Approval acceptance text — Railspike debug log

2026-10-29 UTC — Step 1 handoff

Debug mode: enabled by confirmed host-root marker file; contents not read.

Necessary/useful instructions: Step 1 solution assessment's option comparison and approval gate exposed the unresolved F03 compatibility decision before implementation. Retain. RAILSPIKE.md effort checkpoint rules require disclosing the missing pre-inspection intake instead of reconstructing it; retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions: No supported findings.

Inapplicable instructions: Step 4 branch/commit and runtime acceptance requirements do not apply to this planning-only handoff; no runtime changes or tests claimed.

Uncertain assessments: Concepts guidance proposes useful approval/replay boundaries, but no host inventory exists yet. Keep additions proposed until implementation as instructed; usefulness of the resulting entries is not yet verified.

Verification: Read source/spec/test evidence; checked R1 hashes, new document links and whitespace. No application or UI tests, dependency changes, commits or uploads. Plans use plain named state fields. A mistaken AccountKeyApprovalPolicy.php lookup was corrected to ApprovalPolicy.php. Earlier oversized reads were truncated; focused reads supplied the applicable Step 1, study and debug rules.

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2026-10-29 UTC — Step 1 revision 1

Necessary/useful instructions: Step 1 review/revision and RAILSPIKE.md Enhancement Requests retain the user's removal requirement and distinguish it from authorization to advance. Effort revision rules preserve original 0.65 alongside revised 0.70 for added scope. Retain these rules. Redundant/unnecessary instructions: No supported findings. Inapplicable instructions: Implementation/retirement and runtime verification remain outside this assessment revision. Uncertain assessments: Exact readiness-check interface and compatibility boundary await approved detailed planning; no implementation feasibility claim based on runtime tests. Verification: Frozen R1 hashes reverified; document links and whitespace checked. Current text operation without the legacy reader is a proposed acceptance requirement, not a completed test. Debug mode remains enabled.

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2026-10-29 UTC — Step 2 handoff

Necessary/useful instructions: Step 2 completion boundary and risks requirements make conversion retry, signed-digest preservation and archive uncertainty explicit acceptance obligations. Shared-component inventory identifies history partials, source links and text API consumers that must use the same validated evidence. Retain. Redundant/unnecessary instructions: No supported findings. Inapplicable instructions: Known-user/device subsection is omitted because no specific target user or environment was named. Documentation-only restrictions do not describe this application cycle. Uncertain assessments: Exact conversion command and failure protocol await Step 3; no runtime or UI correctness is claimed by static inspection. Verification: Local planning links, whitespace and frozen R1 hashes checked. Debug mode inherited enabled; no implementation/tests/commits.

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2026-10-29 UTC — Step 3 handoff

Necessary/useful instructions: Step 3 Before/Do/After ordering and explicit dependency risks make receipt resolution precede conversion and make digest preservation a blocker for dependent work. Completion contract requires CLI recovery and actual source/history acceptance, beyond codec tests. Extended stage estimates preserve stable S1–S6 identities and assign shared acceptance to S6. Retain. Redundant/unnecessary instructions: No supported findings. Inapplicable instructions: No named-device recovery or documentation-only boundary applies. Deployment is explicitly excluded, rather than represented by local tests. Uncertain assessments: The one-page target conflicts with six stages' required field-level coverage; this plan prioritizes reviewable dependencies and recovery detail. Stage 4 transaction reuse is the largest sizing uncertainty; split within the approved scope before implementation if inspection shows it cannot remain atomic. No implementation-duration measurement is claimed. Verification: Planning links and whitespace checked; frozen R1 hashes verified; state inherited enabled. Source inspection identified path assumptions in recoverAcceptedApproval and receipt identities in ArchiveRecordCatalog. No tests, application changes or commits performed.

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2026-10-29 UTC — Step 4 closeout

Necessary/useful instructions: Stage-boundary commits exposed the conversion retry failure before dependent readiness work. Completion-contract verification required actual archive restores and signed browser actions, and uncovered obsolete browser-test assumptions. The concept inventory now documents only touched acceptance/review/replay behavior. Retain. Redundant/unnecessary instructions: No supported findings. Inapplicable instructions: No new dependency approval or schema-change protocol was needed; no product UI copy or navigation destinations changed. Production migration/deployment remains outside authorization. Uncertain assessments: The older account-key browser suite's confirmation expectation is obsolete against current UI; it remains a disclosed failing check, replaced for F03 acceptance by a focused current-flow test. Full-suite and physical-device evidence is unavailable, not inferred from focused passes. Verification: Six stage boundaries, scoped commits, 59 focused PHP passes plus one edge check, signed actual browser conversion/history/source/rebuild, invitation browser recovery, private-source restriction and legacy-reader-unavailable restore. Final dependency delta zero. Remaining release/study limits are in the implementation summary. Mode remains enabled; no diagnostic upload.

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