vscode-cowriting-plugin/sessions/0013/SESSION-0013.0-TRANSCRIPT-2026-06-10T22-22--2026-06-10T22-26.md

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/.