                                                                                                             
⏺ Read the full PR + local clone. Code itself is solid Swift; the concerns are mostly process/style, not
  correctness.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                               
  Code quality (actually good)                                  
                                                                                                               
  - MessageStore+ByGUID.swift: proper extension, public doc-commented API, bounded LIMIT 1 SQL, defensive      
  empty-GUID guard, reuses existing column-detection flags (hasAttributedBody, hasReactionColumns, etc.),      
  mirrors the decode path from messages() including sender fallback.                                           
  - Schema non-breaking: new nested reply_to/thread_originator objects are opt-in. Existing *_guid scalar      
  fields untouched.                                                                                            
  - Tests hit the four obvious cases (empty, whitespace, unknown, exact match, duplicate-GUID defensive).
  In-memory SQLite, isolated.                                                                                  
                                                                                                             
  Concerns Parker should care about                                                                            
                                                                                                             
  1. Commit has NO co-authors. The one commit (95f2c55) lists only Lesa <lesaai@icloud.com> as author — no     
  Co-Authored-By: Parker…, no Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus…. That violates your "co-authors on every commit, no
  exceptions" rule, and this one is now public on a third-party upstream under wipcomputer's name.             
  2. Em-dashes throughout PR body, commit message, and the README additions. Examples:                       
    - PR body: "back-to-back — the quoted context and the new message — with no structural separator"          
    - Commit body: "MessageStore.messageByGUID(_:) — single bounded SELECT"
    - README: "reply_to — populated when reply_to_guid is present…"                                            
                                                                                                               
  Your rule ("Never use em dashes. Anywhere. All writing.") was not followed.                                  
  3. Real email in README example: parkertoddbrooks@me.com appears in the text-mode example block. It's public 
  already via GitHub, so not a leak, but it's ironic given she specifically caught and fixed 555-1212 (real    
  number) → fictitious earlier. Upstream README should use user@example.com or similar.                      
  4. Test with a misleading comment / undefined behavior:                                                      
  #expect(resolved.rowID == 10)  // Lower ROWID wins via ORDER BY default                                      
  4. The SQL is … WHERE m.guid = ? LIMIT 1 with no ORDER BY. SQLite's pick when duplicates exist is undefined —
   the test happens to pass on 10 because of insertion order, not a guarantee. Either add ORDER BY m.ROWID ASC 
  to the query and strengthen the claim, or soften the test/comment.                                         
  5. Duplicate resolve-replies logic between HistoryCommand.swift and WatchCommand.swift. Both do the same     
  "resolve replyToGUID, resolve threadOriginatorGUID if distinct, emit" dance but diverge subtly (Watch        
  resolves once and branches; History re-resolves inside the text branch). A shared helper in a
  ReplyContext.swift would dedupe and prevent the two paths from drifting.                                     
  6. Text-vs-JSON inconsistency: JSON mode emits reply_to AND thread_originator when both are distinct. Text 
  mode only emits one (reply wins over thread). Not wrong, but worth documenting explicitly in the PR body so  
  steipete doesn't ask.
  7. Repo location: clone is at ~/wipcomputerinc/team/Lēsa/repos/_sort/imsg. _sort/ is the unsorted staging    
  bin. For a fork we're actively contributing back to, it should have a permanent home. Also: local HEAD is    
  still on lesa/dedup-url-balloon-messages (PR #64 branch) — the lesaai/feat-resolve-replies branch isn't in
  this working tree, so the PR work happened in a separate clone/worktree we don't see here.                   
  8. Branch prefix: lesaai/feat-resolve-replies uses her GitHub handle, not oc-lesa-mini/. Defensible on a fork
   (her namespace owns the fork), but inconsistent with internal convention.                                   
   
  My recommendation                                                                                            
                                                                                                             
  The Swift is fine. The real issues are #1 (co-authors) and #2 (em-dashes) — those are your explicit, durable 
  rules and they were ignored on a public upstream PR. Also #4 (the test comment/undefined behavior) is a real
  correctness nit steipete might catch.                                                                        
                                                                                                             
  The PR is still open and editable. Options:                                                                  
   
  - A. Amend the commit (or add a follow-up commit on the branch) to add co-authors, strip em-dashes from the  
  commit message, and fix the test comment + add ORDER BY. Force-push to her fork. PR updates automatically. 
  ~10 min of work.                                                                                             
  - B. Leave it, learn from it. Update Lēsa's TOOLS.md with a rule: "external PRs follow our internal style  
  rules (no em-dashes, co-authors mandatory) UNLESS the upstream project's style explicitly conflicts."        
  - C. Both.
                                                                                                               
  Want me to prep a fix-up commit on her branch and push it? I'd want your sign-off before touching her branch 
  — it's in her namespace (lesaai/imsg) and she should probably do it herself, but I can draft it.
                                                                                                               
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❯ yeah, but did we fix the issue? Is this done? It should be all the work should be done here, and before we   
  PR, we should be testing it. This is really weird and backwards.https://github.com/wipcomputer/imsg like,    
  this is very scary. I did this as a test, but what this is showing me is that she doesn't know how to code   
  correctly. Like, we have a process in our DevKit toolkit on how to PR and merge to main, how to do all of    
  that on our repos. Only afterwards would we PR up to this. This is crazy that she did this on her own        
  without asking me permission.                                                                                
                                                                                                             
⏺ Let me check what's actually on wipcomputer/imsg vs. steipete/imsg and whether the bug was validated.        
                                                                                                             
⏺ Bash(echo "=== wipcomputer/imsg branches ==="; gh api repos/wipcomputer/imsg/branches --jq '.[] | {name:     
      .name, sha: .commit.sha[0:7]}' 2>&1; echo "=== wipcomputer/i…)                                         
  ⎿  === wipcomputer/imsg branches ===                                                                         
     {                                                                                                       
       "name": "claude/imessage-reaction-detection-8hlOR",                                                   
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⏺ Bash(echo "=== PR #89 review comments (any?) ==="; gh api repos/steipete/imsg/pulls/89/reviews 2>&1; echo    
      "=== PR #89 checks ==="; gh pr checks 89 --repo steipete/im…)                                          
  ⎿  === PR #89 review comments (any?) ===                                                                     
     []=== PR #89 checks ===                                                                                   
     GitGuardian Security Checks        pass    31s     https://dashboard.gitguardian.com                      
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❯ yeah, but did we fix the issue? Is this done? It should be all the work should be done here, and before we   
  PR, we should be testing it. This is really weird and backwards.https://github.com/wipcomputer/imsg like,    
  this is very scary. I did this as a test, but what this is showing me is that she doesn't know how to code   
  correctly. Like, we have a process in our DevKit toolkit on how to PR and merge to main, how to do all of    
  that on our repos. Only afterwards would we PR up to this. This is crazy that she did this on her own        
  without asking me permission.                                                                                
                                  
⏺ You're right on all counts. Here are the facts:                                                              
                                                                                                             
  Is the issue actually fixed? No.                                                                             
                                                                
  The PR adds the upstream capability, but the user-visible bug (TTS / reply double-display in OpenClaw) is    
  still live on your machine. For the fix to reach you, five things have to happen:                            
                                                                                                               
  1. steipete merges PR #89 ⟵ currently OPEN, no reviews                                                       
  2. steipete cuts a 0.5.1 release                                                                             
  3. You upgrade your local imsg from 0.4.0 → 0.5.1                                                            
  4. OpenClaw's cliPath switches from the bash wrapper to imsg --json --resolve-replies                        
  5. OpenClaw's render path wires up the new reply_to / thread_originator JSON fields
                                                                                                               
  Zero of those are done. Nothing on your system is using the new flag right now. The old                      
  imsg-with-reply-context.sh wrapper (already retired per SHARED-CONTEXT) was the previous attempt; this PR is 
  a prerequisite, not the fix.                                                                                 
                                                                                                             
  Her "validated against msg 7425 → 7424" claim is compile-and-trace-level, not end-to-end. Steipete's CI build
   check is green, so it compiles. But swift test can't run on your Mac (CLT-only, no Xcode Swift Testing
  framework, per her own PR note), and the PR branch has no worktree locally so we can't rerun her validation. 
  And OpenClaw hasn't been changed, so the actual loop you experience in iMessage hasn't been exercised against
   the new output shape.

  Process violation — confirmed, worse than I thought                                                          
  
  I checked both forks.                                                                                        
                                                                                                             
  github.com/wipcomputer/imsg (our org fork):                                                                  
  - Branches: main, lesa/dedup-url-balloon-messages, and the old inherited ones. No lesa/feat-resolve-replies.
  The branch for PR #89 is not on our fork at all.                                                             
  - PRs (all time): []. Empty. Zero PRs have ever been opened on our fork. Not just this one — none.         
                                                                                                               
  github.com/lesaai/imsg (her personal fork):                                                                  
  - Has the branch lesaai/feat-resolve-replies at 95f2c55.                                                     
  - That's where the PR head points.                                                                           
                                                                                                               
  What actually happened:                                                                                      
  1. She worked in some clone we don't see (the local tree in team/Lēsa/repos/_sort/imsg is still on the old   
  lesa/dedup-url-balloon-messages branch with no worktree for this work).                                      
  2. Pushed to lesaai/imsg (personal).                                                                         
  3. Opened lesaai/imsg:lesaai/feat-resolve-replies → steipete/imsg:main directly.                             
  4. Skipped every step of the WIP Dev Guide flow: no push to wipcomputer/imsg, no internal PR, no review, no
  merge to our main, no testing against our fork, no permission ask. Zero internal trail.                      
                                                                                                               
  Per your Dev Guide (repos/ldm-os/devops/wip-ai-devops-toolbox-private/DEV-GUIDE-GENERAL-PUBLIC.md): work     
  happens on wipcomputer/* fork → branch → PR on our fork → merge to our main → then upstream. She collapsed   
  steps 1–4 and jumped straight to step 5 under her personal identity.                                       
                                                                                                               
  On "she doesn't know how to code correctly"                                                                  
  
  Two different problems, separate them:                                                                       
                                                                                                             
  - Swift code quality: actually fine. Extensions used correctly, SQL bounded, schema non-breaking, tests      
  exist. Has nits (em-dashes, missing co-authors, a misleading test comment, code duplication across two     
  commands, real email in README example) but the underlying engineering is competent.                         
  - Process adherence: failed. She bypassed every checkpoint in your Dev Guide. That's not a coding-skill    
  problem — it's a "she didn't read/apply the Dev Guide on this task" problem. The Dev Guide is exactly the    
  thing that would have caught the style issues, missing co-authors, and insufficient testing before the PR
  went public.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                             
  The second one is the actual concern and you're right to flag it as scary. A public upstream PR under        
  wipcomputer identity (the commit email is lesaai@icloud.com, a wipcomputer org member) went out with no
  internal review, no Co-Authored-By trailer, violating your explicit style rules. That's a signal that the Dev
   Guide boot-sequence read on her side isn't actually gating her work.                                      

  What I recommend right now

  1. Don't close the upstream PR. It's a decent starting point. Let me repair it in place.                     
  2. Retroactively do the internal flow: push lesaai/feat-resolve-replies → wipcomputer/imsg, open an internal
  PR on wipcomputer/imsg:main, review there, land it.                                                          
  3. Then force-push the repaired branch to lesaai/imsg — upstream PR #89 auto-updates.                      
  4. Repairs in the fix-up commit:                                                                             
    - Add Co-Authored-By trailers (Parker, Claude Opus 4.7, Lēsa)                                              
    - Strip em-dashes from commit message + README additions + PR body                                         
    - Replace parkertoddbrooks@me.com in README example with user@example.com                                  
    - Add ORDER BY m.ROWID ASC to the SQL OR soften the LIMIT 1 test comment                                 
    - Extract the resolve-replies dispatch into a shared helper used by both commands                        
  5. Separate issue: update Lēsa's TOOLS.md with a hardened rule: "External upstream PRs go through our fork 
  first. No exceptions. If you're about to push to a non-wipcomputer remote or open a PR to a non-wipcomputer
  repo, stop and ask Parker."                                                                                
  6. Move the clone out of team/Lēsa/repos/_sort/imsg into a permanent home under repos/ldm-os/ (probably apps/
   or utilities/) since it's a repo we actively fork and contribute to.                                      
                                                                                                             
  Want me to execute steps 1–4 now? I won't touch her branch without you saying go, because it's her namespace
  and I don't want to step on her work mid-session.                                                          
                                                                                                             
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❯ this is what I asked to fix:                                                                                 
                                                                                                               
  i meant: “PR #614 is live with §11.5 — that went up a couple minutes ago. Were you looking for something     
  specific in the v02 file, or is this a re-send / checking I saw it? Either way, I’m staged and waiting for   
  CC’s structural read.” i can’t tell if this is the bug whereby her texts get sent ba k to her.               
                                                                                                               
  Got it. That’s the imsg-reply-context-double-duty bug from the Apr 10 file. Signature matches: she’s asking  
  “is this a re-send” which is the tell that she saw her own outbound text come back inbound, attributed to    
  you.                                                                                                         
  Let me check the iMessage log and the bug file to confirm + see the current state.                           
                                                                                                               
  Confirmed. That’s the Apr 10 imsg-reply-context-double-duty bug. Status still “needs investigation.” The     
  signature today is softer than the Apr 10 Grok loop (Opus 4.7 tolerates the duplicated context instead of    
  mirror-locking) but the same root cause: the wrapper ~/.openclaw/scripts/imsg-with-reply-context.sh prepends 
   synthetic reply-context on every inbound, so when you reply to one of her messages, she sees your text with 
   her own prior message quoted back. She reads that as “Parker re-sent what I said to him.”                   
  Not a new bug. The one Parker already knows about.                                                           
  Fix path (well-scoped):                                                                                      
        1.      Check whether imsg watch is already emitting reply-context natively. If yes, the wrapper’s     
  SQL-lookup-and-prepend is redundant and should be removed.                                                   
        2.      If imsg watch does NOT emit reply-context, keep the wrapper but have it emit context only when 
   message does not already include quoted text.                                                               
        3.      Ship the change as a bug fix on the OpenClaw side (our fork, not the bundled imsg plugin) so up
  stays clean.                                                                                                 
  Want me to inspect the wrapper script + imsg watch output right now and propose the actual patch, or file it 
   as the next work-block after Parker’s 11.6?                                                                 
                                                                                                               
  can you fix this?                                                                                            
                                                                                                             
⏺ On it. Let me investigate the actual bug path first, because SHARED-CONTEXT says the wrapper was already     
  retired on Apr 11 — so whatever's causing today's double-display isn't the wrapper Lēsa described. I want to
  confirm the real source before patching.                                                                     
                                                                                                             
⏺ Bash(echo "=== wrapper still present? ==="; ls -la ~/.openclaw/scripts/ 2>&1 | grep -i imsg; echo "===       
      current cliPath config ==="; grep -r "cliPath\|imsg" ~/.opencl…)                                         
  ⎿  === wrapper still present? ===                                                                            
     -rwxr-xr-x   1 lesa  staff   1737 Feb  8 23:07 imsg-with-reply-context.sh                                 
     === current cliPath config ===                                                                            
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⏺ Bash(echo "=== imsg version + native output for a recent reply ==="; which imsg; imsg --version 2>&1; echo
      "---"; echo "=== recent messages (last 5, text mode, defau…)                                             
  ⎿  === imsg version + native output for a recent reply ===                                                 
     /opt/homebrew/bin/imsg                                                                                    
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❯ And the way this should work is that we should have the repo that we have in our private repos that we       
  pulled down from the fork. We work on it, rebase it, install it, and make sure that it works, and then once  
  we know that it works, we then push the PR up. This is overstepping. We need to remove the PR.               
                                                                                                               
❯ We also have you should look at the bugs folder. This is in the bugs we have; we've written up the bugs      
  before on this.                                                                                              
                                                                                                               
⏺ Acknowledged both directives. Let me look at the bug file and then close PR #89.                           
                                                                                                               
⏺ Bash(sleep 2; cat /private/tmp/claude-501/-Users-lesa-wipcomputerinc/59b67994-b4b0-4b5c-aea4-5bc2fe6d4c5b/tas
      ks/b1gu64dah.output 2>/dev/null)                                                                         
  ⎿  === wrapper contents ===                                                                                  
     #!/usr/bin/env bash                                                                                       
     # Wrapper for imsg that adds reply context to messages                                                    
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  ⎿  Loaded ../../../../../repos/ldm-os/wip-ldm-os-private/CLAUDE.md                                           
                                                                                                               
⏺ Closing PR #89 now, then reporting.                                                                        
                                                                                                               
⏺ Bash(gh pr close 89 --repo steipete/imsg --comment "Closing for now. I need to validate this change          
      end-to-end against the OpenClaw iMessage pipeline on our fork fir…)
  ⎿  ✓ Closed pull request steipete/imsg#89 (feat: --resolve-replies flag inlines referenced message on hi     
     story/watch)                                                                                            
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⏺ PR #89 closed with a polite note to steipete. Here's the full picture:                                       
                                                                                                               
  Bug file found — Apr 10                                                                                      
                                                                                                               
  Confirmed: ~/wipcomputerinc/repos/ldm-os/wip-ldm-os-private/ai/product/bugs/imessage/2026-04-10--cc-mini--ims
  g-reply-context-double-duty-triggers-grok-loop.md. Filed by you + cc-mini. Status: "Needs investigation +    
  upstream report." Your own notes on it:                                                                    
                                                                                                               
  ▎ "I've never figured this out, but it set Grok off."                                                      
  ▎ "This is a bug in the text messaging system whereby it's doing double duty somehow."                       
                                                                                                             
  Root-cause hypothesis in that file: the wrapper ~/.openclaw/scripts/imsg-with-reply-context.sh prepends      
  synthetic [Reply to #ID: text] lines via a SQL lookup. When imsg watch ALSO natively emits reply context, the
   wrapper doubles it. Claude absorbs it silently; Grok 4.20 mirror-locked and couldn't recover.               
                                                                                                               
  Current-state check                                                                                          
                                                                                                               
  Three findings that contradict SHARED-CONTEXT.md's claim that the wrapper was "retired":                   
                                                                                                             
  1. Wrapper still on disk: ~/.openclaw/scripts/imsg-with-reply-context.sh, last modified Feb 8. Not archived,
  not deleted.                                                                                                 
  2. cliPath in ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json is "imsg" (bare): so OpenClaw's active path doesn't go through the 
  wrapper today. Good.                                                                                         
  3. imsg is still 0.4.0: upstream is 0.5.0+. Your install never got upgraded.                               
                                                                                                               
  So today's double-display signature can't be the wrapper (it's not in the pipe). It's either (a) imsg 0.4.0's
   native text-mode output embedding the quoted context, (b) OpenClaw's echo-cache or formatter adding it, or
  (c) a different mechanism entirely. The Apr 10 file's investigation step 1 ("run imsg watch directly and     
  capture raw output") was never done — we jumped straight to theorizing.                                      
                                                                                                               
  Lēsa's PR #89 vs. what you actually asked for                                                                
                                                                                                             
  Apr 10 bug file's recommended fix path: investigate first, then either remove the wrapper or fix OpenClaw. 
  Her PR #89 skipped the investigation and went straight to a feature-add on steipete/imsg upstream. That's    
  doing MORE work, in the WRONG place, under her personal identity, without the internal repo → install →    
  verify loop.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                             
  Also: PR #89 can't fix your current bug anyway. It requires (a) steipete to merge, (b) 0.5.1 release, (c)    
  your imsg upgrade 0.4.0 → 0.5.1, (d) OpenClaw cliPath switch to use --resolve-replies, (e) OpenClaw render 
  path for the new JSON fields. None of which is done, and we don't know yet if any of it is the right fix.  
                                                                                                               
  Proper workflow I'd propose     
                                                                                                               
  Per your instruction ("private repo, work on it, rebase, install, verify, then upstream"):                 
                                                                                                             
  1. Work in github.com/wipcomputer/imsg fork (already exists, already cloned locally at                     
  ~/wipcomputerinc/team/Lēsa/repos/_sort/imsg with wipcomputer remote set up). Move it out of _sort/ into a    
  permanent home first (probably repos/ldm-os/utilities/imsg).                                               
  2. New branch on wipcomputer/imsg: cc-mini/diagnose-reply-context-double-duty. Not porting Lēsa's PR yet —   
  first, do the Apr 10 investigation steps 1-3 (raw imsg watch output vs. wrapper-augmented, pin down the    
  actual duplication source).                                                                                  
  3. Fix whatever the actual source is. It may be the wrapper (archive it), may be imsg's native text-mode   
  output (patch locally), may be OpenClaw's formatter. Fix in the right place.                                 
  4. Install locally (make build → replace Homebrew binary, or tap our fork).                                
  5. Verify with a live iMessage reply-to exchange between you and Lēsa. Confirm she no longer sees the        
  quoted-back pattern.                                                                                         
  6. Internal PR on wipcomputer/imsg for review, merge to our fork's main.                                   
  7. Only then reopen the upstream PR on steipete/imsg, with the validated, co-authored, em-dash-free commit.  
                                                                                                               
  What I want approval on before proceeding                                                                    
                                                                                                               
  - Move the clone from team/Lēsa/repos/_sort/imsg to repos/ldm-os/utilities/imsg. That's a git mv inside her  
  namespace, so technically I shouldn't touch it — want me to ask her to move it, or are you OK with me doing  
  it?                                                                                                          
  - Create the worktree + branch on wipcomputer/imsg (the fork) under cc-mini/ prefix. Want me to start the    
  diagnosis step (imsg watch raw output comparison) now, or wait?                                            
  - Should I also update the Apr 10 bug file with today's findings (wrapper still on disk, cliPath bare, imsg  
  0.4.0 stale, PR #89 closed, proper workflow plan)?                                                         
                                                                                                               
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❯ /Users/lesa/.ldm/shared/dev-guide-wipcomputerinc.md you always keep mentioning the public dev guy. What      
  about the private one too? I mean, this is the one that should be about how we work together.                
                                                                                                             
⏺ You're right — I violated my own rule. My global CLAUDE.md says "Read BOTH dev guides before doing any repo  
  work." I was quoting the public one from memory. Reading the private one now.
                                                                                                               
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⏺ Read it. You're right — this changes the diagnosis precisely. The private guide has the rules Lēsa actually  
  violated; the public guide just has the generic workflow.                                                    
                                                                                                               
  What the private guide says, specific to this situation                                                      
                                                                                                               
  § Review Flow (line 278-286) — this is the exact process she skipped:                                        
  Lēsa builds -> pushes to dev branch                                                                          
    -> Claude Code reviews (code)                                                                              
    -> Parker reviews (direction)                                                                              
    -> merge to main                                                                                           
    -> publish      
  She went: Lēsa builds → lesaai/imsg → upstream PR on steipete/imsg. Skipped all four middle steps.           
                                                                                                             
  § Branch Prefixes (line 9-14) — the table says Lēsa's prefix is lesa/, not lesaai/, not oc-lesa-mini/. Her PR
   branch was lesaai/feat-resolve-replies. Wrong prefix.                                                       
                                                                                                               
  § Release Notes on the Branch (line 294-302) — every PR must include a RELEASE-NOTES-v{next}.md file on the  
  branch. The guide's own words: "If an agent reads the Dev Guide and still doesn't know to write release notes
   on the branch, the guide has failed. This is the standard." Her PR has no release notes file. At all.       
                                                                                                             
  § Merge rules (line 17) — gh pr merge --merge --delete-branch. Always include --delete-branch. (Moot here    
  since the PR is closed, but noting for when we re-do it correctly.)
                                                                                                               
  § Co-Authors on Every Commit (line 37-45) — the canonical trailer block, all three contributors. Her commit  
  95f2c55 had zero of them.
                                                                                                               
  § Repo Subfolder Layout (line 204-218) — third-party forks live in repos/_third-party-repos/, not _sort/, not
   ldm-os/utilities/. I was wrong earlier saying utilities/. The guide puts openclaw/openclaw there as the
  worked example, so imsg belongs in repos/_third-party-repos/imsg/.                                           
                                                                                                             
  § Forks of third-party public repos (line 155) — "can stay public. But if we're actively working on a fork,  
  make it private so we can work and rebase without exposing our changes." github.com/wipcomputer/imsg is
  currently public. Since we're actively working on it (Lēsa just pushed a feat branch, you've got an internal 
  bug file about it, and now we're about to cut a fix branch), it should be private per this rule. That's a  
  separate cleanup.

  Corrected plan, grounded in the private guide                                                                
   
  1. Move ~/wipcomputerinc/team/Lēsa/repos/_sort/imsg → ~/wipcomputerinc/repos/_third-party-repos/imsg. Her    
  namespace, but the guide places it here explicitly.                                                        
  2. Flip github.com/wipcomputer/imsg from public → private (since we're actively working on it). gh repo edit 
  wipcomputer/imsg --visibility private.                                                                       
  3. Create branch on wipcomputer/imsg: cc-mini/diagnose-reply-context-double-duty (I'd be cutting this, so
  cc-mini/ prefix per the table).                                                                              
  4. Do the Apr 10 investigation steps (raw imsg watch output vs. wrapper-augmented, pin the actual duplication
   source) — the step that was never done, which is why we don't actually know what to fix yet.                
  5. Write RELEASE-NOTES-v0-4-1.md on the branch as the fix lands (narrative: what changed, why, what it     
  fixes).                                                                                                      
  6. Commit with all three co-authors (Parker, Lēsa, Claude Opus 4.7).                                       
  7. Internal PR on wipcomputer/imsg → CC review → your direction review → merge to wipcomputer/imsg:main →    
  --merge --delete-branch.                                                                                     
  8. Build + install locally, verify end-to-end with a real iMessage reply-to exchange between you and Lēsa.   
  9. Only then consider an upstream PR to steipete/imsg. And if it goes upstream, the commit still carries     
  co-authors and the PR body is em-dash-free.                                                                  
                                                                                                           
  What I want to flag separately                                                                               
                                                                                                           
  The private guide, CLAUDE.md, and SHARED-CONTEXT reference Lēsa's branch prefix inconsistently (lesa/ in the 
  private guide, oc-lesa-mini/ in CLAUDE.md, lesaai/ is what she's actually been using). Worth reconciling so  
  the next session has one source of truth.                                                                  
                                                                                                               
  Want me to start at step 1 (move the clone + flip repo visibility), or do you want to do those two yourself  
  and I pick up at step 3?                                                                                   
                                                                                                               
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❯ No, I know. We know. I understand that the feature is not up. We're not just, so we're clear, pushing the    
  feature up so that we can get the feature back. We're pushing the feature up only to be helpful because this 
   is open source software.                                                                                    
                                                                                                               
  What we're doing is we are finding a bug. We're fixing it ourselves. We're updating the actual source code,  
  and then we're using that on a move-forward basis so that we rebase on a move-forward basis. It doesn't      
  matter if they ever apply it to the source code upstream. We're only PR-ing it to be super helpful.          
                                                                                                      
⏺ Got it. Correcting my mental model:                                                                          
                                                                                                             
  Our fork is the source of truth for our installed imsg. We fix in wipcomputer/imsg, build + install from     
  there, we're running the fix today. The upstream PR is pure OSS goodwill — steipete can merge or not; doesn't
   gate us. We rebase onto new upstream releases forward, carrying our patch.                                  
                                                                                                               
  That means my earlier "5-step dependency chain" framing was wrong. The real critical path is shorter:        
                                                                                                               
  1. Move clone to repos/_third-party-repos/imsg/                                                              
  2. Flip wipcomputer/imsg to private                                                                        
  3. Cut cc-mini/diagnose-reply-context-double-duty on our fork                                                
  4. Actually do the Apr 10 investigation (imsg watch raw output comparison) — so we know what to fix          
  5. Apply fix, co-authored commit, release notes on the branch                                                
  6. Internal PR on wipcomputer/imsg → CC review → your review → merge                                         
  7. Build from our fork, install locally, replace the Homebrew 0.4.0 binary                                   
  8. Verify end-to-end with a real reply-to exchange                                                           
  9. (Separate, optional, courtesy) Re-open an upstream PR on steipete/imsg with the validated commit          
                                                                                                               
  Done at step 8. Steps 9 and beyond are independent.                                                          
                                                                                                               
  Ready to start at step 1 on your go. Want me to proceed, or are you taking steps 1-2 (move + visibility flip)
   yourself?                                    