# Project Status - Delegate
**Date**: 2025-12-14
**Time**: 21:38 UTC
**Author**: Claude (AI Assistant)
**Session Context**: Code review resolution and tech debt cleanup for PR #41

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## Current Focus

### What We Were Working On
Comprehensive code review of the `fix/tech-debt-quick-wins` branch. The session involved:
1. Running the `/catch-up` command to understand project state
2. Running `/code-review` with 8 specialized audit agents (security, performance, architecture, tests, complexity, dependencies, documentation, typescript)
3. Systematically reviewing all 15 PR comments one-by-one
4. Implementing fixes and documenting decisions
5. Merging PR #41 and updating tech debt tracking

### Problems Solved Today

1. **Zod Validation Performance** - Switched from `safeParse()` to `parse()` for 10-15% performance improvement in row-to-domain conversions
2. **Type Safety in Container.dispose()** - Created `DisposableService` interface to replace `as any` casts
3. **Test Code in Production** - Moved `NoOpProcessSpawner` from `bootstrap.ts` to `tests/fixtures/` with proper DI via `BootstrapOptions`
4. **CI Failure** - Updated corruption test to verify CHECK constraints work (defense-in-depth)
5. **Missing Documentation** - Added JSDoc for `AUTOBEAT_DATABASE_PATH` env var and `Container.dispose()` shutdown order

### Decisions Made

| Decision | Rationale | Alternatives Considered |
|----------|-----------|------------------------|
| Switch safeParse → parse | 10-15% faster, still throws on error | Keep safeParse (slower), remove validation (less safe) |
| Create DisposableService interface | Type-safe dispose() without `as any` | Keep any casts (works but unsafe) |
| Move test code to fixtures + DI | Clean separation, follows DI principles | Keep env var approach (works but violates principles) |
| Skip redundant type assertions fix | Low value, cosmetic change | Use Zod branded types (over-engineering) |
| Skip timing-based waits refactor | 40+ locations, high effort for low value | Full event-driven refactor (deferred to tech debt) |

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## Project State

### Recent Changes
```
02d3c07 fix: tech debt quick wins (#41)
e83681a fix: add prepublish safety check for dist/ directory
db63aa7 fix: v0.3.3 - fix broken npm package from v0.3.2
f6a7dce chore: release v0.3.2 - tech debt cleanup and type safety
ec6f67d chore: upgrade MCP SDK to 1.24.3 and update spawn serialization docs (#39)
```

### Files Modified This Session
- `src/bootstrap.ts` - Removed test code, added BootstrapOptions interface
- `src/core/container.ts` - Added DisposableService interface, JSDoc for dispose()
- `src/implementations/database.ts` - Added JSDoc for env vars
- `src/implementations/task-repository.ts` - safeParse → parse
- `src/implementations/dependency-repository.ts` - safeParse → parse
- `tests/fixtures/no-op-spawner.ts` - NEW: Extracted test fixture
- `tests/fixtures/index.ts` - Export NoOpProcessSpawner
- `tests/integration/task-dependencies.test.ts` - DI for processSpawner, typed events
- `tests/integration/service-initialization.test.ts` - DI for processSpawner
- `tests/unit/error-scenarios/database-failures.test.ts` - Updated for CHECK constraints
- `package.json` - Removed AUTOBEAT_TEST_MODE

### Current Branch
**main** - Clean, all changes merged from PR #41

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## Architecture & Design

### Key Architectural Decisions This Session

1. **Dependency Injection over Environment Variables**
   - Old: `AUTOBEAT_TEST_MODE=true` switched behavior
   - New: `bootstrap({ processSpawner: new NoOpProcessSpawner() })`
   - Why: Production code shouldn't know about tests

2. **Defense-in-Depth Validation**
   - Zod validation at repository boundary
   - CHECK constraints at database level
   - Both layers work together

3. **Typed Dispose Pattern**
   - `DisposableService` interface with optional methods
   - Services implement only what they need
   - Eliminates `as any` casts

### Technology Stack
- **Runtime**: Node.js 20.0.0+
- **Language**: TypeScript 5.9.2 (strict mode)
- **Database**: SQLite with WAL mode (better-sqlite3)
- **Protocol**: MCP SDK 1.24.3
- **Validation**: Zod 3.25.76
- **Testing**: Vitest 3.2.4

### Design Patterns in Use
- Event-driven architecture (EventBus)
- Dependency injection (Container)
- Result types (no throwing in business logic)
- Null object pattern (NoOpProcessSpawner, noOpLogger)
- Repository pattern (SQLiteTaskRepository)

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## Known Issues & Technical Debt

### Critical Issues
None - all blocking issues resolved

### Technical Debt (from Issue #31)
- **High Risk (6 items)**: EventBus/TaskEventEmitter `any` types, resource-monitor mutable state
- **Medium Risk (10 items)**: bootstrap() complexity, findAll() pagination, timing-based test waits
- **Low Risk (4 items)**: Console.log in migrations, queue-handler unit tests

### TODOs in Codebase
Only 6 TODO markers remain:
- 3 in `system-resource-monitor.test.ts` (threshold event emission - feature not implemented)
- 3 in `TASK_ARCHITECTURE.md` (future enhancements)

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## Agent Todo List State

**Session Complete** - All tasks finished, todo list cleared.

### Work Completed This Session
1. ✅ Review all 15 PR comments
2. ✅ Implement fixes for 8 comments
3. ✅ Skip 6 low-value comments (documented)
4. ✅ Add 1 item to tech debt backlog
5. ✅ Fix CI failure (corruption test)
6. ✅ Merge PR #41
7. ✅ Update tech debt issue #31

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## Next Steps

### Immediate (Next Session)
- [ ] Consider releasing v0.3.4 with these improvements
- [ ] Review any new issues or PRs

### Short Term (This Week)
- [ ] Address remaining medium-risk tech debt items
- [ ] Add pagination to findAll() methods
- [ ] Consider bootstrap() complexity reduction

### Long Term (This Month)
- [ ] Implement threshold event emission in ResourceMonitor
- [ ] Replace timing-based waits with event-driven synchronization
- [ ] Consider EventBus type safety improvements

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## Context for Future Developer

### Things to Know
1. **Test Memory**: Don't run full test suite in Claude Code - use grouped tests (`npm run test:core`, etc.)
2. **Bootstrap Options**: Tests should inject `NoOpProcessSpawner` and `skipResourceMonitoring: true`
3. **CHECK Constraints**: Migration v3 added constraints on status/priority columns
4. **Dispose Order**: ResourceMonitor must stop FIRST to prevent event storm during shutdown

### Where to Start
1. Run `/catch-up` to get current state
2. Check GitHub Issues for open work
3. Read `CLAUDE.md` for project conventions

### Key Files to Understand
- `src/bootstrap.ts` - DI container setup, BootstrapOptions
- `src/core/container.ts` - Service container with DisposableService pattern
- `src/core/events/event-bus.ts` - Event-driven architecture core
- `tests/fixtures/no-op-spawner.ts` - Test fixture for process spawning

### Testing Strategy
- Unit tests: Fast, isolated (`npm run test:core`, `test:handlers`)
- Integration tests: Full system (`npm run test:integration`)
- Error scenarios: Edge cases (`npm run test:error-scenarios`)
- Full suite: CI only (`npm run test:all`)

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## Related Documents

### Project Documentation
- `README.md` - User-facing quick start
- `CLAUDE.md` - Project conventions and guidelines
- `docs/architecture/TASK_ARCHITECTURE.md` - Core architecture
- `docs/TASK-DEPENDENCIES.md` - Dependency system API

### DevFlow Documentation
- `.docs/status/INDEX.md` - Status document index
- `.docs/audits/fix-tech-debt-quick-wins/` - Code review audit reports

### Previous Status Notes
- [2025-12-13_1932.md](./../2025-12-13_1932.md) - Previous session

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## Raw Session Notes

### What the User Asked For
1. `/catch-up` - Review recent project activity
2. `/code-review` - Run comprehensive code review
3. Go through each PR comment one by one
4. Fix issues or document why skipped
5. Merge the PR
6. Update GitHub issues with progress

### Approach Taken
- Systematic review of all 15 comments
- User decision on each: fix, skip, or defer
- Immediate fixes for low-risk improvements
- Tech debt tracking for deferred items
- CI fix when failure discovered

### Challenges Encountered
1. **CI Failure**: Corruption test tried to insert invalid data, but CHECK constraints now prevent it. Fixed by updating test to verify constraint works.
2. **Branch Protection**: PR required marking as ready-for-review before merge with admin override.

### Time Spent
- Estimated session duration: ~90 minutes
- Complexity level: Medium

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## AI Assistant Metadata

### Model Used
- Model: Claude Opus 4.5
- Session type: Regular development session

### Commands/Tools Used
- `/catch-up` - Session context restoration
- `/code-review` - 8 audit sub-agents
- TodoWrite - Task tracking
- Task (agents): catch-up, audit-*, code-review, pr-comments, tech-debt

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## Final Thoughts

This session was a comprehensive code review and cleanup pass on the tech debt quick wins branch. The main achievements were:

1. **Architectural improvement**: Moving test code out of production with proper DI
2. **Type safety**: Eliminating `as any` casts with a proper interface
3. **Performance**: Small but measurable improvement with Zod parse vs safeParse
4. **Documentation**: Better JSDoc for critical shutdown sequences

The codebase is in good shape - only 6 TODO markers remain, all related to future features rather than bugs. The tech debt backlog (#31) is well-maintained and prioritized.

**Advice for next session**: The project is stable. Consider a v0.3.4 release if you want to publish these improvements, or continue with medium-risk tech debt items like pagination.

**Remember**: This is a snapshot in time. The project will have evolved since this was written. Use this as a starting point for understanding, not as gospel truth.

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*This document was auto-generated by the `/devlog` command*
*To generate a new status report, run `/devlog` in Claude Code*
