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Two rulings from Pouya, 2026-09-02.

(1) The section stays generic — "it over-explains technical mechanics that
belong in the evidence file, not in front of an inquirer." Deleted: the
measurement paragraph, the root-credential sentence, the SSO/federated-login
enumeration, the resource-policy clause, the "company that runs a database"
aside, the deploy-credential sentence and the three-copies summary. All of it
stays true and stays measured in AGENTS.md §7 and the evidence file, which now
maps each shipped sentence to what it rests on.

(2) The consent string names the corporation: "I consent to SML Company Ltd
storing and using the information in this form…". docs/05 §Consent text moves
with it, proven byte-identical. Two new §4 rows carry the attestations the copy
rests on.

(3) The §Who can see it approval closes via the page read-through, which is now
blocker 2 in docs/06's callout rather than a checklist line.

Q64 closes MOOT — the paragraph it was about was deleted, so it gates nothing.
The underlying gap is unchanged: §7 records root as held by Pouya, not held only
by Pouya, and nothing about root custody may be published without asking again.

Two sentences were added back under review: the shared-account disclosure, to
§Where it is stored (a storage disclosure, never named in the ruling — without
it no page said the intake sits in a shared account), and one naming SML Company
Ltd in the policy, because a consent naming a company the linked policy never
mentions is an accountability gap.

adversarial-reviewer, two rounds, 14 findings, all resolved, none declined;
nine of round 2's ten were defects in round 1's own repairs. claims-auditor
correctly deferred to cutover per D20.

Gates, exit status read: check 0 · build 0 (23 pages) · check:claims 0
(12 patterns, 33 approved strings) · check:intake 0 · og:proof 0 · lint 0 ·
lighthouse 0, worst of 23 99/100/100/100. Tripwire proven both ways — exit 0 on
the revised page, exit 1 with 5 matches on the bd282aa bytes. Regex untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Md3GndFqWPzK78xAoebsg5
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# 06 — Deployment and cutover
Authority: `AGENTS.md` §3 **D3 as amended 2026-08-26** (git + **Gitea Actions**
→ existing S3/CloudFront) and D11 (build everything, one clean cutover).
Existing infrastructure: **`AGENTS.md` §7 is authoritative.**
`docs/reference/AWS-Hosting-Guide.md` records how that infrastructure was
originally built — it is a historical record carrying a do-not-execute banner,
not a procedure, and §7 wins wherever the two disagree (Q24).
---
## Topology
```
Gitea push to main
└─ Gitea Actions (act_runner)
├─ npm ci && npm run build → ./dist
├─ static scoped IAM user key (from Gitea secrets — NOT OIDC)
├─ aws s3 sync ./dist s3://<bucket> (three passes, see Cache policy)
└─ cloudfront create-invalidation
Namecheap DNS → CloudFront → S3 (OAC)
API Gateway → Lambda → DynamoDB / SES (intake, unchanged path)
```
DNS is at **Namecheap, not Route 53** `[verified 2026-08-25]`. Nothing in the
pipeline touches DNS. Certificate renewal is ACM-automatic as long as the
validation CNAME stays in place at Namecheap — **do not delete it.**
## Today, deploys run locally
**`npm run deploy`** (`scripts/deploy-local.sh`) is the current path. It runs
the same guard, the same three sync passes in the same order with the same
cache headers, and the same invalidation as the workflow — at this scale the
pipeline changes only **how a deploy is triggered**, not what it does. Treat the
script and the workflow as one artefact in two places: change one, change both.
One thing blocks the workflow, and it is not a fact to look up:
- **Actions are not enabled and no runner is registered** (Q23). The Gitea
instance is jointly administered, so both need its second administrator.
> ✅ **AND THAT IS NOW A DECISION RATHER THAN A BLOCKER — Pouya's ruling,
> 2026-09-01: THE FIRST PRODUCTION DEPLOY GOES OUT VIA `scripts/deploy-local.sh`,
> AND THE GITEA RUNNER IS DEFERRED UNTIL AFTER LAUNCH.**
>
> His reason, and it is the reason the deferral is safe: enabling Actions and
> registering `act_runner` depends on the instance's **second administrator**, so
> the date it happens is not his to set — and **nothing about the deploy depends
> on it.** The script and the workflow are one artefact in two places; they run
> the same guard, the same three passes with the same cache headers, the same
> invalidation and the same intake route check. The pipeline changes only **how a
> deploy is triggered**. So a launch that waits for a runner is a launch waiting
> on someone else's calendar for no gain.
>
> **What the deferral actually costs, stated rather than waved past:** every
> deploy until then is a person at a keyboard with a long-lived access key in
> their environment, and nothing gates a merge to `main` (there is no
> `pull_request` trigger). Both were already true; the ruling does not add a
> risk, it declines to remove one yet. **`AGENTS.md` R17's rotation date does not
> move** — the key is live either way.
>
> It is **not** a cutover-checklist item and must not become one: a checklist
> fires once, at cutover, and this is deliberately scheduled for after it. The
> `docs/09-cutover-runbook.md` Part 8 sequence is the deploy path that ships.
> ✅ **`adr-sml-deploy` EXISTS — created 2026-08-26, Q22 closed 2026-08-28.**
> **DO NOT CREATE IT.** This bullet said *"`adr-sml-deploy` does not exist —
> `aws iam get-user` returns `NoSuchEntity`… Create it from Create the user
> below"* until 2026-08-28, and an operator following it would have created a
> **second** IAM user, or hand-provisioned one with a different scope from the
> `adr-sml-deploy-minimal` policy §7 now records. §7 carries the inventory and
> the eight `simulate-principal-policy` results.
>
> *Found by `adversarial-reviewer`: the Q22 flip to PROVISIONED was swept in
> `AGENTS.md` and nowhere else, and the Change Log entry's sweep block covered
> the copy corrections only. Same shape as the SES-DKIM inversion — the stale
> copy instructed an action against a High-risk credential.*
>
> *Create the user* below is retained as the **record of how it was
> provisioned**, not as an instruction. Read it that way.
The script **refuses to run as `user/pouya`** — the broadly-permissioned
personal user that has been authenticating to this account. See §10.
## CI runs on Gitea, not GitHub
`AGENTS.md` D3 as amended, 2026-08-26: self-hosted **Gitea**. The instance,
version, and repository are recorded in §7 — the version is comfortably above
the floor for the `vars` context, so the first-step guard is belt-and-braces
rather than load-bearing.
**The live pipeline is `.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml`.** Gitea Actions speaks
GitHub Actions syntax, so it is a near-direct port — the build steps, the
three-pass sync, and the cache headers are unchanged. The GitHub Actions original,
with its OIDC role assumption, stays in the repo as
`docs/reference/github-actions-oidc.yml.example` — deliberately outside
`.github/workflows/`, because Gitea falls back to that directory when
`.gitea/workflows` is absent.
### The one real difference: no OIDC
Gitea is not an AWS OIDC provider. There is no role to assume, so deploys
authenticate with a **scoped IAM user** whose access key lives only in the
repository's Gitea secrets.
This is a genuine step down in security from an OIDC setup — which was designed
here but never built — and it should be treated as one. The mitigations are the
policy scope and the rotation schedule.
**Create the user:**
1. IAM → Users → `adr-sml-deploy`. **Programmatic access only** — no console
password, no MFA device, no group membership.
2. Attach this inline policy and nothing else. Substitute the real bucket name,
account ID, and distribution ID from `scripts/aws-discover.sh`:
```json
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "ListSiteBucket",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": "s3:ListBucket",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET_NAME"
},
{
"Sid": "WriteSiteObjects",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": ["s3:PutObject", "s3:DeleteObject"],
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET_NAME/*"
},
{
"Sid": "InvalidateOneDistribution",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": "cloudfront:CreateInvalidation",
"Resource": "arn:aws:cloudfront::ACCOUNT_ID:distribution/DISTRIBUTION_ID"
}
]
}
```
Four actions on one bucket and one distribution. No `Action: "*"`, no
`Resource: "*"` — the only wildcard is `BUCKET_NAME/*`, which scopes to the
objects of that one bucket. `s3:PutObjectAcl` was dropped on 2026-08-26:
`aws s3 sync` does not use it without `--acl`, and it is inert under Origin
Access Control with ACLs disabled. If a deploy step needs a permission this
policy lacks, the correct response is to question the step, not to widen the
policy.
3. Create an access key. **Copy it once** — AWS will not show the secret again.
**`s3:AbortMultipartUpload` is deliberately absent, and here is the actual
reason.** `aws s3 sync` switches to multipart above its 8 MB
`multipart_threshold`; an interrupted multipart upload then cannot clean up its
own parts, and orphaned parts accrue storage charges that do not appear in the
bucket listing. What makes that safe today is simply that **nothing here comes
close to 8 MB** — the largest file the pipeline
uploads is well under it. The biggest source asset is
`src/assets/pouya-lajevardi.jpg` at 357,627 bytes `[verified 2026-08-26 — stat]`,
Astro emits it smaller still after AVIF/WebP conversion, and the self-hosted font
files are smaller again. **Re-measure `./dist` after the first successful build**
— that, not the repository, is what gets synced. No lifecycle rule exists; do not describe one
as the mitigation, because it is not there.
**Revisit if any single asset approaches 8 MB** — a video, a large PDF, an
un-optimised photograph. At that point either add an S3 lifecycle rule aborting
incomplete multipart uploads after 7 days (preferred — it costs no IAM
permission), or grant `s3:AbortMultipartUpload` on `BUCKET_NAME/*`.
### Gitea configuration
**Repository → Settings → Actions → Secrets:**
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` | from the IAM user |
| `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` | from the IAM user |
**Repository → Settings → Actions → Variables** — not secrets. These are not
sensitive, and keeping them as variables means they appear in run logs where
they are useful for debugging.
| Variable | Value |
|---|---|
| `AWS_REGION` | `AGENTS.md` §7 — Region |
| `S3_BUCKET` | §7 — S3 bucket |
| `CLOUDFRONT_DISTRIBUTION_ID` | §7 — CloudFront |
⚠️ **`INTAKE_ENDPOINT` AND `BOOKING_URL` WERE ROWS HERE AND ARE GONE, 2026-08-31.**
Build step 8 moved the intake form to the same-origin path `/api/intake`, after
which nothing in the build read either one — and both deploy paths were still
refusing to run without `INTAKE_ENDPOINT`. **The removal was made in the two
scripts and not here**, so this table went on telling an operator to set a
variable no guard checked and no build consumed. Found by
`adversarial-reviewer` round 2, whose sharper point is about the evidence: the
removal was justified with `git grep PUBLIC_INTAKE_ENDPOINT -- src/` — a
**path-scoped** grep offered as proof of a repo-wide removal, and `git grep`
additionally cannot see untracked files, which at that moment was most of the new
work. That is `CLAUDE.md`'s *a sweep is a command, not a claim* and *sweep the
vocabulary, not only the subject*, both at once.
⚠️ **AND ONE PLACE STILL CARRIES IT: `.env.example` sets
`PUBLIC_INTAKE_ENDPOINT` to the full execute-api hostname, and
`PUBLIC_BOOKING_URL`.** That falsifies a live claim in `src/data/intake.ts`
which said the endpoint id *"is not restated in the repo either"* — and the claim
has been corrected there rather than left standing. **The file itself was not
edited: this environment denies read access to it, and nothing in this repo may
edit a file it cannot read.** It is in the batched list for Pouya: delete both
lines, and `PUBLIC_ANALYTICS_*` with them, since `ANALYTICS` is a literal in
`src/data/site.ts`.
The three values above fill the IAM policy's `BUCKET_NAME`, `ACCOUNT_ID` and
`DISTRIBUTION_ID` placeholders. **They are deliberately not restated here**
§7 is the single source of truth for operational facts, and the copy that goes
stale is always the one nobody re-reads. `scripts/aws-discover.sh` regenerates
them from AWS if §7 ever needs re-verifying.
> **Read this before creating the key.** The AWS account is **not** a
> single-project account: it is shared with several unrelated sites and with a
> bucket whose name indicates another business's production client-database
> backups. `AGENTS.md` §10 has the specifics and the account identifier; they
> are kept there rather than repeated here. A static deploy key for a marketing
> site lives in that same account, and the scoped policy is what keeps a
> compromised Gitea runner from reaching any of it. Do not widen it, and never
> put the `user/pouya` credentials in CI.
### A runner must exist
Gitea Actions needs `act_runner` registered to this repository or its
organisation, and Actions enabled both site-wide in `app.ini`
(`[actions] ENABLED = true`) and per-repository. Without a runner the workflow
queues silently and never runs — which looks exactly like a broken pipeline.
The workflow installs the AWS CLI if the runner image lacks it, and runs
`aws sts get-caller-identity` before touching anything. **That check is
narrower than it looks:** `sts:GetCallerIdentity` requires no IAM permission at
all, so it succeeds for any valid key regardless of policy. It catches a
missing, malformed, or revoked key; it does **not** catch an under-scoped
policy, which still fails halfway through a sync and leaves the bucket
partially updated. Read it as a key check, not a permissions check.
### The variable guard runs first
The workflow's first step — before checkout, before the build, before any AWS
call — fails the run if `AWS_REGION`, `S3_BUCKET`, or
`CLOUDFRONT_DISTRIBUTION_ID` is empty.
This exists because Gitea only added the `vars` context in 1.21. On an older
instance every `${{ vars.* }}` interpolates to an empty string with no warning,
the sync target becomes `s3://`, and the run dies halfway through with an error
that names nothing useful. The guard converts that into a clean failure that
says which variable is missing — **on every Gitea version**. A recorded version
number would have gone stale; the guard does not.
### Key rotation — an operational obligation
**Rotate `adr-sml-deploy` quarterly.** OIDC would have made this unnecessary;
with a static key it is a standing task:
1. Create a second access key on the same user.
2. Update the Gitea secrets.
3. Run the workflow and confirm it succeeds.
4. **Delete the old key.** Rotation that leaves the old key active is not
rotation.
Set a calendar reminder. A key that is never rotated is the failure mode this
whole section exists to bound.
## Finding the AWS identifiers
`scripts/aws-discover.sh` re-collects the inventory — bucket, distribution
ID, regions, API endpoint, certificate, SES identities, and whether S3 versioning
is on. Read-only; no call creates or mutates anything.
```bash
chmod +x scripts/aws-discover.sh
./scripts/aws-discover.sh > aws-inventory.txt
```
The output contains resource names and IDs but no secrets.
## Why OIDC would have been better — and why it is unavailable
> **Do not execute this section.** It describes the design that was rejected
> because Gitea cannot support it. The live procedure is *Create the user* above.
> Nothing here should be created in AWS. Following it would add an unused GitHub
> federation trust to the shared AWS account (`AGENTS.md` §10).
A static `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` never expires, is invisible once set, and grants its
permissions to anyone who can reach the repository. OIDC issues a short-lived
token per run, scoped to one repository and one branch — strictly better, and the
reason the rotation schedule above is not optional here.
It needs an identity provider AWS will federate with. GitHub and GitLab both
publish one; **Gitea and Forgejo do not**, so there is nothing for AWS to trust
and no role to assume. That is the whole of the constraint (D3 as amended).
If the project ever moves to GitHub, the workflow to adopt is
`docs/reference/github-actions-oidc.yml.example`, and the setup is: register
`token.actions.githubusercontent.com` as an IAM OIDC provider with audience
`sts.amazonaws.com`; create a role trusting it, conditioned on the `sub` claim
matching the repository and `refs/heads/main`; attach the same four-action policy
given above; then delete `adr-sml-deploy` and its key.
## Cache policy
The mistake to avoid is caching HTML aggressively — a stale index page is a site
that does not update.
| Pattern | `Cache-Control` |
|---|---|
| `*.html` | `public, max-age=0, must-revalidate` |
| `/_astro/*` (hashed) | `public, max-age=31536000, immutable` |
| Fonts | `public, max-age=31536000, immutable` |
| Images | `public, max-age=604800` |
| `robots.txt`, `sitemap*.xml` | `public, max-age=0, must-revalidate` |
Sync in **three** passes, in this order: hashed assets and fonts with the long
TTL, then images, then everything else. Uploading HTML last means a user never
fetches a new page whose assets have not landed yet.
Two ordering dependencies are load-bearing and easy to break:
- Pass 3 re-walks the whole tree; the image headers from pass 2 survive only
because `aws s3 sync` skips objects it has just uploaded. Reordering the
passes silently overwrites them with the HTML header.
- Pass 3's `--exclude "_astro/*" --exclude "fonts/*"` also excludes those
prefixes from `--delete`, so hashed assets from previous deploys are kept
deliberately — pages still in a browser cache need them. Do not "fix" it.
`robots.txt` and `sitemap*.xml` fall through to pass 3 and get the HTML header.
That is the intended behaviour: both should be re-fetched, and the table above
records what the pipeline actually does rather than an unimplemented ideal.
Invalidate `/*` on deploy. At this traffic volume the cost is nil, and partial
invalidation paths are a reliable source of confusing bugs.
## CloudFront configuration
- Origin: S3 with **Origin Access Control**, bucket not public. Verify the
bucket policy grants access only to the CloudFront distribution's OAC
principal and to nothing else, and that public access is still blocked.
- Redirect HTTP → HTTPS. TLS 1.2 minimum.
- Default root object `index.html`.
- **Custom error response:** 404 → `/404.html` with **response code 404**, not
200. Returning 200 for a missing page tells crawlers every bad URL is real
content, and it is the single most common misconfiguration in this stack.
- Compression on. Response-headers policy from `05-backend-spec.md`.
- A CloudFront Function for trailing-slash normalisation, so `/about` and
`/about/` do not both resolve as separate indexable URLs.
## Branch model
`main` is production; a push to `main` is what triggers a deploy. Work on
short-lived branches, open a PR, merge.
**The CI pipeline has never run.** Not for want of a lockfile — `npm ci`,
`astro check` and `astro build` all work now — but because the deploy user does
not exist (Q22) and Actions are not enabled with a runner registered (Q23).
Treat "every push deploys" as the design; today the path is `npm run deploy`.
**Pull request checks — planned, not implemented:** `npm run build` ·
`astro check` · lint · Lighthouse CI against the budgets in `04-seo-spec.md` ·
link check. `.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml` has **no `pull_request` trigger**
(only `push` on `main` and `workflow_dispatch`), so nothing gates a merge today.
`npm run build`, `npm run check` and `npm run lint` all run clean locally.
**Lighthouse is still not one of the checks that can be wired — and the reason
changed on 2026-08-31.** `npm run lighthouse` exists again (step 7a, `AGENTS.md`
§7), so the blocker is no longer a missing script: it is that standalone
Lighthouse drives an **installed browser** and the runner has none. Wiring it
would need Chrome on the `act_runner` host (Q23). Wire the other four; do not
write a workflow step that shells out to a browser that is not there. The gate
lives locally and on the cutover checklist below.
Tag every production deploy `v<year>.<n>` so a rollback has something to name.
## Rollback
1. Re-run the workflow at the last good tag, or
2. `git revert` and push, or
3. Restore from S3 object versioning — **already Enabled** on the site bucket
(`AGENTS.md` §7). It is the
difference between a rollback and a rebuild; do not turn it off.
Then invalidate `/*`.
## Cutover checklist — D11 is a single shot, so run all of it
> **The commands are in `docs/09-cutover-runbook.md`.** This list is what must be
> true; that file is how, in order, with each command's verification and the
> output to expect. It also records the order dependency this list cannot show:
> **the distribution work goes first and the site sync goes last**, because
> reversing them puts 22 of 23 pages behind a 403 for as long as a CloudFront
> deployment takes.
> 🛑 **TWO THINGS BLOCK THIS ENTIRE LIST AS AT 2026-09-02: ONE WAITING PERIOD
> AND ONE READ-THROUGH.**
>
> ⚠️ *(The count has moved repeatedly in one day and the DIRECTION is the only
> part worth reading — the number of moves is deliberately not stated, because a
> tally of how often a tally changed is the same trap one level up. It said ONE for part of 2026-09-02 and that was a
> **defect** — the wording approval Pouya reserved had been recorded only inside
> records marked closed, the `TODO(pouya)` deleted, Q62 struck, this callout
> ticked, so nothing would have stopped unapproved copy publishing
> (`adversarial-reviewer`, D20 pass round 1). Q63 was then **answered** in three
> limbs by ruling, which is a gate closed by an answer rather than by deletion —
> and answering it **opened Q64**, one paragraph lower on the same page. Q64 then
> left the list a **third** way: **the paragraph it was about was deleted**, so
> the question is moot rather than answered. **Closed, deleted, and moot look
> identical in a count and nowhere else, which is why the count is never the
> record.** The second slot is no longer a question at all — it is the human
> pass, promoted here from the checklist below because that is where the last
> reserved approval went missing.)*
>
> 1. **Q60 — the retention MECHANISM has still not been observed.** TTL is
> `ENABLED` and no record has been watched to disappear, and
> `/legal/privacy/` asserts the mechanism, not merely the period. `docs/09`
> Part 10 is the test; its earliest useful reading is **48 hours** after the
> record is written and it does not call failure before **7 days**, so
> **start it before anything else on this page.** It is the one blocker
> that is a waiting period rather than a task.
> 2. **Pouya has not yet read every page against `AGENTS.md` §4.** The human
> pass — the other half of D20, and not delegable. **It is also where the
> §Who can see it approval now lands:** Pouya ruled on 2026-09-02 that the
> read-through *is* the approval and that nothing is to be held open waiting
> on a separate wording sign-off. The item under **Copy and claims** below
> carries what to read first and why.
>
> ✅ **CLOSED 2026-09-02 — Q64, MOOT.** It asked whether anyone else holds the
> AWS root password or its MFA device, because the page published *"has no
> programmatic key, and I hold it"* one paragraph below *"the small number of
> people who administer it with me"*, where a reader takes it as **sole**
> custody. **Pouya's second ruling that day deleted the sentence** — the section
> is now four plain statements and says nothing about root — so the question no
> longer gates anything. ⚠️ **The underlying fact is unchanged and unestablished:
> §7 records root as *held by Pouya*, which is not *held only by Pouya*, and
> nothing measured can settle it. Nothing may be published about root custody
> without asking again.**
>
> ✅ **CLOSED 2026-09-02 — Q63, all three limbs, by ruling.** **(a)** The §Who
> can see it wording is **approved with two trims** — the editorial closing
> sentence struck, and the mailbox clause rewritten per (b). **(b)**
> `info@smlcompany.ca` is a **delegated mailbox read by Pouya and by
> administrative staff**, and the page now says so instead of *"anyone who can
> reach that mailbox"*. **(c)** The account **root credential is held by Pouya**;
> it has no programmatic key and MFA is on, and the page now states the first two
> of those. ⚠️ **AND THE ANSWER CHANGED THE HEADLINE SENTENCE:** Pouya's
> attestation is that *"two people is an exaggeration… a handful is accurate"*,
> because **the simulation counts identities and the page was reading them as
> humans**. No numeric human headcount ships; the page attributes read access to
> *"the account's administrators — me, and the small number of people who
> administer it with me"*. §12 **R21** is re-scoped to match.
> ⚠️ *(Superseded the same day in its details, not in its rulings: the ruling
> below cut the section to four plain statements, so the sentence quoted above is
> no longer the shipped one and root is not mentioned at all. Each limb of Q63
> still stands — no headcount, the mailbox named, root attested in §7.)*
>
> ✅ **CLOSED 2026-09-02 — THE SECTION IS GENERIC, by a second ruling the same
> day.** *"It over-explains technical mechanics that belong in the evidence file,
> not in front of an inquirer."* §Who can see it is now **four short statements**
> — who can read it, that the receiving system can only add a record, where the
> notification goes and who reads it, and that the confirmation sits with the
> reader's own provider. **Deleted from §Who can see it:** the measurement
> paragraph, the root-credential sentence, the single-sign-on and federated-
> login enumeration, the resource-policy clause, the *"company that runs a
> database"* aside, the deploy-credential sentence and the three-copies
> summary. ⚠️ **THE SHARED-ACCOUNT CLAUSE WAS CUT WITH THEM AND THEN RESTORED
> — to §Where it is stored, where it belongs.** It is a storage disclosure
> rather than mechanics, the ruling did not name it, and without it no page
> told a reader their intake sits in an account that also runs unrelated
> systems (`adversarial-reviewer`, round 1). **These lists must stay identical
> — there were four of them and they named four different sets.** **None of
> that verified
> material was lost** — all of it stays in `AGENTS.md` §7 and
> `docs/reference/intake-table-access-verification.md`, and the section comment in
> `src/pages/legal/privacy.astro` bars restoring it to the page. **The risk moved
> in the right direction:** every deleted sentence was a claim about a system
> outside this repository that nothing reports on, which is what §12 **R21**
> exists for — R21 is re-scoped from five live claims to two.
>
> ✅ **CLOSED 2026-09-02 — THE CONSENT STRING NAMES THE CORPORATION.** *"I
> consent to **SML Company Ltd** storing and using the information in this
> form…"*, per ruling, replacing the natural person. It is the one sentence a
> submitter actually agrees to and it is the PIPEDA basis, and the policy it
> links to describes a mailbox read by administrative staff — a corporation is
> the party that matches, and `/legal/privacy/` now names it in terms under §Why
> it is collected. **The NAME ONLY:**
> §4 verifies the federal incorporation, records it as *not published*, and
> cautions that it must never be read beside the licence-status row. `docs/05`
> §Consent text carries the string verbatim and moved with it.
>
> ✅ **CLOSED 2026-09-02 — Q62.** `/legal/privacy/` no longer states anything
> false about who can read the intake table. Pouya's ruling was **state the
> truth**, not remove the second administrator's access: the page attributes read
> access to the account's administrators and names their role. *(It said "two
> people can read it" until the Q63 ruling later the same day replaced the count,
> and the ruling after that cut the section to four plain statements — of the two
> stronger facts this entry originally credited it with, the writing function's
> add-only access still ships and the deploy credential's lack of access does
> not. See the two blocks above.)* The
> `sole-administrator-q62` tripwire in `check-claims.mjs` **stays permanently**
> by the same ruling, extended from two alternatives to **five**: the clause the
> first form could not see two sections up the same page, the summary that would
> have re-asserted the struck number four lines below the corrected paragraph,
> and the sentence that carried the false count. Proven both ways against the
> pre-correction page rebuilt from `bd282aa` — **exit 1 with 5 matches**, exit 0
> on the corrected page, and **re-proven both ways after the Q63 rewrite**, same
> 5 matches at the same lines.
>
> ✅ **CLOSED 2026-09-02 — the `/med-arb/` gloss.** Struck, with no replacement
> and no competence claim, per ruling; **ratified as shipped** on 2026-09-02 with
> no credential line restored. **Pouya's note, recorded because it is the reason
> and not a detail: med-arb is a service he provides, not a designation.** That is
> what makes the struck gloss unrecoverable rather than merely unsourced — there
> is no designation to cite for it. The ADRIC-sourced material carries the
> section.
**Cutover prep — deferred maintenance, done BEFORE the checklist below**
This group exists because deferring a thing and forgetting it look identical
three weeks later. Each item carries the date it was deferred and the reason, so
the decision is re-readable rather than re-litigated.
- [ ] ⚠️ **TWO DEPENDENCY MAJORS ARE ONE BEHIND, DEFERRED 2026-09-01 BY RULING.**
`@astrojs/mdx` **^7.0.8 → 8.0.0** and `typescript` **^6.0.3 → 7.0.2**.
Pouya's reasoning: *"npm audit is clean and majors mid-walkthrough add churn
without user value."* `npm audit` reports **0 vulnerabilities**
`[verified 2026-09-01]`, so this is a churn decision and not a security one —
and it would become a security decision the moment that stops being true.
**Take both majors here, before cutover, and read the changelogs rather than
the version numbers**: an MDX major can change how `docs/03`'s copy renders,
and a TypeScript major can change what `astro check` accepts, which is a
gate on both deploy paths. **`AGENTS.md` R11 keeps firing at every phase
boundary as designed** — this item is the deferral, not a replacement for the
reminder, and R11 is what will raise the next pin that drifts.
**The sweep behind this item, `npm view <pkg> version` across all 19 pins
`[verified 2026-09-01]`:** those two are the only majors behind. Four are a
minor or patch behind and are already satisfied by their own carets, so they
need no edit — `astro` 7.2.9 → **7.2.10**, `@astrojs/sitemap` 3.7.3 → 3.7.4,
`globals` 17.11.0 → 17.12.0, `typescript-eslint` 8.68.0 → 8.69.0. The
remaining 13 are current. Re-run the sweep here rather than trusting this
list: it is dated for that reason
**Content and compliance**
> ⚠️ **THE FIRST TWO ITEMS ARE THE PROJECT'S ONLY FULL CLAIMS PASS — D20, Pouya,
> 2026-08-30.** `claims-auditor` no longer runs per build step; `/build` Phase 3
> is `adversarial-reviewer` alone. Everything the register is meant to prevent
> therefore lands here. `AGENTS.md` D20 records both the reasoning and what
> deferring it costs — read it before treating either item as a formality, and do
> not tick one because `npm run check:claims` is green. That script is a greppable
> tripwire; it cannot read a page.
- [ ] **`claims-auditor` run over EVERY page in `dist/`, findings resolved.**
**This is the project's only full claims pass. Nothing publishes until it
is clean.** Not per-page in isolation — the pass exists here because the
defects worth catching late are the ones that only exist once the pages sit
next to each other. Give it the whole built site and the reading order a
visitor takes.
✅ **IT HAS RUN ONCE, 2026-09-01, OVER ALL 23 PAGES — AND IT RETURNED
FAIL WITH EIGHT FINDINGS, WHICH IS THE ARGUMENT FOR D20 RATHER THAN
AGAINST IT.** Five are corrected (`/practice/energy/`'s lede asserted a
change to how *generation* connects, which the extract's own quotation
denies; `/practice/insurance/` stated an absolute adjudicator
disqualification where LAT Rule 14.3 says *"except with the consent of the
parties"*, and glossed one permissive sentence as *"the Tribunal's own
materials point parties toward mediation"*; `/practice/technology/` asserted
*"no federal or Ontario statute"* — a universal over the **four**
instruments its extract checked — and its own note then disclaimed that
conclusion as the Commissioner's words; `/med-arb/` said the ADRIC Med-Arb
Rules were presented to the membership where the source says a **discussion
draft** was). ✅ **Two of the three remaining were ruled and closed
2026-09-02** — Q62 (the page now states the measured truth) and the
`/med-arb/` gloss (struck, no replacement).
⚠️ **AND THE PASS WAS RE-RUN OVER THOSE TWO FIXES ON 2026-09-02, WHICH IS
WHAT MAKES THE ITEM CLOSEABLE — IT RETURNED FAIL WITH EIGHT MORE.** This is
the same pass completing, not a per-step audit reinstated: a FAIL whose
fixes are never re-audited leaves *"findings resolved"* asserted rather than
checked. **Five of the eight were in the fixes themselves** — the
replacement copy reintroduced an absolute third-party negative of the
shape struck from this page on 2026-08-31, claimed an enumeration the
evidence file did not support, asserted *"the one other place a copy
exists"* when the inquirer's confirmation carries the whole submission,
left `LAST_UPDATED` at 31 August on the change set that rewrote the page's
central disclosure, and left *"your IP address"* standing when `docs/09`
Part 7.2 had said in terms to fold it into the Q62 edit. Two were on
`/med-arb/`: the struck gloss left *"the section above"* pointing at the
ADRIC rule set and *"the agreement"* with no antecedent, and the bare
designations line was left sitting directly under ADRIC's competence
quotation. One was declined with a reason (§Rules' heading — see the
Change Log). **All corrected or declined; the pass is clean on findings
and the item is open only on the human halves above.**
**Two things about that result are worth carrying forward.** The pass found
no defect in any claim about Pouya, his credentials or his designations —
every one traced. What it found was **five over-reaches in glosses on
sourced legal material**, which is the failure mode a per-step claims run on
a single page is least able to see and the one `check:claims` cannot grep
for at all. **And it re-derived a stale instruction inside its own brief:**
`.claude/agents/claims-auditor.md` still tells it Q.Arb is *"commenced
August 2026"*, which §4 struck on 2026-08-29 — applied literally it would
have flagged correct copy and demanded the struck form. It read §4 instead.
That is the fifth stale claim found in that file and it is not the agent's
to fix
- [x] ✅ **THE §Who can see it WORDING APPROVAL IS DISCHARGED — Pouya's ruling,
2026-09-02: *"the read-through is the approval."*** Q62 settled what the
section must **say** and he reserved the **wording**; he then ruled twice on
it the same day — Q63(a) approving with two trims, and the second ruling
cutting the section to four plain statements — and directed in terms that
nothing be held open waiting on a separate sign-off. ⚠️ **THIS TICK IS NOT
"THE TEXT HAS BEEN READ".** It records that the reserved approval has
**moved**, to the read-through blocker in the callout above and the item
below. Two ticked boxes stood here for one round — one for the ruling, one
for the text — because a single tick over changed copy is how an approval
requirement went missing the first time (`adversarial-reviewer`, round 2).
They collapse into this one only because the ruling collapsed them, and
the gate did not disappear: **it is blocker 2 in the callout above**, which
is the most-read place on this page rather than the least.
- [x]**CLOSED 2026-09-02 — Q64 IS MOOT: THE PARAGRAPH WAS DELETED.** It asked
whether anyone else holds the AWS root password or its MFA device, because
`/legal/privacy/` published *"has no programmatic key, and I hold it"* one
paragraph below *"the small number of people who administer it with me"*
where a reader takes it as **sole** custody, which nothing establishes.
Pouya's second ruling that day struck the sentence along with the rest of
the mechanics, so no page says anything about root and the question gates
nothing. The `TODO(pouya)` is gone from
`src/pages/legal/privacy.astro` with the paragraph that carried it.
⚠️ **THE FACT IS STILL UNESTABLISHED AND THAT DID NOT CHANGE.** §7 records
root as *held by Pouya*, which is not *held only by Pouya*; root is not an
IAM principal and cannot be simulated. **Nothing about root custody may be
published without asking him again** — the section comment in the page
source carries that bar, because "we deleted it" and "we checked it" are
the same green tick from three weeks away.
- [x] ✅ **Q63(b) ANSWERED 2026-09-02 — `info@smlcompany.ca` is a DELEGATED
MAILBOX: Pouya and administrative staff read it.** The page said *"anyone
who can reach that mailbox"*, which was true either way and answered the
mail half of the question on a lower standard than the table half. It now
states who reads it. The fact is in `AGENTS.md` §7 and **§12 R21's trigger
covers it** — like the AWS enumeration, nothing reports when a delegation
changes. ⚠️ **The answer reached FOUR sentences, not the one the question
named** — §Where it is stored twice, §How long it is kept once, §Who can
see it once — because *"my mailbox"* had been written as a personal one
throughout. That is the fifth partial sweep on this page's who-can-see-it
set; the section comment in `src/pages/legal/privacy.astro` enumerates
them **by opening phrase rather than by count** — deliberately, because the
count has been wrong twice, and this line carried "eight" for a round after
the comment itself had been corrected to nine (`adversarial-reviewer`,
round 2). Read the list, not a number
- [ ] **Pouya has read every page against `AGENTS.md` §4.** The human pass. It is
the other half of D20 and it is not delegable — his reading is what the
per-step audit was traded for.
⚠️ **START WITH `/legal/privacy/` §Who can see it. IT IS BLOCKER 2 IN THE
CALLOUT ABOVE, AND THIS READ *IS* THE APPROVAL** — Pouya ruled on
2026-09-02 that nothing waits on a separate wording sign-off. Every
sentence in it changed three times that day — Q62's ruling, Q63's, then the
ruling that cut it to **four plain statements** — and it is the only
section on the site whose subject lives entirely outside this repository.
**It is now four sentences and should take a minute**; that is the point of
the cut. The verified material behind them is in
`docs/reference/intake-table-access-verification.md` and `AGENTS.md` §7 if
he wants to check any of it, and **the page deliberately no longer cites
it**.
**Then read the two `/contact/` sentences against it, which is a judgement
rather than a defect** — `/contact/received/` says *"email me directly at
`info@smlcompany.ca` — that reaches me whether or not the receipt did"* and
`/contact/` says *"Send the form below, or email me directly"*. **Neither is
false and neither asserts exclusivity**; the mail does reach him. But
`/legal/privacy/` now discloses that administrative staff read that mailbox,
and a party who has just been told to send dispute detail *"directly"* to
the neutral may take more from the word than is true. A sweep of all 23
built pages found these two as the only other surfaces touching the point.
Raised as **consider**, not blocking, by `adversarial-reviewer` round 1.
✅ **THE THIRD SURFACE IS DECIDED — the CONSENT string now names the
corporation.** *"I consent to **SML Company Ltd** storing and using the
information in this form…"*, Pouya's ruling 2026-09-02, replacing the
natural person. It is the one sentence a submitter actually agrees to and
it is the PIPEDA basis, and the policy it links to describes a mailbox read
by administrative staff — a corporation is the party that matches, and
`/legal/privacy/` now names it in terms under §Why it is collected. **The sweep that had missed it was anchored on
mailbox vocabulary** (*"email me directly"*, *"reaches me"*), which is R8's
sharpest edge: the right command, the wrong anchor.
⚠️ **THE PAGE AROUND IT STILL SAYS "me" AND "I", AND THAT IS DELIBERATE, NOT
AN OVERSIGHT — read the two together and say if it reads wrong.** The
ruling changed the consent sentence and nothing else; `/legal/privacy/` is
written in the first person throughout (*"whatever you send me"*, *"in your
hands rather than mine"*), and `/contact/` is too. Nothing is false either
way — he is the accountable individual, the corporation holds the systems —
but the checkbox and the prose beside it now name different parties, and
**that is a judgement about voice which is his and not a reviewer's.**
- [x] ✅ **MEMBERSHIPS RE-CONFIRMED 2026-09-02 — Pouya: ADRIC, ADRIO, the three
OBA sections and the CTF are all current.** §4 and `src/data/site.ts` are
re-stamped `[verified 2026-09-02 — Pouya]`. ⚠️ **THERE ARE TWO ARRAYS AND
RE-STAMPING DOES NOT CHECK THAT THEY AGREE.** `CREDENTIALS.memberships`
feeds `/about/`'s visible list and `/bio/`; **`MEMBERSHIP_ORGS` feeds
`/process/` §Confidentiality and the `memberOf` triples**, and `site.ts`
records that the two differ on three of four lines. `_MembershipParity`
compares their lengths only, so a substitution passes `npm run check` in
silence. An earlier form of this line said `schema.ts` emitted from the
same constant (`adversarial-reviewer`, round 1).
**RE-ARM THIS FOR THE NEXT REPUBLISH — the row does not close.** `AGENTS.md`
§12 **R10**, which is an **event trigger and cutover is one of its two
events.** Q44 closed 2026-08-28 and the group is published on `/about/`
(ADRIC, ADRIO, the three OBA sections, the CTF, `[verified 2026-08-28 —
Pouya]`), so this item is no longer "publish them" — it is **"ask him
again, then re-stamp §4 with the cutover date."**
**Pouya declined renewal-date tracking**, which is exactly why this sits on
the checklist: there is no date on which anyone would otherwise re-check.
OCNI lapsed quietly and §4 records it as "not current, do not publish" —
found roughly a year late. A stamp is not a renewal receipt.
**Do NOT add a currency sentence to the page while you are here** — his
ruling is *"list the memberships; promise nothing about their future
state"*, and the struck sentence stays struck.
**`memberOf` IS EMITTED on `/about/`** — Q53 answered 2026-08-28 and the
withholding is dropped, so the graph asserts the same four memberships the
page shows. **This item therefore covers both**: re-confirming before
cutover means `src/data/schema.ts` as well as the visible list, and they
must not be allowed to diverge.
**§4 records yearly renewal for the OBA sections and the CTF only** — it
says nothing about ADRIC's or ADRIO's period, and an earlier version of
this line asserted "all renew yearly", which §4 does not support.
⚠️ **ASKED AND ANSWERED ON 2026-09-02 — that is why this is ticked, and
the distinction is the whole of R10.** It was ticked against a fresh
one-line confirmation from Pouya, not against the 2026-08-28 stamp: *a
stamp is not a renewal receipt.* The question to ask next time is
unchanged — *"are ADRIC, ADRIO, the three OBA sections and the CTF all
still current?"* — and the answer is followed by re-stamping **all four
stamp-bearing sites**: §4, `src/data/site.ts`, `src/data/schema.ts` and
**`src/pages/about.astro`**, which is the page that renders the group and
is therefore the file an editor most plausibly reads to check currency.
⚠️ **It was missing from this list and carried a stale date in the present
tense** (`adversarial-reviewer`, round 2).
⚠️ **NO RUNNING TALLY OF WHAT WAITS ON POUYA IS KEPT HERE ANY MORE.** This
line said "the only cutover item", was corrected to "one of three", and was
then rewritten as "the one item still waiting… is his own read-through" **in
the same change set that opened Q64** — wrong three times, in the same
direction each time: a count written while the change set was still adding
items. **The checkbox column is the tally.** Unticked items above are what
waits on him.
- [x] ✅ **THE SEVEN VOLATILE `docs/reference/` EXTRACTS RE-CHECKED — `AGENTS.md`
§12 R18, whose trigger is the same "before any cutover" event R10 uses.** ⚠️ **THIS ITEM DID NOT EXIST UNTIL 2026-09-02 AND THAT
WAS THE DEFECT**: R18 names a cutover as its trigger and the cutover
checklist carried no item to fire it, which is Q22's shape — a documented
control living somewhere it cannot run. R10 was on this list; R18 was not.
**Re-checked 2026-09-01 by Pouya. All seven hold and no shipped sentence
changed.** Three were re-verified against a source and four are held
unchanged on a cadence judgement rather than a fresh retrieval — the
distinction is stamped per limb in `AGENTS.md` §12 R18 and in each
extract, because "re-checked" and "not looked at, judged slow" are not the
same stamp and collapsing them is how OCNI lapsed.
**Re-fire this on the next republish that turns on one of them**, and note
that the fastest mover — Bill C-36 — needs no page edit while it sits at
second reading and needs one the day it does not.
- [ ] **The OBA sections stay listed; the LSO stays out** — a check that nobody
has tidied the two into one list, not an open question. `AGENTS.md` **Q51
answered 2026-08-28**: the Law Society is the **regulator**, so membership
*is* licensure; the OBA is a **voluntary association**, which admits
members it does not license. Structural, and independent of eligibility
details — which is what made the question unanswerable inside this repo
before the ruling. **R1 is still live**: same page, same subject, different
question
- [ ] No `TODO(pouya)` remains in any shipped page
- [ ] No matter counts, rates, dollar figures, or testimonials anywhere
- [ ] Q.Arb described as **held** everywhere it appears — `Q.Arb (ADRIC /
ADRIO)`, no acquisition date. **Every stage form is barred**: "commenced",
"in progress", "pathway", "not yet" (amended 2026-08-29). `npm run
check:claims` enforces the **stage words** and a **date near the
designation**, on `dist/`, in both deploy paths. It cannot catch a stage
expressed without naming the designation; that gap is `claims-auditor`'s to
close, and it is stated in the pattern itself
- [ ] **C.Med-Arb appears nowhere in `dist/`** — struck entirely 2026-08-29
- [ ] `/fees/` carries the rates confirmed in D14 and `docs/07-fees.md`, or the page does not ship. **And the reservation sentence sits adjacent to the overtime row** — Q59, ruled 2026-08-31: a reader who takes the $500 and skips *"a full day reserves the day; half-day overtime is subject to availability"* has read a different offer, and the arithmetic then makes the full-day rate look strictly worse
- [ ] Privacy policy matches the backend as actually built. **Three of its statements are derived and cannot drift** — the collected-data list from `INTAKE_FIELDS`, the retention period from the handler's own figure, the analytics paragraph from `ANALYTICS.installed`. **If analytics are installed, that flag flips and the policy's last-updated date moves on the same build**; a policy naming a processor that processes nothing is a false disclosure
- [ ] **`/insights/` — check which state it is in.** While no article is published the page emits `noindex` (derived from the collection) and `SiteHeader` keeps Insights out of the primary nav until **two** are live. Both clear themselves on publication. D9 means the flip is Pouya's: `src/content.config.ts` refuses `draft: false` without `reviewedByPouya: true`
- [ ] ⚠️ **AND PUBLISHING THE SECOND ARTICLE IS GATED — `AGENTS.md` R20, ruled
2026-09-01.** The flip that makes `/insights/` indexable is the same flip that
adds the **seventh nav item**, and with seven items under fallback font
metrics the masthead measures 141 px across 10561091 px: a 60 px layout shift
on every page and 44 px of `#main` behind the sticky header after the skip
link, both at the **default** text size. **No seventh nav item ships until
that is fixed**, so the fix is a prerequisite of article #2 — not a follow-up
to it. The measurements and the two candidate fixes are on the
seventh-nav-item item under **Technical** below
- [ ] **The five drafted articles are `draft: true` and therefore invisible to `check:claims`**, which reads `dist/`. They were checked once, on 2026-08-31, by temporarily publishing all five and running it — clean on 27 pages. **Re-run it that way before any of them publishes**, because a draft that changes in between is unchecked
**Technical**
- [ ] **`npm run lighthouse` on the full built site**, from a machine with
Chrome — it is not in CI and cannot be (see above). Read the exit status.
Every category ≥ 95 on every page; the accessibility figure is measured
with `prefers-reduced-motion` forced and that qualification is reported
with it (`AGENTS.md` §7).
✅ **Run 2026-09-01 on the 23-page build: exit 0, worst of 23 is
99 / 100 / 100 / 100.** Re-run at cutover — this is dated, not discharged.
⚠️ **The script was enumerating 22 of 23 and its header claimed it
enumerated the site.** It collected `index.html` only, and `404.astro` is
emitted as `dist/404.html`, outside `build.format: 'directory'`. So the
budget would have been asserted over every page except the new one, and
silently. `og:proof` had the identical blind spot and reported it
**backwards** — as the 404 card being orphaned ("generated, but no built
page references it") rather than the page being unmeasured. Both fixed; the
two use different path forms for the same file on purpose, and each says why
beside the code. **`check:claims` was never affected** — it takes any
`.html`, so the new page's copy was inside the claim register from its first
build. One instrument of three saw the page, which is the argument for
having three.
⚠️ **One reported number sits at its budget: LCP on `/` is 2.03 s against
`docs/04`'s < 2.0 s.** The script reports LCP and CLS without asserting
them, deliberately — simulated throttling on a loopback server is not the
Slow 4G field measurement `docs/04` budgets against — so this is not a
failing gate and must not be reported as a passing one either. CLS is
0.000 on all 23
- [ ] Every page renders fully with JavaScript disabled
- [ ] `curl` of each URL returns real content, not a shell
- [ ] All internal links resolve; no orphan pages
- [ ] Sitemap generated and correct; `robots.txt` served, not 403
- [ ] Rich Results Test passes; OG previews render in LinkedIn and Slack
- [ ] **`npm run og:proof`** — every page's `og:image` resolves to a file in
`dist/`, and every generated card's headline is its page's own `<h1>`.
R15 is discharged (step 7b) so this is a regression check rather than a
blocker on the interim; it stays on the list because a broken preview image
is invisible from inside the repo, and because card text cannot be reached
by `check:claims`. Run `npm run og:proof -- --sheet` and **look at the
contact sheet** as well — the check compares strings, not rendering
- [ ] **404 returns a 404 status AND serves the 404 page. Both halves, and until
2026-09-01 neither existed.** There was **no 404 page in the site at all**
— no `src/pages/404.astro`, 22 pages, and `docs/04` had asked for one
("Real, styled, with search-intent links out") since before build step 1 —
**and** no custom error response on the distribution, so a missing URL
returned S3's `AccessDenied` XML. Measured, not inferred: `/about/` and
`/definitely-not-a-page/` both answered **403, `application/xml`, 111
bytes** on the live distribution. The page now exists (`/404/`, `noindex`,
out of the sitemap, with its own OG card because the registry has one rule
and no exceptions) and `docs/09` Parts 13 configure the distribution. **Tick
this after `docs/09` Part 8.4**, which checks the status *and* greps the body
for the page's own `<h1>` — a 404 status serving an empty body passes the
status half and fails the point
- [ ] 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
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
SUBMISSION.** Both were found by reading the running system rather than the
specs, which is the only way either could have been found.
**(a) The handler wrote the wrong key.** It built its item with
`pk: INTAKE#<uuid>` / `sk: <timestamp>` from `docs/05`'s table, and the
live table's key schema is **`submissionId` (S), no sort key** — a
`PutItem` missing the key attribute fails the whole write with
`ValidationException`, which the handler catches and answers with the
failure page. **The form would have looked broken to every inquirer while
the record went nowhere**, from the moment `/api/*` was wired. A DynamoDB
key schema cannot be altered after creation, so the handler moved to the
table; `docs/05` §Storage records the alternative that was declined.
**(b) The Lambda's invoke permission is `SourceArn`-scoped to the OLD
route.** The one statement on the function conditions
`apigateway.amazonaws.com` on `…/4tl0m5igkj/*/*/submissions`. Add a route at
`/api/intake` without adding a permission and API Gateway is refused: the
caller gets a **500**, and **the Lambda logs nothing at all** because it is
never entered — the hardest possible thing to diagnose from CloudWatch,
which is where anyone would look first.
1. **A CloudFront behaviour routing `/api/*`** to the HTTP API origin
`AGENTS.md` §7 records. The form posts to the same-origin path
`/api/intake` — deliberately, so the CSP can be `form-action 'self'`,
so there is no cross-origin POST, so the endpoint id stays out of the
HTML, and so submitting the form from a laptop does nothing. Without
this behaviour the form 404s.
2. **Deploy `backend/intake/handler.mjs` + `backend/intake/fields.mjs`**,
replacing the hand-built `adr-intake-handler` §7 records. It needs
**SIX** variables — `INTAKE_TABLE`, `SITE_ORIGIN`, `NOTIFY_TO`,
`MAIL_FROM`, `RESPONSE_TIME` and `NO_RETAINER_NOTICE`; it throws at cold
start on any missing one, on purpose. ⚠️ **This list said five until
2026-08-31 and the handler required six.** `NO_RETAINER_NOTICE` became a
`requireEnv` in the same change set and was added to no document, so an
operator working this list would have set five, and the Lambda would
have thrown on **every** invocation — API Gateway answering 5xx and every
inquiry from counsel lost from the moment `/api/*` was wired. Loud in
CloudWatch, silent to Pouya, who has no reason to submit his own form.
Found by `adversarial-reviewer` round 2.
**Two of the six must be verbatim from `src/data/site.ts`:**
`RESPONSE_TIME` from `CONTACT.responseTime` and `NO_RETAINER_NOTICE`
from `NO_RETAINER_NOTICE`. Both are published commitments — the first is
§4/Q27's two-business-day response, the second is the no-retainer notice
`docs/01` §`/contact/` requires, **including its fourth clause about
not itself creating a conflict check**, which a hand-typed copy in the
handler had dropped. `RESPONSE_TIME` must read identically on `/contact/`,
in the confirmation email, and in the bio.
3. **An AGGREGATE API Gateway route throttle** — `docs/09` Part 6.3. Not
expressible in handler code, and it carries load the unimplementable
3-second timing check was specified to carry (`docs/05` §Three
deviations). ⚠️ **THIS ITEM SAID "5 requests / 5 minutes per source IP"
AND THAT IS NOT BUILDABLE AT API GATEWAY** — throttling there is per
route and per stage across all callers. It contradicted this same file's
own correction further down the list, and it is a to-do list an operator
works through, so it would have cost an hour in the API Gateway console
looking for a control that is not there. Per-IP needs AWS WAF, which is
a cost decision and has its own item.
✅ **BOTH DEPLOY PATHS NOW WARN IF ITEM 1 IS MISSING**, so this does not
rest on someone reading this list. `scripts/deploy-local.sh` and
`.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml` each end with an **Intake route check**.
⚠️ **AND THIS PARAGRAPH DESCRIBED A PROBE THE SCRIPTS NO LONGER RUN.** It
said the probe was *"a `POST` to `/api/intake` with **no `Origin`**"* where
*"404 means not routed, 403 means routed and refused… therefore a pass"*.
Both scripts send **`Origin: https://adr.smlcompany.ca`** and assert **303
to `/contact/could-not-send/`**; 403 is a **warning**, not a pass, because
it cannot be told apart from CloudFront rejecting a disallowed method. A
stale description of a live control, in the spec that governs it — found by
`adversarial-reviewer`, 2026-09-01.
**What the probe actually is:** the handler validates, finds an empty
submission, and redirects — which happens **before any DynamoDB write and
before any email**, and is what makes it safe against production. It warns
rather than fails, because by that point the site is deployed and failing
the job would not un-deploy it. **404 is ambiguous between three causes**
and `docs/09` Part 7.1 lists them with the one command that separates them.
This replaced an `INTAKE_ENDPOINT` guard that blocked deploys on a variable
nothing read.
- [ ] **DYNAMODB TTL ENABLED ON THE TABLE, AND VERIFIED BY A TEST RECORD. THIS
ONE BACKS A PUBLISHED PROMISE AND MUST NOT BE TICKED FROM THE HANDLER
CODE.** `/legal/privacy/` states that a record is *"deleted automatically
by the database rather than by someone remembering to do it"* after 24
months. The handler writes the `ttl` attribute; **TTL must also be enabled
on the table** — ⚠️ **§7 records whether it is, and it has not always
been**, which is why this item cannot be ticked from the handler code: the
handler only writes the attribute. On a privacy policy an unbacked
mechanism is a false statement to the public. `aws dynamodb
describe-time-to-live --table-name <the table §7 records>` and confirm
`TimeToLiveStatus: ENABLED` — then, because **`ENABLED` proves the setting
and not the behaviour**, write a record with a near-future `ttl` and
confirm it actually disappears. Both halves, or the item stays open. §9
Q60 and §12 R19 track it; `src/pages/legal/privacy.astro` carries the
matching `TODO(pouya)`.
✅ **THE SETTING IS RE-CONFIRMED AND THE PROCEDURE NOW EXISTS:**
`TimeToLiveStatus: ENABLED` on attribute `ttl` `[re-verified 2026-09-01 —
describe-time-to-live]`, and `docs/09-cutover-runbook.md` **Part 10** is the
behaviour test — write a row with a near-future `ttl`, record its id to a
file, and check on a **different day**.
⚠️ **START IT EARLY. DynamoDB's TTL sweeper is not prompt and AWS does not
promise that it is** — deletion typically lands within a couple of days of
the timestamp passing, so the runbook sets the earliest useful check at
**48 hours** and refuses to call a failure before **7 days**. A check run
five minutes after the `ttl` that finds the row present has measured
nothing. This is the one blocking item on this list whose answer cannot be
hurried, so it should be started before anything else here, not last.
⚠️ **And `get-item` on a missing key exits 0 with an empty body** — read the
output, not the exit status; a script checking only the status reports
present and absent identically.
- [ ] **`npm run check:intake`** — the form's field table and the Lambda's agree
on names, requiredness, caps and option sets. They are two independent
tables on purpose (`docs/05`); this is what stops them drifting
- [ ] **Both POST-redirect-GET landing pages reachable and `noindex`** —
`/contact/received/` and `/contact/could-not-send/`. Both are excluded from
the sitemap in `astro.config.mjs`
- [ ] **Regenerate and re-commit the bio PDF** — `npm run build && npm run bio:pdf`.
Nothing in the build does this, so a change to `/bio/`, to §4, to the rate
card or to the print styles leaves the committed PDF stale. It asserts one
page and writes nothing if the count is wrong (R16). ⚠️ **It is not
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
- [ ] **`X-Robots-Tag: noindex` on `*.pdf`**, via a CloudFront response-headers
policy. **This is the PDF half of a decision already taken for the page.**
`/bio/` is `noindex` and excluded from the sitemap because it is a condensed
duplicate of `/about/` and `/fees/`, and *"two URLs competing on the same
content is the one thing `docs/04` is most concerned with."* The committed
PDF is a rendering of that same page, it is linked from `/about/` which is
`index,follow`, `robots.txt` allows everything, and **Google indexes PDFs** —
so the duplicate the page-level `noindex` prevents arrives as a file
instead. A `Disallow` will not do it: a blocked URL can still be listed.
Found by `adversarial-reviewer`, 2026-08-31
- [ ] Booking link works, including the no-JavaScript fallback — **conditional on R6**; booking is parked and `CONTACT.bookingUrl` is `null`, so nothing renders and this passes vacuously until a tool is chosen. **Nothing on `/contact/` mentions booking**, deliberately
- [ ] Favicon set complete
- [ ] Tested on iOS Safari, Android Chrome, desktop Safari/Chrome/Firefox
- [ ] Tested at 320 px and at 200% zoom
- [x] ✅ **THE 200%-TEXT NAV OVERFLOW IS FIXED, 2026-09-01 — THIS ITEM IS
DISCHARGED.** Pouya reopened the step-1 header decision and ruled *fix, do
not accept*. `flex-wrap: nowrap` is gone from `.header-inner` (the necessary
and sufficient one, measured) and from `.nav-list`, and the masthead is
sticky only while it is one row — a saturating `clamp()` gate in two bands,
66 rem and 76 rem. Measured across 22 pages × 16 widths, before and after on
the same grid: **root-style 32 px went from 175 of 352 page-widths over to
0**; minimum font size from 219 to 88, all of the remainder being the footer;
default font size stays 0. Nav items and CTA on-screen in **1408 of 1408**
measurements. The shipped rendering at the default size is
**geometry-identical — 0 differences on 352 page-widths**, header 81.00 px,
CTA on the content edge, with six nav items and with a seventh.
⚠️ **AND IT WAS VERIFIED ACROSS THE INTERMEDIATE ROOT SIZES, WHICH IS WHAT
ROUND 1 DID NOT DO.** WCAG 1.4.4 is a requirement up TO 200 %, not AT 200 %:
round 1 sampled root 16 and root 32 only, both clean, and shipped a gate that
left `#main` behind the header at **20 of 300** grid points across roots
1830. **And round 2 found the gate was one-sided**: Chrome's "Font size" has
five presets (9 / 12 / 16 / 20 / 24 px) and only 16 had been swept, so at
**9 px the masthead wrapped for the opposite reason** — the `80rem` content
cap shrinks while the header's px minimums do not — leaving **65 px of `#main`
behind the header** on 21 of 22 pages at every width. A second gate term
(`1rem - 16px`) closes it, and closes a **pre-existing 12 px** shortfall on
all 22 pages at that setting as well. Now **0 failing across 762 points**:
roots 915 (70), roots 1632 (300), the band seam (198), both thresholds
(144) and all five default-font-size presets (50). Both findings by
`adversarial-reviewer`; `docs/02` §Reflow carries all of it
- [x] ✅ **THE FOOTER REFLOW RESIDUAL IS FIXED, 2026-09-01.** Document overflow of
**14 px at 320, 38 px at 1024, 30 px at 1056 and 19 px at 1100 CSS px** on all
22 pages under Chrome's minimum-font-size setting, 0 from 1200 px up. One
cause at all four: `info@smlcompany.ca` has no break opportunity, so its
**min-content width is 310 px**. One declaration closes it —
`.footer-contact a[href^='mailto:'] { overflow-wrap: anywhere }` — measured
**88 of 352 → 0 of 352**, the other three enlargement methods unchanged at 0
of 352, and the normal-settings identity check at **0 differences on 352
page-widths across 8 metrics**. It also closed **57 cases of the link
overrunning its own box** at root style 2632 px that the document-level
table reports as clean. ⚠️ **The earlier note here said the 320 px half "is a
column-sizing question and is not the same fix" — that was wrong**; the
column sizing at 320 px *is* that same 310 px min-content, arriving through
`.footer-grid`'s `auto` track instead of through text spilling out of a
`minmax(0, 1fr)` one. `docs/02` §Reflow carries both mechanisms, the negative
control proving `break-word` would not have worked, and the candidates
declined as broader than the cause
- [x] ✅ **THE MINIMUM-FONT-SIZE SC 2.4.11 (AA) FAILURE IS FIXED, 2026-09-01 —
Q61 RULED *fix now* AND CLOSED.** Two declarations on `html` inside the
existing `@media (min-width: 66rem)` block: the plain
`calc(var(--header-h) + var(--space-4))` first, then
`max(calc(var(--header-h) + var(--space-4)), calc(10lh - 83px))`.
**`1lh` and not `rem`, because the font-metric units read the USED font
size** — that is the mechanism the earlier ruling's premise denied existed.
**Measured, with the pre-fix build rebuilt in a worktree and put through the
identical probe:**
the Shift+Tab walk over 6 pages × 5 widths ≥ 1056 px goes from **290
entirely-hidden focus stops of 1,455 to 0** — same grid, same 1,455 steps,
same 344 header-internal stops skipped — while the pre-fix control still
reports **290** (footer 254, `#main` 36), so the probe is proven able to see
the failure it now reports gone.
**The default-settings rendering is unchanged: 0 differences across 352
page-widths × 17 fields = 5,984 comparisons**, full-page geometry
fingerprint included, with a positive control detecting exactly 1 injected
difference. `scroll-padding-top` computes to **97 px** at the default and
**287 px** under the setting against a 270.56 px header; `1lh` on `<html>`
is **18 px / 37 px with every `.woff2` blocked**, identical, because
`<html>` keeps the UA family — the property that the `ch` candidate could
not claim.
**A wider grid than the ruling asked for, and it found a residual: 777
cells over 37 settings went from 63 failing to 12, and nothing got worse in
any cell.** The remainder is the next item, it is **pre-existing**, and it
was deliberately not fixed — Pouya's instruction was to stop and report
anything beyond the one declaration's blast radius
- [ ] ⚠️ **MINIMUM FONT SIZE AT 16 AND 20 STILL LEAVES `#main` BEHIND THE HEADER —
PRE-EXISTING, REDUCED BY Q61'S FIX, AND OUTSIDE ITS MECHANISM.** At
`minimumFontSize=16`, **52 px** of `#main` sits behind the sticky header
after "Skip to content" on `/about/` and `/contact/` at 1280, 1440 and
1920 px — 6 cells; at `minimumFontSize=20`, **14 px** on the same 6. Before
Q61's fix the same grid gave 6 cells at 52 px, **12 at 64 px**, 15 at 75 px
and 15 at 174 px, so every remaining cell is unchanged or better and none
is new.
**Why the `lh` ramp cannot see it, and this is the interesting part:** the
setting *floors* computed sizes, so at `minimumFontSize=16` the root is
genuinely 16 and `1lh` on `<html>` is 18 px — identical to the default —
while the header grows to **149.38 px** because the sub-16 px type (the
11 px tagline, the 14 px eyebrow and nav) is floored up. The ramp reads a
quantity the setting did not move. **A different measurement would be
needed** — `1lh` taken from an element that actually carries the small type,
or a floor on the header — and that is a header change with site-wide reach,
which is why it is filed rather than taken inside a capped review loop.
Not a conformance failure of the same shape as Q61: a partial obscuring is
not SC 2.4.11, which is about a component **entirely** hidden. `docs/02`
§Reflow carries the 777-cell grid
- [x] ✅ **THE `/med-arb/` GLOSS — RULED AND STRUCK, 2026-09-02.** Pouya:
*"strike the gloss sentence. The ADRIC-sourced material carries the page.
No replacement claim, no competence claim."* Applied: the definitional
gloss is struck. ⚠️ **AND SO IS THE DESIGNATIONS CLAUSE THAT THE FIRST
VERSION OF THIS ITEM SAID WAS "NOW THE LEDE" — corrected 2026-09-02,
`adversarial-reviewer` round 2, which found this line describing a page
state the same change set had deleted.** Round 1 of the closing claims
pass found that a bare `DESIGNATIONS_HELD_LINE` sitting directly beneath
§Rules' quotation of ADRIC requiring *"a high level of practitioner
competence"* read as meeting that bar. **§Why this practice now carries an
acceptance sentence and no credential claim at all**; `/about/` publishes
the designations and the JSON-LD carries them. The constraint is recorded
in the section's own comment in `src/pages/med-arb.astro`. **The original
finding is kept below unstruck**, because it is the reasoning behind a
paragraph that is deliberately thin, and a later reader who cannot see why
will fill it.
`claims-auditor`, D20 pass, finding 1: §Why this practice said *"Med-arb is not a third service
bolted onto mediation and arbitration; it is the two of them run under one
agreement"*, and one section above the page publishes ADRIC's own words:
med-arb is *"not merely the merging of separate mediation and arbitration
processes, but a unique process designed to meet the needs of particular
disputants"*. **The gloss asserts what its own cited authority denies in
terms, on the same page.** Remove one of the two — either the *"not merely
the merging"* clause from the quotation, or the *"it is the two of them run
under one agreement"* sentence. ⚠️ **Do not resolve it by adding a
competence claim:** ADRIC answers its own competence sentence with the
Chartered Med-Arb designation and the Med-Arb Foundational Course, neither
of which is held, and C.Med-Arb is struck from this site entirely (§4). The
2026-08-30 fix took the competence proposition out of the **heading** and
left it in the **body**, which is why this is a second pass at the same
paragraph
- [ ] ⚠️ **FOUR PRE-EXISTING DYNAMODB ITEMS HAVE NO `ttl` AND WILL NEVER EXPIRE.**
The table held 4 items before any of this work `[verified 2026-09-01 —
describe-table ItemCount]`, written by the hand-built handler, whose code
is in `docs/reference/AWS-Hosting-Guide.md` Part 8.3 and **writes no `ttl`
attribute at all**. So they are retained indefinitely while
`/legal/privacy/` says a record is deleted automatically after 24 months.
**Pouya's call and not scriptable**, because it turns on something no agent
can determine: whether they are the guide's own smoke test (`Test User`) or
real inquiries that arrived through the old site. Read them, then delete the
test rows or write a `ttl` onto the real ones. `docs/09` Part 7.3
- [ ] ⚠️ **PER-IP RATE LIMITING NEEDS AWS WAF AND IS A COST DECISION — NOT A
LAUNCH BLOCKER.** `docs/05` asked for "5 requests / 5 minutes per source
IP at API Gateway"; **API Gateway throttling is aggregate, not per-IP**, so
that spec line is struck and an aggregate route throttle ships instead
(`docs/09` Part 6.3). A rate-based WAF rule on the distribution is what
would do per-IP. Decide it on price, not on the spec's old wording — and do
not let anything describe the throttle that ships as per-IP
- [ ] ⚠️ **A FOOTER NAV LABEL OVERRUNS ITS COLUMN BY 24 px AT 640 px UNDER
MINIMUM FONT SIZE, WITH 7.7 px OF CLEARANCE TO THE NEXT COLUMN.** No document
overflow at any width, so it fails no success criterion and is cosmetic
today — filed because **7.7 px is one label rename away from two columns
colliding**, and nothing in the build measures it. `.footer-col a`
"Construction & Infrastructure" overruns its 176 px box by **24 px** at
640 px and by 4 px at 700 px (clearance 27.7 px); "Shareholder & Family
Business" by 2 px at 640 px, and — at widths that 12-column grid steps over —
**17 px at 660 px and 11 px at 680 px**. Clean at every other width sampled,
including 768 and 834 px; `minimumFontSize=32`, 22 pages × 12 widths = 264
rows. **A fourth case of the same family: `nav.crumbs > ol` on
`/practice/construction/` @320 px overruns its own 272 px box by 7 px**, also
with zero document overflow. **Rule on both together** — if
`.footer-col a { overflow-wrap: anywhere }` is ruled in, the same call covers
`.crumbs`; if it is declined, decline both and the record is complete.
**`.footer-col a { overflow-wrap: anywhere }` is measured to close it and to
be inert at normal settings**, and is not applied because it changes how six
practice-area names break on a marketing surface under enlargement — a
copy-adjacent call, not a technical one. ⚠️ **And it falsified the reason
given for scoping the email fix to the address** (*"every other footer string
has spaces"*): min-content is set by the longest **word**, not by whether a
space exists. Corrected in `docs/02` §Reflow. Raised by
`adversarial-reviewer`, 2026-09-01
- [ ] ⚠️ **THE SEVENTH NAV ITEM PLUS FALLBACK FONT METRICS — A LAYOUT SHIFT *AND*
A SKIP-LINK FAILURE, AT THE DEFAULT TEXT SIZE, ARMING ITSELF WHEN THE SECOND
INSIGHTS ARTICLE PUBLISHES.** No reader setting is involved: with every
`.woff2` blocked — what a reader on the Slow 4G profile `docs/04` budgets
against sees first, since the fonts are `font-display: swap` — and a seventh
nav item present, the header measures **141 px at every width from 1056 to
1091 px** (a contiguous **36 px** band) and 81 px from 1092 px up; with the
webfonts loaded it is 81 px throughout. Two consequences: **(i)** a **60 px
collapse** when Geist swaps in, on all 22 pages, against the CLS &lt; 0.05
budget — *larger, not new*, since the previous build shifts ~5.6 px in the
same band; and **(ii) 44 px of `#main` behind the sticky header** after "Skip
to content", because 141 px exceeds the 97 px `scroll-padding-top` — **this
half IS new**, the previous build's 86.97 px stayed under 97 px and covered 0.
**Latent, not shipped:** six items never wrap, and `showInsights` turns the
seventh on at two published articles. Two candidate fixes, both Pouya's call
because both are outside "the header and its consumers": raise the desktop
breakpoint past 1091 px, which changes the normal-settings layout in that
band, or give Geist a metric-matched `size-adjust` fallback. Raised by
`adversarial-reviewer`, 2026-09-01; `docs/02` §Reflow carries the measurements.
⚠️ **THIS IS NOT A CUTOVER BLOCKER AND IT IS NOT TICKABLE HERE — IT IS A HARD
PRE-PUBLICATION GATE. Pouya's ruling, 2026-09-01: no seventh nav item ships
until the fallback-metrics defect is fixed**, which makes fixing it a
**prerequisite of publishing the second Insights article**, since that is what
adds the item. It is left unchecked on purpose: a checklist that fires once, at
cutover, cannot discharge a defect that arms itself later on an editorial
decision. ⚠️ **AND THE GATE IS A BUILD FAILURE, NOT THIS CHECKLIST AND NOT A
COMMENT.** `SiteHeader.astro` throws when `published.length >= 2`, with the
measurements and the instruction in the message, so it fires on both deploy
paths on the machine of whoever publishes. **Proven rather than assumed:** two
articles were temporarily flipped to `draft: false` and `npm run build` exited
**1** naming R20; the files were restored and the restoration verified by
`git diff --exit-code` and an unchanged `dist` digest. It was first written as
three prose cross-references and **did not gate** — the build and all five
checks passed while both defects shipped. **Owner: `AGENTS.md` R20**
**Infrastructure**
- [x] **S3 versioning enabled** — `Status: Enabled` `[re-verified 2026-09-01 — get-bucket-versioning]`. This is what makes pass 3's `--delete` recoverable at cutover
- [x] **Bucket not publicly readable; OAC in force** — all four public-access blocks `true`, and a direct `GET` on the S3 hostname returns **403** `[re-verified 2026-09-01 — get-public-access-block, curl]`. ⚠️ **Re-check this after `docs/09` Part 1**, which adds an `s3:ListBucket` statement for the CloudFront service principal so that missing keys return 404 rather than 403. Part 1 asserts the two facts that actually make the grant safe: **no viewer path resolves to the bucket root** (the default root object, then the router, always turn `/` into a key), and the default behaviour **forwards no query strings** to the origin with **no origin request policy** overriding that. ⚠️ **This line used to prescribe `curl "$SITE/?list-type=2"` as "the check that matters"** — and Part 1 was rewritten in the same change set to explain that that check **cannot fail** and is therefore evidence of nothing. Two documents, one fix, and the discarded check survived in the one an operator ticks. Found by `adversarial-reviewer` round 2
- [ ] ACM certificate valid; Namecheap validation CNAME still present
- [ ] **CloudWatch alarms: Lambda `Errors`, API Gateway `5xx`.** ⚠️ **"DLQ depth" was on this line and is struck: a dead-letter queue on this function would never receive anything.** `DeadLetterConfig` applies to **asynchronous** invocations, and API Gateway invokes synchronously — so the alarm would have sat permanently green while telling everyone it was watching, which is this project's most expensive recurring shape (`AGENTS.md` Q22, the Lighthouse row, and now this). `docs/05` §Notification carries the replacement and why there are two alarms rather than one: Lambda `Errors` catches a synchronous failure, and API Gateway `5xx` catches the case where the function is never entered at all
- [ ] Billing budget/alarm still active — `aws budgets describe-budgets --account-id "$(aws sts get-caller-identity --query Account --output text)"`. `docs/reference/AWS-Hosting-Guide.md` set up an **AWS Budget**, which `cloudwatch describe-alarms` will never return. Whether one was actually created is not recorded anywhere: confirm, do not assume
**Post-cutover, same day**
- [ ] Sitemap submitted to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools
- [ ] Live site fetched as an anonymous crawler to confirm indexable content
- [ ] LinkedIn profile and ADRIC/ADRIO listings updated to point here
- [ ] Archive the old single-file build to `_archive/` — do not delete it
- [ ] `AGENTS.md` Change Log entry recording the cutover