Most of today refined yesterday’s comment gate. The first rough edge was that the gate blocked all comment edits, including removing them — so I relaxed it to allow trimming, meaning I can still delete or shrink existing comments freely while adding new ones stays gated. The bigger change was hardening the escape hatch: the pin that authorises an allowed comment is now delivered out-of-band (issuePin) rather than passed inline, so it can’t be forged in the same edit it’s meant to permit. With the gate carrying the policy properly, I dropped the old block-comments verify step, which had become redundant.

The other feature ties backlog items to Jira. A new assist backlog associate-jira command — and a /associate-jira slash command in front of it — links a ticket to a backlog item: it validates the key shape, fetches the issue to confirm it actually exists, and stores the key, with --clear to remove the association. It’s the connective tissue I’d been missing between my own backlog and the tickets that drive some of the work.

On the daemon side, I added a protocol-version handshake so the WSL and Windows daemons agree on a protocol version up front and a mismatch is caught cleanly at connect time rather than surfacing as confusing downstream failures. Three fixes rounded out the day: a --once session re-watches its done signal after a restore so it still auto-dismisses, the daemon no longer replays its whole log buffer to a reconnecting browser (which had been dumping a wall of stale lines on every reconnect), and the web UI now shows unmerged files in the git status.