manual_slop/JOURNAL.md

Engineering Journal

2026-02-28 14:43

Documentation Framework Implementation

• What: Implemented Claude Conductor modular documentation system
• Why: Improve AI navigation and code maintainability
• How: Used npx claude-conductor to initialize framework
• Issues: None - clean implementation
• Result: Documentation framework successfully initialized

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2026-03-02

Track: context_token_viz_20260301 — Completed |TASK:context_token_viz_20260301|

• What: Token budget visualization panel (all 3 phases)
• Why: Zero visibility into context window usage; get_history_bleed_stats existed but had no UI
• How: Extended get_history_bleed_stats with _add_bleed_derived helper (adds 8 derived fields); added _render_token_budget_panel with color-coded progress bar, breakdown table, trim warning, Gemini/Anthropic cache status; 3 auto-refresh triggers (_token_stats_dirty flag); /api/gui/token_stats endpoint; --timeout flag on claude_mma_exec.py
• Issues: set_file_slice dropped def _render_message_panel line — caught by outline check, fixed with 1-line insert. Tier 3 delegation via run_powershell hard-capped at 60s — implemented changes directly per user approval; added --timeout flag for future use.
• Result: 17 passing tests, all phases verified by user. Token panel visible in AI Settings under "Token Budget". Commits: 5bfb20f → d577457.

Next: mma_agent_focus_ux (planned, not yet tracked)

• What: Per-agent filtering for MMA observability panels (comms, tool calls, discussion, token budget)
• Why: All panels are global/session-scoped; in MMA mode with 4 tiers, data from all agents mixes. No way to isolate what a specific tier is doing.
• Gap: _comms_log and _tool_log have no tier/agent tag. mma_streams stream_id is the only per-agent key that exists.
• See: TASKS.md for full audit and implementation intent.

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