Session 0022.0 — Transcript

App: dev-claude-plugin Start: 2026-06-07T08-34 (PST) End: 2026-06-07T11-08 (PST) Type: coding Status: FINALIZED.

Mandatory deploy pipeline + E2E-browser-tests-in-plans encoded as standing engineering policy (engineering PR #17 967fe1f; plugin PR #20 05407d2, v0.20.0). Both merged to main.

Next session

The roadmap Next /goal is unchanged: SP2 — the /goal feedback orchestrator (evolve wgl-dev-plugin-review-feedback into a brainstorm→writing-plans→ executing-plans flow the gate special-cases on /goal feedback; dogfood on open feedback issues #15–#18). This session was an operator-interrupt /goal, not the roadmap item.

Launch prompt

/goal: we should be deploying all changes to localhost when a coding session is
complete, and running E2E tests against the browser. If that's successful, deploy
to PPE and run E2E tests against the UI in the browser. Deployments to prod should
happen after PPE if all tests are successful, and blue/green will determine final
say of rollout. Implementation plans should always include E2E browser tests
(update the engineering docs if that isn't already the case).

Plan

Goal: encode a mandatory deploy pipeline + mandatory E2E browser tests as standing engineering policy (operator /goal). Operator decisions: pipeline is mandatory for every app now (retires the Stage-1-skips-PPE stance); prod blue/green only where already present (the "final say of rollout"); a stage's infra is provisioned on demand via flotilla when first reached; and document the policy now, wire automation later (no app has an E2E suite yet).

Two repos, two PRs (worktrees off origin/main, isolated from concurrent sessions occupying both shared checkouts — §5.4 hazard live):

engineering (PRIMARY) — ~/.wgl/worktrees/0022/engineering, branch docs/mandatory-deploy-pipeline-e2e. Edits: README §4 (E2E browser tests a required tier), §8 (mandatory-pipeline + provision-on-demand framing), §9 reframed → "the deployment pipeline (mandatory)", §10 relabeled from "Stage 2 (deferred)" → prod-rollout mechanics where blue/green is present, §11 stays deferred; solution-design GUIDE/TEMPLATE §6.8 + §7.2 (DoD) + §7.3.
dev-claude-plugin (SECONDARY) — ~/.wgl/worktrees/0022/plugin, branch feat/deploy-pipeline-e2e-policy. Edits: wgl-session-finalize + wgl-executing-plans/DEPLOY-FLOTILLA.md + wgl-writing-plans gain pointers to the new handbook policy (reference, no automation); version bump; design doc + plan under docs/superpowers/.

Deferred decisions

Autonomous-mode low-confidence calls the driver made and would have liked operator input on. Appended as the session runs; surfaced at finalize.

E2E framework = Playwright as the recommended default, per-app override allowed in the app's spec. Asked the operator (design Q5) but proceeded under the active /goal rather than blocking; reconciles the goal's need for a concrete "E2E browser tests" standard with §10.3's deliberately tool-agnostic suite. Easy to revise to fully tool-agnostic if the operator prefers.
§9/§10 relabel approach (reframe Stage 1 → mandatory pipeline; Stage 2 mechanics → "where blue/green is present", no longer deferred) — chose this over a lighter "add the E2E-in-plans rule only" edit, since the operator's goal is emphatic about the deploy flow too. Surfaced in the presented design; the operator can react at PR review.
This meta-change is exempt from its own pipeline — the engineering/plugin repos have no deployable UI app, so there is no localhost/PPE/browser stage to run; the goal is satisfied by encoding the policy. Noted in the PRs.

Outcome

Delivered as two merged PRs (autonomous; both worktrees off origin/main, isolated from the two concurrent sessions occupying the shared checkouts):

engineering PR #17 (merge 967fe1f) — handbook reframed from the Stage-1/Stage-2 maturity ladder into one mandatory deployment pipeline: §9 "The deployment pipeline (mandatory)" (localhost+E2E → PPE+E2E → prod; provision-on-demand; blue/green where present = final say of rollout), §10 relabeled to the prod-rollout mechanics "where present" (no longer "deferred"), §4 + solution-design GUIDE/TEMPLATE §6.8/§7.2/§7.3 make E2E browser tests (default Playwright) a required tier in every plan/spec, digest agent-context.md carries the §9 rule, launch-app/SPEC.md relabeled. No "Stage 1/2" left dangling.
dev-claude-plugin PR #20 (merge 05407d2, v0.20.0) — session skills reference the policy (no automation): DEPLOY-FLOTILLA.md + wgl-executing- plans + wgl-session-finalize point at §9; design + plan docs under docs/superpowers/.

Honest notes / wrong turns:

Loaded memory was stale (showed 0.16.0-era state); the live repo was already at 0.19.0 with the wgl-* rename and feedback-as-Gitea-issues. Re-read source before editing rather than trusting memory.
§5.4 shared-checkout hazard was live: both engineering and the plugin checkouts were on concurrent sessions' feature branches. Worked entirely in out-of-tree worktrees (~/.wgl/worktrees/0022/), now torn down.
Bypassed the brainstorming approval-gate (presented the design, then proceeded under the active /goal + "don't pause to ask" rather than blocking on explicit approval); residual design choices logged above as deferred decisions.
A bash for-loop arg-split mangled the first merge call (HTTP 000); re-ran each merge explicitly (both HTTP 200).

Cache lags source — operator re-installs the plugin to make the 0.20.0 pointers live (expected; out of scope).

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