---
session_id: S-2026-0213-1926
timestamp: 2026-02-13T18:26:24Z
predecessor: null
tasks_active: [T-001, T-003, T-004, T-005, T-006, T-007, T-008, T-009, T-010, T-011, T-012]
tasks_touched: [T-001, T-002, T-003, T-004, T-005, T-006, T-007, T-008, T-009, T-010, T-011, T-012]
tasks_completed: [T-002]
uncommitted_changes: 4
owner: claude-code
---

# Session Handover: S-2026-0213-1926

## Where We Are

This is the **bootstrap session** of the Agentic Engineering Framework. We started with 4 markdown documents defining the framework and ended with a working task system, 4 agents, 7 practices, and 11 active tasks. The framework is now self-hosting - we're using it to build itself. Key infrastructure (Context Fabric, enforcement tooling) is specified but not yet implemented.

## Work in Progress

### T-001: Define measurable success metrics
- **Status:** started-work
- **Last action:** Captured 7 practices, created Vision doc, identified staged success criteria
- **Next step:** Complete remaining acceptance criteria (3 tasks through lifecycle, formalize metrics)
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** Pivoted from theoretical to experiential approach. "Measure what exists, not what should exist" (P-001)

### T-003: Create bypass log for bootstrap commit
- **Status:** captured (with full spec)
- **Last action:** Added acceptance criteria and bypass-log.yaml format
- **Next step:** Create .context/bypass-log.yaml documenting acb4594
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** Bootstrap exceptions should be first-class citizens (P-005)

### T-004: Install pre-commit hook for task enforcement
- **Status:** captured (with full spec)
- **Last action:** Added acceptance criteria and hook behavior spec
- **Next step:** Implement .git/hooks/pre-commit
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** Structural enforcement over agent discipline (P-002)

### T-005: Implement Context Fabric foundation
- **Status:** captured
- **Last action:** Created task
- **Next step:** Create .context/ structure with Working/Project/Episodic memory
- **Blockers:** None - but this blocks T-006, T-007
- **Insight:** This is foundational - many features depend on it

### T-006: Create episodic summary generator
- **Status:** captured
- **Last action:** Created task
- **Next step:** Design episodic summary format, build generator
- **Blockers:** Depends on T-005 (Context Fabric)
- **Insight:** Completed tasks should produce learnings for future reference

### T-007: Implement healing loop mechanism
- **Status:** captured
- **Last action:** Created task
- **Next step:** Design healing loop activation and pattern capture
- **Blockers:** Depends on T-005 (Context Fabric)
- **Insight:** Error handling should classify and learn, not just recover

### T-008: Add quality metrics to metrics.sh
- **Status:** captured
- **Last action:** Created task
- **Next step:** Add description length, Updates count, acceptance criteria completion
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** Existence metrics are easily gamed; quality metrics are harder but more honest (P-004)

### T-009: Document falsifiability criteria
- **Status:** captured
- **Last action:** Created task
- **Next step:** Define what would prove the framework approach is wrong
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** Without falsifiability, we can't know if we're succeeding or just confirming bias

### T-010: Define framework scope and audience
- **Status:** captured
- **Last action:** Created task
- **Next step:** Decide: Individual? Team? Enterprise?
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** The answer changes what success looks like

### T-011: Define practice graduation criteria
- **Status:** captured
- **Last action:** Created task
- **Next step:** Define when learning → practice → directive
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** Practice lifecycle exists but criteria are undefined

### T-012: Create handover agent
- **Status:** started-work
- **Last action:** Created AGENT.md and handover.sh, running first handover
- **Next step:** Complete this handover, update CLAUDE.md with session protocols
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** Handover is forward-looking synthesis, not backward-looking capture

## Decisions Made This Session

1. **Hybrid agent architecture** (bash scripts + AGENT.md)
   - Why: Mechanical reliability + intelligent guidance
   - Alternatives rejected: Pure LLM (unpredictable), pure bash (dumb)
   - Captured as: P-006

2. **Experiential over theoretical metrics**
   - Why: Can't measure what doesn't exist
   - Alternatives rejected: Upfront metric design (failed - metrics weren't measurable)
   - Captured as: P-001

3. **Task-centric governance**
   - Why: Structural enforcement over agent discipline
   - Alternatives rejected: Honor system, post-hoc logging only
   - Captured as: P-002

4. **Four-tier enforcement model**
   - Why: Graduated response based on consequence
   - Alternatives rejected: Binary (all-or-nothing)
   - Already in spec: 011-EnforcementConfig.md

5. **Session capture and handover as separate concerns**
   - Why: Capture is backward-looking (what happened), handover is forward-looking (what's needed)
   - Captured as: P-007 + handover agent design

## Things Tried That Failed

1. **Theoretical metric design** — Proposed metrics (traceability %, completion rate) but couldn't measure them because no data existed. Led to P-001 pivot.

2. **Reactive task capture** — Initially only created 3 tasks from audit findings. Systematic scan found 10+. Led to P-007.

## Open Questions / Blockers

1. How do we measure quality, not just existence? (T-008 addresses this partially)
2. What's the minimum viable enforcement? If one gate only, which? (T-004 is a start)
3. When does a learning graduate to practice to directive? (T-011)
4. Who is this framework for? Individual/Team/Enterprise? (T-010)
5. What would prove this approach wrong? (T-009)

## Gotchas / Warnings for Next Session

- **Bootstrap commit (acb4594)** has no task ref — this is documented, not a bug. See T-003.
- **metrics.sh only counts existence** — task files existing ≠ task files being useful
- **Context Fabric doesn't exist yet** — specs reference it but .context/ is mostly empty
- **Pre-commit hook not installed** — commits can still bypass task enforcement
- **Octal bug was fixed** in task-create (IDs 008, 009 caused issues) — fixed with 10# prefix

## Suggested First Action

**Complete T-003 (bypass log) and T-004 (pre-commit hook)** — These close the audit warnings and establish structural enforcement. Quick wins that demonstrate the framework working.

Alternative: **Start T-005 (Context Fabric)** if you want to unblock the learning/healing features.

## Files Changed This Session

- **Created:**
  - CLAUDE.md
  - 001-Vision.md
  - 015-Practices.md (expanded from 1 to 7 practices)
  - .tasks/ directory structure
  - agents/task-create/
  - agents/audit/
  - agents/session-capture/
  - agents/handover/
  - .context/handovers/
  - metrics.sh
  - T-001 through T-012

- **Modified:**
  - CLAUDE.md (multiple times - added agents, protocols)

## Recent Commits

- 63b8941 T-001: Systematic session capture - practices and tasks
- 58c077a T-001: Create tasks for audit findings
- eb32377 T-002: Create core agents (task-create, audit)
- d178766 T-001: Add vision document to capture success question context
- 784898e T-001: Extract first practice from experimentation
- cb929d6 T-001: Add task system structure and metrics script
- acb4594 v0.1 base start (bootstrap - no task ref)

## Session Statistics

- Tasks created: 12
- Tasks completed: 1 (T-002)
- Practices captured: 7 (P-001 through P-007)
- Agents created: 4 (task-create, audit, session-capture, handover)
- Git traceability: 85% (6 of 7 commits with task refs)
- Audit status: 10 pass, 2 warn, 0 fail

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

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