chore: untrack the agent scratch journal SESSION_LOG.md

[tylerkron]

SESSION_LOG.md is the autonomous work loop's local journal. It was committed into the repo by accident in #375 and no project code has touched it since.

Because every loop fire appends to it on its own branch, each merge conflicted every other open PR — a recurring conflict class with zero project value. Two loop fires were spent unblocking merges whose only conflicting path was this file, and Qodo independently flagged the pattern on #436.

This PR:

• git rm --cached SESSION_LOG.md (untracks; the file stays on disk)
• adds it to .gitignore

The journal keeps working exactly as before — it lives in the main checkout, which is where the loop reads and writes it — it's just no longer part of any commit. The SESSION_LOG.md deltas have already been stripped from #434 and #436, so this merges cleanly against both in either order.

Docs/tooling only: no source, test, or build change.

Not merging — for review.

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PR Summary by Qodo

Untrack SESSION_LOG.md and add it to .gitignore to avoid merge conflicts

⚙️ Configuration changes 🕐 Less than 5 minutes

AI Description

• Stop tracking the autonomous loop’s local SESSION_LOG.md journal to prevent recurring PR merge
 conflicts.
• Add SESSION_LOG.md to .gitignore so the journal stays local and uncommitted.
• Normalize the existing *.scc ignore entry (fixes an accidental leading dash).

Diagram

graph TD
  A["Autonomous loop"] --> B["SESSION_LOG.md (local)"] --> C[".gitignore"] --> D["Not tracked in commits"] --> E["No cross-PR conflicts"]

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High-Level Assessment

The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Keep file tracked but force-merge with .gitattributes (merge=ours)

• ➕ Avoids deleting history from the repository (if the log were considered valuable)
• ➕ Eliminates most merge conflicts while still versioning the file
• ➖ Still keeps a noisy, non-product artifact in the repo
• ➖ Can confuse contributors because local edits silently disappear on merge
• ➖ Doesn’t solve privacy/leak risk if sensitive data lands in the log

2. Move journal outside the repo (e.g., OS temp/appdata location)

• ➕ Guarantees it can’t be committed accidentally
• ➕ Avoids any repo-level ignore rules
• ➖ Behavior change: tooling/agent must be updated to read/write a different path
• ➖ Harder to discover and inspect alongside the checkout

Recommendation: The PR’s approach (untrack + .gitignore) is the simplest and lowest-risk fix: it preserves current behavior (journal remains in the working tree) while removing the file from commits and eliminating a recurring, zero-value merge-conflict source. .gitattributes merge tricks still leave the artifact versioned, and relocating the journal would require behavior/tooling changes.

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Ignore SESSION_LOG.md and fix *.scc ignore pattern formatting

• Adds SESSION_LOG.md to .gitignore so the autonomous loop’s scratch journal remains local-only. Also normalizes the existing *.scc ignore entry by removing an accidental leading dash.

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[tylerkron]

Ready for review: Qodo came back clean on 095d317 (Bugs 0, rule violations 0, requirement gaps 0; 0 review threads total, so nothing hidden inline), and CI build is green on that exact commit for net9 + net10. Branch base is d91d7e9, which is current origin/main, so it is up to date under the ruleset — state is BLOCKED only on your approval.

Diff is config-only: .gitignore gains SESSION_LOG.md and SESSION_LOG.md is untracked. The one incidental .gitignore line (*.scc) is the usual no-newline-at-EOF normalization, not a rule change. Not merging — awaiting your review.