small-scripts/memory/log/2026-08-02.223019.md

Session Log -- 2026-08-02

Summary

Built the idle-draft writing-pipeline tooling (driven from the writing/oreillyconsulting session; full narrative log lives there): extended agent-subscriptions, ported score-paragraphs from GOES, and created idle-draft — a cron dispatcher spending idle subscription capacity. Six commits, all implementation by Sonnet subagents, every test suite re-run by the orchestrator before commit.

Decisions

• Decision: elapsed_pct is null when a window lacks a reset timestamp (MiniMax v1 fallback); consumers fail closed -- Rationale: never assume pacing data that isn't there.
• Decision: idle-draft replicates claude-profile's provider.env parsing instead of shelling out to claude-profile -- Rationale: claude-profile has interactive pickers and WezTerm theming; a headless cron dispatcher needs neither.
• Decision: per-(work type × provider) model/effort config, precedence entry > work-type > profile -- Rationale: owner wants MiniMax at elevated effort to offset capability gap.

Gotchas Discovered

• [idle-draft] Symptom: valid citations like SPEC.md:1-80 rejected as dead paths -- Fix: strip trailing :\d+(-\d+)? before existence check (pilot #1 catch).
• [score-paragraphs] Symptom: hash-skip branch structurally unreachable; scored paragraphs never re-examined, --force ineffective (bug in goes original too) -- Fix: documented as known limitation in spec; port-not-rewrite mandate.
• [claude-cli] Symptom: needed the valid --effort set -- Fix: pass a bogus value with -p ""; the CLI errors locally listing low, medium, high, xhigh, max (no API call).
• [idle-draft] Symptom: killed dispatcher orphans claude children; deterministic .tmp names collide with the next instance -- Fix: start_new_session + SIGTERM/atexit process-group kill; per-invocation .tmp.<pid> names; startup sweep of stale tmp files.

Key Context

• New scripts: idle-draft (185 test assertions), score-paragraphs (57); extended agent-subscriptions (33). All spec-first, all offline-testable, symlinked to ~/sbin.
• Deployment config/state live in ~/dev/claude/writing/oreillyconsulting/ (see that repo's CONTEXT.md for pipeline operations).
• Pre-existing uncommitted work in this repo (auto-draft, bg-model-call, wait-for-version, README.md) deliberately untouched — commits were pathspec-limited.