# Session 0035.0 — Transcript

> App: vscode-cowriting-plugin
> Start: 2026-06-12T08-53 (PST)
> End: 2026-06-12T10-58 (PST)
> Type: capture (tracked-lite)
> Status: **FINALIZED**

## Launch prompt

```
Add "Open Cowriting Review Panel" to the context window when you right click on a markdown file or its tab
```

## Pre-state

- Branch `main`, clean, pushed. Prior session 0034 had shipped the #38 undo fix
  (PR #39). Recorded next goal there was #33 (intra-emphasis hardening) — this
  session instead opened as a **capture** session on a new line of UX asks.
- Existing command surface (from `package.json`): `cowriting.editSelection`
  ("Ask Claude to Edit Selection", editor-context, selection-gated);
  `cowriting.showTrackChangesPreview` ("Open Review Preview", palette +
  `ctrl+alt+r`); `cowriting.pinDiffBaseline` ("Pin Review Baseline to Now"),
  registered but **palette-suppressed** (`when:false`) with no menu/keybinding —
  orphaned since #34 deleted its F6 two-pane host.

## Arc (turn by turn)

1. **Claim + resolve.** Claimed tracked-lite transcript 0035 (`--type capture`).
   Resolved app `vscode-cowriting-plugin`, content repo
   `benstull/vscode-cowriting-plugin-content` (cloned), tracker
   `benstull/vscode-cowriting-plugin`.
2. **Ask 1 → #41.** Right-click on a markdown file/tab → "Open Cowriting Review
   Panel". Sized **type/story, P2** (pure menu wiring to the existing preview
   command). Drafted `issues/review-panel-context-menu.md`. Flagged the label
   wrinkle (VS Code renders the command's own title). Operator: "first one looks
   good" → ensured labels (needed host token
   `wgl-gitea-issues-readwrite-token-git.benstull.org`; bare default 401'd) →
   filed **#41**.
3. **Ask 2 → #42.** "Ask Claude to Edit Document" when right-clicking the body with
   no selection; Edit Selection/Edit Document on the tab too. Sized
   **type/feature, P2** — beyond menu wiring it introduces a *new whole-document
   edit capability* with open product questions (instruction gathering, one big
   F4 proposal vs many, large-doc/token behavior). Drafted
   `issues/ask-claude-edit-document-context-menu.md`. Operator: "file as a
   feature" → filed **#42**.
4. **Question: pin baseline.** Operator asked if the baseline can be reset to the
   current editor. Answer: yes — `cowriting.pinDiffBaseline` does exactly that
   (`capture(doc,"pinned")` → baseline := `document.getText()`). Initially said
   "palette-only"; operator's screenshot showed it absent from the palette →
   re-checked and **corrected**: it's `when:false`-suppressed with no menu/
   keybinding, i.e. **unreachable from any UI**.
5. **Ask 3 → #43 (lead).** Operator's direction: make the **rendered preview the
   primary interaction surface** — toolbar (home of the annotations checkbox)
   gains one **adaptive "Ask Claude…" button** (Edit Selection ⇆ Edit Document by
   *preview* selection) and a **Pin baseline** button. Asked two shaping
   questions; operator chose **coexist** (native menus #41/#42 become **gateways
   that open the preview**) and **P1**. Sized **type/feature, P1**; central design
   risk = mapping a rendered-preview selection back to a source markdown range
   (fallback: document-level button first). Drafted
   `issues/preview-toolbar-interaction-surface.md` → operator "file as-is" →
   filed **#43**.
6. **Dependencies.** Operator: make #41/#42 dependent on #43. Set via Gitea
   issue-dependencies API — discovered the body needs `{"owner","repo","index"}`
   with the repo key **`repo`** (documented `name` 404s as
   `IsErrRepoNotExist`). #41 and #42 now **blocked-by #43**; verified.
7. **Finalize** (tracked-lite): base survey (session repo clean, nothing to land);
   no spec/plan artifact (INV-6); memory updated; transcript published.

## Cut state

- **Filed:** #41 (story P2), #42 (feature P2), #43 (feature P1) on
  `benstull/vscode-cowriting-plugin`. #41 & #42 **blocked-by #43**.
- **Session repo:** `main`, clean, unchanged (no code touched this session).
- **Content repo:** 3 new `issues/*.md` drafts left **uncommitted** (Author's to
  publish/discard — INV-8). No commits/pushes made to it.

## Operator plate (loose ends)

- The pin-baseline UI-reachability gap is captured only *inside* #43's scope
  (operator chose to fold it in, not file a standalone bug).
- #41/#42 carry no comment cross-linking #43; the dependency link is recorded in
  Gitea instead. (Offered to add comments; not requested.)
- Pre-existing untracked drafts from earlier capture sessions still sit in the
  content repo working tree (not this session's concern).

## Deferred decisions

_None — all sizing/priority/relationship calls were made with the operator in the
moment (sizing of #42 as feature, #43 coexist-vs-supersede and P1, folding the
pin gap into #43)._

## Next-session prompt

```
/wgl-brainstorming design #43 — preview toolbar as the primary interaction surface
(adaptive "Ask Claude…" button: Edit Selection ⇆ Edit Document by preview-selection
state; Pin baseline button; annotations checkbox stays). Central design problem:
map a selection in the rendered (markdown-it) preview back to a source markdown
range; fallback is ship document-level Ask-Claude + Pin first, selection-aware
second. Coexists with #41/#42 (native right-click entries become gateways that
open the preview). Builds on F7/F10 preview + annotations toggle, F3/F4 inner
loop, F6 baseline store (gives orphaned cowriting.pinDiffBaseline a UI home).
```