Tutorial: Process Report — check-only, 2026-07-19

Process Report — check-only, 2026-07-19

date: 2026-07-19 procedure: check-only node: random-ai-prompt outcome: checked-only hub_version: 0.20.2 hub_commit: 697bc5c

Process Report — check-only, 2026-07-19

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

Interactive check-for-updates: refreshed the hub mirror from 0.14.3 (63fef52) to 0.20.2 (697bc5c); the shared surface added six new standards (engineering-quality, planning, research-capture, working-rhythm, self-hosted-assets, agent-tooling) plus farm/hub-tier standards that don't apply here — RAP already practices all six in substance but has no standalone notes/reference/ mirror for them. Reported the adoptable set; applied nothing, pending the owner's scope call.

What was done

  1. git -C assets/references/fairyfox.io pull --depth 1 --ff-only origin dev aborted — hub dev was force-pushed (+ 63fef52...697bc5c dev -> origin/dev (forced update)). Took the documented fallback: git fetch --depth 1 origin dev + git reset --hard origin/dev on the reference clone only. Mirror now at 697bc5c (hub VERSION 0.20.2).
  2. Read hub/authorizations.yml: the standing adopt-standards-by-default grant (2026-07-02, no expiry) covers all of hub/standards/ + hub/templates/ — so standards/templates adoption here is pre-authorized (skip only the report-then-wait pause; the verification floor still holds).
  3. Enumerated hub/standards/ (27 files) + hub/templates/ and mapped each against what RAP already carries (notes/reference/, CLAUDE.md, .github/, scripts/, self-hosted fonts, legal pages).
  4. Classified the delta since RAP's last-adopted anchor (~0.12.0, per the last report-review marker):
    • Already held (RAP is co-author of most): git-workflow, versioning, notes-system, ai-context, compliance, cross-project-sync, dependencies, deployment, process-reports, repo-hygiene, docs-lifecycle, testing, maintenance-sweep, supply-chain-hardening, legal-docs, badges.
    • New, applicable, not yet first-class in the tree: engineering-quality, planning, research-capture, working-rhythm, self-hosted-assets, agent-tooling. Their substance is already lived (working-agreements §A0, the Default Workflow, self-hosted fonts, the PowerShell / execute-don't-hand-off rule, notes-first), but there is no dedicated mirror note or explicit cross-reference.
    • Out of scope for this node: farm-operating-model, new-project-setup, onboarding-existing-project (farm-tier / hub-internal / already-onboarded). [Corrected same-day] coins and docs-site were initially listed here — wrong: coins ships as part of the docs-site chrome this node wears (same-origin under fairyfox.io/<key>/), and was adopted the same day. See 2026-07-19-adopting-updates.md → "Correction".
  5. Did not run the template-file byte diff (CLAUDE.md mesh block, SECURITY.md, dependabot.yml, branch-sync.yml, check-links/check-tidy, gitattributes, legal/) this pass — deferred to the adopt run if the owner green-lights, since those are the files an actual apply would touch and re-verify.

Applied nothing. The standing authorization removes the confirmation pause, but adopting the six standards into a mature, heavily-customized node means placement judgment inside the owner's canonical CLAUDE.md / working-agreements.md plus a full verification pass — so this run stops at report and surfaces the scope for a go-ahead rather than editing those files unseen.

What went well

The force-push fallback is spelled out, so the aborted --ff-only was expected and handled without guessing. The authorizations.yml read made the adoption posture unambiguous. Because RAP authored so many of the standards, the "already held" bucket was easy to confirm against its own notes/reference/.

What went wrong / friction

  • Diff anchor is fuzzy across a 6-version jump. RAP's last-adopted hub_version isn't a clean single value: the last check reports are 0.11.0/0.11.2, but later RAP proposals (regression-testing, maintenance-sweep) were folded into 0.18.0/0.20.0 — so RAP effectively already holds content newer than its last recorded check anchor. Determining "what's genuinely new to adopt" needed judgment, not a mechanical git diff <anchor>..HEAD, because the mirror is shallow (no 0.12→0.20 objects) and the adoption model is conceptual (content folds into RAP files, not 1:1 copies).
  • Mirror was 5 versions stale on arrival (0.14.3, last touched 2026-07-05), so this was a large catch-up rather than an incremental check.
  • Standards carry no per-file version stamp, so "which standards changed vs. are net-new" had to be inferred from presence/absence + intros, not read off the files.

Suggestions / feedback

  • The check flow would be more reliable if each standard carried a small since:/updated: stamp (or the hub shipped a standards/CHANGELOG), so a node can tell new from materially-changed without a full-tree object diff the shallow mirror can't provide.
  • Reaffirms the prior report's point: anchor the diff on the durable hub_version from the last report, not the mirror SHA — here the SHA window (0.14.3→0.20.2) undersells the real adoption window (~0.12→ 0.20) because RAP had already folded some later content via its own proposals.

Environment

Windows + PowerShell (per project rule: no bash sandbox — agent-tooling.md, now itself one of the new standards). Reference clone at assets/references/fairyfox.io/ (read-only, git-ignored). Interactive run; RAP on dev at 2.60.1, working tree relevant files clean. Report-and-surface — applied nothing.