deployment_config Railspike debug log

2026-10-30T20:47:01Z — Step 1

RAILSPIKE.md intake checkpoint: intake recorded from the todo text before reading code; the Step 1 value is reaffirmed with a stated reason. Retain.
step1_solution_assessment.md ## Understood Intent guidance: not needed; the user's request ("review any updates that may have fixed it") was instead answered by a "What has already changed" section. Consider allowing a short status-of-prior-work section explicitly.

Whether the "What has already changed" section violates the ≤1 page / high-level guardrail; kept to three bullets.

step2_feature_description.md Known user or environment: QDB is named, so the description states its ordinary entry, the failure to handle, verification and evidence, and says local evidence does not satisfy it. This made production acceptance explicitly pending instead of implied. Retain.

How to satisfy a known-environment condition when the agent cannot access that environment; recorded as an operator-run checklist with acceptance pending.

step3_development_plan_do.md "Resolve each material risk before dependent work": ordered the lookup and web readers before the CLI guard test, so the guard can be strict when it lands. Retain.
Known user/environment replay stage requirement: led to the Apache private-file-only scenario plus an operator checklist, with QDB acceptance explicitly pending. Retain.

The known-environment rule says "a pass only on another supported platform does not complete it". The plan meets this by leaving QDB acceptance pending, but Railspike doesn't say whether a cycle may close technically with it pending.

Stage commit cadence with the summary in the same commit: kept each stage's record honest about what was verified at that point (Stage 2 recorded baselines as still running; Stage 3 closed them). Retain.
step4_implementation_after.md "a focused pass is never reported as a full-suite result": prompted the Step 4 baseline full-suite comparison in Stage 6 rather than relying on the passing focused suites. Retain.
Known-user replay rule: kept QDB host acceptance explicitly pending with an operator checklist instead of claiming it from local tests. Retain.
Concept guidance "verify touched entries and their paths": checking the runbook against code found two documentation errors (missing mitrapclub profile; over-specific <title> assertion). Retain.

Extended-mode stage retrospectives: with a single exposed rater and no measured labor, six retrospective stage values add little beyond the whole-cycle assessment. Low confidence; kept for protocol consistency.

Documentation-only cycle rules (the cycle changed runtime code); Follow-up Cycles Before Merge; one-shot checkpoints.

The retrospective cycle assessment was made by a different model (claude-fable-5-1) from the prospective rater (claude-opus-5-5). The protocol speaks of a "single exposed rater"; whether a model change within one agent name counts as a rater change is recorded in the closeout but not resolved by the instructions.
Whether a cycle may be reported "locally complete" with the known-environment acceptance pending (same question as Step 3).

Handoff: Stage 6 closeout commit 38c99d35; this log entry is committed separately as the log-only handoff commit.