Restore invitation prompt diagnostics

Debug mode: enabled Cycle: v3/restore_invitation_prompt

2026-11-01 UTC — Step 1 handoff

Necessary/useful instructions:

• Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step1_solution_assessment.md, Original Query and Understood Intent. Separating the request from inferred scope exposes the initial-naming policy as a proposal instead of treating earlier assistant suggestions as approval. Retain.

• Source: docs/railspike/RAILSPIKE.md, Experimental Effort Estimation. Prior inspection is disclosed; pristine intake was not reconstructed. Retain.

• Source: docs/railspike/docs/concepts.md, Planning. Initial naming remains a proposed concept; no inventory claims implementation. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions: No supported findings.

Inapplicable instructions: Step 4 branching and commit cadence do not apply to this planning handoff; no implementation or commits performed.

Uncertain assessments: The Step 1 one-page constraint and required study metadata favor a compact comparison; rendered pagination is not established. Keep implementation details for later steps.

Verification: Source conditions inspected during preceding diagnosis; frozen R1 hashes verified. No new runtime tests or recovery claim. User deployment, dialog suppression and initial-naming eligibility remain future validation.

2026-11-01 UTC — Step 1 selection revision

Necessary/useful instructions:

• Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step1_solution_assessment.md, Review and revision. Option C selection is recorded separately from approval to advance; original query and former recommendation checkpoint are preserved. Retain.

• Source: docs/railspike/RAILSPIKE.md, Experimental Effort Estimation. Reused C's existing whole-cycle estimate rather than adding option estimates; original A snapshot remains. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions: No supported findings.

Inapplicable instructions: Runtime verification and Step 4 commits; this revision changes planning only.

Verification: Frozen R1 hashes reverified; whitespace and scope checked. No runtime tests or user-environment recovery claimed.

2026-11-01 UTC — Step 2 handoff

Necessary/useful instructions:

• Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step2_feature_description.md, Completion boundary and Known user or environment. The document explicitly replays no-prompt/no-later-naming with the flag off and distinguishes local evidence from the unspecified live site. Retain.

• Source: same file, Risks and Shared component inventory. Existing profile-name methods reject all writes with the flag off; the proposed initial-naming exception and partial-success recovery are explicit prerequisites, not an assumed frontend-only fix. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions: No supported findings.

Inapplicable instructions: Implementation commits and runtime acceptance; this step defines requirements only.

Uncertain assessments: Legacy guest eligibility needs canonical-history validation during planning; requirements do not claim that validation or live recovery has passed.

Verification: Existing profile-name write/history and Lobby surfaces inspected; R1 hashes verified; documentation whitespace and links checked. No runtime edits or new runtime tests.

2026-11-01 UTC — Step 3 handoff

Necessary/useful instructions:

• Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step3_development_plan_do.md, Key Risks and dependency ordering. Inspection identified missing committed-name retry; S2 explicitly gates Account/Lobby integration. Retain.

• Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step3_development_plan_after.md, Contract and reported-condition verification. S5 owns the flag-off no-name-choice reproduction and distinguishes local from live recovery. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions: No supported findings.

Uncertain assessments: Required per-stage fields, risk detail and study history make the one-page target tight; prose was condensed, but physical pagination is not verified. Consolidating repeated estimate/dependency metadata could improve scanability without dropping recovery requirements.

Inapplicable instructions: No implementation, deployment or runtime test execution is authorized at this handoff.

Verification: Canonical original identity, verified name history, naming finalizer and shared Account/browser helpers inspected. Frozen hashes and document links/whitespace checked. Proposed recovery and visibility gates remain tests to execute, not established passes.

2026-11-01 UTC — Step 4 local closeout

Necessary/useful instructions:

• Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step4_implementation_do.md, Stage Boundary Protocol. Five stage commits each include their verification and summary; implementation followed planning commit 4cb17b77. Retain: failure recovery was exercised before UI composition, and scope/verification remained reviewable.

• Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step3_development_plan_do.md, Key Risks, carried through implementation. Native-dialog-free initial naming required recovering a committed signed name before repeat eligibility checks. Final failure review also found uncommitted name files could strand eligibility after Git failure; extending existing SignedPostTransaction avoided a parallel transaction system. Retain shared-contract and recovery requirements.

• Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step4_implementation_after.md, Contract and known-user verification. Local browser checks reproduce the reported flag-off missing-name path while preserving the explicit live-site limitation. Retain the distinction between local reproduction and deployed recovery.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions: No supported findings.

Uncertain assessments:

• Source: docs/railspike/docs/workflow/step3_development_plan_do.md, concise stage sizing and one-page plan target. This cycle needed source, browser, theme, transaction and study detail to explain recovery. The compact plan was longer than a conventional printed page; consider treating the page target as a concise overview with linked evidence. No workflow text changed.

Inapplicable instructions: Schema migrations, new dependencies and navigation destination/icon changes were unnecessary; zero delta verified. Deployment/merge were not authorized.

Verification: Planning 4cb17b77; S1 1b2f0c39, S2 a10f7c5a, S3 125a58c0, S4 201a623c, S5 4105f172. Final focused 177/177, original transaction consumers, real Chrome naming/Account/legacy/capped flows, ordinary CLI rebuild and all 16 permitted themes at phone/desktop passed. Last Account replay includes an already-approved guest, retained approval and same fingerprint after rebuild. Current links, syntax, whitespace, unchanged todo/schema/vendor boundaries and clean working tree checked before this log-only commit. No full-suite, live-site, physical-device or production-scale claim. Cycle retrospective 0.85, maintainer acceptance pending, no measured labor or accepted-count increment.