Session 0017.0 — Transcript

App: dev-claude-plugin Start: 2026-06-05T17-54 (PST) End: 2026-06-05T18-00 (PST) Type: coding (verification-only — no code change, no PR) Status: FINALIZED.

A short verification session: confirm the 0.15.0 finalize-on-goal Stop hook (shipped session 0016 / PR #9) is installed and behaves correctly live. Resumed from the stored Next /goal: via /goal next.

Launch prompt

Operator opened with /goal next — the explicit "resume the stored next-goal" gesture. The SessionStart gate read this repo's memory Next /goal: field and adopted it as the objective:

Re-install plugin 0.15.0, then verify finalize-on-goal end-to-end live: in a tracked session run a throwaway /goal that completes, confirm the new Stop hook nudges wgl-session-finalize (yolo auto-finalizes / careful offers + waits), and confirm /goal next resumes this very Next /goal: field from memory.

Classified as a coding session (hands-on verification of the plugin's runtime behavior on app dev-claude-plugin) and routed to wgl-session-coding-init.

Plan

Verify the 0.15.0 finalize-on-goal Stop hook (the plugin's second hook, shipped session 0016 / PR #9) is installed and behaves correctly live. Four checks:

Confirm 0.15.0 is the installed/live plugin (the re-install half of the goal).
Confirm /goal next resumed the stored Next /goal: field from memory (half c).
Inspect the live-installed hook wiring (hooks.json + the finalize-on-goal script) — registration, detection, gates.
Drive the installed hook bytes with crafted Stop payloads + decoys and confirm the finalize nudge fires on a real achievement and stays silent otherwise (halves a + b).

Findings — finalize-on-goal verified live

1. Re-install (DONE — already satisfied at session start). The …/plugins/cache/wiggleverse-dev-claude-plugin/…/0.15.0/ cache dir is present (alongside the previously-lagging 0.13.0/0.14.0), source plugin.json is 0.15.0, and this session's wgl-session-coding-init skill itself loaded from the …/0.15.0/… cache path — proof the operator re-installed and 0.15.0 is live. This also closes the standing "operator re-install" follow-up in memory.

2. /goal next resume (VERIFIED live — by this very session). The operator typed /goal next; the SessionStart gate read the Next /goal: field from this repo's project memory and routed its text into this coding session. The session existing and executing that objective is the live proof that /goal next resumption works against a real finalize-written field.

3. Installed hook wiring (CONFIRMED). hooks/hooks.json registers both the SessionStart gate and a Stop → finalize-on-goal hook (no matcher = every turn-end); the SessionStart half demonstrably fired this session, proving the installed hooks.json is active. The finalize-on-goal script matches the canonical design: fails open throughout, cheap grep '"goal_status"' pre-gate, app resolution via resolve-app.py, open --INPROGRESS placeholder gate, structural detection (.type=="goal_status" and .met==true and .sentinel!=true via .. | objects), once-per-achievement sentinel (SESSION-NNNN.goal-finalize-state), and a mode-neutral block-reason instructing the agent to branch on posture (yolo → finalize now; careful → offer + wait).

4. Live behavioral test (6/6 PASS). Drove the installed 0.15.0 hook bytes directly with crafted Stop payloads, isolated via WGL_TRANSCRIPTS_DIR so the real SESSION-0017 sentinel was never touched:

Case	Expect	Got
achieved (`met:true`) + open placeholder	block (nudge)	block ✓
immediate re-run, same achievement	silent (sentinel)	silent ✓
`met:false` decoy	silent	silent ✓
`met:true` + `sentinel:true` decoy	silent	silent ✓
prose merely mentioning `goal_status`	silent	silent ✓
achieved but no open placeholder	silent	silent ✓

The nudge payload on a real achievement is {"decision":"block","reason":"A /goal just completed … invoke the wgl-session-finalize skill now … in careful posture … surface a brief offer … Branch on this session's current posture."} — confirming the hook emits the mode-neutral finalize nudge; the yolo-auto / careful-offer branch is the agent's documented response to that reason (finalize-core.md), not the hook's job.

Conclusion: finalize-on-goal is installed (0.15.0), active this session, and behaves correctly end-to-end. All three sub-claims of the stored goal are verified live. No code changes were needed — this was a verification session.

Session arc (turn-by-turn)

Gate resolved /goal next → read Next /goal: from project memory → adopted "re-install 0.15.0 + verify finalize-on-goal live" as the objective → classified coding → wgl-session-coding-init.
Parallel session-start survey: computed PST start, confirmed clean pushed main baseline, listed installed cache versions → noticed 0.15.0 cache dir present and the init skill itself loaded from …/0.15.0/… → re-install half already satisfied.
Claimed session 0017 (dry-run peek showed nothing in flight → atomic push).
Read the installed hooks/hooks.json + finalize-on-goal script → confirmed Stop-hook registration and canonical detection/gating logic.
Wrote /tmp/wgl-finalize-on-goal-livetest.sh driving the installed hook bytes with crafted Stop payloads, isolated via WGL_TRANSCRIPTS_DIR → 6/6 PASS (nudge on achievement; silent on sentinel re-fire, met:false, sentinel:true, prose, and no-placeholder). One attempt to dump the exact block-reason was operator-denied (a complex one-liner); not needed — the reason text is in the hook source and the block decision was already confirmed.
Recorded findings in this transcript → entered finalize via the yolo-auto branch of the finalize-on-goal policy (goal complete, autonomous posture).
Finalize: clean baseline (no git ops), updated memory + MEMORY.md (next /goal = flotilla-only-provisioning alignment; re-install gotcha resolved), published this transcript.

Deferred decisions

None — the only judgment call was classifying /goal next as a coding session (verification work warranting a transcript); no low-confidence calls otherwise.

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