Repository source: docs/plans/key_retirement/key_retirement_debug_log.md
key_retirement — debug log
2026-10-30 UTC — Step 1
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Source: step1_solution_assessment.md, original query and vertical-slice recommendation. Contribution: separates this deliverable from the other two requested assessments while preserving dependencies and the user's actual request. Suggestion: retain.
Source: RAILSPIKE.md, study exposure and approval boundaries. Contribution: records prior diagnostic/code exposure without inventing a pristine intake; three assessments do not authorize implementation or approve one another. Suggestion: retain.
Source: docs/concepts.md, Planning. Contribution: distinguishes proposed lifecycle/activity/capacity concepts from shipped behavior and preserves historical verification versus current access. Suggestion: retain.
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No supported findings.
Uncertain assessments
Source: Step 1 one-page target. Required scope, dependency and study fields extend beyond a conventional page; kept two short options and one acceptance boundary. Suggestion: distinguish narrative brevity from mandatory metadata.
Verification: Restored repository principles, contribution/workflow and relevant concept guidance; verified frozen R1 hashes, checked local links and whitespace. No implementation, production change, new runtime test or accepted outcome. This cycle's alternatives and documentation remain uncommitted.
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2026-11-01 UTC — Step 1 current-code review
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Source: step1_solution_assessment.md, Review and revision. Contribution: revisiting relevance updates the existing assessment without interpreting the question as Step 1 approval or starting implementation. Suggestion: retain.
Source: RAILSPIKE.md, Experimental Effort Estimation. Contribution: retains the original baseline and exposed estimates while recording the current reviewed revision and verified frozen references. Suggestion: retain.
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No supported findings.
Verification: Read current approval policy/rebuild, authentication/session forwarding, signed-post identity resolution and bounded history service/revision paths. Corrected the moved sync-plan link. Reviewed changes from original baseline; no runtime tests or implementation. All three R1 hashes match the ledger. Scope and estimates reaffirmed; authority, historical eligibility and reactivation remain design decisions. Dependency delta zero; planning remains uncommitted.
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2026-11-01 UTC — Step 1 operator expansion
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Source: step1_solution_assessment.md, Review and revision. Contribution: incorporates explicit operator-retirement direction while preserving the Step 1 gate and original query. Suggestion: retain.
Source: RAILSPIKE.md, Experimental Effort Estimation. Contribution: versions expanded authority as v2/A and retains the original 0.95 projection beside the new 1.00 projection. Suggestion: retain.
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No supported findings.
Verification: Revised Option A, permissions, replacement sequence and acceptance coverage; retained independent approval-flag semantics and final-key protection for operators. Checked planning whitespace. No application changes, runtime tests or dependency changes; Step 1 remains unapproved.
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2026-11-01 UTC — Step 2
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Source: step2_feature_description.md, completion boundary and shared component inventory. Contribution: turns operator/member permission scope into normal Account and Users/Access journeys and identifies status consumers beyond the retirement button. Suggestion: retain.
Source: RAILSPIKE.md, approval and snapshot contracts. Contribution: records explicit Step 1 approval while presenting the final-retirement policy for Step 2 review and retaining v2/A history. Suggestion: retain.
Redundant/unnecessary instructions
No supported findings.
Uncertain assessments
Source: step2_feature_description.md, one-page target. Required shared surface inventory, authority/history risks and study fields exceed one page for this coupled feature. Kept five core requirements and grouped existing surfaces; no implementation design added.
Verification: Inspected Account and User Access templates and existing identity/approval API surfaces; checked document links (future Step 3/4 navigation intentionally pending) and whitespace. No runtime, browser, deployment or dependency changes. Whole-cycle 1.00 reaffirmed; Step 2 and implementation remain unapproved.
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2026-11-01 UTC — Step 3
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Source: step3_development_plan_do.md, Key Risks and dependency gates. Contribution: puts active/historical eligibility, timestamp-free legacy transfers, acceptance serialization and replay before a writable retirement route. Suggestion: retain.
Source: step3_development_plan_after.md, planning commit/approval boundary. Contribution: keeps these plans uncommitted and preserves unrelated sibling drafts for the later feature-branch setup. Suggestion: retain.
Source: RAILSPIKE.md, original stage estimates and attribution. Contribution: records eight stable stage estimates separately from the independently reaffirmed cycle estimate, with one whole-plan footer. Suggestion: retain.
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No supported findings.
Uncertain assessments
Source: Step 3 one-page target alongside mandatory per-stage fields. This plan exceeds one page to retain required eight-stage contracts, historical-access gates and recovery evidence; it does not claim compliance with the length target. Suggestion: separate a concise review overview from required execution detail.
Source: Step 3 stage sizing. Eight stages target bounded work using existing components, but Stage 1 must validate evidence/serialization feasibility before dependent work. Actual stage sizing must be revisited before implementation; no timed execution or measured labor supports the estimates.
Verification: Reviewed current approval acceptance, canonical write serialization, message transfer/receipt storage and ordinary key-management entry points. Read retraction coordination before planning reuse of ordinary serialization; no retraction guards/diagnostics proposed. Checked all eight stage fields, single footer, current document targets, frozen R1 hashes and whitespace. No runtime tests, application changes, dependency changes, commits or deployment. Step 2 approved; Step 3 awaits approval.
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2026-11-01 UTC — Stage 1 gate disposition
Source: Approved Step 3, Stage 1 and Key Risks; step4_implementation_do.md, material risk before dependent work. Actual finding: signed rename plus retained approval does not establish same-account retirement authority; missing legacy context prevents silently treating all existing same-name keys as proven members. Saved a real-key characterization and reviewable Step 2 coverage proposal. Stage 1 incomplete; Stages 2–8 not started. This is a stage note, not a completed Step 4 diagnostic report. Dependency delta zero.
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2026-11-01 UTC — Revised Steps 2–3, disabled-rename direction
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Source: step1_solution_assessment.md, Review and revision; step3_development_plan_before.md, reconcile approved scope. Contribution: replaces the earlier unselected account-association proposal in the actual requirements rather than leaving the user direction only as an appendix. Suggestion: retain.
Source: step3_development_plan_after.md, revised execution approval. Contribution: presents concrete effective-flag/history/bootstrap and replacement guards before dependent implementation. Prior approvals, branch and characterization remain intact; no restart.
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No supported findings.
Verification: Step 2 v3/A approved by user; revised Step 3 pending. Document links/whitespace and exact frozen R1 hashes checked. No new runtime test, implementation or dependency change. Whole-cycle 1.00 reaffirmed; S1 whole-stage projection revised from retained 0.15 to 0.20 for the characterization plus new bounded guard work; other stage values preserved. Existing eight-stage plan remains, with affected stage edits attributed as one scope revision.
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2026-11-02 UTC — Completed Step 4
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Source: step4_implementation_do.md, stage dependency and recovery gates. Contribution: real restore and private-message journeys exposed the archive root/classification gap and the reader's shared active-key lookup; both fixed before closeout. Retain normal-flow recovery requirements.
Source: step4_implementation_after.md, baseline distinctions and log-only handoff. Contribution: full suite disclosed one introduced label regression, now fixed; the other eight failing tests were reproduced on unchanged main. Isolated static-release assertion differs from its earlier full-suite context failure and is explicitly recorded. Retain.
Source: project CONTRIBUTING.md and AGENTS.md, viewer state before paint and theme checks. Contribution: eligible actor hints and shared markup were verified across six roles and 16 themes, including a lost accepted response and exact retry. Retain.
Source: standing effort study P2, revision and incomplete outcomes. Contribution: original estimates and authority gate preserved; discovered Stage 7 work raised projection to 1.05 without inventing elapsed labor or maintainer acceptance. Retain.
Redundant/unnecessary instructions
No supported findings.
Uncertain assessments
Eight stage artifacts plus repeated verification summaries create substantial documentation for this feature. They made authority and restore boundaries reviewable, but future cycles above 1.00 should discuss splitting earlier; required recovery must remain part of the parent outcome.
Verification: All eight stages have scoped commits with summary updates; initial planning precedes implementation. Final stage 9a3d10a9e includes release evidence, final retrospective and current-cycle ledger closeout. Full suite 1754/1763 before final corrections; introduced approval label fixed, 12 final focused checks pass, eight remaining failing tests reproduce on unchanged main. Browser member/operator and private-history recovery, real CLI archive/rebuild, private-store restore and concurrent acceptance evidence in acceptance.txt. Syntax, whitespace and concept source links pass. No dependencies, production changes, push or merge. Unrelated sibling drafts/ledger additions preserved. Temporary clean baseline worktree removed after comparison. Maintainer fit/acceptance pending; no measured labor or accepted-count increment. Debug mode restored to inherited enabled state; no configuration changed. This is the separate log-only handoff commit.
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