Session handoff — 2026-06-12 (68)

Sixty-eighth handover. Continues directly from handoff-67 (which triaged a manual-testing pass into fixes + filed issues). This was an issue-burndown session: six Gitea issues closed across five commits, each landed with the full phased workflow + a /runda + Devil's-Advocate pass before commit. Net: six issues closed, five commits, +29 tests, zero regressions.

§1. State at handoff

Branch: main. Working tree clean; all work committed. Five unpushed commits (push is the user's step).

Tests: 2436 passing / 0 failing / 0 skipped / 1 ignored (the long-standing friendly doctest). Clippy clean (nursery, all targets). Breakdown: 1730 lib + 506 integration (it) + 200 typing-surface-matrix. +29 over handoff-67's 2407.

Commits since handoff-67:

ee3ccd8 feat(hint): advertise the optional seed count in the hint panel (#26)
deb0948 feat(seed): year-as-int + conventional choice-set heuristics (#33, #34)
fde50ce fix(ui): mark sidebar focus with an accent colour, not bold (#25)
3d4a0fd fix(render): trim IEEE-754 noise from displayed decimal arithmetic (#32)
7e4bc12 fix(completion): treat a bare in-scope table alias as an alias, not an unknown column (#31)

§2. Issues closed this session (all committed, all tested, all `/runda`-reviewed)

Each closed on git.lazyeval.net/oli/rdbms-playground with a summary comment. The /runda pass earned its keep on every one — see the "DA caught" notes.

#31 (7e4bc12) — bare table alias treated as unknown column. A bare in-scope table alias in a SQL expression (… GROUP BY o, o aliasing FROM Orders o) got no such column o on table … and zero completions. Now: completion offers each FROM source's qualifier (alias-if-present-else-table) at a bare sql_expr_ident slot; the matched.len()==0 arm emits a targeted alias_used_as_column / table_used_as_column hint after the projection-alias check. DA caught two real bugs pre-commit: a DSL leak (the hint fired for simple-mode expr_column refs, which have no table.column syntax) and wrong advice for an aliased-table-by-real-name — both fixed by gating on role == "sql_expr_ident" + matching the effective qualifier. ADR-0032 Amendment 3.
#32 (3d4a0fd) — decimal aggregation float noise. decimal is exact TEXT, but SQLite has no decimal type, so arithmetic coerces to IEEE-754 double; sum(price*qty) rendered 298.59999999999997. Now format_real_display (db.rs) rounds REAL to 15 sig figs for display only, wired into format_cell. DA caught a real regression: I'd also wired it into render_value, which is a canonical identity key for the uniqueness dry-runs (dry_run_unique, check_uniqueness_collisions) — rounding there would report collisions the exact-valued engine wouldn't. Reverted render_value to exact; locked with a regression test. CSV/FK-key/EXPLAIN paths stay exact. ADR-0005 Amendment 1.
#25 (fde50ce) — sidebar focus accent colour, not bold. Bold box-drawing glyphs render broken in asciinema casts. panel_border_style now uses a non-bold accent colour (theme.mode_simple); bold stays fine on text spans. DA caught that the issue's "Tier-2 snapshots need re-accepting" was wrong — render_to_string is text-only, so no snapshot changed. Added a render-level test that inspects the actual border cells. User visually confirmed. ADR-0046 Amendment 1.
#33 + #34 (deb0948) — seed heuristics: year-as-int + choice sets. Two additive D7 catalogue rules. #33: year/*_year/ published/founded → bounded int year (1950–2025, or the dob-style birth window 1945–2007 for birth/born/dob); new YearRecent/YearBirth generators. Placed after the quantity rule so year_count stays a count. #34: type-gated PickFrom sets for priority/prio, severity, rating/stars; status deliberately excluded (user-confirmed on the issue — values too domain-specific). priority left ENUM_TOKENS. A user IN-CHECK still wins. DA/process caught that I'd skipped reading the issue comments (where the status decision + a website cast note lived) — lesson: always read issue comments. Also closed a pre-existing column-fill integration-test gap. ADR-0048 Amendment 1.
#26 (ee3ccd8) — optional count advertised in the hint panel. At seed <table> ▮ only set/--seed chips showed; the optional row count (a bare positional number) was invisible, and the prior IntroProse attempt was reverted because pending_hint_mode is cleared by the trailing optionals. Now walk_optional stashes a skipped inner's IntroProse key into a new WalkContext.surviving_intro_hint (key + position) before the empty match clears it; a position guard (pos == cursor) stops it leaking past a later set … clause or once the count is given. Tab still cycles the keywords. Prose mentions the count, .column column-fill, set, and --seed (user-chosen scope). DA caught a coverage gap (advanced-mode path untested — seed runs in both modes); added the test. ADR-0022 Amendment 7.

§3. Open issues — next session's candidates

Four open, all on git.lazyeval.net/oli/rdbms-playground. All four are interaction/UX design changes that need a decision or two from the user up front — none is a pure mechanical fix. Read each issue body and its comments before starting (the #33/#34 lesson).

#28 — Reconsider relationship prose in add column (incidental DDL) confirmations (enhancement). Revisits a decided area → needs a new ADR superseding the relevant part of ADR-0016 §5 / ADR-0044 §1. User preference (from the issue): do not show the References: / Referenced by: block in the add-column confirmation. Confirm scope with the user (just add column, or all incidental DDL). The highest-ceremony of the four.
#27 — Bottom status line: keybindings-only, context- and state-aware; add mode advanced to empty hint (enhancement). Per-nav-focus keybindings (Input vs sidebar), including transient states (Tab-cycle, history) per user preference. May warrant a small ADR. Touches src/ui.rs rendering + the nav-focus model (ADR-0046).
#29 — Command input keystroke support. Esc / double-Esc to clear a partly-typed command; possibly Ctrl-A/Ctrl-E (Home/End). Relates to the deferred I1b readline shortcuts (requirements.md). Needs a key-set decision from the user before coding.
#30 — History brings back all commands in both modes. Advanced-mode history entries can't replay in simple mode; proposal: if we can distinguish them, prepend : to reuse advanced history from simple mode. Interaction design; touches the input-history + mode model (ADR-0003).

No strong ordering. #28 is the only one that must produce an ADR. #29 is closest to "small once the key-set is decided." #27 and #30 are medium UX work.

§4. Carried-over follow-up (not a `main`-branch task)

Website seed cast re-record (from #34's comment thread). The website branch ships a seed cast exercising a tickets table with priority; now that priority collapses to low/medium/high, the cast should be re-recorded (cd website && pnpm casts seed, needs a ../target/debug binary) so the table tightens. The issue comment notes it is likely redundant — casts get a full re-record sweep before publication. Tracked on the website branch, not here. website/ is not in the main tree.

§5. Other open roadmap (unchanged from handoff-67 §5)

seed is feature-complete (requirements.md SD1/SD2 [x], now with the #33/#34 catalogue refinements noted inline). User's call:

H2 hint — the last A1 gap (its own ADR).
TT5 CI — test infra exists; no CI workflow yet (the ci branch exists — check its state before starting).
TT4 PTY (Tier-4) — ADR-0008 specifies it; not wired.
Larger: V4 journal, tutorial/lesson system (each needs an ADR).

§6. How to take over

Read handoffs 66 → 67 → 68, CLAUDE.md, docs/requirements.md.
Confirm green baseline: cargo test (expect 2436 pass / 1 ignored)
- cargo clippy --all-targets (clean).
Pick from §3 (#28/#27/#29/#30). For each, read the issue body AND its comments before designing, and escalate the design fork to the user before coding — all four have genuine UX decisions. #28 needs a new ADR.
Follow the project workflow: phased (requirements → divergent → eval → execute → verify), test-first (failing test before the fix), /runda + DA pass before every commit, ADR amendment for any decided-area change + the README index-upkeep rule, and confirm the commit message with the user before committing.
Consider a cargo sweep at this milestone (target/ grows across sessions; see CLAUDE.md "Build hygiene").

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