# Session 0013.0 — Transcript

> App: vscode-cowriting-plugin
> Start: 2026-06-10T22-22 (PST) · End: 2026-06-10T22-26 (PST)
> Type: capture (tracked-lite)
> Goal: `/goal …F5…` leg 1 — capture Feature F5 as a typed issue under Epic #1
> (leg 2, the spec brainstorm, follows as its own session).
> Outcome: **Feature #14 filed** — "F5 — Cross-rung git-native persistence
> format + round-trip to the Gitea substrate rung" (`type/feature`,
> `priority/P2`).

## Launch prompt

```
/goal Capture Feature F5 (cross-rung git-native persistence format + round-trip to the Gitea substrate rung, per coauthoring-inner-loop.md §9 OPEN→F5, coauthoring-propose-accept.md §9 OPEN→F5, and rfc-app#46) as a typed issue under Epic #1 on benstull/vscode-cowriting-plugin, then brainstorm its Solution Design spec in a follow-up session.
```

## Plan

1. Claim tracked-lite capture transcript (session 0013). ✓
2. Clean pushed-main baseline. ✓
3. Assemble F5 context: the three graduated specs' §9 OPEN→F5 entries, Epic
   #1's F5 decomposition line (sidecar vs. git notes vs. trailers + round-trip
   to the Gitea rung), the three-rung-ladder architecture, and
   `ben.stull/rfc-app#46` (fetched from git.wiggleverse.org — named in the
   goal): "continuity of substrate — no migration cliff"; "git is truth, the
   surfaces are clients"; proposal-by-default as a substrate stance. ✓
4. Size-challenge: one ask → `type/feature` (the editor rung's half of the
   cross-rung contract; the Gitea-side substrate primitives stay on
   rfc-app#46's side of the line). Provisional WSJF → **P2**. ✓
5. Draft `issues/f5-cross-rung-format.md` (working tree only, INV-8); six
   design forks routed to the follow-on brainstorming session. ✓
6. Ensure labels → file → **#14**. ✓
7. Finalize tracked-lite (no artifact — INV-6). ✓

## Turn-by-turn arc

1. **Claim.** Session 0013 (`--type capture`); no in-flight sessions;
   fast-forwarded `main` after the claim push.
2. **Context.** Grepped all three graduated specs' OPEN→F5 entries; pulled
   rfc-app#46's body via the Gitea API (wiggleverse host token from Keychain,
   never echoed). Key framing: F5 = make the shipped sidecar model consumable
   beyond the editor (contract + identity + merge rules + round-trip proof),
   NOT building Gitea-side primitives.
3. **Draft.** Authored the §5 template: problem (portability promise never
   exercised; no contract/versioning/identity/second-writer story),
   acceptance (contract doc · cross-rung Provenance identity · round-trip
   with an out-of-editor writer · concurrent-writer merge exercised ·
   rung-neutral validation · unit + host E2E), six forks routed to
   brainstorming (substrate carrier; contract form/home; identity mapping;
   merge semantics; round-trip proof shape; versioning).
4. **File.** Labels idempotent-ensured; filed **#14**:
   <https://git.benstull.org/benstull/vscode-cowriting-plugin/issues/14>.

## Deferred decisions

- **INV-1 approval self-satisfied** (autonomous posture): the operator's
  explicit `/goal` names exactly this capture; filing is reversible; the
  draft remains at
  `vscode-cowriting-plugin-content/issues/f5-cross-rung-format.md` for
  post-hoc edits (the issue body can be amended to match). Same call as
  session 0010 (F4 capture).
- **Priority P2, not P1** (F2–F4 were P1): time-criticality is genuinely
  lower — no Gitea-rung deployment exists, and the epic's three acceptance
  pillars already shipped. Noted in the issue's WSJF line that it rises to
  P1 when rfc-app#46 work is scheduled. Operator may disagree — one label to
  flip.
- **Fetched rfc-app#46 from the wiggleverse Gitea** during context assembly:
  the capture design says only dev-provided URLs; the goal text itself named
  the issue, which I treated as the dev providing it.

## Cut state (end of session)

| Item | State |
| --- | --- |
| Feature #14 (F5 cross-rung format + round-trip) | **Filed** (`type/feature`, `priority/P2`, parent Epic #1 in body) |
| Draft `issues/f5-cross-rung-format.md` | Content-repo working tree only (uncommitted — Author's plate, INV-8) |
| Other drafts (`f3-live-attribution.md`, `f4-propose-accept.md`) | Pre-existing, unchanged, same plate |
| Plugin repo `main` | Clean, pushed |
| Spec/plan artifact | None — capture is tracked-lite (INV-6) |

## What lands on the operator's plate

- Optionally review/edit #14's body (draft file is the source; the issue can
  be amended to match), and flip `priority/P2`→`P1` if you disagree with the
  provisional call.
- Three uncommitted issue drafts now sit in the content repo working tree.

## Prompt the operator can paste into the next session

```
/goal Brainstorm the Solution Design spec for Feature #14 (F5 — cross-rung git-native persistence format + Gitea round-trip) on benstull/vscode-cowriting-plugin, resolving the six design forks routed there by the capture (substrate carrier; contract form/home; cross-rung identity; merge semantics; round-trip proof shape; versioning), then graduate it to vscode-cowriting-plugin-content/specs/.
```