Session 0001.0 — Transcript

App: human-experience-filter-art Start: 2026-06-04T05-36 (PST) · End: 2026-06-04T06-15 (PST) Type: spec Goal: Develop the spec for sub-project 2 — "Ingest & Tagging / Review tools". Outcome: Spec written, self-reviewed, and operator-approved; implementation plan written; design spec + ROADMAP revised for a mid-session display architecture change. All merged to main and pushed; tree clean.

Launch prompt

/goal Develop the spec for sub-project 2 — "Ingest & Tagging / Review tools" — of
the Human Experience Filter, the next item in docs/ROADMAP.md. Ground it in
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-04-human-experience-filter-design.md (especially §5
division-of-labor and §8 sourcing) and the roadmap's sub-project-2 section.

The spec must cover: per-archive ingest fetchers (Internet Archive/Prelinger,
Musopen, LibriVox, NASA, Free Music Archive, Freesound); automatic mechanical
tagging (mode via ffprobe, license/attribution/source from origin, duration_s,
resolution, dominant_color computed from video); assistant coordinate-drafting
that writes a one-line rationale and sets review_status=proposed; and the review
CLI that walks proposed records (proposed coords + rationale + preview frame) and
flips them to approved with reviewed_at. It must build on the existing
hef.catalog API without breaking it — call out explicitly any additions the
tools need.

Plan

Spec session — develop the sub-project-2 spec (Ingest & Tagging / Review tools), grounded in the approved design doc (§5 division-of-labor, §8 sourcing) and ROADMAP §2. Cover: per-archive fetchers, mechanical tagging, coordinate drafting, review CLI. Hard constraint: build on hef.catalog without breaking it; call out additions explicitly. Done when spec written + self-reviewed + approved; any plan saved under plans/; tree clean, merged to main, branches deleted, pushed.

Mid-session the operator added two follow-on asks: write the implementation plan, and update the design spec for a new display decision.

Pre-session state

Sub-project 1 (Catalog & Selection Core) done and merged: hef/catalog.py (Record, validate, JSONL IO) + hef/selection.py (distance, mode filter, select), 37 passing tests.
Repo was not yet registered for the session protocol — no app.json, no CLAUDE.md. Clean main, pushed.

Turn-by-turn arc

Session init (spec). Got start time; surveyed git (clean main); read ROADMAP, memory (none), app.json/CLAUDE.md (absent). Resolver exited 3 (repo unregistered). Authored app.json (One Name = human-experience-filter-art; sessions self-contained in this repo under sessions/, matching the benstull docs convention) and committed it to main (4ddc113). Created CLAUDE.md importing @~/.claude/wiggleverse.md (5e4b794, after a rebase — the claim push had advanced main). Claimed session 0001 with --type spec; no concurrent sessions. Seeded the transcript ## Plan.
Orientation. No BDD corpus (BDD_REMOTE empty), so grounding = the design spec, per the launch prompt. Read the design spec, hef/catalog.py, hef/selection.py, the sub-project-1 plan, and USER_GUIDE.md.
Key realization. The Record schema already ships every field the draft-then-review flow writes, with defaults (review_status="proposed", reviewed_at=None) that ARE the proposed shape — so the schema needs no change.
Wrote the spec (docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-04-ingest-tagging-review-tools.md, f80ec65) on branch spec/sub-project-2-ingest-review: 12 sections covering the Candidate/Fetcher seam + all six archives, ffprobe/ffmpeg mechanical tagging (with cover-art guard), per-archive license normalization, the deterministic HeuristicProposer (no ML, honoring design §11), the review transition core + interactive CLI. Single required hef.catalog addition: validate_catalog (unique-id integrity), optional index_by_id.
Self-review. Verified against the live code: no name collision for the new symbols, all 37 existing tests still green, every launch-prompt requirement covered.
Approval (AskUserQuestion). Operator approved as written, confirmed first-ship archives (LibriVox + NASA + IA), and — on the color question — dropped a design change: single panoramic projector across all three walls, nature-video content, "may not need any video manipulation at all."
Folded the change into the spec (4c1ec6e): demoted dominant_color to optional/opt-in (its only consumer was the side walls), ffmpeg-only when computed. Merged the spec to main (3544092), deleted the branch, pushed. Linked the spec from ROADMAP §2 (b5f5ee6).
Operator chose all three follow-ups: plan + design-spec update + finalize. On branch docs/pano-update-and-sp2-plan: revised the design spec (banner; §1, §6 single pano projector, §7 procedural side walls REMOVED, §10, §12) and ROADMAP (sub-project 5 Dropped; diagram; §3 player → pano; cross-cutting decisions) (dd02c2c); wrote the task-by-task implementation plan (docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-04-ingest-tagging-review-tools.md, 6d6cbb5). Merged to main (dd00d8b), deleted the branch, pushed.

Cut state (end of session)

Branch main, clean, 0/0 vs origin/main. No feature branches. Key commits (all on git.benstull.org:benstull/human-experience-filter-art):

SHA	What
`4ddc113`	register `app.json`
`5e4b794`	`CLAUDE.md` org import
`f80ec65`	sub-project-2 spec (initial)
`4c1ec6e`	spec: fold in approval + pano change
`3544092`	merge spec → main
`b5f5ee6`	ROADMAP links the spec
`dd02c2c`	design + ROADMAP pano revision
`6d6cbb5`	sub-project-2 implementation plan
`dd00d8b`	merge pano revision + plan → main

(Plus the session-protocol commits 18f0360/54fde0b/b8c406d for the transcript itself.)

Tests: untouched this session — still 37 green (no code changed; docs only).

Deferred decisions

Major design change surfaced mid-approval (operator, 2026-06-04): single panoramic projector spanning all three walls, content = nature videos, "we may not need any video manipulation at all." Handled in the sub-project-2 spec by demoting dominant_color to optional/opt-in; then (operator-requested) the design spec §6/§7 and ROADMAP were revised and sub-project 5 dropped. Confirmed by the operator during the session.
Operator approved the spec "as written"; remaining §11 defaults taken as accepted: file_path relative-to-media-root, two python -m CLIs, index_by_id in hef.catalog. Revisit at implementation if any feels wrong.
spec-RFC submission gap: app.json has no contains:["spec-rfc"] repo, so the spec wasn't submitted to a spec-RFC renderer (it lives in-repo and is pushed). Add a spec-rfc target to app.json if rendered specs are wanted later.

What lands on the operator's plate

Nothing blocking. The spec + plan are approved and merged.
Optional: add a contains:["spec-rfc"] repo to app.json if you want specs rendered/tracked outside this repo.
The design spec + ROADMAP now describe the single-pano-projector / nature-video direction; confirm that matches your intent when you next look.

Prompt the operator can paste into the next session

/executing-plans docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-04-ingest-tagging-review-tools.md

This implements sub-project 2 (Ingest & Tagging / Review tools) task-by-task. First read the memory files sub-project-2-ready-to-build.md and pano-projector-nature-video.md. Task 1 scaffolds tools/; Task 2 is the only hef.catalog change (validate_catalog + index_by_id). Needs ffmpeg/ffprobe installed for the opt-in integration tests; the unit suite is hermetic.

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