# Session AAR — 2026-05-22 to 2026-05-24

CI hardening campaign + repo-root cleanup + v4.32.0 release + courtesy
PR cleanup for #709.

**Session window:** 2026-05-22 evening (recovery from prior session) →
2026-05-24 ~05:00 UTC (release shipped).
**HEAD at start:** `eebc8d372`
**HEAD at end:** `8e1e78013` (post-merge plus a blog commit)
**Released:** v4.32.0 (tag + GH release published 2026-05-24T04:56:19Z)

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## What landed

### 11 PRs merged

| #    | PR                                                          | Outcome                                |
| ---- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| #762 | AA-AACR allowlist + session log (recovered, pre-existing)   | merged 2026-05-23 ~01:09               |
| #763 | Disable human-triggered auto-merge (dependabot only)        | merged                                 |
| #764 | **PR A**: eslint + prettier blocking gates                  | merged                                 |
| #765 | **PR B**: ruff check + format blocking (730 → 0)            | merged                                 |
| #766 | **PR D**: repo-root cleanup (~970 MB)                       | merged                                 |
| #767 | **PR C**: markdownlint config + bulk-fix + report-only gate | merged                                 |
| #768 | **PR E**: shellcheck cleanup + blocking (223 → 0)           | merged                                 |
| #769 | **PR F**: ts-coverage + codeblock TS cleanup                | merged                                 |
| #770 | **PR G**: widened-test-loop cleanup + blocking (9 → 0)      | merged                                 |
| #771 | **PR H**: codeblock-syntax cleanup + blocking (97 → 0)      | merged                                 |
| #772 | **PR I**: markdownlint final cleanup + blocking (80 → 0)    | merged                                 |
| #746 | Jeremy's blog: v1-release-gate-conditional-go               | merged (rebased + md-fixed)            |
| #709 | ratamaha agency-os plugin                                   | merged (after courtesy cleanup commit) |

### Release

- **v4.32.0** tag + GitHub Release published with 120-line CHANGELOG
  entry, Keep-a-Changelog format
- `VERSION` and `package.json` both bumped 4.30.0 → 4.32.0 (skipped
  orphan [4.31.0] CHANGELOG entry that had no matching tag)

### CI gate state

Started session: **2 required gates** (`validate`, `marketplace-validation`).

Ended session: **10 required gates**:

```
validate
marketplace-validation
eslint-check
format-check         (prettier)
ruff-check
ruff-format-check
shellcheck-skills
typescript-coverage-audit
skill-codeblock-syntax
markdownlint
```

**Zero report-only gates remain.** The `REPORT-ONLY-UNTIL: YYYY-MM-DD`
deadline-enforcer (from PR #757) is still wired for future intros, but
nothing is currently using it.

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## Cleanup totals

| Surface                                     | Baseline                               | Final                            |
| ------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- |
| Python (ruff check)                         | 974 errors                             | 0                                |
| Python (ruff format)                        | 374 files dirty                        | 0                                |
| Shell (shellcheck warning+)                 | 223 issues                             | 0                                |
| Markdown (markdownlint)                     | ~60,000 errors                         | 0                                |
| Codeblock-syntax (lint-skill-codeblocks.py) | 97 mislabels                           | 0                                |
| Plugin tests (widened-test-loop)            | 9 failures                             | 0                                |
| TypeScript coverage                         | 9 packages w/o typecheck               | 0                                |
| Repo-root cruft                             | ~970 MB tracked + ~1.2 MB working-tree | removed                          |
| Mis-extensioned `.sh` → `.py`               | 47 files                               | renamed                          |
| Tracked file deletions                      | n/a                                    | ~7,300                           |
| Beads closed                                | 4 cleanup tracker beads                | claude-lrhq, 6f4o, hy8p, d1gm    |
| Beads filed (residuals + follow-ups)        | n/a                                    | 7 filed (4 mdlint, 3 PRs/wave 2) |

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## Decisions made autonomously this session

(user directive: "make decisions yourself")

1. **Disabled human-triggered auto-merge but kept dependabot's** —
   asked for scope, picked the keep-dependabot option.
2. **TypeScript dropped from codeblock-syntax CHECKABLE set** — 1,374
   false positives. SKILL.md TS blocks reference external types the
   linter can't resolve.
3. **MD060 (table-column-style) disabled** in markdownlint config —
   pure stylistic noise; auto-fix unreliable; not part of any common
   markdownlint preset.
4. **MD040 (fenced-code-language) disabled** — 8,216 baseline hits;
   bare ``` blocks for ASCII art and sample output are intentional.
5. **MD025 (single-h1) disabled** — Astro blog convention uses
   frontmatter `title:` + body `# Title`.
6. **66 bash code blocks with `<placeholder>` brackets** relabeled
   to `text` — they're illustrative CLI usage, not literal runnable
   commands. Same approach for 24 JS DSL fragments (Firestore Rules,
   pedagogical vulnerable/secure comparisons) and 7 mislabeled Python
   blocks.
7. **`verifyRepo` in web-to-github-issue refactored to match test
   contract** — returns `{exists: false, error: sanitizedMessage}`
   on lookup errors instead of throwing. Sanitization preserved
   (prevents auth tokens leaking through error field). Test contract
   was the better API; implementation drifted.
8. **PR #709 — Option B (courtesy cleanup commit on author's branch)**
   instead of asking the author to redo the work. Maintainer-edits
   were enabled; force-pushed with `Co-authored-by: ratamaha-git`.
   Extracted 700 lines from SKILL.md to 4 references files
   (architecture.md, commands.md, natural-language.md, positioning.md).
   Added 6 missing marketplace-tier frontmatter fields. Added 7
   required-named sections (Overview, Prerequisites, Instructions,
   Output, Error Handling, Examples, Resources). SKILL.md: 863 → 168
   lines.
9. **v4.32.0 chosen over 4.31.x** — there was an orphan `[4.31.0]`
   CHANGELOG entry from 2026-05-08 with no matching tag (Jeremy wrote
   it but didn't bump VERSION). Rolling forward to 4.32.0 is more
   honest than re-using 4.31.0 (which would conflict if Jeremy ever
   manually tags it later).
10. **Per-file inline `markdownlint-disable` for 6 cases** where the
    underlying content is intentional (wondelai fill-in checklists
    with literal `_____`, kobiton-automate intentional blockquote
    line breaks, k8s-troubleshoot duplicate "Verification" sections
    by design, AGENTS.md duplicate session-close headings).

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## What didn't ship

- **5 community PRs deferred** — all awaiting author action; none our
  move:
  - #761 Ejentum harness plugins (rebase + include README per skill)
  - #758 Quill MCP plugin (style fixes — drop bold + @yg3 suffix +
    soften marketing line + rebase)
  - #737 aomi catalog (CONFLICTING — rebase needed)
  - #728 mturac pluginpool (CONFLICTING + 2 CI failures; mturac silent
    since 2026-05-17)
  - #726 mturac recsys (CONFLICTING + 3 CI failures; same author)
- **Staleness-close clock**: #728 / #726 hit the 10-day rule on
  2026-06-01 if mturac stays silent.
- **9 historical AA-AACR files from Dec 2025** were committed in
  #762 (recovered from prior session, not new work this session).

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## Process learnings

### What worked

- **Cleanup-arc as a sequence of small PRs** instead of one mega-PR.
  Each PR's CI is fast (~5 min). Each merge brings one gate to
  blocking. Easy to revert one stage if it breaks. PRs A through I
  were all small enough to review at a glance.
- **REPORT-ONLY-UNTIL + deadline-enforcer pattern (from PR #757)**
  for staged gate introduction. Lets a gate land + collect data
  before fully blocking, but enforces a forcing function so it
  can't rot. After this session, zero report-only gates remain —
  the mechanism is the right shape, the staging period was used as
  designed.
- **Per-file inline disables vs. global rule disables.** Default
  rules stay enforced; only the 6 files with legitimate edge cases
  carry the disable comment. The reason lives next to the code.
- **Autonomous decision-making with explicit rationale.** Every
  decision had a reason in the commit message. Future readers
  (including future Claude) can audit the call.

### What needed multiple cycles

- **PR #768 (shellcheck PR E) initially missed the `catalog-format-guard`
  CI auth bug.** That bug was independent — `actions/checkout@v6` no
  longer persists credentials reliably for subsequent git operations.
  Fix: explicit `fetch-depth: 2 + persist-credentials: true` on the
  validate job's checkout. Got cherry-picked into PR E's branch after
  PR F was already moving — should have been first.
- **PR E's 47 `.sh → .py` renames passed PR E's own CI** (no Python
  files at the time were tracked under those paths post-rename, ruff
  wasn't yet looking) **but failed PR G's CI** when ruff-format saw
  them. 244 new ruff errors had to be cleaned up in PR G. Lesson:
  when renaming files into a linter's scope, run the linter on the
  renamed files BEFORE pushing.
- **Markdownlint MD051 (broken anchors)** needed three slugify-script
  iterations to match markdownlint's actual behavior — GitHub's slug
  algorithm does NOT collapse multiple spaces (so `Foo -- Bar` becomes
  `foo----bar`, not `foo-bar`). My v1 collapsed; v2 still collapsed;
  v3 finally got it right.

### What I'd do differently next time

- **Audit ALL new gates against ALL existing code paths before merging**
  any of them. The PR E/PR G ordering problem (`.sh→.py` renames not
  caught by ruff in PR E because that PR predated ruff coverage of
  those paths) cost a re-push cycle on #770.
- **Open the courtesy cleanup PR earlier in the campaign**, not after
  flipping all the gates. PR #709's 168-line SKILL.md restructure was
  straightforward but had to be done AFTER the 10 gates landed,
  which meant the author was suddenly behind a moving bar. If I'd
  cleaned #709 before flipping the gates, the author would have seen
  the cleaner shape on day one.

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## Beads state

### Closed this session

- `claude-lrhq` — shellcheck cleanup (PR E, #768)
- `claude-6f4o` — TypeScript coverage cleanup (PR F, #769)
- `claude-hy8p` — codeblock-syntax cleanup (PR H, #771)
- `claude-d1gm` — widened-test-loop cleanup (PR G, #770)
- 4 markdownlint-residual beads from PR C wave 1 — closed via PR I (#772)

### Open / standing

- `claude-xx4k` epic — DR-267 repo-sequencing council follow-through.
  Sessions 2-5 still open. Untouched this session.
- 9 SaaS-pack epics (Snowflake / HubSpot / Vercel / Supabase /
  OpenRouter / Figma / Notion / Shopify / Sentry) — backlog
  unchanged.

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## Open follow-ups from this session

- **Deprecated `commands/` directories cleanup.** Jeremy noted
  ("commands are deprecated, replaced with skills"). Three commands/
  files got per-file MD046 disables in PR I as a band-aid (they're
  going to be deleted anyway). When the commands→skills migration
  ships, those disables can be removed.
- **5 stale community PRs** — staleness clock fires 2026-06-01 for
  #728 / #726 if mturac stays silent. #761 / #758 / #737 are also
  waiting on author work, no specific deadline.
- **Markdownlint MD060** (table-column-style) is disabled project-
  wide. If markdownlint ever ships a working auto-fixer, revisit.
- **PR #757's `check-ci-deadlines.py`** — still wired into CI's
  `validate` step, but currently has nothing to enforce since all
  report-only gates flipped. Keep wired (cheap, ready for next intro).

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## What this means for external contributors

Before this session: 2 required gates → low bar → community PRs sailed
through validator-only.

After this session: 10 required gates → community PRs need to meet
real code quality before merging. That's the right outcome — it's
what "we're the marketplace standard" means in practice. The
trade-off is more author iteration cycles on community submissions,
but the merged set is higher quality.

For the 6 community PRs currently waiting: each has a specific,
named blocker that the author can fix in one push. No author is
being asked to redo work — just to bring their PR up to the new bar.
PR #709 was the test case for "how much rework does the new bar
actually require?" — answer: ~3 hours of mechanical cleanup, no
plugin-code changes, fully courtesy-doable by a maintainer who has
maintainer-edits enabled.

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## Tmux housekeeping

Renamed session `agentview` → `gastownviewer` (per request 2026-05-23).
Other 7 sessions untouched.

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**End of session AAR.**

— Jeremy Longshore
intentsolutions.io
