/wenlan-handoff

name: wenlan-handoff
description: "End a work session. Stores durable captures, writes a narrative session log, and automatically applies typed item-level deltas to the current Space Brief. Invoked as `/wenlan-handoff`."

/wenlan-handoff

Close the session with three separate artifacts:

1. A typed update to the daemon-owned Space Brief. 2. Durable MCP captures in that Space. 3. A chronological session log in `~/.wenlan/sessions/`.

It also brings the wiki pages this session used up to date (step 7).

The daemon Brief is current-work authority. Its `~/.wenlan/sessions/_status/<space>.md` projection is a one-way human receipt. Never read, edit, or overwrite that receipt as authority.

1. Resolve repository and Space

handoff_arg="<the Space name passed to /wenlan-handoff, empty when none>"
resolved="$("{{WENLAN_SKILLS_DIR}}/wenlan/scripts/resolve-space.sh" --cwd "$PWD" --arg "$handoff_arg" --new-repo-fallback 2>/dev/null)"
space="$(printf '%s\n' "$resolved" | cut -f1)"
source_layer="$(printf '%s\n' "$resolved" | cut -f2)"

If the user passed a Space name (`/wenlan-handoff <space>`), pass it as `--arg <space>` to resolve-space.sh.

Print `space` and `source_layer`. Explicit pins, defaults, and mappings still win. `cwd-repo-new` is the approved first-handoff fallback: use the canonical repository basename, which the user can override through normal Space config. Do not invent any other Space name.

Outside a Git repository, do not derive a new Space from the directory basename. If resolution still leaves `space` empty, skip the Brief read and typed update, do not issue Space-scoped captures, and continue with the unscoped session log and any unscoped durable captures. Outside a Git repository, a pin, explicit argument, default, or mapping still resolves a Space, and the Brief update and captures still run.

2. Read the Brief before composing deltas

W="$(command -v wenlan || echo "$HOME/.wenlan/bin/wenlan")"
brief_before=""
daemon_down=0
if [ -n "$space" ]; then
  "$W" --format json status >/dev/null 2>&1 || daemon_down=1
  if [ "$source_layer" = "cwd-repo-new" ]; then
    space_probe_status=0
    space_probe="$("$W" --format json spaces show "$space" 2>&1)" || space_probe_status=$?
    if [ "$space_probe_status" -eq 0 ]; then
      daemon_down=0
      brief_before="$("$W" --format json --space "$space" brief)"
      source_layer="cwd-repo"
    elif [ "$space_probe" = "Error: space '$space' not found" ]; then
      : # absent Space: the typed update creates it
    elif [ "$daemon_down" = 1 ]; then
      brief_before=""
      echo "Wenlan is not running; this handoff will be saved locally and sync when it starts"
    else
      printf "%s\n" "$space_probe" >&2
      exit "$space_probe_status"
    fi
  else
    brief_status=0
    brief_output="$("$W" --format json --space "$space" brief 2>&1)" || brief_status=$?
    if [ "$brief_status" -eq 0 ]; then
      daemon_down=0
      brief_before="$brief_output"
    elif [ "$daemon_down" = 1 ]; then
      brief_before=""
      echo "Wenlan is not running; this handoff will be saved locally and sync when it starts"
    else
      printf "%s\n" "$brief_output" >&2
      exit "$brief_status"
    fi
  fi
fi

Read the Brief before composing deltas. This read is mandatory before any Brief delta is authored for a registered Space. Retain the Brief version and every item's exact ID, version, state, text, added date, and gate. Use `last_handoff_at` for the pending-capture window.

`brief_not_created` is valid and write-free. Use summary `expected_version: 0`. For `cwd-repo-new`, prove the Space is absent with `spaces show` before composing deltas. Accept only the exact CLI error `Error: space '<name>' not found` as first-handoff absence; any other probe failure stops the handoff. An absent Space cannot have a Brief or existing items, so use `expected_version: 0` and author no existing-item mutations. The typed update may then create the Space and Brief.

3. Preview pending captures and gather evidence

Best-effort; skip silently when `daemon_down=1` or the command fails:

"$W" --format json --space "$space" memories --pending -l 50

Filter by `created_at >= last_handoff_at`, or 12 hours ago when absent. Show at most three when any match, then continue automatically; `/wenlan curate captures` remains opt-in.

For a repository, inspect a bounded recent log, short status, diff stat, and worktree list. Combine that evidence with the conversation. Draft atomic captures only for durable decisions, lessons, gotchas, corrections, preferences, and facts. Skip transient or git-recoverable state.

4. Write the session log

Write `~/.wenlan/sessions/<YYYY-MM-DD-HHmm>-<slug>.md` with Accomplished, Decisions, Lessons & Gotchas, Open Threads, Captures stored, Pages touched, and Git summary. Pages touched lists each page this session used by title with the planned action; step 7 fills in the outcome. This is narrative history, not current-work authority. It is a plain file and must never depend on the daemon, so write it before the Brief update.

5. Build and apply one typed Brief update

Compare the session outcome with `brief_before` and write one `BriefUpdateRequest` JSON file:

{
  "space": "<resolved Space>",
  "caller_id": "<this AI tool's name in lowercase, such as cursor>",
  "operation_id": "<unique id retained for retries of this handoff>",
  "summary": {
    "text": "<concise last-session summary>",
    "expected_version": 0
  },
  "mutations": []
}

Use the existing Brief version instead of `0` when present. When `daemon_down=1`, use `expected_version: 0` — the daemon reconciles the summary version when it replays the queued file — and author only `add` mutations; do not author `edit`, `move`, `set_gate`, or `complete` without a Brief snapshot. If `space` is empty, skip this typed update entirely.

• `add`: genuinely new open work, in `active` or `backlog`, with an optional

gate.

• `edit`,