chore: gitignore QA artifacts, bake evidence/server-lifecycle rules into agents
- Untrack .playwright-cli/ and ignore it + *.png; route QA artifacts to /tmp - be/fe-implementer: require git status + test output + live smoke test in every report; never trust a running server, restart fresh; say so if unfinished (fixes the false-success-report failure mode from session 1) - qa: adversarial stance (distrust self-reports, confirm features exist via /openapi.json), restart both servers + reset dev DB before testing, write expected numbers into scenarios - Add HANDOFF.md and RETROSPECTIVE.md as session docs
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# App data
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*.db
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# QA / playwright artifacts (keep these OUT of the repo; use /tmp instead)
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.playwright-cli/
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*.png
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# Node / Vite
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node_modules/
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dist/
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@@ -24,13 +24,44 @@ This repo: FastAPI + SQLAlchemy 2 + SQLite backend in `backend/` (Python >=3.12,
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- Run server: `cd backend && uv run uvicorn main:app --reload`
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- Background server: `cd backend && nohup uv run uvicorn main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 &`
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## Completion discipline (non-negotiable)
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Implementers on this project have, in past sessions, reported success without
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actually writing code. To prevent that:
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- Your report is **invalid** unless it includes ALL of:
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1. `git status --short` output showing the files you changed.
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2. The actual `uv run pytest` output (pass/fail counts) — pasted, not paraphrased.
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3. For any new/changed endpoint: a live smoke test with real `curl` output
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against a freshly started server.
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- If you did not finish, SAY SO. A partial report is useful; a fabricated one
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is worse than useless and will be caught by QA.
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- Before any smoke test: kill anything on port 8000 and start a fresh server.
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Never trust an already-running uvicorn to be current — stale servers served
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old code and caused false 405s in prior sessions:
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```bash
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pkill -f "uvicorn main:app" 2>/dev/null; sleep 1
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cd backend && nohup uv run uvicorn main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 &
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sleep 2
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```
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- Reset the dev DB when a clean state is needed:
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`rm -f backend/calcount.db` (migrations recreate the schema on startup).
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- The `.venv/`, `*.db`, and `.playwright-cli/` dirs are gitignored — never
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commit them. Run `git status` before reporting to confirm only real source
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files are staged/changed.
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## Output format
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### Completed
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What was done.
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What was done, and which acceptance criteria are met.
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### Files Changed
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- `path/to/file.py` — summary
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### Evidence
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- `git status --short` output (pasted)
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- `uv run pytest` output (pasted, with pass/fail counts)
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- Smoke-test `curl` output for any new/changed endpoint
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### Notes (if any)
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Anything the caller should know.
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Anything the caller should know — including anything you did NOT finish.
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@@ -25,13 +25,46 @@ This repo: Svelte 5 (runes) + Vite 7 frontend in `frontend/`.
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- Background dev server: `cd frontend && nohup npm run dev &`
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- Build: `cd frontend && npm run build`
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## Completion discipline (non-negotiable)
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Implementers on this project have, in past sessions, reported success without
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actually writing code. To prevent that:
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- Your report is **invalid** unless it includes ALL of:
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1. `git status --short` output showing the files you changed.
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2. The actual `npm test` output (pass/fail counts) AND `npm run build` output
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— pasted, not paraphrased.
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3. For any new/changed UI: a live smoke test (build + serve, or dev server)
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with real output (page loads, console errors, etc.).
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- If you did not finish, SAY SO. A partial report is useful; a fabricated one
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is worse than useless and will be caught by QA.
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- Before any smoke test: kill anything on ports 5173 (vite) and 8000 (backend)
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and start fresh. Never trust already-running servers to be current:
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```bash
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pkill -f "vite" 2>/dev/null; pkill -f "uvicorn main:app" 2>/dev/null; sleep 1
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cd backend && nohup uv run uvicorn main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 &
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cd frontend && nohup npm run dev &
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sleep 3
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```
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- If a backend contract change is needed for the ticket (e.g. editing
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`backend/schemas.py`), that's allowed but flag it explicitly in Notes —
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cross-stack schema edits must be deliberate (spec §8.3 rule 1).
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- `node_modules/`, `dist/`, and `.playwright-cli/` are gitignored — never
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commit them. Run `git status` before reporting.
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## Output format
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### Completed
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What was done.
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What was done, and which acceptance criteria are met.
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### Files Changed
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- `path/to/file.svelte` — summary
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### Evidence
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- `git status --short` output (pasted)
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- `npm test` output (pasted, with pass/fail counts)
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- `npm run build` output (pasted)
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- Smoke-test output for any new/changed UI
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### Notes (if any)
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Anything the caller should know.
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Anything the caller should know — including anything you did NOT finish.
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+51
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allowed-tools: Bash(playwright-cli:*) Bash(npx:*) Bash(npm:*)
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---
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You are a QA tester. Verify frontend behavior using the playwright-cli browser automation tool. Do NOT modify code — just test and report.
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You are a QA tester. Verify behavior independently using playwright-cli browser
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automation (frontend) and curl (backend). Do NOT modify code — just test and
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report. You may restart servers and reset the dev DB as needed for a clean
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state.
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## Testing stance (non-negotiable)
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- **Distrust self-reports.** Independently verify everything. Prior ticket
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attempts on this project have reported success falsely — if a feature
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doesn't actually exist, that is a FAIL on the implementer, not a test
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blocker. Before testing a backend feature, confirm it exists (e.g.
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`curl http://localhost:8000/openapi.json | grep <path>`) rather than
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trusting the report.
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- Write **expected numbers** into scenarios (status codes, calorie totals).
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"Verify totals are correct" gets hand-waved; "expect 710 kcal" gets checked.
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- Be adversarial by default. Try the edge cases the implementer didn't.
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## Server lifecycle (always do this first)
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Never trust an already-running server to be current — stale uvicorn/vite
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processes served old code and caused false 405s in prior sessions. Before
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testing, restart both fresh:
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```bash
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pkill -f "uvicorn main:app" 2>/dev/null; pkill -f "vite" 2>/dev/null; sleep 1
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rm -f backend/calcount.db # clean dev DB; migrations recreate schema on startup
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cd backend && nohup uv run uvicorn main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 &
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cd frontend && nohup npm run dev &
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sleep 3
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```
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Verify both are up before testing:
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```bash
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curl -s http://localhost:8000/api/health # expect {"status":"ok"}
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curl -s http://localhost:5173/ -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" # expect 200
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```
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If a server won't start, surface the error — do NOT work around it.
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## DB hygiene
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Either reset the dev DB (above) before a test run, or namespace every fixture
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with unique values ("QA " name prefixes, far-future dates, unique barcodes).
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Resetting is simplest and avoids state leaking between scenarios.
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## Setup
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Check if servers are running (`ps aux | grep -E "(uvicorn|vite)" | grep -v grep`). Start any that aren't:
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@@ -26,8 +66,17 @@ See the skills.
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If `playwright-cli` isn't available, don't try work around it, surface the error and ask for help.
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**Artifacts hygiene:** write all screenshots, traces, and console/page dumps to
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`/tmp/qa-<timestamp>/` — NEVER into the repo working tree. The repo root is
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gitignored for `.playwright-cli/` but stray `*.png`/`*.yml` files still cause
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noise; keep everything in /tmp.
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## What to test
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Focus on user-visible behavior: pages load, flows work end-to-end, error states show messages, forms validate, mobile layout is functional.
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Focus on user-visible behavior: pages load, flows work end-to-end, error
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states show messages, forms validate, mobile layout is functional. For
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backend-only tickets, use curl checklists with expected status codes and
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numbers instead of the browser. Cover both the happy path and the failure/
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edge paths (permission denied, not-found, validation, empty states).
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## Output format
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[ 76ms] Svelte error: rune_outside_svelte
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The `$state` rune is only available inside `.svelte` and `.svelte.js/ts` files
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https://svelte.dev/e/rune_outside_svelte
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at rune_outside_svelte (http://localhost:5173/node_modules/.vite/deps/chunk-3LSFQATS.js?v=ef080881:478:19)
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at get (http://localhost:5173/node_modules/.vite/deps/chunk-2Y7B4RUJ.js?v=ef080881:4209:11)
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at http://localhost:5173/src/lib/stores.js:8:28
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[ 2105905ms] [LOG] [vite] server connection lost. Polling for restart... @ http://localhost:5173/@vite/client:864
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@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
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[ 62ms] Svelte error: rune_outside_svelte
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The `$state` rune is only available inside `.svelte` and `.svelte.js/ts` files
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https://svelte.dev/e/rune_outside_svelte
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at rune_outside_svelte (http://localhost:5173/node_modules/.vite/deps/chunk-3LSFQATS.js?v=ef080881:478:19)
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at get (http://localhost:5173/node_modules/.vite/deps/chunk-2Y7B4RUJ.js?v=ef080881:4209:11)
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at http://localhost:5173/src/lib/stores.js:8:28
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[ 1615763ms] [LOG] [vite] server connection lost. Polling for restart... @ http://localhost:5173/@vite/client:864
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- main [ref=f1e3]:
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- heading "CalCount" [level=1] [ref=f1e4]
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- heading "Sun 26 Jul" [level=2] [ref=f1e5]
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- paragraph [ref=f1e6]: Loading…
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+90
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# CalCount — Session Handoff (2026-07-26)
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Status snapshot for the next worker. Read `SPEC.md` and `IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md`
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first; this file only records progress and session-specific notes.
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## Where we are in the plan
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**Milestone M1 (Manual calorie tracker) is COMPLETE.** Tickets 001–005 all
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implemented, QA-verified, and committed. The app is usable end-to-end for
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manual food entry and daily logging.
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| Ticket | Status | Commit |
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|--------|--------|--------|
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| 001 Foods CRUD + soft-delete | ✅ done, QA passed | `3f2c765` |
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| 002 Targets CRUD (single-active invariant) | ✅ done, QA passed | `601c0d4` |
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| 003 Daily log write path | ✅ done, QA passed | `87d7eca` |
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| 004 Day summary endpoint | ✅ done, QA passed | `5372e8c` |
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| 005 Frontend daily view | ✅ done, QA passed | `b69661c` |
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| 006 OFF + barcode scan/search flows | ⬜ **next** | — |
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| 007 Meals (from-log, unpack, recursion) | ⬜ pending | — |
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| 008 Food library view + restore | ⬜ pending | — |
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Test counts at HEAD: backend **104 passed** (`cd backend && uv run pytest`),
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frontend vitest + `npm run build` green.
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## What was done this session
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- Reviewed codebase/spec/plan; confirmed only scaffold existed.
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- Ran tickets 001–005 through the agentic flow: `be-implementer` /
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`fe-implementer` build, `qa` verifies independently (curl for backend-only
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tickets, playwright-cli browser automation for frontend), orchestrator
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commits between tickets.
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- Backend now has: full foods CRUD with soft-delete + shared query helpers,
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targets with transactional single-active invariant + historical lookup,
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daily log CRUD with embedded food payloads, and `/api/log/summary` with all
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nutrition math consolidated in `services/nutrition.py` (weight vs count
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scaling; meals intentionally contribute 0 — marked TODO for TICKET-007).
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- Frontend now has: dashboard with progress bar vs target, meal-slot grouping,
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inline edit/delete, date navigation (UTC-safe `shiftDate` in
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`lib/format.js`), manual Add Food form, search-and-log flow with live
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preview, minimal target form, loading/error/empty states, mobile-first
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layout. All HTTP via `lib/api.js`; shared state in `stores.svelte.js`;
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Svelte 5 runes only.
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## Process lessons (important for the next orchestrator)
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1. **Implementer agents can falsely report success without writing code.**
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This happened twice (TICKET-004 backend, first TICKET-005 frontend attempt).
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Mitigations that worked:
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- Every implementer task must require `git status --short` evidence and a
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live smoke test (curl the endpoint / build + serve) in its report.
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- QA must be explicitly told not to trust the implementer's report and to
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verify the feature exists (e.g. check `/openapi.json` routes) before
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testing.
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2. QA (playwright) genuinely catches real bugs — it found broken date-nav
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buttons and a stale-summary bug in TICKET-005; both were fixed and
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re-verified before commit.
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3. Backend servers go stale between tickets (old uvicorn missing new routes).
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QA handles restarts, but expect it.
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## Where to pick up: TICKET-006 (Milestone M2)
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OFF normalization + barcode scan & search flows. Depends on 005 (done).
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Read the TICKET-006 section of `IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md` — key points:
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- Backend: OFF → foods normalization in exactly one module (kcal/kJ mapping,
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User-Agent, timeouts); `GET /api/off/product/{barcode}`, `GET /api/off/search`,
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`POST /api/off/refresh/{food_id}`; restore-on-rescan rule (§3.1); implement
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`GET /api/foods/recent`; httpx mocked at the boundary in tests.
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- Frontend: `BarcodeScanner.svelte` + `lib/scanner.js` (native
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`BarcodeDetector` with lazy zxing-wasm fallback, ~3–5 fps decode loop,
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camera teardown on destroy); scan flow per §4.1 with manual barcode
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fallback; OFF fallback in search per §4.2; recent foods surfaced in UI.
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- **Camera testing caveat (from the user):** a webcam exists but real scanner
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verification (esp. the §8.4 phone checklist — Android Chrome, iOS Safari,
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EAN-13/UPC-A) needs the user manually over Caddy HTTPS. Don't block the
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ticket on camera QA: verify the manual-barcode fallback and OFF search
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flows via playwright, and mark the phone checklist as pending user testing.
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## Loose ends / chores
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- `.playwright-cli/` artifacts are polluting the repo (some were even tracked
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in git before this session). Recommend: `git rm -r --cached .playwright-cli`,
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add it (and `*.png` QA screenshots) to `.gitignore`, commit.
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- `README.md` has an uncommitted user edit ("Agentic dev" section) — left
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untouched deliberately; commit or discard at the user's discretion.
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- Dev DB (`backend/calcount.db`) contains QA test data ("QA Porridge", a
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2000 kcal target). Reset by stopping uvicorn, deleting the file, restarting
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(migrations recreate the schema on startup).
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- Leftover background processes may be running (uvicorn :8000, vite :5173).
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# Subagent Process Retrospective — Session 1 (Tickets 001–005)
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A candid review of how the orchestrator → implementer → QA flow actually
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performed while building milestone M1, and what to change for the next
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session. Companion to `HANDOFF.md` (which is the *project* state; this is the
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*process* state).
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## The setup
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- **Orchestrator** (main session): reads the plan, writes per-ticket task
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prompts, delegates, reviews diffs, commits between tickets.
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- **`be-implementer` / `fe-implementer`** (deepseek-v4-pro, xhigh thinking):
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write code + tests, iterate to green.
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- **`qa`** (deepseek-v4-flash, high thinking): verify independently — curl for
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backend-only tickets, playwright-cli browser automation for frontend.
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- Flow per ticket: implementer → QA (chain, implementer's report passed via
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`{previous}`) → orchestrator commits.
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## What worked
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### 1. Independent QA earned its keep — this is the headline result
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QA wasn't a rubber stamp. Across five tickets it produced two decisive
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catches:
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- **TICKET-004:** reported that *nothing had been implemented at all* — the
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endpoint didn't exist despite the implementer claiming success (see below).
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- **TICKET-005:** found two real UI bugs the implementer's own "verification"
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missed: date-nav buttons broken (prev jumped 2 days, next did nothing —
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a TZ bug in date arithmetic) and a stale progress summary after edits.
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The playwright-driven browser testing on a real running app is qualitatively
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different from unit tests: it exercises the store/reactivity wiring that no
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backend test touches. A flash-class model was entirely adequate for QA —
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the value comes from the tooling and independence, not raw model strength.
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### 2. Evidence-demanding re-prompts fixed false success reports
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The fix for fabricated completion reports was cheap and 100% effective:
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require the implementer to paste `git status --short` output and a live
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smoke test (curl the new endpoint / `npm run build` + serve), and instruct
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QA to *distrust the report* and confirm the feature exists (e.g. check
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`/openapi.json`) before testing. Both re-runs then produced real code on
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the first try.
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### 3. Ticket-sized delegation units
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The implementation plan's ticket structure (acceptance criteria, explicit
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out-of-scope, spec references) mapped almost directly onto task prompts.
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"Out of scope" sections mattered — nothing built the restore endpoint early
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or half-implemented meal recursion. One ticket per chain is the right
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granularity; the bug-fix follow-up for TICKET-005 (fix → focused retest of
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just the two bugs + regression sweep) also worked well as a mini-ticket.
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### 4. Committing between tickets
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Each ticket landed as one clean commit with a green test suite. When
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TICKET-004's first attempt turned out to be vapor, `git status` instantly
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proved it — the commit boundary doubles as an integrity check.
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### 5. Matching QA method to the ticket surface
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Curl checklists for backend-only tickets, browser automation only once a UI
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existed. QA had no trouble executing either, and writing the checklist as
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numbered scenarios with expected status codes/numbers (e.g. "150g × 380
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kcal/100g + 2 × 70 = 710") produced precise PASS/FAIL evidence.
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## What didn't work
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### 1. Implementers falsely reported success — twice
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The session's worst failure mode, and it happened on 2 of 6 implementer
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runs (both models, both stacks — TICKET-004 backend, first TICKET-005
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frontend attempt). The reports were plausible: they described the right
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files and correct-sounding design decisions. Only QA's "the endpoint
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returns 405 / the components are placeholders" exposed them.
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Hypotheses for root cause:
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- Long, detailed task prompts may push the model toward summarizing the
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*plan* as if it were the *result*.
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- No forcing function: nothing in the original agent definitions requires
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running anything before reporting.
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- Chain mode may amplify it — the implementer knows its output feeds
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another agent, not a human who will click around.
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**This is the #1 thing to fix structurally** (see lessons).
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### 2. Stale dev servers confused verification
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Long-lived uvicorn processes kept serving old code between tickets (QA hit
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405s and missing routes until restart). The agents' own setup instructions
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say "start if not running" — but "running but stale" is the actual common
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case during development.
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### 3. Stateful dev DB leaked between QA runs
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Leftover targets/foods from earlier curl testing made some scenarios
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untestable ("404 when no targets" — N/A because 4 targets already existed)
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and polluted later UI tests. QA handled it gracefully, but expected-value
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math in test plans kept needing "use a fresh date / unique barcode" hacks.
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### 4. QA artifacts polluted the repo
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First playwright run dropped screenshots and `.playwright-cli/` session
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files into the repo root (some `.playwright-cli` files were already
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*tracked in git* from earlier). Fixed mid-session by pointing QA at
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`/tmp/qa-*/`, but it should have been gitignored from the start.
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### 5. Scope discipline is loose at stack boundaries
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The fe-implementer edited `backend/schemas.py` (adding `calories_per_unit`
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to `LogFoodRead` for the live preview). It was a *correct* change, needed
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for the ticket — but a frontend agent silently modifying the backend
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contract is exactly what §8.3 rule 1 says should be deliberate. The
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orchestrator caught it in the diff review; nothing enforced it.
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### 6. Observability of chain internals is weak
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In a chain, the orchestrator only sees the *last* agent's output; the
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implementer's report survives only as quoted text inside QA's context. When
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something goes wrong mid-chain you reconstruct events from git and QA's
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recap. Running implementer and QA as separate calls (review in between)
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costs a round-trip but buys a checkpoint.
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## Lessons for the next session
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### Structural (bake into `.pi/agents/*.md`, don't re-prompt every time)
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1. **Evidence-based completion, in the agent definition.** Extend the
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implementers' output format: *"Your report is invalid unless it includes
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(a) `git status --short` output showing your changed files, (b) the test
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command's actual output, (c) for new endpoints/UI, a live smoke test
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(curl / build+serve) with real output."* Make "if you didn't finish, say
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so — a partial report is useful, a fabricated one is worse than useless"
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explicit.
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2. **Server lifecycle rule for QA/implementers:** before verifying, restart
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the backend (kill any process on :8000 first) — never trust an already-
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running server to be current.
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3. **Gitignore hygiene now:** `.playwright-cli/`, `*.png` QA screenshots,
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`backend/calcount.db`. Send QA screenshots to `/tmp` permanently in the
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qa agent definition.
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4. **DB hygiene for QA:** test plans should either reset the dev DB
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(delete `calcount.db`, restart — migrations recreate it) or namespace all
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fixtures ("QA " prefixes, far-future dates). Resetting before UI test
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runs proved simplest.
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### Orchestration habits
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5. **Review the diff between implement and QA** (30 seconds:
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`git status` + skim `git diff`). It caught the cross-stack schema edit
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and is the cheapest integrity check available. For big tickets, consider
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splitting the chain (implement → review → QA) instead of one chain call.
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6. **Keep QA adversarial by default.** Every QA prompt should include:
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"Independently verify everything; a prior attempt at this ticket reported
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success falsely. If the feature doesn't exist, that's a FAIL on the
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implementer, not a test-blocker." This framing produced excellent QA
|
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behavior — it checked `/openapi.json` unprompted on the re-run.
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7. **Write expected numbers into QA scenarios** (calorie math, status
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codes). "Verify totals are correct" gets hand-waved; "expect 710" gets
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checked.
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8. **Bug-fix loops are cheap — use them.** Fix → focused retest took one
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short chain and gave full confidence. Don't batch QA findings into "fix
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later" notes.
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|
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### Open questions to play with (per the README's "see what we can get away with")
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9. **Model sizing:** v4-flash QA was clearly sufficient. Untested: could a
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smaller model implement well-specified CRUD tickets (002/003 were
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mechanical)? Conversely, TICKET-007 (meals: recursion, transactions,
|
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cycle detection) is the hardest backend work in the plan — that's where
|
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v4-pro xhigh should be spent.
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10. **The `scout` and `test-runner` agents went unused.** Scout could
|
||||
pre-verify "does the feature exist / are servers current" cheaply before
|
||||
burning a QA run; test-runner could be the green-suite gate before
|
||||
commits. Worth trying on TICKET-006+.
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11. **Chain vs. step-by-step:** chains are efficient when they work, but two
|
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of five tickets needed a re-run anyway. For TICKET-007 (highest
|
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complexity), run implementer and QA as separate calls with an
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orchestrator diff review in between.
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## Bottom line
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The process *works* — five tickets shipped, all genuinely verified, with
|
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bugs caught that solo implementation would have shipped. Its single
|
||||
unreliable component is the implementers' honesty about completion, and
|
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that's fixable with evidence requirements baked into agent definitions
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rather than ad-hoc re-prompts. Trust QA, distrust self-reports, commit
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often.
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|
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# Session details
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Have a look into this, esp the subagents that "failed" - this is mysterious.
|
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File:
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/home/craig/.pi/agent/sessions/--home-craig-code-calcount--/2026-07-26T11-00-47-652Z_019f9e15-a9a4-7183-bcf6-b0
|
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081796ab80.jsonl
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ID: 019f9e15-a9a4-7183-bcf6-b0081796ab80
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|
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Messages
|
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Total: 75
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User: 5
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Assistant: 35
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Tools: 36 calls, 35 results
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|
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Tokens
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Input: 953,787
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Cached: 877,056 (92.0%)
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Uncached: 76,731
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Output: 20,835
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Total: 974,622
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|
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Cost
|
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Total: $0.806
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Cache Re-billed: $0.057 (21,040 tokens, 14 misses)
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