Session 0057.0 — Transcript

App: dev-claude-plugin Start: 2026-06-10T10-52 (PST) End: 2026-06-10T14-29 (PST) Type: brainstorming Claude-Session: a5e19ad5-d469-486f-a8cd-ace3b25d4a47 Status: FINALIZED

Anchor & objective

Anchor: #79 — "Validate an issue's type/* against the work shape at create & triage" (Feature B of Epic #77; unblocked by #78's graduated taxonomy design). Eligibility (R1): #79 is type/feature (non-epic) → ELIGIBLE to anchor a Solution Design.

Launch prompt: "Explore #79 (validate type/ vs the work shape at create & triage) and write its Solution-Design spec — the validation half of Epic #77, unblocked by #78."*

A brainstorming session: explore #79's problem space and author its reviewed Solution Design, section-by-section, submitted to the content repo specs/ at finalize.

Pre-state

Plugin repo on main, 2 commits behind origin/main (other sessions had shipped to 0.44.0); loaded plugin pin was 0.37.0 (cache lag flagged at SessionStart). 16/17 untriaged feedback issues flagged (TRIAGE OVERDUE) — noted, not actioned (out of this goal's scope).
Three in-flight --INPROGRESS sessions at claim: 0035 (overnight), 0048 (01:13), 0056 (09:25, ~90 min old — plausibly live).
Inputs available: the #79 issue; #78's graduated design (content/specs/2026- 06-10-canonical-issue-type-taxonomy-design.md) defining the canonical §4.3 taxonomy; wgl-capture Step 4's size-challenge (the capture-side precedent).

Session arc (turn by turn)

Gate + init. Classified the prompt as brainstorming (≥90%); invoked wgl-brainstorming. Claimed session 0057 (--type brainstorming). Because 0056 was plausibly live (Step 6b), set up an isolated worktree via native EnterWorktree → branch worktree-session-0057 (fresh from origin/main, which also resolved the behind-by-2). Ran the eligibility gate: #79 type/feature → ELIGIBLE. Recorded the anchor in the placeholder Plan block.
Orientation / inputs. No roadmap repo for this app → the anchor IS the tracker issue. Read #79, #77, #78 issue bodies; read #78's full graduated design (the §4.3 definition the validator checks against); read the solution-design TEMPLATE and wgl-capture Step 4. Formed the design thesis: two hard constraints (Gitea Actions inert + no always-on service to receive a webhook) + shape-fit is non-deterministic → an LLM-judge against §4.3 with deterministic plumbing (§4.2), realized house-consistently as capture-side + a poll-and-notice net.
§1 Business Context — drafted, committed, pushed, presented at the rendered src/branch/… URL. Gate A (AskUserQuestion): operator confirmed the "no-new-infra" frame.
§2 Solution Proposal — one shared §4.3-citing judge consumed at two seams (capture-side + poll-and-notice net), advisory typecheck:* flag (never relabel), confident-only, fail-open; webhook+receiver as the principal deferred alternative. Gate B (the critical seam decision): operator replied "Can we do this only capture-side to start?" → added §2.4 phasing (capture-side = Phase 1; the net = Phase 2).
§§3–6 — non-interactive automation (personas/UX thin; §5.1 = the flag-comment format), §6 the meat: invariants (flag-not-relabel, confident-only, re-type re-judges, fail-open), labels-as-state (no datastore), the judge contract, the deterministic scripts, per-PUC sequences, testing (golden set + mocked gitea-api; E2E browser N/A), failure modes, migration (build follows #78's §4.3 impl). Gate C: operator raised the durability question — "where should Phase 2 live so it isn't lost when #79 closes?" — and, after I recommended a sibling Feature, probed the deeper question of how to represent multi-phase work without spawning N issues.
The multi-phase decision. Weighed three options (Epic-body+rolling-wave / separate one-pager / a layer above Epic). Recommended Epic-body + rolling wave (uses the existing §4.3 "Epic is never fully decomposed up front" principle). Operator chose it. Executed:
- Filed #102 (Feature C, type/feature/P3) — the server-side net (Phase 2), under Epic #77, blocked-by #79.
- Filed engineering#36 (type/feature/P2) — canonicalize Epic-as-rolling-wave / a-Feature-is-one-increment in handbook §4.3 + skill enforcement (operator ask, mid-session).
- Filed #103 (type/feature/P2) — Capture checks for duplicates/related work before filing + checks in with the user (operator ask; I first searched the tracker for an existing one — none — practicing the very behavior requested).
- PATCHed Epic #77's body to the durable A/B/C phase roadmap + north-star.
- Re-scoped the #79 spec to Phase 1 (capture-side); pointed Phase-2 detail at #102.
§7–§14 — delivery slicing (SLICE-1 judge+labels → SLICE-2 capture integration), metrics, minimal telemetry (labels = observability), ops, docs plan, traceability (PP-2/PP-3 honestly carried by #102), decisions log D1–D7.
Operator review caught Phase-2 lingering in §6.2. Trimmed all Phase-2 build detail out of §6 (architecture diagram, scripts, sequences, tests, failure modes) and §4 PUCs down to #102 reuse-boundary pointers — only the shared judge + typecheck:* labels (built here, reused by the net) remain.
Approval + finalize. Operator approved. Marked the spec approved / v1.0.0. Submitted it graduated to the content repo (submit-spec.sh → ed7c11f). Tore down the worktree (7 scaffolding commits discarded — the canonical spec lives in the content repo, not plugin main, matching #78). Deleted the remote scaffolding branch; ff-synced local main to 0.44.0. Ran update-plugin.sh (0.37.0 → 0.44.0 live for the next session). Updated memory; published this transcript.

Output / artifacts

Graduated: wiggleverse-dev-claude-plugin-content/specs/2026-06-10-issue-type- validation-design.md (v1.0.0, status:graduated).
Filed: #102 (Feature C / Phase-2 net), engineering#36 (Epic-as-rolling-wave canon), #103 (capture dedup-check).
Edited: Epic #77 body (A/B/C phase roadmap + north-star).
Plugin pin: 0.37.0 → 0.44.0 (live next session; restart//clear to load).

Key design decisions (D1–D7, in the spec §13)

D1 no new always-on infra (reuse the SessionStart-notice pattern) · D2 capture-side first, Phase 2 → #102 (Epic-as-rolling-wave) · D3 advisory label+comment flag, never relabel · D4 LLM-judge not heuristic · D5 Gitea labels + timeline = state · D6 confident-only (precision over recall) · D7 the Epic body is the rolling-wave phase roadmap; a Feature is one increment (→ engineering#36).

Deferred decisions

Worktree on a plausibly-live 0056 (not certainly-live). Chose isolation anyway (cheap insurance; the spec is branch→PR→merge work). Low regret — the worktree teardown was clean.
Issue type for engineering#36 — Feature vs Story. Sized it a Feature (matches #78's "promote a process rule + re-point skills" precedent and the real enforcement-design surface), noting it could be a Story if no enforcement design is needed. The very #79/#102 validator would one day check this call.
#79 build vs #78 §4.3 implementation timing (spec Q2). Whether SLICE-1 can build the judge against #78's graduated design text before the handbook §4.3 is written, or must wait for it. Left open for the build session.

Next /goal

Plan-and-execute #78 — implement its graduated design: write canonical handbook §4.3 in wiggleverse/engineering/README.md (5 types + sizing cascade + co-located #64 design-depth gate incl. R4 + worked examples) and re-point consumers (wgl-capture Step 4, the #64 gate language + INV-6, check-issue-eligibility.sh, the Capture RFC §4 supersession note). A planning-and-executing session anchored on the graduated #78 design (R2a). It is the unblocker of the whole #77 chain — §4.3 must exist as handbook text before #79's type-fit judge can cite it (INV-1), and engineering#36 extends the same §4.3 (fold its rule in).

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