# Session 0005.0 — Transcript

> App: flotilla-core
> Start: 2026-06-10T22-06 (PST) · End: 2026-06-10T23-45 (PST)
> Type: capture (tracked-lite)
> Claude-Session: b28c1e48-13ab-4793-bae2-377ae276a0d8
> Goal: capture the "PPE release tags + promote verb" ask as a typed Gitea issue
> Outcome: **issue #13 filed** (`type/feature`, `priority/P1`) on
> `wiggleverse/flotilla-core`; incidental: main repo registered as the app's
> content repo (PR #14, merged); capture label set provisioned on the tracker.

## Launch prompt

`/wgl-capture` — flotilla deploy `<ppe>` stamps a monotonic release tag
(e.g. `ppe-NNNN`) on the deployed main ref and records it; a promote verb
(`flotilla promote <tag>` or `deploy <prod> --tag`) deploys exactly that tag to
prod, refusing untagged or never-PPE-validated refs. Surfaces "what tag is live
where" so done-vs-shipped is queryable. The deterministic actuator under
handbook amendment A5.

## Pre-session state

- `wiggleverse/flotilla-core` on `main` @ `07e6a7a` (v0.12.1, patchwatch label
  provisioning merged), clean tree.
- flotilla-core had **no content repo** in `app.json` (`contains` lacked
  `"content"` everywhere) — wgl-capture's target-missing state.
- The capture label set (`type/*`, `priority/*`) did not exist on the tracker
  (only the patchwatch lane/sev labels from session 0004's backfill).

## Turn-by-turn arc

1. **Claim (Step 1).** Dry-run peek → no in-flight flotilla-core sessions;
   claimed **0005** (`capture`, tracked-lite) at `2026-06-10T22-06`.
2. **Resolve target (Step 2) — target-missing.** `resolve-app.py` returned an
   empty `CONTENT_REMOTE`. Rather than block (autonomous posture; the main repo
   the only sensible candidate, drafts being working-tree-only ephemera per
   INV-8), registered the main repo as the app's content repo: `app.json`
   `contains` += `"content"` — verified `"content"` is valid vocabulary in
   `engineering/schemas/app.schema.json` first. Re-resolve → content repo =
   `~/git/wiggleverse.org/wiggleverse/flotilla-core`, subdir `.`. No unfiled
   drafts to adopt (Step 2.5).
3. **Context (Step 3).** Sole signal = the operator's launch prompt (no external
   artifact; no secret-shaped content). Attempted to ground "handbook amendment
   A5": **not locatable** in `engineering/README.md`, any engineering branch,
   plans/, proposals/, or local session-history transcripts. Proceeded citing it
   as the operator's reference with a link-when-it-lands note.
4. **Size-challenge (Step 4).** One discrete ask. Typed **`type/feature`** —
   single coherent capability (release recording at PPE deploy + promote-by-
   identifier with refusal semantics + live-where query only deliver value
   together); too design-laden for a story, not decomposable into independently
   valuable children (not an epic). Feature type ⇒ Solution Design required
   before a plan (the §3.4 gate does the rest downstream). Provisional WSJF:
   Value 8 · TC 5 · Opp 3 ÷ Size 5 ≈ 3.2 → `priority/P1`.
5. **Draft (Step 5).** Authored `issues/release-tags-and-promote.md` per the §5
   template at business altitude — mechanism words (git tags, `ppe-NNNN`,
   `flotilla promote`, `--tag`, status verbs) confined to Solution notes as the
   operator's non-binding sketch, with open design questions recorded (does the
   identifier mean "deployed to PPE" or "PPE + E2E green"? tag-namespace scope;
   where the live-where record lives; interplay with phase-9 verify-edge and
   future blue/green). One altitude fix applied (`deployment.toml` named in a
   business section → genericized to "deployment record"). Under yolo the
   block-by-block review pauses were collapsed and the draft self-approved
   (logged below).
6. **File (Step 6).** `ensure-capture-labels.sh` provisioned 9 labels
   (`type/*` ×5, `priority/*` ×4) on `wiggleverse/flotilla-core`;
   `capture-issues.sh` filed **#13**
   (https://git.wiggleverse.org/wiggleverse/flotilla-core/issues/13), stamped the
   filed-marker; draft **deleted** per INV-8 (Gitea = system of record).
7. **Land incidental work.** The `app.json` change landed via branch
   `chore/register-content-repo` → **PR #14** → merged to `main` @ `1edb5ef`;
   branch deleted both ends.
8. **Finalize.** Base survey found the checkout moved to a foreign branch
   `validate-external-datastore` with a dirty tree (`flotilla_core/
   deployment_toml.py`, `tests/test_deployment_validate.py`) — another session's
   in-flight work, post-dating this session's last git action; **left strictly
   untouched**. No leftover drafts (filed or unfiled), no open PRs. Memory
   updated; transcript published (this file).

## Deferred decisions

_Autonomous-mode low-confidence calls the driver made and would have
liked operator input on._

- **Registered the main repo as flotilla-core's content repo** (`app.json`
  `contains` += `"content"`, PR #14, merged). The app had no content repo, which
  is wgl-capture's target-missing state; the skill says "offer it", but under
  autonomous posture and with the main repo the only candidate (drafts are
  working-tree-only ephemera, INV-8), I registered it rather than block.
- **Collapsed the block-by-block draft review and self-approved the draft**
  (INV-1 / INV-7 batching profile) under the yolo mandate ("create/approve
  specs"); the dev saw no intermediate blocks before #13 was filed. Review the
  filed issue and edit on Gitea if the framing is off.
- **Typed the ask `type/feature` (not epic/story), priority P1** — single
  coherent capability (tagging + promote + live-where query only have value
  together) that needs a Solution Design before a plan.
- **"Handbook amendment A5" could not be located** in the engineering repo (any
  branch) or local transcripts at capture time; cited it in the issue as the
  operator's reference with a note to link it when it lands.

## Cut state (end of session)

| Artifact | State |
| --- | --- |
| Issue #13 (`type/feature`, `priority/P1`) | **Filed** — https://git.wiggleverse.org/wiggleverse/flotilla-core/issues/13 |
| `app.json` content-repo registration | **Merged** — PR #14, `main` @ `1edb5ef` (commit `0f049fa`) |
| Capture labels (`type/*`, `priority/*`) | **Provisioned** on `wiggleverse/flotilla-core` (9 created) |
| Draft `issues/release-tags-and-promote.md` | **Deleted** after filing (INV-8) |
| Branch `validate-external-datastore` + dirty tree | **Not this session's** — left intact for its owner |
| Pipeline (§9) | N/A — capture session, nothing deployed |

## What lands on the operator's plate

- **Review issue #13** — the draft was self-approved under yolo; edit on Gitea
  if the framing/typing/priority is off.
- **Land "handbook amendment A5"** somewhere citable (it is referenced by #13
  but not locatable in the engineering repo), then link it from the issue.
- The `validate-external-datastore` branch carries uncommitted work owned by
  another session — finish/land it there.

## Prompt the operator can paste into the next session

```
/goal Patchwatch Phase 2B (dev-plugin) — in wiggleverse-dev-claude-plugin, add per-app session-start surfacing of open patchwatch Gitea issues (warn + a ready-to-run /goal remediate prompt) and the wgl-remediate skill (PPE→prod, tests+health gate, --all-impacted), then the sweep (rfc-app vitest/tqdm, wiggle-snip h11) and Phase 2C, per flotilla-core/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-07-patchwatch-phase2-design.md
```

Or, to act on this session's output instead:

```
/goal Brainstorm the Solution Design for flotilla-core#13 — PPE deploys record a monotonic release identifier; flotilla promote deploys exactly that validated release to prod, refusing never-PPE refs; live-release-per-environment query (the ppe-before-prod actuator)
```