Single-request posting — Railspike debug log

Timestamp: 2026-10-29T19:57:39Z Step: 1 handoff Debug mode: enabled by project marker presence

Necessary/useful instructions

Source: step1_solution_assessment.md, compare options and preserve intent. Contribution: distinguishes using the signed post as identity proof from retaining a separate signed bootstrap, and separates protocol one-request scope from Railspike execution mode. Suggestion: retain.

Source: RAILSPIKE.md, authorization and scope protection. Contribution: records the requested pause without treating planning as implementation approval or quietly absorbing G2 browser/vote work. Suggestion: retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

No supported findings.

Uncertain assessments

Source: step1_solution_assessment.md, one-page limit. Required relationship, recovery and study evidence exceed a conventional page; options remain concise. Suggestion: apply page guidance to the comparison rather than required traceability metadata.

Timestamp: 2026-10-29T20:11:53Z Step: 2 handoff Debug mode: enabled (inherited)

Necessary/useful instructions

Source: step2_feature_description.md, shared inventory and completion boundary. Contribution: captured bootstrap consumers and executable one-request acceptance, and separated agent API delivery from untouched browser workflows. Suggestion: retain.

Source: RAILSPIKE.md, request disposition and historical preservation. Contribution: incorporated known-key reuse and documentation inventory while retaining frm.py pause and older G2 decisions. Suggestion: retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

No supported findings.

Uncertain assessments

Source: step2_feature_description.md, one-page limit. User explicitly requested a documentation catalog; the inventory and recovery contract exceed the guideline. Suggestion: allow a separate inventory appendix rather than dropping required review evidence.

Timestamp: 2026-10-29T22:37:54Z Step: Revised Step 2 handoff, scope v2/B Debug mode: enabled (inherited)

Necessary/useful instructions

Source: RAILSPIKE.md, plan review and scope protection. Contribution: preserves the prior Step 2 approval while revising the explicitly rejected anchor choice and requiring review of changed requirements. Suggestion: retain.

Source: experimental effort estimation, above-1.0 split discussion. Contribution: records the cost of a separate signed bootstrap and why an intermediate registration-only cycle would not yet meet one-request posting. Suggestion: retain discussion rather than automatic splitting.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

No supported findings.

Uncertain assessments

The scope remains one end-to-end feature but the 1.05 judgment exceeds the comfortable reference. Stage sizing is still pending; no claim that implementation fits has been established.

Timestamp: 2026-10-29T22:59:48Z Step: 3 handoff, scope v2/B Debug mode: enabled (inherited)

Necessary/useful instructions

Source: step3_development_plan_do.md, risks and canonical contracts. Contribution: pins separate bootstrap shape, prevents generic parser acceptance from granting authority, and assigns atomicity/replay tests before HTTP exposure. Suggestion: retain.

Source: step3_development_plan_after.md, ordinary-flow evidence and stage sizing. Contribution: eight bounded stages preserve one-request acceptance while explicitly flagging transaction redesign as a rescope trigger. Suggestion: retain.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

No supported findings.

Uncertain assessments

Source: Step 3 one-page constraint. Exact protocol, eight required stage records and the user-requested documentation inventory exceed that limit; preserving the reviewable contract takes precedence over compressing away details. Suggestion: allow protocol/inventory appendices.

Source: stage hour/line heuristic. The stage estimates are scope judgments, not measured time. Transaction recovery remains the main sizing uncertainty; no guaranteed hour or day claim is made.

Timestamp: 2026-10-30T08:04:02Z Step: 4 completed handoff, scope v2/B Debug mode: enabled (inherited) Completion: Eight stage commits follow planning commit 2bea587fb; final stage 44edc1260. Local implementation and scoped verification complete; release and maintainer acceptance remain pending.

Necessary/useful instructions

Source: step4_implementation_after.md, Final Verification Checklist and ordinary-flow contract. Contribution: required actual HTTP, runnable example, process recovery, browser approval and CLI evidence; exposed the existing exported-archive/importer layout mismatch instead of allowing an extraction-only check to imply direct import compatibility. Suggestion: retain the distinction between local focused verification and release acceptance.

Source: step4_implementation_after.md, Effort estimation and stage-scoped commits. Contribution: preserved eight original stage estimates, separate retrospective assessments and missing historical measurements while tying each completed stage to a committed summary. Suggestion: retain explicit pending maintainer acceptance and non-additive stage ratings.

Redundant/unnecessary instructions

No supported findings.

Inapplicable instructions

Source: step4_implementation_after.md, scoped deployment and external-system verification. Deployment, push and production writes were outside approved scope; local fixtures exercised the delivered endpoint. No deployment outcome is inferred.

Uncertain assessments

Source: RAILSPIKE.md, experimental effort estimation. Retrospective scope is 1.10 versus projected 1.05, with additional S8 recovery and compatibility work. These are single-rater scope judgments, not measured labor or evidence of maintainer comfortable fit. Retain pending acceptance rather than infer it from passing tests.

Source: step4_implementation_after.md, final verification breadth. Focused checks support the selected contract; full-suite and production-scale rebuild latency remain unverified. The appropriate production benchmark scope needs a separately scoped follow-up rather than an invented local performance guarantee.