# Session 0006.0 — Transcript

> App: engineering
> Start: 2026-06-09T21-48 (PST)
> End: 2026-06-09T23-15 (PST)
> Type: capture
> Status: **FINALIZED**

## Launch prompt

Began as a handbook Q&A (gate lifted via `wgl-session-dev-handbook`): the operator
shared a comprehensive external "best engineering practices" playbook and asked
where the standard stack stands against it, with emphasis on **per-build cost**
and **time to prod**. Mid-session it turned into a **capture** session ("Let's
capture the observability baseline as a gitea issue"), which claimed this
transcript ID 0006.

## Pre-state

- Launched from the `~/git` parent; engineering repo on the pre-existing branch
  `docs/solution-design-pain-points-business-framing` (not `main`), clean vs.
  upstream.
- `engineering/app.json` had no `contains:["content"]` repo — no capture draft
  home.

## Arc (turn by turn)

1. **Handbook comparison.** Read the handbook live (`engineering/README.md`, 990
   lines) + the tier-1 digest. Produced a gap-map of the playbook vs. our practice
   (Have / Partial / Missing / **Deliberately-deferred per §11**), framed around
   the key reframe: the playbook targets a container/k8s/multi-engineer/high-traffic
   org, while we are deliberately single-VM / SQLite / laptop-ops / staged (§8–§11).
   Called out the two requested numbers — per-build cost and time-to-prod — for
   today (Stage 1) vs. full-playbook adoption. Top *non-deferred* gap: observability.
2. **Capture #25.** Operator chose the **engineering** tracker. Hit the
   target-missing state (no content repo) and resolved it by registering the
   engineering repo as its own `content` repo (one-line `app.json` edit;
   working-tree-only, INV-8). Drafted `issues/observability-baseline.md`, sized it
   `type/epic`, neutralized bare `#42` auto-links (would mislink on this tracker —
   only 25 issues existed), and on approval filed **#25** (`type/epic`,
   `priority/P1`).
3. **Capture #26.** Operator: file an umbrella epic listing *all* recommendations
   as Features, but don't file the Features. Drafted
   `issues/engineering-practice-uplift.md`; filed **#26** (`type/epic`,
   `priority/P2`) with a 7-item Feature checklist (observability=#25 done; test
   layer; CI gates; repo-hygiene gates; DORA; conventional-commits [open decision];
   Stage-2 build-out [trigger-gated]) and the §11-deferred items written as
   conscious non-goals.
4. **Plugin fix (cross-repo, operator-directed).** Began a memory note of the
   captured epics; operator stopped it — "no need to pollute the memory; they're
   Gitea issues I can reference later" — and directed: make the finalize skill not
   do this for capture. Edited the plugin **source** (`wgl-session-finalize`
   `SKILL.md` capture addendum overrides core Step 5 for capture results), bumped
   `0.27.0 → 0.27.1`, branch `fix/capture-finalize-skip-memory` pushed; PR left for
   the operator to open/merge + re-install (plugin install is operator-owned).
5. **Finalize (capture, tracked-lite).** No spec/plan artifact. **No memory
   write** (per the just-shipped rule). Transcript published.

## Cut state

- **Filed:** engineering #25 (observability baseline epic) + #26 (practice-uplift
  umbrella epic).
- **Uncommitted in engineering working tree** (Author's to commit/publish or
  discard — INV-8): `app.json` (content-role edit), `issues/observability-baseline.md`,
  `issues/engineering-practice-uplift.md`. Repo still on the pre-existing docs branch.
- **Plugin:** branch `fix/capture-finalize-skip-memory` pushed (v0.27.1); PR/merge/
  install pending operator.

## Deferred decisions

- Sized observability as `type/epic` (vs. a single `type/feature` with a slice
  checklist) — judgment call; offered the resize, operator accepted epic.
- Registered the engineering repo as its own `content` repo via an `app.json`
  edit (autonomous, reversible, the skill's prescribed target-missing fix) rather
  than asking first.
- Umbrella epic priority set `P2` (the urgent slice is carved out as P1/#25) — a
  best-effort provisional call the operator can bump.
- Shipped the plugin fix as branch+PR and **left merge/install to the operator**
  rather than auto-merging, since the plugin's install step is operator-owned by
  policy.

## Operator plate

- Open + merge the plugin PR (`fix/capture-finalize-skip-memory`, v0.27.1), then
  `/plugin marketplace update` + `/plugin install` to pick it up.
- Decide whether to commit/publish the uncommitted engineering capture drafts +
  `app.json` content-role edit (and onto which branch — currently the docs branch).

## Next-session prompt

```
/wgl-capture file the next Feature from engineering epic #26 — suggested order: test layer (Tier-1 Docker integration + thin Playwright e2e, §10.3) → CI quality gates (lint/format/type-check as required checks); link each with Parent: #26
```
