# Session 0012.0 — Transcript

> App: dev-claude-plugin
> Start: 2026-06-04T05-31 (PST)
> End: 2026-06-04T05-54 (PST)
> Type: coding
> Status: **FINALIZED**
> Posture: autonomous (yolo) — default
> Outcome: shipped v0.11.0 — handbook as the fifth session type / gate-lifter (PR #5, merge `3a856e0`)

## Launch prompt

```
/goal update the plugin so the handbook is an init option (full support - inferred, as well as output as an option by the blocking text (discovery needs to be added to that message, too)
```

## Pre-state

- On `main`, clean, fully pushed (`main...origin/main`, nothing unpushed).
- Source plugin at v0.10.0 (session 0011). Session gate had **four** types
  (coding / spec / discovery / ignore); `wgl-dev-handbook` existed as a
  read-only Q&A skill but was **not** a gate option.
- No other sessions in flight (dry-run peek clean).

## Plan

Make the **handbook** a fifth Wiggleverse session type / gate-lifter:

1. `hooks/session-gate.md` — four → five; add a **handbook** row to the
   session-type table (→ invoke `wgl-dev-handbook`); update rule #1 ("five
   gate-lifter skills") and the `<90%` AskUserQuestion offer (five-type pool,
   honoring the tool's 4-option cap). This is the "inferred" classifier support
   plus "output as an option by the blocking text."
2. `hooks/session-start` — header comment lists the init skills but omits
   discovery; add discovery **and** handbook ("that message, too").
3. Reference sweep of live files for the new fifth lifter:
   `README.md` (gate section + add the missing `wgl-dev-handbook` table row),
   `CLAUDE.md` (gate paragraph), `skills/wgl-dev-handbook/SKILL.md` (note it is a
   gate-lifter / untracked session type), `wgl-session-ignore`,
   `wgl-discovery-session-init`, `wgl-spec-session-init` (four → five lifters).
4. Bump `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` 0.10.0 → 0.11.0.
5. Branch → PR → merge (autonomous default); historical `docs/superpowers/`
   plan/spec artifacts left as point-in-time records.

## Turn-by-turn arc

1. **Gate + init.** Classified the opening `/goal` as a **coding** session and
   invoked `wgl-coding-session-init`. Computed start `2026-06-04T05-31` (PST),
   confirmed a clean pushed `main`, dry-ran the claim (nothing in flight),
   claimed session **0012**, seeded the placeholder's `## Plan` and
   `## Deferred decisions`.
2. **Disambiguated the ask.** Read `hooks/session-gate.md` and
   `wgl-dev-handbook/SKILL.md`. Discovery was *already* in the gate table and the
   AskUserQuestion offer — so "discovery needs to be added to that message"
   pointed elsewhere. Read `hooks/session-start`: its header comment listed only
   coding/spec/ignore — **that** was the message missing discovery.
3. **Mapped every enumeration site** with `git grep` for "four" / lifter
   phrasing, separating live files from the historical `docs/superpowers/`
   plan/spec records (left untouched as point-in-time artifacts).
4. **Design decision (logged below).** Chose to make the existing
   `wgl-dev-handbook` the fifth gate-lifter rather than add a new
   `wgl-handbook-session-init` — a handbook session is untracked Q&A (no
   transcript), mirroring how `wgl-session-ignore` already lifts the gate without
   being a tracked init.
5. **Implemented** on branch `handbook-as-init-option`: gate table + rule +
   AskUserQuestion pool; session-start comment; reference sweep across README,
   CLAUDE.md, wgl-dev-handbook, wgl-session-ignore (also fixed a stale "two
   normal answers / third answer" count predating discovery), discovery- and
   spec-session-init; version bump.
6. **Verified** `plugin.json` parses and `hooks/session-start` still emits valid
   JSON (additionalContext len 3768). Reviewed the full diff.
7. **Landed.** Commit `b46bf66` → push → PR **#5** via Gitea API → mergeable
   check → merged (`merge`, HTTP 200, merge commit `3a856e0`). Synced `main`,
   deleted the local + remote feature branch.

## Deferred decisions

- **No dedicated `wgl-handbook-session-init` skill — reuse `wgl-dev-handbook`
  as the gate-lifter.** A handbook session is read-only Q&A that claims no
  transcript (like `wgl-session-ignore`), so a parallel `*-session-init` skill
  would be an empty duplicate. Chose to make the existing read-only Q&A skill the
  fifth gate-lifter instead, mirroring how `wgl-session-ignore` already lifts the
  gate without being a tracked init. Low-confidence vs. the literal "init option"
  wording, which could be read as wanting a fifth `*-session-init` skill — if the
  operator wanted true structural symmetry (a thin handbook init bookend), that's
  a small follow-up.

## Cut state

- `main` at merge `3a856e0`, clean, pushed. v0.11.0. No open PRs. Feature branch
  deleted local + remote.
- Files changed: `hooks/session-gate.md`, `hooks/session-start`, `README.md`,
  `CLAUDE.md`, `.claude-plugin/plugin.json`, and four skill `SKILL.md`s
  (`wgl-dev-handbook`, `wgl-session-ignore`, `wgl-discovery-session-init`,
  `wgl-spec-session-init`).

## Operator plate

- **One re-install gate (as ever):** the change is live only after
  `/plugin marketplace update` + `/plugin install` — running sessions still use
  the lagging cache.
- The gate now recognizes a **handbook** session type; "how do we …" / "what
  does the handbook say about …" opening prompts route to `wgl-dev-handbook`
  (untracked, no transcript), satisfying the gate.

## Coda — re-install, 0.11.0 now live (re-finalize at 05-54)

After the first finalize, the operator **re-installed the plugin** (`/plugin`
enable + `/reload-plugins`) and re-invoked `/wgl-session-finalize`. The cache now
carries **0.11.0** and the reloaded skills source from `.../0.11.0/...`, so the
change is **live** — the long-standing "installed plugin lags at 0.3.0" gotcha is
cleared. Re-survey confirmed `main` clean, no open PRs, nothing to land. Memory
(`project_dev_claude_plugin.md` + `MEMORY.md`) updated to record 0.11.0 as the
installed/live version. Transcript re-published in place (same ordinal 0012).

## Next-session prompt

```
/goal pick the next dev-claude-plugin roadmap item (v0.11.0 is live; open seams: spec-RFC renderer deployment, BDD-planner project registration, Workflow-recording→BDD bug filing idea)
```
