2026-10-19 18:42:17 UTC — Step 1

Necessary/useful instructions

• step1_solution_assessment.md, Objective and options structure: comparing manual curation, directory discovery and a combined library separated completeness from editorial guidance. Retain.

• RAILSPIKE.md, Original Query and Understood Intent: preserved the explicit Step 1 request while making the new planning-cycle boundary clear. Retain.

• step1_solution_assessment.md, Recommendation and vertical-slice viability: grounded the proposal in finding, opening and returning from actual website documents, including publication freshness. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• No supported findings.

Inapplicable instructions

• RAILSPIKE.md, Step 4 branching and commit cadence: this turn only drafts Step 1; no branch creation, application changes or commits are authorized.

Uncertain assessments

• step1_solution_assessment.md, one-page target: the eligibility boundary and publication implications need concise space alongside the comparison; actual pagination varies by renderer. Consider a word-count target.

2026-10-19 23:38:02 UTC — Step 2

Necessary/useful instructions

• step2_feature_description.md, Delivery scope and Completion boundary: made application scope and the normal find/open/return/recovery outcome explicit. Retain.

• step2_feature_description.md, Risks and Shared component inventory: prompted early exposure/freshness validation and identified the existing reader, navigation and static publisher surfaces to extend. Retain.

• RAILSPIKE.md, Debug state and planning approval gates: recovered enabled mode from Step 1 and kept drafting separate from implementation authorization. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• No supported findings.

Inapplicable instructions

• step2_feature_description.md, Known user or environment: the original request names no specific user or deployment environment.

• RAILSPIKE.md, Experimental Effort Estimation: this cycle has no recorded study selection.

Uncertain assessments

• step2_feature_description.md, one-page limit: explicitly inventorying supported assets and shared surfaces makes physical pagination uncertain; retain concision while considering a word-count target.

2026-10-19 23:39:35 UTC — Step 3

Necessary/useful instructions

• step3_development_plan_before.md, Before Checklist: recovered approved Step 2 and enabled debug state; no additional requests changed scope. Retain.

• step3_development_plan_do.md, Completion Contract and stage fields: connected discovery, asset safety and publication to reader journeys, explicit dependencies and acceptance evidence. Retain.

• step3_development_plan_after.md, approval and commit gates: kept planning uncommitted and implementation pending explicit Step 3 approval. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• No supported findings.

Inapplicable instructions

• step3_development_plan_do.md, known-user recovery replay and documentation-only boundaries: neither applies to this application-change request without a named environment.

• RAILSPIKE.md, effort-study snapshots: no recorded selection for this cycle.

Uncertain assessments

• step3_development_plan_after.md, one-page limit: the compact plan is 658 whitespace-delimited words including navigation and required repeated fields; physical pagination depends on rendering. Clarify the page target with a word budget or field allowance.

• step3_development_plan_do.md, stage sizing: discovery and static publication estimates depend on existing host integration; inspect during implementation and split oversized stages before dependent work, preserving scope and required commit cadence. Retain the sizing check.

2026-10-20 00:00:02 UTC — Step 4

Necessary/useful instructions

• step4_implementation_before.md, Planning Docs Commit Gate: isolated the cycle on feature/docs-discovery, organized and committed approved plans as 00a1511a, and created the summary afterward. Retain.

• step4_implementation_do.md, Stage Boundary Protocol: each of five stages has verification and a summary-bearing commit before the next stage (e69cac54, b42ca8d3, d4ed4ee5, 4ddb6812, 721ff486). Retain.

• step4_implementation_do.md, Completion Contract: required Tools entry, search/read/return, safe downloads, static publication and recovery rather than direct-route checks alone. Chromium and local publication acceptance exposed fixture cookie/configuration issues that PHP tests did not cover. Retain.

• step4_implementation_after.md, final verification statuses: distinguished focused PHP/browser acceptance from the unrun repository-wide and copied-package dependency-removal harnesses, and kept production deployment outside scope. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• No supported findings.

Inapplicable instructions

• RAILSPIKE.md, effort-study snapshots: this cycle was not selected for the experiment.

• step4_implementation_do.md, documentation-only boundary: this is an approved application change.

Uncertain assessments

• step3_development_plan_do.md, approximately one-hour stage targets: five functional stages remained manageable, but complete-library builds and UI acceptance required substantially more lines than the alternative 50-line heuristic. Clarify that the size heuristic must not discourage necessary safety/publication wiring and verification.

• step4_implementation_after.md, full-suite versus focused verification: the explicit distinction helped avoid overstating results; repository-specific guidance could further identify mandatory broad checks without forcing expensive redundant full-library builds. Retain the current reporting requirement.