Session 😺🤖 2026-08-01 s2 (job 278d4df2), spanning 08-01 08:13 → 08-04 wrapup — the #91 speed test that became the responsiveness mandate. @jwildfire ran the fresh-init arm live (7 minutes to first list; verdict "still too slow"), then set binding SLAs: bookends < 1 minute, chat replies < 30 seconds whenever possible, anything longer delegated to agents that report back — obot as a chat-like orchestrator for multitasking. Ultracode granted; the whole session framework was refactored against those SLAs and shipped as obot.agent PR #76, merged at wrapup on live approval. The lead is now a router, not a worker.
📊 Session report: skipped — the generator keys on today's date and this wrapup ran 08-04; the missing --date flag is oa#32.
Work completed
Speed test measured (the fresh-init arm, 08-01): 7 minutes wall to first list — 4 lead round trips plus a 4m03s blocking delta agent (19 tool calls) that produced zero corrections to the hand-off; direct evidence that render-first is safe. Data recorded for #91/#148.
The SLA mandate (@jwildfire, live, 08-02): orchestrator stays responsive — < 1 min startup/closeout, < 30 s replies, ack → delegate → report for anything longer; tasks may take long, obot may not make him wait.
obot.agent PR #76 shipped and MERGED (obotclaw[bot], squash f126fb8, 23 files +1207/−402, closes oa#57): new docs/session-framework.md responsiveness contract (router-not-worker lead, ≤ 2 sequential round trips to first paint, three-tier bookends, revision protocol, free-text-args-never-inline, lists-over-prose) · render-first session-init · < 1-min-checkpoint session-wrapup · session-spawn + new templates/sibling-briefing.md and templates/delta-sweep-briefing.md carrying the oa#57 fixes (shelled $(date +%H:%M) timestamps, ## Session log placement, terminal result: line) and the measured gh caps traps (search caps at 100; project item-list needs --limit 200).
Merged 2026-08-04 via obot-merge (standard lane, policy OK — no carve-out paths): workspace skills live immediately via symlinks; command alias copies verified in sync (hard-linked); a stale untracked commands/session-wrap.md collision in the main checkout was cleared to complete the pull; worktree + branch cleaned under the standing post-merge grant.
Process: ⚡️🤖 ultracode workflow — 10 Opus 5 agents, 36 min, ~854k tokens, 0 agent errors — built and adversarially verified the refactor; a finishing agent (3 min) shipped it after two orchestration bugs the verifier caught: Workflow args passed as a JSON string (every ${args.*} interpolated as undefined, naming the branch literally undefined) and ship-stage acceptance checks placed in a pre-ship verify phase (unpassable by construction). Both captured as scaffold lessons for the ultracode runbook.
Continuity verified: the 🦾🤖 08-01 autonomous session landed in full (#140 design at its gate, oa#75 filed) — nothing dangling before the refactor began.
PRs / issues touched
Opened + merged: obot.agent PR #76 (the session-framework SLA refactor).
Closed: oa#57 (heartbeat contract — via the #76 merge).
Advanced: #91 / #148 — D1–D8 direction adopted in the merged refactor, pending formal sign-off on the issues.
Blockers / risks
#91/#148 decisions are adopted-by-merge but not formally signed off — the issues still show open D-lists; needs @jwildfire's checkmarks (or a scope note) so the record matches the shipped behavior.
The first live run of the new init/wrapup is the real SLA acceptance test — until then the < 1-min bookend targets are design, not evidence.
Next session: loose ends
First live /session-init under the new contract — measure first paint against the < 1 min SLA; that run is #91's acceptance test.
Speed-test writeup → obotclaw comment on #91/#148 (both arms' data now in this entry).