session-history/dev-claude-plugin/0004/SESSION-0004.0-TRANSCRIPT-2026-06-03T18-26--2026-06-03T18-41.md

Session 0004.0 — Transcript

App: dev-claude-plugin Date: 2026-06-03 (PST) · Start 18-26 · End 18-41 Goal: Make the session bookend skills self-healing — finalize should create a transcript when none exists, both bookends should create a missing app.json, and publishing the transcript should never require approval. Outcome: Shipped as source 0.5.0, merged to main and pushed. Not yet installed (running session used the 0.3.0 cache).

Plan

1. Update wgl-coding-session-finalize so step 8 always produces a transcript (case 3 auto-creates instead of asking).
2. Make a missing app.json self-heal in finalize too, the same way init does — by extracting the procedure into a shared wgl-session-common fragment both bookends point at.
3. Make transcript publish (claim / checkpoint / publish) pre-authorized — no approval gate — stated canonically in the protocol, carved out of finalize-core.md, carried in both skills.
4. (Follow-up, mid-session) Drop the operator confirmation for app.json creation too — auto-derive the One Name, unattended.

Pre-session state

• Clean, pushed main; source plugin.json at 0.4.0 (ahead of the 0.3.0 cache the session ran from).
• Init had already grown a rich inline guided app.json creation (Step 3) and finalize a 3-case transcript ladder — so the asks were refinements, not net-new.
• One other session (0003) was in flight at start; it finalized at 18-27.

Turn-by-turn arc

1. session-init (0004 claimed). Computed start 2026-06-03T18-26, resolved app dev-claude-plugin via resolve-app.py, claimed 0004 (push to wiggleverse/session-history). Surfaced in-flight 0003. Baseline clean; no roadmap repo, so no auto /goal.
2. Spec, not a plan. /executing-plans was invoked with a feature description (no plan file). Read the source finalize/init SKILLs + the shared finalize-core.md / SESSION-PROTOCOL.md (not the 0.3.0 cache). Found the source already ahead of the running cache.
3. Designed + implemented (first branch feat/session-auto-transcript-and-publish).
   • New shared skills/wgl-session-common/create-app-json.md (extracted from init's inline procedure).
   • init SKILL: inline procedure → pointer; added publish-no-approval rule.
   • finalize SKILL: step 8 case 3 auto-creates (no ask) + uses the shared fragment when no app.json; publish carve-out.
   • finalize-core.md: removed "publishing" from gated ops + carve-out.
   • SESSION-PROTOCOL.md: canonical "transcript is pre-authorized" callout.
   • plugin.json 0.4.0 → 0.5.0; CLAUDE.md bundle inventory updated.
   • Verified cross-file consistency (no stale refs; JSON valid). Merged --no-ff to main locally per operator choice; branch deleted.
4. Refinement (second branch feat/app-json-no-confirm). Operator: "you don't need to verify the app.json with the operator." Made app.json creation unattended — auto-derive the One Name, drop every confirm/operator-gate phrase across the fragment, both SKILLs, the protocol, and CLAUDE.md; retitled the headings off "(guided)". Folded into the unreleased 0.5.0. Merged --no-ff and pushed main (operator go-ahead).
5. Finalize (this skill). Survey clean; updated memory; wrote + published this transcript.

Cut state (end of session)

main clean and even with origin/main at 7624645. Source plugin.json = 0.5.0, pushed, not installed (session ran the 0.3.0 cache throughout).

SHA	What
4dc8b62	session skills: auto-create transcript, share app.json creation, pre-authorize publish
e46a100	merge feat/session-auto-transcript-and-publish
192c7a8	session skills: app.json creation is unattended (no operator gate)
7624645	merge feat/app-json-no-confirm (HEAD of origin/main)

Files touched: skills/wgl-session-common/create-app-json.md (new), skills/wgl-coding-session-{init,finalize}/SKILL.md, skills/wgl-session-common/{finalize-core.md,SESSION-PROTOCOL.md}, .claude-plugin/plugin.json, CLAUDE.md.

What lands on the operator's plate

• Install 0.5.0 to make the new behavior live: /plugin marketplace update + reinstall. Until then sessions run the 0.3.0 cache (old "ask before transcript" behavior).
• Open follow-ups (see memory project_dev_claude_plugin.md): the dev-env CLI app.json verb (canonical creator that doesn't exist yet); the ~/.claude/** settings guard that blocks Write/Edit on the memory dir (clean fix: a permissions.allow carve-out for …/projects/**/memory/**).

Prompt the operator can paste into the next session

/wgl-coding-session-init

Plugin source is at 0.5.0 (pushed to origin/main) but no session has it installed
yet — the 0.3.0 cache is still what runs. First move: /plugin marketplace update
+ reinstall, then confirm the new session-skill behavior is live (finalize should
auto-create a transcript; app.json creation is unattended). Read memory
project_dev_claude_plugin.md for the full 0004 change list and the two open
follow-ups (dev-env CLI app.json verb; the ~/.claude memory-write settings guard).