Abbey Easy Wins
Added live-site publish verification and corrected Abbey Journal argument handling.
Tags: Abbey Root • Developer Toolkit • BradCooke.com • Publishing
Abbey Easy Wins
Summary
The abbey ai decide easy-win command recommended adding live-site verification to abbey site publish. The implementation now checks BradCooke.com after a successful production push, follows redirects, requires a final HTTP 2xx response, and retries while GitHub Pages deploys.
During session capture, abbey journal --help created an accidental journal entry named --help and opened it in vi. That exposed an existing backlog item, so the same session corrected journal argument handling and added support for --title.
Accomplishments
- Added bounded post-push live-site verification.
- Clearly distinguished production push success from verification failure.
- Added 24 site publishing regression checks.
- Added consistent journal help handling.
- Added
abbey journal --title "Journal Title". - Rejected invalid journal options without creating files.
- Added 23 journal regression checks.
- Completed two developer-toolkit backlog items.
Lessons Learned
The AI recommendation chose useful work but invented the implementation architecture. Repository review remained necessary before coding.
Using the actual Abbey workflow also surfaced a second small defect naturally. What began as one easy win turned into two without becoming a giant side quest, which is suspiciously responsible behavior for Abbey Root.
Next Steps
- Validate the site check during the next real BradCooke.com publication.
- Consider stronger deployment identity verification only if HTTP reachability is not sufficient.