Feature plan: Step 2 · Step 3 · Step 4

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Status

Step 3 approved. Planning commit: 758f5c32. Branch: feat/user-approval-meaning. Stage 1 complete. Optional effort study unselected.

Stage 1 - Explain approval before signing

• Changes: canonical new-member review now states “By approving this user, you vouch for their conduct and integrity.” before the existing key-access consequence. Own-key and cross-account-key reviews retain their wording and warnings. Pending-list actions use the existing shared confirmation instead of bypassing it. No extra review dialog or page-wide help was introduced. Updated the UI-copy audit.

• Verification — passed: php tests/run.php ApprovalPolicyTest UserAccessTest WriteApiSmokeTest::testPrepareApprovalApiReturnsUnsignedCanonicalRecordWithoutChangingApprovalState WriteApiSmokeTest::testPrepareApprovalApiRejectsIneligibleApprovers WriteApiSmokeTest::testFinalizePreparedApprovalVerifiesSignatureBeforeCreatingApproval — 14/14. The prepare-approval case passed again after adding explicit API consequence assertions.

• Verification — passed: node tests/browser/approval_review.mjs — desktop/phone shared review, cancel with no signature/finalization, missing review, pending cancellation, retained row/enabled action, forced signing failure, and successful retry.

• Verification — passed: node tests/browser/account_key_approval.mjs — real HTTP Tools-to-pending navigation, legacy pending redirect, new-member consequence rendered at 1280px/390px and present in confirmation, cancellation remains unapproved, signed approval succeeds, own-key/cross-account grants omit vouching, existing access warnings and key identity persist, no overflow, history/rebuild persistence, and existing release rehearsal. This suite also passed its existing root-evidence and Forte activity checks. Pending-button cancellation/failure injection uses the separate isolated browser fixture; real signing/publication is verified through the actual User Access profile.

• Verification — passed: PHP syntax for ApprovalPolicy.php; JavaScript syntax for the changed script and browser checks; git diff --check.

• Notes: focused verification only; no full-repository-suite pass claimed. No remaining scoped failures. No production writes or deployment. Schema/version/rebuild-migration requirements and navigation-icon checks are inapplicable because no schema/query/navigation changed. Real fixture rebuild checks still passed. Code rollback restores prior presentation without record conversion.

Requests and completion

• Request: Approved Step 3 / Disposition: execute approved single-stage slice / Approval status: approved in conversation / Outcome: delivered and verified above.

• No scope additions or unresolved follow-ups in this cycle. Optional study remains unselected. Branch is ready for review; merge and deployment are outside this cycle.

Follow-up - Remove confirmations introduced by this cycle

• Request: “Please get rid of all confirm() dialogs that we added in user-approval-meaning*”. Disposition: explicitly requested correction; restore pending-list one-click approval. The shared profile confirmation predates this cycle and remains unchanged. Approval status: directly authorized by the user; supersedes this cycle's pending-list confirmation requirement.

• Changes: pending-list calls once again bypass confirmation. The new conduct/integrity explanation remains on the User Access profile and in its existing review. No unrelated dialogs changed.

• Verification: pending desktop/phone browser checks cover no new dialog, signing failure with retained/enabled row, and successful retry; node tests/browser/approval_review.mjs passed at both widths; JavaScript syntax and git diff --check passed.