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Session M — Transcript

Date: 2026-05-28 Goal: Drive Wave 6 — three Track Ω inventory / draft subsessions in parallel. No rfc-app feature releases this wave; the wave's job is to surface the operator-led gestures that the post-Wave-5 plate needs (DNS edits, repo renames, counsel-reviewed copy) and to land docs that make OHM's contribution surface honest.

Outcome: All three subsessions produced their deliverables. M.1 wrote docs feature branches in rfc-app + ohm-rfc (CONTRIBUTING

  • SPEC §21 analytics chapter) — pushed, awaiting operator PR review. M.2 wrote a 33 KB repo-naming inventory + move proposal with six open questions for the operator. M.3 wrote a deliverability
  • webhook hardening runbook + a rfc-app v0.18.0 framework-hygiene proposal — and surfaced one potentially-load-bearing finding: SMTP_HOST may be missing from the live flotilla overlay (every OHM email path silently broken if so). M.1 hit a stream-watchdog stall on the report-back step AFTER writing its transcript + pushing both feature branches — recovery was driver-reads-transcript-direct, no re-dispatch.

First session running under the §5 subsession-transcript amendment (Session-L addition to SESSION-PROTOCOL.md). Three forked subagents pre-assigned M.1 / M.2 / M.3; each writes its own SESSION-M.<n>-TRANSCRIPT-…md before returning a tight report to the driver. 13 §19.2 candidates surfaced across the three subs + driver.

Pre-session state

Time: opened 2026-05-28T05-26 PST (Thursday, just-pre-dawn — operator handed off the wheel after Session L's three-deploy Wave 5 finish at 05:17 PST and is sleeping). Session L's main transcript is at ~/git/ohm-infra/SESSION-L-TRANSCRIPT-2026-05-28T04-22--2026-05-28T05-17.md.

Repos at session open:

Repo State at open
rfc-app (~/git/rfc-app, branch main) clean tree, HEAD at 1456c8b (Release 0.17.0: admin-create user + invite email + #21 Part C). Tags through v0.17.0.
ohm-rfc (~/projects/wiggleverse/ohm-rfc, branch main) clean tree, HEAD at 47cb2f9 (ROADMAP strike of #12 / #13 / #16). .rfc-app-version = 0.17.0.
ohm-rfc-app-flotilla (~/projects/wiggleverse/ohm-rfc-app-flotilla, branch main) clean tree, HEAD at 65c0e55 (CLAUDE.md: correct the secret-set gesture). v1.0.1.
ohm-infra (~/git/ohm-infra/) Plain directory (not a local git repo). Transcripts A–L published to wiggleverse/ohm-session-history via scripts/publish-transcript.sh. SESSION-PROTOCOL.md at the §5-amended version.

OHM live state: ohm.wiggleverse.org serves rfc-app v0.17.0, deploys.id=21 (last deploy from Session L). v0.13.0 cookie banner + v0.14.0 /docs route + v0.15.0 Amplitude analytics & session replay + v0.16.0 per-RFC owner invites + v0.17.0 admin-create user invites all live in production for the first time. #21 Part C identity- lifecycle wiring (identify-with-properties on sign-in, setUserProperties on mid-session changes, amplitude.reset on sign-out, identify-BEFORE-track on invite-claim paths) shipped inline with the v0.15.0 / v0.16.0 / v0.17.0 release commits.

Roadmap state: #2–#16 + #21 Part C all shipped (struck through in ~/projects/wiggleverse/ohm-rfc/ROADMAP.md). Wave 6 candidates open:

  • #20 Email deliverability (HIGH priority — invites are now the recipient's first contact with OHM, spam-foldering is silent invite failure)
  • #18 Secure SMTP relay + Gitea webhook (bundles with #20 — shared DNS edits)
  • #19 CONTRIBUTING guides + transcript-linked onboarding
  • #21 Part B — SPEC analytics chapter + CONTRIBUTING checklist (rides #19)
  • #17 Repo naming + location alignment (operator-led; subagent inventories + proposes)
  • #1 VM rename (operator-led)
  • #22 Pro-analytics-consent copy (BLOCKED — waiting on operator- drafted + counsel-reviewed copy)
  • #21 Part A — deep audit of v0.15.0 taxonomy + autocapture + replay quality (BLOCKED — needs ~1 week of Amplitude data; v0.17.0 is <12 hours old)

Housekeeping noticed at open:

  • A stale SESSION-L-TRANSCRIPT-2026-05-28T04-22--INPROGRESS.md (4.3 KB) sits next to Session L's final transcript at ~/git/ohm-infra/. The final transcript is the load-bearing one (was published). The INPROGRESS placeholder is leftover. Recommend the operator delete it (or driver deletes at the end of M); not load-bearing for Session M's work.
  • Three rfc-app worktrees from Session L still on disk under ~/git/:
    • rfc-app-v0.15.0-amplitude/
    • rfc-app-v0.16.0-owner-invite/
    • rfc-app-v0.17.0-admin-create-user/ Each release has shipped and merged to main; the worktrees are no longer load-bearing. Could be cleaned up via git worktree remove when the operator next runs through housekeeping.

Dispatch plan

Wave 6 runs as three forked subagents, each in its own subsession, each writing its own transcript per §5 of the protocol. All three are Track Ω (docs + ops inventory / proposal) — they touch non-overlapping files in non-overlapping repos, so they run safely in parallel without merge-conflict risk. None ship code that runs on OHM in this wave; each produces a feature branch with a draft + a recommendation block for the operator to review.

Sub Brief Repo(s) touched Output
M.1 #19 CONTRIBUTING guides bundled with #21 Part B (SPEC.md analytics chapter + CONTRIBUTING analytics checklist) rfc-app (CONTRIBUTING.md + SPEC.md) + ohm-rfc (CONTRIBUTING.md) Feature branches in both repos with drafts; ready for operator PR review
M.2 #17 inventory of every repo under git.wiggleverse.org + git.benstull.org with current name, canonical location, mirror status, and proposed name. Drafts a move-proposal doc. No renames executed. ohm-infra (write proposal here) + read-only across all Wiggleverse / benstull repos A REPO-NAMING-PROPOSAL.md (or similar) for operator to approve
M.3 #20 deliverability + #18 SMTP/webhook hardening combined inventory. Reads current DNS posture, rfc-app backend/app/email_*.py, ohm-infra SMTP/webhook config, Gitea webhook auth surfaces. Drafts a hardened-shape runbook + a rfc-app template-hygiene minor proposal. ohm-infra (runbook) + read-only on rfc-app (drafts the proposal as a doc, NOT as code changes) A hardening runbook + an rfc-app template-hygiene proposal doc

Why no rfc-app code release this wave: every Wave 6 candidate either (a) is docs / inventory / proposal that lands as a PR the operator merges, no version bump, or (b) requires operator-led gestures (DNS edits, counsel review, rename execution) that can't happen autonomously. Wave 6 is the "set up Wave 7" wave — deliverables here become the operator's plate, and Wave 7 picks up the rfc-app minors (template hygiene, pro-consent copy) and the ops moves (DNS, renames) that fall out.

Dispatch contract for each subagent (per §5.2):

  1. Pre-assigned subsession ID named in the dispatch prompt.
  2. Subagent MUST write ~/git/ohm-infra/SESSION-M.<n>-TRANSCRIPT-<start>--<end>.md before returning a report.
  3. Subagent does NOT push code that ships on OHM. Branches only; operator merges.
  4. Subagent does NOT execute operator-led gestures (no DNS edits, no repo renames, no SMTP provider config changes).
  5. Subagent reports back with: branch + commit SHAs, the draft's one-paragraph PR description, any §19.2 candidates surfaced.

Turn-by-turn arc

Arc 1 — Opening + Wave 6 plan + parallel dispatch

Operator handed off the wheel at 05:20 PST with a thorough brief explicitly listing Wave 6 candidates and the new §5 subsession- transcript dispatch shape. Read SESSION-PROTOCOL.md and ROADMAP.md end-to-end. Identified six Wave-6-eligible items; three blocked or operator-only (#22 / #21 Part A / #1), three dispatchable now (#19 + #21B / #17 / #20+#18). Bundling rationale: #21 Part B explicitly rides #19's CONTRIBUTING PRs per the roadmap; #18 and #20 explicitly ship together because the same DNS edits serve both.

Pre-state snapshot above. Then opened this transcript at SESSION-M-TRANSCRIPT-2026-05-28T05-26--INPROGRESS.md and dispatched the three subagents in parallel at 2026-05-28T05-30 PST.

Each subagent's dispatch prompt named:

  • the subsession ID (M.1 / M.2 / M.3)
  • the transcript filename to write at session end
  • the binding constraints (never-secret-bytes; no-operator-led- gestures; no force-push / --amend / git config)
  • the read-only inventory boundary (no DNS edits, no repo renames, no flotilla deploy, no SMTP provider changes)
  • the deliverable shape and the report-back format

Dispatch summary:

Sub agent state Scope
M.1 running (background) rfc-app/CONTRIBUTING.md + rfc-app/SPEC.md analytics chapter + ohm-rfc/CONTRIBUTING.md. Feature branches in both repos.
M.2 running (background) REPO-NAMING-PROPOSAL.md — inventory + move proposal across git.wiggleverse.org + git.benstull.org. No renames executed.
M.3 running (background) EMAIL-AND-WEBHOOK-HARDENING-RUNBOOK.md + RFC-APP-EMAIL-HYGIENE-PROPOSAL.md. Read-only DNS / flotilla-overlay / rfc-app code inventory. No DNS or SMTP changes.

Driver waits for each completion notification, folds the report

  • subsession-transcript reference into Arc 2 / Arc 3 / Arc 4 as they return. Cut-state table written after all three are in.

Arc 2 — M.2 returns: #17 repo naming inventory

M.2 completed at 2026-05-28T05-37 PST (~7 min). Full detail: SESSION-M.2-TRANSCRIPT-2026-05-28T05-30--2026-05-28T05-37.md.

Inventory totals: 9 repos on git.wiggleverse.org (4 under ben.stull/, 5 under wiggleverse/); 3 on git.benstull.org (under benstull/: 1 real sha-synced mirror, 1 stub, 1 empty); 9 local-only working dirs catalogued in the proposal.

Surfaced friction not in roadmap #17:

  • Three-meta-repos collision (wiggleverse/meta + wiggleverse/ohm-meta + wiggleverse/rfc-0001-human — the monorepo ohm-rfc has won in practice; three repos for one job).
  • Push-mirror description drift between ben.stull/rfc-app and benstull/rfc-app.
  • A ben username alias on git.wiggleverse.org creating a 1-hop redirect chain alongside the canonical ben.stull.
  • ~/git/ohm-infra/ is a plain directory, not a git repo — matches what the driver caught at session open. M.2 surfaces it as a §19.2 candidate (see below).

Top moves proposed (execution order from the proposal doc):

  1. Archive wiggleverse/meta (vestigial; zero-risk warmup).
  2. Archive wiggleverse/ohm-meta + wiggleverse/rfc-0001-human (requires Q1 operator confirm — per-RFC repos vs. monorepo).
  3. Transfer ben.stull/ohm-rfc → wiggleverse/ohm-rfc — medium risk; affects flotilla SPEC (~10 places), 4 test files hardcode ben/ohm-rfc, and flotilla's SQLite registry stores it as pin_source_repo + corpus_repo — operator must run a flotilla update post-move or the next deploy chases a 2-hop Gitea redirect.
  4. Transfer ben.stull/rfc-app → wiggleverse/rfc-app — largest blast radius. Flotilla SPEC §3.1 has a conceptual paragraph explaining why rfc-app gets a benstull mirror — that rationale dissolves under org-namespace and needs rewriting. Good news: no shipped frontend artifacts reference these URLs, so end- users see nothing.
  5. Archive benstull/rfc-app-flotilla stub (empty placeholder that contradicts SPEC §3.1's "no benstull mirror for flotilla" rule).

§19.2 candidates surfaced by M.2:

  1. Stop relying on Gitea path aliases — resolve canonical paths at registry-update time so flotilla's SQLite registry doesn't silently chase Gitea redirects after a transfer.
  2. Concrete flotilla-core reservation slot (the benstull/rfc-app-flotilla stub repo is an accidental artifact of this need).
  3. Promote ~/git/ohm-infra/ to a real git repo — currently a plain directory; transcripts publish to the remote wiggleverse/ohm-session-history but the runbooks, proposals, and protocol doc that live in ohm-infra have no version control.

Open questions for the operator (the proposal lists six; the load-bearing ones):

  • Q1: per-RFC repos vs monorepo — settles whether step 2 above happens at all, and may reshape the proposal entirely.
  • Q2: mirror destination after rfc-app moves.
  • Q3: fate of the benstull/rfc-app-flotilla stub (the proposal recommends archive; operator confirm).
  • Q4: promote ohm-infra/ to a real repo (yes? then where?).
  • Q5: remove the ben username alias.
  • Q6: backup ohm-infra/ before execution session begins.

Artifacts written by M.2:

  • ~/git/ohm-infra/REPO-NAMING-PROPOSAL.md (~33 KB).
  • ~/git/ohm-infra/SESSION-M.2-TRANSCRIPT-2026-05-28T05-30--2026-05-28T05-37.md.

Zero remote git operations. No Gitea admin actions. Clean inventory + proposal pass per scope.

Arc 3 — M.3 returns: #20 + #18 deliverability & webhook hardening

M.3 completed at 2026-05-28T05-58 PST (~28 min). Full detail: SESSION-M.3-TRANSCRIPT-2026-05-28T05-30--2026-05-28T05-58.md.

Load-bearing finding (top of operator's plate): SMTP_HOST and SMTP_USER are MISSING from the live flotilla overlay. Only SMTP_PORT=587, SMTP_STARTTLS=1, EMAIL_FROM, EMAIL_FROM_NAME are present. Either the bootstrap was reshaped post-run and these dropped, OR they live on the VM out-of-band via systemd override. If neither holds, every OHM email path is silently failing right now (OTC, beta-access notifications, per-RFC owner invites, admin-create user invites — all four paths added across v0.7.0 → v0.17.0). Operator disambiguates next session via gcloud ssh ohm-app + systemctl show ohm-app.service | grep Environment.

Current DNS posture (wiggleverse.org, literal values):

  • SPF: v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all (soft-fail)
  • DMARC: v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:ben@wiggleverse.org (monitoring-only, no enforcement)
  • DKIM: present at google._domainkey.wiggleverse.org (2048-bit Workspace key)
  • MX: standard Google Workspace aspmx.l.google.com family

SMTP provider identified: Google Workspace SMTP relay (smtp-relay.gmail.com) — inferred from bootstrap + DKIM + MX (no direct confirmation since SMTP_HOST is missing from the overlay).

Top 3 deployment-side hardening gestures (priority order):

  1. Delete stale wiggleverse/meta Gitea hook — still active, points at http://rfc.wiggleverse.org/api/webhooks/gitea (host was deprovisioned 2026-05-27, plain HTTP). 5-second curl DELETE. Trivial cleanup.
  2. Disambiguate the SMTP_HOST gap (see load-bearing finding above). Highest user impact if email is actually silently broken.
  3. DMARC Phase A — extend the existing p=none record with pct=100; sp=quarantine; adkim=s; aspf=s, collect rua data for 1 week, flip to p=quarantine. Conservative enforcement ramp.

Top 3 framework-side changes (target rfc-app v0.18.0):

  1. build_envelope shared helper — adds Date, Message-ID, Auto-Submitted: auto-generated, List-Unsubscribe + List-Unsubscribe-Post (per RFC 8058), and multipart/alternative text+html to all four email paths (email_otc.py, email_invite.py, email.py:_deliver, email.py:_send_bundle). Today: NONE of these headers are set; bodies are plain-text-only; Gmail's one-click-unsubscribe enforcement is unsatisfied for bulk-adjacent watcher notifications.
  2. Make GITEA_WEBHOOK_SECRET required, not optional. config.py:75 is _optional; webhooks.py:43 silently accepts unsigned POSTs when empty. Insecure-by-default for any deployment that forgets the binding. Add RFC_APP_INSECURE_WEBHOOKS=1 dev-bypass for local dev only.
  3. outbound_emails audit table + write on every send. Today failures log-and-forget; operator has zero visibility without grepping VM logs. The audit table seam doubles as a place to wire bounce-handling later.

Webhook posture audit: signature verification is correct (hmac.compare_digest, HMAC-SHA-256 over raw body) when the secret is set — and on OHM it is. Two structural issues: (a) silent-accept-when-unset default; (b) no replay-window (currently mitigated by idempotent cache refreshes, so not yet exploited but worth a §19.2 candidate or follow-up rfc-app minor).

M.3 also noted: wiggleverse/rfc-0001-human has NO Gitea webhook configured (the only published RFC's content changes only reach OHM via the reconciler). Operator confirms whether this is intentional. Bot lacks admin on ben.stull/ohm-rfc (the pin source), so M.3 couldn't self-check that one.

§19.2 candidates surfaced by M.3 (5):

  1. rfc-app: GITEA_WEBHOOK_SECRET should be required.
  2. rfc-app: outbound-email observability seam (audit table).
  3. flotilla: overlay show doesn't surface expected-but-missing keys; needs overlay validate verb.
  4. flotilla: lacks a webhook list/check verb (generic, would land in flotilla-core after extraction per §19.2).
  5. rfc-app: From-identity spec to bind EMAIL_FROM consumers + DMARC + Workspace allowed-senders to one source.

Artifacts written by M.3:

  • ~/git/ohm-infra/EMAIL-AND-WEBHOOK-HARDENING-RUNBOOK.md (~21 KB).
  • ~/git/ohm-infra/RFC-APP-EMAIL-HYGIENE-PROPOSAL.md (~9 KB).
  • ~/git/ohm-infra/SESSION-M.3-TRANSCRIPT-2026-05-28T05-30--2026-05-28T05-58.md.

Read-only DNS / flotilla-overlay / rfc-app code inventory. Zero DNS edits, zero overlay set, zero code commits. Clean per scope.

Arc 4 — M.1 returns (with a stall): #19 + #21B docs landed

M.1 hit the stream watchdog at 600s-no-progress and the agent was killed before it could return its report. Its own transcript says end-time 05:40 PST — meaning it wrote the transcript ~10 minutes into its run, then spent another ~50 minutes in a "sanity check before reporting back" phase that produced no streamable output and got watchdog-killed.

Per protocol §5.5 the driver MAY write a stub if a subagent fails to produce a transcript. M.1 did produce a transcript (full 460-line detailed shape, all the synthesis the driver needs); the stall was on the report-back-to-driver step. Driver chose no re-dispatch: all deliverables landed cleanly on disk, both feature branches pushed to canonical (rfc-app to origin + benstull, ohm-rfc to origin), tree clean. Recovery was: read M.1's transcript directly

  • switch the two repos back to main (M.1 left them on the feature branches) + fold synthesis into this transcript.

Pre-state addendum surfaced by M.1's own pre-state: ohm-rfc main was at 8cce148 when M.1 opened at 05:30, but this driver's pre-state at 05:26 (above) recorded ohm-rfc main at 47cb2f9. The operator pushed 8cce148 ROADMAP: +#23 (rename transcripts SESSION-<letter> → SESSION-NNNN.M) to ohm-rfc/main in the 4-minute gap between session-open and M.1 dispatch. Recorded honestly here per the protocol's no-curation rule — this is the Session-L "don't batch roadmap captures to end-of-session" lesson applied in real time. Roadmap item #23 now exists (transcript- filename rename) and is captured on ohm-rfc/main outside of any Session-M subagent's scope.

M.1 deliverables (all on feature branches, none merged):
rfc-app feature/contributing-and-spec-analytics 213f686 docs: CONTRIBUTING.md + SPEC.md §21 analytics chapter. Pushed to origin + benstull.
ohm-rfc feature/contributing-roadmap-guide f26fae4 CONTRIBUTING: add roadmap-change guide + operator-only boundary. Pushed to origin.

rfc-app/CONTRIBUTING.md is new, ~370 lines, covering: PR shape, strict-descending CHANGELOG convention, RFC 2119 Upgrade steps: discipline, §19.2 candidate practice, test-coverage expectations characterized from the real ~250-test backend suite, the operator- only-gestures boundary (with the hard no-secret-bytes rule cited from Session K Arc 6), and the #21 Part B analytics-instrumentation checklist as a dedicated section. Worked-example links to Sessions E (clean small release), I (deploy-fault recovery), K (multi-feature wave + paused-on-secret), L (squash-merge across three parallel features + #21 Part C inline). Links to the repo root not specific transcript filenames — anticipating the #23 rename.

rfc-app/SPEC.md gets new §21 "Analytics instrumentation and identity", ~440 lines, structured §21.1 event-taxonomy → §21.2 required prop families → §21.3 autocapture-friendly DOM patterns → §21.4 session-replay masking → §21.5 consent-gate contract → §21.6 identity lifecycle (#21 Part C) → §21.6.1 set vs setOnce taxonomy → §21.7 cohort-shape implications → §21.8 secret-vs-public framing → §21.9 §19.2 candidates → §21.10 open question. RFC 2119 keywords used precisely throughout. The starting v0.17.0 taxonomy (13 events) laid out verbatim.

Placement decision the driver should weigh in on: M.1 settled inline on placing the new chapter as §21 (after §20 versioning) rather than §16 (the naively-correct insertion-after-§15 notifications). Rationale: §19.2 is a load-bearing project noun (in CLAUDE.md, SESSION-PROTOCOL.md §3, 12 published transcripts, historical commit messages) — renumbering would cascade across all of those. §15 now carries a forward-pointer naming §21 as the peer cross-cutting analytics chapter. The driver agrees with M.1's call: the right §16 numbering belongs to a future cross-repo cleanup session, NOT a docs-PR. Flagged as §19.2 candidate #1 from M.1 (see below).

ohm-rfc/CONTRIBUTING.md extends the existing 130-line RFC-content guide (preserved verbatim) with a new "Proposing a change to the OHM roadmap" section (~80 added lines). Covers: roadmap-change kinds, ohm-session-history pointer + worked-example links into Sessions J/K/L roadmap reshuffles, PR-submission gesture with the anonymous-PR open question SETTLED inline (see Arc 5 below), the operator-only-gestures boundary phrased with the "I'm the only one that gets to yolo" quote, the two-layer rule.

Arc 5 — Anonymous-PR question settlement (M.1 inline)

M.1 probed https://git.wiggleverse.org/user/sign_up and got HTTP 200 with body containing <p>Registration is disabled. Please contact your site administrator.</p>. Definitive answer.

The ohm-rfc CONTRIBUTING text settles on two contributor paths: Issue-first (default; the operator or next driver session turns it into a roadmap entry or opens discussion in the issue thread), or request-account-from-operator (for repeat contributors). Phrased so the operator can edit down to one path if registration policy flips later.

Arc 6 — Recovery + finalize

Driver switched rfc-app + ohm-rfc back to main (M.1 left them on feature branches; git checkout main on each — clean, "up to date with origin/main"). Marked M.1 task completed with a description recording the stall + recovery decision. Wrote this turn-by-turn, cut state, §19.2 ledger, operator plate, next-session prompt. Renamed transcript INPROGRESS → final timestamp. About to publish all four transcripts (M + M.1 + M.2 + M.3) via ~/git/ohm-infra/scripts/publish-transcript.sh per §5.6.

Cut state (end of session, 2026-05-28T06-50 PST)
rfc-app main unchanged at 1456c8b (Release 0.17.0). New branch feature/contributing-and-spec-analytics at 213f686 pushed to origin + benstull — awaiting operator PR review. Local tree on main, clean.
ohm-rfc main advanced from 47cb2f9 → 8cce148 mid-session (operator pushed #23). New branch feature/contributing-roadmap-guide at f26fae4 pushed to origin — awaiting operator PR review. .rfc-app-version unchanged at 0.17.0. Local tree on main, clean.
ohm-rfc-app-flotilla unchanged at 65c0e55. v1.0.1.
OHM live unchanged from Session L cut — deploys.id=21, v0.17.0. No deploy gesture this session.
ohm-infra (local dir) 4 new files this session: this transcript + M.1/M.2/M.3 subsessions. Plus 2 inventory/runbook docs from M.2 (REPO-NAMING-PROPOSAL.md) and 2 from M.3 (EMAIL-AND-WEBHOOK-HARDENING-RUNBOOK.md, RFC-APP-EMAIL-HYGIENE-PROPOSAL.md).
Wave 6 ledger Status
#19 CONTRIBUTING guides (rfc-app + ohm-rfc) 🟡 drafts pushed on feature branches; awaiting operator PR review + merge
#21 Part B SPEC.md §21 chapter + CONTRIBUTING checklist 🟡 drafted on rfc-app feature branch (rides #19's commit); awaiting operator review
#17 Repo naming + location alignment (inventory + proposal) 🟡 proposal doc written at ~/git/ohm-infra/REPO-NAMING-PROPOSAL.md; six open questions for operator; execution session deferred
#20 Email deliverability inventory 🟡 runbook written; one load-bearing finding (SMTP_HOST possibly missing from overlay); awaiting operator disambiguation + DNS edits
#18 SMTP relay + Gitea webhook hardening inventory 🟡 runbook same as #20 (bundled); webhook code-side proposal in RFC-APP-EMAIL-HYGIENE-PROPOSAL.md; awaiting future rfc-app v0.18.0 minor + ops gestures
#21 Part A audit ⏸ blocked — needs ~1 week of Amplitude data; v0.17.0 is <12h old
#22 Pro-analytics-consent copy ⏸ blocked — waiting on operator-drafted + counsel-reviewed copy
#1 VM rename ⏸ operator-led ops gesture
#23 Transcript filename rename (SESSION-<letter> → SESSION-NNNN.M) ✅ added to ROADMAP (ohm-rfc/main 8cce148, operator pushed mid-session)

No rfc-app release shipped this wave; that's Wave 6's intended shape (set-up wave — deliverables become Wave 7's plate). The plate is heavy and clearly-named.

§19.2 candidates surfaced this session

From M.1:

  1. SPEC.md §16..§20 renumbering vs. §21-at-end placement. The chapter went in as §21 not §16 to preserve the §19.2 / §19.3 cross-reference graph; a future cleanup session can do the numerically-clean §16 insertion + cascade across CLAUDE.md files + SESSION-PROTOCOL.md + 12 transcripts + auto-memory.
  2. Centralized email-hash helper (SHA-256 of normalized lower- cased email for #12-style per-RFC target_email hashing).
  3. Property-shape CI lint for track( / identify( callsites (allowlist of prop keys, denylist of PII names).
  4. Frontend test runner (no vitest/jest/playwright today; the CONTRIBUTING file documents the gap honestly).

From M.2: 5. Stop relying on Gitea path aliases — resolve canonical paths at registry-update time so flotilla's SQLite registry doesn't silently chase Gitea redirects after a transfer. 6. Concrete flotilla-core reservation slot — the benstull/rfc-app-flotilla stub is an accidental artifact of this latent need. 7. Promote ~/git/ohm-infra/ to a real git repo — currently a plain directory; transcripts publish to the remote but runbooks, proposals, and the protocol doc have no local version control.

From M.3: 8. rfc-app: GITEA_WEBHOOK_SECRET should be required, not _optional. Insecure-by-default for any deployment that forgets the binding. 9. rfc-app: outbound-email observability seam (outbound_emails audit table + write on every send). Today failures log-and- forget; doubles as bounce-handling hook later. 10. flotilla: overlay show doesn't surface expected-but-missing keys; needs an overlay validate verb. (The session's own headline finding — possibly-missing SMTP_HOST — would have been a one-command detection if this existed.) 11. flotilla: lacks a webhook list/check verb (generic — would land in flotilla-core after §19.2 extraction). 12. rfc-app: From-identity spec to bind EMAIL_FROM consumers + DMARC + Workspace allowed-senders to one source.

Driver-surfaced (this transcript): 13. Subagent stream-watchdog stall pattern. M.1 finished its work + transcript at minute ~10 but spent ~50 more minutes in a quiet "sanity check" phase before the watchdog killed it. The session-protocol §5.3 instruction says transcript-write happens BEFORE report-back — that's load-bearing, since the report-back is where the agent dies. Worth a protocol clarification: "transcript first; report-back is the only thing after; do NOT add a 'final sanity check' phase between — sanity-check findings go into the transcript." Or alternatively, a documented expectation that the driver always re-verifies deliverables on disk and doesn't depend on the report-back text alone.

What lands on the operator's plate

In rough priority order (driver's read):

URGENT — investigate before any further Wave 7 work

  1. Disambiguate the SMTP_HOST / SMTP_USER overlay gap (M.3 finding). Run gcloud ssh ohm-app + systemctl show ohm-app.service | grep Environment to check whether they're set via systemd override. If not, OHM has been silently dropping every email (OTC, beta-access notifications, per-RFC invites, admin-create invites) — meaning v0.7.0 / v0.9.0 / v0.16.0 / v0.17.0's user-facing email features are degraded since deploy. Send a manual test through the admin "Create user + invite" flow as a probe.

HIGH — review + merge the docs PRs

  1. rfc-app PR for feature/contributing-and-spec-analytics at 213f686. Suggested PR description in SESSION-M.1-TRANSCRIPT-…md What-the-driver-needs-to-know #6. Open on:

    • https://git.wiggleverse.org/ben.stull/rfc-app/pulls/new/feature/contributing-and-spec-analytics
    • https://git.benstull.org/benstull/rfc-app/pulls/new/feature/contributing-and-spec-analytics Operator decides §21-vs-§16 placement — driver concurs with M.1's §21 call (don't break the §19.2 cross-reference graph).

  2. ohm-rfc PR for feature/contributing-roadmap-guide at f26fae4. Description also in M.1's transcript. Open on:

    • https://git.wiggleverse.org/ben.stull/ohm-rfc/pulls/new/feature/contributing-roadmap-guide

MEDIUM — schedule + decide

  1. #17 repo naming proposal at ~/git/ohm-infra/REPO-NAMING-PROPOSAL.md. Six open questions in the proposal that need operator input before the execution session can be scoped. Q1 (per-RFC repos vs monorepo) may reshape the proposal entirely; resolve first.

  2. #20 + #18 deliverability runbook at ~/git/ohm-infra/EMAIL-AND-WEBHOOK-HARDENING-RUNBOOK.md. Once #1 above is settled, this is the priority-ordered list of operator gestures. Top three: (a) curl DELETE the stale wiggleverse/meta Gitea webhook pointing at deprovisioned http://rfc.wiggleverse.org; (b) DMARC Phase A (pct=100; sp=quarantine; adkim=s; aspf=s); (c) confirm wiggleverse/rfc-0001-human has no webhook (M.3 noted absence — intentional or oversight?).

  3. rfc-app v0.18.0 minor is now the natural next release — carries the framework-side hardening from M.3: build_envelope shared helper (Date/Message-ID/Auto-Submitted/ List-Unsubscribe headers + multipart text+html); required GITEA_WEBHOOK_SECRET; outbound_emails audit table. Proposal doc at ~/git/ohm-infra/RFC-APP-EMAIL-HYGIENE-PROPOSAL.md.

LOW / informational

  1. #23 transcript filename rename is on ROADMAP now (operator pushed 8cce148). This session is the last to use the SESSION-<letter> convention before #23 ships; future sessions will name as SESSION-NNNN.M per the new spec.

  2. Stale Session-L INPROGRESS file at ~/git/ohm-infra/SESSION-L-TRANSCRIPT-2026-05-28T04-22--INPROGRESS.md (4.3 KB). Final L transcript is published; this is a placeholder that can be deleted. Driver did NOT delete (operator's call).

  3. Three rfc-app worktrees from Session L still on disk: ~/git/rfc-app-v0.15.0-amplitude/, ~/git/rfc-app-v0.16.0-owner-invite/, ~/git/rfc-app-v0.17.0-admin-create-user/. All shipped + merged. Cleanup via git worktree remove at the operator's convenience.

  4. §19.2 candidate #13 (subagent stream-watchdog stall pattern) is a candidate protocol clarification for SESSION-PROTOCOL.md §5 — see the candidates list above.

Prompt the operator can paste into the next Claude Code session

You are the OHM roadmap driver. The previous session (Session M)
ran Wave 6 as three Track Ω inventory/draft subsessions in parallel
(M.1 / M.2 / M.3) under the new §5 subsession-transcript convention.

**What Session M produced:**
- Two docs feature branches awaiting your PR review:
  - rfc-app `feature/contributing-and-spec-analytics` at `213f686`
    (CONTRIBUTING.md + SPEC.md §21 analytics chapter, lands #19 +
    #21 Part B; placed §21 not §16 to preserve the §19.2 cross-
    reference graph — driver concurs with M.1's call)
  - ohm-rfc `feature/contributing-roadmap-guide` at `f26fae4`
    (CONTRIBUTING extension covering roadmap changes + operator-
    only boundary)
- Three new docs on disk at `~/git/ohm-infra/`:
  - `REPO-NAMING-PROPOSAL.md` (#17 inventory + proposal; six open
    questions need your input)
  - `EMAIL-AND-WEBHOOK-HARDENING-RUNBOOK.md` (#18 + #20 deployment-
    side gestures, prioritized)
  - `RFC-APP-EMAIL-HYGIENE-PROPOSAL.md` (#18 + #20 framework-side
    minor proposal — target rfc-app v0.18.0)

**URGENT to investigate FIRST**: M.3 found `SMTP_HOST` + `SMTP_USER`
missing from the live flotilla overlay. If they aren't being set
via systemd override on the VM, every OHM email path (OTC,
beta-access notifications, per-RFC invites, admin-create invites
— v0.7.0/v0.9.0/v0.16.0/v0.17.0) has been silently dropping mail
since the relevant deploy. First gesture: `gcloud ssh ohm-app` +
`systemctl show ohm-app.service | grep Environment` to check. If
broken, send a probe through the "admin create user + invite"
flow.

**Wave 7 candidates (priority order):**
1. **Investigate + fix SMTP gap** (above) — possibly an ops-only
   gesture if systemd override is sufficient; possibly an rfc-app
   minor if the email-send code needs a defensive change.
2. **Operator reviews + merges the two docs PRs from Session M**
   (no version bump for either; lands as no-bump docs commits).
3. **rfc-app v0.18.0** — framework-side hardening from
   `RFC-APP-EMAIL-HYGIENE-PROPOSAL.md`: `build_envelope` shared
   helper (Date/Message-ID/Auto-Submitted/List-Unsubscribe headers
   + multipart text+html for all four email paths); make
   `GITEA_WEBHOOK_SECRET` required (no longer `_optional`);
   `outbound_emails` audit table. Add `RFC_APP_INSECURE_WEBHOOKS=1`
   dev-bypass for local dev only.
4. **#17 execution session** — needs Q1 (per-RFC repos vs monorepo)
   answered first; then operator runs the moves per
   `REPO-NAMING-PROPOSAL.md`.
5. **#20 deployment-side gestures** — DMARC Phase A (`pct=100;
   sp=quarantine; adkim=s; aspf=s`), then ramp to `p=quarantine`
   after a week of `rua` data; delete stale `wiggleverse/meta`
   Gitea hook pointing at deprovisioned rfc.wiggleverse.org.
6. **#22** — operator drafts + counsel-reviews the pro-analytics-
   consent copy; subagent wires it in once approved.
7. **#21 Part A** — earliest reasonable target ~2026-06-04 (one
   week of Amplitude data post-v0.17.0). Defer until then.
8. **#1 VM rename** — operator-led ops gesture, schedule a
   maintenance window.
9. **#23 transcript filename rename** — on ROADMAP at `8cce148`;
   pick a session to execute the rename across all 13 published
   transcripts + the publish script's filename validator.

**Hard rules carried forward from Sessions K + L + M:**
- Never EVER ask the operator to paste secret bytes into the
  conversation. Always give the operator-run gesture (`pbpaste |
  flotilla secret set <deployment> <KEY>`). Public bundle-embedded
  values (VITE_AMPLITUDE_API_KEY, VITE_TURNSTILE_SITE_KEY) are fine
  in-conversation via `flotilla overlay set`.
- Subagent stream-watchdog stalls (Session M new): subagents
  MUST write their transcript BEFORE returning a report (already
  in §5.3) — and SHOULD NOT add a "final sanity check" phase
  between transcript-write and report-back (where M.1 died).
  Driver should always re-verify deliverables on disk rather
  than depend on the report-back text alone.
- §5 subsession-transcript convention is binding from Session M
  onward.

**Cut state at handoff:**
- rfc-app `main` at `1456c8b` (v0.17.0)
- ohm-rfc `main` at `8cce148` (#23 added by operator mid-Session-M)
- ohm-rfc-app-flotilla `main` at `65c0e55` (v1.0.1)
- ohm-rfc `.rfc-app-version` = `0.17.0`
- OHM live: deploys.id=21, v0.17.0
- Two feature branches awaiting your PR review (above)
- Next session letter: **N**

Read `~/git/ohm-infra/SESSION-PROTOCOL.md` and
`/Users/benstull/projects/wiggleverse/ohm-rfc/ROADMAP.md`
end-to-end. Then pick Wave 7's shippable scope.

(Cut state, §19.2 candidates, operator plate, and next-session prompt all written at session-end.)

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