session-history/dev-claude-plugin/0011/SESSION-0011.0-TRANSCRIPT-2026-06-04T04-41--2026-06-04T05-09.md

Session 0011.0 — Transcript

App: dev-claude-plugin Date: 2026-06-04 (PST), 04:41 → 05:09 Goal: Move Wiggleverse to an autonomous ("yolo") default operating posture, make it a reversible toggle, report low-confidence decisions at finalize, and have finalize always emit a copy-paste /goal block. Outcome: Shipped as plugin 0.10.0 + handbook §6.5 — both repos merged to main. Pending operator re-install to go live. Type: coding

Plan

Flip the default session posture from confirm-before-acting to autonomous, per the operator's request ("yolo by default; report the low-confidence calls at finalize; stop only for critical decisions with no clear answer"), plus a follow-up to make the yolo skill a reversible on/off toggle, and a further follow-up to make finalize always end with a copy-paste /goal block. Land canonical docs first (engineering handbook §6.5 + digest), then align the plugin automation (gate, skill rename, claim-script seed, mode-aware finalize), then merge + finalize.

Pre-session state

• Both engineering and wiggleverse-dev-claude-plugin clean on origin/main.
• Default posture was confirm-before-acting; wgl-coding-session-yolo was an opt-in ON switch (coding-only). agent-context.md listed push-before-pr-review as a base default that yolo overrode.
• Plugin source at 0.9.1 (installed cache lags at 0.3.0 — the recurring re-install gotcha).

Turn-by-turn arc

1. Session gate + init. Lifted the gate via wgl-coding-session-init; claimed session 0011 for dev-claude-plugin. Verified clean pushed main on both target repos.
2. Brainstorming. Explored the SessionStart hook, session-gate.md (already the classify-and-route version in source; the strict gate I was injected with was the cached 0.8.0), the yolo skill, finalize-core.md, the digest, and handbook §6. Surfaced two key facts: yolo-by-default must span coding and spec sessions; and this session (launched from ~/git) proved the per-repo digest doesn't load from a parent dir — only the hook fires.
3. Three design forks (AskUserQuestion), all confirmed to the recommended option: neutral mode-skill rename; posture asserted in the SessionStart hook + canonical doc; deferred decisions captured in a running transcript section.
4. Design presented in 7 sections (two stop-gates; deferred report; rename→toggle; declaration sites; mode-aware finalize; ripple updates) + operator's added §7 (finalize always emits /goal). Operator approved.
5. Spec written + committed to docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-04-yolo-by-default-design.md on branch yolo-by-default. Operator approved.
6. Plan written (docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-04-yolo-by-default.md), 11 tasks, committed/pushed. Operator: "merge and finalize."
7. Executed inline (engineering first): handbook §6.5 + §6.4 cross-ref; digest Operating rules reworked (autonomous-by-default added, push-before-pr-review demoted to careful-mode behavior). Then the plugin: gate posture block; git mv wgl-coding-session-yolo → wgl-session-mode + full rewrite as a toggle; claim-session-id.sh seeds a ## Deferred decisions placeholder section; finalize-core.md made mode-aware + step 5a deferred report + step 6 always-/goal; wgl-session-finalize + all three init skills reframed (concurrency warns-and-proceeds by default; spec auto-graduates by default); README + marketplace + plugin.json (→0.10.0) updated; stale submit-spec.sh comment freshened.
8. Verification: git grep wgl-coding-session-yolo clean outside docs; bash -n on the claim script OK; version 0.10.0; finalize-core markers present.
9. Merged both repos --no-ff to main, pushed, deleted feature branches (local + remote).
10. Finalized: updated the plugin's per-repo memory bucket + index, wrote this transcript.

Cut state (end of session)

• engineering main @ 3cdc6e4 (merge) — handbook §6.5 + reworked digest, pushed.
• wiggleverse-dev-claude-plugin main @ a8f5f8c (merge) — 0.10.0, pushed. Feature branches deleted in both.
• All verification green. No open PRs, nothing dirty, nothing unpushed.

Deferred decisions (autonomous calls I'd have flagged for input)

• Version bump level — minor (0.9.1 → 0.10.0). A new default posture + a skill rename is behavior-level, so I went minor rather than patch. Reversible by editing plugin.json.
• Direct --no-ff merge to main + branch deletion, not PRs. The operator said "merge"; 0.6/0.7/0.8 used direct merges (0.9.0 used a PR). I chose direct merges for both repos. Fully reversible (history intact).
• Memory written to the plugin's per-repo bucket, not the active -Users-benstull-git parent bucket — correct per the 2026-06-03 per-repo split, but worth noting since the session launched from the parent.
• Exact toggle vocabulary (yolo/careful + on/off aliases) and the ## Deferred decisions section wording were my calls within the approved design.

What lands on the operator's plate

• Re-install to make 0.10.0 live: /plugin marketplace update + /plugin install — the new posture, the wgl-session-mode toggle, the gate posture line, and the mode-aware finalize are all inert in running sessions until then (cache still at 0.3.0).
• Note: wgl-coding-session-yolo is retired — the slash command is now wgl-session-mode (args yolo/careful).

Prompt the operator can paste into the next session

/goal Re-install the dev-claude-plugin (marketplace update + install) to make 0.10.0 live, then smoke-test the autonomous-by-default posture: confirm the SessionStart gate asserts it, `/wgl-session-mode careful` flips to confirm-mode and back, and a finalize emits the deferred-decisions report + copy-paste /goal block. Then pick up the next plugin seam from project_dev_claude_plugin.md (spec-RFC renderer / planner-project registration / Workflow-recording→BDD idea).