Session 0012.0 — Transcript

App: ecomm Start: 2026-06-03T19-45 (PST) · End: 2026-06-03T20-25 (PST) Goal: Cluster the full ecomm BDD corpus into dependency-ordered, parallelizable releases. Outcome: ROADMAP.md (60 releases, 5 waves) generated + merged to main; generator committed to meta.

(Start time is an estimate — this session was not run through wgl-coding-session-init, so no claim happened at the real start; the ID 0012 was claimed during finalize.)

Plan

Operator had a large BDD corpus and wanted it clustered into ordered work units (releases), parallelizable where domains don't intersect. Plan that emerged:

Locate the corpus, understand the domain/feature/dependency structure.
React to the operator's "non-intersecting domains → parallel" heuristic; refine it to "dependency DAG over scenarios" (non-intersection governs merge-safety; the DAG governs order).
Decide unit grain (feature-level), gated scope (park credits), output location (ecomm/ROADMAP.md).
Build a feature-level dependency graph, topo-level it into waves, group by domain into parallel tracks.
Generate ROADMAP.md deterministically from scenarios.json + the graph (no hand-typed numbers).
Commit (branches), then on finalize: merge both to main, update memory, publish this transcript.

Pre-session state

wiggleverse-ecomm on main, clean. R01–R03 shipped (store/settings, staff, locations core), layered backend (app/platform | domains | api) with import-linter. CI workflow present but inert (no Gitea runner registered).
The BDD corpus was not in the ecomm repo — it lives in wiggleverse-ecomm-meta/research/shopify/ as 68 .md feature files plus a machine-readable scenarios.json (1,238 scenarios, 15 domains) and shopify-domain-map.md (carries an explicit per-domain Depends On column).
Key reconciliation discovered: the ecomm 13.NN.* mechanic IDs = the settings domain. R01 = settings/general (13.06), R02 = settings/users-and-permissions (13.15), R03 = settings/locations (13.07, 4 of 9 scenarios). So the real release cadence has been per-feature, not per-domain.

Turn-by-turn arc

Framing. Operator proposed: a release = stories from ≥1 feature in a domain; parallelize while domains don't intersect. Invoked the brainstorming skill (process-first). Read SPEC.md + MAP.md to ground the reaction.
Refinement delivered. Argued the binding constraint is the dependency DAG, not mere non-intersection: two disjoint domains can still be force-ordered (checkout→orders→products). Noted the SPEC already does the sophisticated version — R03 shipped only the dependency-free subset of locations and deferred the rest. Flagged migrations as a serialization point and the shared §7–§8 auth gate as a non-disjoint substrate.
Corpus located. Operator pointed at wiggleverse-ecomm-meta/research/shopify. Explored: no .feature files — instead structured scenarios.json. Mapped the 15-domain / 68-feature distribution; read the domain map's dependency column and the id-registry feature numbering.
Three decisions (AskUserQuestion). Unit grain = feature-level; gated scope = park credits only (59 scenarios, SPEC §6 money-transmission gate); output = ecomm/ROADMAP.md.
DAG + leveling. Hand-authored a feature-level dependency graph (commerce domain knowledge + the domain map), encoded it in Python, topo-leveled into 5 waves, grouped by domain into parallel tracks. Result: 60 releases R04–R63. Wave widths 5/8/12/8/2; critical path 5 deep (products → orders → shipping+taxes → international-markets → localized-pricing).
Design approved. Presented wave structure + six load-bearing judgment calls (orders-depends- on-products-only; customer-list as foundation; broke the payments↔checkout cycle; gift-cards vs the parked credits gate; onboarding placed late; the 5 deferred R03 location scenarios ride along later releases). Operator: "That's fine. We'll revisit after the first several releases."
Generated + committed. Wrote gen_roadmap.py (after a first heredoc attempt hit a bash/Python quote-escaping SyntaxError — fixed by writing the script to a file). Generated ROADMAP.md. Self-review: totals reconcile (1151 sequenced + 59 parked + 28 shipped = 1238); no forward refs. Committed each on a branch (ecomm + meta).
Finalize. Operator chose: push + merge both to main now; create + publish a transcript. Fast-forward merged both, pushed, deleted branches; updated memory; drafted next-session prompt; claimed session 0012 and published this transcript.

Wrong turns / corrections (no curation)

Miscounted sequenced scenarios as "1,179" in the verbal summary; the generator's correct 1151 revealed the error (I'd forgotten to subtract the 28 already-shipped R01–R03 scenarios). 1151 + 59 parked + 28 shipped = 1238. ✓
Heredoc generator failed first try: << 'PY' passed \" literally into Python f-strings → SyntaxError. Switched to writing gen_roadmap.py as a file (also made it rerunnable — the right call anyway).

Cut state (end of session)

Repo	Branch	Commit	Change	Remote
`wiggleverse/wiggleverse-ecomm`	`main`	`c426600`	add `ROADMAP.md` (60 releases, 5 waves)	pushed (ff `933733d..c426600`)
`wiggleverse/wiggleverse-ecomm-meta`	`main`	`6758b80`	add `research/shopify/gen_roadmap.py`	pushed (ff `c4c4f4e..6758b80`)

Both feature branches (docs/roadmap-release-clustering, docs/roadmap-generator) merged fast-forward and deleted. Both working trees clean. No code written — planning artifact only.

What lands on the operator's plate

Review ROADMAP.md at leisure; it's explicitly a living doc to revisit after the first few releases. The six judgment calls (esp. #1 orders-timing, #5 onboarding placement) are the likely edges to move.
Standing infra gap (unchanged): no Gitea Actions runner → ci.yml inert; no branch protection on main. Not addressed this session.
Nothing broken, nothing blocked.

Prompt the operator can paste into the next session

Start the next wiggleverse-ecomm release. First run /wgl-coding-session-init to claim a
session ID and confirm a clean main baseline.

Context: R01–R03 are shipped/merged. The full 1,238-scenario BDD corpus is now sequenced in
wiggleverse-ecomm/ROADMAP.md into 60 feature-level releases (R04–R63, 5 dependency waves).
Read that file + the memory project_ecomm_build.md for state.

Build a Wave-1 opener (both fully unblocked, no deps):
  • R07 products — foundation / critical-path root, 37 scenarios 11.05.0001–0037 (unblocks the
    most downstream work); scenarios in wiggleverse-ecomm-meta/research/shopify/products/products.md
  • R04 content/files — smaller start, 21 scenarios 03.02.0001–0021

Follow the SPEC/CONTRIBUTING discipline: new domain package under app/domains/, both API
projections + shared auth gates, cite the OHM concept per mechanic, one BDD scenario → one test,
keep scripts/check.sh green. Branch off main; push before PR review (operator merges).

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