Answers four questions and starts build step 1. Q22 — the scoped deploy user does not exist: aws iam get-user returns NoSuchEntity. Recorded in §7 as NOT PROVISIONED and swept so that no file describes it as existing. §10 records that user/pouya, the broadly- permissioned personal user that has been authenticating to this account, must never be used in CI; scripts/deploy-local.sh refuses to run as it. Q23 — the Gitea instance reports 1.27.2, well above the vars-context floor, so the first-step guard is belt-and-braces rather than load-bearing. What remains is not a fact but a dependency: the instance is jointly administered, so enabling Actions and registering a runner both need a second admin. Hence npm run deploy (scripts/deploy-local.sh), which performs exactly what the workflow performs — same guard, same three passes, same headers, same invalidation. Documented as the current path, not as a workaround. §10 gains the risk that follows: the deploy secret will live on jointly administered infrastructure, where an instance admin can reach repo secrets. That does not change the plan, but it makes the scoped IAM policy the actual control between a shared Gitea instance and an AWS account holding another business's client-database backups. Never widen it. Q27 — response time is two business days, in site.ts with a derived short form so the confirmation email cannot drift from the page. Q28 — OBA sections confirmed, stamped "for now"; membership renews yearly, tracked as R10. Build step 1: dependencies installed and package-lock.json created, closing the npm ci blocker. ESLint flat config and Prettier config added; npm run lint, check and build all pass. Prettier deliberately excludes *.md and tokens.css — reasons recorded in .prettierignore. npm audit reports 7 high-severity advisories, all requiring an Astro major upgrade. Not applied; escalated in AGENTS.md entry (s) as a decision. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012XquaEq4BgWMCwUqLEyNkF
adr.smlcompany.ca
The dispute resolution practice of Pouya Lajevardi — Toronto.
A static site built with Astro, built for deployment to Amazon S3 behind CloudFront by Gitea Actions — see Deployment; the pipeline is not yet proven.
Quick start
nvm use # Node 22
npm install
npm run dev # http://localhost:4321
Scripts
| Command | Does |
|---|---|
npm run dev |
Development server with hot reload |
npm run build |
Static build to ./dist |
npm run preview |
Serve the built site locally |
npm run check |
astro check — type and template errors |
npm run lint |
ESLint + Prettier check |
npm run format |
Prettier — rewrite files in place |
npm run lighthouse |
Lighthouse CI — not yet wired; nothing to measure until pages exist |
npm run deploy |
Build and deploy from this machine — see Deployment |
Before you contribute
Read AGENTS.md first, and maintain it as you work — it is the living
record of what this project is, what was decided, and why. Then read
CLAUDE.md for the working rules, and the specs in docs/.
The single hardest rule: no factual claim about Pouya, his credentials, his
experience, or his practice ships unless it appears in the verified register in
AGENTS.md §4. This is a public marketing surface, and the site it replaces
contained fabricated credentials.
How work is done here
Pouya decides; Claude Code implements and then adversarially reviews its own
work. Run /build <task> for any substantive change — it plans, implements,
runs two independent review agents on the diff (the claims audit wherever copy
changed), resolves the findings, verifies the build, and records the session in
AGENTS.md. /review runs the review pass alone; /wrap closes a session.
Full protocol and prompt guidance: docs/08-execution-protocol.md.
Deployment
Today, deploys run locally: npm run deploy (scripts/deploy-local.sh).
It runs the same guard, the same three sync passes with the same cache headers,
and the same invalidation as the CI workflow — at this scale the pipeline
changes only how a deploy is triggered, not what it does. The script and
.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml are one artefact in two places: change one, change
both.
.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml is the CI pipeline — Gitea Actions, not GitHub
Actions. It has never run, for two reasons that are not oversights:
- The scoped IAM user does not exist.
aws iam get-user --user-name adr-sml-deployreturnsNoSuchEntity(AGENTS.mdQ22). - Actions are not enabled and no runner is registered. The Gitea instance is jointly administered, so both need its second administrator (Q23).
Its first step is a guard: the run aborts, naming what is missing, if any required variable or either AWS secret is empty. Only emptiness is tested and no value is echoed.
The GitHub Actions equivalent, which uses OIDC role assumption, is kept as
docs/reference/github-actions-oidc.yml.example in case the project ever moves
to a forge that supports it. It sits outside .github/workflows/ on purpose:
Gitea falls back to that directory when .gitea/workflows is absent, so a
workflow file left there with a push trigger would be only conditionally
inert. As an .example under docs/ it cannot be picked up at all.
The pipeline is designed around a long-lived AWS credential, and it does not
exist yet. Gitea is not an AWS OIDC provider, so there is no role to assume:
deploys are to authenticate as a scoped IAM user, adr-sml-deploy, with its
access key in the repository's Gitea Actions secrets. aws iam get-user
confirms that user has not been created (Q22). In the meantime the local script
refuses to run as user/pouya, the broadly-permissioned personal user —
see AGENTS.md §10. Two things are meant to bound the risk, and neither is in
place yet:
- The policy must stay narrow. Four actions:
s3:ListBucketon one bucket,s3:PutObjectands3:DeleteObjecton that bucket's contents, andcloudfront:CreateInvalidationon one distribution. NoAction: "*", noResource: "*", nothing outside that one bucket and that one distribution. The AWS account is shared with unrelated projects, including a bucket whose name indicates another business's production database backups — that narrowness is what keeps a compromised runner away from it, and it is load-bearing rather than hygiene. SeeAGENTS.md§10. If a deploy step needs a permission the policy lacks, question the step; do not widen the policy. - The key must be rotated quarterly, and nobody owns that yet. Create a second access key, update the Gitea secrets, confirm a deploy succeeds, then delete the old one — rotation that leaves the old key active is not rotation. OIDC would have removed the obligation entirely; it is unavailable, so this is a standing calendar task still waiting on an owner.
Full procedure, IAM policy, runner setup, and cutover checklist:
docs/06-deployment.md.