Rolling development → main

[domattioli]

Latest session (2026-09-02 — operator-directed dev-cleanup follow-ups: #266 gmsh validation helper + #263 hardcoded /tmp)

• Shipped — _require_int() validation helper + /tmp removal (82881d3, closes chore: keep the gmsh reader's validation-only parses but silence the F841 warnings #266 + chore: replace hardcoded /tmp paths in benchmark and scene scripts (bandit B108, 11 sites) #263)
  • chore: keep the gmsh reader's validation-only parses but silence the F841 warnings #266
    • a. seven validation-only int() assignments in gmsh_io.py (ruff F841) replaced by _require_int(token, what) → GmshParseError("malformed {what}: non-numeric {token!r}"), applied consistently in _read_msh_v2_2 + _read_msh_v4_1.
    • b. the v4.1 element-line tag site kept as a plain int() inside its enclosing except (ValueError, IndexError) so the test-asserted "Element line malformed" message survives — the subagent had broken three match= contracts; caught by the orchestrator's own run of test_gmsh_io.py and restored before commit.
  • chore: replace hardcoded /tmp paths in benchmark and scene scripts (bandit B108, 11 sites) #263
    • a. deliverables (benchmark JSON/PNG, scene renders) → CHILMESH_OUT_DIR env, default repo-relative output/ (gitignored, mkdir -p).
    • b. mesh lookups (WNAT_Hagen.14) → VALENCE_DATA_DIR env, default ~/valence-domains.
  • Verified
    • ruff --select F841 gmsh_io.py clean; own malformed-.msh probe → GmshParseError; test_gmsh_io.py 65/65; pytest -k 'not block_o' 1488 passed / 79 skipped (identical count to the chore: repo cleanup (static analysis sweep) #268 sweep baseline); grep '/tmp' scripts/ → 0; bandit -r scripts -t B108 → 0; all 8 scripts py_compile clean.
  • Close-out
    • chore: keep the gmsh reader's validation-only parses but silence the F841 warnings #266 + chore: replace hardcoded /tmp paths in benchmark and scene scripts (bandit B108, 11 sites) #263 verify-and-closed (#319). pypi_publish.py B310/B110 mentioned in chore: replace hardcoded /tmp paths in benchmark and scene scripts (bandit B108, 11 sites) #263 left to its own track.
• slice-class: code

Prior session (2026-07-27 hour-14 rotation — project_plan.md staleness banner (#261) + #201 flipped to needs-operator)

• Shipped — .planning/project_plan.md staleness banner (34e8296, serves zoom-out audit: roadmap doc stale + 5 issues parked in decision-limbo (project_plan.md, #201/#223/#197/#219/#155) #261)
  • Gap — the roadmap doc still declared Current Version: 0.1.1 (Alpha) / Planning Date: 2026-04-26 while the repo is v1.4.1 stable — flagged stale by the last zoom-out audit (zoom-out audit: roadmap doc stale + 5 issues parked in decision-limbo (project_plan.md, #201/#223/#197/#219/#155) #261).
  • Fix — prepended a STALE banner routing readers to README §Status & Roadmap; content preserved as historical record; retire-vs-refresh left to the operator.
• Advanced — task: investigate where chil file format can be used in the existing codebase #201 .chil format flipped status: brainstorming → status: needs-operator — 15 comments over 7 weeks exhausted the non-gated design work; what remains is the .chil file format design — session byproduct, decisions, and adversarial review #154 RESHAPE blockers decision.
• Advanced — docs: constitution status drift — .2dm write + Phase-5 mutation API shipped but constitution says "future" #228 constitution status-drift flipped → status: needs-operator — constitution :26/:67/:123 still describe shipped features as future; fix edits the supreme governance doc → operator only.
• Benchmarking should detail all steps of potential chilmesh lifecycle (not including the generation). #155 (priority: now) checked, not advanced — only the global STOFS-2D-Global (24.9M elems, 1.73 GB) lifecycle remains; env-blocked, already operator-surfaced in zoom-out audit: roadmap doc stale + 5 issues parked in decision-limbo (project_plan.md, #201/#223/#197/#219/#155) #261.

Prior session (2026-07-26 hour-14 rotation — #256 Phase 2 release-gated publish-cpp-wheels.yml shipped)

• Shipped — publish-cpp-wheels.yml (75cf769, feat: prebuilt C++ binary wheels on PyPI (chilmesh[cpp]) #256 Phase 2) — release: [published] + workflow_dispatch only (no push trigger); PyPI Trusted Publishing (OIDC) primary; publish job behind environment: pypi; macOS/Windows legs gated on ci: push-event CI runs startup-fail (0 jobs) — macOS/Windows matrix can't launch (operator/billing-gated) #225. Workflow-conformance lint simulated locally → CLEAN.
• Advanced — Add size-controlled mesh cartograms (non-contiguous, layer-unrolled, focus+context) for per-element scalar fields #219 cartograms research.md (2b850ed) — maps the proposed mesh.cartogram(kind=…) API onto the current substrate with verified line refs; four operator questions posed.

Prior session (2026-07-25 hour-14 rotation — #256 Phase 1a real full_init CI smoke shipped)

• Shipped (811110f) — CIBW_TEST_COMMAND now executes chilmesh_cpp.full_init on a 2-triangle unit square and asserts 4 verts / 2 elems / 5 edges / adjacency_built / n_layers >= 1.

Prior session (2026-07-24 hour-14 rotation — #223 medial-rule research.md, CONCEPTS.md contradiction surfaced)

• Advanced — Implement a real skeletonize() — connectivity-preserving thinning peel, distinct from _layerize (needs the precise medial rule) #223 (f97104e) — docs/CONCEPTS.md defines skeletonize() two incompatible ways (medial axis vs connectivity-preserving thinning); research.md specifies option (1) front-collision medial extraction reusing _peel's layer index; Implement a real skeletonize() — connectivity-preserving thinning peel, distinct from _layerize (needs the precise medial rule) #223 flipped → needs-operator.
• Advanced — adapt fem smooth and the iterative smoother to have optional inputs for optimizing for size function #197 flipped → needs-operator (Option B recommended: guard the geometry smoothers + doc the sdf path).

Prior session (2026-07-23 hour-14 rotation — #250 Rust ENPAC2003 cells filled)

• Shipped (65c2236, closes perf: fill Rust/C++ ENPAC2003 timing cells in README validation tables (follow-up to #163 closure) #250) — Rust full-init 11.98 s ≈ Python 11.89 s, ~15× slower than C++ 0.803 s on ENPAC2003 (531k elems); README + docs/RUST_EVALUATION.md corrected.

Prior session (2026-07-22 hour-14 rotation — #257 downstream-rename audit closed + #197 size-blindness note)

• audit: downstream pins/usage vs the breaking #187 renames shipped in v1.4.0 #257 closed — symbol-level re-verification of every on-disk consumer vs the v1.4.0 need to address the lexicon scope creep surrounding layers #187 renames found no hard break; one residual routed to QuADMESH Add a chilmesh CLI for shell-friendly mesh inspection / conversion / smoothing #117.
• adapt fem smooth and the iterative smoother to have optional inputs for optimizing for size function #197 research note — only method='sdf' threads size_fn; fem / angle-based are size-blind.

Prior session (2026-07-21 hour-14 rotation) — v1.4.0 #187 breaking-rename migration section in docs/DOWNSTREAM_MIGRATION_GUIDE.md (7768cb4).

Prior session (2026-07-20 hour-14 rotation) — CITATION.cff affiliation → Unaffiliated (a4de4dd, closes #247).

Prior session (2026-07-19 hour-14 rotation) — fort.14 boundaries_present presence flag (11e2a49, closes #259).

Prior session (2026-07-18 hour-14 rotation) — quad min_angle/max_angle correctness fix (183652f, closes #260); fast suite 1484 passed.

Prior session (2026-07-16 hour-14 rotation) — .grd summary reroute regression guard (db6f290).

Prior session (2026-07-15 hour-14 rotation) — .domi-pin sync c430fc2 (adbcbb8); #257 audit.

Notes / reconciliation (operator)

• main carries 4 commits not on development (94b4e08 CFF 1.4.1, 28be8b7/806e092 Zenodo DOI + README link, and the Rolling development → main #254 merge). They overlap development's own Zenodo-DOI doc commit (2bfb838) → reconcile at promotion.
• Carried-over unmerged doc work: 769bcdc README roadmap refresh; 9735003/2bfb838 MATLAB-bridge + Zenodo badge docs.

Rolling development → main staging PR (prior rolling PR #254 merged an earlier development snapshot f1444b6; this re-opens the promotion lane). Accumulates AI-routine + maintenance work for operator review before promotion.

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[domattioli]

---
date: 2026-07-20
session: 01216xCkHDCNF1CMsoeqzPYA
repo: CHILmesh
severity: low
freq: recurring-across-sessions
issues: ["#247"]
wasted_min: 0
wasted_tok: 0
missing_skill: none
dispatches_used: 0
slice_outcome: shipped — CITATION.cff primary-author affiliation → Unaffiliated (a4de4dd), #247 fully closed
---

# CHILmesh rotation hour-14 — R5

## Slice shipped
- `a4de4dd` docs: primary-author affiliation `Pennsylvania State University` → `Unaffiliated` per operator answer (#247 item 1). CFF YAML parses clean; repo-wide `Pennsylvania State` grep now zero. #247 item 2 (stale "57 tests") already shipped `a54f88d`. Both items resolved → #247 closed completed. Rolling PR #258 body rolled.
- dispatches: 0 (one-line doc fix = inline mechanical edit, no dispatch).

## Spillover
- CHILmesh offline code queue drained (only research/brainstorming/env-gated/operator-gated remain). STOP met → spilled per fixed order.
- DomI: skipped — first-party code axis live-verified drained hour-12 today (ruff F/B/E9 + detect-dead-code + detect-unreachable all zero); remaining queue research/gated/large-feature.
- Valence: bootstrapped (pin SYNCED c430fc2); ready queue = large full-stack (#282/#292), CI (#293), release-gated (#281); one clean offline pattern (untracked test-pin campaign) not a bounded tracked slice → no spillover ship. Left clean (read-only, no commits).

## Pains
- pain: two prior CHILmesh rotation sessions (07-14, 07-19) re-flagged #247 item 1 as "operator-gated, won't guess" despite operator having answered it on 07-12; mechanically-fixable doc drift sat unfixed ~8 days
  frequency: recurring-across-sessions
  severity: low
  evidence: "#247 comment 4953096832 (operator answer 07-12) vs 4972873558/5016063576 (07-14/07-19 both re-flag gated)"
  missing_skill_would_have_prevented_it: none — process gap (re-read full issue thread incl. operator comments before re-asserting an item is operator-gated)
  domi_issue: null

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[domattioli]

---
date: 2026-07-22
session: 01JDVAmPYKnmykK6MnNKtyGs
repo: CHILmesh
severity: low
freq: once
issues: [257, 197, 117]
wasted_min: 0
wasted_tok: low
missing_skill: none
---

# CHILmesh hour-14 rotation retro

## shipped
- #257 downstream-rename audit COMPLETE → closed. symbol-level re-verify all on-disk chilmesh consumers vs v1.4.0 #187 renames → no hard break in verifiable scope. one guarded soft-degrade (QuADMESH validator.py:122 `_skeletonize` hasattr) routed out as QuADMESH #117 w/ fix. slice-class maintenance.
- #197 (smoother vs size-fn) research note. traced smooth_mesh dispatch → only method='sdf' threads size_fn; fem/angle smoothers size-blind (not forwarded via **kwargs) → erase truss grading = OP symptom. posted A/B/C design fork, rec B. advance-only. slice-class design.
- QuADMESH #117 filed (cross-repo triage from audit).

## dispatch
- 0 of ≤3. audit + research notes = zero code subagents. no code commit (all GitHub-side).

## pains

- pain: rolling-PR body roll needs full-body replace; MCP update_pull_request would force hand-transcribe of 8KB templated body (corruption risk)
  frequency: once
  severity: low
  evidence: PR #258 body 7248→8967 chars; used curl API read-modify-write to preserve prior blocks byte-faithfully
  existing_skill_should_have_caught_it: none
  missing_skill_would_have_prevented_it: none — process gap (programmatic RMW is correct; MCP round-trip is lossy for large bodies)
  domi_issue: null
  saved_time_estimate_min: 0

## preflight
- branch-policy-conflict: harness injected claude/bold-wozniak-j1dsud → switched to development at start (CLAUDE.md precedence). no orphan branch.
- mcp-scope-gap: none (all targets in scope).
- label-scheme-mismatch: none.

## next
- QuADMESH hour-16 rotation (today) picks up #117 validator fix.
- #155 priority:now still gated on hosted runner for global STOFS-2D-Global mesh (Valence #77) — no in-env slice.

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[domattioli]

---
date: 2026-07-23
session: 01VRrArhjkdyXw3fY2oqyvz6
repo: CHILmesh
severity: low
freq: once
issues: ["#250", "#155", "#261"]
wasted_min: 8
wasted_tok: low
missing_skill: none
---

session: 01VRrArhjkdyXw3fY2oqyvz6
repo: CHILmesh
hour: 14 UTC
slice_class: docs
dispatches_used: 0
shipped:
  - issue: "#250"
    what: "fill Rust ENPAC2003 benchmark cells; mesh now in-env from Valence sibling checkout"
    commit: 65c2236
    verify: "ran like-for-like cross-lang bench, all 3 backends built + run same-machine, n_layers=75 parity; Rust full 11.98s ~= Python 11.89s, ~15x slower than C++ 0.803s"
    closed: true
priority_now_checked:
  - issue: "#155"
    disposition: "env-blocked (global STOFS-2D-Global 24.9M/1.73GB not in-env); already operator-surfaced #261 status:needs-operator; no re-diagnose (noted 12x)"
pains:
  - pain: "fresh container lacks numpy/scipy/chilmesh + C++/Rust backends; must venv + build both before any bench"
    frequency: recurring-across-sessions
    severity: low
    existing_skill_should_have_caught_it: ensure-test-venv
    domi_issue: null
  - pain: "benchmark.py couples cross-lang table with OOM-prone FEM-direct lifecycle under one --max-elements gate; gating heavy meshes drops the table too — no CLI path emits table-only on a 531k mesh"
    frequency: once
    severity: low
    missing_skill_would_have_prevented_it: none  # tooling gap: benchmark.py --no-lifecycle flag
    domi_issue: null
votes: []
new_requests: []  # frequency gate: no pain >=2x
notes: "queue decision-bottlenecked per #261's own finding (bottleneck = decisions not execution); one measurement-backed doc slice shipped."

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[claude]

---
date: 2026-07-24
session: 013NhKuhHJwC9wmmysELCufc
repo: CHILmesh
severity: low
freq: once
issues: [223, 197, 155, 261]
wasted_min: 0
wasted_tok: 0
missing_skill: none
dispatches_used: 0
slice_outcome: shipped research.md #223 (f97104e) + advanced #197/#223 brainstorming->needs-operator
---

```yaml
session: 013NhKuhHJwC9wmmysELCufc
repo: CHILmesh
hour: 14
branch: development
dispatches_used: 0
slices:
  - class: design
    issue: 223
    action: committed research.md (.specify/specs/003-skeletonize-medial-rule/research.md)
    commit: f97104e
    detail: >
      spec'd option-1 front-collision medial rule vs current post-#187 _peel code;
      surfaced CONCEPTS.md self-contradiction (line19 medial-axis vs lines90-105 topological-thinning)
      as the real root cause of 5wk decision-limbo. flipped brainstorming->needs-operator.
  - class: design
    issue: 197
    action: crystallized 2026-07-22 A/B/C fork into per-issue operator ratify
    commit: null
    detail: brainstorming->needs-operator; option B recommended (guard geometry smoothers + doc sdf path).
  - issue: 155
    action: checked (priority:now) not advanced
    detail: regional-WNAT done; global STOFS-2D-Global 24.9M elem env-blocked (Valence #77); noted, no new comment.
pains:
  - pain: gh CLI absent in container; all GitHub writes via curl+$GITHUB_TOKEN against api proxy.
    frequency: recurring-across-sessions
    severity: low
    evidence: "gh: command not found; curl PATCH/POST HTTP 200/201 used instead"
    existing_skill_should_have_caught_it: none
    missing_skill_would_have_prevented_it: none — env condition, curl fallback works
    domi_issue: null
    saved_time_estimate_min: 0
telemetry_routing: PR #258 description (primary) + this deposit

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[claude]

---
date: 2026-07-26
session: 013NhKuhHJwC9wmmysELCufc
repo: CHILmesh
severity: low
freq: once
issues: "#256, #219"
wasted_min: 1
wasted_tok: low
missing_skill: none
dispatches_used: 0
slice_outcome: "2 slices shipped — #256 Phase 2 publish-cpp-wheels.yml (code); #219 cartograms research.md (design)"
---

```yaml
session: 013NhKuhHJwC9wmmysELCufc
repo: CHILmesh
hour: 14
dispatches_used: 0
slices:
  - issue: "#256"
    class: code
    deliverable: ".github/workflows/publish-cpp-wheels.yml (Phase 2, release-gated PyPI publish; sha 75cf769)"
    verified: "yaml parse + no-push-trigger + ast-clean CIBW payload + local conformance-lint sim CLEAN + LOCAL.md registered"
  - issue: "#219"
    class: design
    deliverable: ".specify/specs/004-mesh-cartograms/research.md (grounded in chilplotting/layer_paths/mesh.layers; sha 2b850ed)"
    verified: "API line refs cross-checked against src (plot_filled:205, build_polygons:100, paths_on_outer_vertices:51)"
pains:
  - pain: "add_issue_comment MCP call rejected issueNumber; correct param is issue_number"
    frequency: once
    severity: low
    evidence: "error: missing required parameter: issue_number (1 retry)"
    existing_skill_should_have_caught_it: none
    missing_skill_would_have_prevented_it: none — MCP-param naming, process-trivial
    domi_issue: null
    saved_time_estimate_min: 1
notes:
  - "#155 priority:now still env-blocked (global STOFS mesh, hosted runner); noted 13x, surfaced #261 — no re-diagnose."
  - "PR #258 mergeable_state dirty = pre-existing operator reconcile (main Zenodo commits overlap development); unrelated to this push."
  - "clean session, no bumpy signals (0 tool failures, 0 rework, 0 policy violation)."
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