Session 0029.0 — Transcript

Date: 2026-05-28 Goal: Advance the OHM roadmap autonomously as a parallel driver session; pick one disjoint item that needs no operator input and doesn't collide with the two in-flight sessions.

Outcome: rfc-app v0.26.0 SHIPPED + DEPLOYED — roadmap #28 Part 1 (auto-link accepted RFCs inside PR descriptions + PR/discussion comments). 363 backend tests green, frontend builds clean. Merged to main 698821f, tagged v0.26.0 (origin + benstull), deployed to OHM as deploys.id=34 — live at ohm.wiggleverse.org/api/health = 0.26.0. The operator authorized merge + deploy mid-session.

Highlights:

Discovered the only buildable rfc-app feature (#28) and scoped it to its clean, non-colliding slice (Part 1).

Deliberate, documented spec deviation: read-time enrichment, not submit-time (§19.3-rule-2 note).

Zero migration (a concurrent session already holds migration 023); XSS-safe structured segments (no dangerouslySetInnerHTML).

Pre-session state

OHM live: rfc-app v0.24.0 on the renamed VM ohm-rfc-app (deploys.id stack from Session 0028: v0.22.0→v0.23.0→v0.24.0 landed after the #1 VM-rename blocker cleared). Deploys unblocked, lock free.
ohm-rfc pin (.rfc-app-version): 0.24.0.
flotilla: v1.2.0 built + pushed as a PR by Session 0028, NOT merged (operator to open/merge/tag).
Active parallel sessions at claim time (from claim-session-id.sh): 0026 and 0027, both claimed 2026-05-28T13-46, both --INPROGRESS.
rfc-app working dir (/Users/benstull/git/rfc-app): a shared checkout, mid-edit on branch feature/v0.25.0-security-hardening (created 14:06 today off main/v0.24.0). Uncommitted, unpushed: OTC verify-lockout, in-process rate limiting (backend/app/ratelimit.py), HTML/XSS sanitization (frontend/src/lib/sanitizeHtml.js + MarkdownPreview.jsx / ProposalView.jsx / Editor.jsx), and migration 023 (023_otc_verify_lockout.sql). This is one of the 0026/0027 sessions' rfc-app side — the v0.25.0 slot is claimed.

Turn-by-turn arc

Arc 1 — Claim, survey, and the parallel-session hazard

Claimed session ID 0029 via claim-session-id.sh --start 2026-05-28T15-47 (placeholder pushed at 286e75f). Read SESSION-PROTOCOL §7; pulled ohm-rfc/ROADMAP.md and read it end to end.

Surveyed the candidate set from the launch prompt against "what can an autonomous session actually ship tonight without operator input and without colliding with 0026/0027":

#21 Part A (Amplitude audit) — time-gated to ~2026-06-04 (needs a week of real data). Not now.
#22 (pro-consent copy) — blocked on operator-drafted + counsel-reviewed text. Not now.
#20 DMARC Phase B — time-gated to ~2026-06-04. #18/#20 ops remainder (stale wiggleverse/meta webhook, bounce wiring) is operator/gitea- admin work.
#31b / #25-redesign — blocked on operator screenshots.
#33 / #34 (name alignment) — operator-led, URL-breaking moves.
#28 (PR cross-references) — Track B rfc-app feature, deps #3/#7/#12 all shipped. The one item buildable with no operator input. Picked.

Then the hazard surfaced: the real rfc-app checkout (/Users/benstull/git/rfc-app) was a shared working dir mid-edit on feature/v0.25.0-security-hardening. Per the launch prompt's explicit warning ("branches alone do NOT isolate concurrent sessions sharing one working dir — take a manual git worktree with its own venv"), I created an isolated worktree:

git worktree add /Users/benstull/git/rfc-app-s0029 \
    -b feature/v0.26.0-pr-rfc-links main

…and never touched the shared checkout again. The v0.25.0 slot being claimed → I target v0.26.0.

Arc 2 — Scoping #28 to its clean, non-colliding slice

#28 is explicitly "large, its own session" with three parts. I dispatched one read-only Explore agent to map the PR/comment/RFC surfaces (folded into this transcript per §5's driver-fold for read-only helpers — it did no commits and warranted no separate .1 transcript). Key findings:

PR descriptions and comments render as plain text (PRView.jsx:221 description, :443 PR conversation; RFCDiscussionPanel.jsx:282 discussion) — not through the MarkdownPreview surface the security branch is hardening. Zero frontend file overlap.
The security branch already created migration 023. Decisive signal to make my slice migration-free — achievable by enriching at read-time against the live cached_rfcs active set rather than persisting links at submit time. That also avoids main.py (no new endpoint) and any migration collision.
RFC corpus: SELECT slug, title, rfc_id FROM cached_rfcs WHERE state='active'. RFC view route is /rfc/:slug. Codebase convention for internal nav inside these components is plain <a href> (e.g. PRView.jsx:190), not react-router <Link>.

Scoped to Part 1 only (auto-link existing accepted RFCs), the roadmap's recommended "easy win first". Parts 2 + 3 deferred.

Arc 3 — Implementation (v0.26.0)

Read-time enrichment, migration-free, XSS-safe structured segments:

backend/app/rfc_links.py (new): build_index(conn, exclude_slug=) → LinkIndex.segment(text) → list of {type:"text"} / {type:"rfc", slug, label, title} segments. Conservative matching to avoid false positives: links only rfc_id tokens (RFC-0001), multi-word titles (whitespace present, e.g. Open Human Model), and hyphenated slugs (e.g. open-human-model). A single common-word title/slug (a hypothetical RFC titled "Human") is not linked — that would turn every prose "human" into a link; the roadmap's "curated canonical-terms list" stays an explicit future opt-in. Case-insensitive, word-boundary-anchored, longest-match-wins, self-reference suppressed via exclude_slug.
api_prs.py get_pr(): builds the index once (exclude current slug), adds description_segments and per-comment text_segments.
api_discussion.py get_discussion_thread_messages(): per-comment text_segments.
frontend/src/components/LinkedText.jsx (new): maps segments onto React text nodes + <a class="rfc-autolink">. No dangerouslySetInnerHTML → XSS-safe by construction, independent of the security branch's sanitizeHtml.js. Falls back to raw text when segments are absent (older cached responses).
Wired into PRView.jsx (description + PR conversation bodies) and RFCDiscussionPanel.jsx (discussion bodies). App.css: a tokenized .rfc-autolink rule (accent + dotted underline).
VERSION → 0.26.0; frontend/package.json → 0.26.0 (the package-lock version field is stale at 0.21.0 across recent releases — left as-is to match convention).

Deliberate spec deviation (recorded per §19.3-rule-2): the roadmap row says the scan happens "at submit/post time"; I shipped read-time enrichment. The intent the row actually names — "not as live compose preview" — holds (drafts are never scanned). Read-time was chosen for correctness (links track the live active set: newly-accepted RFCs start linking, withdrawn ones stop), zero migration, and cheapness (the corpus is small + cache-resident).

Arc 4 — Tests, build, ship

New backend/tests/test_rfc_links_vertical.py: 12 tests (9 scanner units covering the gating rules, word boundaries, longest-match, case-insensitivity, casing preservation; 3 end-to-end that PR description + review comment + discussion comment all surface *_segments, plus self-reference suppression). Two integration-test fixes mid-flight: the change original text must exist verbatim in SEED_BODY (else "stale"), and the PR description carries an appended §6.5 On-behalf-of: trailer (so assert containment, not equality).
Full backend suite: 363 passed (351 baseline + 12 new).
Frontend builds clean (npm ci + npm run build with a throwaway .env providing VITE_APP_NAME; the chunk-size warning is pre-existing).
Committed e794523; pushed feature/v0.26.0-pr-rfc-links to origin (git.wiggleverse.org) + benstull (mirror).
ohm-rfc ROADMAP #28 row updated with a "Part 1 built + PR-pushed" status note (commit 0f09403, pushed to ohm-rfc main) so a future driver doesn't re-pick Part 1.

I left the branch PR-ready and recorded a "built + PR-pushed" status note on the ohm-rfc ROADMAP #28 row — initially deferring the merge/deploy to the operator per the launch prompt's "coordinate the deploy lock + slot" rule.

Arc 5 — Operator authorized merge + deploy

Mid-session the operator replied: "go ahead and merge the PR and deploy." So I carried it through, with two safety detours forced by the parallel-session environment:

Merge. main was not checked out in any worktree (the shared rfc-app checkout holds the security branch with uncommitted work — untouchable). Created a fresh detached worktree on main, git merge --no-ff the feature branch (merge 698821f), tagged v0.26.0 (lightweight, house style), pushed main + tag to origin + benstull. Version-slot note: merging v0.26.0 makes the parallel v0.25.0 security session "last to merge" — it renumbers/rebases per the roadmap rule; flagged for the operator.
Deploy. The canonical flotilla checkout had uncommitted deploy.py changes — the 0026/0027 secret-redaction WIP on _PhaseRunner — and its editable .venv runs the working tree. Rather than actuate a production deploy with another session's unmerged code, I deployed from a clean detached worktree on flotilla main (c26f251 = v1.1.0) with its own venv. The state DB (~/.ohm-rfc-app-flotilla/) is a fixed user path, so the worktree saw the registered deployment + deploy log + §8.3 lock.
A scare, resolved. A deploy log | tail -12 appeared to show the last success as v0.17.0 with three aborted v0.18.0 rows — seemingly contradicting "live at v0.24.0." I stopped and probed ground truth: deploy status + a direct curl both returned 0.24.0. The "missing" rows were a tail artifact (the log prints newest-first; tail hid ids 26–34). No real discrepancy. (Lesson: probe live health before trusting a truncated log view.)
Deploy. Dry-run confirmed the plan (target v0.26.0, 7 secret refs resolve incl. the already-bound ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, renamed VM /opt/ohm-rfc-app, no migration step). Real deploy: all 9 phases ok, deploys.id=34, health verify in 7.3s — no SSE-keepalive abort despite deploying with pre-v1.2.0 flotilla (the intermittent failure didn't trigger). Live /api/health = 0.26.0; pin check matches.
Updated the ohm-rfc ROADMAP #28 row to Part 1 ✅ SHIPPED + DEPLOYED (commit b4d39a8). Removed all three temporary worktrees.

Cut state (end of session)

Repo / surface	State
rfc-app	`main` @ `698821f` (merge), tag v0.26.0 pushed to origin + benstull. 363 tests green, FE builds. Feature commit `e794523`.
ohm-rfc	`main` @ `b4d39a8` — pin bumped to 0.26.0, ROADMAP #28 Part 1 struck SHIPPED + DEPLOYED.
OHM live	v0.26.0 on `ohm-rfc-app`, healthy (`/api/health`=0.26.0). deploys.id=34 succeeded (9/9 phases, verify 7.3s).
Worktrees	All three temporary worktrees (rfc-app feature, rfc-app main-merge, flotilla deploy) removed.

#28 ledger	Status
#28 Part 1 (auto-link accepted RFCs) → v0.26.0	✅ shipped + deployed (deploys.id=34)
#28 Part 2 (offer-to-create-RFC)	⏸ not started
#28 Part 3 (offer-to-contribute-to-pending)	⏸ not started

§19.2 / process candidates surfaced

Branch-chat auto-linking. Part 1 enriches PR descriptions, PR review comments, and PR-less discussion comments — but not branch-chat messages (the AI-collaboration surface, ChatPanel.jsx + api_branches.py). Extending rfc_links there is a small follow-up if branch chat warrants it.
Curated canonical-terms / per-RFC alias list. The conservative matcher deliberately skips single common-word titles/slugs. The roadmap names a "curated canonical-terms list" for exactly these; it's left as an explicit opt-in (config/content), not guessed at in framework code.
rfc-app test deps aren't in requirements.txt. pytest / httpx / pytest-asyncio had to be pip-installed into the fresh worktree venv by hand (the shared checkout's venv had them). A requirements-dev.txt (or an extras group) would make a clean worktree test-ready in one step. Minor ergonomic gap, like the PYTHONPATH=. one CONTRIBUTING already notes.

What lands on the operator's plate

v0.26.0 is shipped + deployed (deploys.id=34) — nothing left here. Worth a real-world eyeball: open a PR or post a comment on OHM that mentions an accepted RFC (RFC-0001 / "Open Human Model") and confirm the inline auto-link renders to /rfc/<slug>.
The parallel v0.25.0 security-hardening session (0026/0027) is now "last to merge." Because v0.26.0 landed first, that session must rebase onto a main that's already at v0.26.0 and renumber to v0.27.0 (its target slot is taken). Expect a trivial top-of-file CHANGELOG/VERSION resolution; the code regions are disjoint from v0.26.0's (their MarkdownPreview/otc/ratelimit vs. my rfc_links/PRView/ discussion).
The local flotilla deploy.py working tree still has the 0026/0027 secret-redaction WIP uncommitted — I deployed from clean main (v1.1.0) and left their WIP untouched. Nothing for you unless you want to land it.
(Carried from 0028) flotilla v1.2.0 PR still open + unmerged — the phase-7 SSE pre-drain it carries would have de-risked this deploy's restart phase (which happened to succeed without it).
Parts 2 + 3 of #28 remain unbuilt — the larger follow-up.

Prompt the operator can paste into the next Claude Code session

OHM roadmap driver session, parallel-safe. Claim your ID first:
  ~/git/ohm-infra/scripts/claim-session-id.sh --start <now PST, YYYY-MM-DDTHH-MM>
It prints active --INPROGRESS sessions — coordinate. Read SESSION-PROTOCOL §7
+ pull ohm-rfc/ROADMAP.md.

STATE (end of 0029, 2026-05-28): OHM live at rfc-app **v0.26.0** on
ohm-rfc-app (deploys.id=34, healthy), pin=0.26.0, deploy lock free.
Session 0029 shipped + DEPLOYED #28 Part 1 (auto-link accepted RFCs in PR
text + comments). Still built-but-unmerged / in-flight:
  - flotilla v1.2.0 (Session 0028) — PR open, not merged (its phase-7 SSE
    pre-drain de-risks deploy restarts; the v0.26.0 deploy succeeded
    without it).
  - rfc-app v0.25.0 security-hardening (Sessions 0026/0027) — uncommitted
    in the shared /Users/benstull/git/rfc-app checkout (+ uncommitted
    deploy.py redaction WIP in the flotilla checkout). Because v0.26.0
    merged first, this session is now "last to merge" → it must rebase
    onto main@v0.26.0 and **renumber to v0.27.0** (slot 0.25.0 superseded).
    Code regions are disjoint from v0.26.0's.

PICK ONE disjoint item. Open candidates: #28 Parts 2+3 (offer-to-create-RFC;
offer-to-contribute-to-pending — the larger follow-up, its own session, and
it will rebase on whatever v0.25.0's MarkdownPreview/sanitize work settled);
#21 Part A Amplitude audit (real data ~2026-06-04); #22 pro-consent copy
(operator-drafted + counsel text); #20/#18 ops (DMARC Phase B ~2026-06-04;
stale wiggleverse/meta webhook still pointing at deprovisioned
rfc.wiggleverse.org; bounce wiring); #31b/#25-redesign (operator
screenshots); #33/#34 repo + GCP name alignment (operator-led).
AVOID shipped/in-flight surfaces: #26/#27/#29/v0.21.0; the v0.25.0 security
files (otc.py, ratelimit.py, MarkdownPreview/ProposalView/Editor.jsx,
sanitizeHtml.js, migration 023); and v0.26.0's surfaces (rfc_links.py,
LinkedText.jsx, get_pr/discussion enrichment).

Hard rules: never ask for secret bytes (give the
`printf '%s' "$(pbpaste)" | .venv/bin/ohm-rfc-app-flotilla secret set
ohm-rfc-app <KEY>` gesture); coordinate the serialized deploy lock + version
slot with the operator; if you build in rfc-app, take a manual git worktree
with its own venv (the shared /Users/benstull/git/rfc-app checkout may be
mid-edit by another session); subagents write their own §5 subsession
transcripts; finalize + publish your transcript LAST (deliver the handoff
prompt before publish). Use branches + PRs. Claim your ID, then go.

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