---
id: P-REINFORCE-WIKI-D4A6E581
category: Unified
confidence_score: 0.95
tags: ['architecture-principles']
last_reinforced: 2026-05-02
---

# Development Log: Project Chronicle Guard Stage 1

## Purpose
Add the first stable stage of the Designer menu and Project Chronicle Guard without coupling it tightly to chat execution.

## Implementation Summary
- Added an independent `src/features/projectChronicle` module.
- Added typed project, planning, discussion, decision, development, bug, and retrospective records.
- Added a Markdown writer with folder creation and filename collision protection.
- Added templates for project seed files and record documents.
- Added a Designer row in the sidebar with project selection and explicit record actions.
- Added VS Code-side handlers for creating/selecting record projects and writing planning, development, and bug records.

## Architecture

```text
Sidebar Designer UI
  -> Webview postMessage
  -> SidebarChatProvider handlers
  -> ProjectChronicleManager
  -> MarkdownFileWriter
  -> docs/records/{Project}/...
```

## Changed Files
- `src/features/projectChronicle/types.ts`
- `src/features/projectChronicle/markdownFileWriter.ts`
- `src/features/projectChronicle/templates.ts`
- `src/features/projectChronicle/index.ts`
- `src/sidebarProvider.ts`
- `docs/records/ConnectAI/...`

## Dependency Notes
The implementation uses only TypeScript, Node `fs`/`path`, and VS Code extension APIs already available in the project.

## Verification
- `npm run compile`
- `./node_modules/.bin/jest --runInBand`

## Known Limits
- The records are generated through explicit sidebar actions.
- Full automatic conversation analysis is not implemented in this stage.
- Retrospective and ADR writing are available in the module, but the sidebar only exposes Plan, Dev, and Bug actions in this first pass.

## Next Development Notes
- Add a richer Designer panel for ADR, discussion, and retrospective creation.
- Capture AI question intent more directly during the conversation flow.
- Add tests for the Project Chronicle manager.

## 🔗 Knowledge Connections
### Related Concepts (Auto-Linked)
* [[Analysis]]
* [[Architecture]]
* [[Index]]
* [[P-Reinforce]]
* [[Principles]]
* [[Purpose]]
* [[Seed]]
