Forte Activity parity — Railspike debug log

2026-10-16 — Step 2 completed handoff

Debug mode: enabled from the project marker for this new workflow. Step 1 skipped because the proposal extends the existing shared activity system.

Necessary/useful instructions

• Source: step2_feature_description.md, Shared component inventory. Comparing the existing ActivityService, templates, and browser reader revealed missing security row membership and established reusable evidence partials. Retain this requirement.

• Source: step2_feature_description.md, Risks and Completion boundary. Client-side security transitions and lazy loading need verification beyond initial rendering. Retain explicit normal-flow and recovery coverage.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

No supported findings.

Uncertain assessments

• Source: step2_feature_description.md, Problem and desired outcomes. “In line” could mean layout replacement or functional parity. The draft assumes retaining Forte's layout, and a clarification question is pending. Revise the scope if the user chooses layout replacement; this draft does not authorize implementation.

2026-10-16 — Step 3 completed handoff

Debug mode: enabled, inherited from the approved Step 2 artifact. The user approved Step 2 without changing scope, establishing the proposed split-pane parity boundary.

Necessary/useful instructions

• Source: step3_development_plan_do.md, Completion Contract and Key Risks. Inspecting the browser's ID-only detail cache identified view-transition and late-response risks; Stage 1 resolves these before presentation changes. Retain early risk validation and explicit stage dependencies.

• Source: step3_development_plan_do.md, normal-flow vertical slices. Stage 1 covers category-to-detail behavior across server/client rendering and recovery, rather than splitting those layers into independently incomplete stages. Retain this requirement.

• Source: step3_development_plan_after.md, approval gating. The plan remains uncommitted and implementation has not started, keeping the scope reviewable. Retain the boundary.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• Source: Step 3 Before/Do/After and RAILSPIKE.md, repeated debug-state recovery and approval/commit reminders. The same enabled state and uncommitted boundary are restated across short sequential phase files. Consolidate shared reminders into one step-entry checklist while preserving the final approval gate.

Uncertain assessments

• Source: step3_development_plan_do.md, stage sizing. Stage 1's asynchronous view-state coverage may expose more edge cases than static inspection reveals. Reassess its estimate during implementation; split verification-driven work within approved scope if necessary and record the reason.

2026-10-16 21:09:23 UTC — Step 4 completed handoff

Debug mode: enabled, inherited from the approved plan and implementation summary. All three stages are committed: 0d20b349, 6897f248, 9394254f, following planning commit efa30a6c.

Necessary/useful instructions

• Source: step4_implementation_do.md, shared component/contract rule. Reusing ActivityService, author/time helpers, and evidence partials kept the data model shared; extracting the policy notice made default and Forte wording identical. Retain this rule.

• Source: step4_implementation_do.md, Stage Boundary Protocol. Separate stage commits with verification and summary updates expose the security lifecycle fix independently of presentation and final HTTP checks. Retain stage-scoped evidence and commits.

• Source: step4_implementation_after.md, Contract and dependency verification. Real HTTP/signing/authentication, deterministic delayed-response tests, and phone screenshots revealed different concerns: pagination fixture sizing, abandoned sort responses, and selected-folder visibility. Retain end-to-end recovery and environment-appropriate checks.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• Source: RAILSPIKE.md, Step 4 commit cadence, and step4_implementation_do.md, Execution Rules/Stage Boundary Protocol. These sections repeat the same stage-summary/commit gate. Consolidate the normative rule and link it from the phase checklist to reduce repeated reading without weakening the gate.

Inapplicable instructions

• Source: Step 4 documentation-only rules. This workflow explicitly authorizes application and browser changes, so documentation-only file restrictions and runtime-check exemptions were inapplicable.

• Source: step4_implementation_after.md, deployment/dependency verification. Production deployment and external services are outside the approved scope; isolated HTTP and static/rebuild rehearsal verified local behavior instead. No schema migration was required.

Uncertain assessments

• Source: step3_development_plan_do.md, approximately 50 lines or one hour per stage. Stage 1 exceeded 50 lines because the deterministic browser test and bounded loader accompany a single complete navigation/recovery slice. It remained a single scoped stage; line count alone would split closely coupled behavior and verification. Clarify whether test lines are intended to count toward this heuristic.