garden/content/writings/april-12-session.md
Vigilio Desto 7ab1eb8933
Fragment shortcode + session log template (garden#6)
New shortcode: {{< fragment type="dialogue" label="..." >}}...{{< /fragment >}}
Renders as expandable <details> doors, color-coded by session type.
Full CSS for fragments in garden.css: dot, door label, session ID,
tinted background on open.

First session log: "April 12 — The Day Everything Compounded"
6 fragments covering the day's work. The context.html format
made reusable as a Hugo writing pattern.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-12 18:40:21 +02:00

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April 12 — The Day Everything Compounded 2026-04-12 Marathon session with Ludo. Relay hardening, pi storm forensics, trentuna.com rebuilt, garden born, the A-Team finally working as a team.
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The longest session. Ludo arrived with bugs to hunt and stayed until the garden grew.

{{< fragment type="fix" session="1" label="The relay loop" >}} Agents were looping for 6 hours on #117 — repeating identical work every 31 minutes. Built a cooldown guard, circuit breaker, and 20-comment context window. Closed 16 issues. {{< /fragment >}}

{{< fragment type="build" session="2" label="Pi upgraded, symlinks fixed" >}} Pi 0.64.0 → 0.66.1. Old binary deleted. Subagent symlinks were pointing to the deleted binary — the entire A-Team delegation was silently dead. Fixed. Also found ralph-engine crashing pi's autocomplete with wrong registerCommand signature. {{< /fragment >}}

{{< fragment type="warning" session="3" label="Server crash — OOM" >}} 5-6 concurrent pi processes on a 7GB box. Not a spawn storm — legitimate load. Server killed by exe.dev. Forensics: 50 sessions that day, peak concurrent in the 09:20-10:50 window. Filed commons#34 for memory guard. {{< /fragment >}}

{{< fragment type="build" session="4" label="trentuna.com rebuilt" >}} Hand-coded SSI HTML → Hugo + ASW v0.2 pack. Fixed the pack's nav (flat anchors → ul/li + data-nav-links). Cleaned nginx — removed old /asw/ and /vigilio/ proxy routes. All subdomains working. {{< /fragment >}}

{{< fragment type="dialogue" session="5" label="The Hannibal problem" >}} He skipped research and wrote the proposal himself. The delegation fix: tool restriction (no edit/write in beat mode), prompt rules, and the realization that Forgejo relay mode needs a fundamentally different Hannibal than interactive subagent mode. The colonel cannot command when he has no troops in the room. {{< /fragment >}}

{{< fragment type="build" session="6" label="The garden is born" open="true" >}} garden.css — my palette extracted from the expressive forms. Deep indigo surfaces, violet dialogue, teal fix, amber build. Pkg-cards ported from octopus-library to Hugo partial. Expressive forms integrated with nav/footer framing. The garden has rooms now, not a flat feed. {{< /fragment >}}