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Cal Corum 3f7e64c6a2 sync: update engineer agent, plugins, session analysis state, and sessions 
- Trim engineer.md agent definition (reduced from full to concise form)
- Update installed_plugins.json and known_marketplaces.json
- Expand session-analysis/state.json with new session data
- Add 3 new session files (37665, 219555, 219814)
- Remove 5 expired session files (547071, 684949, 816171, 893355, 893611)
- Add session-analysis/reports/ directory

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-05 02:00:51 -05:00

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Paper Dynasty Session Analysis — 2026-04-04

Scope: 53 sessions across 4 PD repos, last 2 weeks (since 2026-03-21)

Summary

Repo Sessions Turns Top Tool
paper-dynasty (parent) 43 5,296 Bash (1,694)
paper-dynasty-database 8 166 Bash (75)
paper-dynasty-discord-app 1 121 Bash (46*)
paper-dynasty-card-creation 1 46 Bash (18*)
Total 53 5,629

*discord/card counts from combined agent report

Tool Usage (All Repos Combined)

Tool Uses %
Bash 1,833 39.5%
Read 617 13.3%
Edit 575 12.4%
Agent 332 7.2%
Grep 196 4.2%
Write 155 3.3%
ToolSearch 164 3.5%
SendMessage 75 1.6%
TaskUpdate 68 1.5%
MCP Gitea (all) ~170 3.7%
Everything else ~454 9.8%

Friction Indicators

Type Count Notes
Hook blocks 40 Mostly git pre-commit hooks (ruff lint). Low severity.
User interruptions 5 4 in discord-app session, 1 in database investigation
Compactions 2 Only in large parent repo sessions. Context rarely exhausted.
Permission denials 0 Sub-agents occasionally stall on Bash permissions (see parent retry)

Friction is low overall. The main pain point is sub-agents spawned without bypassPermissions or acceptEdits mode getting stuck waiting for approvals that never come.

Workflow Patterns

Established (working well)

  1. Plan-Read-Edit loop — Read/Grep to understand, Edit to modify, Bash to verify. The core implementation pattern.
  2. Agent delegation — Orchestrator spawns sub-agents (pr-reviewer, engineer, issue-worker) rather than implementing directly. 325 Agent calls across 30 sessions.
  3. Council meeting — 3 parallel PO agents (database, discord, cards) broadcast domain assessments via SendMessage, converge on consensus. Zero friction when tested.
  4. PR review-fix-re-review pipeline — pr-reviewer → engineer fix → re-review → merge. Chained across 3 sessions.
  5. MCP-first Gitea ops — All PR/issue/review operations via MCP tools. 170+ MCP Gitea calls, ~0 tea CLI calls.
  6. session:end → PR — Terminal pattern in most feature sessions.
  7. Dev deploy — Force-update dev tag → CI build → SSH verify.

Emerging (needs refinement)

  1. Ruff lint fix loop — Commit → lint fail → auto-fix → re-commit. Could be a pre-commit hook fix.
  2. KB save after deployments — Happens sometimes but not consistently.

Session Duration Distribution

Metric Parent Database Card+Discord
Min 3 min 1 min ~1 day*
Median 141 min 7 min ~1.5 days*
Max 3,036 min (~51 hrs) 141 min ~1.5 days*

*Card+Discord durations are wall-clock (sessions left open); actual active time is much shorter.

The parent repo has extreme variance — most sessions are under 2.5 hours but a few agent-orchestrated work streams run 10-50 hours.

Automation Candidates

High Impact

  1. Sub-agent permission mode defaults — Sub-agents spawned without explicit mode: "bypassPermissions" or mode: "acceptEdits" get stuck on Bash/Write approvals. The parent repo retry in this session is a live example. Fix: Add a hook or CLAUDE.md rule that auto-applies acceptEdits for known agent types (engineer, issue-worker, swarm-coder).

  2. Ruff auto-fix before commit — 37 hook blocks are mostly ruff lint failures caught at commit time. Fix: Add ruff check --fix as a pre-stage hook so violations are auto-fixed before they block commits.

Medium Impact

  1. Dev deploy as a single command — The dev deploy pattern (tag → push → wait → SSH pull) is manual and multi-step. Fix: A /deploy dev skill that handles the full sequence including waiting for CI and restarting the container.

  2. KB save reminder — Post-deployment KB saves are inconsistent. Fix: Add a post-deploy hook or checklist item to the release skill that prompts for release notes.

Low Impact (Quality of Life)

  1. Session duration tracking — Some sessions run 50+ hours wall-clock. Consider adding a session timeout warning or checkpoint prompt after N hours of inactivity.

  2. ToolSearch reduction — 164 ToolSearch calls means agents frequently need to look up MCP tool schemas. Pre-loading common Gitea MCP schemas could save ~3% of tool calls.

Notable Observations

  • All 53 sessions are Refractor-initiative focused. The entire 2-week window is dominated by initiative #19 work across all repos.
  • Agent delegation is heavy and working. 332 Agent spawns, council meetings, review pipelines — the multi-agent orchestration pattern is the primary way work gets done.
  • Context exhaustion is rare (2 compactions in 5,629 turns). Sessions are scoped well.
  • The parent repo is the orchestration hub. 43 of 53 sessions, 94% of turns. Sub-repos are touched by delegated agents, not direct sessions.
  • Median database session is 7 minutes — these are short, focused agent legs (reviews, council meetings), not long human sessions.