Tutorial: Process Report — adopting-updates (check-only), 2026-06-30

Process Report — adopting-updates (check-only), 2026-06-30

date: 2026-06-30 procedure: adopting-updates node: random-ai-prompt outcome: checked-only hub_version: 0.9.14 hub_commit: 0fb30be

Process Report — adopting-updates (check-only), 2026-06-30

A full, honest account of running a fairyfox system procedure. The point is to improve the system — so say what was rough even if the run succeeded. Voice: direct, matter-of-fact, no hype. Standard: hub/standards/process-reports.md.

Outcome in one line

Check-only scheduled run: the hub moved 0.9.9 → 0.9.14, but every commit is website/registry content (registering a new fairyfox-games node, a /games/ nav redirect, a blog post, reconciling node rows) — no hub/standards/ or hub/templates/ file changed, so there is nothing new to adopt. The pre-existing, still-unadopted 0.9.6 force-push/shallow-mirror correction (flagged 06-28/06-29) remains outstanding. Nothing applied.

What was done

  1. Refreshed the read-only hub mirror with the runbook's step-1 command as CLAUDE.md still specifies it: git -C assets/references/fairyfox.io pull --depth 1 --ff-only origin dev. It aborted (Not possible to fast-forward, + bbf9b70...0fb30be dev (forced update)) — the same stale-shallow-mirror false signal as the last several runs. Per the current CLAUDE.md fallback, ran git fetch --depth 1 origin dev + git reset --hard origin/dev on the reference clone only. Mirror is now at 0fb30be (0.9.14).
  2. To diff precisely (the shallow mirror had dropped the 06-29 baseline bbf9b70), deepened the mirror read-only with git fetch --depth 50 origin dev, which made bbf9b70 reachable again. This is a read of the far side, no write.
  3. git diff --name-status bbf9b70 0fb30be -- hub/standards hub/templates → empty. Widened to the whole tree: 19 files changed, all hub-internal site/registry content.
  4. Anchored "last adopted/seen" on the newest prior report: 2026-06-29-adopting-updates.md records hub_version: 0.9.9 / bbf9b70. The span is exactly the five commits 0.9.10 → 0.9.14.
  5. Glanced at the node's own working tree (0.9.9 check step): branch dev, no mid-merge / detached HEAD, no CRLF noise. One untracked file — see friction.
  6. Wrote this report. Applied nothing — scheduled checks report and wait regardless of the authorization ledger.

What changed in the hub (0.9.9 → 0.9.14)

All website/hub-internal — none of it is an adopted standard or template:

  • e84a6ce (0.9.10) register Fairy Fox Games as an integrated project.
  • fd025f2 (0.9.11) fairyfox-games adopts_hub -> true, version bump.
  • 35aab6b (0.9.12) bring fairyfox-games in as a tracked node (ref clone + last-seen), /fun/ -> /games/.
  • e09684d (0.9.13) reconcile node rows to Random AI Prompt 2.28.18 + Fairy Fox Games 0.4.0, blog the 29th.
  • 0fb30be (0.9.14) add a Games link to nav → /games/ redirect.

Changed files: VERSION, _data/projects.yml, _data/pulse.yml, _docs/fairyfox-games.md (new), _docs/overview.md, _includes/header.html, _posts/2026-06-29-…md (new), _projects/fairyfox-games.md (new), _projects/random-ai-prompt.md, about.md, games.html (new), hub/.last-seen.yml, hub/registry.yml, index.html, notes/…, projects.md. Zero under hub/standards/ or hub/templates/.

What adopting would touch in this repo

Nothing this cycle — the adopted surface (hub/standards/, hub/templates/) did not move between 0.9.9 and 0.9.14.

Two notes, neither an action for this repo:

  • Hub-side records about this node (_data/projects.yml, _projects/random-ai-prompt.md, hub/registry.yml, hub/.last-seen.yml) were reconciled to "Random AI Prompt 2.28.18." These live in the hub repo; this node never edits them. Informational only — if the recorded version looks wrong, the fix is reported to the owner to make in the hub, not here.
  • Still outstanding (carried, not new): the 0.9.6 force-push/shallow-mirror correction remains unadopted in this repo. CLAUDE.md (~L246–247) and notes/reference/cross-project-sync.md still say pull --depth 1 --ff-only with a reset --hard origin/dev fallback; the standard since 0.9.6 wants a full-history single-branch mirror refreshed by fetch + merge --ff-only, with --unshallow/ re-clone (not reset --hard) on abort. This run again exercised the deprecated path. Adopting it would also one-time deepen/re-clone the git-ignored mirror so future --ff-only refreshes stop aborting. Unchanged from 06-28/06-29 — for the owner.

What went well

The diff was cheap and unambiguous: deepening the mirror restored the baseline commit, so a SHA-to-SHA path-scoped diff settled "did any standard/template change?" in one command — answer no. A whole-mesh version jump (five commits) collapsed to "nothing to adopt" quickly. The working-tree glance was trivial.

What went wrong / friction

  • Same deprecated refresh path as every recent run. CLAUDE.md step 1 still hard-codes pull --depth 1 --ff-only; it aborts because the mirror is shallow; the documented fallback is the reset --hard the standard has warned against since 0.9.6. The run "worked" but only by the discouraged route. This is the one real carry-over item and it compounds each cycle.
  • Yesterday's report was never committed. notes/fairyfox-reports/2026-06-29- adopting-updates.md is sitting untracked in the working tree. Process reports are meant to be committed as a reviewable act (and the hub reads them inbound). A string of scheduled check-only runs is producing reports that pile up uncommitted — worth the owner committing the backlog (06-29, and this 06-30 file) on dev.

Suggestions / feedback

  • Adopt the 0.9.6 correction and run the one-time mirror deepen (git -C assets/references/fairyfox.io fetch --unshallow, or re-clone single-branch) so the --ff-only refresh stops aborting and the reset --hard fallback is retired.
  • Consider committing the accumulating check-only reports so the inbound hub read sees them.

Environment

Windows, PowerShell via Windows-MCP (per project rule: no bash sandbox — false- truncation risk; PowerShell + file tools only). Node 24 ESM project (engine-v3/). Reference mirror at assets/references/fairyfox.io/ is git-ignored, read-only, and was a --depth 1 shallow clone (deepened read-only to --depth 50 this run only to restore the diff baseline). Project on branch dev; working tree clean apart from the untracked 06-29 report. Unattended scheduled run: reported and stopped; applied nothing regardless of the authorization ledger.