Project state — the compaction-survivable record

READ THIS FIRST AFTER ANY CONTEXT RESET

This file is the hand-off. It is injected automatically at every session start and before every compaction (tools/hooks/session-state.mjs, tools/hooks/pre-compact-state.mjs), and its freshness is gated at pre-push by npm run check:state.

⚠ It is a POINTER RECORD, not a second source of truth. Where it disagrees with the tracker, release.json, a migration or a parity contract, those win — this file is stale and fixing it is part of the change that outdated it. It exists so a reset session knows where to look and what was already decided, never so anyone can skip looking.

1 · Where the work is right now

Consumer launch (Marriage Biodata), target 10 Sep 2026.PLAN OF RECORD: consumer/end-to-end-plan.md — approved by the owner 2026-09-04, phases P0-P9, §12 decisions adopted as recommended. The older consumer/implementation-plan.md and the reconciliation's waves W1-W11 are superseded by it.

⇢ CONTINUE FROM HERE — FOUR THREADS ARE OPEN AND THEY ARE INDEPENDENT. READ ALL FOUR.

THREAD 4 · QRS-1404 — ADMIN PANEL MVP: DESIGN ROUNDS 1 TO 5 DONE, NOTHING OPEN; THE OWNER IS REVIEWING IT ON admin-approval.html (2026-09-29). NO CODE WRITTEN. PUSHED TO develop (a09ca217..ecec7cda). Resume by: (1) wait for the owner's review text (pasted from "Copy my review": a verdict per scene A1..F6); every Change or Reject is a design gap and goes to Claude Design as round 6 BEFORE that flow is built (the design-gap loop), Approve means build to it; (2) after approval, write the parity contracts from the approved artboards (QRS-1420), then increment 1. Approval surface: http://localhost:8091/admin-approval.html (run node serve.mjs 8091 in D:\DevCache\design-mirror, outside the repo): 6 feature sets, 56 scenes (A sign-in and set password 11 · B shell and access by role 5 · C Access control 12 · D Users 10 · E Leads & CRM 12 · F Overview 6), each signed in as its role and clicked through to its state; tested 56/56 by scratchpad/r5v/approval-check.mjs. Increment 1 (from the approved plan §12, C:\Users\bnlah\.claude\plans\memoized-frolicking-moth.md): new workspace apps/admin (client-rendered React, Workers Static Assets, its own Worker qrsetu-admin-dev on admin-devv.qrsetu.com, strict CSP, frame-ancestors 'none', behind Cloudflare Access; never imports apps/web), dev server on :5180 (the review page's build pane already points there); staff sign-in, set password (invite and reset links via ZeptoMail, single use, 72 h), forced change, session time-box and sign-in audit; the operator identity with a service-role pre-registration row consumed by handle_new_user (never trust user_metadata), the permission registry as code in @qrsetu/domain with generated seeds and a registry/seed/UI agreement gate, the atomic audit writer; Access control (eleven system roles read only, assignments with end derived at check time, audit log); the handbook skeleton at /handbook/; runbooks (first operator, break-glass, offboarding, staff compromise). Binding build notes (on each round page): stage ids only; every counted phrase from @qrsetu/i18n plural forms; the directory lists people and accounts only; hold and lift checked in the RPC; sign-in delivery read from communication_messages; audit sorted by server time. Owner decisions: admin.qrsetu.com its own Worker; email+password staff sign-in, MFA declined (QRS-899); suspend and block are both bans plus a session delete, the account holder sees one generic state; view as user → read-only support view later (ADR-0038 reserved); Leads = pipeline only; only a Super Admin assigns roles; only sales roles own leads; a reset ends sessions when the link is sent; a lift reverses exactly what its hold held. WAITING ON THE OWNER: (1) the design review; (2) accept ADR-0034..0037 (Proposed); (3) Dev JWT keys check (QRS-1432); (4) a test inbox for the ZeptoMail invite spike; (5) push OK for the local record commits. Git: the worktree D:\WorkSpace\DevArea\qrsetu-admin-rebase (branch admin/rebase-onto-develop) is the admin line; it holds local commits after ecec7cda that are NOT pushed. ⚠ A worktree runs no git hooks until npx husky creates .husky/_ (QRS-1455; done for this one) and it lacks per-app node_modules, so type-check runs in the main checkout. Local develop in the main checkout still holds pre-rebase copies: reset it to origin/develop only after the qrsetu-61 session commits its hunks. Rounds: 1 (QRS-1450), 2 (QRS-1451: 24 of 37), 3 (QRS-1452: 17 of 23), 4 (QRS-1453: 12 of 16), 5 (QRS-1454: 4 of 4). Next free id QRS-1456. Plan pages: assessment, spikes. Memory: admin-panel-mvp-decisions, design-mirror-localhost. THREAD 3 · QRS-1288 + QRS-1289 — CONTEXT ARCHITECTURE: Phase A, Phase 8 and the post-/compact checks DONE, COMMITTED AND PUSHED 2026-09-24 (c5aebbb · 32ce345 · 36e99eb + the closure commit); CI has NOT run any of it (QRS-790 billing block; the owner says the quota resets 1 Oct). CLAUDE.md is a 264-line constitution; .claude/rules/{layers,domains}/*.md are GENERATED by npm run check:context -- --write from .claude/context-map.json and the context: frontmatter on domain home pages (never hand-edit). After /compact: rules re-load, the edit gate forgets pre-compaction reads, Bash rules are re-sent. ⚠ QRS-1289: hook output above ~10,000 chars reaches the model as a 2 KB preview, so THIS FILE was never delivered at session start; the SessionStart hook now prints an extract (each thread's opening + its line range), so keep this thread's first lines self-sufficient. The /init follow-ups QRS-1290..1294 are all FIXED (pre-push now runs check:context -- --range '@{u}..HEAD', so a ceiling raise needs its Context-Ceiling: trailer). Next: after 1 Oct re-run ci.yml on develop and let deploy-web run once (QRS-790); Phase B (shorten this file) after a week of ordinary work; in a FRESH session confirm nested apps/*/CLAUDE.md loading and the CLAUDE.md size on the IDE counter. Detail: guides/claude-context-architecture.md §22.5–22.6.

⚠⚠ THREAD 1 · QRS-1277 — THE RETRY LOOP. FIXED AND DEPLOYED 2026-09-22. THE 48-HOUR RE-SAMPLE PASSED 2026-09-24.

A permanent refusal wore a retryable SQLSTATE and cost 1,378,564,796 aborted transactions. Seven biodata write-API functions raised deterministic refusals — a withdrawn share, a concluded profile, a stale version — with errcode = '40001', the SQL standard's serialization_failure ("retry me"). None can succeed on retry, so the retry never stopped: four pooled connections spinning since 15 September, CPU at 100% for seven days, against ZERO HTTP requests.

✅ DONE: containment (631 rollbacks/sec → 0) · FIX-2 EF deployed · FIX-1 migration applied and verified live · FIX-5 check:sql errcode gate · FIX-4 check:db-health watchdog. Commits 1931604 · 9b2c898 · 9d79c9b · d6f3e16.

✅ 48-HOUR RE-SAMPLE DONE 2026-09-24 on qr-setu-dev. xact_rollback read 1,379,954,127 at 14:22:16 UTC and 1,379,954,127 at 14:26:04 UTC: delta 0 over 3 min 48 s (commits +213; 0 other active backends). check:db-health --project dev: worst query 0.2/s against 100/s, exit 0. The counter sits 1,389,331 above the incident's 1,378,564,796, which was read DURING the loop; ~37 min at 631/sec would explain it, unproven. What fed the loop for seven days is still unidentified; the fix removes the retry regardless. ⚠ One window is evidence about now, not a guarantee: check:db-health stays on-demand, and scheduling it is the owner's call.

⚠ THE OWNER ASKED WHETHER THE WATCHDOG CAUSED THIS. IT DID NOT, AND THE ANSWER MATTERS IF IT IS ASKED AGAIN. check:db-health was written on 22 Sep, ~7 hours AFTER containment; the loop began 15 Sep. It is READ-ONLY (two supabase inspect db calls invocations, no writes, no transaction). What created the impression was that it reported a FALSE 4,539 calls/sec on two runs — an arithmetic bug in the tool, not load on the database: an independent read at that same moment showed 0 new rollbacks and 1 idle connection. Both bugs are fixed and both are documented in its header. Do not confuse it with payments-watchdog.yml, which is pre-existing and watches money.

⚠ IT IS ON-DEMAND, NOT SCHEDULED — the check:ef-drift precedent (needs network + a token; the Actions quota is a standing constraint). So it shortens DIAGNOSIS, not DETECTION. Scheduling it is a credential decision that is the owner's and still open.

Open follow-ups, logged not forgotten: QRS-1275 (publish/unpublish/conclude cannot say WHY they refused) · QRS-1276 (the gate, now built) · QRS-1278 (useBiodataPeople.run() discards conflict) · QRS-1279 (anon calls authenticated-only RPCs before session rehydration).

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⚠⚠ THREAD 2 · PREVIEW-VERSUS-PUBLISHED PARITY — REOPENED 2026-09-21 BY THE OWNER, AND MY EARLIER "DONE" WAS WRONG

⇢ 2026-09-28 (final), D10 + D11 LIVE ON DEV, PUSHED (origin/develop = 61d10597; devv web Worker 55116cb6 via deploy:manual dev, CI has no quota): every reader of a published biodata sees every non-private, non-hidden field and up to 4 photos with zoom (CR-170); no ask anywhere; the photo viewer opens on screen (measured live on devv, motion allowed: viewer 0/896, photo 202-680, loaded); the Preview reads at the public tier with no switch, no People, no site header; People and access keeps conclude, reopen and the removal notice and hides its sharing (QRS-1403, owner); a scanned biodata opens its web page (QRS-1380); D6 nine-digit ID stored and minted (CR-171/172; the live mint waits on an owner's save or publish). OWED: tracker statuses for QRS-1403/1373/1383 and a delivery-log line (the Admin Panel session holds tracker.md and delivery-log.md, QRS-1404..1430 are theirs, use QRS-1431+ and ADR-0039+); a native build + device pass; the ID's placement (design request); Admin commit 3609aa1a sits on local develop UNAPPROVED for push, so push only <own-sha>:develop. ⇢ 2026-09-28, READ THIS FIRST: THE AUDIT (consumer/biodata-design-audit-2026-09-28.md, QRS-1373..1401, no code changed). Three flows are broken end to end: the photo viewer opens off-screen (QRS-1373), the ask form fails on the forwardable link and a request never reaches anyone (QRS-1376..1379), People shares the forwardable address instead of the minted link (QRS-1374/1375). Fix order: the audit's section 9, wave 1 first; wave 2 needs an owner decision on the request model and a backend report. QRS-1368's claim about the Preview artboard was WRONG (QRS-1401). ⇢ 2026-09-27 (late), READ THIS FIRST. devv DEPLOYED dbd5b8bf (round-57 page), then 6510c99b with the work below. The Preview IS the web page now (ADR-0033 D6, QRS-1368): the owner chose that the app HANDS the page the draft (projectBiodataEmbedRecord in @qrsetu/domain biodata/embed.ts, SQL's clauses); BiodataPageFrame.tsx (react-native-webview 13.16.1, now COMMITTED) / .web.tsx (iframe) load /<slug>/biodata?embed=1; apps/web embed/BiodataEmbed.tsx draws it; frame-ancestors names the app origins in embed mode, 'none' elsewhere; the native reading blocks are DELETED. QRS-1359 superseded. Photographs on the web page (QRS-1369, owner-reported): 3 s auto-advance (usePhotoAutoplay), the design's dots, tap opens PhotoViewer (round-57 lightbox + released-only zoom); measured in the built Worker. Gate against round 57: 0 DIVERGED. NEXT: (1) the "How it reads" picker (QRS-1367, fresh pull of consumer/Biodata.dc.html + BiodataDesigns.dc.html); (2) a NATIVE build (the WebView is a native module) + device pass on the frame boundary; (3) design corrections: BiodataView.dc.html as owner band + page (QRS-1368, 31 contract rows blocked), a viewer for Chitra/Patrika (QRS-1370); owner call QRS-1371 (3 s vs the design's 4.2 s). Pre-existing: 5 stale pgTAP fixtures (QRS-1365), a failing merchant Reminders test (QRS-1372). NOTHING of this batch is pushed yet.

⚠⚠ DO NOT READ THE OLD §1A TASK LIST AS CURRENT. It said every phase A-F was complete. The owner then reported, for the SECOND time, that the in-app Preview is not a ditto of the released profile. They were right both times.

What I had done wrong: I compared our two implementations AGAINST EACH OTHER, which can only show that they differ, never which is correct. I also measured ONE dimension (the data-slot reading order) and reported parity across layout, styling, photos and content.

⚠ THE DESIGN HAD ALREADY DIAGNOSED THIS AND I HAD NOT READ IT.prototype/my-qrsetu/BiodataParity.dc.html is a round-54 audit titled "Preview is not the published biodata, and here is exactly why" — 13 gaps, FOUR renderers. Round 54b shipped six fixes in the design; round 55 lists five more. Our build sits at roughly the design's pre-54b state.

The design's target architecture, verbatim: "no screen may compute what a viewer sees, and no screen may name a template file … Preview then differs from the public reading in exactly two respects, both of them chrome: the owner's editing band and the tier switch."

⚠ resolveBiodataView HAS ZERO PRODUCTION CALLERS — measured. I built it in Phase A so both surfaces would agree, and wired it to nothing. Mobile composes its own view from ~20 domain primitives; web uses its own buildPublicBiodataView. They share only BIODATA_READING_ORDER.

✅ OWNER DECIDED (2026-09-21): ONE RENDERER — the Preview shows the real page. This matches round 55's G07 ("BiodataView frames the real page at ?embed=1 … so every design has an in-app reading and none of them is a second rendering"), a block I had logged as gap with "sync target: none" on ADR-0019 grounds. That was wrong: ADR-0019's principle is ONE renderer, and I used it to justify keeping two.

✅ STEP 1 SHIPPED (commit 5aa182e): @qrsetu/domain/biodata/viewState.ts — the one parameter grammar (readBiodataViewState / mergeBiodataViewState / biodataViewStateQuery), closing the design's G04. It is what makes previewing an UNPUBLISHED DRAFT through the real page possible: the link carries the draft state and the page resolves publication under, link over. 19 cases, mutation-proven.

⚠⚠ THE STEP ORDER RECORDED HERE ON 2026-09-22 WAS WRONG. CORRECTED THE SAME DAY, FROM THE DESIGN'S OWN CODE.

It read: "(2) ?embed=1 on the biodata route · (3) Preview opens the real page via expo-web-browser · (4) both surfaces consume resolveBiodataView · (5) publish takes a snapshot · (6) the design reaches recipients via the QR registry." Steps 2 and 3 are not our next work and building them would have been wasted. Two measurements, both from files I had never opened:

FINDING 1 — ?embed=1 DROPS PROTOTYPE SCAFFOLDING WE DO NOT HAVE. BiodataPage.dc.html:887-899 (applyEmbed) sets exactly nine custom properties, and all nine target three things: --bio-desk-* (the desk the phone mock sits on), --bio-frame-* (the phone shell: min(430px,100%) × min(880px,100vh-48px), border, radius, shadow) and --bio-urlbar (a fake 42px browser address bar). Our apps/web page is the real page in a real browser: no desk, no phone shell, no simulated URL bar. Our page already renders as the design's embedded reading.

⚠ It notably does NOT drop the growth CTA or the app offer — showPitch: true is unconditional at BiodataPage.dc.html:1578. Dropping those in embed mode was my instinct and it would have been self-invented UI contradicting the design.

FINDING 2 — THE DESIGN FRAMES ONLY THE DESIGNS WE DO NOT SHIP. BiodataView.dc.html:933-934:

base.isFramed = !TPLS.isDefault(tpl);
base.isNative = !base.isFramed;

Framing at ?embed=1 is for Chitra and Patrika only. The default design (Parichay) is read NATIVELY in the app — isNative: true is the file's own default at line 912. Measured on our side: biodata_profiles.template_key is text not null default 'default' (20260904113123_v2_biodata_subjects_and_profiles.sql:158), TEMPLATE_ALIASES maps default → parichay, and parichay carries isDefault: true and builtHere: true — "the reading this repo ships, on both surfaces." Every profile in our build is the one the design reads natively.

⇢ THE REAL NEXT STEP IS (4), AND IT IS THE DESIGN'S OWN SHIPPED CHANGE 04 (closes G05, G07)."The default page and the in-app reader both deleted their private tier-and-visibility assemblies and now consume the view model." Measured in our tree: resolveBiodataView still has ZERO production callers, and the two surfaces build the reading three different ways — BiodataViewScreen/index.tsx assembles its own from seven primitive call sites (show at :572, shownBiodataFieldsIn :480, withheldBiodataCountIn :487, publishedBiodataCustom :592, visibleBiodataPhotos :650, leadBiodataCustom :426, isBiodataFieldVisible :784), while publicBiodataView.ts builds a second one from a different primitive set. Three shapings of one record is why Preview and the published page do not look alike.

⚠ OUR DISCLOSURE STORY IS BETTER THAN THE DESIGN'S AND MUST NOT BE "FIXED" TOWARD IT. The design is all client-side, so its G05 is "the visibility rule is implemented three times". Here get_public_biodata projects in SQL, so the public page never runs the tier rule at all — it reads presence (has(values, id)). What is duplicated on our side is the view-model SHAPING, not the disclosure decision. Adopt the resolver for the shaping; do not move public disclosure into the client.

⚠ The resolver is already wide enough — BiodataViewRecord takes values · people · photos · opening · custom · hidden · fieldTiers · firstName · themeId · familyLayout · langId · requestable, so the design's G03 is already closed here. Its slots are content-shaped (BiodataViewRow = {id, value}, no label/icon/tone) because the domain owns no catalog: the resolver decides WHAT is read, each surface keeps HOW it looks. That is the seam, and it is the design's own view / templates split.

✅ OWNER DECIDED 2026-09-22: when a design must be framed, the app opens the real page with expo-web-browser and the page carries the owner band and tier switch behind ?embed=1 plus a signed short-lived owner param. No react-native-webview, ADR-0019 untouched.

⚠⚠ THEN THE OWNER UN-DEFERRED IT (2026-09-23, QRS-1295): CHITRA, PARICHAY AND PATRIKA SHIP DITTO, AND THE FRAMING DECISION APPLIES NOW.

"…no visual or functional discrepancies … the in-app Biodata Preview must not be impacted or regressed … Approved Design → In-App Preview → Actual Client-Side Rendering remain fully aligned." Measured first: Chitra and Patrika had ZERO lines in apps/ (builtHere: false); Parichay is built with canonical slot order and its field-by-field diff still owed.

✅ FOUNDATION LANDED 2026-09-26 (d69cdab): designs/index.ts (registry: parichay wired, chitra/patrika null slots that resolve to Parichay AND report substituted) · publicBiodataModel.ts (PublicBiodata → resolveBiodataView, its FIRST production caller; both maps empty because the domain and SQL share one narrowing-only tier rule — a first version mapped present keys to basic and its own test failed in the real branch, see the file header) · the route dispatches only a LIVE reading through the registry · data-design/data-tier on the page root · run-web biodata template <id>. Proven on the built Worker: template=chitra → parichay|basic (substituted), default → parichay at both tiers, withdrawn → parichay. 40/40, type-check clean.

The six steps (foundation · Chitra · Patrika · Parichay fidelity · mobile reader · harness) all ran; results below.

✅ WAVE 1 (05c3802): Chitra + Patrika built, the in-app reader on the resolver, check:biodata-parity. ⚠ Subagents had NO DesignSync: pull design dependencies for them.

✅ WAVE 2, 2026-09-26 (history): each design specced, measured, fixed and independently signed off; all three signoffs refused and each refusal was acted on (cff8a48). Tallies then: Parichay 68/128 · Chitra 60/128 · Patrika 62/110. The live state and the NEXT list are the 2026-09-27 block above.

⚠ QRS-1296: the public projection carries no "withheld" marker, so subWithheld is never true for a public read and the page's "held back" sentence at basic is a tier assumption. Backend.

⇢ THEN, still in the design's order: (5) publish takes a snapshot (its change 02, closes G06/G13) · (6) the design reaches recipients through the QR registry (its change 03, closes G02).

⚠ Steps 5 and 6 are BACKEND — report before touching Supabase, per the standing rule. ⚠ VERIFY AGAINST BiodataParityCheck.dc.html, the design's own harness — NOT against my own comparison. I have now told the owner parity was achieved twice when it was not. The design's own warning about the harness: comparing view models to each other "would prove nothing, because the resolver is template agnostic and its output is identical by construction: that is the reassurance round 54 did not deserve." It loads the PAGES and measures coverage, leakage and fidelity.

⚠ ROUND 55's REMAINING GAPS, verbatim from BiodataParity.dc.html — G10 family layout declared not discarded (domain half DONE: biodataTemplateFamilyLayout is consumed by both surfaces; ⚠ the editor half is NOT — biodataFamilyLayoutVerdict exists and has zero callers, so FamilyLayoutPicker.tsx still never tells a family what the chosen design will do with the choice) · G07 Chitra/Patrika read in the app (framed; LATER) · G06 Preview names draft-or-live · G05 the duplicated family generator (we have FamilyDrawing.tsx in BOTH apps) · G12 the cache key is written down.

⚠ One design decision still open: should Preview default to the DRAFT or to what is LIVE? The design flags picking silently as "how this class of bug starts" and recommends draft-while-editing with a switch naming which is shown, and the share sheet always previewing the live one.

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§1A BELOW IS THE SUPERSEDED TASK LIST — kept for the reasoning, not as the plan

1A · THE IMPLEMENTATION TASK LIST (approved 2026-09-20, work in order)

Goal, in the owner's own acceptance words: "A user should be able to look at the Marriage Biodata Preview and confidently know that the person receiving the published URL or scanning the QR code will see the same Biodata presentation and information, without unexpected differences or missing content."

⚠ SCOPE FENCE, stated by the owner: do not touch unrelated Consumer features or screens. Everything below is inside the biodata feature.

PHASE A — the shared presentation resolver ✅ DONE 2026-09-20 (9ab5cbd)

Do not rebuild it. packages/domain/src/biodata/view.ts ships resolveBiodataView(record, viewer, today) → a FROZEN, template-agnostic view model with the design's twelve slot names, plus BIODATA_READING_ORDER, biodataOrderOk(), biodataFilledSlots() and BIODATA_REQUESTABLE_IDS. A1 ✅ · A2 ✅ withheld is a boolean: requestable carries slot ids with no values, labels or counts, asserted by a test that greps the serialised list for a digit. A3 ✅ 22 node --test cases, MUTATION-PROVEN three ways (drop the tier from the disclosure predicate → 6 red; let requestable carry a count → 2 red; relax the order rule → 1 red). A4 ✅ the SQL filter was NOT absorbed: supabase/tests/database/biodata_projection_test.sql is the pair — 39 assertions, supabase test db PASS, mutation-proven, same fixture and same expected field set as view.test.ts's PAIR — case, each file naming the other.

🔎 WHAT PHASE A FOUND, AND IT IS THE OWNER'S OWN SYMPTOM (QRS-1269, CR-26.0.1-165). age is required, basic and derived: nothing stores it (QRS-1158) and its source dob is private, so get_public_biodata carried no age at all while the in-app preview showed one. The published page, the forwarded link and the QR-scanned view were all missing one of the first three things anybody reads on a marriage biodata. Both halves were individually correct and the defect lived in the SEAM — which is the argument for a shared resolver over more review, now measured rather than asserted. Fixed by deriving at the disclosure boundary; the date still never leaves the database, only the completed-years integer, and only at age's own effective tier.

⚠⚠ THE MIGRATION IS ON THE LOCAL STACK ONLY. 20260920120000_v2_public_biodata_derives_age.sql has NOT been applied to Dev, so devv.qrsetu.com still serves a biodata with no age. That is an owner decision, not a pending task.

⚠ ALSO FOUND, LOGGED, NOT FIXED (QRS-1268): npm run test:db HAS NOT BEEN A GATE. Five suites exit during setup — three because handle_new_user now mints a slug and their fixtures insert a second (QRS-1078), two because ADR-0032 moved conversations off workspace_id. A suite that dies in setup reports Tests: 0 Failed: 0, so the output shows ZERO failures and only the exit code disagrees. Every "pgTAP green" claim since those two changes covered nineteen suites, not twenty-four. Outside the biodata scope fence; the repair is one line per suite, the same one biodata_projection_test.sql already carries.

PHASE B — section order ✅ DONE 2026-09-20 (closes QRS-1262)

Do not rebuild it. BIODATA_READING_ORDER is now the ONLY order and BOTH surfaces consume it. B1 ✅ BiodataViewScreen SORTS its document blocks by slot instead of listing them (READER_BLOCKS), and the family's own additions sort IN rather than being appended after — the design puts custom between kundli and looking, which a trailer can never express. Rendered order is now work · kin · community · kundli · more · expect, then Place and Talk. B2 ✅ apps/web's BiodataPage maps over the same array instead of laying blocks out in JSX; it also gained intro BEFORE facts, which the design has and it did not. B3 ✅ the drift ledger's "no divergence found" paragraph is replaced IN PLACE with the correction and the two rules it produced, and the stale parity row section_expect_is_second (verdict pass, describing the old placement as deliberate) is replaced by section_order_follows_reading_order. The contract's designPull moved to round 55.

⚠ THE ORDER IS READ BACK, NOT ASSERTED. The web page stamps data-slot on every block and BiodataPage.order.test.tsx parses it out of the rendered HTML; the reader's suite checks READER_SLOT_ORDER. Both assert biodataOrderOk, both are MUTATION-PROVEN against the exact order that shipped before, and both run a VACUITY GUARD first — an empty slot list satisfies every ordering assertion, so without it a page rendering nothing would report a perfect reading order.

⚠ NO DEVICE PASS. The order is asserted from a slot list and from server-rendered HTML, and neither is a phone. It belongs in the F2 device pass.

🔎 The owner's instinct led the design for the second time (the first was the photo-autoplay reversal, QRS-1251). Worth carrying: when their product instinct disagrees with the current design, report "the design currently says X, measured at round N" rather than "that is a design question" — the first invites them to push on the design, the second closes it.

PHASE C — the design pointer ✅ DONE 2026-09-20 (closes QRS-1264)

C1 ✅ packages/domain/src/biodata/templates.ts ports round 55's registry; useBiodataRecord and buildPublicBiodataView both surface templateKey/templateVersion and both route the family drawing through the design before the geometry rule (round 55's G10). ⚠⚠ MEASURED: template_key DEFAULTS TO 'default' AND EVERY PROFILE ON DEV CARRIES IT, while the design's ids are parichay / chitra / patrika — so the stored pointer named NO DESIGN AT ALL. The alias is data, not a special case. ⚠ ONE DESIGN IS BUILT HERE and the registry says so (builtHere). ⚠ No behaviour change today: every profile resolves to parichay, which honours all four drawings. ⚠ Deliberately NOT ported: art, MOCK, tileStyle, railSequence, CREATE_STEPS, the per-design file paths — all serve a PICKER this build does not have. C2/C3/C4 ✅ ALREADY SATISFIED, VERIFIED NOT ASSUMED (QRS-1270). ⚠ My own task list mis-stated C2: the design has FOUR card actions and "See it as a family sees it" opens the IN-APP reader while "Open the page in a browser" opens the real URL. Both ship, correctly wired. react-native-webview appears in this repo ONLY inside comments rejecting it.

PHASE D — the cache key ✅ CLOSED 2026-09-20 AS NOT-A-DEFECT (QRS-1266)

⚠⚠ DO NOT RE-OPEN THIS WITHOUT RE-MEASURING. The claim in my own row was FALSE. I wrote that our route "already ships a Cache-Tag keyed by profile, with no published version and no tier". Measured in source and live: the biodata route contains zero Cache-Tag and answers Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, private. The page is not cached anywhere, so basic and released cannot share an entry — STRICTLY STRONGER than any cache key. 🔎 Same error as QRS-1265, in a different place: I ported the design's model and reported its consequences as our defect. Port the PRINCIPLE, then measure OUR answer to it. ✅ What was built instead is a GUARD: apps/web/src/app/routes/__tests__/biodata.headers.test.ts reddens on a Cache-Tag, s-maxage, public, stale-while-revalidate or a weakened X-Robots-Tag — because the person who eventually adds caching here will be reading setu-card.tsx, which is edge-cached for seven days and sits one directory away.

PHASE E — the WhatsApp brand glyph ✅ DONE 2026-09-20 (QRS-1271)

Design pulled FRESH before any code (prototype/consumer/icons.js, 2026-09-20, not the mirror), two drift-ledger rows filed, then the code — which is the ADR-0015 order. 🔎 THE CAUSE WAS A WRONG MODEL OF THE ASSET, NOT A RENDERING SLIP. Simple Icons draws WhatsApp as ONE path whose handset is a hole: it was never white, it was whatever was behind the icon. Indistinguishable from white on every plain card, obvious on the one tinted gradient the owner was looking at. Fixed additively: BRAND_GLYPH_LAYERS + BRAND_KNOCKOUT; BRAND_GLYPHS untouched, seven brands render exactly as before, asserted in the other direction. BRAND_KNOCKOUT is white in BOTH themes and is not a token — the handset is part of the trademark. ⚠ FOUR MARKS HELD, NOT FIXED (facebook, linkedin, youtube, telegram): same latent defect in dark mode, but the design draws three of them with a different SILHOUETTE, so adopting its paths changes merchant screens already signed off. Open drift row, deliberately not swept in. ⚠⚠ NO DEVICE PASS, AND THIS IS THE ONE THAT NEEDS IT MOST — src/ui/** is where the native builds ARE the gate.

PHASE F — revalidate · F1 ✅ DONE 2026-09-20 · F2 ⏳ THE OWNER'S · F3 ❌ NOT STARTED

F1 ✅ the biodata-view contract re-enumerated BLOCK BY BLOCK FROM THE ARTBOARD, not row by row from itself — 44 rows → 46, now 27 pass · 12 gap · 7 blocked. designPull restamped to round 55. ⚠⚠ ROUND 55 ADDED TWO BLOCKS THIS CONTRACT HAD NO ROW FOR, and an un-enumerated block is the one omission check:design-parity can NEVER catch — it iterates rows that exist. Re-verifying the 44 rows I had would have gone green and left both invisible. · QRS-1272 the framed ?embed=1 reading for a non-default design. We diverge deliberately: ADR-0019 / QRS-1265 answer it with expo-web-browser on the real URL, never a second renderer. · QRS-1273 the design indicator in the owner band. Not built, not invented — its CTA points at a picker this build does not have. ✅ Its backend dependency is GONE (Phase C surfaced templateKey), so it is now a screen change with nothing behind it. ⚠ A STALE blocked CORRECTED: owner_band_actions HAS NOW BEEN WRONG IN BOTH DIRECTIONS — pass while the control went nowhere (QRS-1189), then blocked after it started working. People and access is built and mounted; the row carries its whole history and a reachableFrom. ⚠ The prop enumeration is UNCHANGED from round 41 (theme · subject · viewer · screenState · familyLayout), so no scenario rows were owed — stated because a re-enumeration that reports "nothing moved" is only credible if it names what it measured.

F2 ⏳ THE DEVICE PASS IS THE OWNER'S AND IS THE LAST GATE.

F3 ✅ DONE 2026-09-20 — AND IT FOUND THREE DEFECTS ON ITS FIRST RUN (QRS-1274).BiodataViewScreen.leakage.test.tsx renders the reader and READS BACK what rendered. The design's own harness is not ported — it drives real frames and needed FIVE corrections; a test tree has none of those hazards. · Three filled fields rendered nowhere — native, familyType, references were dropped by KIN_IDS, while the PUBLIC page rendered them. The owner's reported symptom exactly. · The family drawing disappeared with two optional fields — no mama and no related surnames meant NO FAMILY AT ALL on an ordinary profile. 🔎 A block's presence must be gated on its OWN content. · addressShown (released) leaked to a basic reader via PlaceCard, which received raw values. Pre-existing. 🔎 The block already gated the PHONE correctly — a rule applied only to the field that prompted it is not a rule. ⚠⚠ And fixing the second introduced a disclosure the harness caught the same minute: the drawing then rendered at basic tier with the owner's WHOLE people list. It had never leaked only because the section it lived in was always empty at basic. An accidental safety property becomes a disclosure the moment the accident is repaired.

Where the artefacts are

· Design mirror: http://localhost:8090 — complete for round 55, every module graph checked. Lives at D:\DevCache\design-mirror, OUTSIDE the repo, never committed, stale by default. Rebuild with node materialise.mjs (reads persisted tool-results) then node from-transcript.mjs (recovers inline results from the session transcript). · The build preview on :8080 is DOWN — restart with npm run -w @qrsetu/mobile preview after a web:export. · APK handed to the owner 2026-09-20 19:05 for the device pass (F2).apps/mobile/android/app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk, 64,620,498 bytes, sha256 f74eed6e5ed8c505…; a copy under a transferable name sits at D:\DevCache\builds\qrsetu-26.0.1-dev-biodata-parity.apk (same hash, verified).

⚠ The previous line recorded 64,613,230 bytes — that is the PRE-SESSION BACKUP, not the build that was handed over. Two artefacts differing by 7 KB read as the same one at a glance, which is how a stale artefact gets reviewed (QRS-666’s shape, applied to a binary rather than to a port).

Verified INSIDE the artefact, never off the build line (the QRS-1243 lesson): Dev ref dyhjofjjuazhyqcvlrkx 1, prod ikkwqowfnbhdasfejojg 0, legacy ygmqxyrbnemhwkiyoboc0; app.config reads 26.0.1 / versionCode 26000100. Proven to be THIS session’s build by two strings the backup does not carry at all: parichay and templateBuiltHere (Phase C’s template registry).

⚠⚠ ARTEFACT PROOF IS PARTIAL FOR A LOGIC-ONLY CHANGE, AND SAYING SO IS THE POINT.familyType and soyare grep identically — 1 and 2 — in BOTH APKs, old and new, because the F3 fix was adding them to a KIN_IDS array and Hermes compiles array syntax away. String literals survive bytecode; structure does not. So a grep can prove a NEW STRING shipped and can never prove a REWIRING shipped — the F3 reader fixes rest on the leakage harness, not on this. Reading equal counts as “the fix is missing” would be the false negative that mirrors it.

⚠ Debug-signed (CN=Android Debug, SHA-256 fac61745…) because QRS-908/981 is still open; v2 scheme only, which installs from Android 7 up. It is the same key as the previous APK, so an in-place upgrade works — but a phone holding a build signed on any other machine fails INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE and must be uninstalled first. A known-good pre-session backup sits in D:\DevCache\temp\apk-backup.

✅✅ THE WHATSAPP PREVIEW IS FIXED AND MEASURED ON THE LIVE HOSTNAME (QRS-1258, CLOSED 2026-09-11). It was never an og: problem: the PAGE 404'd, because deploy-web had never once succeeded. Owner authorised the push 2026-09-11 and chose one workflow_dispatch over a local wrangler deploy. Run 34575509242 passed every step that had ever failed — Materialise the RNW env file, Build the RNW export for /app, Mount the RNW export at /app, Deploy to Cloudflare Workers. · Measured from a developer machine, not read off the run:GET https://devv.qrsetu.com/vedaalahade/biodata → 200 (was 404) · /og/biodata-gulmohar.png → 200, image/png, 1200×628, 33 KB (the unfurl ceiling is ~300 KB) · full og: + twitter: set present · og:image ABSOLUTE and theme-keyed to gulmohar, the profile's own theme, so biodataTheme() resolved rather than falling back to saffron. · ⚠ noindex is still served and that is correct — it does NOT suppress unfurling. Do not 'fix' it to make the preview work. · ⚠⚠ THE RUN REPORTS FAILURE ANYWAY, AND ONLY THE SMOKE TEST FAILED (QRS-1260). Cloudflare returned 403 five times to the runner while the same URL answers 200 to a plain curl here — a datacenter-IP challenge (Bot Fight Mode is named in CLAUDE.md's own promotion notes). Given deploy-web's 0-for-8 history, a red run reads as 'still broken' when it now means 'deployed fine, could not verify'. Read the STEP, not the run. Fix by letting the probe through, never by weakening the assertion: it greps for server-rendered copy and JSON-LD precisely because a 200 returning an empty shell is the failure SSR exists to prevent.

—— superseded record of the original diagnosis, kept because the method is the lesson —— ⚠ THE WHATSAPP PREVIEW WAS NOT AN og: PROBLEM — THE PAGE ITSELF 404'd ON devv (QRS-1258). The owner sent a screenshot of a shared profile unfurling as a bare devv.qrsetu.com + link. Measured, not inferred:GET https://devv.qrsetu.com/vedaalahade/biodata → 404, and a POST to the same path → 404 as well, where the route's own action would answer 400. So the route is not in the deployed build at all; WhatsApp fetched a 404 and fell back to the hostname. The twelve OG cards and every tag from QRS-1255 are correct and verified on the built Worker — they are simply not deployed. https://devv.qrsetu.com/og/biodata-saffron.png → 404 for the same reason. · 🔎 ROOT CAUSE, measured from the last run's log: ✗ web-export: …/apps/mobile/.env.development does not exist. The RNW /app mount needs that file, it is gitignored by design, so actions/checkout can never produce one and the job died in 3-4 seconds on every one of 8 runs. gh run list --workflow=deploy-web.yml --status=success returns nothing. · ✅ FIX WRITTEN in deploy-web.yml: a step materialises the env file from the SAME environment vars the Worker already receives, so the /app bundle and the Worker cannot drift onto different Supabase projects. All three vars exist on web-dev and point at Dev (dyhjofjjuazhyqcvlrkx), verified via gh api. · ⚠⚠ MY FIRST DRAFT OF THAT FIX REINTRODUCED QRS-992 AND I CAUGHT IT BY DIFFING KEY NAMES. It wrote FOUR keys; the real .env.development has FIVE. Without EXPO_PUBLIC_ADDRESS_ORIGIN the devv bundle would print, share and QR-ENCODE PRODUCTION addresses for Dev profiles, because unset falls back to qrsetu.com deliberately ("a build with no override IS a release build"). It is now derived from the environment's own hostname. Compare key NAMES against the real file, never assume the set. · ⚠ Also fixed in the same pass: --env was never passed, so uat and production would have exported against .env.development (a green build on the wrong project); and npm run … --env=x needs the -- separator or npm eats the flag. · ⛔ BLOCKED: this cannot be proven without a push, and a push spends Actions quota. ASK.

✅ THE READER'S FOUR MISSING BLOCKS ARE BUILT (QRS-1257): Keep + Share, the place card, the talk card — after the family drawing (QRS-1256). 🔎 The real defect was the PROCESS, and it is the lesson to carry: the owner named them ONE AT A TIME across four messages and each round I fixed the one just named instead of enumerating the artboard, so the owner became the enumeration — exactly what the fourth rule exists to prevent. Listing the ready-state blocks in order made the gap obvious in a single pass. Do that FIRST on any screen reported incomplete. · ⚠ The talk card's second action is WHATSAPP, not the artboard's "Message", and the note was rewritten. In-app chat with a family has no model (ADR-0032 / decision D-v) and the artboard's own chatHref is the placeholder https://qrsetu.com/app/chat. It reuses biodataPage.repNote, the honest sentence the public page already ships, rather than the artboard's "Messaging keeps the conversation inside QR setu" — a promise this build cannot keep. · ⚠ Keep shows for the OWNER and refuses with "This is your own profile" — the design's own owner behaviour, unguarded in the artboard. Hiding it would stop this being a preview of what a recipient sees. set_biodata_kept ALREADY EXISTS in 20260905170000_v2_biodata_share_api.sql, so the recipient toggle is wiring, not new work. · ⚠ SECTION ORDER WAS ASSESSED AND IS CORRECT. The owner felt "What X is looking for" sat too high; the artboard's own base.sections is work → expect → community → kin → kundli → more and ours matches exactly. Raised as a design question rather than silently reordered. Moving it needs a Claude Design round.

⚠ STILL ABSENT FROM THE READER, named rather than implied: the photograph gallery ("the rest of the photographs", with its locked state), the full share sheet with its QR, and Ask to see more (genuinely recipient-only). Enumerated from the artboard 2026-09-11.

✅ THE READER CONTRACT IS RE-MEASURED: 39/59 pass · 11 gap · 9 blocked · 10 route-verified (2026-09-11, was 34/58). ⚠⚠ SIX ROWS HAD GONE STALE IN THE DIRECTION THAT HIDES DELIVERED WORK — family_drawing, place_map_card, who_to_talk_to, growth_cta, keep_and_share_row and photo_carousel_and_lightbox all still read blocked, and photo_lightbox read "NOT BUILT", for blocks that ship. check:design-parity was green throughout, because it asserts every row CARRIES a verdict and never that the verdict is TRUE. Measured against real testIDs, not read off the source. Three verdicts are deliberately NOT pass: who_to_talk_to is a gap (WhatsApp, not the artboard's "Message"), keep_and_share_row is a gap (kept is hardcoded false, nothing calls the already-existing set_biodata_kept), and the new gallery_locked_state row is blocked — split out of the carousel row because a half-built row reports as neither built nor missing. Four rounds of owner-found blocks is what an un-enumerated contract costs; the enumeration is owed before this screen is called done.

✅✅ THE WHATSAPP PREVIEW WORKS, AND MY FIRST REPORT OF WHY IT DID NOT WAS WRONG (QRS-1255). I told the owner the biodata route served "no og: tags at all". It served four (og:title, og:description, og:url, og:type). The claim came from grepping og:image across apps/web/src, seeing hits only in setu-card.tsx and the landing module, and generalising from one tag to all tags. 🔎 A grep for the wrong string still returns a number, and a number reads as a measurement — the same class as the other counting mistakes in this record. The real gap was narrower and sharper: no og:image, and without it WhatsApp renders no card at all. Now: twelve committed 1200x628 PNGs (one per theme) plus og:image:type/width/height/alt, og:site_name, og:locale and the twitter:* set. Verified on the built Worker via the run-web driver — every tag emitted, og:image absolute, the asset 200. · ⚠⚠ THE CARD CARRIES NO FACE AND NO NAME, BY THE DESIGN'S OWN RULE — "The preview carries a first name and nothing more. No photograph, no surname, no age and no city", slot placeholder "Branded share image, no face". That is a DISCLOSURE decision: a preview renders for every member of a forwarded group and is cached on Meta's servers. The first name arrives via og:title. Never put a photograph in this image. · ⚠ Regenerate with node apps/web/scripts/generate-og-cards.mjs. It resolves washes through buildThemeColors('light') — the app's own resolver — because biodataMixHsl parses hsl(...) and NOT the bare 43 100% 90% triple, so a second resolver silently yields six identical cards. · ⚠ noindex does not suppress this and never did: WhatsApp's unfurler is not a search engine.

✅✅ THE READER NOW DRAWS THE FAMILY, IN ALL FOUR LAYOUTS (QRS-1256). The owner: "family details are not rendering on the biodata preview which can be tree, card or any options chosen." They were right, and it was worse than it looked: the reader's kin section filtered the whole family group down to mama and soyare on the comment "the two lines the family DRAWING cannot carry" — and no drawing existed, so every father, mother, brother and sister was dropped from the document. 🔎 That is the THIRD time in this feature that a comment asserted an elsewhere which did not exist (about first, the growth CTA second). · ⚠⚠ THE ROOT CAUSE WAS ARCHITECTURAL AND IS NOW FIXED AT THE ROOT: the family MODEL lived in apps/web, so the app could not reach it and every web test stayed green while the app showed nothing. It is now @qrsetu/domain/biodata/family (biodataFamilyNodes, biodataInitials, resolveBiodataFamilyLayout, the tone map) and BOTH surfaces call it. Do not rebuild it in either app. The design's own module says why: "a drawing that exists twice drifts." · tree and vine are drawn in react-native-svg over the SAME biodataFanScene / biodataVineScene geometry the DOM uses; cards and list are laid out, which is the design's own split. An empty family renders nothing, per the design's guard. · ⚠ A react-native-svg <Svg> with a viewBox and width:100% does NOT derive its height the way DOM does — it collapses to zero and the whole drawing vanishes with no error. The height comes from the scene's aspect ratio. · ⚠ getByText cannot see inside an SVG under jest-expo: RNSVGTSpan carries its string in a content PROP, not a child node, so a text query reports "unable to find" and reads exactly like the family not rendering. The test walks the rendered JSON instead. · ⚠ What the tests cannot prove, measured: swapping cards to render list leaves all seven green — they carry the same strings and differ only in arrangement. The device is the gate for how these LOOK.

⚠ STILL NOT BUILT, and neither is a client gap: "Save as a picture" needs react-native-view-shot (an app-size decision the owner has not taken, QRS-1065); and the four prototype/consumer/ layouts render on the PUBLIC page as plain label/value rows for cards and list — the web renders the drawn pair only. Information is present there, presentation differs.

⚠⚠ THE CAROUSEL AUTOPLAYS BY OWNER DECISION, AND THE DESIGN SAID NO IN WRITING (QRS-1251). The round-4 prompt asked for autoplay and Claude Design refused it: "A marriage profile is a document a family reads, and the identity lines sit directly under this frame, so nothing here advances under the eye: the reader swipes, or taps a dot." The owner asked for 3 seconds anyway on 2026-09-10. The objection was stated once, the owner reaffirmed, and it is implemented in full. It is recorded in four places on purpose - AUTOPLAY_MS's doc comment (which quotes the design verbatim), the drift ledger, the tracker row, and here - because this file's own code comment used to say "Do not add an interval here", and a future session would otherwise delete the feature as a mistake. Needs syncing back to the design so round 42 does not re-argue it. · What was NOT conceded, all four mutation-tested: it PAUSES while the full-screen viewer is open (else closing the viewer drops the reader on a different photograph), it is OFF entirely under reduced motion, the timer RE-ARMS on a manual swipe or dot tap so a reader who takes control is not fought, and manual swipe still refuses to wrap while autoplay does.

⚠⚠ THE SWIPE WAS BROKEN TWO WAYS AT ONCE AND NEITHER ERRORED (QRS-1252) - THE MOST TRANSFERABLE THING FOUND TODAY. (1) The pan sat on the slide track while the full-bleed "open the photograph" control was rendered AFTER it as a sibling, so that control was on top, every touch in the 268px hero landed on it, and the pan was attached to a view that received none. Tap-to-open kept working, which made it read as a carousel bug rather than a hit-testing one. Fixed by hoisting the GestureDetector to the hero FRAME so both are descendants. (2)babel-preset-expo bundles the Reanimated plugin, which auto-workletizes a Gesture.Pan() callback - so onEnd ran on the UI runtime and called a React setState, which is not callable there. Fixed with scheduleOnRN(onMove, next). ⚠ The repo already had both idioms and this code used neither (Sheet.tsx -> scheduleOnRN; WelcomeStory -> .runOnJS(true)). 🔎 NO JEST TEST CAN COVER THIS: RNGH recognises gestures in native code, so nothing dispatches a pan under jest-expo, and a test calling onPick directly would have stayed green through the whole outage. The native build is the gate for a gesture seam - the new suite's header says so in full.

✅ THE LINK CARD'S ACTION ROW WAS RE-MEASURED AND HAD DRIFTED (QRS-1253). The owner reported the sharing options missing. The card's FRAME was right to the pixel; every divergence was in the three actions. Design: [Share on WhatsApp] [Copy link] [Save as a picture], all three neutral. Ours: [Copy link] [Share with someone], the second filled with accent - so WhatsApp was absent and we had invented a primary action the design deliberately does not give this row. Now WhatsApp-first with the real brand mark (BrandIcon tone="brand", owner-instructed), and the invented pill removed with a test asserting its absence.

✅ THE READER'S GROWTH CTA SHIPPED, AND ITS TWO blocked REASONS HAD BOTH ALREADY EXPIRED (QRS-1254). The screen carried a note saying a brand glyph needed a systemic @/ui addition under ADR-0015 (BrandIcon already existed and was already exported) and that the support number was configuration rather than a literal (true, and the answer is a domain constant, not an absence). 🔎 A blocked VERDICT IS A CLAIM WITH A SHELF LIFE. Both were true when written; neither was re-checked; a card the design has drawn since round 39 stayed out of the build on a stale reason. Re-measure a block before quoting it, and prefer a block that names what would unblock it.

✅ QRS-1215 IS CLOSED: THE SUPPORT NUMBER IS REAL. BIODATA_HELPLINE = '919270373367' (owner-confirmed 2026-09-10; displayed +91 92703 73367), renamed off *_WRITE_* because the growth CTA reads the same line. It had held the design module's placeholder 918000000000 wired to a live wa.me handoff, so "Write it on WhatsApp" opened a chat with a number nobody owns, silently. ⚠ It is now pinned by a LITERAL assertion, the only kind of test that could ever have caught it: every existing test checked the SHAPE of a phone number, and the shape was perfect.

⚠ TWO THINGS THE OWNER ASKED ABOUT THAT ARE NOT BUILT, AND WHY - neither is a client gap: · "Save as a picture", the link card's third action, needs react-native-view-shot, which is not installed and is an app-size decision the owner has not taken (QRS-1065). A button that cannot save is worse than its absence. · "The WhatsApp preview", the fourth row of "See it as they see it", selects a view on the public web page, and apps/web's biodata route serves no og: tags at all (measured 2026-09-10: og:image appears only in setu-card.tsx and the landing SEO module). A mock preview in the app would promise a card WhatsApp will not render - the "handled elsewhere is a claim" shape. It needs the OG tags on the web route first, and that is the natural next piece of work if the owner wants it.

⚠ THE "BIGGER GAP" THE OWNER SAW IS NOT FULLY EXPLAINED, AND I AM SAYING SO RATHER THAN IMPLYING IT IS FIXED. Measured on Dev: both published profiles have real slugs (qr-612d214f, vedaalahade) and 4 photographs each, so profileUrl is non-empty and LinkCard was rendering

• the card was not hidden. BrandQr also fails honestly (a dashed box with copy), so it cannot produce blank space either. The measurable divergence was the action row, now fixed. Re-check the spacing on the new build; if a gap remains it is a separate defect and needs a screenshot.

⚠⚠ MEDIA IS CLOUDFLARE R2, END TO END, AND A DIAGNOSIS OF MINE HERE WAS WRONG — READ THIS BEFORE RE-DERIVING IT (QRS-1241). Nothing uses Supabase Storage: .storage.from( returns zero hits across apps/, packages/ and supabase/functions/, and _shared/r2.ts signs to <account>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com. Buckets: qrsetu-media-dev (public CDN origin) and qrsetu-private-dev (presigned GET only, Public Access Disabled — keep it so). · ⚠ supabase/storage/r2-cors-*.json IS CLOUDFLARE CONFIG UNDER A MISLEADING PATH. The owner read it as a Supabase bucket and challenged the architecture; that is a fair reading of the path, and a rename to infra/cloudflare-r2/ is owed. Never call it “the supabase storage config”. · ⚠⚠ I CLAIMED THE PRIVATE BUCKET HAD NO CORS POLICY AND BLAMED IT FOR THE FAILING UPLOADS. BOTH HALVES WERE WRONG. What I measured was that the REPO holds no policy FILE; Cloudflare's live state is unmeasurable from here (no CLOUDFLARE_* secret on Dev). The owner's bucket listing then showed every original AND its -d derivative present, so the PUTs were succeeding all along — and CORS could not have been involved anyway, because those uploads came from a NATIVE build, which performs no preflight. · r2-cors-private.json is the repo's record of the intended policy. ✅ APPLIED BY THE OWNER ON 2026-09-10 TO ALL FOUR BUCKETS (dev + prod, media + private), so the question this line used to leave open — whether the bucket had any rule — is answered. ⚠ The DASHBOARD wants a bare PascalCase array (AllowedOrigins ...), not this file's Cloudflare API shape: convert, never retype. Production policies are r2-cors-{media,private}-prod.json and the setup guide now carries a CORS section, whose absence is why this was a surprise at all.

✅✅ BOTH ARTIFACTS ARE CURRENT AND VERIFIED INSIDE THEMSELVES (2026-09-11 11:06). APK app-release.apk 61.6 MB, built 11:06, env development (qr-setu-dev), createBundleReleaseJsAndAssets ran FRESH (not UP-TO-DATE). Probed in the extracted assets/index.android.bundle (10,079,480 bytes): biodata-view-family-drawing present, the role labels the runtime key resolves to all present (Maternal uncle, Elder sister, Younger brother, This profile), the four 09-10 fixes present, the placeholder 918000000000 absent, Dev ref dyhjofjjuazhyqcvlrkx 1, prod 0, legacy 0. Preview live on http://localhost:8080 and http://192.168.31.178:8080 at bundle entry-e4e535e548510e3b142e6bfdcc31496b, verified against the SERVED bytes. ⚠ consumerBiodata.role.father probes as 0 and that is CORRECT — the key is composed at runtime from biodataRoleKey(p), so only the prefix and the literal .self exist as strings; the labels above are what prove it resolves. A literal probe of a runtime-composed key is a false negative waiting to be misread.

⚠⚠ :app:packageRelease FAILED ONCE AND DESTROYED THE PREVIOUS APK, WHICH IS AN OPERATIONAL HAZARD WORTH KNOWING. The first attempt died in PackageAndroidArtifact$IncrementalSplitterRunnable with no message after 4m41s, and outputs/apk/release/ was then empty — packaging removes the old artifact before writing the new one, so a failed build leaves you with nothing to install, not with the previous build. Do not assume a fallback APK exists after a failed package step. Cause was stale incremental state, not disk (13.0 GB free at the time; packaging needs a fraction of that). Fixed by rm -rf android/app/build/intermediates/incremental/packageRelease and rebuilding — 1m30s, targeted, rather than a full --clean that would have redone ~719 up-to-date native tasks. ⚠ On the successful run createBundleReleaseJsAndAssets was UP-TO-DATE, which is exactly the condition that once shipped a stale bundle. It was legitimate here — the FAILED run had just built it fresh from these sources — but the only thing that proves it is the literal probe above. Never read UP-TO-DATE as reassuring; probe the artifact.

⚠⚠ QRS-1250 IS THE LESSON OF THE DAY AND IT COST NOTHING TO LEARN TWICE. The viewer's zoom pill and close control sat under the status bar because a Modal renders into its own host view, outside the screen's SafeAreaView. That is the SAME IDEA as QRS-1248 from hours earlier, and check:parity R16 — written for that very class — could never have caught it, because R16 asks about screens rendering ScreenHeader and this renders neither. 🔎 A static rule catches the SHAPE of its incident, never the idea. After writing one, go looking for the same defect in a different shape.

⚠ STILL OPEN AND OWED: (1) the reader's contract is not re-enumerated — DONE 2026-09-11, now 39/59 pass · 11 gap · 9 blocked, and six rows had been understating delivered work; (2) 2d screenshot protection is an undecided OWNER DECISION — it contradicts shipped copy ("Nobody can stop a screenshot, and we do not pretend to"), needs expo-screen-capture (an app-size callout), and browser prevention is not achievable; (3) emblem-art.js is unported so drawn collection emblems show their NAME only, which is the design's declared state.

✅✅ THE READER IS NOW AT DESIGN ROUND 41, AND CLAUDE DESIGN ANSWERED ALL THREE QUESTIONS THE ROUND-4 PROMPT ASKED (QRS-1249). The prompt is design-system/biodata-reader-photo-prompt.md. Auto-advance was REFUSED — "The photographs never move on their own, so the only motion here is the one the reader asked for" — and swipe put in its place, ⚠⚠ THAT REFUSAL WAS OVERRIDDEN BY THE OWNER ON 2026-09-10 (QRS-1251) and the carousel now autoplays at 3s. This sentence is kept because it records what the DESIGN says, which still needs syncing back; it is no longer a description of the build. Zoom was granted PER TIER: photoZoomable={tier === 'released'}, "because the tiers are served different files", three stops (1/1.8/2.5) reachable by pinch AND a labelled pill because the artboard says "Production keeps both". The frame stops cropping at every tier. The opening block now LEADS the reader, reversing round 39's explicit kind !== 'opening' exclusion.

⚠⚠ THE ZOOM IS A DISCLOSURE CONTROL, NOT A PREFERENCE, AND MUST NOT BE LOOSENED FOR CONVENIENCE. A basic reader holds the 720px derivative, which exists so a forwarded photograph is low value; a magnifier over it invites exactly the inspection the derivative prevents. It is mutation-tested: forcing photoZoomable true fails exactly the basic-reader test and nothing else.

🧮 Two things measured rather than assumed, and both REDUCED the work: biodata-core.js is unchanged in every constant we encode (zero zoom/swipe hits; RELEASE_DAYS 90, MAX_PHOTOS 4, REMOVAL_HOURS 72, EXPIRY_WARN 10, MAX_PEOPLE 10, 223 field ids), so the domain port needed nothing; and the PUBLIC page got no zoom and still crops, so apps/web needed nothing.

✅ RE-ENUMERATED 2026-09-11: 39/59 pass · 11 gap · 9 blocked · 10 route-verified. ⚠ The correction ran in the direction that HIDES delivered work — six rows read blocked or "NOT BUILT" for blocks that ship — so re-read the contract, never this sentence, before concluding anything is missing. What is genuinely still absent: the recipient path (standing block, Ask to see more, the recipient menu), the full share sheet with its QR, and the locked gallery. The drawn collection emblems render their NAME and no art — emblem-art.js is unported and the design's own editor says the collection "is not ready yet", so that is its declared state, not our defect.

🔎 A PROCESS RESULT WORTH KEEPING: the QRS-913 product-context block worked. No new folder, no new screen, emblem-art.js newly IMPORTED rather than reinvented, and the public page's one pattern reused for all four compositions — the exact opposite of the round-2 failure the block was written after.

✅✅ BIODATA PHOTOGRAPHS WORK END TO END ON ANDROID, MEASURED 2026-09-10 08:38-08:39Z. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME ANY BIODATA PHOTOGRAPH HAS REACHED ready ON DEV. 🧮 Two rows, purpose='biodata_photo', bucket='private', byte sizes 207846 and 62537, real dimensions written by confirm_photo (1200x1600 and 1600x900), derivative_key present on both (so both PUTs landed), ready_at set, and each attached to a profile. The Edge Function log shows the complete flow twice: issue -> confirm -> profile save, three 200s per photograph, no 409 and no 400. Every link in the chain is now proven by measurement rather than by reading: prepare, issue, PUT x2, confirm, attach, and the profile write.

⚠ THAT WAS THE ANDROID BUILD, NOT THE BROWSER — bare POSTs with no OPTIONS preflight. The owner applied the CORS policy to all four R2 buckets (dev + prod, media + private) on 2026-09-10, so QRS-1245 is discharged as an action, but no browser upload has been retested since. Web remains unverified: applied is not proven. Re-check with the request-method test — OPTIONS+POST pairs mean a browser.

⚠ 11 pending rows remain from the broken era (QRS-1241/1243). They are invisible to every reader by design and are what a sweeper would collect; a watchdog for rows stuck pending beyond an hour is still recommended and still unbuilt. ✅ THE 13:17 APK IS THE ONE THAT PROVED IT (built from 5950283; nothing in apps/ or packages/ has changed since, so it stays current). The earlier native attempts at 04:54-05:47Z predate the 06:18Z build and are the 409s and 400s that were fixed — do not read them as failures of the current code.

✅ THE UPLOAD BLAMED THE ONE STAGE THAT HAD WORKED (QRS-1243), AND THIS IS WHY THE FIRST REPORT WAS UNREADABLE. The toast said "That photograph could not be prepared" while Dev held two media rows minted seconds earlier with real byte sizes and a derivative_key - preparation had succeeded. PhotoUploadOutcome was a string union whose single failed member was returned from five places, and the screen mapped it to the prepare sentence. 🔎 A diagnosis was ASSERTED IN COPY where an enumeration was owed, so the only evidence anyone can send - a screenshot of the toast - pointed away from the fault. ⚠⚠ The right sentence already existed and was reachable from nowhere: photos.uploadFailed sat in the catalog under a comment insisting the three upload failures are named separately, referenced by nothing, and both call sites carried comments asserting "EVERY OUTCOME GETS ITS OWN SENTENCE" while ending on one sentence. Now six named stages, and only prepare may claim a preparation failure. ⚠ Both hooks now share one putToR2 (@/lib/r2Upload): they had drifted into different diagnostic power, and it adds the distinction neither had - whether the request left the client at all (blocked vs rejected), which is exactly what separates a refused preflight from SignatureDoesNotMatch.

✅ THE PHOTOGRAPH FIELD TOLD THE FAMILY IT WAS "WORKED OUT FROM THE DATE OF BIRTH" (QRS-1244). The design's INPUTS marks both age (really computed, from dob) and photo (not typed in that sheet at all) as derived, and the component rendered one hardcoded sentence for the flag. ⚠ The transcription is FAITHFUL - this is a rendering defect, not a design gap, so changing the vocabulary would have diverged us from the design for nothing. The domain already knew (BIODATA_DERIVED_FROM is { age: 'dob' }), so it now projects derivedFrom and the screen stops inferring.

⚠ npm run type-check WAS RED AT HEAD (QRS-1242), on an unrelated domain test. A node --test file is never type-checked by its own runner (--experimental-strip-types strips without checking), so the suite was green while tsc failed on that file; the gate that sees it is pre-push, which had not run. Fixed. Read it as a standing hazard: a green node --test says nothing about types.

✅ BIODATA PHOTOGRAPHS: FIXED (QRS-1241), AND THE ROOT CAUSE WAS A SENTENCE IN THE PLAN OF RECORD. end-to-end-plan.md said “Idempotency keys are scoped (user_id, action, key)”. They are not: public.idempotency_keys has key as its sole primary key and no action column. Both hooks minted ONE key for issue AND confirm, so the confirm was refused — 409 “This idempotency_key was already used with a different request body”, measured four times on Dev, each ~2s after its own upload. The symptom is the worst shape available: bytes reach Cloudflare, the row stays pending, get_biodata_photo_keys filters on ready, and the app shows nothing with no error anywhere. Confirm now mints its own key — manage-media's uploadImage already did exactly this and documented it, so the platform held a correct implementation and a false spec at once. The plan's sentence is corrected in place. · Also fixed: every EMBLEM upload 400'd — the client sent derivative_byte_size with kind: 'emblem', which validateIssueUpload refuses by name because no second PUT is presigned for one. · ⚠ My PUT diagnostic from the previous pass was INERT: it reports through captureException and .env.development sets no Sentry DSN, so it is a no-op. “The next failure names itself” was false on a dev build. · 4 tests now cover the flow, which had none (QRS-1230 had already recorded that). The key assertion is mutation-tested: it FAILS against the shared key.

✅ IMAGE UPLOAD: THE CLIENT HALF IS FIXED, AND THE ROOT CAUSE IS WORTH READING BEFORE TOUCHING ANY PICKER (QRS-1239). fetch('file://…').blob() returns a blob whose type is '' on React Native — RN does not sniff a MIME from a local path. uploadImage derived content_type from it and sent the empty string; Dev logged the 400 at 2026-09-09T16:54Z. Now readLocalImageBlob(uri, type) declares the type (both pickers encode SaveFormat.JPEG, so it is a fact at the call site) and uploadImage takes an explicit contentType. All three pickers fixed. ⚠⚠ THE TEST FILE HAD NAMED THE RISK AND MOCKED IT AWAY — avatarPicker.test.ts's fixture was { size, type: 'image/jpeg' } under a comment calling type "the field that matters and the one most easily lost". A mock more correct than the device. When you mock a boundary, mock what the WORST supported runtime returns. · ⚠ I reported this path "verified end-to-end on a real Dev account" on 2026-09-09. True of the run I did, false of the product: that run went through a surface where the blob carries its type. A single-surface verification reported without naming the surface is the third rule's own category error.

✅ THE BIODATA READER NOW OPENS WITH THE PHOTOGRAPH CARD (QRS-1240). The owner compared it with the artboard and was right. The design's identity lines are the footer of a photograph card, not a block of their own, so building them alone (QRS-1235, the day before) produced correct text with no card shell and no hero — plain text where the design has a tinted image panel inside a 30-radius card. Built: the shell, the 268 hero with crossfaded slides, the count pill, the dots, and the noPhotos state (172 high, the subject's initial at 62px in the brand face) — which is the state Dev is in, because no biodata photograph has ever reached ready. Contract 44 → 53 rows. · ⚠ THE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE ABSENCE WAS WRONG THE SAME WAY THE about COMMENT WAS. AboutBlocks.tsx called the carousel recipient-only and deferred it under QRS-1181. It is not: an owner previewing their own daughter's profile sees the photographs. Twice in two days a block was excluded by a comment that did not cover it. · ⚠ THE ARTBOARD THE OWNER SENT WAS THE PUBLIC PAGE (setu-card/BiodataPage.dc.html), not this screen's (consumer/BiodataView.dc.html); the design's own header says they are deliberately different. Check WHICH artboard governs before concluding a screen has drifted — and note the complaint was correct anyway. · Still absent, as contract rows: the lightbox, Keep and Share, the family drawing, the gallery, the place card, the talk block — the QRS-1181 recipient layer, which has no consumer-to-consumer model.

✅ SCAN AND VERIFY SHIPPED 2026-09-09 (QRS-1237), WITH ITS BACKEND. check:screens now reads 35 built and the consumer section has no missing row. Contract scan-verify.json: 81/87 pass · 0 gap · 6 blocked · 15 route-verified. · THE BACKEND WAS NOT OPTIONAL, AND THIS IS THE PART TO RE-READ BEFORE TOUCHING THE SCREEN. verifyCanonical emits qrsetu-verified only when a business lookup answers, and nothing could answer — so the verified verdict was STRUCTURALLY UNREACHABLE and the screen whose whole claim is "scanning inside QR setu is safer than the phone camera" could show three of its four verdicts and never the one that earns it. Likewise Report: the engine emits a report action on EVERY verdict, so with no destination it would have shipped as a dead control on a safety screen. Migration 20260909170000 adds qr_reports + verify_qr_lookups(slug,code,vpa,url); manage-account gains report_code. Both deployed to Dev and read back. · ⚠⚠ ONE BLOCKED ROW IS DANGEROUS RATHER THAN MERELY ABSENT, and no gate says so: code_status is a deliberate constant pending the minted-code registry (QRS-576), so A CANCELLED STICKER READS AS VERIFIED. Every other blocked row withholds something; this one asserts something false. It is the design's own danger case inverted to a green tick, and it must be closed before any real merchant prints a code. · ⚠ A CLAIM OF MINE TO NOT RE-DERIVE: I told the owner that a shop's own UPI code "reads as caution instead of verified" because no VPA is stored (QRS-1238). Wrong. upi-direct is weight 1 UNCONDITIONALLY and a verdict is the MINIMUM weight, so every UPI payload caps at caution whether or not the payee resolves — the design's central refusal, not a gap. The missing store costs one green signal beside the payee card. · Dev carries a fixture the dev payload strip depends on: ganpati-bappa-arts and chai-charcha as published cards, plus four reports on sharma.traders@okaxis, mirroring the design's own DEMO_REPORTS. Recorded nowhere but a code comment — a seed script is owed.

⚠⚠ THE APK HANDED OVER ON 2026-09-09 WAS REBUILT TWICE, AND THE REASON IS THE MOST TRANSFERABLE THING IN THIS ENTRY. packageRelease failed once (transient, QRS-012's signature), so I re-ran gradlew :app:packageRelease directly. That bypassed the guarded wrapper, so the bundle re-ran with no NODE_ENV, Expo fell back to production mode, and it inlined .env.production — the APK pointed at the LIVE PROD PROJECT. The guarded rebuild then reported ✓ environment: development (qr-setu-dev) and was still wrong, because createBundleReleaseJsAndAssets was UP-TO-DATE and reused that bundle. The script's own success line cannot see this. Caught only by unzipping the APK and grepping the bundle for the three project refs. Never run gradlew directly for a release bundle; and verify the ref inside the artifact, not the line the build printed.

✅ THE 2026-09-10 APK CARRIES EVERY FIX, AND IT IS VERIFIED INSIDE THE ARTIFACT RATHER THAN OFF THE BUILD LINE. app-release.apk, 61.6 MB, built 13:17 (superseding the 11:48 one, which predated QRS-1243/1244). createBundleReleaseJsAndAssets executed — not UP-TO-DATE, which is the check the previous incident turned on. The unzipped bundle greps 1 hit for the Dev ref dyhjofjjuazhyqcvlrkx and 0 for both ikkwqowfnbhdasfejojg (prod) and ygmqxyrbnemhwkiyoboc (the legacy backup). New-code probes all present: readLocalImageBlob · withImageType · derivativeUploaded · scanReportTargetOf · SCAN_REPORT_REASONS · verify_qr_lookups, plus the 13:17 build's own four: putToR2 · never sent · derivedFrom · "did not finish uploading". · ⚠ biodata_emblem greps 0 and that is CORRECT, not a gap. It survives only inside a source comment and comments do not reach a bundle; the client sends kind: 'emblem' and the Edge Function maps it to the purpose. A probe for a string that only ever lived in a comment answers nothing — check where the string comes from before reading its absence as a defect. · Device cases 53-66 remain unrun, and this build is what they need.

⚠ NOTHING IN SCAN AND VERIFY HAS BEEN ON A DEVICE — the camera, the permission ladder, the torch, the upi:// handover and the AUTHENTICATED report round trip are all unproven off a handset. The report write is covered at the validator and SQL layers and probed live only for its 401. test:db could not run at all: both drives are under the 15 GB floor, so the local stack will not start.

✅ ACCOUNT > PERSONAL DETAILS IS DONE (2026-09-09; QRS-1231 · 1234 · 1228 partly). FOUR of the design's five controls are live: the name saves, the photo uploads (verified end to end on a real Dev account — purpose=avatar, status=ready, owner-scoped, u/<id>/avatar/<uuid>.jpg, 512x512, 14 KB), the account can be deleted, and both read-only fields show their value with the reason. Five design-fidelity defects the OWNER found on a screenshot pair were also fixed (header title per view, left alignment, phone grouped + mono, avatar brand gradient, spacing), and the field geometry now matches (radius 18 / padding 16 / value 14.5, passed per call site). · Mobile — the one control still read-only, and it is a DESIGN gap not a backend gap (QRS-1233). authService.linkPhone / verifyPhoneLink ALREADY EXIST and verify with type: 'phone_change' over our own Meta WhatsApp channel; the artboard draws an editable field that ADR-0032 and GoTrue both forbid. Owner decision: design-first. Prompt written, registered and gated at design-system/change-number-spec.md (11 states, extends prototype/consumer, 5 real files cited). When the artboard lands this is WIRING, not a build. · Email — SMTP is measured broken (QRS-1229). Owner action, not code. · Delete — ✅ SHIPPED, in var(--danger) behind a ConfirmSheet. The mechanism was never the blocker; the disclosure was, and both facts are now in the confirm body: the marriage profile comes down and the shared links stop working, AND the number cannot start a new account. A test asserts the body names no marketplace noun, because the design's own body named nothing else. ⚠ STILL OPEN (QRS-1228): whether the ban should be permanent. Releasing the number after a recovery window is what every phone-credential peer does; it needs a scheduler, and pg_cron is available on the project at 1.6.4 and NOT INSTALLED — an owner decision. ⚠ The correction that produced that shape, because it is easy to re-derive wrongly: soft_delete_account never touches the phone, so shortening the ban would not free the number, it would restore access to the deleted account. Two clocks (recovery window vs identifier reuse), never one.

✅ THE BIODATA READER'S TOP BLOCK IS BUILT (QRS-1235). The owner reported that "view marriage bio data doesn't show about my section at top" and it was exact: the screen rendered the owner band and jumped straight to work, so a marriage profile opened with no name on it — no headline, no age · height · city, no life chip, no lead chips, none of the family's paragraph. Now AboutBlocks.tsx (IdentityCard + IntroCard). ⚠⚠ TWO THINGS MADE IT INVISIBLE AND BOTH GENERALISE: the code justified the omission with a comment that was FALSE (SECTIONS excluded about "because about is consumed by the identity lines" — and the identity lines were never built), and no contract row named the block, so check:design-parity was green by construction: it verifies that ENUMERATED rows carry verdicts and is blind to an un-enumerated one. ⚠ Still open there: the intro label omits the family's LANGUAGE, because get_my_biodata_overview does not project content_language (QRS-1235). The photo carousel, Keep, Report and the talk block remain QRS-1181.

THE OWNER'S STANDING INSTRUCTION FOR THIS PHASE, verbatim: "keep progress and complete all the unblocked client side implementation and at last we can disucss on the blocked ones to take them up but ensure biodata and account/profile unlbocked cleint side end to end implementation is complete."

AND THE CORRECTION THAT GOVERNS IT, verbatim: "Do not use stale designs, previous assumptions, generic/shared screens, or the current implementation itself as the source of truth when they conflict with the latest Consumer designs." The assessment is consumer/design-implementation-gap.md.

⚠⚠ DESIGN FRESHNESS — FETCHING RATHER THAN GREPPING CHANGED THE OUTCOME THREE TIMES ON 2026-09-09 ALONE. (1) Account.dc.html: two local copies disagreed by 2.6 KB and the one I would have guessed was stale was the current one. (2) BiodataView.dc.html: the local copy was five days old and differed from the live artboard, so implementing from it would have built a superseded round. (3) list_files showed the project had gained Invitation, BirthdayCard, TemplatePreview, InviteTemplates, future-date-picker and time-picker since the transcribed inventory. Pull, do not grep a cache — scratchpad/design/* holds the NEWER copies of some files and the OLDER copies of others, so neither folder is trustworthy as a set.

⚠ HOW TO FETCH A BIG ARTBOARD WITHOUT BURNING CONTEXT: DesignSync get_file persists a large result to a file and returns only a preview, so parse that file's JSON content field out to scratchpad/<Name>.FRESH.dc.html and then run npm run design:spec on it. A 77 KB artboard costs almost nothing this way.

⚠⚠ A GATE CAN PASS WITHOUT LOOKING AT YOUR FILE, AND check:design-prompt DID (2026-09-09). It only reads a prompt inside a ```text fence; the new change-number-spec.md had its prompt in a blockquote, so the gate reported green having never assessed it. It was caught by the page being ABSENT from the gate's own printed list, not by the exit code. This is the silence-is-not-success family one layer up: not a gate that printed nothing, but a gate that printed everything except the thing just added. Read the list, not the exit code, whenever you add a subject to a gate that filters its input.

⚠⚠ AND I READ $? OFF A CHAINED COMMAND AND BELIEVED A FAILING TEST RUN WAS GREEN (2026-09-09). npm run test > file 2>&1; echo "exit=$?"; grep ... reports the status of the LAST command in the chain, so a run with 4 failed suites was announced as exit 0. CLAUDE.md documents this as the fourth variant of "read a gate's output properly" and I still walked into it. Put the redirect on its own line and read the command's own status on the next one, then grep the file — and always read the Tests: / Test Suites: summary rather than the code alone.

⚠ JEST FAILURES ON THIS MACHINE ARE USUALLY THE DISK, NOT THE CODE. C: sits at ~6 GB against check:disk's 15 GB floor and clean:dev reports 0 MB reclaimable, so the page file is starved: the full suite drops 2 suites to 5000 ms timeouts or a literal FATAL ERROR: AlignedAlloc Allocation failed - process out of memory at ~180 MB heap, and the suites that fail DIFFER between runs. Confirm with NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=3072 npx jest --runInBand <path> (never --runInBand AND --maxWorkers, which is a usage error that prints help and exits 1, looking exactly like a failure). Everything failing this way has passed in isolation. Freeing C: is an owner action.

⚠⚠ THE PREVIEW ON :8080 WAS STALE BECAUSE dist/ WAS, NOT BECAUSE THE SERVER WAS — AND THE TWO LOOK IDENTICAL (2026-09-10). The owner reported localhost not showing recent changes. 8080 answered 200 from a perfectly healthy server, serving entry-cbde5712… — an export from the previous evening, because nothing had re-exported after that day's commits. The repo's whole preview-staleness apparatus (guard-preview.mjs, QRS-666) is aimed at ORPHANED SERVERS binding a random port, which is the opposite failure with the opposite fix. So never diagnose this by checking the server is up. Compare the SERVED entry hash against a fresh export, and check dist/index.html's mtime against the last commit:

curl -s http://localhost:8080/ | grep -oE 'entry-[a-f0-9]+\.js'
npm run -w @qrsetu/mobile web:export   # verifies env AND that dist/ names ONE project ref
npm run -w @qrsetu/mobile preview      # fatal on EADDRINUSE, no-store, prints the hash + (current)

⚠ web:export takes ~2 minutes and the guard hook SWEEPS preview servers first, so 8080 goes down during it and must be restarted afterwards. ⚠ Raw npx serve is BLOCKED by the hook; the old instruction to use it lived in memory until today and is corrected. ✅ Live now: entry-527241785809435e4603189d72e837f4, and the served bundle was PROVEN to carry both days' work (typed-blob fix, photo hero, PUT diagnostic, the scan screen) with the Dev ref present and the prod ref absent.

0 · WHAT TO DO NEXT, IN ORDER

1. SCAN & VERIFY (scan-verify). ⚠ MEASURE BEFORE BUILDING — MOST OF IT EXISTS: · @qrsetu/domain/scan IS BUILT: verify.ts (375 lines, verifyScan, SCAN_VERDICTS, parseVerifyPayload, scanLookalikeOf, 16 ScanSignalIds), registry.ts (289 lines, parseScanPayload, resolveScan, isScanForAudience, 7 ScanTypeIds, ScanAppRoute), url.ts. 32 tests pass (cd packages/domain && node --test "src/scan/*.test.ts" — note the GLOB; node --test <dir> fails with MODULE_NOT_FOUND and looks like a test failure). · @/ui/scanner IS BUILT and owns the camera lifecycle, the permission machine, the denied AND unsupported states, manual entry, torch, the reticle and the __DEV__ demo strip — so two of the design's five states are already done. It has zero product importers; the consumer screen will be its first, so its children result-layer slot has never been exercised. · scanService is REAL and HALF-WIRED BY DESIGN: resolveSlugOwnerKind is live, lookups() returns the FAIL-CLOSED context, and the engine withholds the tick rather than inventing one. · WHAT IS ACTUALLY MISSING: the result layer (verdict sheet · wrong-audience sheet · opening interstitial · report sheet), a consumerScan i18n namespace of ~70 keys × 3 languages (the domain returns signal CODES + params, so every sentence is the catalog's), and the /consumer/scan route (QRS-1008's dead href). · ⚠⚠ THE REPORT PATH HAS NO DESTINATION, WHICH SHRINKS THE SCREEN. Measured 2026-09-09: no qr_reports table, no report_code RPC, and manage-account handles only update_email · change_password · delete_account · claim_slug. The design calls reporting "the other half of the safety layer" and finish() puts a report action on every verdict — so the report sheet, its five reasons and its "Reported. Thank you." state are all OUT, and the action renders named-and-not-live (the Delete precedent). ⚠ The design's prototype writes reports to localStorage; doing that here would be WORSE than absent, because the sheet promises "Our team reviews this within a day." · ROUTE DESTINATIONS, measured: ScanAppRoute names six screens and five exist — item ✓ · order-code ✓ · vendor ✓ · my-qr-setu ✓ (just built) · biodata-view ✓ · scan ✗, which is the route to create. scan-collect is the merchant screen and is audience: 'merchant', so the wrong-audience sheet is its correct answer, not a route. · ⚠ THE ORCHESTRATION IS THE DESIGN'S, NOT MINE: registry FIRST → wrong audience refuses plainly → a code hosted on qrsetu.com STILL goes through the verdict engine (that address is exactly what a swapped sticker imitates) → verified-but-unrenderable refuses rather than opening a different real shop → otherwise a 550 ms interstitial then navigate. Only non-QR-setu payloads reach the four-verdict sheet.
2. Then the OWNER INPUTS in §4 — they are the only things between Account and "done".
3. Do not start Meetings. Measured 2026-09-09: meetings, meeting_participants, meeting_invite_states, meeting_joins and meeting_occurrences all EXIST, and get_my_meetings / get_meeting_join do not, so the client can read nothing. It is a BAR TAB, so it cannot ship absent — but it needs backend first.

1 · WHAT LANDED (2026-09-09, four commits)

cabd97b	QRS-1219..1222 — the outage, and the two rate figures I retracted.
6b18321	MY QR SETU (QRS-1209) — 7 states, 24 tests, contract 24/32, ledger 33→34 built.
5225e82	ACCOUNT > PERSONAL DETAILS — the name saves; photo/mobile/email/delete are named-and-not-live, each with a reason and a test.
(this commit)	The hand-off, and a stale account ledger note.

Account is now SIX of eight views: hub · notifs · appearance · help · about · details. Contract consumer-account.json: 26/42 pass · 3 gap · 13 blocked · 10 route-verified. privacy waits on export_data; areas never gains a view (marketplace, D-a), so 8/8 is not the target.

⚠⚠ THE DETAILS ASSESSMENT IS THE LESSON OF THE DAY. QRS-1205 blocked the whole view on "needs set_avatar + the phone OTP path" — true of two controls and false of the view. Measuring each control separately found a real, already-used write for the name. "The view is blocked" is a fold over its controls, and a fold is only trustworthy if somebody enumerated the list. The owner found it before I did.

2 · ⚠⚠ THINGS OWED

1. QRS-1228 — ACCOUNT DELETION WORKS AND CANNOT SHIP. LAUNCH-BLOCKING. The mechanism is sound and better than QRS-909 records (soft delete + ban + global sign-out, not a hard delete). The disclosure is not: the design's confirm body names only MARKETPLACE objects and never the biodata or the shared links, and the ban is 876000h — a century — on a phone that IS the credential, which nothing on screen says. Needs design copy and an owner decision on the ban. ⚠ Deletion is a DPDP obligation and both stores require it, so this cannot stay blocked.
2. QRS-1229 — changeEmail WORKS AND MUST STAY UNWIRED until SMTP is fixed. It returns "Confirmation email sent" while the relay is measured broken (535). Re-checked 09-09: 24 h of auth_logs hold NO email flows at all, because the product signs in by WhatsApp.
3. QRS-1215 — A PLACEHOLDER SUPPORT NUMBER IS LIVE, 918000000000, wired to a real wa.me handoff. A test that checks the SHAPE of a phone number cannot see that the number is fake.
4. manage-biodata STILL NEEDS ITS DEV DEPLOY for QRS-1193 (deployed function hardcodes 90 days). Validate: release a share with 30 → biodata.shares.expires_at = released_at + 30 days. ⚠ Re-run check:ef-drift first — the project was RESTARTED on 09-09.
5. NOTHING SINCE 2026-09-07 HAS BEEN ON A DEVICE, Android or iOS. That is now four screens' worth: the reader, People and access, the opening composer, the biodata language rows, all of Account including details, and all of My QR setu.
6. ⚠ lint-staged PRETTIER-FORMATS SOURCE DURING git commit. Export or build AFTER the commit, never across it. It bit twice in two days.
7. Both drives under the 15 GB floor (C: ~8.9, D: ~13). The 10.61 GB Docker VHDX needs admin Optimize-VHD — owner's call.
8. PUSHED AND CLEAN as of 2026-09-20 — origin/develop is at 239010d and nothing is outstanding. ⚠ STILL NEVER PUSH WITHOUT ASKING (Actions quota). The owner authorised this one with an explicit constraint worth reusing: "avoid running GitHub Actions if all code tested locally so avoid redundancy." ✅ [skip ci] ON THE HEAD COMMIT DID THAT AND IT WAS VERIFIED, NOT ASSUMED — gh run list --branch develop after the push shows NO new run; the only recent entries are the daily scheduled env-drift. ✅✅ devv IS CURRENT AS OF 2026-09-20 20:1x — DEPLOYED LOCALLY, NOT THROUGH ACTIONS. The owner re-authorised the manual path on quota grounds, so EXPIRES in apps/web/scripts/deploy-manual.mjs moved 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-30 in the same commit as the reason, which is what that script’s own refusal message prescribes. npm run -w @qrsetu/web deploy:manual dev ran every gate, bound all three vars, uploaded qrsetu-web-dev (version 2658eb14-bcbf-44a6-80d4-c44e8e59b2e1) and passed all four smoke probes 200 — the 403 that reddens the same step in CI (QRS-1260) did not occur from here. Verified on the live page, not off the deploy’s exit code: GET https://devv.qrsetu.com/sunil/biodata renders opening · identity · intro · facts · story · family · community · custom · looking · talk, a clean subsequence of BIODATA_READING_ORDER on which biodataOrderOk() passes; before the deploy the same page had zero data-slot attributes. ⚠ The previous text here — “devv still serves the OLD reading order” — was TRUE when written and is now stale; it is corrected rather than deleted, because the reason it was true (a [skip ci] that also suppresses deploy-web) is a live trap that will recur on the next CI-free push. ⚠⚠ AND A SECOND CLAIM IN THIS FILE IS WRONG IN A WAY WORTH KEEPING: “deploy-web HAD NEVER ONCE SUCCEEDED” / “0-for-8”. Re-measured 2026-09-20: 18 runs, 18 failure conclusions — and that reads as the pipeline has never deployed, which is FALSE. Run 34575509242 (2026-09-11) passed every step through Deploy to Cloudflare Workers and failed only on Smoke-test the live deployment. So devv genuinely carried that 11 Sep build all along. 🔎 COUNTING RUN CONCLUSIONS MEASURES THE LAST STEP, NOT THE DEPLOY — the same shape as a-count-of-the-wrong-thing: a grep over the wrong unit still returns a NUMBER, and a number reads as a measurement. Read the failing STEP before concluding what is live, and then measure the live page itself. ⚠ SEPARATE FINDING: env-drift HAS FAILED EVERY DAY since at least 2026-09-16. A scheduled workflow that is permanently red burns quota daily AND is the kind of gate people learn to ignore. Untouched, unowned, worth a decision.

3 · THE LESSONS FROM 2026-09-09 (four separate ones, all live)

1. ⚠⚠ A blocked VERDICT ON A COMPOSITE IS A FOLD, AND A FOLD NEEDS ITS LIST RE-READ. A screen is not blocked; its CONTROLS are, one at a time, for different reasons that expire at different rates. Account > details held one live write, two missing endpoints, one working endpoint that must stay unwired, and one irreversible action with the wrong copy. As a single verdict that is 20% of the truth. Re-enumerate a blocked row before quoting it — especially your own.
2. ⚠⚠ LOOK FOR THE PART BEFORE BUILDING IT. I was about to port qr-verify.js into @qrsetu/domain and it was already there, with 32 tests, returning signal CODES + params exactly as the catalog needs. Same for the whole @/ui/scanner shell. The state record UNDERSTATED delivered work, which this repo calls the rarer and more expensive direction — it invites rebuilding what exists.
3. ⚠ A DEVIATION FROM THE DESIGN MUST BE A ROW, NOT A DECISION. Seven now carry tracker ids and tests. What makes them safe is not that they are right; it is that each is loud. It matters most for COPY: two omitted sentences on My QR setu and three on details would have been promises the product has not made.
4. ⚠ THE POSTGRES-STATS TRAPS (QRS-1219's own lessons, all still true): pg_stat_statements does not count ABORTED statements · pg_stat_database is a per-transaction CACHED snapshot, so a pg_sleep delta inside one statement reports 0 · the view's real key includes toplevel, so a join without it MANUFACTURES a delta · edge_logs/postgrest_logs are SAMPLED on the free tier and postgres_logs is not · 97% xact_rollback is NORMAL for PostgREST.Measure a rate with two separate calls and subtract by hand.

4 · DECISIONS AND OWNER INPUTS OWED (do not guess these)

· QRS-1228 — the account-deletion ban and its confirm copy. New, and launch-blocking. · QRS-1215 — the real support number. One config value, both surfaces. · QRS-1216 — the legal pages. /terms, /privacy, /licences exist on no surface. Launch-blocking, and where QRS-549's removed reassurance is supposed to live. · QRS-1217 — biodata FAQ content. The launch product's real questions are in HELP_TOPICS NOWHERE. Not to be invented — my words on the screen whose job is to be trustworthy. · A PENDING QUESTION THE OWNER HAS NOT ANSWERED: should Invitation/Birthday read as plan-gated (needing feature_grants rows to make "On a plan" true) or as "not ready yet"? It is now load-bearing on a shipped screen; the fifth rule makes these opposite treatments. · D-y, still the biggest scope question. Rounds 41-48 added a SECOND consumer product surface (invitations, an occasion library, 22 designs under prototype/templates/). Seven consumer designs and the whole templates section have NO ledger row, so check:screens is green over a stale denominator (QRS-1212). Recommended: follow the launch, not join it. · Other: D-aa react-native-view-shot (QRS-1065) · D-t does /<slug> ever render the phone number (QRS-1210) · D-i expo-clipboard.

Waiting on the DESIGN PROMPT (design-system/biodata-editor-drawer-prompt.md, still UNSENT): QRS-1172 · QRS-1176 a surname leak at basic tier in the approved artboard · QRS-1177 · QRS-1178 · QRS-1186 · QRS-1187 · QRS-1194 · QRS-1198, plus tier_control. QRS-1228's confirm copy should join this prompt.

Waiting on a decision or dependency: QRS-1181 · QRS-1195 · QRS-1196 · QRS-1197 · QRS-1200 · QRS-1201 · QRS-1205 (privacy) · QRS-1206 (areas, permanent) · QRS-1208 · QRS-1210 · QRS-1213 · QRS-1214 (a full-screen jest suite passes then holds the process open — pre-existing; do NOT paper over it with --forceExit in package.json) · QRS-1223 · QRS-1224 · QRS-1225 · QRS-1226 · QRS-1131 · QRS-1188 · QRS-1192. Older: QRS-1136, QRS-1154, QRS-1161, QRS-1183, QRS-1184.

5 · THE OLDER LESSONS, still live

1. A NOTE THAT DESCRIBES THE DESIGN, IN A FIELD READ AS A STATEMENT ABOUT THE CODE, IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM A MEASUREMENT. my-qr-setu's ledger note asserted three entry points "that already point here"; zero existed. Two are wired now. The account row then did the same thing — it read "BUILT: 2 views, 1 state" while six were built, one round after being written to correct exactly that.
2. CHECK THE DESTINATION EXISTS BEFORE LINKING TO IT — APP ROUTES AND WEB URLS. A link to a 404 is worse than an absent row.
3. A TEST CAN BE ENTIRELY CORRECT AND STILL BLIND TO THE DEFECT. Shape is not identity.
4. A CATALOG STRING IS A WORTHLESS BUNDLE PROBE — i18n ships whole. Proven again on 09-09: a must-be-absent probe for "about an order" found it, in consumerAccount.guestBody. Probe code literals, and always include a half that must be ABSENT.
5. ASSERT THE ROUTE ARGUMENT, NEVER THAT A CALL HAPPENED. toHaveBeenCalled() passes against the wrong destination.
6. AN INVARIANT WORKS IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. Rows appear when they gain a destination and vanish when they lose one — the Account Personal group came back for exactly that reason.
7. A TEMPLATE-DERIVED EVIDENCE ID PROVES SHAPE, NOT IDENTITY. account-not-ready-details stayed green after details was built, because the gate matched account-not-ready-${view}. Read the gate's own "via template" lines.
8. THE jest.mock FACTORY CANNOT CLOSE OVER A NON-mock-PREFIXED VARIABLE, and a blanket \b-boundary rename to fix it corrupts comments too.

2 · Non-negotiables (owner instructions — never re-litigate)

• In-house WhatsApp auth on official Meta infrastructure. "No Twilio or other third-party messaging/authentication provider." Supabase's native channel:'whatsapp' is Twilio-only and must not be used.
• Never assume an architecture, provider, integration pattern or dependency that has not been explicitly discussed or validated — stop and ask.
• No effort estimates.
• Consumer data is never indexed.
• Organisation developer accounts only, no personal accounts (Digious Platforms Private Limited).
• Never save designs locally — always fetch the latest from the Claude Design project.
• Keep the splash screen completely intact.
• Never print or paste tokens/secrets.
• Existing-account recognition is POST-OTP, never pre-OTP (2026-09-03). A pre-verification check is an account-existence oracle. See §4.
• Default theme is LIGHT after install (2026-09-03).
• ConsumerHome.dc.html at design round 40 is THE source of truth for the consumer build, and it includes MEETINGS (owner, 2026-09-04): the bar is Home · Chats · [+] · Saved · Meetings; Orders is gone from the bar. Build no new dependency on Orders. Priorities: ConsumerHome · Marriage Biodata · Profile · Settings · the core flows that reach them. Not marketplace expansion.
• Everything in CLAUDE.md — the six top-level rules in particular.

3 · Implemented and validated

Area	State	Evidence
Slug namespace (D1)	slugs registry · backfill + FK · claim + availability RPCs · release-on-owner-loss	78 migrations on Dev, head 20260903120000; pgTAP 13 files / 510 tests; verified by Dev read-back
Address claim	claim_slug (service-role only) behind manage-account; get_my_slug; consumer seam	Deployed to Dev 2026-09-03. ⚠ Never driven end-to-end with a real session
Consumer identity card	IdentityCard + ClaimAddressSheet on consumer home	21/39 parity rows; 1089 unit tests green
Auth remediation	Sign-out, persona, account-state, route guard	See §5
App lock	AppLockGate mounts the PIN gate at app open; 30s foreground grace; sign-out clears the device PIN	12 gate + 6 domain tests, mutation-tested. ⚠ Zero device evidence
Parity rule P7	A contract row may name the ROUTE that renders it, and the gate verifies it	check:design-parity, 2 route-verified rows
Money path	Live on Dev (Razorpay Route)	documentation/portal/payments/ is the SSOT

Gate status (full set re-run 2026-09-24 at 32ce345, each exit 0 and its summary read): lint · type-check · npm test · test:ef · test:hooks · ⚠ test:db NOT re-run (local stack down; its §8 count is dated) · ⚠ the counts live in §8 and nowhere else, deliberately — this line carried npm test (1089), test:ef (379) and test:db (510) while the table 380 lines below already recorded 2261, 445 and 593, so one file disagreed with itself about three numbers. A count restated twice is a count that goes stale once. · check:sql · check:release · check:docs · check:naming · check:screens · check:parity · check:design · check:design-parity · check:portal-nav · check:docs-impact — all green.

4 · Architectural decisions and their reasoning

Decisions worth money to re-derive, kept here because their reasoning is what stops a later session reversing them by accident.

2026-09-05 · THE CHAT IDENTITY MODEL IS LOCKED (ADR-0032)

You are reachable because you gave someone a way to reach you, not because they know your number.

Principal (uuid) · the phone is a credential only, never an address and never a column in public.users · the slug is the universal auto-assigned address · businesses are discoverable, people are not · reach is by capability plus a write-only invite whose answer never varies · a first message to a person is a request, to a business it is not · a conversation is between PRINCIPALS.

⚠ Do not re-open this by feature. Any change to D1–D8 is an amendment to ADR-0032.

The three measurements that decided it, so nobody re-derives them:

1. conversations.workspace_id and consumer_user_id are BOTH NOT NULL — so consumer-to-consumer and business-to-business are equally unrepresentable, and only one of four communication flows has a model. The gap was never just message the family.
2. Every chat table holds zero rows on Dev, no Edge Function writes them, and the realtime publication is empty. The change is a rewrite in place; after adoption it would not be.
3. handle_new_user references slug zero times and only 2 of 10 Dev users hold one, so most accounts are unreachable by any capability (QRS-1078).

Why mobile-number identity was rejected, in one line each: it contradicts the biodata disclosure model the platform already enforces · it defeats blocking, because a new SIM restores reach · it would print a phone number on a sticker, since the QR encodes the address · it cannot express a business · and QRS-998 makes a phone directory factually wrong today, because an account exists from the moment an OTP is SENT.

A numeric alias was rejected as a third public identifier; if it ever ships it is a business vanity alias, never a second identity for people.

Chat stays in public — ADR-0031 applied rather than overridden: a principal-based conversation spans consumers, merchants and business-to-business, which is the definition of a shared object, and that ADR's context vocabulary is closed to biodata and meetings.

Accepted knowingly: no "who is already on QR Setu" affordance. Recoverable later through private set intersection; removing phone-as-address after adoption is not. The asymmetry decided it.

Decision	Why, in one line	Where it lives
slugs is a registry, not a column	One primary key means a consumer and a merchant cannot collide; two tables would need a race-prone cross-table trigger	D1 · migration 20260902180000
ON DELETE SET NULL, never CASCADE	manage-account hard-deletes and users.id cascades from auth.users, so a cascade would hand a departed person's address to a stranger. Presence permanent, ownership not	D1
Reserved and consumer-held return the SAME availability status	Answering taken would move the account-existence oracle from the route into the RPC, over a dictionary of names	D1 · resolve_slug_status
Existing-account recognition is POST-OTP	Pre-verification is an enumeration oracle. ⚠ The RecognisedPanel UI already exists and already says what the owner asked for — do not rebuild it	Owner 2026-09-03
The registration trigger was HARDENED, not retired	Retiring it moves correctness onto a grep being complete — the dependency 1.2 explicitly rejected	QRS-985
is_returning is a DERIVATION, not a signup_completed_at column	The column only pays off by restructuring hasCompletedOnboarding, which is how QRS-730 shipped. Complete-vs-not decides a destination and is exact; new-vs-returning decides only which words appear	QRS-995 · migration 20260903120000
personaDeclared, not accountType, guards primary_context	accountType is non-optional so it always holds something; a reset default was indistinguishable from a tap	QRS-994
Sign-out tears down locally whatever the server says	scope:'local' is a client operation; refusing it because the server failed leaves somebody signed in who believes they are out	QRS-993
One renderer for the Setu Card, always DOM	ADR-0019; apps/mobile's preview is a fidelity preview, never a second renderer	ADR-0019
The app lock is a no-op WITHOUT a session	That is what lets it wrap the WHOLE consumer tree without breaking consumer/index.tsx's "NO SESSION GATE". Anonymous browse never meets it; a signed-in person's identity card is never left readable	QRS-1001 · AppLockGate
30-second foreground grace, not zero	Forgot PIN? sends a WhatsApp code the person must LEAVE THE APP to read. Zero grace re-locks the screen they left, on the way to the code that unlocks it	QRS-1001 · shouldLockOnForeground
Only background is an excursion, never inactive	On iOS inactive fires for the OS biometric sheet itself, so counting it lets the Face ID prompt re-arm the lock it is satisfying	QRS-1001
Sign-out CLEARS the device PIN	Otherwise person B, signing in on A's phone and declining the offer, is asked for A's PIN on the next launch. Binding the digest to a userId was rejected: it makes the PIN account state, which the design forbids	QRS-1001
The marketplace is OFF for the consumer release, and off means ABSENT	The design's own default (homeSections() drops every market: true section); no "coming soon" tile ever stands in; so the release needs NO marketplace backend	QRS-1006 · reconciliation §0
Meetings is the bar's 4th tab; consumer/Meetings.dc.html (round 35) is its destination	Owner 2026-09-04. RECEIVING needs no provider account and is buildable now; HOSTING mints a Zoom room on the host's own account (an OAuth extension, P9). ⚠ No producer of meetings is in the release scope — confirmation C1	end-to-end plan §0
Consumer plan approved as a whole; recommended defaults adopted (§12)	One approval, not a menu: C1 hosting P9 · C2 URL · C3 stop-serve-now · C4 client derivative · D-c per-account reads · D-m text chat via a NEW manage-chat EF · D-p only In app + WhatsApp channels · D-s static Link maker · D-v WhatsApp for "message the family" · D-w server-side prefs	end-to-end-plan §12
Chat needs a write EF before launch	Measured: no Edge Function touches conversations/messages; every consumer chat write is a stub; Chats is a tab and the biodata reader promises in-app messaging	R18, QRS-1015
Consumer uploads need manage-media owner scope first	Measured: manage-media is workspace-only; a consumer cannot upload an avatar, a photo or an emblem	R21, QRS-1016
Zoom: the version lives in ONE hosted page, never in the app binary	Every Zoom SDK (web included) has a quarterly minimum-version floor that makes old versions stop joining; a native SDK turns that into an app release per quarter (and the RN wrapper does not support Expo); a web page turns it into a deploy	QRS-1014 · zoom assessment §1
Zoom hosting at launch = QR Setu's own account (S2S), not the host's	Joining meetings outside our account requires Marketplace review since 2026-03-02 (no SLA; 3 months observed); the host's-own-account model costs two reviews and is the LATER path	QRS-1014 · zoom assessment §3
A bounded context gets its own Postgres SCHEMA; shared stays in public	ADR-0031, owner decision. public holds what MORE THAN ONE product surface depends on; a domain schema holds what EXACTLY ONE surface owns. The schema is the module, public is its published interface — RPCs stay in public (all PostgREST exposes), so the client is untouched and domain tables are not REST-reachable	ADR-0031 · QRS-1044
The naming axis is the BOUNDED CONTEXT, never the AUDIENCE	The owner proposed consumer_biodata_*; it is factually wrong on day one because a biodata is owned by a PERSON and primary_context is "PREFERENCE ONLY — never an authorization input", so a merchant can own one for their sister with no schema change. chat is the same trap inverted (conversations carries BOTH workspace_id and consumer_user_id). Audience is the property this platform is BUILT to let change	ADR-0031
anon/authenticated get no USAGE on a domain schema	This is the half a prefix could never give: REVOKE ALL ON SCHEMA is enforceable, a prefix is a label. The only way in is a SECURITY DEFINER function in public	ADR-0031 D4
Deletion is SOFT, and the COLUMN is not the enforcement	users.status is read by exactly ONE thing (get_my_context projects it) — no RLS, no RPC, no function tests it. So marking the row and stopping there leaves an account that reads as deleted and keeps working. Enforcement is auth.users.banned_until, set by manage-account in the same request	QRS-909 · CR-125
A soft delete does NOT release the slug	slugs_release_on_owner_loss is BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON slugs: it releases a row that is ALREADY ownerless and does not MAKE one ownerless. A hard delete nulls slugs.user_id via the FK and THAT fires it; a soft delete leaves the row. Releasing would strand the name anyway, since state=released keeps it out of the pool (slug is the PK)	QRS-909 · corrects an earlier note in this file
Biodata content lives in jsonb bags keyed by biodata.fields.id	The registry has moved through NINE design rounds; typed gates for what the server filters on, bags for what it only renders, so a new field is a registry row rather than a migration. ⚠ NOT a junk drawer: an unregistered key has no TIER, and a value with no tier escapes the disclosure model	CR-128
The Feistel reference key is absent from the database	The sequence is in biodata; the D6 permutation is minted in manage-biodata, because adjacent references would tell anybody holding two of them roughly how many families are on the platform. pgTAP proves no minting function exists in the schema	CR-128
A parity row may name its ROUTE (reachableFrom)	Evidence in a COMPONENT proves the behaviour was written; a token in a ROUTE proves something renders it. Optional, because a permanently red gate gets bypassed	QRS-1002 · rule P7

• In-app Zoom meetings are the product objective (owner, 2026-09-04), and the host connects their OWN Zoom account. Not deep-link-out. ⚠ The price is Zoom policy, not engineering: since 2026-03-02, joining a meeting outside our own Zoom account needs Marketplace App Review — four stages, no SLA, one public case took three months — and an unpublished app is usable only inside the developer's own account. So bring-your-own-Zoom costs two approvals. ⚠ Meetings are not R1 by owner decision, so this does not gate 10 Sep; ship it "Coming Soon" on the availability axis (discoverable, not-ready, no purchase CTA on native).
• The route is the Meeting SDK for WEB in a QR-Setu-hosted page inside react-native-webview — officially supported by Zoom on Android and iOS, adds almost no app weight (the SDK loads from a PINNED CDN url), and one page serves all three surfaces so parity is nearly free. ⚠ The native RN wrapper is REJECTED and cannot be reconsidered: RN ≤ 0.75.4, "Expo is not supported", AAR 89→148 MB.
• ADR-0031's meetings context is WITHDRAWN (amendment A1). Its row said "one surface owns them"; the design has a MERCHANT Meetings screen whose meetings-core.js the consumer module imports. Two surfaces sharing one module is the same ADR's own reason for keeping conversations in public. biodata stands. 🔎 An ADR's worked EXAMPLE can contradict its own RULE — re-derive every row from the decidable line rather than reading the rows as the decision.
• Invite state is a series default + an EXACT-match per-occurrence override, never carry-forward. The design: "a batch member who accepted Monday and declined Tuesday is expressible without either answer overwriting the other."
• notification_reads is keyed by USER, not audience — a consumer who starts a business gains a membership and never a second account, so an audience-keyed read state gives one person two tables for one pair of eyes.
• resolve_slug_owner_kind returns workspace | other, not the plan's workspace | user | null. A user answer would reopen the oracle resolve_slug_status deliberately closes.

5 · Known issues — open, with status

Issue	Status
The screen ledger is green and stale: transcribed 2026-08-13, no row for 12 designed consumer screens (MyQRSetu, Biodata, BiodataView, Meetings, MyProgress, the makers, the intro-card editor)	OPEN, P0 item — QRS-1017
feature_grants has seven polymorphic scope columns and no XOR CHECK; the biodata caps rely on a comment	OPEN, P1 via the architecture-change protocol — QRS-1018
media has TWO constraints to widen for owner-scoped media (media_scope_exactly_one and media_purpose_matches_scope); the first plan named one	OPEN, P1 — QRS-1019
Reserved first segments live in two places (registry RESERVED, is_slug_reserved seed) with no test binding them; intro and photos are new reservations	OPEN, P1 — QRS-1020

| ⚠ parity-native AND payments-watchdog ARE DISABLED IN THE GITHUB UI and the repo does not record it. parity-native.yml is now manual workflow_dispatch only, both platforms (owner 2026-09-23; a platform input picks android · ios · both; the push trigger and the gate job are gone), and Dependabot PRs run no CI in ci/security/backend-ci/release-gate (see guides/github-actions-usage-forensics.md), but editing the file does not undo a UI disable: run gh workflow enable parity-native once before the first manual run. And no workflow in qrsetu or nefoxx runs on a schedule any more (security weekly, env-drift daily, watchdog hourly, nefoxx nightly e2e-regression all removed 2026-09-23); every workflow has workflow_dispatch; every job has timeout-minutes; ci.yml is fail-fast. Why: QRS-1283 — 87% of Aug + Sep billed minutes were schedules + Dependabot CI. Open: QRS-1286 (native jobs never pass), QRS-1287 (env-drift always red). Recommendation: leave it disabled until P3, when src/ui/** work begins and the native builds ARE the gate | OPEN — QRS-1043 | | ⚠ requireAdmin queries public.profiles, dropped by the ADR-0020 baseline. Fails CLOSED and has zero product call sites, so it is a landmine for its first caller rather than a hole. Fix it WITH the admin tier, not by pointing it at another table | OPEN — QRS-1042 | | ⚠ Five consumer artboards (WifiQR, LinkQR, UpiQR, PhotosQR, the intro-card editor) exist in the design project and are absent from SCREENS.md, which GENERATES the prototype hub. Our ledger can be re-transcribed from the registry; the registry cannot be re-transcribed from anything | OPEN — QRS-1024 |

Id	P	What
QRS-996	P2	Five hardcoded English defaults in @/ui (ScreenHeader 'Back', Sheet 'Close', Avatar 'Change photo', DateTimeField 'Done'/'Cancel'). ⚠ The owner's "Back in the consumer welcome story" is NOT confirmed to be this — needs a screenshot
QRS-997	P2	Double splash. ⚠ Android 12+ MANDATES a system splash; it cannot be removed, only made continuous. styles.xml:11 forces the launcher icon
QRS-998	P2	signInWithOtp creates the account when the code is sent, not verified — every abandoned OTP leaves a real row holding that number
QRS-999	P3	The (user) guard is an allowlist where an (auth)/(app) route-group split belongs
QRS-992	P2	The identity QR hardcodes qrsetu.com, so a Dev build cannot test the one control meant to be scanned
QRS-990	P1	Consumer home is 21/39 parity rows. ⚠ 8 are blocked on schema (biodata = plan 1.7), not UI
QRS-989	P2	TextField renders an empty caption when state="error" has no error prop
QRS-1001..1004	✅	Closed 2026-09-03 — the app lock, the reachability rule, the impure updater, the invisible confirm step. ⚠ 1001 is closed in CODE and owes a device pass
QRS-976	✅	Closed 2026-09-03 — and it had already been fixed; the row and the contract were both stale in the direction that HIDES delivered work
QRS-1006	P1	ConsumerHomeScreen renders the retired round-16 stack; round 40 is an identity hub with the marketplace OFF
QRS-1007	P2	The design project revived the retired product name (vocabulary group #1) for the Intro card — fix in the design project, never by weakening check:docs
QRS-1008	P1	/consumer/scan is a dead link twice over; src/ui/scanner/ has zero importers
QRS-1009..1011	decisions	Personal UPI maker vs the no-UPI rule · PDF export (two rounds disagree) · notification read state per device vs per account
QRS-987	P2	⚠ A background task reported exit code 0 for a command that FAILED, twice. Never accept a completion notice as a result — read the log's last lines
QRS-988	P3	The slug pattern permits a trailing hyphen; do not tighten one copy without the other
QRS-983	✅	Closed 2026-09-03
QRS-639	—	Dark mode, open. Test with Appearance set to Light
QRS-981	—	Android upload keystore (plan 0.2) — APK is debug-signed
QRS-643 / 327 / 872 / 873	—	Gates that do not run, or claim tests they do not have

Fixed 2026-09-03: QRS-984 (plan 1.3) · QRS-985 (permissive trigger) · QRS-993 (sign-out) · QRS-994 (persona inheritance) · QRS-995 (account-state).

6 · Learnings and corrections that cost real time

2026-09-07 · THE GATE OVER THIS FILE HAD NEVER RUN, AND ITS SILENCE READ AS A PASS

npm run check:state — the gate whose entire job is stopping this record from going stale — had never executed its own check on Windows (QRS-1155). Its driver guard compared import.meta.url against a hand-assembled file:// + argv path (two slashes) while Node renders a Windows drive path as file:///D:/… (three). The condition was never once true, main() was never called, and node exited 0 having written nothing.

Every "check:state exit=0" in every prior hand-off, including the one written immediately before this session's compaction, was worthless. Not wrong about the record — worthless as evidence, which is different and worse, because it was reported as a measurement.

🔎 Three things hid it, and each is the general lesson:

1. Exit 0 with no output is what a passing run also looks like to a shell. This repo's rule is to read the summary line, the exit code and the count. Here only the exit code existed. So the rule gains a fourth check for any gate you have not seen speak: did it print anything? Every other gate here prints a summary on success — check:screens its counts, check:portal-nav its page total, check:naming its rule list. Silence is not success, it is absence.
2. The visible half of the system worked while the enforcing half did not. The SessionStart/PreCompact hooks kept reporting staleness correctly — including the "1 commit behind" warning that opened this session — because they import project-state-lib.mjs directly and never touch the broken driver. Seeing the warning arrive is precisely what made the gate look alive.
3. ⚠⚠ Its nine mutation tests were green throughout, because every one of them imports evaluate(). They run against real throwaway git repos and prove the arithmetic in both directions; not one ran the CLI. A test that imports the function cannot see that the file never calls it. That is QRS-013's green no-op moved from a gate's logic to its entry point, and it is the variant nothing in this repo was watching for.

Fixed with the repo's own correct idiom, import.meta.url === pathToFileURL(process.argv[1]).href (already used by check-i18n-keys.js and tools/release/manifest-hash.js; four more gates use resolve(…) === resolve(fileURLToPath(…))). Never hand-assemble a file:// URL. Two new tests spawn the CLI and assert on its stdout in both directions — asserting the exit code alone passes against the bug. Mutation-proven: with the original guard restored, check:state emits 0 bytes and both new tests fail.

Swept all 44 import.meta.url sites in tools/: this was the only broken one.check-doc-claims.js compares basenames, which is loose but works.

2026-09-05 · A ONE-LINE REQUEST BECAME A DAY OF TOOLING, AND THE OWNER SAID SO

The ask was to delete a test user so a number could re-onboard. What was delivered first was a schema audit, a function, a portal guide, a tracker row, an orphan checker and a slash command — while the users were still in the database and P4 had not started. The owner's words: "my simple requirement was to deboard any user … but this is becoming unnecessarily complicated and time consuming", and "don't make it half cooked queries which is wasting literally too much of my time".

Two distinct failures, and only the second is about rigour:

Sequencing. Three of the four follow-up commits improved the reset rather than resetting anyone. The deliverable for a one-off request is the RESULT, or a command that runs as pasted. Tooling comes after, and only if asked. Recorded as memory finish-the-task-before-improving-the-tool.

Runnability. A handover table listed bare dev.reset_test_user(...) calls with no select * from and no semicolon. The owner pasted them and got syntax error at or near "dev". A snippet is not done until it would run byte-for-byte as pasted, and a multi-statement one should be a single block whose shape has been executed first — in an aborting transaction when it is destructive.

⚠ This does NOT weaken verified, never assumed: measuring is what found QRS-1069/1070/1072, all three real and all three live. The defect was that verification was spent on the tool instead of on finishing the task.

2026-09-05 · A TEST AND A PRODUCT THAT DERIVE A VALUE THE SAME WAY AGREE EVEN WHEN BOTH ARE WRONG

Three defects landed in one afternoon and all three are one shape, which is why they are recorded together rather than as three rows.

t() returns THE KEY when it cannot resolve one. That is a good product default — a screen still renders — and it is exactly what makes a missing key invisible to every check that existed:

layer	why it could not see it
type-check	t(key: string) accepts any string, so a wrong key is a well-typed one
i18n-catalogs.test.ts	it asserts the three languages agree WITH EACH OTHER, and all three were wrong identically
jest	it runs the REAL catalog, so an unresolved key renders as the key — and a test that computes its expectation from that same key MATCHES IT

QRS-1068 put four namespaces inside onboarding.setup because an insertion anchor matched a nested common before the root one. The instruction was mine and it propagated to two agents: a bad anchor is copied faster than it is checked, which is the real cost of parallel work.

QRS-1070 is the sharpest form. OrderCodeScreen's test read expect(getByText(tr('orders.status.ready'))) — a key in no catalog — against a screen rendering that same key, because the stub behind it had invented a second status vocabulary next to the domain's own FULFILMENT_LABEL_KEYS. The test passed for exactly as long as the defect existed, and started failing the moment it was fixed. A buyer on the Ganapati handover path saw orders.status.ready where "Ready" belonged.

QRS-1069 is the same idea with a cast instead of a key: tr('dates.monthsShort') as unknown as string[] turned a returned key into a fake array, so indexing it by month gave one character and a September order read "5 n". Two other files in this repo already carried comments explaining that these are indexed positionally. Two files documented the trap and four others fell into it, which is the argument for an accessor over a fifth comment — now apps/mobile/src/lib/dateCopy.ts.

The gate: npm run check:i18n-keys resolves every literal key against the catalog, ~380ms, pre-commit and CI, mutation-tested 11 ways in both directions. It found all three on its first run, plus two false positives of its own that were fixed rather than excluded — a gate with false positives is one people learn to bypass. It PRINTS the count of runtime-built keys it cannot check, because a silent cap reads as full coverage.

The rule to carry: when a test asserts on copy, derive the expectation from a source the product does NOT use — the design's own sentence, or the domain constant — never from the same key the component passes to t().

• ⚠ A test suite can assert a bug as desirable. Two AccountSection cases pinned "does NOT clear the session or navigate", so the suite was green through the whole sign-out incident. When a fix makes tests fail, read whether the test encoded the defect before flipping an expectation.

• ⚠ A remedy that goes one step too far looks exactly like a fix. "Do not navigate on a false success" became "do not sign out at all".

• ⚠ pg_proc.prosrc includes COMMENTS — a probe can match your own comment about the code you just deleted, and report a fixed function as broken.

• ⚠ citext's ~ operator is CASE-INSENSITIVE. A CHECK written slug ~ '^[a-z0-9]…' accepts MixedCase. Cast first: slug::text ~ ….

• ⚠ A bare citext passes a full local db reset and FAILS on Dev. Write extensions.citext.

• ⚠ io.open(p,'w').write(fn(s)) truncates the file before computing the replacement. It emptied sessionStore.ts. Compute, then open.

• ⚠ Inline shell heredocs eat backticks and apostrophes. Write the script to a file, then run it.

• ⚠ && chains short-circuit, so a later echo "exit=$?" reports the wrong command.

• ⚠ A useEffect that resets state when a sheet opens is a cascading render and lint rejects it. Remount on a key.

• ⚠ npm run functions:deploy does not work on this machine ('supabase' is not recognized). Use npm run sb -- dev functions deploy <fn> (QRS-991).

• ⚠⚠ BEFORE PROPOSING A DESIGN CHANGE, RE-FETCH THE DESIGN. The owner asked for an explicit confirm button on the PIN step. Re-fetching PinGate.dc.html showed the design had already solved it — setTimeout(() => this.onPinComplete(draft), 160), a dwell we had dropped — so the right fix was to restore what was specified, not to diverge from it. A design change would have been recorded as deliberate and been wrong.

• ⚠⚠ A COMPONENT-LEVEL PASS NEVER BOUNDS A PRODUCT-LEVEL CLAIM. 20 green unit tests and a 31/33 parity contract sat on top of a PIN gate no route could reach, because every test instantiated the component directly with a prop no route supplied. reachableFrom (rule P7) exists because of this.

• ⚠ Stale docs sometimes UNDERSTATE the work, and that costs more. QRS-976 and its contract row both said the PIN shake was missing; it had been implemented and nobody updated either. Found only because another bug sent someone back to read the file.

• ⚠ react-hooks/set-state-in-effect is right about resets. Clearing a probe in an effect body is a cascading render; stamping the answer with WHO it was asked for turns staleness into a derivation.

• ⚠ TypeScript narrows through an aliased const boolean, so a defensive x === null after if (!active) is dead code and sonarjs says so.

• ⚠⚠ A GREP OVER ONE FILE IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM A MEASUREMENT, RIGHT UP UNTIL THE ANSWER MATTERS. I told the owner "eight of eleven route segments are unreserved" from a grep of ONE seed migration. That file seeds 753 rows; the table holds 2,572, because later migrations added to it. The true answer from psql was three of nine — a different count AND a different set.

• ⚠⚠ FETCH THE DESIGN'S VOCABULARY; NEVER TAKE IT FROM THE PLAN. Two constants in the approved plan were wrong: required fields are 9, not 12, and life is discussion, not in_discussion — which nearly shipped as a CHECK the client could never satisfy, failing at the database with no gate able to see it. Both are now pinned by assertions naming the wrong value.

• ⚠ A CONSTRAINT'S OBVIOUS EXTENSION CAN INVERT IT. (a is not null) <> (b is not null) is exactly-one for TWO operands and PARITY for three, so chaining a third <> accepts the state it forbids. num_nonnulls(...) = 1 says what is meant. There is a pgTAP case for all-three-set precisely because no ordinary test would look for it.

• ⚠ RUN THE PROPOSED PREDICATE AGAINST REAL ROWS BEFORE RECOMMENDING IT. QRS-1018 prescribed a CHECK that, attempted in a rolled-back transaction, returns ERROR 23514: violated by some row — 9 of 55 rows. On a freshly reset database it would have applied CLEANLY and made platform-wide and per-employee grants permanently unrepresentable.

• ⚠ A TRACKER ROW WRITTEN FROM A CODE COMMENT INHERITS THE COMMENT'S IMPRECISION and then reads as a measurement. feature_grants' comment said "exactly-one-non-null"; the real rule is per-scope_kind, platform sets ZERO and workspace_member sets TWO.

• ⚠ setx DOES NOT UPDATE AN OPEN SHELL, AND PROCESS ENV BEATS THE REGISTRY. The Supabase CLI saw the wrong account for the whole session until env -u SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN let supabase-as.mjs read the registry. It presents as a 403 that looks like permissions.

• ⚠ docker exec … psql -f /tmp/x.sql NEEDS MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1. Git Bash rewrote /tmp/x.sql into a Windows path and psql reported "No such file or directory" for a file that had just copied successfully.

• ⚠ A COST CALCULATED AND THEN IGNORED IS STILL AN INCURRED COST. parity-native.yml's own header computed that ~2,000 free minutes is "~16 runs of a 12-minute iOS job" and a daily cron was added anyway — ~30 runs a month on a 10x-billed macOS runner, ~3,600 minutes against a 2,000-minute tier. The owner found it by asking why macOS ran nightly at all.

• ⚠ WHEN NARROWING A WORKFLOW'S TRIGGERS, RE-READ EVERY JOB'S if. ios gated on event_name != 'pull_request' — a DENY-list, which became TRUE for every develop push and would have cost more than the nightly it replaced. And the fail-fast gate polled github.event.pull_request.head.sha, empty on a push, which would have failed the gate and SKIPPED the only native job: green-looking and gating nothing.

• ⚠ The founder family names are reserved (balaji-, kyra-, meera-, reva-, riyansh-, vedaa-lahade). Do not pick one as a "free" test slug.

• ⚠⚠ FOUR design constants in the approved plan were WRONG, all caught by fetching the design module instead of trusting the plan. required biodata fields 9 not 12 · life is discussion not in_discussion · mode is offline not in_person (the design's MODES gives that as the LABEL) · ownerKind is person not user. Three would have shipped as a CHECK the client could never satisfy. A plan is a transcription; fetch the design's own constants at the moment a constraint is written.

• ⚠⚠ A PROBE CAN PASS WHILE ENCODING THE WRONG BEHAVIOUR. My meetings probe asserted "the days AFTER inherit the decline" and went green — the EXPECTATION was wrong. It became visible only because the assertion printed its consequence in words. State what a test believes in prose, so a passing run is a readable claim rather than a tautology.

• ⚠⚠ I READ A GATE THROUGH tail AND MISSED ITS FAILURE. check:sql had caught missing table revokes on rate_limits — without them anon could UPDATE a bucket and zero its own count, making the limiter a no-op for exactly the caller it exists to stop. The visible line was benign and the failure was above it. Redirect to a file, read the exit code on its own line.

• ⚠ A gate refused my function and the gate won. domain_schema_boundary_test.sql rejected a status function inside biodata; I moved the function to public rather than narrowing the assertion. Relaxing a gate to fit new code is how gates erode.

• ⚠ Fixing one half of a stale artifact does not establish the other half (QRS-1055). The QRS-1017 ledger re-transcription was scoped to the consumer section — the one already known to be wrong — so mobile-console is still understated (23 rows vs ~27 live design screens, with Meetings in none of them) and check:screens is green over the gap.

• ⚠ P1's "irreversibles first" ordering has a cost, and it landed (QRS-1056): soft_delete_account shipped an hour before the biodata tables existed, so its cascade could not cover them and nothing re-examined it when they arrived. A deleted account's biodata kept serving with live share tokens. Found by writing the erasure runbook, not by any gate.

• ⚠ A migration timestamp that sorts before an applied one is refused by db push. Rename the file rather than forcing --include-all, so repo order keeps matching application order (QRS-267).

• ⚠ The tracker's tables are 3-column in most sections and 4-column in others, so a literal | in prose needs the \| escape and a column-count check must read each table's OWN separator row. A hardcoded count reported 250 of 1040 rows malformed; the real number was one (QRS-1049).

• ⚠⚠ A SCHEMA WRITTEN FROM A PLAN'S COLUMN LIST MUST BE RE-READ AGAINST THE DESIGN MODULE'S OWN LIFT CONTRACT (QRS-1059). biodata-core.js ships a LIFT_CONTRACT naming four storage shapes; three matched my P1 schema and one did not exist. The design has two per-field controls — "the tier says WHO may read a field; this says whether it appears AT ALL" — and the migration stored one, so a designed switch was unrepresentable. The plan listed it and I still dropped it. Re-reading the plan could never have found this; reading the design's own contract did.

• ⚠ A PACKAGE THAT PINS NODE TYPES FOR ITS TESTS CANNOT TYPE-CHECK ITS OWN PLATFORM PURITY.packages/domain uses node:test, so URL resolved in its own tsc --noEmit and failed only in the ROOT check, which is what a downstream consumer sees. It was a correctness bug too: React Native's URL is partial. Run the root type-check before believing a package's own.

• ⚠ A DESIGN'S TILE LABEL AND ITS ENGINE CAN DISAGREE ON PURPOSE. qr-verify.js labels one demo payload "that shop's UPI code" and its own engine answers caution, not verified, because QR setu is not party to that payment. Port the ENGINE and record the disagreement; smoothing it would have invented a green tick the design deliberately withholds.

• ⚠ Prettier reflow moves an eslint-disable-next-line off the line it guards. Two waivers landed on a { after formatting and silently stopped covering their target. Use a block (/* eslint-disable … */ … /* eslint-enable */) wherever the guarded statement can wrap.

7 · Dependencies and blockers

Blocker	Effect
D-U-N-S not received	Neither store listing exists on 10 Sep. Day-1 Android is a signed APK from qrsetu.com
Production 500s on the card route	Plan 0.1. Measured 2026-09-03
Both drives under the 15 GB floor	C: ~7.9 GB, D: ~3.8 GB. clean:dev:deep frees 0. Needs, as admin after wsl --shutdown: Optimize-VHD -Path "D:\DevCache\DockerData\disk\docker_data.vhdx" -Mode Full
GitHub Actions quota	Exhausted once already — never trigger a run without confirming it is needed
claim_slug unverified end-to-end	ef_code is invisible to every gate; needs a signed-in device session

8 · Test coverage and validation status

Layer	Count (each row says when it was measured)
Unit (npm test, 6 workspaces)	2675 🧮 re-measured 2026-09-24 at 32ce345 — mobile/jest 1563 (178 suites) · web/vitest 138 (19 files) · @qrsetu/domain 932 · schemas 23 · tokens 16 · analytics 3
	⚠ The record carried "1101 (138 suites)", which was the MOBILE-ONLY figure labelled as the six-workspace total — a count of the wrong thing, in the row whose job is counting. Read the three runners separately; the root test script fans out to six workspaces across THREE runners and no single number is emitted anywhere.
Edge Function (test:ef, Deno)	473 (🧮 re-measured 2026-09-24 at 32ce345)
pgTAP (test:db)	593 across 17 files (was 510 / 13 on 2026-09-03; not re-run since)
Parity contracts	(as of dd35c12, not re-measured) 32 · consumer-biodata 68/82 (33 route-verified) · consumer-biodata-people 31/38 · consumer-biodata-view 18/39 · biodata-page 21/32 · consumer-home 21/39. ⚠ check:design-parity also reports 25 built screens with NO contract (advisory)
Hooks (test:hooks)	134 (🧮 re-measured 2026-09-24 on the closure change; check-context-map.test.mjs 44) · plus tools/check-parity.test.mjs 11, the first tests the parity gate has ever had (QRS-872, R14/R15 half)
Device (Android, physical)	66 cases, now in the suite, not in chat. ⚠ 53-66 are unrun
iOS	⚠ Nothing run since the auth changes — and the app lock is native-module-only, so iOS is not optional here

9 · Open recommendations not yet accepted

• (auth)/(app) route-group split (QRS-999) — makes the session guard structural.
• Splash continuity (QRS-997) — needs a design decision, not a code change.
• Lint rule banning English string literals as src/ui/** prop defaults (QRS-996) — the class, not the five instances.
• Environment-aware QR origin (QRS-992) — keep the displayed text qrsetu.com, let the encoded URL follow the build.
• users.signup_completed_at — considered and rejected for now; see §4. Re-propose only with the QRS-730 reasoning addressed.
• The biodata schema shape for plan 1.7 — typed columns for what is gated/filtered, jsonb bags keyed by the design's 60-field registry for content (so a design round that adds a field is a registry change, not a migration). Argued in the reconciliation §2; a recommendation for the migration header to argue against, not a decision.
• Nine owner decisions D-a…D-i in the reconciliation §5 — marketplace OFF at launch · the 4th tab while Orders → Meetings is pending · notification read state · personal UPI maker · PDF export · biodata URL · minimum age · moderation · expo-clipboard.

10 · How this file stays current

1. SessionStart injects it (startup · resume · compact), so a reset session reads it before doing anything.
2. PreCompact injects it plus a staleness warning, so the summary that survives compaction carries the pointer even if the file itself is not re-read.
3. npm run check:state fails at pre-push when stateAt is more than 10 commits behind HEAD, or absent, or malformed. ⚠ Pre-push and not pre-commit: commits are frequent and intermediate, and a gate that fires on every commit is one people learn to bypass.
4. Updating it is part of the change that outdates it — same rule as check:docs-impact.

⚠ What none of that can do: decide whether the prose is true. It checks presence and recency, exactly like check:readmes and check:docs-impact, and claiming more would repeat QRS-246. Re-measure anything here before relying on it — this file's own §1 has a "measured" column for that reason.