What shipped today
- 0ad61f2 Self-healing merge conflicts — auto-retry back to dev instead of parking, escalate to human-needed after 3 failures
- 335d8ed Add Playwright screenshot QA to pipeline — captures screenshots of configured routes and feeds them to Claude vision during QA review
- 1784879 Fix EOD launchd agent: source .env via wrapper script
- cbfae63 One-in-flight guard: dev skips if repo has issues at qa/review/merge — prevents merge conflict cascades
- e25e97f Add ~/.local/bin to pipeline wrapper PATH for claude CLI
- 7655dc3 Pipeline resilience: merge-conflict label to stop retry loops, SIGTERM force-exit handler, launchd agents for server
- 294529e Auto-generate work log for 2026-02-24
Completed
- Self-healing merge conflicts — auto-retry back to dev instead of parking, escalate to human-needed after 3 failures
- Add Playwright screenshot QA to pipeline — captures screenshots of configured routes and feeds them to Claude vision during QA review
- Fix EOD launchd agent: source .env via wrapper script
- One-in-flight guard: dev skips if repo has issues at qa/review/merge — prevents merge conflict cascades
- Add ~/.local/bin to pipeline wrapper PATH for claude CLI
- Pipeline resilience: merge-conflict label to stop retry loops, SIGTERM force-exit handler, launchd agents for server
- Auto-generate work log for 2026-02-24
Carry-over
- (none)
Risks
- (none)
Next session
- (auto-generated from pipeline activity)
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