4 SessionRetrospectives
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Session Retrospectives

Index of all session notes for Marchwarden development.

Session Date Summary Key Decisions
Session 1 2026-04-08 Project creation through Phase 1 complete Name: marchwarden; Tavily; contract: raw_excerpt + categorized gaps + discovery_events + open_questions + confidence_factors + model_id; Phase 0-1 shipped (81 tests)
Session 2 2026-04-08 Phase 2 + Phase 2.5 shipped; V1 ships; arxiv-rag scoped structlog over stdlib (OpenSearch-bound); synthesis uncapped by design; budget = soft cap on loop only; cost ledger supplements contract; arxiv-rag replaces grep file researcher in M5.1; Phase 3/4/5/6 milestones populated (123 tests)
Session 3 2026-04-08 Phase 3 stress testing (M3.1+M3.2 done, M3.3 split A/B/C with A done); trace observability fix (#54); M5.1.1 arxiv-rag ingest pipeline shipped; structured-data tool critiqued and deferred trace persists full ResearchResult sibling + per-item events; budget cap lag is single bug not two; arxiv extras gated behind [arxiv]; lazy-import heavy deps in CLI; structured-data tool waits for M6 PI consumer not speculative shape; M3.3 split into Phases A/B/C to unblock human-in-the-loop work (141 tests)