human-experience-filter-art/sessions/0003/SESSION-0003.0-TRANSCRIPT-2026-06-04T07-57--2026-06-05T03-36.md

Session 0003.0 — Transcript

App: human-experience-filter-art Start: 2026-06-04T07-57 (PST) End: 2026-06-05T03-36 (PST) Type: discovery Status: FINALIZED

Launch prompt

We should create a simulator, just something that is web-based, potentially that runs on localhost, running in a Docker container. It allows us to play virtually with the dials and see the content that has been curated, and then we can get to the actual physical stack. I think we want to make sure that we have the principles well done and the interface figured out, and then the middle will come in to play.

Plan

Discovery session: explore the proposed web experience simulator and produce its first artifacts — BDD scenarios and/or a spec — plus (chosen mid-session) an implementation plan. Orientation:

/goal Discover the web-based experience simulator — produce BDD scenarios and/or
a spec, per human-experience-filter-art/docs/ROADMAP.md

Pre-session state

• main clean and pushed at b7f19e0. Sub-projects 1 (catalog/selection) and 2 (ingest/review) shipped; physical stack (3 Pi player, 4 firmware) ahead.
• catalog/library.jsonl empty (0 bytes) — tooling exists, no media ingested.
• No prior simulator artifacts. Memory pointed at sub-project 3 as next.

Turn-by-turn arc

1. Session gate / routing. Opening prompt straddled coding vs. discovery; asked the operator → discovery. Ran wgl-discovery-session-init: claimed ID 0003 (--type discovery), verified clean pushed main, read memory, oriented from docs/ROADMAP.md.
2. Brainstorming. Accepted the visual companion (server on :61057). Settled scope via one-at-a-time questions:
   • Primary purpose → feel the selection model (curator's instrument).
   • Catalog source → synthetic fixture catalog (real catalog is empty).
   • Screen layout (browser mockups A/B/C) → B · Curator's X-ray (full transparency: pick + ranked pool + distances + brain/mood grid maps).
   • Approved the additive hef.selection.ranked_candidates() change.
   • Include the model knobs (weights, pool size, approved-only).
3. Architecture. Chose Approach 1 — FastAPI + vanilla-JS, real hef.selection as single source of truth; Docker on localhost.
4. Artifacts written + committed (76a9526): design spec docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-04-experience-simulator-design.md + 4 BDD feature files under features/. Self-reviewed; fixed the pick-determinism ambiguity (deterministic rng=None pick; pool = the room's shuffle-set). Operator approved the spec.
5. Implementation plan (chose "draft the plan now"): wrote docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-04-experience-simulator.md — 7 bite-sized TDD tasks; self-reviewed for spec coverage / placeholders / type consistency. Committed (e7ab227).
6. Memory + handoff. Saved resume pointer experience-simulator-ready-to-build.md (+ MEMORY.md index) so the next coding session auto-surfaces the /executing-plans line.
7. Finalize. Push raced twice against concurrent session-claim commits (0003 then 0004); rebased onto each (disjoint paths, non-destructive) and pushed.

Cut state (end of session)

• main synced with origin. Discovery artifacts landed:
  • spec 40d7434→9cb4fb6 (rebased): docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-04-experience-simulator-design.md + features/*.feature
  • plan 19a2dbc→ddec45d (rebased): docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-04-experience-simulator.md
• Final main tip: ddec45d.
• No code written this session (discovery only). Test suite untouched (baseline 111 passed / 2 skipped).
• Visual-companion files persist under .superpowers/brainstorm/ (gitignored).

What lands on the operator's plate

• Build is queued, not started. The simulator exists only as spec + BDDs + plan. Next session executes the plan.
• Structural gap (flagged, not blocking): this app's app.json has no contains:["bdd"] or contains:["spec-rfc"] repo, so there is no external corpus/spec-RFC target — the discovery artifacts live in-repo (committed) by design. If a dedicated BDD/spec-RFC repo is ever wanted, register it in app.json.
• Concurrent session 0004 was claimed during this finalize and may still be in flight.
• No deferred (low-confidence autonomous) decisions this session.

Prompt the operator can paste into the next session

/goal Build the experience simulator — execute the plan task-by-task:
/executing-plans docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-04-experience-simulator.md

Read memory/experience-simulator-ready-to-build.md first. The plan recommends subagent-driven execution with review between tasks; the only shipped-code change is the additive hef.selection.ranked_candidates() (Task 1).