Build Log

Temper Phase Contract

July 26, 2026

Harvest is the first job inside Temper, not a separate 8th phase — Alloy's Temper page rebuilt from a two-form shell into 8 real panels with a genuine candidate/disposition harvest model.

AlloyFeatureSchemaTesting

new real tables

Temper panels built

unit tests, all passing

real browser e2e tests, all passing

Timeline

Start

Received the full Temper ruling

Harvest is inside Temper, not phase 8 — a large exact-implementation spec

+30m

Codebase survey complete

Found learnings/openItems already real tables, zero UI callers — most of the build is wiring, not new schema

+1h

Schema + actions + snapshot assembler done

temper_decisions, temper_interventions, Arc Episode/Continuity columns, buildTemperSnapshot, deriveTemperReadiness

+2h

8 panels + right rail composed

TemperPanel.tsx assembled from 5 new component files + shared extraction

+2.5h

Bank rewired to real data

Reads Decisions/Learnings/Open Items/Continuity instead of legacy events

+3h

Real browser verification

14/14 Playwright tests pass against live dev DB after fixing test-locator issues, not product bugs

What shipped

temper_decisions and temper_interventions tables — real candidate/accepted/rejected/merged/superseded lifecycle, matching learnings' own discipline

Arc Episode, Continuity Packet, and Workpiece-recommendation columns on arcs, with real check constraints

buildTemperSnapshot — one server-derived read model, following buildQuenchSnapshot's established convention

deriveTemperReadiness — deterministic readiness with no percentages, 26 passing unit tests

All 8 required Temper panels: Phase Header, Arc Episode, Decisions & Interventions, Session Dynamics, Learnings, Open Items & Return Conditions, Continuity Packet, Temper Summary

Right rail: Temper Readiness, Source Coverage, Arc Snapshot, collapsible Temper Workshop (honest not-yet-wired stub)

Real create-forms for Learnings and Open Items — captureLearning/addOpenItem actions existed but had zero UI callers anywhere in the app before this session

A real atomic Temper -> Bank phase transition (completeTemper), replacing a bare navigation Link that wrote no phase transition at all

returnTemperToQuench — the 'evidence is insufficient' escape hatch

Bank page rewired to read real Decisions/Learnings/Open Items/Continuity Packet data instead of the legacy learning_captured/next_item_captured events

14 real Playwright e2e tests driving the actual browser against the live dev DB, covering the spec's full acceptance list

“Quench decides what holds. Temper decides what matters. Bank makes it durable.”
— Zeb, framing the Temper phase contract