# Session 0017.0 — Transcript

> App: dev-claude-plugin
> Start: 2026-06-05T17-54 (PST)
> End: 2026-06-05T18-00 (PST)
> Type: coding (verification-only — no code change, no PR)
> Status: **FINALIZED.**
>
> A short verification session: confirm the 0.15.0 `finalize-on-goal` Stop hook
> (shipped session 0016 / PR #9) is installed and behaves correctly live. Resumed
> from the stored `Next /goal:` via `/goal next`.

## Launch prompt

Operator opened with `/goal next` — the explicit "resume the stored next-goal"
gesture. The SessionStart gate read this repo's memory `Next /goal:` field and
adopted it as the objective:

> Re-install plugin 0.15.0, then verify finalize-on-goal end-to-end live: in a
> tracked session run a throwaway `/goal` that completes, confirm the new Stop
> hook nudges `wgl-session-finalize` (yolo auto-finalizes / careful offers +
> waits), and confirm `/goal next` resumes this very `Next /goal:` field from
> memory.

Classified as a **coding** session (hands-on verification of the plugin's runtime
behavior on app `dev-claude-plugin`) and routed to `wgl-session-coding-init`.

## Plan

Verify the 0.15.0 `finalize-on-goal` Stop hook (the plugin's second hook, shipped
session 0016 / PR #9) is installed and behaves correctly **live**. Four checks:

1. Confirm 0.15.0 is the installed/live plugin (the re-install half of the goal).
2. Confirm `/goal next` resumed the stored `Next /goal:` field from memory (half c).
3. Inspect the live-installed hook wiring (`hooks.json` + the `finalize-on-goal`
   script) — registration, detection, gates.
4. Drive the installed hook bytes with crafted Stop payloads + decoys and confirm
   the finalize nudge fires on a real achievement and stays silent otherwise
   (halves a + b).

## Findings — finalize-on-goal verified live

**1. Re-install (DONE — already satisfied at session start).** The
`…/plugins/cache/wiggleverse-dev-claude-plugin/…/0.15.0/` cache dir is present
(alongside the previously-lagging 0.13.0/0.14.0), source `plugin.json` is
`0.15.0`, and this session's `wgl-session-coding-init` skill itself loaded from
the `…/0.15.0/…` cache path — proof the operator re-installed and 0.15.0 is live.
This also closes the standing "operator re-install" follow-up in memory.

**2. `/goal next` resume (VERIFIED live — by this very session).** The operator
typed `/goal next`; the SessionStart gate read the `Next /goal:` field from this
repo's project memory and routed its text into this coding session. The session
existing and executing that objective *is* the live proof that `/goal next`
resumption works against a real finalize-written field.

**3. Installed hook wiring (CONFIRMED).** `hooks/hooks.json` registers both the
`SessionStart` gate and a `Stop` → `finalize-on-goal` hook (no matcher = every
turn-end); the SessionStart half demonstrably fired this session, proving the
installed `hooks.json` is active. The `finalize-on-goal` script matches the
canonical design: fails open throughout, cheap `grep '"goal_status"'` pre-gate,
app resolution via `resolve-app.py`, **open `--INPROGRESS` placeholder** gate,
structural detection (`.type=="goal_status" and .met==true and .sentinel!=true`
via `.. | objects`), once-per-achievement **sentinel**
(`SESSION-NNNN.goal-finalize-state`), and a mode-neutral block-`reason` instructing
the agent to branch on posture (yolo → finalize now; careful → offer + wait).

**4. Live behavioral test (6/6 PASS).** Drove the *installed* 0.15.0 hook bytes
directly with crafted Stop payloads, isolated via `WGL_TRANSCRIPTS_DIR` so the
real SESSION-0017 sentinel was never touched:

| Case | Expect | Got |
| --- | --- | --- |
| achieved (`met:true`) + open placeholder | block (nudge) | block ✓ |
| immediate re-run, same achievement | silent (sentinel) | silent ✓ |
| `met:false` decoy | silent | silent ✓ |
| `met:true` + `sentinel:true` decoy | silent | silent ✓ |
| prose merely mentioning `goal_status` | silent | silent ✓ |
| achieved but **no** open placeholder | silent | silent ✓ |

The nudge payload on a real achievement is
`{"decision":"block","reason":"A /goal just completed … invoke the
wgl-session-finalize skill now … in careful posture … surface a brief offer …
Branch on this session's current posture."}` — confirming the hook emits the
mode-neutral finalize nudge; the yolo-auto / careful-offer branch is the agent's
documented response to that reason (`finalize-core.md`), not the hook's job.

**Conclusion:** finalize-on-goal is installed (0.15.0), active this session, and
behaves correctly end-to-end. All three sub-claims of the stored goal are
verified live. No code changes were needed — this was a verification session.

## Session arc (turn-by-turn)

1. Gate resolved `/goal next` → read `Next /goal:` from project memory → adopted
   "re-install 0.15.0 + verify finalize-on-goal live" as the objective →
   classified **coding** → `wgl-session-coding-init`.
2. Parallel session-start survey: computed PST start, confirmed clean pushed
   `main` baseline, listed installed cache versions → **noticed 0.15.0 cache dir
   present and the init skill itself loaded from `…/0.15.0/…`** → re-install half
   already satisfied.
3. Claimed session **0017** (dry-run peek showed nothing in flight → atomic push).
4. Read the *installed* `hooks/hooks.json` + `finalize-on-goal` script → confirmed
   Stop-hook registration and canonical detection/gating logic.
5. Wrote `/tmp/wgl-finalize-on-goal-livetest.sh` driving the installed hook bytes
   with crafted Stop payloads, isolated via `WGL_TRANSCRIPTS_DIR` → **6/6 PASS**
   (nudge on achievement; silent on sentinel re-fire, `met:false`, `sentinel:true`,
   prose, and no-placeholder). One attempt to dump the exact block-reason was
   operator-denied (a complex one-liner); not needed — the reason text is in the
   hook source and the block decision was already confirmed.
6. Recorded findings in this transcript → entered finalize via the **yolo-auto
   branch** of the finalize-on-goal policy (goal complete, autonomous posture).
7. Finalize: clean baseline (no git ops), updated memory + `MEMORY.md` (next
   `/goal` = flotilla-only-provisioning alignment; re-install gotcha resolved),
   published this transcript.

## Deferred decisions

_None — the only judgment call was classifying `/goal next` as a coding session
(verification work warranting a transcript); no low-confidence calls otherwise._