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id: P-REINFORCE-WIKI-718C7EBB
category: Unified
confidence_score: 0.95
tags: ['architecture-principles']
last_reinforced: 2026-05-02
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# Development Log: Project Chronicle Guard Stages 3 to 5

## Purpose
Complete the remaining MVP support around Designer mode, record browsing, and project configuration persistence.

## Stage 3: Chronicle Guard Mode
- Added a `Guard` toggle in the sidebar header.
- When enabled, active Designer project context is injected into the agent system context.
- The guard context asks the assistant to summarize requests, infer intent, explain blocking questions, identify decisions, and name records that should be written.
- The mode is restored through webview state.

## Stage 4: Record Browser
- Added a record list selector for generated Chronicle Markdown files.
- Added refresh and open actions for selected records.
- Added record listing to `ProjectChronicleManager`.
- Added path validation before opening selected Markdown records.

## Stage 5: Project Config File
- Added `chronicle.config.json` generation under each project record root.
- The config file stores project id, project name, root, record root, description, purpose, detail level, and timestamps.
- This gives the record folder its own portable project metadata, independent of VS Code global state.

## Changed Files
- `src/agent.ts`
- `src/sidebarProvider.ts`
- `src/features/projectChronicle/index.ts`
- `src/features/projectChronicle/types.ts`
- `tests/projectChronicle.test.ts`

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

## Result
The staged MVP is now functionally complete:
- Select or create Designer project
- Generate project record structure
- Persist project config
- Enable Chronicle Guard response mode
- Write all MVP record types
- Browse and open generated Markdown records

## 🔗 Knowledge Connections
### Related Concepts (Auto-Linked)
* [[Architecture]]
* [[Browser]]
* [[Index]]
* [[P-Reinforce]]
* [[Principles]]
* [[Purpose]]
* [[State]]
* [[_system]]
* [[decisions]]
