SwampShell Prime Weekly Session Report - July 21, 2026 to August 03, 2026

Two-week stabilization sprint: Photoshop action lane now executes end-to-end, session reporting is safer and cleaner, and startup no longer relaunches a stale build after reboot.

Since the last published report on July 21, this cycle focused on removing reliability friction in three places that directly affect launch confidence: action fidelity in the Photoshop lane, repeatability in daily reporting artifacts, and startup trust after system restarts.

First, we converted Photoshop bridge actions from placeholders into real executable paths. "Delete hidden layers" and "Flatten visible" now run through modal-safe execution in the UXP plugin and send structured success or failure responses back to Lisa. That means action buttons now behave like production controls instead of demo stubs, and failures return actionable error text for debugging.

Second, the daily log generator was hardened for reruns. We added idempotent scaffold behavior so repeated runs on the same day do not spam duplicate session blocks, plus a targeted override when an extra scaffold append is actually desired. We also added a publish-only refresh mode that regenerates clean Squarespace HTML from the current markdown sections, so live publishing reflects the latest finalized copy instead of stale starter text.

Third, we closed a reboot regression: Windows startup was launching a stale March release executable. We traced startup shortcuts, verified launch targets, rebuilt the release artifact, and re-registered startup to the current executable. Startup now resolves to the fresh binary path and timestamp.

Operationally, we also created two smoke tests to protect the gains: one for daily-log idempotency and one for Photoshop bridge wiring signatures. Both passed.

The only remaining packaging blocker at this point is updater signing completion, which now halts at the private-key password prompt rather than missing-key configuration. In other words, wiring is complete; credential entry is the final gate.

What We Started

• Converted Photoshop action lane stubs into real execution paths with lisaAction completion payloads.
• Hardened daily report generation with duplicate-scaffold protection and publish-only refresh mode.
• Added and validated two smoke tests: daily-log idempotency and Photoshop bridge wiring.
• Traced and fixed stale startup launch behavior by rebuilding and re-registering the release executable.
• Created and backlogged a dedicated live validation task for Photoshop delete/flatten action proof.

Closing

This reporting window moved several "looks wired" systems into "acts wired" systems. Next report should include live Photoshop validation evidence and a fully green signed updater pass.