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work_tracking Railspike debug log

2026-11-03T23:05:00Z — Step 1

Necessary/useful instructions

  • step1_solution_assessment.md "Original Query first … do not summarize": kept the request intact while the voice-agreed direction went into Understood Intent. Retain.

  • RAILSPIKE.md Experimental Effort Estimation, intake disclosure: inspection preceded rating and was disclosed instead of presented as prospective. Retain.

  • concepts.md Planning, "candidates by option": surfaced that Option A reuses tag browsing while B/C need new concepts, which sharpened the comparison. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

  • Ledger P2 index rows plus artifact snapshots plus prose ledger entries record the same numbers three ways; suggest consolidating to snapshot + one index row. Consolidate.

Inapplicable instructions

  • Project-specific planning-commit file gate: not reached in Step 1.

Uncertain assessments

  • Original Query with multiple follow-up messages, some exchanged by voice: the template does not say whether later clarifications belong in the query or the intent. Included text messages in the query and voice direction in Understood Intent; suggest clarifying.

2026-11-04T00:46:46Z — Step 2

Necessary/useful instructions

  • step2_feature_description.md "Shared component inventory: enumerate every existing UI/API surface": led to finding thread labels, the plain-text read routes and the existing #railspike thread workflow, which would otherwise have been rebuilt. Retain.

  • "Risks (2–4): impact, earliest validation, mitigation": forced the content-repository export problem into the open before planning. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

  • "Known user or environment" overlaps heavily with "Completion boundary" for site-level features; suggest letting one reference the other. Consolidate.

Inapplicable instructions

  • Documentation-only scope fields: work type is an application change.

Uncertain assessments

  • "≤1 page" with five required list sections plus study checkpoint is hard to meet for multi-surface features; this artifact runs slightly over.

2026-11-04T00:49:31Z — Step 3

Necessary/useful instructions

  • step3_development_plan_do.md "Resolve each material risk before dependent work begins": put the single-status representation first, after finding agent labels are add-only. Retain.

  • "include a stage that replays each reported failure": produced the outage-replay part of Stage 8. Retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

  • Estimate rules repeated across before, do, after and RAILSPIKE.md; one reference would do. Consolidate.

Inapplicable instructions

  • Documentation-only alternatives throughout.

Uncertain assessments

  • "<=1 page" conflicts with the required per-stage field set at eight stages; this plan runs about two pages.