Session 0006.0 — Transcript

App: engineering Start: 2026-06-09T21-48 (PST) End: 2026-06-09T23-15 (PST) Type: capture Status: FINALIZED

Launch prompt

Began as a handbook Q&A (gate lifted via wgl-session-dev-handbook): the operator shared a comprehensive external "best engineering practices" playbook and asked where the standard stack stands against it, with emphasis on per-build cost and time to prod. Mid-session it turned into a capture session ("Let's capture the observability baseline as a gitea issue"), which claimed this transcript ID 0006.

Pre-state

Launched from the ~/git parent; engineering repo on the pre-existing branch docs/solution-design-pain-points-business-framing (not main), clean vs. upstream.
engineering/app.json had no contains:["content"] repo — no capture draft home.

Arc (turn by turn)

Handbook comparison. Read the handbook live (engineering/README.md, 990 lines) + the tier-1 digest. Produced a gap-map of the playbook vs. our practice (Have / Partial / Missing / Deliberately-deferred per §11), framed around the key reframe: the playbook targets a container/k8s/multi-engineer/high-traffic org, while we are deliberately single-VM / SQLite / laptop-ops / staged (§8–§11). Called out the two requested numbers — per-build cost and time-to-prod — for today (Stage 1) vs. full-playbook adoption. Top non-deferred gap: observability.
Capture #25. Operator chose the engineering tracker. Hit the target-missing state (no content repo) and resolved it by registering the engineering repo as its own content repo (one-line app.json edit; working-tree-only, INV-8). Drafted issues/observability-baseline.md, sized it type/epic, neutralized bare #42 auto-links (would mislink on this tracker — only 25 issues existed), and on approval filed #25 (type/epic, priority/P1).
Capture #26. Operator: file an umbrella epic listing all recommendations as Features, but don't file the Features. Drafted issues/engineering-practice-uplift.md; filed #26 (type/epic, priority/P2) with a 7-item Feature checklist (observability=#25 done; test layer; CI gates; repo-hygiene gates; DORA; conventional-commits [open decision]; Stage-2 build-out [trigger-gated]) and the §11-deferred items written as conscious non-goals.
Plugin fix (cross-repo, operator-directed). Began a memory note of the captured epics; operator stopped it — "no need to pollute the memory; they're Gitea issues I can reference later" — and directed: make the finalize skill not do this for capture. Edited the plugin source (wgl-session-finalize SKILL.md capture addendum overrides core Step 5 for capture results), bumped 0.27.0 → 0.27.1, branch fix/capture-finalize-skip-memory pushed; PR left for the operator to open/merge + re-install (plugin install is operator-owned).
Finalize (capture, tracked-lite). No spec/plan artifact. No memory write (per the just-shipped rule). Transcript published.

Cut state

Filed: engineering #25 (observability baseline epic) + #26 (practice-uplift umbrella epic).
Uncommitted in engineering working tree (Author's to commit/publish or discard — INV-8): app.json (content-role edit), issues/observability-baseline.md, issues/engineering-practice-uplift.md. Repo still on the pre-existing docs branch.
Plugin: branch fix/capture-finalize-skip-memory pushed (v0.27.1); PR/merge/ install pending operator.

Deferred decisions

Sized observability as type/epic (vs. a single type/feature with a slice checklist) — judgment call; offered the resize, operator accepted epic.
Registered the engineering repo as its own content repo via an app.json edit (autonomous, reversible, the skill's prescribed target-missing fix) rather than asking first.
Umbrella epic priority set P2 (the urgent slice is carved out as P1/#25) — a best-effort provisional call the operator can bump.
Shipped the plugin fix as branch+PR and left merge/install to the operator rather than auto-merging, since the plugin's install step is operator-owned by policy.

Operator plate

Open + merge the plugin PR (fix/capture-finalize-skip-memory, v0.27.1), then /plugin marketplace update + /plugin install to pick it up.
Decide whether to commit/publish the uncommitted engineering capture drafts + app.json content-role edit (and onto which branch — currently the docs branch).

Next-session prompt

/wgl-capture file the next Feature from engineering epic #26 — suggested order: test layer (Tier-1 Docker integration + thin Playwright e2e, §10.3) → CI quality gates (lint/format/type-check as required checks); link each with Parent: #26

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