# Session 0008.0 — Transcript

> App: engineering
> Start: 2026-06-10T08-40 (PST) · End: 2026-06-10T09-13 (PST)
> Type: planning-and-executing
> Claude-Session: fecdef6f-82c3-410b-b7d2-d01e78c7f5dc
> Status: FINALIZED

## Launch prompt

Let's flesh out the Solution Design template and documentation to include other
sections like Operational plan, where Documentation will live, what new or
updated documentation is required (including public-facing docs), Observability,
Business Success Metrics (and how they'll be measured), Product Success Metrics
(and how they'll be measured), Monitoring (alerts/monitors), Telemetry (not
necessarily in that order). What other gaps are there?

## Pre-state

- Checkout sat on branch `docs/solution-design-pain-points-business-framing`
  (all its commits already merged to main via PR #14), with one uncommitted
  change: `app.json` adding `"content"` to the engineering repo's `contains`.
- The checkout was **28 commits behind `origin/main`** — main had since gained
  the E2E/pipeline policy edits to GUIDE/TEMPLATE (§§6.8/7.2/7.3), the BUC
  vocabulary firewall (#15), the section-by-section authoring convention (#29),
  handbook §3.4 (up-front-thinking gate) and §4.3 (OHM), among others.
- No other in-flight sessions (claim dry-run clean); session 0008 claimed.

## Plan

> Anchor: direct operator instruction extending the canonical Solution Design
> standard (no upstream issue/design exists for the standard itself — the doc
> *is* the source of truth, §4.1).

1. Extend `solution-design/GUIDE.md` + `TEMPLATE.md` with four new top-level
   sections after §7 Delivery Plan:
   - **§8 Success Metrics & Measurement** — business metrics (operationalizing
     §1.6 outcomes, which gain `BO-n` IDs) + product metrics (`PM-n`), each
     wired to its measurement source.
   - **§9 Telemetry, Observability & Monitoring** — telemetry events (`TEL-n`),
     logs/metrics/traces + health + dashboards, SLOs (`SLO-n`) and alerts
     (`ALR-n`).
   - **§10 Operations** — operational plan (runbooks `RB-n`, who operates),
     support & incident response, maintenance & lifecycle (patching, backup/
     restore, cost, deprecation). Also the home of a non-software solution's
     operational plan.
   - **§11 Documentation plan** — where docs live, new/updated docs (`DOC-n`)
     incl. public-facing, docs as part of slice DoD.
2. Gap-closes beyond the asked-for list: §6.10 Migration & compatibility;
   data retention/deletion in §6.6; launch comms/docs-ready gate in §7.3;
   Metric column in the traceability matrix.
3. Renumber old §§8–10 → §§12–14; update all internal cross-references
   ("keep §§8–10", non-software replacement rule).
4. Sync handbook README §3.3 section table.
5. Commit; PR + merge (autonomous posture).

## Arc (turn by turn)

1. **Session gate** → classified as planning-and-executing (concrete edits to
   the standard's docs, continuing the branch's line of work); claimed 0008.
2. **Read** GUIDE.md + TEMPLATE.md + handbook §3.3; planned the four new
   sections + gap-closes; seeded the Plan block above.
3. **Edited GUIDE.md**: intro/two-part-front rule updated (§§3–6 software-only,
   §§7–14 universal); conventions extended (ID prefixes BO/PM/TEL/SLO/ALR/RB/
   DOC; "every metric has a source, every alert has a runbook"; "docs and
   observability ship with the slice"); §1.6 outcomes numbered BO-n; §6.6
   gained retention/deletion and demoted observability to an architectural-hooks
   pointer; §6.9 wired failure modes to alerts/runbooks; new §6.10 Migration &
   compatibility; §7.3 gained non-code launch gates; new §§8–11 authored;
   §§12–14 renumbered (traceability gained a Measured-by column + extended
   audit list).
4. **Edited TEMPLATE.md** to match (skeleton tables for BO/PM/TEL/SLO/ALR/RB/
   DOC; updated header comment with the new shape + closing-the-loop note).
5. **Synced README §3.3** — refreshed the whole section table to the current
   shape (it was stale even pre-session: still "Stakeholders/Personas"); added
   Solution / Operate & measure / Cross-cutting rows.
6. **Fixed pre-existing §1.6→§1.3 actor references** (4 spots, left over from
   the actor/persona split).
7. **Discovered the stale base**: branch fully merged; main 28 commits ahead
   incl. GUIDE/TEMPLATE edits. Stashed, branched
   `docs/solution-design-operability-sections` off origin/main, popped; resolved
   3 conflicts by combining both sides (pipeline rollout text + non-code launch
   gates; E2E DoD + telemetry/docs DoD; non-software rule + section-by-section
   convention).
8. **Committed** `f1b639a` (app.json content role — adopted stray change) and
   `2a8a75c` (the standard extension); pushed; **PR #31** created via Gitea API
   and **merged** (2026-06-10T15:51Z); local main fast-forwarded; both stale
   local branches deleted.
9. **Finalize**: no plan artifact to archive (plan lived inline here — docs-only
   change); no pipeline stage (meta/docs, no deployable app); memory updated
   (solution-design-standard note + MEMORY.md index + Next /goal field in the
   session-framework note); transcript published.

## Cut state

- `wiggleverse/engineering` `main` = `6717564` (PR #31 merge); working tree
  clean, in sync with origin; no open PRs; no stray local branches.
- The Solution Design standard now runs §1–§14 with the operability back matter
  (§8 metrics · §9 telemetry/observability/monitoring · §10 operations ·
  §11 documentation plan); handbook §3.3 table matches.

## Deferred decisions

- Classified the opening prompt as planning-and-executing (not brainstorming):
  concrete edits to the standard's own docs, continuing the branch's prior work.
- Anchor: direct operator instruction (no issue/design exists for the standard
  itself); proceeded without the eligibility script since there was no issue to
  check.
- Adopted + committed the stray app.json `"content"` change rather than leaving
  it uncommitted or discarding it (valid per schema 1.2).
- Renumbered template §§8–10 → §§12–14: section numbers are per-spec citations,
  so published specs citing the old numbers are unaffected, but any future
  tooling assuming "§8 = traceability" would need the new map.
- Gaps deliberately NOT added (scale judgment): i18n/localization, legal/
  compliance review, A/B experimentation, pricing/packaging implications,
  standalone threat model — each can join §6.6 or §1.8 when an app first needs
  it. Not filed as issues (decided-against at this scale, not deferred work).

## Operator plate

- Nothing required for this thread — the standard is merged and live.
- Standing open item (unchanged from prior sessions): the OHM deploy
  (`gcloud auth login`, then flotilla deploy — see Next /goal).

## Next-session prompt

```
/goal resume the OHM deploy: gcloud auth login, then CLOUDSDK_ACTIVE_CONFIG_NAME=wiggleverse ohm-rfc-app-flotilla deploy ohm-rfc-app (overlay vars already set), per memory project_wgl_session_framework
```
