Phone Site Development — Railspike Debug Log

2026-10-15 20:34:19 UTC — Step 1

Debug mode: enabled, resolved from the existing consuming-project .railspike_debug_on file for this new workflow.

Necessary/useful instructions

  • Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step1_solution_assessment.md, Objective and Review and revision. Comparing extension of existing handoffs with a durable thread-centered lifecycle exposed the difference between current process completion and the requested reviewed release workflow. Retain the comparison and approval gate.

  • Source: docs/railspike/RAILSPIKE.md, Key Rules: releasable vertical slices and one day/eight stages. The full goal spans intake, agent interaction, approvals, development, and deployment; the assessment preserves it in the user-requested checklist while recommending independently usable releases. Retain the limit and clarify that final release sizing occurs during development planning.

  • Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step1_solution_assessment.md, Original Query and Understood Intent. Preserving the initial request separately from answers records the operator, hashtag, instance-worker, and deployment decisions without rewriting the request. Retain this distinction.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

No supported findings.

Uncertain assessments

  • Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step1_solution_assessment.md, Deliverable: “≤1 page.” Original-query preservation plus options and the requested workflow inventory make physical page length dependent on rendering. The assessment is concise but page count was not verified in a print renderer. Clarify whether the page guidance is a strict layout constraint or a brevity target.

2026-10-15 20:40:40 UTC — Step 2

Debug mode: enabled, inherited from the approved Step 1 artifact.

Necessary/useful instructions

  • Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step2_feature_description.md, Completion boundary and vertical-slice guardrail. The feature description explicitly ends this release at recorded Step 1 approval and a visible handoff; the full-goal checklist retains later planning, implementation, deployment, and rollback. Retain these instructions because they prevent mistaking intake delivery for completion of the user's whole goal.

  • Source: same file, Risks: impact, earliest validation, mitigation before Step 3. Source inspection confirmed localhost-only authorization, root-only thread-label eligibility, and separate queue/handoff state. Those findings support specific authority, worker-readiness, and durability risks. Retain early validation requirements; production readiness has not been verified.

  • Source: same file, Shared component inventory. Inspecting PHP root/reply previews, standalone/thread controllers, browser handoff rendering, APIs, activity records, and queue visibility identified overlapping surfaces that must remain consistent. Retain the inventory requirement.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

No supported findings.

Uncertain assessments

  • Source: same file, Deliverable and Structure. The one-page target competes with explicit completion, risks, inventory, and recovery requirements; actual printed length depends on rendering and was not measured. Clarify the expected word count or renderer while preserving substantive requirements.

2026-10-15 20:44:40 UTC — Step 3

Debug mode: enabled, inherited from the approved Step 2 artifact.

Necessary/useful instructions

  • Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step3_development_plan_do.md, Completion Contract and Key Risks. Source inspection showed identity-hint fallback in Application::resolveViewerProfileFromIdentityHint, authenticated identity support in AuthApiController, normal rebuild preservation of legacy handoff tables, and terminal queue-history pruning. The plan requires authenticated operator reads, signed mutations, private persistent workflow records, and crash/rebuild/pruning verification. Retain these instructions because they turn confirmed source behavior into explicit dependencies.

  • Source: same file, stage sizing and manageable stage count. Eight estimated 45–60 minute stages bound this cycle to the approved assessment slice and explicitly require rescoping if estimates fail. Retain the rule; estimates remain planning judgments rather than measured implementation times.

  • Source: same file, external verification and wiring. Stage 8 requires a real-agent acceptance run on a configured instance and records unavailable instance access as pending release acceptance. Retain this distinction so local tests cannot be misreported as live readiness.

  • Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step3_development_plan_after.md, approval and commit gates. No implementation, feature branch, planning move, or commit was performed during planning. Retain the gate for explicit review of the release boundary.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

No supported findings.

Uncertain assessments

  • Source: Step 3 Do/After, one-page deliverable versus six required fields per stage plus Completion Contract, Key Risks, and navigation. The eight-stage draft is 82 Markdown lines and 983 words; a standard printed page is unlikely to contain it legibly. Required fields and verification details were preserved. Recommend a word/line budget proportional to stage count, or permitting a one-page overview with stage detail, rather than an unspecified physical-page requirement. No print-layout compliance is claimed.

  • Source: Step 3 Do, atomic stage sizing. The one-hour estimates rely on reuse of existing signing, queue, and rendering components. Stage 1 must validate that assumption before dependent work; newly discovered complexity requires splitting or renewed Step 2 scope approval rather than silently exceeding the cap.

2026-10-15 22:27:35 UTC — Step 4 local implementation handoff

Debug mode: enabled, inherited from Step 3 and preserved in the implementation summary. Live release acceptance remains pending external verification.

Necessary/useful instructions

  • Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step4_implementation_before.md, Planning Docs Commit Gate, and RAILSPIKE.md, Planning Artifacts. The first branch commit contains approved plans, their debug log, and index/reference repairs; the summary appears in Stage 1's later commit. The checklist was intentionally excluded from the planning commit and committed with Stage 8. Retain the gate: it makes approval scope and auxiliary content auditable.

  • Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step4_implementation_do.md, Stage Boundary Protocol. Eight stage-scoped commits each include the summary update and recorded tests. Final history inspection verified all eight and the planning-only first commit. Retain this protocol for interruption recovery and review.

  • Source: Step 4 Do, canonical component/contract reuse. Root/reply cards share one mount and browser workflow renderer; existing session/signature verification and the normal queue/CLI are reused. Legacy handoff tests passed without changing the compatibility field. Retain the reuse requirement.

  • Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step4_implementation_after.md, Contract and external verification. The 390px browser journey exposed missing API session wiring, redundant reauthentication, and fixture approval-state setup; these were corrected before handoff. Local deterministic worker tests are distinguished from a real-agent server acceptance run throughout the summary, checklist, and runbook. Retain the explicit environment/evidence boundary.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

No supported findings.

Uncertain assessments

  • Source: Step 4 After, applicable-environment verification. No production SSH/deployment target or worker credentials were configured during this work. The runbook supplies exact configuration and live acceptance steps, but actual zenmemes authentication/model availability/sandbox support and release acceptance remain unverified. Do not count the full-goal checklist's first release as completed until that evidence exists.

  • Source: Step 3 sizing versus Step 4 verification. The bounded eight-stage implementation was feasible locally; its final stage still has an external release gate. Clarify whether a stage with delivered code/documentation but pending operator-environment acceptance should be labeled locally delivered or incomplete; this handoff explicitly uses locally delivered and does not claim a production-ready release.