(2025-12-10) ClaudeCode for TeamGarden

Vibe Prototyping for TeamGarden didn't feel right because I didn't have enough sticky data to really play with the key UI issues....

Going to instead move forward from my flux.garden code with ClaudeCode.

Dec10'2025: come from other direction: use Claude Code with current flask code (which is basically just flux.garden with a start of adding a json blob).

• try to launch, get error about wtforms - not even going to try and fix it
• claude; /init -> generates claude.md which I let it save
• run into issues wtforms and deprecated field type, when did I hit that before? ________-

Jan12'2026

• want to make sure my TeamGarden code comes from the FluxGarden code
  • models.py files are identical (other than adding JSON field to nodes table, which makes sense)
  • likewise routes.py
  • so I'm convinced I didn't do that stupid thing

Jan28 re-starting after more thinking/reading.... I've been playing without a net

• I don't even have git set up here, though I have .gitignore and .gitattributes copied over from older work....
• gitlab vs github? Not going to bother with either
• do git commit -a -m "<commit comment>" but that doesn't seem to actually add anything
• but should get gui client for local git - choose GitUp https://gitup.co/
• GitUp shows me empty repo (once I load the dir)
  • go into Commits view, Stage All, the Commit -> all good

Jan28 have Claude get code running

• have it fix the wtforms issue. (Ask for plan, then let it run uninterrupted.) It says that succeeded, so have it commit.
• now have sqlalchemy.exc.ArgumentError: Can't add unnamed column to column collection - have it plan/fix/commit.
• now it runs without error. But previous fix involved taking away the full-text-search GIN index. So now have it added back. (Plan/fix.)
• how do we know the index is created/used? It writes a 100-line verify_index.py
• discover code talks to db='wikiweb' not 'teamgarden' so correct that. It fixes that, then write create_gin_index.py - run that, then run verify script. Verification successful. So now commit.
• flask run myself and hit http://localhost:5000/ -> 503 error.... probably need a full path using a faked-domain.... hmm where did I do that?
• ask claude (but I manually google-searched and reminded myself they are probably in etc/hosts so I tell Claude that. He lists the domains from that file.
• so hit http://webseitz.flux2.garden:5000/wiki/ - it works! FrontPage works, clicking on individual pages works.
• try to log in - get ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS - delete cookies for his host; try again, same issue.
• notice I've been redirected to http://flux2.garden:5000/home which sounds familiar.
  • looking at log, I see cycles of being redirected
    • "GET /user/sign-in HTTP/1.1" 302 -
    • `"GET /home HTTP/1.1" 302 -
    • "GET /private/FrontPage HTTP/1.1" 302 -
  • yes, part of user-management stuff from (2020-10-12) Building user management in WikiFlux
• next steps
  • see if there are any diffs between any of the pages associated with those urls
  • there's some sort of users.status field in the db, need to make sure those values for me match between this local db and the production flux.garden db in production
  • figure out where the code files for the user management library are - maybe I had to customize something in there, and that didn't get carried over, because it's tied to the venv?
  • else just ask Claude (maybe I'll do that first, giving those clues above, see if it can figure it out)

Jan29

• look at flask_user etc libraries
  • shouldn't be issue, because all the flask apps are in /py3/flask/ which has a single venv
  • otoh I copied my venv to venv_old on Feb07'2021 before upgrading Python from 3.8 to 3.11
    • everything in /venv_old/.../flask_user/ has that date
    • everything in /.venv/.../flask_user/ has date Apr28'2024
    • so seems nothing in either of those had its code customized: *could there be something else, like a dependency of flask_user, that changed?
    • in both generations of venv there are some site-packages folders with more-recent dates because they were added later for various non-original reasons, but none of those newer folders contain any individual files with dates more recent than its peers, ergo none customized
  • (also note that because I'm running Claude at the level of the specific flask app, it doesn't have direct/automatic access to the venv (can I give it permission to see in there?)
• try different test user account, to give credentials to Claude:
  • http://hunter.flux2.garden:5000/outer/ -> works!
  • look at users status fields: active and permitted and email_confirmed_at
    • both 'hunter' and my accounts have t/t/non_null so that all seems like it should work
  • try to log in for 'hunter', get same redirecting.... so will give that account to claude
  • ah, wait, new data - after that redirecting issue, even trying to hit http://hunter.flux2.garden:5000/outer/ gives me the redirects.
• ask Claude to plan/fix - derp needed line in config for SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN = '.flux2.garden' to set it domain-wide, because part of that redirect process goes through a central hostname! Works now!
• save-page-edit -> dies because of JSON issues I never resolved Oct22 (2023-10-08) Start Noodling on TeamGarden
  • says it fixed it!
  • saving edit saves the new body!
  • and nodes.node_data gets set! (Though to bogus value I have set in routes.py at line 701) - so now have to review what I was doing last year and start a new incremental crawl forward....