feat(metadocs): claude-cli distiller leaves no transcript — the loop dies at the source - #39
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…dies at the source The codex engine got --ephemeral; the claude engine kept the caveat: every print-mode distill call wrote a transcript into ~/.claude/projects, which the indexer embedded as a tmpXXXXXXXX project. The mkdtemp name filter (#38) kept the distiller from EATING that exhaust, but the exhaust itself still piled up on disk and in the index. claude -p has the native twin: --no-session-persistence (print-mode only). Probed live: the call answers normally and no transcript dir appears; a real distill run against a throwaway repo confirmed rc=0 with zero new dirs under ~/.claude/projects. Now neither engine can feed itself; the name filter stays as a backstop for pre-existing and foreign print-mode junk. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The codex engine got
--ephemeral(#37); the claude-cli engine kept the documented caveat: every print-mode distill call wrote a transcript into~/.claude/projects, which the indexer picked up as atmpXXXXXXXXproject — wasted embeddings, and only the #38 name filter between the distiller and its own exhaust.claude -pturns out to have the native twin:--no-session-persistence(print-mode only — exactly where the distiller lives).Probed live before wiring in:
claude -p --no-session-persistenceanswers normally; diff of~/.claude/projectsbefore/after — no new dirs;cli_agent_distillerrun against a throwaway repo: returnedTrue, zero new transcript dirs.Changes:
distill.py: flag added to the cage argv; cage docstring + codex comment updated (both engines now transcript-free);test_metadocs.py: cage argv test asserts the flag;Suite: 312 passed.
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