# gpg_agent_leak debug log

## 2026-10-19T18:35:59Z – Step 2
**Necessary/useful instructions**
- RAILSPIKE.md "Planning Artifacts" and step2 Structure: gave a clear one-page template.

**Redundant/unnecessary instructions**
- No supported findings

**Inapplicable instructions**
- Step 2 "Known user or environment" is only loosely applicable (environment named only implicitly).

**Uncertain assessments**
- No supported findings

## 2026-10-19T18:37:36Z – Step 3
**Necessary/useful instructions**
- step3 Do: stage template and Key Risks placement kept the plan scannable.

**Redundant/unnecessary instructions**
- No supported findings

**Inapplicable instructions**
- Documentation-only and database-change guidance.

**Uncertain assessments**
- No supported findings

## 2026-10-19T18:59:39Z – Step 4
**Necessary/useful instructions**
- step4_implementation_do "Stage Boundary Protocol": per-stage verification forced a full-suite run in Stage 5. That run found that the real leak source (test helpers) was missing from the Step 2 inventory.
- step4_implementation_after item 7 ("Identify reproduced baseline failures"): led to checking the 6 failing tests against `main` instead of assuming they were pre-existing.

**Redundant/unnecessary instructions**
- No supported findings

**Inapplicable instructions**
- Deployment/migration/release checks (item 5): no deploy, schema, or config change.

**Uncertain assessments**
- Step 1 (manual-only repro stage) produced a commit containing only the summary; the commit-per-stage rule may be heavier than needed for a verification-only stage.
- Step 2 guidance does not prompt for test-code call sites when inventorying sources of a runtime bug; adding that may have avoided a mid-Step-4 scope discovery.