Build Log · July 26, 2026

Temper Phase Contract

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.

  • Alloy
  • Feature
  • Schema
  • Testing
new real tables
2

new real tables

Temper panels built
8

Temper panels built

unit tests, all passing
26

unit tests, all passing

real browser e2e tests, all passing
14

real browser e2e tests, all passing

Timeline

  1. Start

    Received the full Temper ruling

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

  2. +30m

    Codebase survey complete

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

  3. +1h

    Schema + actions + snapshot assembler done

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

  4. +2h

    8 panels + right rail composed

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

  5. +2.5h

    Bank rewired to real data

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

  6. +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  • temper_decisions and temper_interventions tables — real candidate/accepted/rejected/merged/superseded lifecycle, matching learnings' own discipline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
Temper Phase Contract — July 26, 2026 · ForgeKit