---
session_id: S-2026-0224-0944
timestamp: 2026-02-24T08:44:20Z
predecessor: S-2026-0224-0941
tasks_active: [T-261, T-262, T-263, T-264, T-265, T-266, T-267, T-268, T-269, T-270]
tasks_touched: [T-270, T-268, T-269, T-266, T-261, T-265, T-262, T-263, T-267, T-264, T-257, T-258, T-253, T-255, T-256, T-048, T-260, T-254, T-245, T-259]
tasks_completed: []
uncommitted_changes: 64
owner: claude-code
session_narrative: "Brief context-recovery session after compaction. Resumed from S-2026-0224-0941, read handover state, dispatched research agents to investigate Ollama API and current codebase. Compacted again before substantive work began. No new commits."
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# Session Handover: S-2026-0224-0944

## Where We Are

Q&A Phase 2 research is complete (S-2026-0224-0941). 9 build tasks (T-262..T-270) are created with rich descriptions referencing 6 research reports. T-261 inception has GO decision recorded. Push is blocked by D8 audit FAIL (this handover was auto-generated unfilled by pre-compact hook). No new work was done in this session — it was a brief context-recovery cycle.

## Work in Progress

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### T-261: "Q&A Phase 2 — model upgrade, RAG quality, framework integration, saved answers"
- **Status:** started-work (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** GO decision recorded in previous session (S-2026-0224-0941). 5 research agents completed, 6 reports saved, 9 build tasks created.
- **Next step:** Human GO decision: `fw inception decide T-261 go --rationale "..."`
- **Blockers:** Awaiting human approval (owner: human)
- **Insight:** Qwen3-14B is the consensus #1 pick — toggleable thinking mode is the differentiator

### T-262: "Replace LLM with Qwen3-14B + thinking mode toggle"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** Task created with rich description referencing RQ-1, RQ-3
- **Next step:** `ollama pull qwen3:14b` on host, then start work
- **Blockers:** Needs model downloaded first (~9GB download)
- **Insight:** Current IQ2_M 32B is worst of both worlds — 14B@Q4 is faster AND better quality

### T-263: "RAG quick wins — prompt, embeddings, chunking"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** Task created referencing RQ-2 sections 1-6
- **Next step:** Start with system prompt improvement (15min, highest impact:effort)
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** Embedding model (MiniLM, 2022) is the weakest link — upgrade to nomic-embed-text gives 10-15% retrieval boost

### T-264: "fw ask CLI — synchronous RAG+LLM wrapper"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** Task created referencing RQ-4 section 1, Architectural Notes
- **Next step:** Create lib/ask-api.py + lib/ask.sh + fw route
- **Blockers:** None (Watchtower must be running for embeddings DB)
- **Insight:** Keystone — all 8 downstream framework integrations depend on this

### T-265: "Saved answers — curated Q&A for retrieval flywheel"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** Task created from conversation Q3 discussion
- **Next step:** Add Save button, POST endpoint, .context/qa/ directory
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** Flywheel effect — saved answers become first-class retrieval sources

### T-266: "Streaming UX — marked.js, syntax highlighting, copy buttons"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** Task created referencing RQ-5 section 4 (full code sketches)
- **Next step:** Download marked.js + highlight.js + DOMPurify to web/static/
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** Debounce rendering to ~100ms to prevent flicker during fast token streaming

### T-267: "User feedback — thumbs up/down on Q&A answers"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: now)
- **Last action:** Task created referencing RQ-5 section 3 (full schema/endpoints)
- **Next step:** Create web/qa_feedback.py + endpoints + UI buttons
- **Blockers:** None
- **Insight:** Keep buttons subtle and optional to avoid adoption friction

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### T-268: "Multi-turn Q&A conversation"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: next)
- **Last action:** Task created referencing RQ-5 section 1
- **Next step:** Wait for T-262/T-263 (model + RAG improvements first)
- **Blockers:** EventSource to fetch is a one-way door — plan carefully
- **Insight:** Client-side history recommended over server-side sessions

### T-269: "Cross-encoder reranking with Qwen3-Reranker"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: next)
- **Last action:** Task created referencing RQ-2 section 1.1
- **Next step:** Wait for T-263 (embedding upgrade first)
- **Blockers:** Needs `ollama pull qwen3-reranker:0.6b`
- **Insight:** 15-30% precision boost for 0.5GB VRAM — excellent ROI

### T-270: "Healing agent integration — semantic pattern matching via fw ask"
- **Status:** captured (horizon: next)
- **Last action:** Task created referencing RQ-4 sections 4 and 6
- **Next step:** Depends on T-264 (fw ask CLI)
- **Blockers:** T-264 must be built first
- **Insight:** Replaces 126 lines of fragile bash keyword matching with one semantic query

## Inception Phases

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

## 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

No new decisions — this was a brief context-recovery session after compaction. All decisions from previous session (S-2026-0224-0941) carry forward:

1. **Qwen3-14B Q4_K_M as primary model** (replacing qwen2.5-coder-32b IQ2_M)
2. **Single model with think toggle** (not dual-model setup)
3. **`fw ask` CLI as keystone** (build before other integrations)
4. **Saved answers as indexed markdown** (in .context/qa/)

## Things Tried That Failed

Nothing new — context-recovery session only. Previous session's push failure (D8 FAIL due to stale LATEST.md) was fixed via symlink (T-260).

## Open Questions / Blockers

1. Push is blocked by D8 FAIL — this handover needs TODOs filled (being done now)
2. T-261 still needs human GO decision before build tasks can start
3. T-262 needs `ollama pull qwen3:14b` on host (~9GB download)

## Gotchas / Warnings for Next Session

- LATEST.md is a symlink (T-260) — `git add` may need `-f` flag if gitignore interferes
- Ollama model cold start takes ~20s — test with warm model for accurate speed comparison
- Flask template caching — restart server after template edits
- The pre-push audit takes ~2 minutes — be patient or push in background
- Push currently blocked by D8 — fill handover TODOs before pushing

## Suggested First Action

Fill this handover's TODOs to unblock push, then start T-262 (model replacement — highest impact task, after `ollama pull qwen3:14b`).

## Files Changed This Session

- Created: None (context-recovery session only)
- Modified: .context/working/ state files (session.yaml, focus.yaml, tool-counter)

## Recent Commits

- 6ff3cbc T-012: Fill handover S-2026-0224-0941 TODOs
- 1918844 T-012: Session handover S-2026-0224-0941
- 0fcfb37 T-261: Create 9 build tasks from Phase 2 research
- 44bac17 T-261: Q&A Phase 2 inception — research complete, 6 reports
- d841acc T-260: Complete — LATEST.md symlink fix verified

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

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