The main build today was a proper branch command. I kept starting work on a stale local base by accident, so assist branch now cuts a new branch off the fresh remote default — it resolves the default branch, fetches it, and builds a sanitised branch name from a slug (resolveDefaultBranch, buildBranchName, validateSlug). To make it the path of least resistance I added a matching /branch slash command and a cli-hook deny that intercepts raw git checkout -b / git branch and points at assist branch instead, the same pattern I used earlier for git commit. Branch config also shows up in --help now so the naming rules are discoverable.

On the web side I grouped session cards by repo. When I’ve got sessions running across several projects the flat list gets noisy, so groupSessionsByRepo buckets them and a SessionGroups/SessionGroupSection pair renders each repo under its own heading. There’s a fair bit of test coverage behind the grouping since the ordering and single-repo edge cases matter for it not feeling jumpy.

Rounding out the day: a new /update-jira command for posting a concise session summary onto a ticket, extending the comment policy so the redundant-comment guard also covers YAML files (extractYamlComments, decideCommentGuard), and a settings-sync fix so that syncing preserves keys that only exist in my user settings rather than clobbering them with the shared set.