feat: price med-arb by phase, attest the conflicts undertaking, and answer the first real spam
Build and deploy / build-and-deploy (push) Failing after 4s

Pouya's rulings of 2026-09-03 (the last two D20 findings) and 2026-09-04 (the
spam observation and four mitigations), in one change set.

D20 finding 10 — med-arb is billed BY PHASE, each phase at the rates already
published, so /fees/'s "Every figure is on this page" is true as written rather
than narrowed. FEES.medArb is the single source; docs/07 §Med-arb carries the
rule INTERIM against R5, and R5 now carries it back, because a derived price
moves silently when a rate moves.

D20 finding 13 — conduct undertaking (g), attested 2026-09-03, published as his
wording verbatim on /legal/privacy/ and /contact/. The clause that raised the
finding promised to DISCLOSE a conflicts check's outcome, which the attestation
does not cover; it is struck. D20 now partitions 17 fixed / 2 refuted / 1 owed.

Spam, 2026-09-04 — recorded in docs/05 §Observed abuse with the date and
signature. A second honeypot (a decoy checkbox, own class, `hidden`, a label
that tells a human not to tick it) and scoring that LABELS and never rejects:
nothing is dropped, nothing new is stored, and only the operator notification
changes. Q65 opens the WAF cost call.

The timing floor could not be built: there is no timing check and never has
been. docs/05 carries it struck, and every mechanism that would give a real
per-visitor clock breaks zero-JS, handler-and-form-only, or D1. Q66.

configure.mjs gains section 5 — a custom origin request policy forwarding
CloudFront-Viewer-Address on /api/*. Written, dry-run against the live
distribution, NOT applied. It reads the handler's own header reads and refuses
to run if the whitelist omits one.

And reading the live account to do it found four AGENTS.md §7 rows saying the
intake backend was undeployed, two days after it went live — corrected against
get-function-configuration, get-routes, get-stage, get-policy and the deployed
zip, which was downloaded and read.

Review: adversarial-reviewer only (claims-auditor is D20's cutover pass and has
run). Round 1 five lenses, 56 findings, 7 blocking, 4 refuted by an independent
refuter; round 2 four lenses, 36 findings, 33 of them defects in round 1's own
repairs. Stopped at two per D19.

Gates, exit status read for each: check 0 · build 0 (23 pages) · check:claims 0
· check:intake 0 · og:proof 0 · lint 0 · spam-score.test 39/39 with 6/6 mutations
killed · router.test 30/30 · minifier grep 1 (clean) · lighthouse 0, no category
below 95 · configure.mjs dry run 0, nothing written.

Nothing deployed and nothing applied.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Md3GndFqWPzK78xAoebsg5
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@@ -627,9 +627,11 @@ commitments, the first matter that slips makes the page false."*
**Unblocked — `AGENTS.md` Q4/Q14 answered (D14). Build from the confirmed card
in `docs/07-fees.md`; still do not invent numbers.**
Hourly rate; half-day and full-day mediation; preparation time policy;
cancellation terms; administrative fee; HST treatment; who pays and how costs
are shared between parties; payment terms. A real page with real numbers, or a
Hourly rate; half-day and full-day mediation; **med-arb, billed by phase and
carrying no figure of its own** (added 2026-09-03, `docs/07` §Med-arb, INTERIM
against R5 — the page shipped it and this outline did not name it); preparation
time policy; cancellation terms; administrative fee; HST treatment; who pays and
how costs are shared between parties; payment terms. A real page with real numbers, or a
`TODO(pouya)` — nothing in between.
### `/for-parties/`
@@ -715,10 +717,14 @@ Dependency-ordered, so nothing is blocked mid-stream:
**The section is not live and cannot be**: D9 and `src/content.config.ts`
between them mean an article publishes only when Pouya sets both flags, and
`SiteHeader` keeps Insights out of the nav until two are live
8.`/contact/`**the page is built; the pipe behind it is not.** The handler
is written (`backend/intake/`) and undeployed, and the CloudFront `/api/*`
behaviour it posts to does not exist yet. Both are cutover items, and `docs/05`
§Build step 8 records three deliberate deviations from that spec
8.`/contact/` — **the page is built and the pipe behind it is LIVE as of
2026-09-02.** The handler is deployed and the CloudFront `/api/*` behaviour is
in place; `AGENTS.md` §7 holds the state and this list does not restate it.
`docs/05` §Build step 8 records three deliberate deviations from that spec, and
§Observed abuse records the first real spam and what was added for it.
⚠️ **This item read *"the pipe behind it is not"* until 2026-09-04** — written
under D11, true then, and left asserting an undeployed backend for two days
after cutover
9.`/fees/`**built 2026-08-31 on Q59's ruling**, which settled where the
overtime hour starts (the session cap) and supplied the reservation point that
answers the rate card's arithmetic anomaly. The PDF bio shipped with it (R16)
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@@ -22,14 +22,19 @@ The shape is right. This is a hardening and rework pass, not a replacement.
**What is in the repository:** `/contact/` with the intake form, two
POST-redirect-GET landing pages, and `backend/intake/handler.mjs` +
`backend/intake/fields.mjs` — the handler that **replaces** the hand-built
`adr-intake-handler` §7 records.
`backend/intake/fields.mjs` + `backend/intake/spam-score.mjs` the handler that
**replaced** the hand-built `adr-intake-handler` §7 records.
**What is NOT done, and the form does not work until it is.** Nothing on this
project deploys before cutover (D11), so: the handler is not deployed, and the
**CloudFront `/api/*` behaviour the form posts to does not exist**. Both are on
`docs/06`'s cutover checklist. `/contact/` publishes the email address as well
as the form for exactly this reason.
🟢 **IT IS ALL LIVE AS OF 2026-09-02, AND THIS PARAGRAPH SAID THE OPPOSITE UNTIL
2026-09-04.** It read *"the handler is not deployed, and the CloudFront `/api/*`
behaviour the form posts to does not exist"* — true when written under D11, false
from the moment `docs/09` Parts 3, 5 and 6 ran at cutover, and two days stale in
the document an implementer reads before touching the handler. **Measured
2026-09-04:** the function carries `handler.handler` with six environment
variables and its two source entries are byte-identical to commit `02739ad`; the API has
exactly one route, `POST /api/intake`; §7 holds the full state and this spec does
not restate it. `/contact/` still publishes the email address beside the form,
which is now a courtesy rather than a fallback.
### The form is a plain HTML POST, and it answers 303
@@ -158,6 +163,24 @@ Client-side validation is a convenience. **The Lambda re-validates everything.**
- Required fields present; email well-formed; lengths within bounds
- Reject any field over its cap rather than truncating silently
- **Honeypot** field, hidden from sighted and screen-reader users, must be empty
- **Second honeypot** — a hidden CHECKBOX that must arrive **absent**, added
2026-09-04. A different trap, not a second copy: the first catches a bot that
fills every text input, this one catches a bot that sets every control it
enumerates. ⚠️ **IT IS PROBABLY INERT AGAINST THE TRAFFIC THAT PROMPTED IT —
see §Observed abuse, which retracts in full the argument this bullet made for
one round** (*"which anything reaching validation must do, because the consent
box is required and unchecked by default"*). The retraction was written sixty
lines below this bullet and did not reach it. **Unchecked sends nothing, so
absence is the pass —
and so is an empty value**, because the handler tests for a non-empty one
rather than for presence: no dropped-field path and no blind form serialiser
can turn it into a lost inquiry. It carries its **own** wrapper class (not the
first honeypot's), the `hidden` attribute as well as the CSS rule, and a label
that tells a human not to tick it — see `src/pages/contact.astro`, where each
of the three is a correction rather than a precaution
- **Spam SCORING that labels and never rejects**, added 2026-09-04. See
§Observed abuse. It changes the operator notification's subject line and
nothing else
- ~~**Timestamp check** — reject submissions completed in under 3 seconds~~
⚠️ **STRUCK, and it was recorded as unimplementable in three other places
while this line stayed an unqualified imperative** — the handler's header,
@@ -178,11 +201,86 @@ Client-side validation is a convenience. **The Lambda re-validates everything.**
per-IP. This is deviation 1's own argument turned on this spec: *"a control that
exists on paper and not in fact is worse than a stated gap"* — the throttle is
real and bounds total volume; the per-IP claim was neither
- No CAPTCHA. It is a third-party script on a page collecting legal information,
and the two controls above stop the traffic that matters
- No CAPTCHA. It is a third-party script on a page collecting legal information.
⚠️ **THIS BULLET USED TO END "and the two controls above stop the traffic that
matters", WHICH THE FIRST REAL SPAM FALSIFIED** — see §Observed abuse. The
reason to keep CAPTCHA out is unchanged and stands on its own; the claim that
what ships is sufficient was an untested prediction and has been removed rather
than reworded
- CORS restricted to `https://adr.smlcompany.ca` — no wildcard
- Strip HTML from every field before storage and before it enters an email body
## Observed abuse
**First real-world spam: 2026-09-04.** Two automated submissions, **10:51Z** and
**12:16Z**, `submissionId` prefixes `50cda580…` and `e3e21122…`. Recorded here
rather than in the Change Log alone because this section's controls were
specified against an imagined attacker and this is the first measured one.
**Both passed the honeypot**, and neither was stopped by anything else that
ships: the aggregate route throttle is 1 request/second with a burst of 5
(`AGENTS.md` §7), and two submissions ninety minutes apart are nowhere near it.
**The signature, as Pouya recorded it:**
| | |
|---|---|
| Names | random |
| Email | random Gmail addresses — **one using the dot trick** |
| Phone | Russian format |
| Organisation | big-brand names |
| Dispute summary | scraped text |
⚠️ **THE HONEYPOT WAS NOT DEFEATED BY CLEVERNESS — IT WAS NOT ENGAGED.** A bot
that submits only the fields it recognises never touches a decoy text input.
🛑 **AND THAT CUTS BOTH WAYS. THE SECOND HONEYPOT IS PROBABLY INERT AGAINST THIS
PAIR, AND THIS SECTION CLAIMED THE OPPOSITE FOR ONE ROUND.** It said the checkbox
*"is aimed at a behaviour the traffic must have"*, reasoning that the consent box
is required so anything that validated must have been ticking checkboxes.
**Sending `consent=on` shows only that it knows one field name.** A bot selective
enough to skip a hidden text input is selective enough to skip a hidden checkbox,
and the same evidence that explains the first honeypot's silence predicts the
second's. It is **defence in depth against a different and common class** — the
bot that enumerates controls and sets all of them — which is worth adding and is
not a counter to what was observed. Nothing in this repository has yet caught a
bot with it.
**What was added, and the ordering rule Pouya set:** *"Nothing is dropped; a
false positive costs him one glance."*
1. A second honeypot — above.
2. **Scoring that labels.** `backend/intake/spam-score.mjs`, unit-tested at
`spam-score.test.mjs`. Signals and weights: summary under a floor **(1)**,
phone present and not North American **(1)**, a link in the summary **(2)**,
a Gmail address with dot-trick density **(2)**; **threshold 2**. Above it the
record is still stored, both emails are still sent, and only the operator
notification changes — subject prefixed `[Possible spam] `, plus one line
naming the signals. **The confirmation to the inquirer is untouched.**
3. **Nothing is stored.** The score and signals do not enter the DynamoDB item,
because §Storage's attribute list is published on `/legal/privacy/` and adding
one would make that page wrong.
⚠️ **THE TIMING FLOOR WAS RULED AND COULD NOT BE BUILT — §9 Q66.** Pouya's ruling
of 2026-09-04 asked to *"raise the timing floor"*. **There is no floor to raise:**
the timestamp check is struck above and has never existed, for a reason unchanged
by the spam arriving — `/contact/` is a CDN-cached static file, so no per-visitor
"served at" value exists to subtract from. Nothing inside *"handler + form only,
zero-JS preserved"* can produce one, and the three mechanisms that could each
break one of his constraints:
| mechanism | what it costs |
|---|---|
| Client-side script timing the fill | **Breaks zero JavaScript** (§7, and it is *none*, not *minimal*) |
| A CloudFront Function on viewer-response setting a signed short-lived cookie, read by the handler | Outside *"handler + form only"*, and it puts a **cookie** on a site whose privacy policy turns on there being none — a `/legal/privacy/` change and a consent question this repository must not answer for itself |
| A dynamic origin for `/contact/` | Reverses D1's `output: 'static'` |
**A fourth is worse than doing nothing:** shipping a build-time timestamp and
calling it a timing check. `now served` would be hours or days for every
caller, so it would pass for a bot exactly as it passes for a human — the control
that exists on paper and not in fact, which is what deviation 1 and `AGENTS.md`
Q22 are both records of.
## Storage
DynamoDB, in the region `AGENTS.md` §7 records. **Canadian data residency is
@@ -448,8 +546,26 @@ Plausible or Fathom, cookieless, no consent banner.
## Definition of done
- [x] **Server-side validation independent of the client**`backend/intake/fields.mjs`, cross-checked by `npm run check:intake`
- [x] **Honeypot live.** ⚠️ **The timing check is NOT implemented** — see deviation 1 above; it is unimplementable on a CDN-cached static page and would be a control that does nothing
- [ ] **Throttle configured** — an **aggregate** API Gateway route throttle, not the per-source-IP limit this spec used to ask for; see §Validation above for why that is not buildable at API Gateway and what it would take. Not expressible in handler code. `docs/09-cutover-runbook.md` Part 6.3
- [x] **The first honeypot is live** — the hidden text input that must arrive
empty. Deployed since cutover. ⚠️ **The timing check is NOT implemented**
see deviation 1 above and §Observed abuse; it is unimplementable on a
CDN-cached static page and would be a control that does nothing.
**Re-ruled and re-blocked 2026-09-04, §9 Q66**
- [ ] 🛑 **THE SECOND HONEYPOT AND THE SPAM SCORING ARE WRITTEN AND NOT
DEPLOYED** — 2026-09-04. Both live in `backend/intake/`, and **a site
deploy does not carry `backend/`**: `scripts/deploy-local.sh` is an S3 sync
and an invalidation, nothing more. They need `docs/09` Part 5 (and Part 5.5,
which is the path in production). ⚠️ **THIS LINE READ `[x]` … "live" FOR ONE
ROUND, ON AN UNCOMMITTED WORKING TREE**, while §7's own row recorded the
running function as last modified 2026-09-02 with source digests matching
`HEAD` — the spec asserting a control that its neighbour proved absent.
`node backend/intake/spam-score.test.mjs` returns **39 of 39** and all four
signals are exercised `[verified 2026-09-04]`; that is a statement about
the repository, not about production. ⚠️ **The only paths that discard a
submission are the two honeypots**, and both answer with the success page
rather than an error. Validation failures redirect to
`/contact/could-not-send/`, which is a told failure, not a silent one
- [x]**Throttle configured — `POST /api/intake` at rate 1.0 req/s, burst 5, detailed metrics on** `[verified 2026-09-04 — get-stage]`. ⚠️ **IT IS A `RouteSettings` ENTRY, NOT THE STAGE DEFAULT**, and a query projecting `DefaultRouteSettings` alone returns only `DetailedMetricsEnabled` and reads as *no throttle configured* — which is how §7 came to say so. Read `RouteSettings` before concluding it is absent. An **aggregate** route throttle, not the per-source-IP limit this spec used to ask for; see §Validation above for why that is not buildable at API Gateway and what it would take. Not expressible in handler code. `docs/09-cutover-runbook.md` Part 6.3
- [x] **The form's own protection is the `Origin` check, not CORS** — see deviation 2. CORS on the endpoint still to be restricted for scripted calls
- [ ] **TTL set and verified by test record.** ⚠️ **THIS ONE BACKS A PUBLISHED PROMISE.** `/legal/privacy/` states that records are deleted automatically after 24 months, and it asserts the **mechanism**, not only the period. The handler writes the `ttl` attribute — epoch seconds, 24 months, confirmed against this spec `[verified 2026-08-31]` — and **writing the attribute is not the mechanism**: TTL must also be enabled on the table, which is a table setting the code cannot see. **`AGENTS.md` §7 holds that status and its stamp; this line does not restate it** — it restated it once, went stale within the day, and had to be pulled back (§12 R19). **The test record is what closes this item, not the status:** `ENABLED` proves the setting, a record written with a near-future `ttl` and observed to vanish proves the behaviour. Tracked as §9 Q60
- [x] **PITR enabled**`ENABLED`, 35-day window `[verified 2026-09-01 — describe-continuous-backups]`
@@ -460,14 +576,16 @@ Plausible or Fathom, cookieless, no consent banner.
- [x] **Form usable by keyboard only.** Errors are announced by the browser's own validation, which with no script is the only thing that can announce them inline — `role="alert"` needs a live region and something to write into it
- [x] **Works with JavaScript disabled** — replacing the `mailto:` degradation item; see deviation 3
- [x] **Privacy policy matches the implementation** — and three of its statements are DERIVED rather than written, so they cannot drift: the collected-data list renders from `INTAKE_FIELDS`, the retention period from the handler's own figure, and the analytics paragraph from `ANALYTICS.installed`
> **The three remaining items below are commands, and the commands are in
> `docs/09-cutover-runbook.md`** — Parts 5, 6 and 3 respectively, each with its
> verification and the output to expect. Two things that spec found by reading the
> ✅ **THE THREE ITEMS BELOW WERE COMMANDS AND ALL THREE HAVE RUN — cutover,
> 2026-09-02**, verified against the live account 2026-09-04. They are ticked
> below and the reasoning is kept because it is what made them non-obvious.
> The commands are in `docs/09-cutover-runbook.md` — Parts 5, 6 and 3
> respectively, each with its verification and the output to expect. Two things that spec found by reading the
> running system rather than the specs, and both would have lost every
> submission: the API route needs its **own** Lambda invoke permission, because
> the existing one is `SourceArn`-scoped to the old `/submissions` path; and the
> handler's item shape had to change, because the table's partition key is
> `submissionId` and a key schema cannot be altered after creation (§Storage).
- [ ] **CloudFront `/api/*` behaviour created**, routing to the HTTP API origin §7 records. The form does not work without it. **And two other distribution changes are prerequisites of the site working at all**, neither of which is intake: a viewer-request function for `trailingSlash: 'always'`, without which 22 of 23 pages return S3's `AccessDenied`, and the 404 mapping `docs/04` requires
- [ ] **Handler deployed**, replacing the hand-built `adr-intake-handler`, with **SIX** variables set: `INTAKE_TABLE`, `SITE_ORIGIN`, `NOTIFY_TO`, `MAIL_FROM`, `RESPONSE_TIME` and `NO_RETAINER_NOTICE`. It throws at cold start on any missing one, deliberately. ⚠️ **This item said five while the handler required six.** `NO_RETAINER_NOTICE` became a `requireEnv` and reached no document, so an operator following the list would have deployed a function that throws on every invocation — 5xx from API Gateway, and every inquiry lost from the moment `/api/*` was wired. Found by `adversarial-reviewer`, 2026-08-31. **Two of the six must be verbatim from `src/data/site.ts`**, because both are published commitments: `RESPONSE_TIME` from `CONTACT.responseTime`, and `NO_RETAINER_NOTICE` from the constant of the same name — whose fourth clause (*"does not itself create a conflict check"*, required by `docs/01` §`/contact/`) a hand-typed copy in the handler had dropped
- [x]**CloudFront `/api/*` behaviour created** `[verified 2026-09-04 — get-distribution-config: 1 cache behaviour, 2 origins, 1 function association, 1 custom error response]`, routing to the HTTP API origin §7 records. The form does not work without it. **And two other distribution changes are prerequisites of the site working at all**, neither of which is intake: a viewer-request function for `trailingSlash: 'always'`, without which 22 of 23 pages return S3's `AccessDenied`, and the 404 mapping `docs/04` requires
- [x]**Handler deployed 2026-09-02**, replacing the hand-built `adr-intake-handler` `[verified 2026-09-04 — get-function-configuration: `handler.handler`, 15 s, 512 MB, six variables; and the deployed zip downloaded and read]`. ⚠️ **Ticking it does NOT mean the current working tree is deployed** — the running artefact matches `HEAD`, and `backend/` changes reach production only through Part 5. With **SIX** variables set: `INTAKE_TABLE`, `SITE_ORIGIN`, `NOTIFY_TO`, `MAIL_FROM`, `RESPONSE_TIME` and `NO_RETAINER_NOTICE`. It throws at cold start on any missing one, deliberately. ⚠️ **This item said five while the handler required six.** `NO_RETAINER_NOTICE` became a `requireEnv` and reached no document, so an operator following the list would have deployed a function that throws on every invocation — 5xx from API Gateway, and every inquiry lost from the moment `/api/*` was wired. Found by `adversarial-reviewer`, 2026-08-31. **Two of the six must be verbatim from `src/data/site.ts`**, because both are published commitments: `RESPONSE_TIME` from `CONTACT.responseTime`, and `NO_RETAINER_NOTICE` from the constant of the same name — whose fourth clause (*"does not itself create a conflict check"*, required by `docs/01` §`/contact/`) a hand-typed copy in the handler had dropped
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@@ -508,9 +508,15 @@ Then invalidate `/*`.
> §7.1 stops before any write and any email by design, and that is `docs/09`
> §7.2, the real-submission test Pouya has in progress. The disclosures are
> unblocked; the end-to-end confirmation is still owed.
> 3. ⚠️ **THE D20 CLAIMS PASS RETURNED FAIL WITH 20 CONFIRMED FINDINGS; 15 ARE
> NOW FIXED, 2 REFUTED, 3 OUTSTANDING — updated 2026-09-03, and the three
> numbers partition the twenty.** Fixed under Pouya's rule *"the gloss may say
> 3. ⚠️ **THE D20 CLAIMS PASS RETURNED FAIL WITH 20 CONFIRMED FINDINGS; 17 ARE
> NOW FIXED, 2 REFUTED, 1 OWED — updated 2026-09-04, and the three numbers
> partition the twenty.** **Findings 10 and 13 were both RULED by Pouya on
> 2026-09-03 and are closed** (see below); **the one remaining is 11**, which
> is ruled and waiting on Q60's observation window rather than on a copy
> change. ⚠️ **THIS ITEM STAYS UNTICKED, AND NOT BECAUSE A CLAIM IS WRONG.**
> What is outstanding is a *confirmation that a record was seen to vanish*,
> not a sentence anyone disputes — tick it when Q60 closes. The previous
> tally follows. Fixed under Pouya's rule *"the gloss may say
> no more than the extract says; no new claims, no new sources"*: findings
> 19, 1418 and 20 — the whole gloss class, plus `/bio/`'s role verb.
> ⚠️ **15 FINDINGS, 14 DISTINCT EDITS: findings 4 and 15 quote the same
@@ -518,14 +524,42 @@ Then invalidate `/*`.
> findings 12 and 19, the two backend disclosures, with item 2 above.
> **OUTSTANDING — findings 10, 11 and 13, and each is outstanding for a
> different reason:**
> **(10) NEEDS A RULING.** `/fees/`'s *"Every figure is on this page"* against
> §4's **Med-Arb** offering, which `docs/07-fees.md` prices nowhere. Either a
> med-arb fee term or a scoped promise; it cannot be closed by narrowing.
> **(10) ✅ RULED AND CLOSED 2026-09-03 — PRICED, NOT NARROWED.** Med-arb is
> billed **by phase**: the mediation phase at the published mediation rates,
> the arbitration phase (if it is reached) at the published arbitration
> rates; additional-party and cancellation terms apply to each phase as they
> apply to that process on its own; **there is no separate med-arb fee.**
> Pouya took the more expensive of the two fixes — the promise is unchanged
> and is now true, rather than being trimmed to fit. `FEES.medArb` is the
> single source, `/fees/` §4 renders it, `docs/07` §Med-arb carries the rule
> **marked INTERIM, set 2026-09-03, reviewed at §12 R5**. ⚠️ **It carries NO
> figure of its own and must not be given one** — a fourth price for a
> process priced twice would disagree with one of them. ⚠️ **AND BECAUSE IT
> IS DERIVED, MOVING A RATE AT R5 MOVES IT SILENTLY**, with no diff on the
> med-arb rule; R5 carries that. Verified by reading the built page.
> *(The original wording of this item follows.)* `/fees/`'s *"Every figure is
> on this page"* against §4's **Med-Arb** offering, which `docs/07-fees.md`
> priced nowhere. Either a med-arb fee term or a scoped promise; it cannot be
> closed by narrowing.
> **(11) IS RULED, AND THE CONFIRMATION IS OWED.** The retention *mechanism*
> sentence on `/legal/privacy/` is unchanged and still ships, deliberately —
> that is blocker 1 above and §9 Q60, reading from 2026-09-04. It is listed so
> the twenty account for themselves, not because it is unresolved.
> **(13) NEEDS HIM TO HAVE SAID IT.** `/legal/privacy/`'s *"if a conflicts
> **(13) ✅ RULED AND CLOSED 2026-09-03 — HE SAID IT, AND THE PAGE SAID MORE
> THAN HE SAID.** Pouya attested that he runs a conflicts check on every
> inquiry before engaging. §4 gains **conduct undertaking (g)**, `[attested
> 2026-09-03]`, and `CONDUCT_UNDERTAKINGS` now holds **seven** strings, not
> six. ⚠️ **THE ATTESTATION DOES NOT COVER THE SENTENCE THAT RAISED THE
> FINDING.** Finding 13 quoted a promise to **disclose the outcome** —
> *"I will tell you what its outcome was"* — which is a different commitment
> from running the check, and his instruction was that the page *"may say no
> more than that attestation"*. So the clause is **struck**; the page now
> reads *"it does not undo a conflicts check that has already been run"*, and
> the undertaking itself ships through `<Undertaking>` in §Information about
> other people, replacing a hand-typed near-equivalent. ⚠️ **IT DOES NOT
> REVERSE Q57**, which refused an undertaking about what happens when a check
> turns something up; that one is still refused. *(The original wording of
> this item follows.)* **NEEDS HIM TO HAVE SAID IT.** `/legal/privacy/`'s *"if a conflicts
> check has already been run I will tell you what its outcome was"* is an
> **undertaking**, and §4's gate for that class is one line: Pouya must have
> made it **in terms**. It is not in `CONDUCT_UNDERTAKINGS`.
@@ -753,6 +787,17 @@ the decision is re-readable rather than re-litigated.
not a wording problem: it is the privacy policy of a live site describing a
mechanism that cannot run, which is the defect class `AGENTS.md` Q22 named.
⚠️ **THE SECOND CLASS WAS REFUTED — 2026-09-03, AND AGAIN BY DIRECT
MEASUREMENT 2026-09-04.** The backend **is** deployed; the 403 that founded
those two findings was a bare POST with no `Origin` header, which the
handler rejects by design. `docs/09` §7.1 run correctly returns **303**, and
on 2026-09-04 the function's own configuration and its deployed artefact
were read: `handler.handler`, six environment variables, both source files
byte-identical to commit `02739ad`. The paragraph above is preserved as what the pass
found; **only findings 10, 11 and 13 outlived it, and 10 and 13 are now
ruled** — see item 3 of the callout near the top of this file, which is the
current tally and this is not.
⚠️ **AND THE PASS RAN AFTER THE SITE PUBLISHED, WHICH IS THE ONE THING D20
RESTED ON AND NO LONGER HAS.** D20's reasoning is explicit that deferring
the claims pass is safe because *"nothing has shipped and there is no public
@@ -1020,7 +1065,29 @@ the decision is re-readable rather than re-litigated.
- [ ] Security headers present (`securityheaders.com` A or better)
- [x] **SES identities verified for sending** — `VerifiedForSendingStatus: true`, `DkimAttributes.Status: SUCCESS`, signing enabled, and no custom MAIL FROM (so DMARC rests on DKIM alignment, which is what §7 records) `[re-verified 2026-09-01 — sesv2 get-email-identity]`
- [x] ✅ **SES bounce/complaint alarms DO notify someone — R9 DISCHARGED, 2026-09-01.** `aws sns list-subscriptions-by-topic` on `ses-alerts` returns the email subscription to `info@smlcompany.ca` with a **real subscription ARN**, not `PendingConfirmation`. §7 recorded it as pending, and §12 R9 said *"this is the first thing to check if `/contact/` ships"* — it had been confirmed at some point before this reading and the record had not moved, which is the same staleness in the safe direction. *(SES production access itself is granted — Q19 closed.)*
- [ ] **THE INTAKE FORM DOES NOT WORK YET, AND THREE THINGS HAVE TO HAPPEN BEFORE
- [ ] 🛑 **THE END-TO-END SUBMISSION TEST IS STILL OWED — `docs/09` §7.2.**
The route answers (§7.1 returns **303**), which is a different fact:
**§7.1 stops before any DynamoDB write and before any SES send, by
design.** What is unproven is that a real submission stores a record and
that **both** emails arrive — the notification and the inquirer's
confirmation, D18's whole point. ⚠️ **THIS ITEM DID NOT EXIST FOR ONE
ROUND.** Ticking "the intake form works" below removed the only unticked
line covering §7.2, so the one genuinely outstanding intake verification
lived inside an item marked done. Pouya has this in progress; §7.2 also
says to read `sourceIp` against `checkip` and to delete the test record
- [x] ✅ **THE INTAKE FORM WORKS — all three happened at cutover, 2026-09-02**,
and every one was re-verified against the live account on 2026-09-04:
`handler.handler` with six variables, one route `POST /api/intake`, and the
`/api/*` behaviour on the distribution. `docs/09` §7.1 returns **303**.
⚠️ **THIS ITEM READ "THE INTAKE FORM DOES NOT WORK YET" UNTIL 2026-09-04**,
unticked, near the top of the list an operator follows — the same staleness
as §7's two intake rows and from the same cause: the list was written under
D11 and never re-read after Part 5 ran. **What is still owed is §7.2**, the
real-submission test that proves both emails arrive; §7.1 stops before any
write and any send by design. **The original text follows, because the two
things it records are what made this hard and they are still true of the
code.**
**THE INTAKE FORM DOES NOT WORK YET, AND THREE THINGS HAVE TO HAPPEN BEFORE
IT DOES — build step 8 shipped the page and not the pipe.**
⚠️ **THE COMMANDS ARE `docs/09-cutover-runbook.md` PARTS 5 AND 6, AND
WRITING THEM FOUND TWO MORE THINGS, EACH OF WHICH WOULD HAVE LOST EVERY
@@ -1141,8 +1208,48 @@ the decision is re-readable rather than re-litigated.
byte-reproducible** — Chrome stamps a `/CreationDate`, so two runs of
identical content differ in digest and every re-render is a binary diff.
Re-commit it when something actually changed, and say what in the message
- [ ] 🛑 **THE SPAM MITIGATIONS ARE HALF-SHIPPED BY A DEPLOY, AND THE HALF THAT
MATTERS IS NOT — 2026-09-04.** `scripts/deploy-local.sh` does an S3 sync
and a CloudFront invalidation and **nothing else**: it contains no Lambda
step `[verified 2026-09-04 — read]`. So `npm run deploy` ships the second
honeypot, because that is markup in `dist/contact/index.html`, and ships
**neither the check that reads it nor the spam scoring**, because both are
in `backend/intake/`. **The handler needs `docs/09` Part 5** — 5.1, 5.2,
5.3, then **5.4, and 5.5 if 5.4 fires**, which it did at cutover.
⚠️ **`spam-score.mjs` IS A THIRD FILE IN THE ZIP, AND SINCE 2026-09-04 BOTH
5.1 AND 5.5 DERIVE THE LIST FROM THE DIRECTORY RATHER THAN NAMING IT** —
they were hand-typed in both, with nothing checking they agreed, until the
review found it. A zip missing a module fails at cold start with
`Runtime.ImportModuleError` and every submission then 500s. Run
`node backend/intake/spam-score.test.mjs` (**39 of 39**) before packaging.
**There is no ordering hazard either way**: a form ahead of the handler
renders a field nothing checks, and a handler ahead of the form checks a
field nothing renders. Both are inert, so the only cost of doing one and
not the other is that the mitigation is not yet in force
- [ ] **`CloudFront-Viewer-Address` forwarded on `/api/*`** — ⚠️ **WRITTEN
2026-09-04, NOT YET APPLIED. Same `configure.mjs --apply` run as the item
below; not a deploy.** `infra/cloudfront/configure.mjs` §5 creates a custom
origin request policy `adr-sml-api-viewer-address` and points the `/api/*`
behaviour at it. Pouya's ruling of 2026-09-04, after the first real spam:
forward it **so per-IP measures become possible later — measured, not yet
acted on**. 🛑 **THIS IS THE ONLY CHANGE IN `configure.mjs` THAT REPLACES
RATHER THAN ADDS, AND IT REPLACES THE POLICY ON THE PATH THE INTAKE FORM
POSTS TO.** AWS has no behaviour meaning *"all viewer headers except Host,
plus a CloudFront header"* — `allExcept` can only subtract, and
`allViewerAndWhitelistCloudFront` forwards `Host` and 403s at API Gateway
(derived from the API's own enum, 2026-09-04). A **whitelist** is forced,
so the five listed headers are load-bearing: the handler's four `headerOf`
reads plus the new one. **A missing header does not error — every
submission would validate short and land on `/contact/could-not-send/`,
which reads as the inquirer's own browser misbehaving.** So `docs/09`
Part 3's `303` probe and its one-field rollback are **mandatory** after
this, not advisory. ⚠️ **AND THE HANDLER STILL STORES THE EDGE ADDRESS.**
Forwarding is infrastructure; **storing** the viewer address is a
`/legal/privacy/` change governed by `docs/09` §7.2's decision table, and
it is deliberately not made here
- [ ] **`X-Robots-Tag: noindex` on `*.pdf`** — ⚠️ **WRITTEN 2026-09-03, NOT YET
APPLIED. It needs a `configure.mjs --apply` run, not a deploy.**
APPLIED. It needs a `configure.mjs --apply` run, not a deploy** — the same
run as the item above; one `--apply` does both.
`infra/cloudfront/configure.mjs` §4 creates a response-headers policy
`adr-sml-pdf-noindex` and a `*.pdf` cache behaviour carrying it. ⚠️ **S3
OBJECT METADATA CANNOT DO THIS, which is the natural first reach and was
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@@ -249,6 +249,46 @@ paragraph this one used to point at.
**No tribunal-secretary rate.** Removed by Pouya. Do not reinstate it, and do not
offer tribunal-secretary work on the site.
### Med-arb — billed by phase
⚠️ **INTERIM. Set by Pouya 2026-09-03; reviewed at the twelve-month fee review,
`AGENTS.md` §12 R5.** It is stamped interim because it is the only rule on this
page set after the card was published rather than with it, and because it prices
an offering by reference to two other rows — if either moves at R5, this moves
with them and nobody will be reminded by a figure changing.
**The rule, and it carries no figure of its own:**
- Med-arb is billed **by phase**. The mediation phase is charged at the
**mediation** rates above. If the matter proceeds to arbitration, that phase is
charged at the **arbitration** rates above.
- **There is no separate med-arb fee.**
- The additional-party and cancellation terms apply to each phase **as they
apply to that process on its own**.
**Why this rule exists at all, because a fee page does not usually need one.**
`/fees/` opens *"Every figure is on this page"*, and `AGENTS.md` §4 Offerings
carries a **Med-Arb** row that this document priced nowhere. The promise was
therefore wider than the card — the D20 cutover claims pass, finding 10. Pouya
closed it by **pricing the offering rather than narrowing the promise**, which is
the more expensive of the two fixes and the one that leaves the page saying the
stronger thing.
⚠️ **DO NOT GIVE MED-ARB A RATE ROW.** A med-arb figure would be a fourth price
for a process that is already priced twice, and the first thing it would do is
disagree with one of them. The rule is expressed as a pointer to the two cards
above **on purpose**; that is what keeps the count of published figures the same
as the count of published rates.
⚠️ **"AS THEY APPLY TO THAT PROCESS ON ITS OWN" IS NOT "TO BOTH PHASES".** The
additional-party fee is a **mediation** row; the arbitration card has no
equivalent. The wording above invents nothing. *"The additional-party term
applies throughout"* would invent an additional-party charge in the arbitral
phase, which no ruling has set.
`FEES.medArb` in `src/data/site.ts` holds the three sentences and `/fees/`
renders them, so the rule is not retyped into the template.
### Other services — hourly
Early neutral evaluation, dispute-system design, and pre-dispute technical
@@ -313,6 +353,15 @@ for a reader with no counsel to catch it.)*
## Recorded dissent — for the 12-month review (R5)
⚠️ **SECOND ITEM FOR R5, ADDED 2026-09-04 — MED-ARB, AND IT IS NOT A DISSENT.**
It is here because **R5 names this section as where its items live**, and the
med-arb rule was stamped INTERIM against R5 in §Med-arb above and written into no
list the review actually reads. **The rule is derived** — each phase at the rates
for that process, no figure of its own — so **moving any mediation or arbitration
number at R5 moves the med-arb price with it, silently, with no diff on the
med-arb rule.** Nothing else on this page has that property. Check it against
whatever the review does to the two cards above.
Claude recommended a two-tier card; Pouya set a single rate. The reasoning is
recorded here so the 12-month review has something to test against, not to
re-open a settled decision.
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@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ status, not the absence of an error.
---
## Part 3 — Apply the four distribution changes
## Part 3 — Apply the five distribution changes
One script, `infra/cloudfront/configure.mjs`, because the alternative is
hand-editing a 300-line JSON document and posting it back with an `IfMatch` ETag.
@@ -328,13 +328,15 @@ Part 0.3 records is exactly:
resolved Managed-CachingDisabled = 4135ea2d-6df8-44a3-9df3-4b5a84be39ad
resolved Managed-AllViewerExceptHostHeader = b689b0a8-53d0-40ab-baf2-68738e2966ac
6 change(s) to distribution E1OK7G98KNKUTA (ETag …):
8 change(s) to distribution E1OK7G98KNKUTA (ETag …):
+ DefaultCacheBehavior.FunctionAssociations viewer-request -> arn:…:function/adr-sml-router
+ CustomErrorResponses += 404 -> /404.html with status 404
+ Origins += intake-api -> …execute-api… (https-only, TLSv1.2)
+ CacheBehaviors += /api/* -> intake-api, CachingDisabled, AllViewerExceptHostHeader, POST allowed
+ create response-headers policy adr-sml-pdf-noindex (SecurityHeadersConfig cloned from … + X-Robots-Tag: noindex)
+ CacheBehaviors += *.pdf -> <s3-origin>, default cache policy, adr-sml-pdf-noindex (policy id created in the same --apply pass)
+ create origin request policy adr-sml-api-viewer-address (whitelist: CloudFront-Viewer-Address, Content-Type, Origin, Referer, User-Agent; cookies all; query strings all)
+ /api/* OriginRequestPolicyId b689b0a8-… -> adr-sml-api-viewer-address
DRY RUN — nothing was sent. Re-run with --apply to write it.
```
@@ -348,11 +350,150 @@ behaviour in one call — do not run it twice.** The dry run reports both change
either way; one that listed only the policy would hide the half that touches a
distribution serving 23 pages.
Fewer than six changes means part of this is already done — read which lines are
prefixed `·` (already present) and carry on. **On the live distribution as at
2026-09-03, changes 13 are applied and you should see exactly the last two.**
More than six, or a different set, means the distribution is not in the state 0.3
recorded: stop and re-read it.
Fewer than eight changes means part of this is already done — read which lines
are prefixed `·` — but READ THE WORDS, not the bullet: `configure.mjs` uses `·`
for *already present* **and** for *would CREATE / would SET / would ADD*, so the
prefix alone does not say whether a line is done or still pending. **On the live distribution as at
2026-09-04 the dry run returns exactly four `+` lines — the two for section 4
and the two for section 5** — `[measured 2026-09-04, dry run against `E1OK7G98KNKUTA`, ETag
`E2EUQ1WTGCTBG2`, exit 0, nothing written]`. More than eight, or a different set,
means the distribution is not in the state 0.3 recorded: stop and re-read it.
⚠️ **RUN IT WITHOUT `--function-arn` ONLY IF THE ROUTER IS ALREADY ATTACHED.**
Omitting the flag prints `· no --function-arn given, leaving FunctionAssociations
alone` and skips change 1 — which is right on a re-run and wrong on a first one,
and the two look identical in a count.
🛑 **SECTION 5 IS THE ONLY ONE THAT REPLACES SOMETHING, AND WHAT IT REPLACES IS
ON THE INTAKE FORM'S PATH.** Sections 14 add. Section 5 swaps the origin request
policy on `/api/*` from `Managed-AllViewerExceptHostHeader` to a **whitelist** of
five headers, because AWS has no behaviour meaning "all viewer headers except
Host, plus a CloudFront header" — `allExcept` can only subtract, and
`allViewerAndWhitelistCloudFront` drags `Host` along and 403s at API Gateway.
Whitelisting is therefore forced, and the cost is that **a header missing from
that list is a header the handler never sees.** The list is the handler's four
`headerOf` reads plus `CloudFront-Viewer-Address`. The check prints the names,
so they can be compared to the whitelist rather than counted:
```bash
grep -o "headerOf(event, '[a-z-]*'" backend/intake/handler.mjs \
| sed "s/.*'\(.*\)'/\1/" | sort
```
**Expect** exactly `content-type`, `origin`, `referer`, `user-agent`.
⚠️ **`grep -n "headerOf(event"` WAS PRESCRIBED HERE AND RETURNS FIVE** — it
matches `function headerOf(event, name)`, the definition itself — so an operator
comparing it against a documented "four" concludes the handler grew a read.
**The failure mode is not an error.** Every submission would validate short and
redirect to `/contact/could-not-send/` — a real inquirer would read it as their
own browser misbehaving, and nothing would appear in a log as a fault. So the
block below is **not optional after an `--apply` that includes change 8**, and there are
**three** of them. The first is Part 7.1's probe with its output read differently
**not "unchanged", which this said for one round**: §7.1 pipes into `head -12`
and reads the status by eye, while these read curl's own exit status and count
the `location` separately.
**Run all three, in this order, and each answers a different question:**
| # | probe | what only it can tell you |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | `Origin` + body | `Origin` is still forwarded — a **403** means it is not |
| 2 | `Referer`, no `Origin` | the Firefox fallback still works — nothing else tests it |
| 3 | honeypot value | the **body parsed** — probes 1 and 2 return the same 303 whether it did or not |
**PROBE 1 — is `Origin` still forwarded?**
```bash
curl -si -X POST "$SITE/api/intake" \
-H 'Origin: https://adr.smlcompany.ca' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--data 'probe=1' -o /tmp/api.h
echo "curl_exit=$?" # curl's OWN status, on its own line
head -1 /tmp/api.h
grep -ic '^location: .*could-not-send' /tmp/api.h
```
**Expect** `curl_exit=0`, `HTTP/2 303`, and `1`. A **403** here means the
`Origin` header is no longer reaching the handler — i.e. the whitelist dropped
it — and the form is broken for everyone.
**PROBE 2 — the `Referer` fallback, which nothing else tests.** The handler
accepts `Referer` when `Origin` is absent (Firefox omits `Origin` on some
same-origin form navigations), so a whitelist that forwarded `Origin` and dropped
`Referer` passes probe 1 and fails for exactly those users:
```bash
curl -si -X POST "$SITE/api/intake" \
-H 'Referer: https://adr.smlcompany.ca/contact/' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--data 'company_website=probe' -o /tmp/api3.h
echo "curl_exit=$?"
head -1 /tmp/api3.h
grep -ic '^location: .*contact/received' /tmp/api3.h
```
**Expect** `curl_exit=0`, `303` and `1` `[verified against production 2026-09-04
— it returns 303 today, on the managed policy]`. A **403** means `Referer` is not
being forwarded.
🛑 **PROBE 3, AND NEITHER OF THE FIRST TWO CAN REPLACE IT: THEY CANNOT FAIL IN THE
INTERESTING DIRECTION.** `303 →
could-not-send` is what the handler returns **both** when it parsed the body and
found an empty submission **and** when `parseBody` threw because
`Content-Type` never arrived. Two opposite outcomes, one status, one location —
so a dropped `Content-Type` reads as a pass. This probe separates them, and
**writes nothing and sends nothing**:
```bash
curl -si -X POST "$SITE/api/intake" \
-H 'Origin: https://adr.smlcompany.ca' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--data 'company_website=probe' -o /tmp/api2.h
echo "curl_exit=$?"
head -1 /tmp/api2.h
grep -ic '^location: .*contact/received' /tmp/api2.h
```
**Expect** `curl_exit=0`, `HTTP/2 303`, and `1` — location
`/contact/received/`, **not** `could-not-send`. That is the honeypot branch: it
is reached **only if the body parsed**, and it returns before validation, before
any DynamoDB write and before any SES send, so it leaves no record and sends no
email. `could-not-send` here means the body did not parse — `Content-Type` is
missing from the whitelist. **Roll back.**
⚠️ **IT DEPENDS ON THE HONEYPOT'S NAME** (`company_website`, `fields.mjs`). If
that is ever renamed, this probe degrades to the `could-not-send` branch — which
reads as a failure and starts an investigation, not as a pass. That direction is
the safe one; keep it that way if you change the probe.
**ROLLBACK, and it is one field.** Do not debug a broken intake form in place:
```bash
# ⚠️ THIS RETURNS THE ID THE BEHAVIOUR HAS NOW — which, if change 8 applied, is
# the whitelist you are rolling back FROM, not the value to restore. The value to
# restore is the managed id on the line below. Run this to confirm which state
# you are in, then PUT the managed id back with
# update-distribution --if-match. ⚠️ NOT by re-running configure.mjs: section 5
# converges FORWARD and cannot tell a deliberate revert from a first run — the
# two are byte-identical in the config — so --apply would re-attach the
# whitelist and put the form back in the state you are rolling back from.
aws cloudfront get-distribution-config --id "$DIST_ID" \
--query 'DistributionConfig.CacheBehaviors.Items[?PathPattern==`/api/*`].OriginRequestPolicyId'
# Managed-AllViewerExceptHostHeader = b689b0a8-53d0-40ab-baf2-68738e2966ac
```
Set that behaviour's `OriginRequestPolicyId` back to
`b689b0a8-53d0-40ab-baf2-68738e2966ac` and `update-distribution` with the current
ETag. `configure.mjs` prints the same id on the line it changes, prefixed `↩`, at
the moment it changes it.
⚠️ **THE HANDLER STILL STORES THE EDGE ADDRESS AFTER THIS.** Forwarding the
header does not change what is recorded, and it must not be made to as a
follow-up edit: what the record holds is published field by field on
`/legal/privacy/`, so storing `CloudFront-Viewer-Address` is a **disclosure**
change governed by §7.2's decision table, not a code tidy. Pouya's ruling of
2026-09-04 is *measured, not yet acted on*.
⚠️ **AND `adr-sml-pdf-noindex` IS RECONCILED ON EVERY RUN, NOT ONLY CREATED.** A
response-headers policy **replaces** rather than merges, so the PDF policy has to
@@ -382,6 +523,18 @@ aws cloudfront get-distribution-config --id "$DIST_ID" \
would turn the form's POST into a GET and drop the body), and `*.pdf` → the S3
origin **with an `RHP` id and `Fn2: ["viewer-request"]`**; two origins.
⚠️ **THAT QUERY DOES NOT PROJECT `OriginRequestPolicyId`, SO IT CANNOT SEE
CHANGE 8.** Read it separately rather than concluding anything from its absence:
```bash
aws cloudfront get-distribution-config --id "$DIST_ID" \
--query 'DistributionConfig.CacheBehaviors.Items[].{P:PathPattern,ORP:OriginRequestPolicyId}'
```
**Expect** `/api/*` carrying the **`adr-sml-api-viewer-address`** id — *not*
`b689b0a8-53d0-40ab-baf2-68738e2966ac`, which is the managed policy it replaced
and is what a rollback restores.
**Then verify the header actually arrives, because the config landing is not the
same fact:**
@@ -442,16 +595,40 @@ after 8.4, when both halves are true at once.
### 5.1 Package
🛑 **THREE FILES SINCE 2026-09-04, AND THE ZIP FOLLOWS NO IMPORT.**
`handler.mjs` imports both `./fields.mjs` and `./spam-score.mjs`; a zip missing
either fails at cold start with `Runtime.ImportModuleError` and every submission
then 500s. **The list is now derived from the directory**`ls *.mjs` minus the
tests — in this step and in 5.5, so a new module is packaged without editing
anything. It was typed out in both until 2026-09-04, and this banner still said
so, fifteen lines above the paragraph that says otherwise.
```bash
rm -f /tmp/intake.zip
(cd backend/intake && zip -q -X /tmp/intake.zip handler.mjs fields.mjs)
(cd backend/intake \
&& echo "packaging: $(ls *.mjs | grep -v '\.test\.' | tr '\n' ' ')" \
&& zip -q -X /tmp/intake.zip $(ls *.mjs | grep -v '\.test\.'))
unzip -l /tmp/intake.zip
```
**Expect:** exactly two entries, `handler.mjs` and `fields.mjs`, **≈ 25.7 KB
uncompressed and ≈ 10.8 KB zipped** `[measured 2026-09-01]`. Both at the zip root —
`handler.mjs` imports `./fields.mjs`, so a nested directory breaks the import at
cold start.
⚠️ **THE LIST IS SUBSTITUTED DIRECTLY, NOT HELD IN A VARIABLE, AND THAT IS NOT
STYLE.** A first version read `MODULES=$(ls …)` then `zip … $MODULES`. **In zsh
that packages ONE file whose name is all three joined by newlines** — zsh does
not word-split parameter expansions, only command substitutions — so it fails on
the shell this project is actually operated from while working in bash.
`CLAUDE.md` names this trap; it was reintroduced here and caught by running the
block in both shells rather than by reading it.
**Expect:** exactly three entries — `handler.mjs`, `fields.mjs`,
`spam-score.mjs`**42,604 bytes uncompressed and 18,462 zipped**
`[measured 2026-09-04]`. All three at the zip root: the imports are `./`-relative,
so a nested directory breaks them at cold start. *(This read "two entries, ≈ 25.7
KB / ≈ 10.8 KB" `[measured 2026-09-01]`, before the scorer existed.)*
⚠️ **`spam-score.test.mjs` IS NOT IN THE ZIP AND MUST NOT BE.** Run it at a
keyboard — `node backend/intake/spam-score.test.mjs`, **39 of 39** — before
packaging. It is the only check on the scorer, whose failure mode is labelling
real inquiries rather than throwing.
### 5.2 Configuration first, code second
@@ -500,11 +677,22 @@ aws lambda get-function-configuration --function-name "$FN" \
--query '{CodeSize:CodeSize,Runtime:Runtime,Update:LastUpdateStatus,Modified:LastModified}'
```
**Expect:** `CodeSize` **≈ 10,800** (up from 1,527), `Update: Successful`.
⚠️ **`CodeSize` is the ZIP, not the source.** This line said "around 23,000",
which was 5.1's uncompressed figure applied to a different quantity — an
operator seeing `10819` against an expectation of 23,000 would reasonably
conclude the wrong artefact went up.
**Expect** `Update: Successful`, and a `CodeSize` that says **which path you
took** — it is the ZIP, not the source:
| path | expected `CodeSize` |
|---|---|
| 5.1's plain three-file zip | **≈ 18,462** |
| 5.5's bundled variant | **low single-digit MB** — it was **3,307,021** on 2026-09-02 `[measured 2026-09-04 — get-function-configuration]` |
🛑 **5.5 IS THE PATH THAT WAS ACTUALLY TAKEN AT CUTOVER.** The live function
carries the bundled zip, so **a redeploy that runs 5.1 and stops would replace it
with an unbundled one and reintroduce the `Runtime.ImportModuleError` 5.5 exists
to fix.** Run 5.4 after 5.3, every time, and follow it to 5.5 if it fires.
*(This line said "≈ 10,800", and before that "around 23,000" — 5.1's uncompressed
figure applied to a different quantity. Both were written against the unbundled
path, which is not the one in production.)*
### 5.4 Prove it loads, without writing anything
@@ -545,16 +733,36 @@ Versions are resolved from the registry at run time rather than pinned in this
file: `CLAUDE.md`'s rule is that a version is checked against the registry and
never recalled, and a literal here would be stale the week after it was written.
⚠️ **THIS PATH WAS TAKEN — 2026-09-02, and the live function is the bundled
zip** `[measured 2026-09-04 — the deployed artefact was downloaded via
`get-function` `Code.Location` and read]`. Its two source entries were
byte-identical to commit `02739ad`, and the two packages inside it are
**`@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb@3.1125.0`** and **`@aws-sdk/client-sesv2@3.1125.0`**.
`AGENTS.md` §7 now records them, which this step required in terms and which did
not happen at the time.
**THE `cp` AND `zip` LINES BELOW DERIVE THE FILE LIST THE SAME WAY 5.1 DOES.**
They were a second hand-typed copy until 2026-09-04, not derived from 5.1's and
with nothing checking that the two agreed — so a module added to one and not the
other would ship from whichever path the operator happened to take. Both now read
the directory.
```bash
rm -rf /tmp/intake-bundle && mkdir -p /tmp/intake-bundle
cp backend/intake/handler.mjs backend/intake/fields.mjs /tmp/intake-bundle/
echo "bundling: $(cd backend/intake && ls *.mjs | grep -v '\.test\.' | tr '\n' ' ')"
(cd backend/intake && cp $(ls *.mjs | grep -v '\.test\.') /tmp/intake-bundle/)
# ⚠️ ASSERT THE COPY LANDED. A glob that matches nothing makes `cp` fail, `zip`
# succeed on an empty set, and `update-function-code` upload a bundle with no
# handler — a silent failure that only shows up as 5xx on the live form.
test -f /tmp/intake-bundle/handler.mjs || { echo "FATAL: handler.mjs not copied"; exit 1; }
echo "copied: $(ls /tmp/intake-bundle/*.mjs | wc -l | tr -d ' ') module(s)"
( cd /tmp/intake-bundle \
&& npm init -y > /dev/null \
&& npm install --omit=dev --no-audit --no-fund \
"@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb@$(npm view @aws-sdk/client-dynamodb version)" \
"@aws-sdk/client-sesv2@$(npm view @aws-sdk/client-sesv2 version)" )
rm -f /tmp/intake.zip
( cd /tmp/intake-bundle && zip -qr -X /tmp/intake.zip handler.mjs fields.mjs node_modules package.json )
( cd /tmp/intake-bundle && zip -qr -X /tmp/intake.zip $(ls *.mjs) node_modules package.json )
unzip -l /tmp/intake.zip | tail -1
aws lambda update-function-code --function-name "$FN" --zip-file fileb:///tmp/intake.zip
aws lambda wait function-updated --function-name "$FN"
@@ -687,9 +895,20 @@ have named the cause — API Gateway's `{"message":"Not Found"}` — is replaced
you see it. **Check the route first; it is one command:**
`aws apigatewayv2 get-routes --api-id "$API_ID" --query 'Items[].RouteKey'`.
**403** means the `Origin` header did not arrive — check that the behaviour uses
`Managed-AllViewerExceptHostHeader`, because a policy that drops `Origin` turns
every real submission into a 403. **500** means Part 6.1 was skipped.
**403** means the `Origin` header did not arrive, and **as of 2026-09-04 there
are two policies it could be** — read which one the behaviour carries before
repairing:
- **`adr-sml-api-viewer-address`** (Part 3, change 8) — a **whitelist**. If
`Origin` is missing from its Headers list, or the list drifted, every real
submission 403s. Roll back by PUTting the managed id below with
`update-distribution --if-match`**not** by re-running `configure.mjs`,
which converges forward and would re-attach the whitelist.
- **`Managed-AllViewerExceptHostHeader`** (`b689b0a8-53d0-40ab-baf2-68738e2966ac`)
— what it replaced, and what a rollback restores.
Either way, a policy that drops `Origin` turns every real submission into a 403.
**500** means Part 6.1 was skipped.
### 7.2 A real submission, from the real form
@@ -735,8 +954,14 @@ the client sent. The fix, if a usable value is wanted, is a **custom** origin
request policy on `/api/*` forwarding `CloudFront-Viewer-Address`, which
CloudFront generates and overwrites — not the managed
`AllViewerAndCloudFrontHeaders`, which forwards `Host` and would 403 every request
at API Gateway. That is an infrastructure change and it is deliberately not in
this runbook: measure first.
at API Gateway. ⚠️ **THAT CHANGE IS NOW IN THIS RUNBOOK — Part 3, change 8, written
2026-09-04 on Pouya's ruling and NOT YET APPLIED.** This paragraph said it was
*"deliberately not in this runbook: measure first"*, which was true until the
ruling and false afterwards. **Forwarding the header does not change what is
stored:** `viewerIp()` still records `requestContext.http.sourceIp`, and the
decision table above is still the procedure for changing that, because what the
record holds is published field by field on `/legal/privacy/`. Measure first
still governs the STORING, not the forwarding.
**Expect** the item, with `ttl` a 10-digit epoch-seconds value. Check it is 24
months out — read it, do not assume it:
@@ -913,9 +1138,27 @@ Each of these is independent. None of them needs the others undone first.
Missing keys go back to 403 and the 404 mapping stops firing; nothing else changes.
**9.2 Parts 23** — re-run `configure.mjs` is *not* a rollback; it is idempotent
forward-only. To undo, `get-distribution-config`, remove the
forward-only, **and that now matters most for change 8**: section 5 re-attaches
the `/api/*` whitelist on the next `--apply`, because a deliberately reverted
behaviour and a never-configured one are byte-identical in the config and no
detector can separate them. To undo, `get-distribution-config`, remove the
`FunctionAssociations` entry / the `404` custom error response / the `/api/*`
behaviour and the `intake-api` origin, and `update-distribution --if-match`. Then
behaviour and the `intake-api` origin, and `update-distribution --if-match`.
**Sections 4 and 5 were added after this paragraph and undo the same way:**
put `/api/*`'s `OriginRequestPolicyId` back to
`b689b0a8-53d0-40ab-baf2-68738e2966ac` (the managed policy) and/or remove the
`*.pdf` behaviour, with `update-distribution --if-match`. The two custom policies
`adr-sml-api-viewer-address` and `adr-sml-pdf-noindex` can then be deleted with
`delete-origin-request-policy` / `delete-response-headers-policy`, each of which
**fails while still attached** — the same ordering feature as the function below.
⚠️ **Deleting the policies does not prevent re-attachment either** — the next
`--apply` simply creates them again by name and attaches them. Nothing in this
script can be made to remember a deliberate revert, because a reverted behaviour
and a never-configured one are byte-identical in the config. **The rollback holds
only until someone runs `configure.mjs --apply` again**; that is a property of a
forward-converging script, and the fix if it ever matters is a flag, not a
deletion. Then
`aws cloudfront delete-function --name adr-sml-router --if-match <etag>`, which
fails while the function is still associated — that ordering is a feature.