Daily diary: 2026-07-08

The histogram lane ships its code — scaffold merged, module extracted — and documentation becomes the delivery bar: requirement #21 (safety.viz documentation site) was filed, designed, and signed off in a single evening, decomposed into four sub-issues, with the first two implementation PRs up as drafts before midnight. At wrap-up the blog series joined the roadmap (#22) and the board got a four-move refresh.

Work completed

Histogram lane: scaffold merged, module extracted

• safety.viz PR #3 (scaffold) merged to main, closing safety.viz#1 — clearing 07-04 loose end #1. Board: Released.
• Histogram module extracted: safety.viz PR #4 (opened and merged same evening, into dev) closes safety.viz#2. The pilot's ~680-line src/index.js split into src/histogram.js (lifecycle API init/setData/setSettings/render/resize/destroy, SH-API-001) plus src/histogram/{configure,structureData,getScales,…}.js per the #2 design's decomposition mapping; Red-Green TDD (failing tests first), requirement-keyed suite (32 Vitest + 15 Playwright). Board: Released — but per the new done-gate (below), hub #2 itself stays in Development until the histogram's site entry deploys.

Requirement #21: safety.viz documentation site — filed → designed → signed off

• #21 filed: a renderer only counts as delivered when a reviewer can see it working, verify its evidence, and use its API without cloning. A GitHub Pages site for safety.viz with three pillars per renderer — example-gallery demo, test-evidence page, API reference — plus the process rule that a renderer is not done (and its migration requirement not Released) until all three are published.
• Design doc drafted, reviewed, and signed off same evening (recorded on #21). Four scoping decisions settled with @jwildfire as inputs: plain Node build script (no framework), committed evidence screenshots, JSDoc-generated API reference, publish on every merge plus PR previews. Two review-driven additions:
  • Dual-purpose screenshots: committed evidence PNGs are simultaneously Playwright toHaveScreenshot visual-regression baselines — evidence artifact, regression baseline, and site image in one file, so site images can never silently go stale. Baselines are canonical to the Playwright Linux container CI uses; npm run evidence:update regenerates them deliberately; a CI freshness guard fails the build on drift.
  • Branch model: gsm-style protected main + dev integration branch, with three-tier site builds — site root from main (releases), /dev/ from the integration branch, /pr/{N}/ previews per open PR. Already applied to the repo: PR #4 retargeted to dev, main protected, CI now runs on dev pushes.
• Design also positions evidence.json as the interim artifact for #15 (qcthat-compatible JS reporting — scope unchanged, backlog), supersedes the #1 design's examples-site deferral, and sequences gsm.safety#30 (Widget_Histogram) after the histogram site entry.
• The branching/release model and site done-gate are documented in safety.agent's AGENTS.md for future sessions.

#21 decomposed; implementation begins

• Four sub-issues filed via requirement-tasks: safety.viz#5 (evidence pipeline), #6 (API reference), #7 (site build), #8 (publishing).
• Draft PR #9 (evidence pipeline, Closes #5): unit-tested evidence normalizer (scripts/evidence-lib.mjs — requirement-ID/issue-ref parsing, deterministic evidence.json, screenshot attachment, freshness comparison), npm run evidence / evidence:check; first canonical baseline set generated in CI via a temporary bootstrap trigger, then the trigger dropped. CI green. Board: #5 in Review.
• Draft PR #10 (API reference, for #6): JSDoc annotations on the histogram public surface + generated API data artifact. Both PRs written Red-Green (failing tests committed first); both end the session as open drafts awaiting review.

Session wrap-up: blog-series requirement + roadmap refresh

• #22 filed — the R/Pharma developer-diary blog series captured as a requirement (approved in-session), companion to #10: write post #5 from the existing outline draft, outline the remaining posts through the October keynote (the outline becomes the Design section), and clear the big.blog cross-post backlog.
• Roadmap board refreshed (all four moves approved in-session): #1 → Review (scaffold task closed, examples-site deferral superseded by #21), #3 → Review (only §7 credential retirement remains), safety.viz#6 → Review (draft PR #10 up), #22 → Requirement Gathering. The roadmap page reflects the refresh as of this entry's deploy.

Harness: gsm.agent v0.2.0 + interactive HTML review

• Upstream gsm.agent released v0.2.0 today (PRs #27/#30/#31 merged — README core-functionality section, skills refresh, roadmap v0.2 snapshot).
• Tonight's gsm.agent PR #33 (open) adds an interactive HTML review mode to the issue-review skill — drafts reviewed on a rendered page with approve/revise actions instead of terminal previews, matching how @jwildfire actually reviews.

PRs / issues touched

• Merged: safety.viz PR #3 (→ main), safety.viz PR #4 (→ dev); upstream gsm.agent PRs #27/#30/#31 (v0.2.0).
• Opened: #21, #22; sub-issues safety.viz#5–#8; draft PRs safety.viz#9, #10; gsm.agent PR #33.
• Closed: safety.viz#1, #2 (completed).
• Advanced: #21 design signed off → Development; #2 code complete but held in Development by the done-gate; board moves #1/#3/safety.viz#6 → Review.

Blockers / risks

• PRs #9/#10 are drafts, unreviewed — the site-build lane (#7/#8) consumes their outputs (evidence.json, API data artifact), so review latency gates the rest of #21.
• Pixel-baseline discipline is new: any rendering change now fails CI until baselines are deliberately refreshed in the canonical container — cheap by design, but a workflow habit to build.
• Gilead-BioStats gh API remains SAML-blocked — gsm.agent PR state only verifiable via the local clone.
• Carried: obot-claw credential retirement (#3 design §7) still pending @jwildfire sign-in; #17/#18 still in Requirement Gathering awaiting harness-proposal Q1–Q4.

Next session: loose ends

1. Review/undraft/merge PR #9 and PR #10 (→ dev) — unblocks the site build (#7).
2. Site build + publishing (#7, #8) — includes the one-time manual Pages setting (source = gh-pages branch) and the two small calls deferred to implementation (sticky preview-comment mechanism; hero-screenshot choices).
3. First dev → main release PR once the histogram site entry is complete — that deploy is what moves hub #2 (and eventually #21) toward Released.
4. Board hygiene — done at wrap-up (approved in-session): safety.viz#6 → Review (matching #5), hub #1 and #3 → Review, #22 → Requirement Gathering. Remaining: safety.viz #7/#8 stay Backlog until picked up.
5. Local cleanup (non-deleting parts are routine; worktree removal needs the usual care): 2-extract-histogram worktree is merged and has an untracked tmp-demo/; the safety.viz main clone's dev is behind origin; the .github (gsm.agent) main worktree is 6 commits behind upstream v0.2.0.
6. Blog lane — R/Pharma developer-diary series: write diary post #5 from the existing outline draft (jwildfire.github.io/_drafts/autonomy-or-lack-thereof.md, series part 5, the OBot-v2/Paperclip autonomy story) and outline the next few posts through the October keynote. Decided 2026-07-08 and filed at wrap-up as #22, companion to #10 (keynote deck) — the series outline becomes the Design section, individual posts become sub-issues. Also pending in the same lane: big.blog's post/rpharma-keynote-diary-2-3 cross-post branch is local-only/unpushed, and post #4 isn't cross-posted yet. (Both blog repos live in ~/Documents/github/, outside the obot2 workspace.)
7. Carried from 07-04: #3 §7 credential retirement; advance #17/#18 into Design; session-orchestration D1–D4; nightly diary revival (an #18 lane); #15 stays backlog — now with evidence.json as its designed interim artifact.

🙋 ToDo

• @jwildfire: review draft PRs safety.viz#9 and #10.
• @jwildfire: (carried) obot-claw account sign-in for #3 §7 credential retirement; 👍 + Q1–Q4 answers to advance #17/#18; session-orchestration D1–D4.