Railspike feature gating — debug log

2026-10-29T18:12:07Z — Step 1

Necessary/useful instructions

• Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step1_solution_assessment.md, comparison and approval requirements. Contribution: separated active-work polling from manual refresh while retaining the agreed combined flag scope; prevented implementation during an assessment-only request. Suggestion: retain.

• Source: docs/railspike/RAILSPIKE.md, Experimental Effort Estimation, intake/exposure rule. Contribution: recorded prior investigation honestly instead of inventing a prospective intake. Suggestion: retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• No supported findings.

Uncertain assessments

• Source: Step 1 Deliverable (one-page limit) together with required navigation, study snapshots and attribution. Observation: metadata occupies a substantial share of this concise assessment. Suggestion: clarify whether the page target excludes required study metadata; no instruction change made.

Verification: Source inspection and document review only; no application, browser or production checks claimed. Planning remains uncommitted; later steps require approval.

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2026-10-29T18:14:46Z — Step 1 revision

Necessary/useful instructions

• Source: Step 1 Review and revision and RAILSPIKE.md Enhancement Requests. Contribution: incorporated the user's open-thread polling boundary, retained the original estimate and recorded a new scope snapshot without treating discussion as approval. Suggestion: retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• No supported findings.

Verification: Reviewed existing eligibility and revised planning text only; no runtime checks or product changes.

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2026-10-29T18:36:23Z — Step 2

Necessary/useful instructions

• Source: step2_feature_description.md, known environment and completion boundary. Contribution: separates local acceptance from the user's production browsing evidence and names reload recovery. Suggestion: retain.

• Source: step2_feature_description.md, risks and shared component inventory. Contribution: exposes worker disable races and stale-page rendering as early planning checks while retaining existing UI/API components. Suggestion: retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• No supported findings.

Verification: Requirements checked against the approved v2/A assessment and inspected flag/availability patterns. No runtime or production checks performed. No source changes; Step 3 remains gated on approval.

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2026-10-29T18:59:40Z — Step 3

Necessary/useful instructions

• Source: Step 3 Do, Key Risks and atomic stages. Contribution: separated worker deferral from browser gating after discovering that a no-op assessment completion would be reconciled as failure; required recovery evidence before dependent client work. Suggestion: retain.

• Source: Step 3 After, known environment and approval boundary. Contribution: includes production replay in the handoff while preserving the distinction between local acceptance and separately authorized live verification. Suggestion: retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• No supported findings.

Uncertain assessments

• Source: Step 3 Do/After, one-page target alongside mandatory stage fields and study metadata. Five atomic stages with the required risk, component and verification fields exceed a conventional printed page. Suggestion: prefer a word budget or exempt mandatory metadata rather than compressing recovery evidence. No workflow instructions changed.

Verification: Compared stages with approved Step 2 and reviewed queue reconciliation/requeue support plus shared rendering surfaces. Plan links to future steps remain intentionally pending. No runtime, UI or production evidence claimed; no application changes or commits. All stages include estimates and verification; scope and approval remain unchanged.

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2026-10-29 UTC — Step 4 completed

Necessary/useful instructions

• Source: step4_implementation_do.md, Stage Boundary Protocol. Contribution: planning ef47c56ae and distinct S1–S5 commits ba8d6e8d6/dcc17b8e9/817db341f/d9789f951/51eebe132 preserve tested boundaries and summary updates. Suggestion: retain.

• Source: step4_implementation_after.md, normal flow and known-environment limits. Contribution: real signed flag toggles exposed an existing readiness race that isolated API checks missed; the final report keeps production replay pending despite local success. Suggestion: retain.

• Source: Experimental Effort Estimation, retrospective distinction. Contribution: retained entry 0.60 and earlier 0.50 projections separately from retrospective 0.65, with acceptance pending and no measured-labor claim. Suggestion: retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

• No supported findings.

Inapplicable instructions

• New dependency approval and read-model migration rules: no dependency or schema changes were required. Non-use is not evidence for removal.

Verification: All five stages have scoped commits and summary updates; planning commit contains only approved plans, debug log and index organization. Plan links and final diff checks passed. Focused PHP and real-browser checks are recorded in the implementation summary, including cache policy, 13-theme phone/desktop layout, signed actions and recovery. Production/physical-device/full-suite and maintainer fit remain unverified or pending. Unrelated untracked claude_request.txt is untouched. Final diagnostic saved in this separate log-only handoff commit, without amending implementation history.

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