# WDS v6 Conversion Project

**Status:** In Progress 🔄  
**Type:** Meta Example - Using WDS to Build WDS  
**Duration:** December 2025 - Ongoing

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## Overview

This folder documents the conversion of Whiteport Design Studio from v4 to v6, serving as a real-world example of:
- Agent-driven development workflows
- Iterative refinement through dialog
- Long-term project evolution
- Method documentation practices

**The Meta Twist:** We're using WDS methodology to organize and improve WDS itself!

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## What's Inside

### `/session-logs/`

Session-by-session documentation of the conversion work:

- **`session-2025-12-09-micro-steps-concepts.md`**  
  Implementing micro-file architecture for Phases 6, 7, 8 + integrating Greenfield/Brownfield and Kaizen/Kaikaku concepts
  - 26 files created, ~27,000 lines
  - DD-XXX simplification (removed SU-XXX)
  - Complete workflow restructuring

- **`session-2025-12-31-content-production-workshop.md`**  
  Designing Scientific Content Creation Workflow
  - Value Chain Content Analysis concept
  - Strategic frameworks integration (CAC, Golden Circle, Action Mapping, Kathy Sierra)
  - Multi-dimensional AI synthesis approach
  - CAC integration with scenario definition

- **`conversion-guide.md`**  
  Technical guide for the v4 → v6 conversion process

### Root Files

- **`WDS-V6-CONVERSION-ROADMAP.md`**  
  Master roadmap tracking all conversion tasks, priorities, and progress

- **`CONCEPTS-INTEGRATION.md`**  
  Map of where key concepts (Greenfield/Brownfield, Kaizen/Kaikaku, etc.) are used throughout WDS

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## Why This is Useful as an Example

### 1. Shows Real Agent Collaboration

Unlike simplified demos, these session logs show actual working sessions with:
- Problems encountered and solved
- Decisions made and rationale
- Iterations and refinements
- Context preservation across sessions

### 2. Demonstrates Long-Term Project Management

This isn't a quick prototype. It's a complex, multi-phase project showing:
- How to maintain context across days/weeks
- How to organize session logs for continuity
- How to track TODOs and progress
- How to integrate new insights while staying on track

### 3. Meta-Learning Opportunity

By using WDS to improve WDS, we demonstrate:
- The methodology applied to itself
- How to organize documentation projects
- How to structure agent conversations
- How to preserve strategic context

### 4. Pattern Library

The session logs contain reusable patterns for:
- Scientific content creation
- Strategic framework integration
- Value chain analysis
- Multi-dimensional synthesis

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## 📁 What This Example Provides

### 1. Session Logs (`session-logs/`)

**Complete agent dialogs** from the WDS v6 conversion process:

- `session-2025-12-09-micro-steps-concepts.md` - Micro-step architecture development
- `session-2025-12-31-content-production-workshop.md` - Content creation framework design

**What you'll learn:**
- How to conduct multi-day strategic workshops with agents
- Pattern for preserving context across sessions
- How to iterate on methodology design collaboratively
- How agents synthesize complex strategic frameworks

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### 2. Integration Reports

**BMad Integration Analysis:**

- `WDS-BMAD-INTEGRATION-REPORT.md` - Comprehensive module analysis for BMad team
- `WDS-DEEP-ANALYSIS-SUMMARY.md` - Quick reference of analysis findings

**What you'll learn:**
- How to prepare a module for external integration
- Module quality assessment patterns
- Integration point documentation
- Handover report structure

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### 3. Agent Development

**Freya Agent Transformation:**

- `freya-agent-transformation.md` - How we redesigned Freya to embody WDS philosophy

**What you'll learn:**
- Difference between generic and methodology-specific agents
- How to embed strategic frameworks into agent identity
- Writing agent personas that convey philosophy, not just skills
- First-person vs third-person agent voice

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### 4. Strategic Framework Development

**Method and Model Guides:**

Development of WDS strategic frameworks:
- Value Trigger Chain (VTC) methodology
- Customer Awareness Cycle integration
- Content Creation Workshop (6-model framework)
- Content Purpose framework
- Tone of Voice guidelines

**What you'll learn:**
- How to research and integrate external strategic models
- Creating method documentation from first principles
- Building workshop structures for agents
- Designing micro-step workflows

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## Key Concepts Demonstrated

### From Session 2025-12-09

- **Micro-File Architecture:** Breaking workflows into sequential, self-contained steps
- **Kaizen Philosophy:** Continuous improvement through small incremental changes
- **Greenfield vs Brownfield:** Building new vs working with existing systems
- **Simplification:** Reducing complexity while maintaining flexibility

### From Session 2025-12-31

- **Scientific Content Creation Chain:**
  ```
  Business Goal → User + Driving Forces → Scenario → Usage Situation 
  → Flow Context → Page Purpose → Text Section → Value Added
  ```

- **Value Chain Content Analysis:** Attaching strategic reasoning to content components

- **Customer Awareness Cycle Integration:** Every scenario moves users from one awareness level to a more favorable one

- **Multi-Dimensional Framework Synthesis:** AI combining multiple (even conflicting) strategic frameworks into optimal output

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## How to Use This Example

### For Learning WDS Methodology

1. Read the session logs chronologically to see how the process unfolds
2. Notice how strategic context is preserved and referenced
3. Observe how decisions are documented with rationale
4. Study the pattern of problem → analysis → solution → validation

### For Understanding Agent Collaboration

1. See how agents maintain context across long sessions
2. Learn how to structure conversations for productivity
3. Understand when to use dialog vs when to generate directly
4. Notice error handling and course correction patterns

### For Your Own Projects

1. Adapt the session log structure for your project
2. Use the strategic frameworks for your content creation
3. Apply the Value Chain Content Analysis pattern
4. Reference the decision-making patterns

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## Project Status Tracking

### Completed ✅
- Phase 6, 7, 8 micro-file architecture
- DD-XXX simplification (removed SU-XXX)
- Concepts integration (Greenfield/Brownfield, Kaizen/Kaikaku)
- Scientific Content Creation framework design
- Session log system for context preservation

### In Progress 🔄
- Method plumbing for strategic frameworks
- Content production workshop implementation
- Method guide creation (CAC, Golden Circle, Action Mapping, Kathy Sierra)
- Value Chain Content Analysis structure definition

### Upcoming ⏸️
- Complete remaining module tutorials
- WDS Excalidraw component library
- Auto-export automation (GitHub Actions)
- Figma MCP integration testing

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## Lessons Learned

### 1. Context Preservation is Critical

Long projects need systematic context preservation. Session logs are invaluable for:
- Resuming after breaks
- Onboarding new collaborators
- Remembering WHY decisions were made
- Tracking evolution of ideas

### 2. Meta Work Improves Methodology

Using WDS to improve WDS creates a feedback loop where methodology improvements are immediately tested and validated.

### 3. Strategic Frameworks Need Explicit Documentation

Implicit knowledge in v4 was lost during v6 conversion. Explicit method guides prevent this.

### 4. AI Excels at Multi-Dimensional Synthesis

Rather than forcing linear framework application, let AI synthesize multiple frameworks for optimal results.

### 5. Simplification is Powerful

DD-XXX for everything (instead of DD-XXX + SU-XXX) reduced complexity while maintaining necessary differentiation.

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## Related Resources

- **WDS Method Guides:** `../../method/`
- **WDS Workflows:** `../../src/workflows/`
- **Other Examples:** `../` (WDS Presentation, etc.)
- **Course Materials:** `../../learn-wds/`

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## Contributing to This Example

As the WDS v6 conversion continues, new session logs and artifacts will be added. Each session log should include:

1. **Date and objectives**
2. **Work completed with specifics**
3. **Key decisions and rationale**
4. **Challenges and solutions**
5. **Statistics (files created/modified, lines written)**
6. **Lessons learned**
7. **Next steps**

This structure makes the example progressively more valuable as the project evolves.

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*This is a living example. As WDS v6 conversion progresses, this folder grows in value as a real-world case study of agent-driven methodology development.*

