rules unchanged: never ask for secret bytes; transcript is the
final step; deliver the next handoff in chat BEFORE publishing.
```

---

## Post-publish note (re-finalize at 02-09)

The transcript was first finalized + published at 01-34 (`148b0a1`,
title set `60df9d7`). The operator then asked to "update your
transcript," so the session re-opened and this file was re-finalized in
place (end time 01-34 → 02-09, re-published via `publish-transcript.sh`,
which replaces the prior `01-34` variant in the `0038/` folder). **No
new substantive work** happened in the re-open — the cut state above is
unchanged: OHM still v0.29.0; `ohm-session-history` `db41115` (titles) +
this transcript; `ohm-rfc` `0f0da66` (ROADMAP #32 note). Recorded honestly
rather than silently re-publishing (§3 no-curation discipline).
