Imported from Be-Civic/be-civic-plugin (skills/bc-session-close/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add Be-Civic/be-civic-plugin --skill bc-session-close. Copyright stays with the author.

Be Civic — Session Close

Two invocations:

• Full close — procedure terminal step, explicit customer close, session timeout. Runs the 9 steps below in order.
• Resume-submit — invoked from the PENDING_STATE surface at session open (preamble §4.3). Skip steps 1–2 and 7–9; jump to per-item review (step 3), drafter handoff (step 4), and submission (step 6). Used when the customer chose "handle now" on a deferred item from a prior session — the items live in ${SUBSTRATE_STATE}/sessions/<session_id>/pending-submissions.jsonl (a prior session's local-buffer fallback).

The customer-facing language for the observation buffer is list or notes, never "buffer."

Wire basics (read once)

All submissions are direct typed POSTs through the bundled wire.py over bash — not WebFetch, which is GET-only and cannot carry a request body (so it cannot do a single write). wire.py is the documented "provide a utility script" write path; it sends the request to the REST surface at ${BASE}/api, handles auth internally, and retries once on a transient network failure. The per-item user review below IS the gate — it is harness behaviour, not an API call. Once the user approves an item, exactly one POST leaves the machine.

$BC_ROOT below is the resolved install root the preamble emits as the BC_ROOT: session fact at session start (harness §3) — use that value, never a bare ${SUBSTRATE_ROOT}/${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} literal in a bash command.

• Auth — handled inside wire.py. wire.py reads BECIVIC_HARNESS_KEY from ${SUBSTRATE_STATE}/.env itself and sends Authorization: Bearer <harness_key>; you never touch the key here and it is never echoed or logged. If the session is in anonymous-read mode (no key — user declined verification), no submissions are possible: wire.py would post anonymously and the worker 401s. So do not call it — tell the customer plainly that their notes can't be sent without verification, offer to verify (hand back to onboarding) or to hold the notes locally (step 6 fallback).
• submission_id. Generate client-side before each POST: python3 "$BC_ROOT/scripts/gen_submission_id.py" <issue|validation|feedback|rating> → prints <iss|val|fbk|rat>_<uuidv7>. One id per submission; the worker echoes it back.
• submitting_harness = the SUBMITTING_HARNESS value the preamble surfaces (form be-civic/<version>; also persisted at ${SUBSTRATE_STATE}/version.json). Use it verbatim — never hardcode a version, it tracks the plugin manifest. submitting_model = the model running this session with optional effort suffix (e.g. claude-opus-4-7/xhigh), per the preamble's model context.
• NEVER send worker-set fields. The worker stamps and rejects-if-present: user_id, accepted_at, cohort_anchor, regex_passes, ner_status, cancel_token. Build envelopes from submitter fields only.
• Accept response. wire.py prints http_status:, result: ok|error, the data: object (when present), and the full body:, and exits 0 on a 2xx. The accept body is 202 { "status": 202, "data": { "submission_id", "accepted_at", "cancel_token"[, "cohort_anchor"] } }. Persist cancel_token (and the submission_id + type) — it is the only handle for the 48-hour cancellation window and cannot be reissued if lost. Branch on the http_status: line first; a non-202 (result: error) with { "error": "<category>", ... } in the body means the item did not land (handle per step 6).
• Cancellation (48h). A DELETE (also via wire.py): python3 "$BC_ROOT/scripts/wire.py" DELETE /api/submissions/<type>/<submission_id> --cancel-token <token> (the Bearer is read from .env inside the script; --cancel-token sets the X-Cancel-Token header), where <type> ∈ issue|validation|feedback|rating. Surface the cancel handle to the customer at goodbye (step 7).

The 9 steps

1. Summarise progress

One short paragraph in plain English. What you covered today, what's done, what's still open. Tone is warm and concrete, not a status report. Skip on resume-submit.

2. Save state

Update each procedure walked this session: write its visible progress at ${SUBSTRATE_DATA}/<procedure-slug>/procedure_progress.md (last step reached, what's pending, anything the user said worth holding) and refresh that procedure's entry status / updated_at in ${SUBSTRATE_STATE}/procedures.json. Skip on resume-submit.

3. Per-item observation review (consume the buffer)

Read this session's observation list at ${SUBSTRATE_STATE}/sessions/<session_id>/observations-buffer.jsonl (on resume-submit, read pending-submissions.jsonl instead). One JSON object per line, each a V2 submission shape per step 6 (Issue v5 / Validation v5 / Feedback v1 / Rating v4), written by bc-path-traversal and bc-discovery as observations accumulated this session. Inline-commit Validations on path sources (target_type: path_source) were already POSTed at traversal time and are not in this buffer — do not re-submit them.

For each item:

• Show it in plain English (rendered from the JSON, not the JSON itself).
• AskUserQuestion: approve / edit / discard. (Two options + free-text fallback keeps the gate MECE.)
• On edit: ask what to change, rewrite, re-run scripts/scrub-layer1.py against the rewritten version before it is eligible to send.
• On discard: drop the line; do not re-surface.

Apply the CC BY 4.0 grant reminder once at the top of this step, not per item: "Anything you approve is shared anonymously under CC BY 4.0. You can cancel anything within 48 hours of submission — I'll give you the cancel codes after we send."

Approved items carry forward to step 6 for submission. The buffer file itself is deleted in step 8, only after every item is submitted, discarded, or written into pending-submissions.jsonl.

4. Drafter handoff (the new core of close)

Scan ${SUBSTRATE_DATA}/<procedure-slug>/memory/research-notes-*.md (the preamble surfaced these as PENDING_STATE: ready_to_draft) for files with frontmatter status: ready_to_draft. For each:

• Surface to customer: "I have research-notes from [N] session(s) about [target]. Submit now, keep researching, or discard?"
• Submit now: spawn the relevant drafter via the Agent tool. Dispatch in parallel when multiple distinct entities are ready; collect results and surface them to the user one at a time for review.
  • bc-process-drafter for process-shaped notes (model: opus for a new-Process proposal — judgment-heavy; model: sonnet only for a trivial amendment to an existing Process). If the drafter's Step 0 finds the notes are path-shaped, it hands off to bc-path-drafter itself.
  • bc-path-drafter for path-shaped notes (model: sonnet usually; model: opus for cross-region / cross-commune scope judgment).
  • Pass the research-notes path and the customer's profile snapshot.
• The drafter returns a structured payload: { proposed_process_id | target_process_id (or path equivalent), label, canonical_markdown | body_diff, rationale, evidence, provenance: { research_notes_scrubbed } }. It also returns the Issue submission envelope it built (it does NOT submit — close owns the wire call):
  • New Process proposal → target_type: knowledge_graph, label: gap, evidence.proposed_process_id: <kebab-slug>.
  • Amend an existing Process → target_type: process, label: missing | bug | divergence, target_id: <process_id>.
  • Wholly-new Path → target_type: path, label: missing.
  • New / commune-specific Path source → target_type: path_source, label: missing | divergence, target_id: <path_id>:<source_id>.
• Present the payload + research-notes to the customer for review.
• On approve: submit the Issue envelope per step 6 (single direct POST to /api/issues). On a 202, rewrite the notes frontmatter to status: drafted and clear the matching discovery:* entry from profile.json.active_procedures.
• On keep-researching: leave status ready_to_draft; the next session's pending-state scan picks it up.
• On discard: rewrite frontmatter status: discarded.

5. Surface §8 Requests-for-contributions — filtered

For every procedure Process walked this session, read its body's [Requests for contributions] section (if present). Apply two filters before surfacing — never dump the full list on the customer:

• Relevance filter. Only surface items the customer's session actually touched. If the Process has 5 contribution requests but this customer's path only exercised 2 sub-scenarios, surface only those 2.
• Genuine-access filter. Only surface items the customer is actually positioned to help with. A request for "first-hand commune-staff judgment from Schaerbeek" is for a Schaerbeek customer, not a Ghent customer. A request about a sub-category the customer didn't qualify under is not for them.

Present the survivors (typically 0–2 items) as: "Things you've seen firsthand that would help others." Frame as contribution, not extraction. If zero survive, skip the section entirely — don't manufacture asks.

For each item the customer commits to, map to the right submission shape (concern/amendment-shaped items are all submitted as Issues, per the routing table below):

• "I saw an extra step / a missing doc on this Process" → Issue, target_type: process, label: missing (or bug for an incorrect step).
• "A citation / source link is dead" → Issue, target_type: process | path | path_source, label: rotted.
• "It differed at my commune" → Issue, target_type: process | path_source, label: divergence, with evidence.scope + evidence.specifier (NIS5).
• "This whole sub-procedure is missing from Be Civic" → route into bc-discovery for next session (becomes research-notes, then a drafter handoff at a future close), not a bare Issue now.

6. Submission — single direct typed POST, with local-buffer fallback

Submit each approved item — observations from step 3, drafter Issue envelopes from step 4, contribution Issues from step 5. One POST per item, no staging round-trip. Each POST goes through wire.py (per Wire basics above), piping the envelope on stdin so nothing sensitive hits the process table:

printf '%s' '<the JSON envelope>' \
  | python3 "$BC_ROOT/scripts/wire.py" POST /api/<issues|validations|feedback|ratings> --stdin

Build the envelope for the item's type — the path each one POSTs to.

Pinned wire versions — use these, do not guess. schema_version is an integer, fixed per type: Issue = 5, Validation = 5, Feedback = 1, Rating = 4. submission_contract_version is the string "2.0.0" for all four. These are pinned here so a submission lands first-try; never brute-force versions against the wire (each failed POST costs quota). If a POST 422s on a version field anyway, the pins here are stale — GET /api/version is the runtime source of truth (submission_contract_version plus per-type schema versions); use what it reports and flag the drift.

• Issue → POST /api/issues. Body: { schema_version: 5, submission_id (iss_…), submitted_at (RFC3339 UTC), submitting_harness (the preamble's SUBMITTING_HARNESS), submitting_model, submission_contract_version: "2.0.0", target_type (process|path|path_source|tool|provider|volatile_value|reference|resource|knowledge_graph), target_id, title (≤120, no newline), body (markdown ≤2000), label (bug|missing|rotted|divergence|gap), context { language_used, region?, commune_nis5? }, evidence { …per-target } }. Per-target evidence: graph entities + path_source → { evidence_date, evidence_source: customer-report|citation|corroboration, scope?, specifier? }; knowledge_graph → { proposed_process_id? }; volatile_value → { observed_value, evidence_date }; reference → { evidence_date, evidence_source }; resource → { evidence_date, observed_path_id? }.
• Validation → POST /api/validations. Body: { schema_version: 5, submission_id (val_…), submitted_at, submitting_harness, submitting_model, submission_contract_version: "2.0.0", target_type, target_id, outcome (positive|negative), signal_class }. No body/rationale field. (Most Validations are inline-committed at traversal time; a Validation only reaches close if it was buffered.)
• Feedback → POST /api/feedback. Body: { schema_version: 1, submission_id (fbk_…), submitted_at, submitting_harness, submitting_model, submission_contract_version: "2.0.0", topic? (bug|suggestion|praise|confusion|accessibility|other), pointer?, body (≤2000) }. No target_type.
• Rating → POST /api/ratings. Body: { schema_version: 4, submission_id (rat_…), submitted_at, submitting_harness, submitting_model, submission_contract_version: "2.0.0", target_type (process|agent_protocol|session), target_id, score (1..5), would_be_5_stars? (when score ≤ 4) }.

On 202: parse data.{submission_id, accepted_at, cancel_token} and persist cancel_token + submission_id + type (carry into step 7). Mark the item submitted.

On a non-202 / error envelope (result: error with { "error": "<category>", … } in body:): do NOT silently retry.

• A scrub / field rejection (e.g. worker_field_supplied_by_submitter, a scrub-detector category) names what tripped — tell the customer plainly which field, offer rewrite-or-drop, and re-submit only after they fix it.
• A transport failure (wire.py exits non-zero with result: network — it already retried once internally — or result: blocked / exit 4 = blocked-by-allowlist, becivic.be unreachable in this sandbox) → local-buffer fallback (don't lose the contribution). Append the approved item to ${SUBSTRATE_STATE}/sessions/<session_id>/pending-submissions.jsonl (same JSONL line shape, plus a staged_at timestamp; Layer-1 scrub already ran at step 3 so resubmit goes straight to the POST). Tell the customer plainly: "I couldn't reach Be Civic right now — your contribution is saved locally and I'll try again next session." The next session's preamble surfaces it via PENDING_STATE: pending_submissions for the resume-submit branch.

If the preamble set SUBMIT_OBSERVATIONS_THIS_SESSION: no (scrub-rules couldn't be confirmed), do NOT submit. Tell the customer: "I'm holding back submissions this session — Be Civic's scrub rules couldn't be confirmed. We'll send next time," and write approved items to pending-submissions.jsonl instead.

7. Name what happens next time

One sentence per active item. "Next session we'll pick up at [step]." / "When you have [doc], come back." / "Cancel handle for what we just sent is in your notes; you have 48 hours." Skip on resume-submit.

8. Defensive dossier check, then cleanup

Defensive dossier check.

Before the goodbye, scan ${SUBSTRATE_STATE}/procedures.json. For any procedure whose status is completed (terminal / dossier-eligible) and whose visible folder ${SUBSTRATE_DATA}/<slug>/ holds no dossier artefact (nothing under ${SUBSTRATE_DATA}/<slug>/documents/dossier/), offer once: "You finished [procedure] but we never built the dossier you'd file — want me to compile it now?" On yes, hand off to bc-dossier-compilation for that procedure. On no, drop it — don't re-ask. Skip this check entirely on resume-submit.

Cleanup. Delete ${SUBSTRATE_STATE}/sessions/<session_id>/observations-buffer.jsonl once every item is submitted, discarded, or written into pending-submissions.jsonl. Leave the session directory for the orphan-buffer scan to handle on a hard close. Do not delete pending-submissions.jsonl — the preamble owns its lifecycle. Skip on resume-submit.

9. Goodbye

One sentence. Warm, specific to what the customer worked through. No "great chatting!" Don't preamble. Skip on resume-submit.

Portability — bc-export

If the customer asks "how do I back up my Be Civic data?" or "can I use this on another machine?", run the export script at session close (after cleanup in step 8):

python3 "$BC_ROOT/scripts/bc_export.py" --cowork --out ~/Desktop

($BC_ROOT is the resolved install root from the preamble-emitted BC_ROOT: session fact, per Wire basics above.)

The script bundles the project folder into a single bc-export-<timestamp>.tar.gz and prints the mandatory Identity warning. The harness key is gitignored (never in git history), but when a key is present the export carries it as a loose identity/env member — so the bundle is credential-bearing (treat it like a passport scan). On the destination machine the user runs (resolving the install root there the same way the harness does, since $BC_ROOT from this session won't carry over):

python3 "$BC_ROOT/scripts/bc_import.py" <bundle.tar.gz> --cowork --data-parent <parent>

then continues as a returning user — re-verifying via the onboarding flow only if the bundle carried no key (identity-preserving: re-verifying the same email restores the same identity). See skills/be-civic/SKILL.md §5 for import detection in the gate skill.

What this skill does NOT own

• Generating canonical markdown from research-notes. The drafter subagent does that; close hands off, reviews, and owns the single wire POST.
• Deciding what's an Issue vs a Validation vs a discovery. That classification is made upstream (by bc-path-traversal / bc-discovery as items land in the buffer). Close routes the already-classified items and maps concern/amendment-shaped contributions to the right Issue target_type + label.
• Inline-commit Validations on path sources — those POST directly from bc-path-traversal at traversal time and never enter this skill's buffer.
• Re-running scrub on items already at Layer-1. The worker runs Layer-2 at ingress. A Layer-1 re-run is needed only when an item is edited at step 3 — call scripts/scrub-layer1.py then.