---
id: P-REINFORCE-WIKI-A3F62F03
category: Unified
confidence_score: 0.95
tags: ['architecture-principles']
last_reinforced: 2026-05-02
---

# Development Log: Project Chronicle Guard Stage 2

## Purpose
Expand the Designer menu from basic Plan/Dev/Bug writing into a fuller MVP record writer.

## Implementation Summary
- Reworked the Designer sidebar controls into a project selector plus a record type selector.
- Added explicit write flows for discussion, decision, and retrospective records.
- Preserved the existing planning, development, and bug writers.
- Added question intent capture in the discussion writer through optional prompts.
- Added ADR numbering for decision records and timeline updates for every record type.
- Expanded tests to verify all major record categories are written to their expected folders.

## Design Adjustment
The first pass exposed separate buttons for Plan, Dev, and Bug. Stage 2 changes this to a more scalable pattern:

```text
Designer Project Selector
Record Type Selector
Write / Open / Add actions
```

This keeps the sidebar usable as more record types are added.

## Changed Files
- `src/sidebarProvider.ts`
- `tests/projectChronicle.test.ts`
- `docs/records/ConnectAI/development/2026-05-02_project-chronicle-guard_stage-2_implementation.md`

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

## Result
The Designer menu can now create the MVP record types:
- Planning
- Discussion
- Decision
- Development
- Bug
- Retrospective

## Next Development Notes
- Add a dedicated Designer panel for editing richer record content before writing.
- Add automatic conversation event capture so records can be generated with less manual input.
- Add settings for default record detail level and automatic timeline behavior.

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