---
date: 2026-05-06
status: complete — ready for compaction
owner: jez+claude
---

# Session log — 2026-05-06

Continuation of yesterday's chat-migration session. Today was audit-and-polish.

## What happened (chronologically)

1. **Live UX audit** — interaction-first walk through 14 surfaces of vite-flare-starter at 1440x900 desktop. Real chat send + response. Hard gates clean (0 console errors, 0 warnings, 0 5xx, 0 layout overflow). One Medium finding (M1 = chat conversation pre-fetch 404), one Low (L1 = transient connection drop on /dashboard/connectors that didn't reproduce). Report at `.jez/artifacts/ux-audit-2026-05-06.md`.

2. **Fixed UX-audit M1** — `/api/conversations/:id` returns `200 { messages: [] }` instead of 404 when row is missing or owned by another user. Eliminates routine 404 in network panel during chat lazy-creation flow. Same security guarantee (indistinguishable responses).

3. **Skills audit** — separate audit of the Skills module + light/dark theme quality. Listing page clean both modes. Detail page solid with four UX nits and one real bug. Report at `.jez/artifacts/skills-ux-audit-2026-05-06.md`.

4. **Fixed Skills F1** (theme bug) — light-mode CodeMirror was underlining every markdown heading. Added `HighlightStyle` for light mode using bold + accent colour via `@lezer/highlight`. Verified: 18 underlined spans → 0.

5. **Fixed Skills M1+M2+L2** (UX nits) —
   - M1: skill-listing cards now `<Link to>` instead of `<button onClick>`. Cmd-click + middle-click + right-click all work. 24/24 cards have `<a href>`.
   - M2: dropped the page-header subtitle on skill detail page (description was repeated 3×). Now once per surface.
   - L2: strip leading `# Title` from rendered Procedure markdown so it doesn't duplicate page h1. New `stripLeadingH1` helper.

6. **Fixed Skills M3+L1** (final polish) —
   - M3: Save button now toggles. `Saved ✓` (ghost, green check) when not dirty, `Save changes` (primary, save icon) when dirty.
   - L1: ConfigDiffCard collapses unchanged context. Standard unified-diff behaviour: 3 lines of context around each change, "N unchanged lines hidden" markers for everything beyond. Verified live with leading 13-line collapse + 66-line collapse on a 1-line delete.

## Commits today

```
79752a0 fix(skills): save state shows 'Saved' + diff cards collapse context
55130e4 fix(skills): cards as links + drop duplicate description + strip h1
3db184a docs(audit): Skills UI + theme audit findings
04dde10 fix(ux): chat pre-fetch 200-empty + skills source-editor light-mode
8415951 docs(audit): UX audit 2026-05-06 — vite-flare-starter live
```

All pushed to `origin/main`. 6 substantive commits + 1 deploy each.

## Brainstrust used today

GPT-5.5 via OpenRouter twice yesterday (chat WS bug + customer security review). Today none — the fixes were obvious from the audit screenshots + tail logs.

## Open items / next session

| ID | What | Where |
|---|---|---|
| L1 (audit) | Transient `ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED` on first nav to /dashboard/connectors. Re-test next session, investigate redirect ordering if reproduces. | UX audit doc |
| Future Skills v2 | Side-by-side preview, token count display, usage stats | Skills audit doc |

Nothing blocking. Chat works end-to-end. Skills polish complete. Mobile viewport audit still untested (Chrome MCP `resize_window` doesn't actually shrink innerWidth — limitation flagged in the audit).

## Production state

- Latest deploy version: `a4d971a2-1381-4c37-8ad6-dfe353f9f68f`
- Live: https://vite-flare-starter.webfonts.workers.dev
- DO bindings: 11 (added ChatAgent yesterday, no new today)
- Migrations: at v10 (ChatAgent SQLite — no new migrations today)
- Wrangler observability: full invocation logs enabled

## Key artefacts

- `.jez/artifacts/ux-audit-2026-05-06.md` — interaction-first audit, 14 surfaces, 1 Medium 1 Low
- `.jez/artifacts/skills-ux-audit-2026-05-06.md` — Skills module audit, dark/light theme review
- `.jez/artifacts/data-retention-security-2026-05-05.md` — customer-facing security/privacy doc (yesterday, GPT-5.5-reviewed)
- `.jez/artifacts/chat-aichatagent-migration-plan-2026-05-04.md` v2.1 — chat migration spec (yesterday's primary work)

## What to remember if compacting

- Chat module is fully on `ChatAgent extends AIChatAgent` (Cloudflare's `@cloudflare/ai-chat`). No legacy code remaining. `routeAgentRequest` mounted in worker entry. WS-based, DO-backed. Lazy-creates conversations on first turn.
- Skills detail page lives at `/dashboard/skills/:name`. Three tabs (Overview/Source/History). Source uses `MarkdownCodeEditor` with theme-aware highlight styles. ConfigDiffCard renders unified diff with collapsed context.
- All UX audit findings closed except `L1 (audit)` which is non-reproducible.
- The brainstrust-with-flagship pattern lives in `~/Documents/.jez/jeremy/CLAUDE.md` under "Goals over recipes when writing for AI" (added yesterday). No detailed rule file — kept conversational per your "don't be too prescriptive" steer.

