# Session 0021.0 — Transcript

> Date: 2026-05-28
> Goal: Capture two operator-surfaced UX items as roadmap entries
> (a comprehensive UX polish pass, and a session/transcript page polish)
> and commit + push.
>
> Outcome: **ROADMAP #31 + #32 added and pushed to `ohm-rfc` as
> `210c024`. No releases, no deploys, no flotilla gestures, no secrets.
> Pure roadmap-capture session.**
>
> Two new shippable items now in the queue:
> - **#31** — Comprehensive UX polish pass (spacing scale, type
>   hierarchy, color/contrast, component sweep, empty/loading/error
>   states, responsive, motion, iconography). Re-skin + re-space, not
>   redesign — merge-friendly with any track.
> - **#32** — Session/transcript page polish (collapse single-transcript
>   session roots so `/docs/sessions/<nnnn>` renders the transcript
>   inline instead of the "select one from nav" placeholder; add a
>   metadata header above the body with start/end/duration/TL;DR + a
>   gitea source link).

---

## Pre-session state

| repo | sha | state |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ohm-rfc | `c9a4755` | `main` clean; pin at `0.20.0` (Wave 9 follow-up to #30) |
| ohm-rfc-app-flotilla | `c8804a6` | session anchored here; `main` clean except untracked `.claude/` |
| rfc-app | n/a (not touched this session) | last shipped tag v0.20.0 |
| OHM live | running v0.20.0 per the Session 0018.0 ledger | healthy |
| ohm-rfc pin | `0.20.0` | unchanged this session |

Previous session's last commit on `ohm-rfc` was `c9a4755` at
2026-05-28 10:57:20 PDT — the pin bump for v0.20.0 / Wave 9 follow-up
to #30. No `SESSION-0019.0` or `SESSION-0020.0` transcript present in
`~/git/ohm-infra/` at session open; either those sessions are
operator-internal (e.g. a release-cut session that didn't earn its
own transcript) or their transcripts haven't been written yet. This
session does not investigate — it accepts the operator-asserted
session ID of `21` and runs with it. If 0019.0 and 0020.0 want
transcripts they can be written backfilled later; this session's
chronology is independent.

---

## Turn-by-turn arc

### Arc 1 — Capture #31 (Comprehensive UX polish pass)

Operator opened the session with a screenshot of OHM's home view
(welcome panel + catalog of RFCs in the left sidebar) and the verbatim
brief: **"Let's add another item to the roadmap. UX...let's make all
of the ux a lot more polished and check the spacing. This general
feeling of this is pretty clunky and prototypey"**.

Read `ROADMAP.md` in two chunks (33709 tokens, capped per-page;
needed offset=1044 to see through to the version-target table).
Confirmed the file's structure: numbered items in narrative form,
followed by a single-row-per-item version-targets table, followed by
phase/parallelization/operating-instructions appendices. New items
go in the "Items added 2026-05-28 (parallel to the SMTP-hardening
session)" subsection — already at #24..#30 (with #30 just shipped in
v0.19.0 + v0.20.0 per the prior session).

Drafted #31 in the same shape as #24..#30: framing, scope
(itemized surface-by-surface — spacing, type, color, components,
empty/loading/error, responsive, motion, iconography, dark-mode-or-
not), process flow (inventory → tokens → sweep → verify), open
questions (component library decision, scope-bound to one slice if
inventory overflows), and explicit coordination with #24 / #25 (both
fold in trivially). Added the row to the version-target table at the
bottom.

Framed deliberately as a **re-skin + re-space, not a redesign** —
this preserves the merge-friendliness with everything in flight on
the collaboration / auth / analytics tracks. The point of saying
that explicitly is to head off the natural scope creep of "while we
were in there, we also rewrote the inbox surface" — that work is
#25, not #31.

No commit yet; held until both items were in the file.

### Arc 2 — Capture #32 (Session/transcript page polish)

Operator's second screenshot: `/docs/sessions/0002` — the new
session-history surface from #30 Phase 1+2. Showed the empty-ish
"1 transcript in this session. Select one from the navigation on the
left." placeholder. Operator brief, verbatim: **"The root of a
session can jsut be the transcript itself. There should also be a
link to the git repo for the transcript in teh transcript so people
can get to the raw code. I guess that could be in a header above the
transcript body. Maybe start date/time, end date/time, tl;dr, and
link to the transcript on git"**.

Two coupled changes captured:

1. **Collapse single-transcript session roots.** For the common
   case (one transcript per session — true for 0001..0013, 0017
   excepted), the intermediate "select one" page is friction. Render
   the transcript inline at the session-root URL (or 301 — decision
   deferred to session-time). For multi-transcript sessions (0013
   has 4, 0014 has 2, 0017 has 3), default to showing the `.0`
   driver inline with the others listed alongside, rather than the
   empty placeholder.
2. **Transcript header.** Start / End (parsed from filename),
   Duration (derived), TL;DR (source TBD — recommended `sessions.json`
   `tldr` field over transcript-frontmatter), and "View on gitea"
   link to the canonical raw transcript URL. Operator-readable
   metadata above the body, plus an explicit affordance for readers
   to pull the source / propose corrections.

Drafted #32 with the same shape as #31: scope, layout shape, open
questions (single-transcript collapse strategy, TL;DR source,
backfill, multi-transcript session shape, gitea link format), and a
dependencies block noting #30 already shipped.

The TL;DR-source question got a bit of attention in the draft —
captured both options (manifest field vs. transcript frontmatter)
with a recommendation for manifest because it's simpler and the
transcript bodies stay unchanged. The publish-transcript.sh script
can prompt for a TL;DR at publish time and commit `sessions.json` in
the same shape. Folded into the open-questions block so the
implementing session settles it deliberately rather than
defaulting accidentally.

Added the table row. Reported both items as added and explicitly
flagged that nothing was committed yet, in case the operator wanted
to adjust before landing.

### Arc 3 — Commit + push

Operator said: **"ok, commit the roadmap and push"**.

Ran the three parallel context-gathers (`git status`, `git diff
ROADMAP.md`, `git log --oneline -10`) on `ohm-rfc` — diff confirmed
the two items + table row were the only changes; recent commits
showed the repo's convention for roadmap-add commits (`ROADMAP:
+#XX..#YY (...)` from `74a3e12`).

Committed with the conventional shape:

```
ROADMAP: +#31..#32 (UX polish pass + session-page polish)
```

Pushed cleanly: `c9a4755..210c024  main -> main` to
`ssh://git.wiggleverse.org:2222/ben/ohm-rfc.git`.

Side-note from git: "Your name and email address were configured
automatically based on your username and hostname" — `Ben Stull
<benstull@mac.lan>`. Not an error; just git telling the operator
their local user.email isn't explicitly set. Not in this session's
scope; flagged here for awareness only.

### Arc 4 — Cut transcript (this arc)

Operator said: **"Your session ID is 21. Cut a transcript and we'll
be done"**. Read `~/git/ohm-infra/SESSION-PROTOCOL.md` to confirm the
shape, listed existing transcripts to confirm the next-session ID
position (operator-asserted as 21; absence of 0019/0020 locally
acknowledged in pre-state), computed start/end bracket, wrote this
file, will publish via `scripts/publish-transcript.sh` after
delivering the handoff prompt.

---

## Cut state (end of session)

| | |
| --- | --- |
| ohm-rfc | `210c024` — `ROADMAP: +#31..#32` |
| ohm-rfc-app-flotilla | unchanged (`c8804a6`); session anchored here |
| rfc-app | unchanged (no release this session) |
| OHM live | unchanged — running v0.20.0 |
| ohm-rfc pin | `0.20.0` — unchanged |

| Wave / ledger | Status |
| --- | --- |
| #31 UX polish pass | ✅ captured in ROADMAP, not yet picked up |
| #32 Session/transcript page polish | ✅ captured in ROADMAP, not yet picked up |

No releases, no deploys, no flotilla gestures, no secret material.
Pure roadmap-capture session.

---

## §19.2 candidates surfaced

None this session. The work was capture-only — the items themselves
will surface §19.2 candidates when an implementing session picks
them up, but this session didn't run into framework deferrals
firsthand.

One soft observation worth carrying forward: **#31's "tokens phase"
(establishing a spacing/type/color/motion vocabulary as CSS custom
properties or Tailwind theme tokens)** could itself become a small
§19.2 candidate for `rfc-app` — a shared design-token layer that
future deployments inherit. Not surfaced as a hard candidate
because the polish session may end up taking a simpler "polish the
existing approach without extracting" route; the framework
extraction would only be the right move if #31's inventory turns up
genuine cross-component reuse. Flagged here so the polish session
considers it deliberately rather than defaulting to in-component
styles.

---

## What lands on the operator's plate

Nothing actionable from this session. Both items are queued; no
operator-only gestures pending (no secrets to set, no decisions
deferred, no gitea-admin moves).

Forward-looking, the items themselves do land operator decisions on
their respective implementing sessions:

- **#31 implementing session**: a few small decisions in the
  inventory + tokens phase that benefit from operator input —
  (a) headless-component-library question (Radix vs. hand-rolled),
  (b) dark-mode in scope or follow-up, (c) scope-bound (single
  slice vs. full sweep) once the inventory reveals workload.
- **#32 implementing session**: TL;DR source (manifest vs.
  frontmatter), single-transcript collapse strategy (inline vs.
  301), multi-transcript session shape (show `.0` inline + list vs.
  stacked). The TL;DR backfill (writing one-to-three-sentence
  summaries for the existing ~22 transcripts in `sessions.json`)
  is operator homework whenever it suits — graceful degradation
  means the surface ships without it, the per-transcript field
  just doesn't render until populated.

---

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

```
You're the OHM driver for Session 0022.0.

Previous session (0021.0) was a roadmap-capture session — added #31
(comprehensive UX polish pass) and #32 (session/transcript page
polish) and pushed as `210c024` on ohm-rfc. No releases, no deploys.

Active roadmap queue (read /Users/benstull/projects/wiggleverse/ohm-rfc/ROADMAP.md
for the full table):

Highest-leverage unblocked items right now:
- #31 — UX polish pass. Operator-flagged. Re-skin + re-space (NOT
  a redesign — preserve IA, routes, copy, feature shape). Phased
  flow: inventory → tokens → sweep → verify. Decide at session
  time: component library (Radix vs. hand-rolled), dark-mode in
  scope or follow-up, scope-bound to single slice if inventory
  overflows. Folds in #24 (Philosophy rename) and #25 (inbox icon
  + UX cleanup) trivially.
- #32 — Session/transcript page polish. Small. Collapse single-
  transcript session roots + transcript header (start/end/duration/
  TL;DR + gitea source link). TL;DR source decision: recommended
  `sessions.json.tldr` field over transcript frontmatter (simpler;
  bodies stay unchanged). Folds in trivially with #31's polish
  pass — consider running #32 alongside #31 if they ship in the
  same wave.

Also unblocked (less hot):
- #1 VM rename (long-deferred ops); #17 repo naming alignment;
  #21 Amplitude audit Part A (now has a week+ of real-world data);
  #22 pro-analytics-consent copy (depends on operator-drafted text
  + counsel review); #27 Haiku-recommended tags (needs new
  ANTHROPIC_API_KEY); #28 PR cross-references; #29 sign-in resume.

Repo state at session open:
- ohm-rfc HEAD: 210c024
- pin: 0.20.0 (rfc-app)
- OHM live: v0.20.0 healthy
- no in-flight work

Read CLAUDE.md in ohm-rfc-app-flotilla for the two-layer rule and
the "never EVER ask the operator for secret bytes" gesture. Read
~/git/ohm-infra/SESSION-PROTOCOL.md for the session shape. Read
/Users/benstull/projects/wiggleverse/ohm-rfc/ROADMAP.md's
"Operating instructions for the next session" block at the bottom
for the driver/dispatch protocol if you're picking up parallel
work.

If the operator wants you to drive parallel subagents, the worktree
gesture (Agent tool with isolation: worktree, subagent_type:
general-purpose) is the dispatch shape. Subagents write their own
SESSION-0022.N transcripts before reporting back — see SESSION-
PROTOCOL.md §5.
```
