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 ## Session goals
 
-- Capture a high-confidence execution path for Workday-to-AD identity sync delivery.
-- Improve repository handoff quality by documenting active workflow intent and progress.
-- Keep commit hygiene aligned to Conventional Commits with context-aware summaries.
+- Initialize the coding session with a gated startup workflow grounded in commit history, project snapshots, and code standards.
+- Produce a mission-selection menu to guide atomic implementation work.
+- Execute a gated session-end closeout flow with explicit approval points for snapshot, commit, and push.
 
 ## Accomplishments
 
-- Created a detailed Workday execution backlog with phased priorities, blockers, and milestone mapping.
-- Created a sprint-ready execution board with WIS-001 through WIS-030, including dependencies, definition of done, and verification criteria.
-- Expanded README from placeholder content to a usable project orientation document with:
-  - Repository intent by domain (Identity, Workday, Intune)
-  - Current workflow intent
-  - Progress snapshot (completed, in progress, next milestones)
-  - Links to key implementation artifacts
-- Validated staged-state-based commit messaging workflows against current index contents.
+- Audited recent commit history and identified current project trajectory.
+- Reviewed latest project-history snapshot and extracted carry-forward priorities for the next coding session.
+- Inspected Identity code and tests to confirm enforceable coding standards:
+  - snake_case naming for functions/variables
+  - PascalCase naming for classes
+  - 4-space indentation
+  - async backend abstraction and typed return contracts
+  - pytest async testing pattern with mocking at IO boundaries
+- Delivered a structured initialization report including:
+  - current pulse
+  - standards detected
+  - active missions list for next execution focus
+- Ran live git verification at session end and confirmed branch main with a fully clean working tree and empty staged diff.
 
 ## Technical debt and pending
 
-- The documentation/project-history path had no prior SESSION_SNAPSHOT history; this file bootstraps continuity.
-- The Workday execution board still contains placeholder owners and tentative dates that need sprint planning refinement.
-- Core Workday MCP implementation tasks remain planned but not yet delivered in code (backend, adapter, tool implementations, automation wiring).
-- KPI instrumentation and weekly drift reporting remain defined at planning level and require implementation.
+- No feature implementation occurred in this session; execution remains pending mission selection and atomic coding steps.
+- Workday implementation kickoff items remain planned and should be converted from planning artifacts into code tasks next session.
+- Session snapshots currently share same-day naming; if multiple closeouts occur in one day, consider a time-suffixed naming convention for immutable chronology.
 
 ## Next steps
 
-1. Create this snapshot file in documentation/project-history.
-2. Stage and commit the snapshot and any additional intended changes using a conventional commit.
-3. Push main to remote to sync the local ahead commit state.
-4. In next session start:
-   - Assign owners for WIS-001 through WIS-005.
-   - Finalize OAuth grant decision and non-production access.
-   - Begin WIS-006 scaffold for Workday MCP parity with Identity MCP.
+1. At next session start, select one mission and move directly into atomic execution.
+2. Recommended first mission: scaffold Workday MCP parity structure from existing Identity patterns.
+3. After first implementation step, verify with focused tests before proceeding to the next atomic change.
+4. Continue maintaining session snapshots to preserve restart context and decision trail.