---
session_id: S-2026-0219-0055
timestamp: 2026-02-18T23:55:31Z
predecessor: S-2026-0219-0025
tasks_active: [T-120, T-130, T-151, T-162, T-172, T-173, T-175, T-176, T-177, T-178, T-179, T-180]
tasks_touched: [T-181, T-182]
tasks_completed: [T-182, T-181]
uncommitted_changes: 8
owner: claude-code
session_narrative: "Completed T-182 (handover reframing) and T-181 (web UI inline editing inception). Built and tested inline name editing, AC checkbox toggling, and description editing in the web UI."
---

# Session Handover: S-2026-0219-0055

## Where We Are

Completed two tasks this session: T-182 (reframe handover messaging from panic to calm wrap-up — string changes across 4 files) and T-181 (web UI inline editing inception — GO decision after building working spike with name edit, AC checkboxes, description edit). The inline editing spike code is live and functional in the web UI at localhost:3000. T-173/T-175/T-176 stale active files were cleaned up. All pushed to remote.

## Work in Progress

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### T-151: "Investigate audit tasks as cronjobs"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** Not touched this session
- **Next step:** Start investigation — is cron-based audit useful?
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** None

### T-162: "Web edge case tests — subprocess timeouts, error parsing, malformed YAML"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** Not touched this session
- **Next step:** Start writing tests in test_app.py
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** None

### T-172: "Docs page — discover research docs, commands, and skills"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** Not touched this session
- **Next step:** Continue docs page implementation
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** None

### T-173: "Budget gate: always allow full handover, not just emergency skeleton"
- **Status:** COMPLETED (stale active file — archived this session)
- **Last action:** Archived to completed/ with episodic
- **Next step:** None — done
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** None

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### T-175: "Eliminate emergency/full handover distinction — single handover"
- **Status:** COMPLETED (stale active file — archived this session)
- **Last action:** Archived to completed/ with episodic
- **Next step:** None — done
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** None

### T-176: "Adjust budget gate thresholds for no-compaction architecture"
- **Status:** COMPLETED (stale active file — archived this session)
- **Last action:** Archived to completed/ with episodic
- **Next step:** None — done
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** None

### T-177: "Clean up compact hooks for manual-only use"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: next)
- **Last action:** Not touched this session
- **Next step:** Review compact hooks and simplify for manual-only use
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** None

### T-178: "Research artifact persistence — governance and enforcement"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: next)
- **Last action:** Not touched this session
- **Next step:** Start inception exploration
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** None

### T-179: "Auto-restart mechanism — handover then exit then auto-resume"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: next)
- **Last action:** Not touched this session
- **Next step:** Start inception exploration
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** None

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### T-120: Review Google Context Engineering whitepaper against framework
- **Status:** captured (horizon: later)
- **Last action:** Not touched
- **Next step:** Backlog
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** None

### T-130: Investigate GSD (get-shit-done) for usable concepts, skills, patterns
- **Status:** captured (horizon: later)
- **Last action:** Not touched
- **Next step:** Backlog
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** None

### T-180: "MCP orphan reaper — detect and kill zombie MCP processes"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: later)
- **Last action:** Not touched
- **Next step:** Backlog
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** None

## Inception Phases

**4 inception task(s) pending decision** — run `fw inception status` for details.

## Gaps Register

**1 spec-reality gap(s) being watched** — see `.context/project/gaps.yaml`

- **G-004** [low]: Multi-agent collaboration untested

Run `fw audit` to check if any trigger conditions are met.

## Decisions Made This Session

1. **T-181 GO — web UI inline editing is feasible**
   - Why: All 3 go/no-go criteria met: frontmatter round-trips via regex, click-to-edit natural on 3+ field types, write-back sub-10ms
   - Alternatives rejected: Full WYSIWYG markdown editor (out of scope), yaml.dump round-trip (formatting changes)

2. **T-181: Use regex line editing instead of yaml.dump for frontmatter**
   - Why: yaml.dump changes formatting (quote styles, key order, line wrapping). Regex preserves exact file format.
   - Alternatives rejected: yaml.dump (destructive formatting), add --name to update-task.sh (slower to prototype)

## Things Tried That Failed

1. **Flask template caching** — templates didn't update after code changes because app wasn't in debug mode. Fixed by restarting Flask process.
2. **JS blur/escape race condition** — pressing Escape in name edit triggered both Escape handler and blur handler, causing DOM error. Fixed with `done` flag guard.

## Open Questions / Blockers

1. T-181 follow-up: should we create a build task to productionize the spike, or is the spike code sufficient as-is?
2. T-173/T-175/T-176 still appear in some views as "started-work" despite being completed — the handover agent lists them because their files existed in active/ at session start.

## Gotchas / Warnings for Next Session

- Flask app needs restart after code changes (not running in debug mode). Kill PID then `python3 -m web.app &`
- The inline editing spike code is functional but rough — e.g., description edit for multi-line `>` folded scalars uses regex that may not handle all edge cases
- L-058: Framework-level edits require impact assessment before modifications
- The inception commit gate (2 commits then blocked) worked correctly on T-181

## Suggested First Action

Create a build task from T-181's GO decision to productionize the inline editing features. The spike code works but could use polish: better error feedback, loading states, and handling edge cases in description multi-line editing.

## Files Changed This Session

- Modified: `agents/context/budget-gate.sh` (T-182: reframe messaging)
- Modified: `agents/context/checkpoint.sh` (T-182: reframe messaging)
- Modified: `CLAUDE.md` (T-182: critical protocol reframing)
- Modified: `lib/templates/claude-project.md` (T-182: mirror CLAUDE.md)
- Modified: `web/blueprints/tasks.py` (T-181: inline editing API endpoints + helpers)
- Modified: `web/templates/task_detail.html` (T-181: editable name, AC checkboxes, description edit)
- Modified: `web/templates/tasks.html` (T-181: Kanban + list name editing, JS, CSS)

## Recent Commits

- 97e7292 T-181: GO — inception complete, JS blur/escape fix, CSRF fallback for list view
- 5c5fc02 T-181: Spike 2+3 — inline name editing, AC checkboxes, description editing
- fb43495 T-012: Session handover S-2026-0219-0025
- 7e5b847 T-182: Task completed — episodic generated
- 8bc1d73 T-182: Reframe handover messaging from emergency panic to calm wrap-up

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## Handover Quality Feedback (for next session to complete)

- Did this handover help? [ ]
- What was missing?
- What was unnecessary?
