Session 0001.0 — Transcript

App: vscode-cowriting-plugin Start: 2026-06-09T21-55 (PST) End: 2026-06-09T23-31 (PST) Type: capture Status: FINALIZED

Launch prompt

"Use flotilla to create a new app. It's not a webapp — it's a Visual Studio plugin so no GCP infra required. Similar to the Claude plugin. I've already created this repo and the *-content repo and both are cloned locally."

Mid-session pivot: "Let's capture approach A as an epic in Gitea and create a single Feature, which I'd like you to recommend as the first tiny thing we can build that gets the scaffolding in place and on track. It isn't a shippable thing — just proof of concept that gives us a starting point."

Pre-state

Two brand-new, empty repos cloned locally (.git only, no commits): vscode-cowriting-plugin and vscode-cowriting-plugin-content, under benstull/ on git.benstull.org.
No app.json, so the repo was not yet a registered Wiggleverse app.
Local clone remotes used stale aliases (vs-code-cowriting-plugin, vs-cowriting-plugin-content) that Gitea 301-redirects to the canonical vscode-cowriting-plugin(-content).

The arc

Session gate / classification. Opened as planning-and-executing; used the superpowers:brainstorming skill to explore intent because the request was greenfield and underspecified.
Discovery — what the app actually is. "Flotilla" turned out not to map: the launch-app suite is for GCP-deployed standard-stack webapps, none of which applies to a no-infra VS Code extension. "Similar to the Claude plugin"
- "the RFC app experience" + "built on Clide" resolved, after clarification, to: the inner-loop coauthoring experience from ben.stull/rfc-app#48, delivered as a VS Code extension on local files. "Clide" was a typo for Cline (github.com/cline/cline) — the open-source coding-agent extension.
Architecture decision (Approach A). Researched Cline: it ships @cline/sdk (programmatic agent API + plugin/tool registration + MCP, Apache-2.0). That makes a standalone extension on @cline/sdk the clean answer to rfc-app#48's open Q2 (standalone vs. fork vs. companion) — no fork, own coauthoring UI. Operator chose scaffold + register only as the scope.
Pivot to capture. Operator updated the plugin (0.24.0 → 0.27.0) for the new wgl-capture skill and asked to capture Approach A as a Gitea Epic + one first Feature (a recommended tiny POC), rather than scaffold directly. Switched into a capture session.
App registration + naming reconciliation. Authored app.json (no CLI emits it). Discovered via a Gitea 301 that the canonical repo names are vscode-cowriting-plugin(-content), not the alias remotes. Operator confirmed the canonical One Name vscode-cowriting-plugin. Reconciled: app.json (app + both repos), both local remotes, and the local transcript dir; pushed app.json to main (rebased over the claim's sessions/0001 placeholder).
Token blocker. Filing needed a git.benstull.org token with the issue scope; none existed (the wiggleverse issue token 401s cross-host; the existing per-host benstull token 403s on issues/labels). Operator created a dedicated token stored in Keychain as wgl-gitea-issues-readwrite-token-git.benstull.org.
Filed the issues. Ensured the capture taxonomy labels, then filed:
- #1 type/epic priority/P1 — "VS Code coauthoring plugin built on Cline (@cline/sdk)".
- #2 type/feature priority/P1 — "POC: runnable extension skeleton that drives @cline/sdk" (parent #1; #1's decomposition links back to #2).
The recommended first Feature (#2): the smallest non-shippable POC — repo builds, F5 launches the Extension Development Host with the extension active, one command drives @cline/sdk and shows a result — validating Approach A and becoming the skeleton F2–F5 (threads, attribution, git-native persistence) land in.

Cut state

app.json committed + pushed to benstull/vscode-cowriting-plugin@main (canonical One Name). Working tree clean.
Gitea issues #1 (Epic) and #2 (Feature) filed and cross-linked on benstull/vscode-cowriting-plugin.
Capture taxonomy labels created on the tracker.
Draft issue files left uncommitted in vscode-cowriting-plugin-content/issues/ (coauthoring-plugin-on-cline.md, poc-extension-cline-sdk.md) — the Author's to commit/publish or discard (capture INV-8).
No code scaffolded yet (deferred by scope).

Operator plate

Both repos are public on Gitea — confirm if unintended (handbook treats public as a deliberate exception).
The two draft files remain uncommitted in the content repo — publish or discard.
Memory note was intentionally skipped at the operator's request.

Next-session prompt

/goal Build Feature #2 (the POC): scaffold a standalone VS Code extension on @cline/sdk in benstull/vscode-cowriting-plugin — repo builds, F5 launches the Extension Development Host with the extension active, and one command drives @cline/sdk and shows a result. Per issues #2 (parent epic #1) and rfc-app#48. Non-shippable proof-of-concept skeleton only.

Deferred decisions

No low-confidence autonomous calls this session — the operator confirmed the One Name, the scope (scaffold + register only), Approach A, and the filing.

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