Work log — April 1, 2026
What shipped today
Documentation housekeeping
The session today was brief but deliberate: trimmed three core documentation files (PRODUCT.md, DECISIONS.md, RISKS.md) by 700 lines — a 57% reduction — specifically to reduce token cost in future sessions. These files get injected into every /start and /close context window, so keeping them lean has a direct compounding effect on how much context is available for actual work. The content that was cut was redundant, superseded, or low-signal relative to what’s needed for day-to-day decisions.
No feature work, no bug fixes. The work log for March 31 covered the prior session’s output (GH-1904/1905/1906 — removing stale content_type references from docs and UI, plus Sentry issue resolution).
Completed
No issues were closed today. The doc trim was not tracked as a GitHub issue.
Release progress
No open milestones active.
Carry-over
Six backlog issues remain open — all long-standing items with no active sprint pressure:
- #1862 — Social queue page lacks pagination (select(*) with no limit)
- #1829, #1823 — Legacy analytics event cleanup (PostHog)
- #1787 — Error boundaries missing on 30 user-facing routes
- #743, #742 — Dashboard redesign candidates
Risks
No new risks today. Existing register is current (reviewed 2026-03-28/29).
Flags and watch-outs
Root-level package.json and package-lock.json are untracked in the repo. These contain @anthropic-ai/sdk, @supabase/ssr, cloudinary, lucide-react, react, and react-dom as dependencies. These files don’t belong at the monorepo root (web dependencies live in web/). Worth investigating whether they were created accidentally by a tool and should be deleted or gitignored.
.claude/worktrees/ is also untracked — this is internal Claude tooling state, fine to leave untracked.
Next session
- Investigate the stray root-level
package.json/package-lock.json— determine origin and delete or add to root.gitignore - Pick up highest-priority backlog item: #1862 (social queue pagination) is a concrete performance fix
- #1787 (error boundaries) remains a medium-severity risk affecting user experience on crashes — good candidate for a focused sprint
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