High-traffic mode — Railspike debug log

2026-10-21 UTC — Step 1

Source: docs/workflow/step1_solution_assessment.md, Deliverable and Guardrails. A concise comparison separates the requested Apache bypass from the existing PHP static path without prematurely specifying rewrite rules. Retain.
Source: RAILSPIKE.md, approval gates. Keeping the assessment separate prevents a design request from becoming a deployment/access-control change. Retain.

No supported findings.

Source: RAILSPIKE.md, Experimental Effort Estimation. This workflow was not selected for the study; no estimate recorded.

No supported findings.

Source: docs/workflow/step2_feature_description.md, Completion boundary and Success criteria. These distinguish the end-to-end operator/visitor outcome from isolated cache plumbing and make actual Apache behavior a release condition. Retain.
Source: docs/workflow/step2_feature_description.md, Shared component inventory. Repository inspection identifies existing flag, rendering, publication, invalidation, and queue surfaces to extend rather than duplicate. Retain.

No supported findings.

Source: docs/workflow/step2_feature_description.md, documentation-only scope. The proposed delivery changes application behavior, so documentation-only boundaries do not apply.

Source: docs/workflow/step2_feature_description.md, one-page limit. The accumulated access, concurrency, and recovery requirements make a literal page difficult while retaining the prescribed sections. Consider a word budget or allowance for a concise shared-component inventory; this artifact prioritizes reviewable requirements without implementation code.

Source: docs/workflow/step3_development_plan_do.md, Completion Contract and Key Risks. Explicit Apache evidence, out-of-band configuration limits, and strict publication/invalidation coverage expose release blockers that a cache-only plan would miss. Retain.
Source: RAILSPIKE.md, Planning Artifacts and stage commit cadence. The initial planning commit boundary excludes the unapproved diagram review aids; the approved documentation stage provides a later home without silently broadening the initial commit. Retain.

No supported findings.

Source: RAILSPIKE.md, Experimental Effort Estimation. No study selection exists for this cycle; no score is recorded.

Source: docs/workflow/step3_development_plan_do.md, one-page limit versus mandatory stage fields, signatures where relevant, risks and completion evidence. The plan exceeds one page to retain eight stages, explicit limits and access/recovery acceptance criteria. Consider allowing a short overview plus a bounded stage checklist for cross-cutting features; no implementation approval is inferred from document length.

Source: docs/workflow/step4_implementation_do.md, Stage Boundary Protocol. Each of eight stages has its own verified summary/commit, following planning commit 78732a6a; final stage is 4a69ae16. Retain the stage evidence and commit boundary.
Source: docs/workflow/step4_implementation_after.md, Completion Contract and scoped verification. Actual Apache/browser acceptance exposed shared-page authentication reloads and routine-write refresh starvation; both were corrected and verified before closeout. Retain end-to-end and recovery evidence requirements.
Source: docs/workflow/step4_implementation_after.md, verification status reporting. The full-project repeated import recovery matrix was interrupted after 770 seconds, while its unchanged matrix passed using a bounded documentation fixture and a separate full-project static-build/access regression passed. Retain the distinction between focused evidence and a full-suite result.

No supported findings.

Source: RAILSPIKE.md, Experimental Effort Estimation. No study selected this cycle; no score or study ledger write applies.
Source: RAILSPIKE.md, Documentation-only scope. This cycle delivers application changes; documentation-only runtime exclusions do not apply.

Source: docs/workflow/step4_implementation_do.md, applicable verification. An existing import recovery test repeatedly rebuilt the entire 1,355-document catalog for unchanged documentation discovery behavior. Consider an explicit suggestion to keep unrelated fixture inventories bounded while retaining the same recovery sequence and recording evidence limits; the committed harness makes this check repeatable without claiming a full-project repeated matrix pass.