session-history/dev-claude-plugin/0023/SESSION-0023.0-TRANSCRIPT-2026-06-07T08-39--2026-06-07T09-05.md

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.