high_traffic_toggle Railspike debug log

2026-10-27T02:06:46Z — Step 1

Necessary/useful instructions

• step1_solution_assessment.md Structure (Original Query, ≥2 options, recommendation with vertical-slice viability): kept the artifact short and comparable. Retain.

• RAILSPIKE.md Experimental Effort Estimation, intake checkpoint ("preserve intake before detailed inspection"): prompted recording 0.25 before reading toggle source. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• RAILSPIKE.md Experimental Effort Estimation snapshot field list largely repeats the ledger's Rating protocol; reading both added overhead for a small UI cycle. Consider consolidating to one source.

Inapplicable instructions

• Follow-up Cycles Before Merge, directory organization and commit cadence: not applicable at Step 1.

Uncertain assessments

• Agent attribution: whether the system-provided model ID counts as "verified runtime metadata"; used it, omitted reasoning effort.

2026-10-27 — Step 2

Necessary/useful instructions

• step2_feature_description.md Shared component inventory: forced inspection of ToolsPageSupport, which revealed the static registry and made viewer-conditional nav an explicit risk. Retain.

• Risks (impact, earliest validation, mitigation): surfaced the browser-test coupling to Feature Flags. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• No supported findings.

Inapplicable instructions

• Known user or environment, documentation-only scope fields: no named user/environment; application change.

Uncertain assessments

• ≤1 page limit vs. required section count: the artifact is near the limit for a small UI cycle; unclear whether inventory bullets should be shortened further.

2026-10-27 — Step 2 (Revision; supersedes the earlier Step 2 entry for Option C)

Necessary/useful instructions

• RAILSPIKE.md Enhancement Requests, "Changed scope: return to the earliest affected planning step": guided returning to Step 1, renewing its approval and rewriting Step 2 rather than editing in place. Retain.

• Shared component inventory: surfaced feature_flags.js attribute coupling as the main risk for Option A. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• No supported findings.

Inapplicable instructions

• Known user or environment, documentation-only scope fields.

Uncertain assessments

• Railspike does not say how to preserve a superseded draft of a fixed-name step file; summarized it in the ledger and the new artifact instead of keeping the old text.

2026-10-27 — Step 3

Necessary/useful instructions

• step3_development_plan_do.md stage template with Risks Impact/Validation/Mitigation: made the flag-script coupling check a concrete Stage 1 assertion. Retain.

• RAILSPIKE.md "request Approved Step N and pause until the user responds with that exact phrase": correctly blocked an out-of-order "Approved Step 3" before Step 2 approval. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• Step 3 Before/Do/After each restate effort-estimation duties already in RAILSPIKE.md; for a two-stage cycle the three phase files added reading overhead. Consider consolidating.

Inapplicable instructions

• Known user/environment replay stage; database/function-signature notes; documentation-only scope.

Uncertain assessments

• "Stages ≤1 hour or ≤50 lines": Stage 1 includes a browser-test update whose size may exceed 50 lines of diff; kept as one stage because it is the vertical slice.

2026-10-27 — Step 4

Necessary/useful instructions

• step4_implementation_before.md Planning Docs Commit Gate: kept the summary and ledger out of the planning commit and made folder organization explicit. Retain.

• step4_implementation_after.md item 7, "Identify reproduced baseline failures": prompted reproducing the two LocalAppSmoke failures at the baseline commit instead of relying on the runner's history. Retain.

• Stage Boundary Protocol: clear per-stage commit sequence. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• Effort-estimation paragraphs in Step 4 Before/Do/After overlap heavily with RAILSPIKE.md; consolidation would reduce reading for small cycles.

Inapplicable instructions

• Follow-up Cycles Before Merge (new branch); documentation-only checks; blocked/split stage handling.

Uncertain assessments

• Ledger link repair after moving plans into the feature folder: the organization rule asks to repair affected references, while the effort rules exclude the ledger from the planning commit. Repaired in the working tree and committed with closeout.