Session 😺🤖 2026-07-31 2 (job 244f8e81), 08:57 → 09:45 EDT — the session where the orchestrator got corrected live. The init ran 60–90 seconds against #91's fresh sub-10s bar, and @jwildfire interrupted mid-turn with the operating principle now on the record: the orchestrator agent stays responsive; it routes work to siblings, it doesn't do the work — including free-text requests typed into the init. The lead course-corrected in the same turn: delegated the whole focus (session-wrap alias + wrapup speed) to 👯🤖 wrapup-speedup, which shipped all three deliverables in six minutes, and the latency audit of the lead's own failure became the case study now attached to #91.
/session-wrap alias live — .claude/commands/session-wrap.md, mirroring the s-wrapup alias shape; registered in the session's skill list within the same session.
#148 posted (obotclaw): fast, responsive /session-wrapup — sibling requirement of #91 covering the closing bookend (verified gap: no open issue targeted wrapup speed; #91 is init-only by explicit scope fence). Measured baselines in the body: the 07-30 --auto wrapup ran ~28 minutes; site deploy-to-green median 157s over 12 runs; scratchpads 9–77 KB. Sub-issue of goal #73, Requirement Gathering, 2026q3.
Orchestrator-responsiveness comment on #91 — @jwildfire's directive quoted, plus this session's case study: 8 sequential lead round-trips ≈ 60–90s against ~4s of tool time, 4 of them inline recon of the free-text request. Recommends the ≤2-round-trip shape (one batched hand-off read + one sibling spawn carrying delta/inbox/focus, list rendered immediately) and proposes D8: free-text init arguments never run inline.
The latency audit itself — confirmed the morning's finding from the failing side: the minute-plus was pure model-round-trip cost; the delta agent (136s) never blocked, and tool time was negligible.
Init #2 housekeeping — delta sweep found only our own morning artifacts changed today (PR queue untouched since 07-29; oa#52 now the oldest ready PR at 5 days); ideas inbox empty on both lanes.
PRs / issues touched
Opened:#148 (obotclaw, sub-issue of goal #73, Requirement Gathering).
Advanced:#91 — case-study comment + proposed D8 · oa#57 — scope extended to the shelled-timestamp mandate (+ lists-over-prose line for the same skill-text PR).
Blockers / risks
Speed gains are design-gated — nothing in the init/wrapup skill text changed yet; the next session's speed test measures delegate-first discipline, not shipped fixes. Tracked: #91 D1–D8 · #148 D1–D7.
A session ending mid-checkpoint loses its wrapup draft — session 1's diary draft died with its deleted job and had to be recomposed from the scratchpad. Mitigation proposed as design input on #148: persist the checkpoint draft to session-notes/ before rendering the review page.
Next session: loose ends
The speed test — fresh /session-init, measured against the ≤2-round-trip shape from #91's comment; @jwildfire's stated plan for the next session. (#91 · #148)
Draft the #34 app-first plan rewrite (app goal #79's stated unblock; best after demo review notes). (carried)