**Chat log** from Bead: Working Docs · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/6e033f55-9da7-4674-90f7-37f272188080/2026-07-07/chats/2026-07-07-working-docs-start.md) · session 2026-07-07 · discussion: Talk: Working Docs *Verbatim chat log: immutable provenance. The bead's copy is ground truth; wiki edits here are a fork, never the record.*
- **Session:** CE (my-claude-vscode), bead scribe for Stephen Guerin; spawned from the [calpoly-slo](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/cef6a5a8-ccbc-4102-bf59-4c37c82c29f5/about.md) working session (🔒; its chat log turn 50 holds surrounding context).
## Turn 1 — Stephen (verbatim) > let's make a new folder called working-docs. this is where I can select areas of text and give > feedback. assuming I have ambient authority (eg a token in my cookie), i can then put comments > back to your /inbox (thiis is a potentially addition to /uploads). it has more semantics around an > email box that needs to be processed. if we like the process we can mount-bead OSCAR and ask oscar > to make that a standard for beads. > > start-bead working-docs that makes an html page that can load an .md or html and support selection > and commenting and then doing a WebDAV PUT to the inbox. a DiV can can show the URL where the > commengts will be PUT. add a div that shows if a PUT fails for ambient authority and gives user > option to put a token. keep that hidden until necessary **CE actions:** scaffolded this bead; built [working-docs.html v1.0](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/6e033f55-9da7-4674-90f7-37f272188080/2026-07-07/artifacts/working-docs.html) to spec: loads `?doc=` (.md via built-in renderer, .html script-stripped) with credentials included; selection → Comment bubble → composer → **PUT `comment-<ts>-<rand>.json` to the target inbox** (derived `<bead-root>/inbox/` from the doc URL, or `?inbox=` override); a panel **always shows the PUT URL**; a **hidden auth panel appears only on PUT failure** (401/403/network) offering a token box (JWT → Bearer header; tokenId → `?token=` querystring; sessionStorage persistence; failed comments queue and retry). Successful comments highlight the selection and log to a sent list. Defined the **inbox/ dock semantics** (email-box that needs processing; drain as a bead-step; acknowledge → act → archive to `processed/`) in [inbox/README.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/6e033f55-9da7-4674-90f7-37f272188080/inbox/README.md), dogfooded here. Deployed to calpoly-slo: [working-docs/ launcher](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/cef6a5a8-ccbc-4102-bf59-4c37c82c29f5/working-docs/) (the four live drafts, each opening in the annotator with `author=stephen`) + [inbox/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/cef6a5a8-ccbc-4102-bf59-4c37c82c29f5/inbox/). **Oscar standardization deliberately deferred** (conditional on Stephen liking the process; tracked in bind-startup). MKCOL + first sync.
## References (bead cross-links) - Bead cef6a5a8 · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/cef6a5a8-ccbc-4102-bf59-4c37c82c29f5/) (no page yet)