Session 0036.0 — Transcript

App: vscode-cowriting-plugin Start: 2026-06-12T11-01 (PST) End: 2026-06-12T12-18 (PST) Type: brainstorming Status: FINALIZED

Launch prompt

/goal next — resume the next recorded goal. Memory (session 0035) recorded Next /goal = design #43: write the Solution Design for Feature #43 (F11) — the preview toolbar as the primary interaction surface (adaptive Ask-Claude + Pin-baseline buttons).

Summary

A brainstorming session that produced and graduated the F11 Solution Design for Feature #43: making the F10 rendered-review preview's header toolbar the primary interaction surface. Beside the existing annotations on/off checkbox, the toolbar gains a Pin baseline button and a single adaptive "Ask Claude…" button (Edit Selection when text is selected in the preview / Edit Document otherwise), plus a minimal right-click → Open Review Preview gateway.

The session opened by classifying /goal next → brainstorming, claiming session ID 0036 (--type brainstorming), and verifying a clean pushed main. It then oriented from the #43 issue (read via the Gitea API) and the F10 interactive-review spec (the architecture F11 extends), and dispatched an Explore agent to produce a precise code map of the preview webview, the markdown-it render path, the F4 edit seam, pinDiffBaseline, and the #41/#42 menu state.

Pre-state

main clean and pushed; no in-flight sessions (0035 finalized).
F10 (#29) shipped: clean editor + rendered preview as the single review surface (annotations on/off; ✓/✗ on F4 proposals). #31 shipped: proposals rendered inline at their resolved anchor.
cowriting.pinDiffBaseline registered but when:false (orphaned since #34).
Whole-document editing did not exist; "Edit Selection" was an editor context-menu item only.

Turn-by-turn arc

Classify + claim. /goal next → resume "design #43" → brainstorming. Claimed ID 0036; resolved app facts (content repo present; roadmap = this repo; no BDD corpus); confirmed clean baseline.
Orient. Read issue #43 (Gitea API, P1/feature), the F10 spec (coauthoring-interactive-review.md), and prior content-repo specs/plans. Ran an Explore agent → code map: trackChangesPreview.ts (webview + annotations toggle round-trip), trackChangesModel.ts (markdown-it; splitBlocksWithRanges → BlockWithRange char offsets; no source-line mapping in rendered HTML), extension.ts editSelection + proposalController.propose + F4 applyAgentEdit seam, diffViewController.pinDiffBaseline (when:false), and the absence of #41/#42 menu entries.
Surface the forks. Identified the central design risk — mapping a rendered preview selection back to a source markdown range — and three load-bearing forks. Asked the operator (AskUserQuestion) with recommendations.
Forks locked (all recommended options chosen): (1) block-level selection→source mapping via data-src block attributes; (2) document edit diffed into per-hunk F4 proposals; (3) #43 lands a minimal right-click gateway.
Present design + write spec. Presented the consolidated F11 design (INV-35/36/37, message bus, slices, testing). Wrote docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-12-f11-preview-toolbar-interaction-surface.md; self-reviewed; verified reused seams exist (DiffViewController.pin(document), isAuthorable(scheme)). Committed to main (b2de25f; rebased over the 0036 placeholder push), matching the F9 direct-design(...)-commit precedent.
Finalize. Submitted the spec to the content repo specs/ (graduated, 855acec); updated memory; published this transcript.

Cut state (final)

Spec graduated: specs/2026-06-12-f11-preview-toolbar-interaction-surface.md in vscode-cowriting-plugin-content (855acec); code-repo working copy at docs/superpowers/specs/ (b2de25f on main).
main clean and pushed. No open PRs (Gitea host — no gh PR flow).
Memory: added f11-preview-toolbar-spec-graduated.md + MEMORY.md pointer.

Operator plate (decisions & deferrals)

Three forks locked interactively (spec §6.7) — see Summary.
Autonomous low-confidence calls (spec §9, all low-risk): host showInputBox for the instruction (keeps LLM/secrets out of the sealed webview); Pin targets the previewed document via DiffViewController.pin (not activeTextEditor); new cowriting.editDocument command for #42 reuse; cowriting.pinDiffBaseline unhidden (when: editorLangId == markdown).
Deferred (spec §9): char-precise sub-block selection mapping; richer #41/#42 menu sets; scroll-sync (#32); large-rewrite hunk capping; repo rename (#35).

Deferred decisions

The autonomous calls above (spec §9) were surfaced at closeout: instruction-prompt location, Pin target, the new editDocument command, and unhiding the pin command. All are low-risk and reversible; none changed the persisted model. No other low-confidence calls.

Next-session prompt

/goal plan-and-execute #43 (F11), per specs/2026-06-12-f11-preview-toolbar-interaction-surface.md

Start with SLICE-1 (Pin baseline button + unhide cowriting.pinDiffBaseline) — the immediate win that homes the orphaned command. Read f11-preview-toolbar-spec-graduated.md and the graduated spec's §6/§7 first.

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