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Effort study: railspike-effort / v3/docs_publication_policy, standing enrollment P2; host ledger.

Execution State

Scope v2 technically complete locally. Renewed Steps 2 and 3 approved; all eight current-plan stages implemented and verified on feat/docs-publication-reuse, based on current-main 1a358bc9. Revised planning commit 6e77d190; final production code e99e1412. Local acceptance and recovery passed; full repository suite and production deployment were not performed. Maintainer study comfortable-fit/acceptance remains pending.

Historical v1 execution state

Step 3 approved by the user. Branch feat/docs-publication-policy; planning commit cf5e744c. Stage 1 audit complete with a contract conflict; Stages 2–8 not started. Await renewed Step 2 approval, then revised Step 3 approval. No changed-scope work authorized.

Step 4 Entry Study Snapshot

UTC 2026-10-21T20:53:58Z; study railspike-effort, cycle v3/docs_publication_policy, scope v1, R1/P2; original start be2be9d4ad4c172db33147239ecca6d2ca860d4a. Codex, single exposed rater. Step 3 0.65 projected total reaffirmed before implementation, including already performed investigation/planning and required verification/documentation. Missing intake and earlier scores remain preserved; no measured actual or independent rating. Debug mode inherited enabled. Ledger bookkeeping accumulates for closeout.

Stage 1 - Dependency audit and baseline

  • Changes: Audited Catalog/controller, TemplateRenderer/layout, static builder/publisher, feature flags, version endpoint and browser version checker. No application source changes.

  • Verification: Dynamic README routes returned HTTP 200 on default Zenmemes and QDB profiles; their output hashes differ. Default version notifications include app-version; disabling FORUM_APP_VERSION_NOTIFICATION removes it. Frozen application snapshot at planning commit cf5e744c: complete 1,375-document cold build passed in 82.894 seconds. Separate compact four-document actual CLI import and duplicate replay passed (1.980 / 1.782 seconds); a new forum record was installed and unchanged README output differed only in its app-version marker. Both compact imports still rendered nine docs routes/shells under existing behavior. These timings are separate experiments, not an optimization comparison.

  • Notes: Application::appVersion() returns ReadModelMetadata::repositoryHead($repositoryRoot); layout embeds it by default, and the browser compares it to /api/version. A content-only import changes a rendering input. V1's unconditional input-invalidation rule cannot both preserve this behavior and allow the required import reuse. Audit identified the conflict as required; dependent implementation awaits a reviewed contract revision. No performance improvement is claimed.

Discovery and Proposed Scope Revision

UTC 2026-10-21T20:59:04Z. Proposed scope v2 allows refreshing only the embedded version marker during validated copying; all other output-affecting inputs still invalidate reuse. This keeps the existing global version endpoint and notification behavior. Request disposition: changed scope under Step 2's explicit invalidation rule; revised Step 2 is drafted, not approved; revised Step 3 must follow renewed Step 2 approval. Original approvals and v1 artifacts/scores remain historical.

Study discovery snapshot: railspike-effort / v3/docs_publication_policy; scope v2 proposal, R1/P2, original start be2be9d4ad4c172db33147239ecca6d2ca860d4a; Codex single exposed rater. 0.70 projected total, revised from 0.65 due to newly understood changing version metadata and guarded transfer/reload checks. Includes already performed work and future verification, not remaining work. R1 hashes reverified at entry. Intake remains missing; measured active work unknown; implementation incomplete and maintainer acceptance pending. Canonical proposed Step 2 checkpoint: revision.

Stage 1 Evidence and Limitations

  • Full baseline: isolated source snapshot from planning commit cf5e744c, fixture record checkout, complete static build and offline snapshot; 1,375 eligible documents, 82.894 seconds. Canonical document inputs remained frozen throughout. No repeat/full-inventory optimization benchmark yet.

  • Content-only proof: separate four-root-document fixture, real ./v3 import-instance against a local HTTP archive source and duplicate repeat. Cold fixture build 1.452 seconds; import 1.980 seconds; duplicate 1.782 seconds. New forum post installed; README source hash 95398c6c4126bf5bb7a480a0596abea03983f1199805052b250ec91267beb4c5 unchanged. Version changed from 8ef68771c665489d7233d4e5d1359255eeb77f79 to 8c80b64315587b5fc85ffe3e62eef4714705eb0d; normalizing only that marker made the two rendered pages byte-identical.

  • Output ownership identified: docs.html, docs/index.html, per-document HTML, missing/search shells, browse variants, _search.json, inert download copies and referenced fingerprinted assets. Shared layout depends on templates/code, profile/runtime config, effective feature flags, theme/runtime assets and destination HEAD for the version marker; unrelated forum records are not otherwise rendered into the sampled README page.

  • Additional profile/flag probes: default Zenmemes, version notification disabled and QDB README responses all HTTP 200; profile changes altered HTML, disabled notifications omitted the marker. Source audit is not a proof that every possible dependency is covered; Stage 2's signature tests and conservative evidence remain required.

  • Harness corrections: the first full attempt correctly failed the existing source-change guard when planning edits occurred during rendering. An intermediate frozen run was interrupted to correct the root-document route to /docs/_project/README.md; no timing from either attempt is presented as a completed baseline. A successful full-baseline run then reduced its isolated inventory for the first replay, so that replay was not treated as a content-only output comparison; the separate unchanged compact-fixture replay above provides that proof.

  • Scripts/reports are local audit scratch files (/tmp/docs-publication-audit.php, /tmp/docs-publication-full-baseline.json, /tmp/docs-publication-audit.json, /tmp/docs-dependency-probe.php); canonical results are recorded here. Test workspaces were temporary. Production data, application source and tests were not modified.

  • Deferred: no reuse helper, publication wiring, recovery injection, performance improvement or browser acceptance has been delivered. Stages 2–8 await the revised approvals. No complete-cycle or accepted-study outcome.

Stage 1 Commit Record

Planning commit: cf5e744c. Stage 1 discovery/evidence commit is the commit introducing this summary and its matching debug entry; its exact hash will be recorded in the next authorized summary update, without amending history. Revised Step 2 and accumulated ledger bookkeeping remain uncommitted planning work.

Resumption after clone migration — 2026-10-23

Stage 1 evidence commit: a6110024; historical planning commit cf5e744c. Restored only this cycle's planning files onto current main (1a358bc9), resolved the applied stash's Step 2/ledger conflicts without losing upstream entries, and retained the original branch and stash. No historical branch merge or application change. Historical Stage 1 evidence remains historical; revalidate dependencies and baseline on the current source before dependent implementation. Current gate and R1 resumption snapshot: revised Step 2. Renewed Step 2 and Step 3 approvals are still pending.

Approval disposition — 2026-10-23T08:05:54Z

User approved revised Step 2 v2. The revised Step 3 now includes current-main revalidation and guarded version-marker refresh; renewed Step 3 approval is pending. Historical Stage 1 remains complete, current-main revalidation and Stages 2–8 remain unstarted. No application changes or stage execution in this planning handoff.

Step 4 v2 entry — 2026-10-23

Renewed Step 3 approved. Fresh branch feat/docs-publication-reuse at current-main base 1a358bc9; revised planning-only commit 6e77d190. Debug mode inherited enabled. Scope v2 / R1 / P2, same cycle and original start; 0.70 projected total reaffirmed before implementation, including prior investigation and current-main revalidation. R1 hashes verified at revised Step 3. Codex single exposed rater; missing intake, prior projections and historical Stage 1 remain preserved. No new measured active effort or independent judgment. Stage 1 revalidation now in progress; Stages 2–8 pending.

Stage 1 - Current-main dependency revalidation and baseline (v2)

  • Changes: Revalidated the normal docs/controller/renderer, profile/config/feature flags, catalog/link boundary, referenced assets and full/shared publishers at frozen planning source 6e77d190. Source documents, directory/link availability, application/templates/public assets, active profile and effective flags form the compatibility inputs. Anonymous publication avoids viewer-derived records; destination HEAD is used only for the approved version marker. High-traffic timestamps are not emitted by ordinary docs. Shared-refresh seeding uses hard links, requiring atomic candidate replacement for marker refresh.

  • Verification: php /tmp/v3-docs-reuse-audit.php on an isolated immutable source copy: 1,459 documents, 70.090 s cold full publication, 1,886 docs progress callbacks (document/landing/browse rendering; missing/search shells are additionally rendered without callbacks). Real CLI content import 79.916 s, imported record present, README differs only in embedded version marker (990590fc… to 7064004b…). Zenmemes/QDB and notification-disabled dynamic probes HTTP 200; profile output differs, disabled mode omits marker. Separate php /tmp/v3-docs-reuse-probe.php confirms a stylesheet change changes rendered docs. php tests/run.php PlatformDocsCatalogTest: 9/9 passed.

  • Notes: Reports /tmp/v3-docs-reuse-baseline.json and /tmp/v3-docs-reuse-probe.json; source copy /tmp/v3-docs-reuse-baseline. Full inventory differs from historical 1,375 and must be frozen consistently in Stage 7 comparison. Historical timing is not reused as current evidence. All test record/static workspaces isolated and removed by existing fixtures. No application changes, production deployment or optimization claim. Scope v2 0.70 total reaffirmed; Stage 2 may proceed after this commit.

Stage 2 - Compatibility evidence

  • Changes: Added canonical DocsPublication::inputSignature() over fresh eligible document metadata/content, docs directory/link availability, application/templates/public inputs, PHP version, active profile and all effective feature flags. Destination record HEAD is deliberately excluded; no unrelated post data is used. Added a backwards-compatible fresh catalog read to bypass scoped renderer snapshots for mid-build validation. Anonymous context is explicit; visitor/session contexts cannot establish reuse evidence.

  • Verification: php tests/run.php DocsPublicationTest PlatformDocsCatalogTest: 11/11 passed. Tests cover new destination record commits, changed/added/deleted docs, code/template/assets, empty directories, profile/notification changes, and fresh detection inside an existing catalog snapshot.

  • Notes: Stage 1 commit b0ba9080. Signature is conservative across public/application changes; no secrets or input values are written to publication evidence (only a digest). No schema/dependency changes. Transfer and publication wiring are pending.

Stage 3 - Validate and transfer complete documentation

  • Changes: Added versioned complete-output evidence, canonical required-path reconstruction, file/asset integrity validation, exact marker/endpoint validation, safe independent candidate copies, atomic replacements and candidate cleanup. Enabled notifications refresh only the embedded marker; disabled mode retains absence. Output/evidence are revalidated against current inputs/version, and fresh evidence supports repeated reuse. Compatibility also includes retraction/Fastmod generation tokens to keep copied artifact sidecars within their existing publication contracts.

  • Verification: php tests/run.php DocsPublicationTest: 7/7 passed. Includes later reuse after a version-changing commit; source/candidate/next-release isolation including preexisting hard links; missing/corrupt assets/files, legacy evidence, stale output, source symlink/traversal, malformed/duplicate markers and wrong endpoint even with updated integrity hashes; disabled notifications/mode change; partial-copy cleanup and candidate asset symlink rejection; changed input prevents recording. PHP lint and git diff --check passed.

  • Notes: Stage 2 commit 5e484da8. Uses original-publication integrity before rewriting, validates assets against their actual source fingerprints, and never mutates active-release links. Reuse failure requests full owned-output rebuild; fallback/activation wiring remains in Stages 4–5. No third-party/schema changes or changed-scope requests.

Stage 4 - Full publication and real CLI imports

  • Changes: Split forum shared rendering from documentation, pass the active release as an optional reuse source on full publication, and preserve existing callers. Full fallback clears docs-owned output, renders the complete library and records evidence against inputs/version captured before rendering. CLI progress reports ten forum shared routes separately from every actually rendered docs route/shell or a reuse count. Added an isolated real-application fixture with a small inventory for normal CLI regression coverage.

  • Verification: php tests/run.php DocsPublicationFlowTest DocsPublicationTest: 9/9 passed. Real cold/new-record/duplicate CLI imports verify complete publication, zero docs-render progress on reuse, current forum output, unchanged source release, HTTP static docs and marker agreement with real /api/version. Full publisher cases automatically rebuild missing legacy evidence, changed/deleted docs and damaged output with current search inventory. PHP lint/whitespace pass.

  • Notes: Stage 3 commit afea34a6. Initial CLI observer assertion used PHP's cached current realpath after a child process activated a new release; clearing the parent observation cache proved actual new forum output and repeated imports. No production code change was needed for that harness correction. Shared-refresh reuse remains Stage 5.

Stage 5 - Shared refresh and asset recovery

  • Changes: Shared release publication passes the active release to the same docs reuse helper and skips docs during initial seeding. Remaining seeded files are independent copies; symlinks fail safely with full-build guidance. Fallback repairs damaged fingerprinted assets atomically from source. Updated CLI smoke progress expectations for separate forum rendering and documentation reuse.

  • Verification: Focused docs helper/flow suite 11/11 passed, including compatible shared refresh, changed/deleted docs, old search/download removal, preserved detail pages, independent candidate mutation, damaged asset repair and unchanged source release. Existing full-library PlatformDocsStaticTest plus full/shared CLI smoke checks 4/4 passed (564.66 s combined), covering all inventoried documents, browse pages, safe assets/downloads, stale-output recovery and retained URLs. Existing asset-fingerprint checks 3/3 passed. git diff --check passed.

  • Notes: Stage 4 commit 9ca80028. Full build smoke took 108.11 s; shared smoke includes its initial full build and completed in 173.37 s; complete library/static-reader regression took 283.03 s including an in-place full refresh and dynamic comparisons. These are verification workloads, not isolated performance comparisons. Stage 7 must measure actual repeat publication and disclose validation/copy overhead. No UI markup/navigation/dependency/schema changes.

Stage 6 - Normal failure/resume, privacy and late-input guards

  • Changes: Retain captured docs inputs through the entire static build and check them after forum/detail/offline work; activation also checks recorded docs inputs/version before switching current. Added actual CLI corrupt-evidence fallback with a failing docs template after import commit, then identical-options offline --resume; added late document/version mutation and stale activation rejection plus private CLI coverage.

  • Verification: Main focused helper/flow/recovery/privacy/generation-guard suite 20/20 passed. Failed rebuild leaves prior current/HTML intact, removes candidate, preserves pending journal and one imported commit; remote-free resume completes, clears journal, publishes imported forum output and current version markers. Late input mutation rejects candidate and activation; private CLI creates no public static/offline output. All three existing import/recovery suites 14/14 passed in an isolated real application with a two-document inventory (/tmp/v3-docs-existing-import-checks.php), including all five publication checkpoint failures, image archives, bounded HTTP failures and closed output pipe. Full real inventory was separately verified in Stage 5; this reduced-inventory replay is not a full-library benchmark.

  • Notes: Stage 5 commit bdba01ab. Final-input checks close a gap after docs evidence is recorded but later forum rendering is still in progress. This is an in-scope consistency correction, no changed requirements or dependencies. Reader/performance acceptance and closeout remain.

Stage 7 - In-progress performance refinement

Request/discovery: Stage 5 large-library shared verification exposed substantial validation overhead. Source inspection shows each docs page rehashes the same referenced application assets during evidence inspection, and the builder repeats asset verification for every route. Disposition: in-scope performance correction; deduplicate asset validation within a single inspection/build while retaining final input/output integrity and per-publication reset. No new scope/dependency or score revision; 0.70 projected total remains the existing projection. Verification and stage commit pending.

Stage 7 - Reader, integrity and performance acceptance

  • Changes: Deduplicated shared asset validation within each evidence inspection/build, preserving final source/output validation and per-build reset. Streamed non-HTML downloads/assets during hash/copy so download-only sources can exceed PHP's memory budget; bounded oversized evidence parsing. These are in-scope performance/integrity corrections. Preserved portable verification evidence with production-source hashes.

  • Verification: Final helper/normal-flow tests 15/15 passed, including a 48 MiB PDF download under a 24 MiB PHP memory limit; final catalog/reader/asset checks 29/29 passed. Before the final non-HTML streaming refinement, the complete helper/flow/catalog/reader/static/asset regression run passed 45/45, including all dynamic/static browse comparisons and stale-output recovery. Final frozen-source normal ./v3 rebuild and ./v3 build-static passed, producing 1,909 HTML files and 47 assets; build-static took 34.742 s. Final-source complete-library cold/import/shared builds also passed in the benchmark below. Full repository suite was not run.

  • Browser verification: Final-source Chromium dynamic and reused static hosts passed four JavaScript reader journeys (1280/390): Tools entry, loaded/empty search, filter/expanded folder, pagination/history, return state, exact source download, search failure/retry, missing-doc recovery and overflow. Existing browser suite passed 16 no-JavaScript scenarios across both hosts, desktop/phone and default/Word97/Chicago/Midnight, including scroll-region keyboard focus and related CLI fragments. Actual subsequent CLI import reuses all docs; an already-open page detects the new /api/version, Reload loads the newly published marker and clears the banner. No false initial prompt; disabled notifications omit marker/script. Representative static Word97 desktop/Midnight mobile screenshots inspected; no page overflow or action-obscuring layout issue found. Evidence/screenshots: /tmp/v3-docs-reuse-acceptance-final-state/browser/.

  • Performance: Same 1,459 documents, identical path/content digest 83030e2d6206d10cb1366c6887468f75ab04fa392df004c19c59fb744f023796, frozen at planning-source docs. Original baseline cold 70.090 s, content import 79.916 s. First optimized run cold 71.416 s, new-record import 10.238 s, duplicate 8.955 s, shared 8.658 s under concurrent verification load. Final streaming-source run cold 54.284 s, new-record import 5.806 s, duplicate 6.118 s, shared 5.230 s. Every compatible optimized import/shared refresh has zero documentation render callbacks, including browse/search/missing shells; README bytes differ only in the version marker. Validation/copy remains measurable work. These are local observations with uncontrolled cache/load, not a hardware-independent speed promise.

  • Notes: Stage 6 commit ffd56887. New callback counts include the two shells previously unreported, so cold callback totals are not directly interchangeable with Stage 1's old reporting. The browser harness initially attempted a folder inside closed Filters; opening the existing disclosure corrected the harness, with no product change. No UI copy/markup/navigation/dependency/schema changes. All required local acceptance is complete; Stage 8 documentation/closeout remains.

Stage 8 - Operator guidance and closeout

  • Changes: Updated instance import runbook for complete-library reuse, automatic rebuild, accurate progress, version refresh and the tested existing resume flow. Reconciled the study ledger and current execution state while preserving all historical scope/score/approval records.

  • Verification: Runbook compared with cold/reuse/fallback/private/import/resume CLI evidence; local plan links, recorded artifact hashes, JSON parsing, whitespace and scoped file inventory verified. Planning-only commit and all eight stage commits retained. Dependency delta zero; no package/lock/vendor/CDN changes. No read-model schema or navigation changes, so migrations/icon mapping changes are inapplicable. No UI copy/markup change; browser evidence is in Stage 7 rather than the copy-cleanup checklist.

  • Notes: Stage 7 production/verification commit e99e1412. This stage's commit introduces this closeout; its hash is recorded in the subsequent log-only final handoff, without amending history. No deployment, merge or push. No unresolved product failure within the approved local acceptance boundary; full-suite execution and maintainer study acceptance are explicitly unclaimed.

Commits and study outcome

UTC 2026-10-23T09:57:40Z; stable cycle railspike-effort / v3/docs_publication_policy, scope v2 / R1 / P2. Original cycle start be2be9d4ad4c172db33147239ecca6d2ca860d4a; migrated implementation base 1a358bc9; final production code e99e1412. No parent/replacement cycle or independent worktree observation. Historical planning cf5e744c and audit a6110024 remain on the retained old branch, without merging its history. Current series: planning 6e77d190; Stage 1 b0ba9080; Stage 2 5e484da8; Stage 3 afea34a6; Stage 4 9ca80028; Stage 5 bdba01ab; Stage 6 ffd56887; Stage 7 e99e1412; Stage 8 this closeout commit.

Delivered: compatible full/shared publications render zero docs while publishing forum content, guarded marker refresh, conservative invalidation, complete isolated output/assets, automatic legacy/corruption fallback, normal CLI failure/resume and private access behavior, dynamic/static reader/version acceptance and full-inventory performance evidence. Eight planned/eight completed current stages. Ordinary corrections included late-build/activation checks, hard-link isolation, corrupt asset repair, duplicate hashing and streaming large downloads; these did not change approved scope. Source/fixture freezes and parent realpath/disclosure harness corrections are disclosed in the stage evidence.

Projected total 0.70 preserved (v1 0.65 remains historical). Separately labeled retrospective scope assessment: 0.80, Codex single exposed rater, R1. The guarded transfer/activation, recovery and cross-delivery verification burden was somewhat broader than the revised projection captured; existing publication/test infrastructure still keeps this below the provisional startup-recovery 1.0 anchor. This is not a prospective estimate, elapsed effort, independent rating or maintainer judgment. Frozen R1 report/diff/feedback hashes reverified at closeout; exact feedback restored read-only from its recorded Git revision. Missing intake and unknown active-work measurements remain missing. Maintainer comfortable-fit/acceptance pending; no accepted-outcome count increment.

Verification boundary: current WSL normal CLI and isolated served dynamic/static hosts passed, including required failure/resume. Final tests: 15 helper/flow plus 29 catalog/reader/asset checks; prior broad targeted 45/45 before the final non-HTML streaming correction; final frozen complete-library CLI/benchmark/browser checks after that correction. Existing three import/recovery suites passed 14/14 with reduced docs inventory. Full repository suite, live deployment and independent review remain outside this execution. Portable evidence records exact production-source hashes and limitations.

Follow-up request — independent docs publication

UTC 2026-10-23T10:04:42Z: user requested publishing documentation separately from forum imports after observing a cold/incompatible rebuild during import-instance --resume. Disposition: separate cycle v3/docs_independent_publication, because removing the rebuild requirement changes the predecessor completion contract. New Step 1 assessment. User selected the direction; fresh step approvals and implementation are pending. The completed predecessor scope/outcome and study history remain unchanged.