session-history/engineering/0003/SESSION-0003.0-TRANSCRIPT-2026-06-04T13-23--2026-06-04T13-25.md

Session 0003.0 — Transcript

App: engineering Start: 2026-06-04T13-23 (PST) End: 2026-06-04T13-25 (PST) Type: coding Goal: Write a rule that an app's repos and environments may only be stood up via flotilla; at provisioning, a session hands the operator flotilla CLI instructions rather than provisioning itself. (Scoped by operator follow-up: initial provisioning only — ad hoc Gitea/cloud ops stay fine.) Outcome: Shipped. PR #11 merged to main (merge c551b8b). New canonical handbook §8.5 + named digest operating rule flotilla-only-provisioning.

Plan

Add the flotilla-only-provisioning rule, docs-first (handbook canonical, digest reflects):

• Handbook (README.md): new §8.5 "Provisioning is a flotilla gesture" (+ TOC entry) — initial stand-up of repos + environment goes through the launch-app/flotilla-core suite only; the agent hands the operator the flotilla command(s) and waits; operator-run gesture in both postures; ad hoc ops on existing resources unaffected.
• Digest (agent-context.md): new named operating rule flotilla-only-provisioning in the Operating-rules list + a pointer in the §8 deploy section.
• Scope = rule only (operator decision); aligning the downstream plugin skills is a recorded follow-up. No formal spec/plan doc (operator decision).

Pre-session state

engineering on clean, pushed main (right after session 0002's digest-rename sweep merged, ed7967c). The session opened in the plugin repo's working dir but the work targets the engineering repo. No other sessions in flight.

Existing provisioning landscape (recon): provisioning is the launch-app orchestrator (phase skills define-deployment, scaffold-gitea-repos, provision-vm) over the flotilla-core engine (verbs deployment scaffold|validate|import, flotilla init, flotilla deploy), with scaffold-gcp-project as the cloud-foundation phase. So "via flotilla" maps onto the launch-app/flotilla suite; the rule formalizes it as the only front door for initial stand-up.

Turn-by-turn arc

1. Gate already lifted (session declared coding earlier this conversation); no re-gate. Classified the task as creative/policy work → invoked brainstorming (HARD-GATE: design before implementing).
2. Recon. Read handbook §8.2/§8.4, the launch-app SPEC (§1–§5), and flotilla-core's real verbs to ground the rule in existing mechanics rather than invent a flotilla surface.
3. Operator clarification (mid-work): "Ad hoc operations against e.g. Gitea are ok. But initial provisioning must be via flotilla." → scoped the rule to initial stand-up only; ad hoc admin stays fine.
4. Design + two forks via AskUserQuestion: scope = rule only (not rule+skill-alignment); process = skip formal spec/plan. Design approved.
5. Claim. Prior transcript (0002) was already published, so claimed a fresh ID 0003 (6ac0c0f) before editing.
6. Edit on branch docs/flotilla-only-provisioning-rule: handbook TOC entry
   • §8.5 body; digest named rule + §8 pointer. Reviewed the full diff (42 insertions, 2 files).
7. Ship. Commit (Co-Authored-By trailer) → push → PR #11 via Gitea API → merge (Do: merge, HTTP 200) → sync local main, delete branch. Confirmed the rule present on main in both files.
8. Finalize. Recorded the skill-alignment follow-up in plugin memory; wrote + published this transcript.

Cut state (end of session)

Repo	Branch	Commits	State
engineering	main	7eef7a4 (rule) → c551b8b (merge of PR #11)	merged, pushed; local main synced; feature branch deleted

README.md +27 / agent-context.md +15; docs-only. Working tree clean on origin/main.

What lands on the operator's plate

The rule is canonical and live in the engineering repo. The one explicit follow-up (recorded in the plugin project memory, not in this PR by design): align the downstream plugin skills to the rule — scaffold-gcp-project, wgl-gitea-admin (scope its repo-creation path to flotilla; keep rename/visibility/etc. as ad hoc), and wgl-session-coding-init's DEPLOY-FLOTILLA.md card — in a later plugin session (edit plugin source + version bump per CLAUDE.md).

Prompt the operator can paste into the next session

The natural next step is the recorded follow-up — a plugin-repo session:

/goal Align the plugin skills to the new flotilla-only-provisioning rule (engineering §8.5): make scaffold-gcp-project / wgl-gitea-admin (repo-creation path only) / wgl-session-coding-init's DEPLOY-FLOTILLA card defer INITIAL provisioning to the launch-app/flotilla suite (hand the operator the flotilla command(s) rather than hand-provisioning); keep ad hoc Gitea/gcloud ops unchanged. Bump plugin.json. See plugin project memory.