Session 0023.0 — Transcript

App: vscode-cowriting-plugin Start: 2026-06-11T12-28 (PST) End: 2026-06-11T12-30 (PST) Type: capture (tracked-lite) Status: FINALIZED Posture: autonomous (yolo)

Launch prompt

Capture a Feature on the tracker: extend the authoring flow (F2/F3/F4 — threads / attribution / Ask Claude to Edit Selection) to files OUTSIDE the workspace folder, persisting the sidecar in VS Code global storage keyed by URI hash (like F6's baseline) for out-of-workspace/untitled files. Hybrid model recommended. Origin: F7 manual testing (sessions 0021/0022); operator chose global storage.

What this captured

One Feature issue, filed to the tracker:

#25 — Out-of-workspace authoring (global-storage sidecar fallback) (type/feature, priority/P2): #25

The ask: extend F2/F3/F4 (threads / attribution / "Ask Claude to Edit Selection") to files outside the workspace folder + untitled buffers, via a hybrid persistence model — in-workspace file: docs keep the committable git-native .threads/ sidecar (INV-2 unchanged); out-of-workspace / untitled docs fall back to a global-storage sidecar keyed by URI hash (like F6's baseline, INV-19). The issue records the F5 cross-rung non-shareability of global-storage artifacts and the URI-rename orphaning caveat, and flags that — being a persistence-model change — it needs a Solution Design before code (handbook §3.4 R3).

Arc

Origin (sessions 0021/0022). During F7 manual testing, "Ask Claude to Edit Selection" was refused on an out-of-workspace content-repo file. Session 0022 (PR #24) fixed the misleading message + the startsWith prefix-collision. The operator then asked why authoring (unlike F6/F7) doesn't work on any file.
Design conversation. Established the asymmetry (diff/preview persist outside the repo → any file; authoring persists a repo-relative .threads/ sidecar → workspace-only). Operator chose the global-storage fork over co-locate / keep-as-is, and chose to capture it for later ("we'll take it from there").
Capture (this session). Claimed tracked-lite session 0023; resolved the content repo; authored the §5 issue draft (issues/out-of-workspace-authoring.md); ensured labels; filed #25.

Notes

Token: the capture scripts' default Keychain entry (wgl-gitea-issues-readwrite-token) is absent for git.benstull.org (401); pointed WGL_CAPTURE_TOKEN_SERVICE at the existing wgl-gitea-token-git.benstull.org (write:repository) to ensure labels + file the issue. (A dedicated issue-scoped token for this host would let the default work.)
Draft (INV-8): vscode-cowriting-plugin-content/issues/out-of-workspace-authoring.md is left uncommitted in the content-repo working tree — the Author's to commit/ publish or discard (this skill never pushes the content repo). Several earlier capture drafts are likewise uncommitted there.

Deferred decisions

No low-confidence calls — the operator directly chose the global-storage approach and directed the capture. The hybrid-vs-uniform fork is recorded in the issue as the key open design decision for the eventual Solution Design (not decided here).

Next session

Two open items; pick per priority:

/goal Brainstorm and write the Solution Design for #25 (out-of-workspace authoring) — settle the hybrid persistence model (in-workspace .threads/ sidecar vs global-storage fallback for out-of-workspace/untitled), the F5 cross-rung non-shareability, and the URI-rename orphaning caveat; per the issue body.

(The earlier F7 follow-up #22 — intra-diagram mermaid diffing — also remains open; sequence #22 vs #25 by priority. #25 is priority/P2.)

Read first: issue #25, memory editselection-workspace-membership.md, and the F2–F6 specs for the sidecar/baseline persistence precedents.

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