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session_id: S-2026-0225-0915
timestamp: 2026-02-25T08:15:55Z
predecessor: S-2026-0225-0846
tasks_active: [T-261, T-262, T-263, T-265, T-266, T-267, T-268, T-269, T-271, T-272, T-273, T-274, T-275, T-276, T-277, T-278]
tasks_touched: [T-272, T-273, T-274, T-275, T-276, T-277, T-278]
tasks_completed: []
uncommitted_changes: 24
owner: claude-code
session_narrative: "Deep inception for Watchtower deployment to Ring20 (T-272). 5 parallel research agents investigated web app architecture, Ring20 infrastructure, production readiness gaps, deployment quality gates, and framework skill integration. Created 6 linked build tasks (T-273..T-278) with rich ACs and verification gates. Key finding: fw deploy bypasses all governance — highest-stakes operation with least enforcement."
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# Session Handover: S-2026-0225-0915

## Where We Are

Completed inception research for deploying Watchtower to Ring20 production (T-272). Five parallel research agents produced comprehensive findings across architecture, infrastructure, production gaps, quality gates, and skill integration. Six implementation tasks (T-273..T-278) created with rich content, dependency chains, and verification gates. Awaiting human go/no-go decision on T-272 before build work begins. Q&A Phase 2 tasks (T-262..T-271) still have human ACs pending browser verification.

## Work in Progress

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### T-272: "Deploy Watchtower + Q&A to Ring20 production"
- **Status:** started-work (horizon: now, inception — awaiting go/no-go)
- **Last action:** Full inception research with 5 parallel agents, research artifact written, 6 build tasks created with rich ACs
- **Next step:** Human decides: `fw inception decide T-272 go --rationale "..."`
- **Blockers:** Awaiting human go/no-go decision
- **Insight:** fw deploy is a raw exec passthrough bypassing ALL framework governance — highest-stakes operation with least enforcement. Swarm pattern (not GPU split) is correct for Watchtower since Ollama runs as system service on GPU host.

### T-273: "Production readiness — WSGI, health endpoint, config, error handling"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** Created with 10 agent ACs, 5 verification commands, component refs
- **Next step:** Start work after T-272 GO decision
- **Blockers:** T-272 go/no-go
- **Insight:** 9 production gaps identified, HIGH severity: WSGI, concurrency, auth

### T-274: "Scaffold Watchtower deployment — Dockerfile, compose, Traefik routes"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** Created with swarm pattern decision, ports 5050/5051 allocated
- **Next step:** Start after T-273 (needs /health endpoint)
- **Blockers:** T-273 (health endpoint required for Docker health checks)
- **Insight:** OLLAMA_HOST env var points at GPU host 192.168.10.107:11434

### T-275: "Pre-deploy quality gate — audit section + gated fw deploy"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** Created with 3-phase gate model design
- **Next step:** Start after T-274 (needs deployment files to validate)
- **Blockers:** T-274
- **Insight:** Combined audit section + gated deploy is the recommended approach (Option C)

### T-276: "Deploy skills — /deploy-check, /rollback commands"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** Created — follows /start-work skill pattern
- **Next step:** Start after T-275 (needs gated fw deploy)
- **Blockers:** T-275
- **Insight:** No deployment skills exist in the framework currently

### T-277: "First deployment — Watchtower to Ring20 production"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** Created with deployment plan and target URL
- **Next step:** Start after T-274 + T-275
- **Blockers:** T-274, T-275
- **Insight:** Target: watchtower.docker.ring20.geelenandcompany.com

### T-278: "Harvest deployment learnings — templates to learnings.yaml"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** Created — 6 template learnings identified for harvest
- **Next step:** Start after T-277 (needs real deployment experience)
- **Blockers:** T-277
- **Insight:** Deployment learnings hardcoded in Jinja2 templates, never captured in learnings.yaml

### T-261: "Q&A Phase 2 — model upgrade, RAG quality, framework integration, saved answers"
- **Status:** started-work (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** All child tasks completed (T-262..T-271) in prior sessions
- **Next step:** Human reviews all tasks in browser, marks human ACs
- **Blockers:** Owner: human (inception task)
- **Insight:** Full Phase 2 delivered across 4+ sessions

### T-262..T-267: Q&A Phase 2 build tasks
- **Status:** work-completed (horizon: now, partial-complete: human ACs pending)
- **Last action:** All completed in prior sessions
- **Next step:** Human verifies in browser at http://localhost:3000/search
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** 8 tasks have human ACs pending browser verification

### T-271: "Fix budget-gate stale critical status trap"
- **Status:** work-completed (horizon: now, owner: human)
- **Last action:** Fixed stale critical trap (prior session)
- **Next step:** Human completes: `fw task update T-271 --status work-completed --force`
- **Blockers:** Human-owned task
- **Insight:** L-014 predicted this class of bug

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### T-268: "Multi-turn Q&A conversation"
- **Status:** work-completed (horizon: next, partial-complete: human ACs pending)
- **Last action:** Completed in prior session — fetch+ReadableStream, client-side history
- **Next step:** Human tests multi-turn in browser
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** One-way door: EventSource→fetch+ReadableStream

### T-269: "Cross-encoder reranking with Qwen3-Reranker"
- **Status:** work-completed (horizon: next, partial-complete: human AC pending)
- **Last action:** Infrastructure built with graceful fallback (prior session)
- **Next step:** Install reranker model when available in Ollama registry
- **Blockers:** Model not in Ollama registry
- **Insight:** Auto-activates via _rerank_available() check

## Inception Phases

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

- **T-261:** Q&A Phase 2 — all child tasks done, awaiting human review
- **T-272:** Deploy Watchtower to Ring20 — research complete, awaiting go/no-go

## Gaps Register

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

- **G-004** [low]: Multi-agent collaboration untested
- **G-011** [low]: PostToolUse hooks are advisory-only — cannot block actions

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

## Decisions Made This Session

1. **Deployment pattern: swarm with remote Ollama (T-272)**
   - Why: Ollama already runs on GPU host as system service. Watchtower is CPU-only Flask app. No benefit to containerizing Ollama.
   - Alternatives rejected: GPU split pattern (would containerize Ollama, manage GPU allocation, duplicate model storage)

2. **Quality gate approach: Combined audit section + gated fw deploy (T-272)**
   - Why: Reuses existing audit infrastructure, consistent reporting, single `fw audit --section deployment`
   - Alternatives rejected: Inline gates only (duplicates audit logic), separate pre-deploy script (misses audit integration)

## Things Tried That Failed

1. **Nothing failed this session** — inception research executed cleanly with 5 parallel agents

## Open Questions / Blockers

1. T-272 needs human go/no-go decision before build work begins
2. Assumption: Ollama on GPU host reachable from Swarm worker nodes (testable: ping from .201/.202/.203 to .107:11434)
3. 8 Q&A Phase 2 tasks still have human ACs pending browser verification
4. T-271 needs human completion: `fw task update T-271 --status work-completed --force`

## Gotchas / Warnings for Next Session

- Flask dev server is single-threaded — timed-out streaming requests block all new requests
- Flask template caching — restart server after template edits
- Ollama model cold start takes ~20s for Qwen3-14B
- T-273..T-278 have a dependency chain — work them in order (T-273 first)
- `fw deploy` currently does raw `exec` — do NOT use for production deployment until T-275 is done

## Suggested First Action

Decide T-272: `fw inception decide T-272 go --rationale "Research validates swarm pattern, 6 tasks scoped and linked"`. Then start T-273 (production readiness) as the first build task in the chain.

## Files Changed This Session

- Created: `docs/reports/T-272-deploy-watchtower-ring20.md` (research artifact)
- Created: `.tasks/active/T-272-deploy-watchtower--qa-to-ring20-producti.md`
- Created: `.tasks/active/T-273-production-readiness--wsgi-health-endpoi.md`
- Created: `.tasks/active/T-274-scaffold-watchtower-deployment--dockerfi.md`
- Created: `.tasks/active/T-275-pre-deploy-quality-gate--audit-section--.md`
- Created: `.tasks/active/T-276-deploy-skills--deploy-check-rollback-com.md`
- Created: `.tasks/active/T-277-first-deployment--watchtower-to-ring20-p.md`
- Created: `.tasks/active/T-278-harvest-deployment-learnings--templates-.md`

## Recent Commits

- 499eff3 T-272: Inception research — deploy Watchtower to Ring20 production
- 3dfee47 T-012: Session handover S-2026-0225-0846
- 5fdf54f T-012: Fill handover S-2026-0225-0825 TODOs
- 10c4c3e T-012: Session handover S-2026-0225-0825
- 034da30 T-077: Add fw deploy command — routes to ring20-deployer CLI

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

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