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fix: recover mid-turn transcript messages, and make the no-analytics claim enforceable - #28

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Two changes. The first is the transcript fix; the second is unrelated to it but was found during WP-10's production verification and folded in at the user's request.


1. Recovering mid-turn transcript messages

The published transcripts were missing 50 human messages across 10 of 14 sessions.

A message typed while Claude is still working is not written as a type: "user" record — Claude Code logs it as a queue-operation:

operation outcome
enqueue → dequeue delivered as a normal turn later, so a user record exists — rendered fine
enqueue → remove / absorbed_mid_turn picked up mid-turn — no user record is ever written
enqueue → remove / delivered_to_agent routed to a subagent — same

claude-code-transcripts v0.6 discards every record that isn't user or assistant (_parse_jsonl_file(), __init__.py:481), so the last two were invisible in the HTML while sitting intact in session.jsonl. The lost content is real direction — "we should use Oxlint", "can we use the domain I purchased?", "we may be overusing cards a bit".

restore_queued_messages.py writes a render-only copy with a synthetic user record per lost message. Every session.jsonl in this diff is byte-identical: the archive stays the authentic log, only the HTML gains the messages.

Session before after
004-build-plan 18 22
005-scaffold-and-contract 18 27
006-ci-cd-pipeline 10 11
007-wp-d-ux-design 15 22
008-wp-03-04-05-engine 13 16
009-transcripts-github-pages 5 6
011-wp-06-fixtures 10 13
012-partial-lapses-and-results-ui 9 12
013-ux-polish 2 10
014-wp-10-launch-polish 11 22

Two decisions worth reviewing. Recovered messages are prefixed [sent mid-turn], because the renderer begins a new conversation at every user record (__init__.py:1335) — so a recovered message is necessarily displayed as a top-level prompt even though it interrupted the turn above it, and the prefix keeps that honest. And <task-notification> payloads are skipped: harness plumbing, not the user's voice, and in session 008 they outnumbered real messages nine to one.

Verification. Per session the prompt-count delta equals the recovered count, 10 of 10 exact. The secret scan on every regenerated page surfaces no value that wasn't already in the previously published HTML. 12 unit tests, including one pinning a bug found mid-work: an earlier version sorted the whole file by timestamp, which corrupts sessions whose records aren't stored chronologically — records are now spliced in place and no original record moves.

The real fix belongs upstream (render queue-operation inline, no repagination); filing separately.


2. Making the no-analytics claim enforceable

WP-10's production check found Cloudflare injecting its Web Analytics beacon (static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js) into browser responses at the edge, after our build. curl, dist/index.html and every workers.dev preview are clean — which is why preview-based testing across WP-08, WP-09 and WP-10 never caught it.

The CSP blocked it, which is the system working. But it produced four console errors per page load, and it made the data policy's "no analytics script, no tag manager, no error-reporting service and no third-party embed of any kind" untrue for every real visitor.

The copy now claims what can run, not only what we ship:

We ship no analytics script, no tag manager, no error-reporting service and no third-party embed. Nor could one run if it were added: the Content-Security-Policy above permits scripts from this origin only, so anything injected downstream — by a CDN or anyone else — is refused by the browser before it executes.

That is accurate today and doesn't depend on platform configuration staying put.

D27 records the rest: the zone's Web Analytics auto-injection gets disabled rather than the host added to script-src, which would weaken the exact CSP the policy offers as its proof. That's a dashboard change — the deploy token has no analytics scope — and is still pending, owned by the repo owner.

…ping

A message typed while Claude is working is logged as a queue-operation,
not a user turn, and claude-code-transcripts v0.6 keeps only user and
assistant records (__init__.py:481). So every steering message sent
mid-turn stayed in session.jsonl but vanished from the published HTML.

That hid 50 human messages across 10 of 14 sessions — real direction, not
noise: "we should use Oxlint", "can we use the domain I purchased?",
"we may be overusing cards a bit". 013-ux-polish published 2 prompts
where 10 were sent.

restore_queued_messages.py builds a render-only copy with a synthetic user
record per lost message, spliced in at its own enqueue so no original
record moves. An earlier version sorted the whole file by timestamp, which
corrupted sessions whose records are not stored chronologically; a test
pins that. Recovered messages are prefixed [sent mid-turn], because the
renderer starts a new conversation at every user record and would
otherwise present an interruption as a top-level prompt.

Skips queued messages later delivered normally (no duplicates) and
<task-notification> payloads (harness plumbing, not the user's voice).

The committed session.jsonl files are byte-identical — the archive stays
authentic and only the HTML changed. Verified per session that the
prompt-count delta equals the recovered count, and that the secret scan
surfaces no value that was not already in the previously published HTML.

The real fix belongs upstream; filed separately.
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The publishing workflow now restores undelivered mid-turn user messages into a render-only JSONL. It renders HTML from that file while preserving the authentic redacted log as session.jsonl. Tests cover recovery, filtering, ordering, and metadata.

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Transcript publishing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Queued message recovery
.claude/skills/publish-transcript/scripts/restore_queued_messages.py
The new script restores unmatched queue entries, filters machine messages and duplicates, preserves record order, and provides a JSONL command-line workflow.
Recovery behavior validation
.claude/skills/publish-transcript/scripts/test_restore_queued_messages.py
Tests cover recovery rules, filtering, deduplication, insertion order, record preservation, session metadata, and no-op sessions.
Publishing artifact integration
.claude/skills/publish-transcript/SKILL.md
The workflow renders from for-render.jsonl, commits the authentic log as session.jsonl, and renumbers the session-map and commit steps.

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This change restores mid-turn messages in published transcripts, but identical text sent earlier in the same session can still cause a valid queued message to be omitted. That leaves transcript content incomplete, so the message-association issue should be fixed before merging.

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  participant PublishWorkflow
  participant restore_queued_messages
  participant HTMLRenderer
  participant SessionArchive
  PublishWorkflow->>restore_queued_messages: Restore queued messages
  restore_queued_messages->>HTMLRenderer: Provide for-render.jsonl
  HTMLRenderer->>PublishWorkflow: Generate HTML
  PublishWorkflow->>SessionArchive: Copy authentic redacted.jsonl as session.jsonl
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187-189: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the obsolete --json instructions.

These lines say that --json copies the renamed JSONL into the output directory. Step 7 now renders without --json and copies session.jsonl separately. Replace this paragraph with the current two-artifact procedure.

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In @.claude/skills/publish-transcript/SKILL.md around lines 187 - 189, Update
the Step 7 publishing instructions to remove the obsolete --json workflow and
describe the current two-artifact procedure: render without --json, then copy
session.jsonl separately alongside the HTML output.
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Inline comments:
In @.claude/skills/publish-transcript/scripts/restore_queued_messages.py:
- Line 17: Correct the recovered-message count in the recovery documentation so
the statement near the affected content matches the verified count of 50
messages, and ensure all recovery references use that same count consistently.
- Line 98: Update the restore flow using delivered and seen so delivery is
associated with each specific enqueue and its matching terminal operation or
later delivered turn, rather than treating normalized text globally as the
identity. Ensure a prior normal user record with identical text does not
suppress recovery of a later undelivered enqueue. Add a regression test covering
that ordering.

In @.claude/skills/publish-transcript/SKILL.md:
- Around line 246-247: Update the Step 9 commit subject template to use the
confirmed session summary instead of the literal “add session log for <topic>”
text, keeping the map row and git history aligned.

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In @.claude/skills/publish-transcript/SKILL.md:
- Around line 187-189: Update the Step 7 publishing instructions to remove the
obsolete --json workflow and describe the current two-artifact procedure: render
without --json, then copy session.jsonl separately alongside the HTML output.
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@cebert cebert changed the title fix(transcripts): recover the mid-turn messages the renderer was dropping fix: recover mid-turn transcript messages, and make the no-analytics claim enforceable Aug 31, 2026
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