web_deploy Railspike debug log

2026-11-02T21:40Z — Step 1 (Solution Assessment)

docs/workflow/step1_solution_assessment.md, "Structure" (Original Query preserved verbatim, Understood Intent only when needed): the request was one sentence plus three answers to clarifying questions; keeping the answers verbatim under the query preserved the "give a choice, prefer cron" nuance that shaped Option A. Retain.
RAILSPIKE.md, "Experimental Effort Estimation" plus the host ledger's P2 hash rule: verifying the three R1 hashes before scoring was quick and gave the scores a fixed reference. Retain.
Step 1 "Requests" table via Enhancement Requests: gave a place for two unrelated items raised earlier in the session (tabled get_thread header change, status-path exposure) without widening scope. Retain.

RAILSPIKE.md, "Agent attribution" model/settings guidance: three paragraphs to say "sign with name, date and verified model"; the minimal form example alone covered this cycle. Suggest consolidating the examples.

Directory organization, planning-commit gate and Step 4 commit cadence: not reached at Step 1.

Concept guidance asks to mark missing entries as proposed; the internal task queue exists in code but has no inventory entry, so "proposed entry" was used. Unclear whether existing-but-undocumented concepts should be labeled differently from new behavior.

step2_feature_description.md, "Shared component inventory" (enumerate every surface that already renders the data): checking this found that System status already shows the app commit, branch, working tree and worker heartbeat, which moved the controls there and dropped a new page plus three theme icons from scope. Retain; this was the most valuable instruction in the step.
"Known user or environment": forced naming the phone + shared-host fetch failure and its unaided next action, which Step 1 only listed as uncertainty. Retain.

A placement refinement discovered in Step 2 changes Step 1's "new Tools destination" wording. The workflow says revisions need renewed approval but does not say whether a narrowing refinement flagged in Step 2 is covered by "Approved Step 2"; it was flagged explicitly under Direction for the maintainer to accept or reject.

step3_development_plan_do.md, "Additional requirements" (replay each known-environment failure as acceptance; installer or other-platform passes don't count): produced Stage 6 and the explicit note that the feature needs one manual SSH pull before it can deploy itself. Retain.
Same file, stage template's "Canonical components/API contracts touched" bullet: kept each stage tied to the guard, queue and git patterns found in Step 2 instead of new ones. Retain.

step3_development_plan_after.md checklist items 1–3 restate the Do structure requirements almost verbatim. Suggest the After phase reference them rather than repeat.

A post-approval maintainer reversal in Step 2 (separate page) was handled by revising Step 2 and asking for renewed approval. The workflow covers "changed requirements need renewed approval" in Step 3 Before but not in Step 2 itself; whether the revision belonged in Step 2 or should have been recorded only as a Step 3 request is not stated.