# Session 0023.0 — Transcript

> App: dev-claude-plugin
> Start: 2026-06-07T08-39 (PST)
> End: 2026-06-07T09-05 (PST)
> Type: coding
> Status: **FINALIZED**
> Mode: autonomous (yolo)
> Shipped: **v0.18.0** (PR #13, merge `4fe6998`)

## Launch prompt

```
/goal rework discovery, spec, and coding sessions to match superpower's verbage
(brainstorming, writing-plans, and executing-plans)
```

(This is **effort B**, deferred from the session-0019 worktrees design.)

## Plan

Realign the plugin's three tracked session types onto the superpowers pipeline
vocabulary (brainstorming → writing-plans → executing-plans), per the repo's own
brainstorm → design-doc → implement flow. Scope held to **naming/verbiage** (the
deeper artifact-pipeline reconciliation deferred).

## Pre-state

- On `main` at `cf50f2c`, plugin source **0.17.0**, clean tree (after pulling a
  feedback-note commit pushed by a concurrent session).
- Claim peek surfaced **three stale in-flight `--INPROGRESS` placeholders** —
  0020 (the finalize-guard work, already merged as 0.17.0), 0021 (empty), 0022
  (a deploy/E2E goal, empty). All bare placeholders, none live; noted and left
  for the SessionEnd guard / next coding-init adoption. Claimed **0023**.

## Arc

1. **Gate + claim.** Classified the opening `/goal` as a coding session; ran
   `wgl-session-coding-init` (live 0.17.0, so the placeholder stamped
   `Type: coding`). Claimed 0023 race-free; warned on the three in-flight
   placeholders and proceeded (autonomous default).

2. **Explore + brainstorm.** Mapped every reference to the three session types
   with an Explore agent; found the session-0019 worktrees design already
   anticipated this effort and scoped it in its "Out of scope (effort B)" list.
   Invoked `superpowers:brainstorming`. Surfaced the three genuinely-open
   decisions (rename depth, Type-stamp vocabulary, artifact scope) via
   `AskUserQuestion`. The operator asked to clarify, then directed:
   **"Full rename of all three but should be wgl-brainstorming wgl-writing-plans
   and wgl-executing-plans."**

3. **Design doc.** Wrote
   `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-07-session-superpowers-verbiage-design.md`
   capturing the operator-directed full rename, dual-token finalize compat, and
   the explicitly-deferred artifact reconciliation.

4. **Execute the rename.**
   - `git mv` the three skill dirs → `wgl-brainstorming`, `wgl-writing-plans`,
     `wgl-executing-plans`.
   - Substituted the three old skill names across the live fileset (skills,
     hooks, README, CLAUDE.md, scripts, bdd/specs READMEs); left append-only
     `feedback/` and `docs/superpowers/` history intact.
   - Type vocabulary: stamps → `brainstorming|writing-plans|executing-plans`;
     `claim-session-id.sh` default → `executing-plans`, validation accepts new
     **and** legacy `coding|spec|discovery`.
   - `wgl-session-finalize` Step 0 + addendum headers dispatch both new and
     legacy tokens (the in-flight placeholders + history carry legacy stamps).
   - Gate classifier type-column labels + candidate pool; README rows;
     plugin.json description; resume command `/executing-plans` →
     `/wgl-executing-plans`.
   - Aligned each renamed skill's self-identification (titles, "variant",
     pipeline diagrams, cross-type references), keeping "spec"/"BDD"/"spec-rfc"
     as artifact names (unchanged, per deferred scope) and "coding session" as a
     colloquial trigger (it aids gate classification).
   - Bumped `plugin.json` 0.17.0 → **0.18.0**.

5. **Verify.** Frontmatter `name:` == dir for all three; zero stray old skill
   names outside append-only records; no broken relative links; `bash -n` clean
   on edited scripts; plugin.json + marketplace.json valid JSON.

6. **Ship.** Branch `feat/session-superpowers-verbiage` → push → **PR #13** via
   the Gitea API (no gh/tea on Gitea) → merge (`merge` style, `4fe6998`) →
   sync `main`, delete branch.

## Cut state

- `main` at `4fe6998`, plugin source **0.18.0**, clean tree, branch deleted.
- The three init skills now: `wgl-brainstorming` / `wgl-writing-plans` /
  `wgl-executing-plans`. Support skills keep `wgl-session-*`.

## Deferred decisions

Autonomous-mode calls made without separate operator confirmation:

1. **Type-stamp vocabulary = full verbs** `brainstorming|writing-plans|executing-plans`
   (vs. a shorter `…|plan|coding`). Derived from the operator's full-rename
   choice; the operator answered the rename-depth question but not the
   Type-vocab question explicitly. Alternative: short labels. Reversible via a
   follow-up if the verbose stamps grate.
2. **Scope = verbiage + rename only.** The artifact-pipeline reconciliation
   (where an impl-plan artifact lives; BDD / Solution Design / spec-rfc mapping)
   was DEFERRED to the next /goal rather than tackled now. Matches the stated
   goal ("verbage") and the design doc's split.
3. **Kept "coding session" colloquial** in trigger phrases / prose instead of
   renaming every occurrence to "executing-plans session" — the gate classifies
   on those phrases, so keeping them helps routing. Only the formal type labels,
   stamps, and skill names changed.
4. **Namespace split:** only the three pipeline-stage inits left the
   `wgl-session-*` namespace; the shared machinery (finalize / mode / none /
   dev-handbook / common) kept it. My call, stated in the design doc.
5. **Merge style `merge`** (matching repo history) and **minor bump 0.18.0** for
   an observable behavior/naming change.

## Operator plate (next session)

**Next /goal (recorded to memory):** design + implement the **artifact-pipeline
reconciliation** — the deferred half of effort B. Now that the *types* are
renamed, reconcile the *artifacts*: where an implementation-plan artifact lives
(local / spec-rfc / roadmap / new repo role), and how BDDs / Solution Design
(§3.3) / spec-rfc map onto brainstorming → writing-plans → executing-plans. Run
as its own brainstorm → design-doc → plan.

```
/goal Design the artifact-pipeline reconciliation for effort B: decide where an implementation-plan artifact lives and how BDDs / Solution Design (§3.3) / spec-rfc map onto brainstorming → writing-plans → executing-plans. Brainstorm → design doc → plan.
```

Also still open (could be the next goal instead):
- **Effort A — worktrees implementation** (design merged session 0019, PR #11
  `2eea11b`; 0.17.0 and 0.18.0 both went to other work, so it's still pending).
- **Operator re-install** to make 0.16.0–0.18.0 live (cache lags as usual).
- Three stale in-flight placeholders (0020/0021/0022) await adoption/finalize by
  a future session or the SessionEnd guard.