Repository source: docs/plans/fastmod_rubric_actions/fastmod_rubric_actions_debug_log.md
Fastmod rubric actions — Railspike debug log
2026-10-20T05:21:24Z — Step 1
Necessary/useful instructions
RAILSPIKE.md, Experimental Effort Estimation: frozen references and explicit selection separate this newly selected cycle from historical hour estimates. Retain; source hashes were checked, and the original feedback reference was restored read-only from Git revision4f6cfe2b436fae8d939b1349fe724a3879ee0a0eafter the live document hash differed.step1_solution_assessment.md, Review and revision / Next: comparing options and waiting for Approved Step 1 prevents a broad architecture discussion from authorizing moderation implementation. Retain.RAILSPIKE.md, Planning Artifacts: separate cycle identity preserves the predecessor's blocked investigation and approvals. Retain.
Redundant/unnecessary instructions
No supported findings.
Inapplicable instructions
Step 4 branch, commit and runtime verification rules do not apply to this uncommitted Step 1 assessment.
Uncertain assessments
Legacy hour/line sizing remains alongside relative-cycle scoring. It did cause historical hour estimates to dominate the initial conversation, but this step does not establish whether to replace atomic-stage guidance. Clarify the relationship in separately authorized workflow work; do not silently remove existing gates.
2026-10-20 — Step 2
Necessary/useful instructions
step2_feature_description.md, Core requirements / Completion boundary: required ordinary discovery and recovery turn a worker-only tagging idea into a reader/operator outcome. Retain.RAILSPIKE.md, Experimental Effort Estimation: preserving the 0.85 snapshots while recording a 0.95 source-informed projection makes the changed reuse assumption reviewable. Retain.
Redundant/unnecessary instructions
No supported findings.
Inapplicable instructions
Documentation-only boundaries do not apply to the proposed application feature. No environment-specific user was named, so the named-environment clause adds no separate requirement.
Uncertain assessments
Numeric classifier acceptance needs operator agreement and human-labeled evidence; this step intentionally leaves it as a gate rather than inventing a validated threshold.
2026-10-20 — Step 3
Necessary/useful instructions
step3_development_plan_do.md, Key Risks and dependent-work gates: consumer tracing identified thread-only discovery and absent explicit model identity; stages now cover item projection, model binding and early integration validation. Retain.RAILSPIKE.md, Enhancement Requests: recorded explicit user removal of the human-labeled gate as a Step 2 amendment and scope v2, preserving earlier artifacts and estimates. Retain.step3_development_plan_after.md, approval/commit gates: planning remains uncommitted; Step 4 has not begun. Retain.
Redundant/unnecessary instructions
No supported findings.
Uncertain assessments
Strict one-page guidance conflicts with eight stages requiring six explicit fields plus completion/risk/study records. The draft favors compact but auditable fields; consolidate required stage fields or define a length exception in separately authorized workflow work.
Source inspection supports integration boundaries but cannot guarantee the atomic sizing of every stage; Stage 1 explicitly gates dependent implementation and requires replanning if necessary.
2026-10-20 — Step 3 revision A2
Necessary/useful instructions
RAILSPIKE.md, Enhancement Requests: the accepted live-join refinement is recorded with superseded storage design identified, and dependent stage/verification descriptions updated. Retain.RAILSPIKE.md, Experimental Effort Estimation: total 0.95 reaffirmed with tradeoff rationale, retaining earlier snapshots. Retain.
Redundant/unnecessary instructions
No supported findings.
Uncertain assessments
Read-only attachment versus bulk lookup remains an implementation-contract choice to validate in Stage 1, particularly for unavailable stores, locking and filtering before pagination. No benchmark claim was made.
2026-10-20 — Revised Step 2, scope v3
Necessary/useful instructions
RAILSPIKE.md, Enhancement Requests / Experimental Effort Estimation: recorded the user's explicit scope reduction separately from original approvals and the 1.20 discovery estimate. New 0.85 projection covers the reduced total cycle, including prior work. Retain.step2_feature_description.md, approval gate: revised Step 2 before revising Step 3 prevents architecture/scope agreement from silently authorizing application work. Retain.
Redundant/unnecessary instructions
No supported findings.
Uncertain assessments
Original required historical records make the file longer than the one-page preference; an explicitly marked collapsed historical section preserves substantive approval/estimate context while keeping the active description separate. No historical content was deleted.
2026-10-20 — Revised Step 3, scope v3
Necessary/useful instructions
step3_development_plan_do.md, all wiring and recovery: worker eligibility is captured at publication rather than inferred from old scores; artifact guards and materialization have explicit production stages before verification. Retain.RAILSPIKE.md, Enhancement Requests / Experimental Effort Estimation: historical v2 plan remains collapsed below active v3; 0.85 total reaffirmed without pretending prior investigation is free or reduced scope completes the original outcome. Retain.step3_development_plan_after.md, gating: renewed Step 2 approval permits this plan, with application work still awaiting renewed Step 3 approval. Retain.
Redundant/unnecessary instructions
No supported findings.
Uncertain assessments
Eight stages with six required fields plus retained history exceed the one-page preference. Compact explicit contracts preserve auditability; a reusable instruction-length resolution requires separate authorization.
2026-10-20T06:10:37.650606+00:00 — Step 4 complete, scope v3
Necessary/useful instructions
RAILSPIKE.md, Enhancement Requests / Experimental Effort Estimation: the larger v2 scope and 1.20 discovery projection remain historical; the explicitly approved root-only v3 has projected total 0.85 and separately labeled retrospective assessment 0.90. Maintainer acceptance remains pending, with no accepted outcome invented. Retain.step4_implementation_do.md, Stage Boundary Protocol: revised planning commitfe9578f9precedes eight independently committed stage summaries; the operational closeout1f35e6beand current-state correction19efc11fpreserve history. Retain.step4_implementation_after.md, verification claims: focused/browser success is separated from 1,380-test full-suite results and eight baseline/environment failures. Same-instance baseline diagnostics distinguish ambient members-only configuration from regression. Retain.
Redundant/unnecessary instructions
No supported findings.
Inapplicable instructions
Documentation-only implementation restrictions are inapplicable to this approved application slice. Deployment/external live-model validation was outside scope; no deployment, public activation or live provider call was performed.
Uncertain assessments
Atomic-stage and one-page guidance still uses legacy time/line heuristics alongside unit estimates. This cycle retained explicit stage boundaries and used the agreed relative scope references without converting hours or stage counts into scores. Clarify the relationship only in separately authorized workflow work.
An interrupted broader cycle followed by a reduced replacement needs careful outcome accounting: v3 is technically delivered, but neither original v2 completion nor independent child acceptance is inferred. Existing experimental instructions supported the distinction; future trial review should retain it.
Final production code: d1da4d40; Stage 8 adds operational documentation and the explicit browser rebuild assertion. Final focused 27 passed, earlier broader focused 68 passed, final browser passed. Full suite 1,372/1,380 passed with eight reproduced baseline/environment failures; it began before final atomic-evidence/enablement corrections, which final focused/browser runs cover. No core schema change, score export, new styling or todo edit. Current stage summaries and trial ledger were reconciled before this log-only handoff commit.