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+# Session: 2026-06-17 — Reverse-engineer, plan, kick off Phase 0
+
+## Goal
+Take an inherited Create/Anything export of an insole-production time tracker, understand
+it, decide a direction, and start building toward a self-owned version.
+
+## Work done
+1. **Git repo created.** Initialised, baseline commit of the code "as received".
+2. **Reverse-engineering.** Established it is a two-app monorepo: `apps/mobile` (Expo) +
+   `apps/web` (Next.js backend on Neon Postgres) + `publisher/`. Found it heavily coupled
+   to the Create platform; the live data/accounts are held in the platform's DB (owned by
+   the friend's Create account), not by us.
+3. **Fixes committed.** Corrected `CLAUDE.md`; found & repaired `/api/logs` (git-ignored by
+   an over-broad `logs` rule **and** missing its `import sql`); added a reverse-engineered
+   `apps/web/db/schema.sql`; reconciled `yarn.lock` with `package.json`; installed deps.
+4. **Brainstormed the target** (superpowers:brainstorming) and wrote
+   **`docs/roadmap.md`** — vision + 8 decisions + architecture + 6-phase roadmap.
+5. **Wrote `docs/plans/phase-0-foundation.md`** (superpowers:writing-plans) — a TDD plan
+   for the dockerized backend.
+6. **Repo hygiene:** `.gitattributes` (LF normalization); gitignored `.mcp.json` and
+   `CLAUDE.local.md`.
+
+## Key decisions (full detail in docs/roadmap.md)
+- Purpose: real workshop tool **and** learning vehicle.
+- **Clean break** from the Create platform; **greenfield rebuild** porting the good parts.
+- **Dedicated backend service** (Option A) owns auth + DB; mobile and admin are clients.
+- Stack: **Hono + better-auth + Drizzle + SQLite (libsql)**, TypeScript everywhere,
+  **dockerized** (local now, any cloud later). Project name: **SoleLog** (`@solelog/*`).
+
+## Current state
+- Working tree clean; planning docs tracked under `docs/`.
+- Phase 0 plan ready; implementation kicked off via a multi-agent **workflow**
+  (per-task implement + adversarial verify).
+- Inherited `apps/mobile` / `apps/web` remain untouched as reference.
+
+## Next steps
+- Complete Phase 0 (tasks 1–6): dockerized backend + auth round-trip.
+- Then Phase 1 (worker timing flow with server-authoritative sessions).
+
+## Open items to confirm with the friend
+- Whether any **live data / worker accounts** exist in his Create instance that must be
+  exported before going live on a fresh DB (a greenfield can't recreate it).
+- Real **workbench ↔ activity** mapping (hardcoded/seeded for now).