release 2026.08.23.01

The commander creation flow rebuilt end to end, the delete path that actually
removes one, /minesweeper, and docs:check.

Schema change — command_hq_spawned is new and command_hq_sessions gains name, so
bun db:push is a step. No dependency change; bun.lock is untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

deploy/2026.08.23.01.md

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+# 2026.08.23.01
+
+The commander creation flow, rebuilt end to end — named, given a directory, and started by a button that
+makes it interview you rather than waiting for a prompt somebody else wrote. Plus the delete path that
+actually removes one, `/minesweeper`, and `docs:check` guarding the documentation's checkable claims.
+
+**SCHEMA CHANGE.** `bun db:push` is a step. `command_hq_spawned` is new and `command_hq_sessions` gains
+`name`. Without the push, Command HQ fails on a missing column the first time it lists a commander.
+
+**No dependency change** — `bun.lock` is untouched across `deploy/2026.08.22.02..HEAD`. `package.json`
+moved only to add `engines.bun` and two scripts. **Do not run `bun install`.**
+
+## What is in it
+
+- **A commander is created, not configured.** Name it, choose its working directory, press Start. It reads
+  the directory, works out whether the job is already written down there, and either reads its
+  understanding back for confirmation or asks what it should be watching. The name is the brief — it is the
+  only thing the owner says before anything else, and it now reaches the model instead of only titling the
+  transcript.
+- **`command_hq_sessions.name`** — the platform owns the name. It was only ever in the transcript's summary
+  record, which the harness cannot write until the first turn ends, so the list showed the opening brief
+  while the header showed the real name.
+- **Deleting a commander removes it.** Four defects, each of which left something behind: the session kill
+  ran in the wrong process and always failed; the transcript was deleted while the harness was still
+  writing it, so it came straight back as an untitled chat; `chat_session_events` is keyed on officer's
+  session key while everything else uses the transcript id, so its rows were never matched; and the key was
+  resolved from an in-memory map that is empty for anything older than the process. The event rows carry
+  both ids, so they are asked when the maps cannot answer.
+- **`GET /chat/live?kind=`** — `agent` (the default), `commander`, or `all`, with `counts` always
+  describing the whole set. Defaulting to agents means a client that forgets cannot be handed a commander;
+  the web list asks for `all` explicitly.
+- **A dropped sidecar command says so.** `sendFire` did nothing when no sidecar was registered — no log, no
+  error — so answering a question during the reconnect window after a restart vanished and the card span
+  forever. Question answers and plan decisions now report it.
+- **`/minesweeper`** — a wine session streamed to the browser over RFB. The session is not running on
+  `officer-dev`, so the route renders its "not running" state with a Start button. That is expected.
+- **Usage limits are read live.** `limitsCache` was keyed on nothing, so switching Anthropic account showed
+  the previous account's percentages under the new name. The cache remains for the failure path only, keyed
+  per account.
+- **`bun docs:check`** compares documented claims against values derived at run time — the permission
+  count, the PM2 entry count, the generated platform skill. It found both claims it was written to check
+  already wrong. **Required before tagging a release.**
+- **Empty transcripts no longer list.** A file holding only harness metadata and no turns is not a
+  conversation; four had accumulated as "(untitled) · 0 msgs".
+- **Bun is held at the 1.3 series** — `engines.bun` and `BUN_SERIES` move together. Do not run
+  `bun upgrade` on a host.
+
+## Every host
+
+1. `git pull --ff-only`
+2. **`bun db:push`** — new this release
+3. `bun run plugins:update`
+4. `pm2 restart officer`
+
+`officer` only. Step 3 restarts each plugin's own sidecar; that is the script's behaviour and belongs in
+the report rather than being omitted.
+
+**`macbookpro`:** append `/opt/homebrew/bin` to PATH for the `bun` commands, run `pm2` separately. See
+`docs/servers.md`.
+
+## `officer-dev` — skip it
+
+This is the machine the rollout runs from, and restarting `officer` here ends the agent performing it.
+Name it as skipped in the report. It is already current.

package.json

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 {
   "name": "officer",
-  "version": "2026.08.22.02",
+  "version": "2026.08.23.01",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "workspaces": [