Session 0093.0 — Transcript

App: ohm Start: 2026-06-09T03-39 (PST) End: 2026-06-09T04-34 (PST) Type: planning-and-executing Status: FINALIZED

Launch prompt

Main-view "Ask" should just work (Option B): when the AI Ask affordance
(selection tooltip + prompt bar) is invoked from an entry's canonical `main`
view, transparently cut an edit branch (startEditBranch for super-draft /
promoteToBranch for active — same dispatch as handleStartContributing),
navigate to that branch + switch to contribute mode so ChatPanel mounts, then
run the user's question (text + selected quote) as a chat turn once the new
branch's main_thread_id loads. Non-contributor / signed-out: graceful path, no
silent no-op, no spurious branch. Flag on main unchanged (discussion thread).
Frontend tests for the new flow; backend + frontend green. Deploy to OHM after
(tag + mirror + flotilla); verify on the live rfc-app spec entry.
Repro: https://rfc.wiggleverse.org/p/rfc-app/c/rfc-app/e/2026-06-08-scoped-admin-ia

Outcome (one line)

§8.12/§8.3 main-view AI "Ask" shipped as v0.54.0 (PR #49) and deployed through the full §9 pipeline — tier1 localhost+e2e → PPE+e2e → prod — both PPE and OHM prod live and healthy at 0.54.0.

Pre-state

Branch main clean at ff88be2 (v0.53.0, G-15 shipped session 0091).
A concurrent session 0092 was in flight on the same checkout (the Scoped Admin IA spec — a content-repo surface, no code collision). Per §5.4 this session did its edits in an isolated git worktree (rfc-app-wt-0093).

The arc

Session gate — classified the prompt as planning-and-executing; claimed session 0093 (peeked first: 0080 + 0092 in flight, noted and proceeded per the autonomous default). Clean pushed main baseline confirmed.
Root-cause read (RFCView.jsx): the render gate mounts RFCDiscussionPanel on main and ChatPanel only on a non-main branch; submitChatTurn's optimistic messages therefore have nowhere to render on main, and handleTooltipAsk/handlePrompt called it regardless of branch → silent no-op. handleStartContributing already had the branch-cut dispatch but returned void.
Implementation (Option B), frontend-only:
- handleStartContributing now returns the branch name (new branch on main, current branch on a mode-flip, null on signed-out / rejected cut).
- New handleMainAsk(text, quote) reuses that dispatch, navigates, and stashes pendingAskRef = {text, quote, branch}.
- Race caught in design: firing the ask from a parallel effect let the branch's initial loadAllMessages(...).then(setMessages) clobber the optimistic turn (the streamed answer would be lost — confirmed it's a real bug, not just a test artifact). Fix: fire the stashed ask from inside the message-load effect's .then, after setMessages(loaded), via a live submitChatTurnRef (keeps the latest closure without widening the effect's deps). Guarded on branchView.branch_name === pending.branch to avoid the stale-main-view transition.
- handleTooltipAsk/handlePrompt route to handleMainAsk on main, direct submitChatTurn on a branch. Flag on main unchanged.
Tests: new RFCView.test.jsx (6 cases: cut+run w/ quote, super-draft uses start-edit-branch, existing-branch unchanged, rejected-cut graceful, Flag on main, signed-out read-only). New e2e/main-view-ask.spec.js. Brought up the tier1 stack; the e2e first surfaced that tier1 has no AI provider (the turn errors with "Chat failed: No AI providers configured", and submitChatTurn's error handler swaps in the top-level error page) — which actually proved the turn fired. Reworked the assertion to the model-independent core (branch cut + navigation + turn-fired, matching question-OR-chat-error) so the one spec passes in both tier1 (no model) and PPE/prod (model). Local: backend 677 / frontend 66 / e2e 5 green.
SPEC + version: recorded the behavior in SPEC.md §8.3; bumped VERSION + frontend/package.json to 0.54.0; CHANGELOG 0.54.0 (minor, no operator action).
Ship: PR #49 → merged (origin main=f7b93d7); tagged v0.54.0 on origin AND the git.benstull.org mirror + fast-forwarded the mirror's main (prod VM reads the code tag from the mirror).
§9 pipeline: bumped PPE pin .rfc-app-version.ppe→0.54.0, flotilla-core deploy rfc-app-ppe (deploys.id=29, 9/9 ok) → ran main-view-ask.spec.js against the PPE edge (passed; smoke failed only because PPE has no Mailpit sink — expected). Then bumped prod pin .rfc-app-version→0.54.0, flotilla-core deploy ohm-rfc-app (deploys.id=30, 9/9 ok, edge verified).
Verify: prod /api/health=0.54.0, PPE=0.54.0, repro entry HTTP 200.

Cut state

origin ben.stull/rfc-app main = f7b93d7; tag v0.54.0 on origin + benstull mirror; mirror main fast-forwarded.
OHM prod live @ v0.54.0 (deploys.id=30); PPE @ v0.54.0 (deploys.id=29).
Pins: prod .rfc-app-version=0.54.0, PPE .rfc-app-version.ppe=0.54.0 (both pushed to ben/ohm-rfc).
Worktree removed; tier1 stack torn down. Local main checkout left at ff88be2 (behind origin by 2) — untouched on purpose (concurrent session 0092's checkout).
No standalone writing-plans artifact (the plan lived in the ## Plan block below for this focused change) → nothing to archive to plans/.

Deferred decisions

Autonomous-mode low-confidence calls the driver made and would have liked operator input on.

Contribute mode on the cut branch. The spec said "switch to contribute mode." Honored it (the message-load effect sets contribute on firing the ask) since AI chat is an editing activity and contribute surfaces any proposed edits — but it's slightly more disruptive than landing in discuss. Easy to flip to discuss if the reading-flow feel is preferred.
Prod verification via PPE e2e, not a live in-browser Ask. A full interactive check needs a logged-in contributor and would cut a real edit branch on prod dogfood content (a mutating side-effect). Validated end-to-end on the deployed PPE edge (identical bundle) + prod health + repro 200 instead. The click-through on the exact dogfood entry is left to the operator.
PPE jumped 0.52.3→0.54.0 (skipping 0.53.0 — PPE was behind prod). Fine, PPE is staging with its own pin, but PPE never ran 0.53.0.

Plan

Goal: Make the AI "Ask" affordance work from an entry's canonical main view (Option B) — frontend-only, in frontend/src/components/RFCView.jsx.

handleStartContributing → return the new branch_name.
New handleMainAsk(text, quote): signed-out → login; else cut+navigate; stash pendingAskRef.
Pending-ask fires from the message-load effect's .then once branchView.branch_name === pending.branch && main_thread_id (avoids the stale-main-view race + the late-load clobber); setMode('contribute'); submitChatTurn.
Route handleTooltipAsk/handlePrompt on main → handleMainAsk. Flag on main unchanged.
Tests: RFCView.test.jsx + e2e/main-view-ask.spec.js.
Version bump (minor), CHANGELOG, SPEC §8.3, PR→merge.
Deploy PPE→prod (tag + mirror + flotilla), verify.

Next-session prompt

The roadmap cursor is unchanged (this was an operator side-quest). Next item:

/goal Harden the two §9-surfaced framework fragilities as patch release(s) shipped localhost→PPE→prod: (1) auth.provision_user 500s on a duplicate email (OTC email-row then Gitea-OAuth gitea_id-row, same email) — reconcile by email; (2) the registry/startup reconcile is additive and never prunes removed projects/collections/entries — add safe prune-on-reconcile that must NOT wipe on a transient registry read error. Per project_rfc_app_multiproject.md Next /goal (line ~883).

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