Agents were spending entire $5 budgets grepping the codebase and reading
git history instead of making fixes when the story already specifies
exact file paths and function names. Changed bug workflow from
"investigate root cause first" to "trust the story, act fast" — go
directly to the specified location when the story tells you where.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Agents were running script/test directly through the PTY, streaming
the full output of npm install, cargo clippy, cargo test, and frontend
builds into session logs. This tripled session log sizes (~200KB to
~600KB per session) and contributed to CLI SIGABRT crashes.
The run_tests MCP tool already runs script/test server-side and returns
a truncated JSON summary. Agents now use it exclusively.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the markdown shadows for stories filed during today's stress-test
session, plus a SESSION_HANDOFF document for picking up the work in
a future session.
New stories (510-521):
510 — bug: stale 1_backlog filesystem shadows get re-promoted by timers
511 — bug: CRDT lamport clock resets to 1 on restart (FIXED in 99557635)
512 — story: migrate chat commands from filesystem lookup to CRDT/DB
513 — story: startup reconcile pass for state-machine drift detection
514 — story: delete_story should do a full cleanup
515 — story: debug MCP tool to dump in-memory CRDT state
516 — story: update_story.description should create the section if missing
517 — story: remove filesystem-shadow fallback paths from lifecycle.rs
518 — story: apply_and_persist should log persist_tx send failures
519 — story: mergemaster should fail loudly on no-op merges (mostly
obviated by Stage::Merge { commits_ahead: NonZeroU32 } in 520)
520 — story: typed pipeline state machine in Rust (sketches added in f7d69cde)
521 — story: MCP capability to write a CRDT tombstone for a story
Refactor 436 (unify story stuck states) is marked superseded by 520
via front_matter — its functionality is now part of the
Stage::Archived { reason: ArchiveReason } enum in story 520's design.
The SESSION_HANDOFF_2026-04-09.md document captures: the four-state-machine
drift situation that motivated story 520, today's bug fixes (502 + 511),
the off-leash rogue commit incident (forensic tag rogue-commit-2026-04-09-ac9f3ecf
preserved), the recommended next-session priority order, and useful
diagnostic recipes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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