Quick Wrap — the Light End-of-Work Close

The short checklist for a session whose work is finished, small, and unremarkable. The entry test is a positive gate: fail one of the four and this is not the room — route to the named remedy, no negotiating. Every computable condition names a single field read — never a procedure the EM runs and interprets.

Entry test — ALL four must hold

| # | Condition | Read | If it fails | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | No governing plan drove this session's work † | close_gate.governing_plan — quick-wrap-assemble brief  | /workstream-complete | | 2 | Diff under the review brightline — <500 novel LOC, <5 commits, <4 surfaces | close_gate.diff (session-scoped, carve-outs pre-applied) — quick-wrap-assemble brief  | Scoped review, then wrap (below), not /workstream-complete | | 3 | What this session claimed has no ancestors ‡ | artifact.chain.ancestor_count == 0 — pickup-assemble brief <path> for the artifact this session claimed; nothing claimed means nothing to read, test passes | /workstream-complete — a chain that accumulated history owes a coverage gate | | 4 | Work is finished — nothing in-flight for a successor | judgment | /handoff, only if context pressure genuinely forces the stop |

† spec-dispatch. close_gate.governing_plan.scope_mode == "spec-dispatch" passes test 1 as a deferred obligation, conditional on step 2's reconciliation micro-step running and step 4 reporting it. dispatch-routed sessions carry governing_plan.present: false and pass as before.

‡ A pickup is not itself the disqualifier — ancestry is. A chain-root baton (predecessor: none/null, no additional_predecessors, no forked_from) carries no prior session's scope to account for, so claiming one and finishing it leaves no coverage gate owed. Until artifact.ancestry lands, read those three frontmatter fields off the same brief. It closes here: step 2 stamps its terminal disposition.

close_gate.diff already excludes relocated-without-modification lines and doc-only lines — engine-applied, not an EM procedure. Report gross and novel counts in step 4 when the carve-out is what drops the session under the line.

The named routes past test 2

Test 2 failing means a review is owed, not that this ceremony is wrong. Two routes exist; the first is the default and the second requires a named class member.

1. Scoped review, then wrap (the default). (1) dispatch a reviewer scoped to the risk surface — Skill(coordinator:review-code) diff-shaped, or a direct coordinator:code-reviewer when scope is narrow; (2) integrate findings via the review-integrator, applied never ratified back as a list; (3) run the checklist below, verdict in step 4.

2. Successor-runs-review handoff — only when the owed review is genuinely un-runnable in this session. The class member that fires must be named per coordinator/skills/handoff/SKILL.md § Step 0 trigger 4; that trigger's own discharge (name the blocker and the event that clears it in the successor's remit) governs, not a local restatement here. This route terminates in /handoff, never in /execute-plan's Phase-5 halt (coordinator/skills/execute-plan/SKILL.md § Phase 5 — that halt is native to that skill, evidence-gated to scope-explosion, and does not itself terminate). Route 1 stays the default: reach for route 2 only when a named class member actually fires, never as a lighter-weight substitute for dispatching a reviewer.

Unlocks nothing else — test 1, 3, or 4 failing still routes to its named sibling regardless of review outcome.

A lesson is not a disqualifier — capture through the lesson CLI, then wrap.

Branch ready to ship → /merging-to-main. Quick-wrap ends a session, never a branch.
End of the working day → /workday-complete, which supersedes this; never run both.

Mutual exclusion. /quick-wrap, /workstream-complete, and /handoff are exclusive — one session, one closing ceremony. Two genuinely different workstreams close separately, named which.

The checklist

Four steps. Longer than a few minutes means the entry test was wrong.

1. Commit. Run the safe-commit mechanism — it computes this session's safe pathspec from its touch-list (minus anything a live peer also claims) and commits — publishing is the separate cadence checkpoint below, not part of this call:

On a PowerShell host, invoke the coordinator-invoke.exe door by absolute path through the call operator (Shape W, snippets/resolve-coordinator-bin.md § The door):

& "$env:COORDINATOR_SETTINGS_HOME\bin\coordinator-invoke.exe" session.safe_commit_offer '{"cwd":"<repo-root>","session_id":"<this session's id>"}'

POSIX-host form (Shape A/B) dials the same op through the bare coordinator-invoke door.

Pass session_id explicitly — the op refuses without it. Scope is "none", so identity is never taken from the environment, and cwd does not supply it either: cwd selects which tree is scanned, nothing more. With no explicit params.session_id and no carried identity on the wire the op returns caller identity could not be established, rather than falling back to the environment of whoever spawned the warm server and committing one session's paths under another's claim. Both params are required in practice: cwd for the tree, session_id for the identity.

Payload is one positional JSON string, not k=v — cwd=<repo> message="<subject>" does not parse. Never pass --repo: this op is scope "none" and refuses it (-32603). Add "dry_run": true to preview; omit it to commit.

Do not ask whether to commit — being asked was itself the defect, by explicit PM ruling. Run it, report what the op's rendered field says landed. "message": "<subject>" for one group, the groups param (inline list of {"paths": [...], "message": "..."} objects) for several — mutually exclusive with message. A path outside the computed safe pathspec is silently dropped, never caller-widened.

2. Close loose ends. The judgment step — sweep what this session actually touched:

A queue entry (bug/debt/improvement) resolved this session: closure is a move, never in-place — git mv state/<queue>/<slug>.yaml archive/<queue>/<YYYY-MM>/<slug>.yaml, set status: closed, closed_at:, closed_by:.
An inbound cross-repo memo actioned this session → resolve, don't leave inboxed.
A residual surfaced but not closed, recorded only in prose: file via coordinator-queue-append --schema bug-backlog|debt-backlog|improvement-queue — naming it in step 4 and filing nothing is dumping it.
A scope_mode: spec-dispatch plan authored/executed this session: tick ACs, set plan-tasks dispositions; status: implemented is d-stamp-plan-implemented's write, fired by the full-plan-shipped close-out — read the sizing status back to confirm it landed, never edit the field directly. [[the-deliverable-cascade-has-never-written-a-terminal-status]]
A plan this session executed whose exit_criterion_met is absent blocks the close — no directive can compute this. asserted: false is a legitimate, first-class outcome and does not block; it routes to /handoff or a Phase-5 halt instead (coordinator/skills/execute-plan/SKILL.md § Phase 5).
The chain-root baton this session claimed and finished (the only kind test 3 admits): stamp deployment_state: shipped + shipped_in: <this session's commit>; status stays claimed (the schema enum admits only open/claimed). Same first-hand-observer ground as the dispatch-routed sizing below — the session that did the work observes its own completion. Leaving it unstamped strands a claim no successor will ever release, and sweep-terminal-handoffs never archives it — it classifies an unstamped record not-terminal and walks past. Nothing downstream catches this: there is no boot-time sweep behind it. Both keys, or the baton sits in state/handoffs/ indefinitely and every roadmap that counts it reads behind its real state. The stamp makes it archivable; the drain below is what files it.
A dispatch-routed sizing that routed this session, work done: write status: shipped directly — no plan means this is its only write path.
Every terminal sizing-object (shipped/declined/superseded), cited or not: close_gate.terminal_sizings  git mv each to archive/sizings/<YYYY-MM>/ unmodified — no closed_at/closed_by (schema disallows both). A record still at sized, routed, or draft is untouched no matter how finished it looks — only what a prior step already marked terminal moves. A citation does NOT pin a record in place, and archiving a cited one does not dangle. plan.schema.json does constrain sizing_object to ^state/sizings/.+\.yaml$ and the plan is never repointed — but the FK is archive-agnostic by design: coordinator_core/ops/_sizing_citation.py::resolve_sizing_citation resolves live-then-archive, probing archive/sizings/** by basename, and both consumers call it (assert_plan_sizing_citation, dispatch_emit/emit.py). A value resolving only under archive/ is correct, not broken — the sizings sibling of the existing handoff FK fallback. So archive every terminal record; close_gate.terminal_sizings filters on status alone, which is correct as built rather than a producer gap.
coordinator-fold-execution-record sidecars this session produced — read each divergence block (surface any crashed-executor marker), then delete.

Then drain — MANDATORY, and the last act of this step. Run sweep-terminal-handoffs once, after every stamp above is written. A record stamped archivable and left in state/handoffs/ is an unfinished close, not a tidy-up for the next ceremony: until it moves, every surface that counts open batons reads it as unstarted, and the /workday-complete backstop may be weeks out. The close condition is checkable and you check it: state/handoffs/ holds no record carrying a terminal deployment_state when you report. The drain is idempotent and a sub-second no-op when there is nothing to move, so nothing justifies skipping it; it drains other sessions' terminal residue in the same pass, which is the point, not overreach. [[terminal-batons-are-swept-at-close-not-left-to-the-next-ceremony]]

Nothing to close is an ordinary outcome — say so and move on. The drain is not covered by that sentence: it runs whether or not this session had anything of its own to close.

3. Refresh. regenerate-orientation-cache — batch into the same shell call as step 1's session.safe_commit_offer dial when step 2 needed no separate CLI invocation of its own (no dirty-tree/queue CLI ran between them); keep it a separate call only when step 2 actually ran one.

4. Report. Three lines: what landed (commit SHA), what you closed, what's deliberately open. Five for scope_mode: spec-dispatch: add the code-reviewer verdict + integration commit, and that the plan-reconciliation micro-step ran. Then stop.

Anti-scope

Never deletes, force-pushes, or rewrites history. No reset --hard, checkout -- over another's hunk, branch deletion, rebase. Authorized: a scoped forward commit, a git mv of a queue entry or terminal sizing-object into archive, this session's own terminal-status write — on a sizing-object, or on the chain-root baton it claimed itself. Never on a baton with ancestors — that chain's termination belongs to /workstream-complete.
Writes no continuity artifact — no handoff, spinoff, completion entry; the entry test already routed you elsewhere if one was owed.
Captures no lesson itself — via the lesson CLI, then wrap.
Runs no test suite. Skill(coordinator:validate) is deliberately gone from step 1 — the "fast" tier is neither fast nor cheap, and paying for it at every light close was the defect. Do not re-add it or hand-roll pytest. Report evidence already produced as-is; a suite already known red fails the entry test.
Opens no review trail of its own. Above the test-2 brightline, the scoped-review route runs before this checklist and never substitutes for the partitioned review a plan-driven or predecessor-consuming session owes — except scope_mode: spec-dispatch, discharged upstream.
Never closes a queue entry this session didn't resolve — closing on a hunch is worse than leaving it open.
Does not supersede the PM's closure authority. Closing a workstream is the PM's call; this closes a session — never emits a "Session Complete" header.

Discovery, test surface, see also

Surfaced at /workday-start; named in /handoff's Step 0 NO-tests as the "shipped, not handed-off" destination. No runtime test for the body — prose doctrine, not code; checks are skill-body lint and frontmatter validation. The entry test is a table so drift stays greppable.

skills/workstream-complete/SKILL.md — the heavy close, for a test 1/3/4 failure.
skills/handoff/SKILL.md — its Step 0 redirects here.
commands/workday-complete.md — supersedes this one.

Quick Wrap — the Light End-of-Work Close

Entry test — ALL four must hold

The named routes past test 2

Test 2 failing means a review is owed, not that this ceremony is wrong. Two routes exist; the first is the default and the second requires a named class member.

Unlocks nothing else — test 1, 3, or 4 failing still routes to its named sibling regardless of review outcome.

A lesson is not a disqualifier — capture through the lesson CLI, then wrap.

Branch ready to ship → /merging-to-main. Quick-wrap ends a session, never a branch.
End of the working day → /workday-complete, which supersedes this; never run both.

Mutual exclusion. /quick-wrap, /workstream-complete, and /handoff are exclusive — one session, one closing ceremony. Two genuinely different workstreams close separately, named which.

The checklist

Four steps. Longer than a few minutes means the entry test was wrong.

On a PowerShell host, invoke the coordinator-invoke.exe door by absolute path through the call operator (Shape W, snippets/resolve-coordinator-bin.md § The door):

& "$env:COORDINATOR_SETTINGS_HOME\bin\coordinator-invoke.exe" session.safe_commit_offer '{"cwd":"<repo-root>","session_id":"<this session's id>"}'

POSIX-host form (Shape A/B) dials the same op through the bare coordinator-invoke door.

2. Close loose ends. The judgment step — sweep what this session actually touched:

A queue entry (bug/debt/improvement) resolved this session: closure is a move, never in-place — git mv state/<queue>/<slug>.yaml archive/<queue>/<YYYY-MM>/<slug>.yaml, set status: closed, closed_at:, closed_by:.
An inbound cross-repo memo actioned this session → resolve, don't leave inboxed.
A residual surfaced but not closed, recorded only in prose: file via coordinator-queue-append --schema bug-backlog|debt-backlog|improvement-queue — naming it in step 4 and filing nothing is dumping it.
A scope_mode: spec-dispatch plan authored/executed this session: tick ACs, set plan-tasks dispositions; status: implemented is d-stamp-plan-implemented's write, fired by the full-plan-shipped close-out — read the sizing status back to confirm it landed, never edit the field directly. [[the-deliverable-cascade-has-never-written-a-terminal-status]]
A plan this session executed whose exit_criterion_met is absent blocks the close — no directive can compute this. asserted: false is a legitimate, first-class outcome and does not block; it routes to /handoff or a Phase-5 halt instead (coordinator/skills/execute-plan/SKILL.md § Phase 5).
The chain-root baton this session claimed and finished (the only kind test 3 admits): stamp deployment_state: shipped + shipped_in: <this session's commit>; status stays claimed (the schema enum admits only open/claimed). Same first-hand-observer ground as the dispatch-routed sizing below — the session that did the work observes its own completion. Leaving it unstamped strands a claim no successor will ever release, and sweep-terminal-handoffs never archives it — it classifies an unstamped record not-terminal and walks past. Nothing downstream catches this: there is no boot-time sweep behind it. Both keys, or the baton sits in state/handoffs/ indefinitely and every roadmap that counts it reads behind its real state. The stamp makes it archivable; the drain below is what files it.
A dispatch-routed sizing that routed this session, work done: write status: shipped directly — no plan means this is its only write path.
Every terminal sizing-object (shipped/declined/superseded), cited or not: close_gate.terminal_sizings  git mv each to archive/sizings/<YYYY-MM>/ unmodified — no closed_at/closed_by (schema disallows both). A record still at sized, routed, or draft is untouched no matter how finished it looks — only what a prior step already marked terminal moves. A citation does NOT pin a record in place, and archiving a cited one does not dangle. plan.schema.json does constrain sizing_object to ^state/sizings/.+\.yaml$ and the plan is never repointed — but the FK is archive-agnostic by design: coordinator_core/ops/_sizing_citation.py::resolve_sizing_citation resolves live-then-archive, probing archive/sizings/** by basename, and both consumers call it (assert_plan_sizing_citation, dispatch_emit/emit.py). A value resolving only under archive/ is correct, not broken — the sizings sibling of the existing handoff FK fallback. So archive every terminal record; close_gate.terminal_sizings filters on status alone, which is correct as built rather than a producer gap.
coordinator-fold-execution-record sidecars this session produced — read each divergence block (surface any crashed-executor marker), then delete.

Nothing to close is an ordinary outcome — say so and move on. The drain is not covered by that sentence: it runs whether or not this session had anything of its own to close.

Anti-scope

Never deletes, force-pushes, or rewrites history. No reset --hard, checkout -- over another's hunk, branch deletion, rebase. Authorized: a scoped forward commit, a git mv of a queue entry or terminal sizing-object into archive, this session's own terminal-status write — on a sizing-object, or on the chain-root baton it claimed itself. Never on a baton with ancestors — that chain's termination belongs to /workstream-complete.
Writes no continuity artifact — no handoff, spinoff, completion entry; the entry test already routed you elsewhere if one was owed.
Captures no lesson itself — via the lesson CLI, then wrap.
Runs no test suite. Skill(coordinator:validate) is deliberately gone from step 1 — the "fast" tier is neither fast nor cheap, and paying for it at every light close was the defect. Do not re-add it or hand-roll pytest. Report evidence already produced as-is; a suite already known red fails the entry test.
Opens no review trail of its own. Above the test-2 brightline, the scoped-review route runs before this checklist and never substitutes for the partitioned review a plan-driven or predecessor-consuming session owes — except scope_mode: spec-dispatch, discharged upstream.
Never closes a queue entry this session didn't resolve — closing on a hunch is worse than leaving it open.
Does not supersede the PM's closure authority. Closing a workstream is the PM's call; this closes a session — never emits a "Session Complete" header.

Discovery, test surface, see also

skills/workstream-complete/SKILL.md — the heavy close, for a test 1/3/4 failure.
skills/handoff/SKILL.md — its Step 0 redirects here.
commands/workday-complete.md — supersedes this one.

Adoption

oduffy-delphi/quick-wrap

$ install --global

Security Scan Results

SKILL.md

Quick Wrap — the Light End-of-Work Close

Entry test — ALL four must hold

The named routes past test 2

The checklist

Anti-scope

Discovery, test surface, see also

Related Skills

oduffy-delphi/uhura

oduffy-delphi/app-session

oduffy-delphi/strategic-self-description-refresh

oduffy-delphi/spike

oduffy-delphi/quick-wrap

$ install --global

Security Scan Results

SKILL.md

Quick Wrap — the Light End-of-Work Close

Entry test — ALL four must hold

The named routes past test 2

The checklist

Anti-scope

Discovery, test surface, see also

Related Skills

oduffy-delphi/uhura

oduffy-delphi/app-session

oduffy-delphi/strategic-self-description-refresh

oduffy-delphi/spike