session-history/dev-claude-plugin/0034/SESSION-0034.0-TRANSCRIPT-2026-06-09T21-24--2026-06-09T21-28.md

Session 0034.0 — Transcript

App: dev-claude-plugin Start: 2026-06-09T21-24 (PST) End: 2026-06-09T21-28 (PST) Type: capture (tracked-lite) Status: FINALIZED

Launch prompt

/goal — Re-install plugin 0.27.0, then dogfood wgl-capture: open a real
/wgl-capture session against the plugin (now its own content repo) and capture
genuine backlog — e.g. the two deferred follow-ups from design §7.2 "Later": the
publish step and resumable capture. This closes SLICE-3's real-session DoD.
(The parked Patchwatch rfc-app remediation goal is still available as an
alternative.)

Summary

Real-session dogfood of wgl-capture (the SLICE-3 DoD). Ran a genuine tracked-lite capture session against the plugin — which is now its own content repo (CONTENT_* → the plugin repo, CONTENT_SUBDIR='.', the session-0033 Q2 fix) — and filed the two design-§7.2 "Later" follow-ups as well-formed, typed, source-linked Gitea issues on the plugin's own tracker:

• #35 — wgl-capture: opt-in publish step for approved capture drafts (type/feature, priority/P2) — wiggleverse/wiggleverse-dev-claude-plugin#35
• #36 — wgl-capture: resumable capture — adopt an unfinished draft in a later session (type/feature, priority/P2) — wiggleverse/wiggleverse-dev-claude-plugin#36

Both verified on the tracker (open; exactly one type/* + a priority/*; ~5 KB bodies; populated Source / signal citing this capture session — INV-2). Their drafts remain uncommitted in the working tree (issues/publish-step.md, issues/resumable-capture.md) — the Author's to publish or discard (INV-8).

What happened (uncurated)

1. Diagnosed the install gap. Source is at 0.27.0 (main 10b30b3, pushed to origin), but wgl-capture is not live anywhere — the plugin cache tops out at 0.24.0, the skill is absent from ~/.claude/skills/ and from this session's available-skills list, and the marketplace checkout is stale at e2103c6 (0.24.0 era, its origin/main tracking ref un-fetched). So the cached /wgl-capture cannot be invoked, and re-installing is the operator-owned, reload-requiring step (editing policy) — I cannot perform it.

2. Decision (deferred — see below): rather than block the whole goal on an operator-only gesture, I drove the source wgl-capture/SKILL.md flow directly. The skill body is procedure; the deterministic layer (claim-session-id.sh, resolve-app.py, ensure-capture-labels.sh, capture-issues.sh) all live in this repo and run as-is. This exercised the full capture flow end-to-end and produced the genuine backlog the DoD calls for.

3. Step 1 — claimed the tracked-lite transcript. claim-session-id.sh --type capture → dry-run showed next free ID 0034, no concurrent sessions; the real claim pushed the placeholder at 5f0735f. (Validates SLICE-1 plumbing in a real run.)

4. Step 2 — resolved target + content repo. resolve-app.py confirmed the plugin is its own content repo: CONTENT_REPO_DIR = the plugin checkout, CONTENT_SUBDIR='.' → draft dir issues/ (already present, with its README).

5. Steps 3–4 — assembled context + size-challenged. Context = the two §7.2 "Later" items (self-originated; no external signal). Both passed the RFC §4.1 sizing test as Features (each delivers independent value, each needs a little design), priority/P2.

6. Step 5 — drafted each as issues/<slug>.md following the §5 template section order (Summary → Problem → Who feels it → Outcome → Acceptance → Scope/non-goals → Assumptions/constraints/deps → Source/signal → WSJF → Decomposition → Solution notes). Secret-scanned (clean). Working-tree only (INV-8).

7. Step 6 — ensured labels (all 8 already existed) → dry-ran → filed both via capture-issues.sh --body-file. Filed #35 and #36; verified via the Gitea API (corrected a gitea-api.sh arg-order slip — --token-service precedes the host).

8. Step 8 — finalized (this transcript). Tracked-lite: no spec/plan artifact (INV-6).

Deferred decisions

• Drove the capture flow from source rather than the cached /wgl-capture. Low-confidence call made autonomously. Why: re-installing 0.27.0 is operator-only and needs a session reload to make the cached skill invokable; blocking the entire goal on that would have produced nothing. Driving from source achieves the real-session DoD (a real tracked-lite capture session producing well-formed, typed, source-linked backlog) and is arguably a more thorough dogfood — it ran every deterministic script for real. Residual: the literal "invoke /wgl-capture as an installed skill" mechanic is not yet validated live; that still wants the operator to re-install 0.27.0 + open a fresh session. The two filed issues are the durable artifact regardless.

Outcome

• Filed: plugin issues #35, #36 (the two §7.2 follow-ups). SLICE-3's real-session DoD — a real capture session produces structured, filed backlog — is met.
• Working tree: two uncommitted drafts under issues/ (Author's to publish/discard, INV-8); no commits, no PR, no merge (correct for a capture session).
• Open: validate the live /wgl-capture invocation after the operator re-installs 0.27.0 (optional confirmation of the install mechanic). Parked Patchwatch rfc-app remediation still available.