Session 0028.0 — Transcript

App: vscode-cowriting-plugin Start: 2026-06-11T21-25 (PST) End: 2026-06-11T21-31 (PST) Type: capture (tracked-lite) Posture: careful (capture default, §6.5) Status: FINALIZED

Launch prompt

Capture session: file an issue for the markdown cowriting product vision —
clean zero-annotation editor (left) + interactive annotated markdown preview
(right) as the single review surface; annotations on/off toggle; per-author
track-changes (green=human, blue=LLM, strikethrough=deleted) with ✓/✗
accept-reject on LLM changes only, driven from inside the preview. Markdown-only.

Outcome (one line)

Filed issue #29 (type/feature, priority/P1) — "Interactive track-changes review in the markdown preview (clean editor + accept/reject)" — capturing a product-defining vision developed in a brainstorm during session 0027's conversation.

Pre-state

Came directly out of session 0027 (which finalized just before): the operator had hit the F6 two-pane diff (ctrl+option+d) with F3 attribution decorations bleeding into it and said "I don't understand this."
That sparked a brainstorm (in 0027's conversation, before this capture session was claimed): single-pane Word-style track changes → in-editor inline → and finally the clean-editor / interactive-annotated-preview split, markdown-only.
No open issues on the tracker (Epic #1 + F2–F9 + #22 all shipped).

Arc (turn by turn)

Diagnosis (carried from 0027). Identified the confusing screenshot as two plugin layers colliding: F6 diff (red/green) + F3 attribution (blue Claude fill / green human border) on the same text. Confirmed the blue from the code (AGENT_DECO = rgba(99,102,241,.18)).
Brainstorm (superpowers:brainstorming). Walked the operator from "single pane, strikethrough, Word-like" through the forks:
- Surfaced that F7 (ctrl+option+r) already is a single-pane rendered track-changes view; F9 already adds an author-coloring toggle.
- Operator wanted B (in-editor inline) + accept/reject of LLM changes only → mapped onto F3 (who) + F4 (accept/reject).
- Operator disliked F3's editor border → led to "color only the delta, by author" and then the realization that the editor should carry zero annotation and all review lives in the preview.
- Operator locked markdown-only ("this should really be the vscode-markdown-cowriting-plugin") — F6 deprecated as a view; rename deferred.
- Chose to capture (not spec now).
Capture (this session, wgl-capture). Claimed tracked-lite session 0028; resolved the content repo; sized the ask as a Feature (needs design, one coherent increment); drafted issues/interactive-markdown-review-preview.md section by section; handed it for review.
File (on approval). Operator said "file it." Fixed two script-config snags (default host was git.wiggleverse.org → --host git.benstull.org; forced token service resolved the wrong host's token → set WGL_CAPTURE_TOKEN_SERVICE=wgl-gitea-issues-readwrite-token-git.benstull.org). Ensured labels, filed #29, verified labels (type/feature + priority/P1).

Cut state

Issue #29 open on benstull/vscode-cowriting-plugin: #29
Draft issues/interactive-markdown-review-preview.md stays uncommitted in the content repo working tree (INV-8 — the Author's to publish/discard).
Code repo main clean & pushed (only the carried-in stray specs/ untracked).
No spec/plan artifact submitted (INV-6, tracked-lite).

Tooling notes (for the next capture on a benstull-hosted app)

ensure-capture-labels.sh / capture-issues.sh default to git.wiggleverse.org and to the host-less issue token. For benstull apps, pass --host git.benstull.org and WGL_CAPTURE_TOKEN_SERVICE=wgl-gitea-issues-readwrite-token-git.benstull.org. (Candidate fix worth a plugin-feedback issue: auto-derive the host from the resolved app remote.)

Deferred decisions

Careful posture — the operator approved the filing (INV-1) and the type (Feature) explicitly; nothing was auto-decided that needs review.

Operator plate (loose ends)

Session 0024 still unfinalized.
Pre-existing uncommitted content-repo state not from this session: M specs/coauthoring-diff-view.md + several untracked issues/*.md drafts.
Stray specs/coauthoring-out-of-workspace.md in the code repo working tree.
Capture-script host/token defaults (above) — candidate plugin-feedback.

Next /goal

Brainstorm / spec #29. It's a type/feature, so it needs a Solution Design before plan-and-execute (R3) — and most of the design already exists in the issue body + memory. (Operator has in fact asked to brainstorm #29 next.) The rename to vscode-markdown-cowriting-plugin is a separate deliberate gesture if wanted.

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