# Session Log - 2026-08-18

Agent: Claude Code
Model: Claude Sonnet 5 (claude-sonnet-5)
P4 identity used: bot_Claude_Anthropic (except where noted)

## Summary

New day, picking up from `SessionLog-2026-08-17.md`. Tickets pre-renewed by the user
this time. Confirmed clean state across all three active workspaces (`test-install_sdp`,
`p4-sdp_dev_rebrand`, Gen7 `BattleSchool` PPN workspace) and no out-of-band changes
since yesterday's submits.

## Where Things Stand

- **Task 1 (SDP Installer Test Suite): complete.**
- **Task 2 (prepare SDP-QA-Gen7): in progress.** First concrete deliverable (insitu
  source-swap capability) done and validated live yesterday (see
  `//BattleSchool/Gen7/ai/session-log-2026-08-17.md`). Open items carried forward:
  - Whether the live insitu client already being on `dev_rebrand_insitu` (since
    2026-07-11) was a one-off manual test or the intended standing state -- question
    for the user.
  - Broader scope of what "prepare SDP-QA-Gen7" requires beyond the insitu-source fix
    (the BSW Lab Engine's `/opt/perforce/.dev/sdp` deploy path, `DesktopAMI.adoc`
    staleness not yet reviewed, concrete exit criteria for the task).
- Deferred per explicit user direction: "We've Moved" notices (task #11, hold until
  very near SDP 2026.1 GA), `cli_tests.cfg` test-coverage gap analysis (task #14),
  fleet runtime-variation speculation (task #15).

## Timeline

1. **Task 2 continued in `//BattleSchool/Gen7` (PPN server) and `//p4-sdp/dev_rebrand`
   (Public Depot) -- see `//BattleSchool/Gen7/ai/session-log-2026-08-18.md` for full
   detail.** Summary:
   - User confirmed the open question from yesterday: `//p4-sdp/dev_rebrand_insitu`
     is the intentional standing state for the live insitu client, since
     `dev_rebrand` is "the tip of the spear" for SDP 2026.1 work. This also
     explained the project's origin -- the user had started this work manually
     right when their Claude subscription was approved for Perforce use.
   - Did a routine Merge Down from `//p4-sdp/dev` into `//p4-sdp/dev_rebrand`
     (17 files; one real conflict in `instance_vars.template`, hand-resolved to
     keep dev_rebrand's rebranded wording while picking up dev's structural
     improvements, plus one more "Helix" instance caught that slipped in via a
     non-conflicting part of the merge). Learned a real P4 lesson along the way:
     `p4 merge`/`p4 istat` should be run *without* an explicit `-S` flag when
     already inside the target stream's own client -- passing `-S` explicitly
     confused the merge-direction logic ("needs 'copy' not 'merge'"). Submitted
     as change `33199`.
   - Got scope direction for the rest of Task 2: track and document everything
     needed to convert a standard BSW lab into an SDP-QA-dedicated one, as a
     real product doc (not just an AI session note), continuing the existing
     trend of keeping standard BSW software quietly QA-aware in a few small
     places rather than forking a QA-only codebase.
   - Reviewed `DesktopAMI.adoc`: no QA-awareness at all (confirmed, unlike
     `ServerAMI.adoc`), but found and fixed (as agreed "collateral benefit")
     real staleness -- old primary hostnames and an outdated P4 CLI version.
   - Wrote and submitted `docs/SDP-QA-LabEnvironment.adoc` (new): the actual
     Task 2 tracking deliverable, cataloging the `/opt/perforce/.dev`
     hidden-path convention and the insitu workspace mechanism across both
     `//BattleSchool/Gen7` and `//test-install_sdp/dev`. Found (but didn't fix)
     a real functional gap: `bsw_lab_qa_1.sh` references a nonexistent
     `/p4/sdp/test/sdp_test_suite.sh`, so `lab qa` currently only prepares SDP
     files without ever actually running the test suite against them.

## Addendum (Later That Evening)

Brief check-in only, no further planning/coding. The user found and fixed a live
issue in SDP-QA-Gen7: expired P4 server license files causing `p4d` errors,
right after the annual license renewal. Root cause is a structural P4 gotcha for
BSW's "deploy" workspaces (shared across many physical lab machines with the
same hostname, making `db.have` unreliable there). Recorded the full mechanism
and fix pattern (`p4 clean`, `p4 diff -sd`/`-se` + `sync -f`, `p4 rec`) in
`//BattleSchool/Gen7/ai/AGENTS.md` (change `2762630`) and this session's own log
addendum (`2762631`), since it's a Gen7/PPN-specific lesson, not a
`test-install_sdp`/Public-Depot one.

## Wrap-Up

Session ending for the day per the user. Outstanding questions carried into next
session: whether/how to fix `bsw_lab_qa_1.sh`'s dead test-suite reference, and the
still-open broader question of what else "SDP QA readiness" for 2026.1 requires
beyond what's now cataloged in `SDP-QA-LabEnvironment.adoc`.