Repository source: docs/plans/message_sync_activity/message_sync_activity_debug_log.md
message_sync_activity — debug log
2026-10-30 UTC — Step 1
Necessary/useful instructions
Source: step1_solution_assessment.md, original query and vertical-slice recommendation. Contribution: separates this deliverable from the other two requested assessments while preserving dependencies and the user's actual request. Suggestion: retain.
Source: RAILSPIKE.md, study exposure and approval boundaries. Contribution: records prior diagnostic/code exposure without inventing a pristine intake; three assessments do not authorize implementation or approve one another. Suggestion: retain.
Source: docs/concepts.md, Planning. Contribution: distinguishes proposed lifecycle/activity/capacity concepts from shipped behavior and preserves historical verification versus current access. Suggestion: retain.
Redundant/unnecessary instructions
No supported findings.
Uncertain assessments
Source: Step 1 one-page target. Required scope, dependency and study fields extend beyond a conventional page; kept two short options and one acceptance boundary. Suggestion: distinguish narrative brevity from mandatory metadata.
Verification: Restored repository principles, contribution/workflow and relevant concept guidance; verified frozen R1 hashes, checked local links and whitespace. No implementation, production change, new runtime test or accepted outcome. This cycle's alternatives and documentation remain uncommitted.
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2026-10-30T11:47:06Z — Step 2
Necessary/useful instructions
Source: step2_feature_description.md, measurable outcomes and risks. Contribution: turns “bounded” and “quiet” into reviewable ceilings, identifies historical oversized keys and server-side admission as design gates rather than claiming a browser loop prevents denial of service. Suggestion: retain.
Source: step2_feature_description.md, known environment. Contribution: distinguishes ordinary 115-key browsing and post-recovery quietness from test-only forced refresh convergence. Suggestion: retain.
Redundant/unnecessary instructions
No supported findings.
Uncertain assessments
Source: step2_feature_description.md, one-page target. Explicit budgets, privacy and historical recovery constraints require more space than the target. Suggestion: allow concise tables and separate study metadata without sacrificing measurable criteria.
Verification: Restored selected cycle, debug/extended-estimate state, Step 1 direction and prior R1 hash verification. Inspected existing message size and sync limits; checked document links and whitespace. No application edits or runtime checks. The other two cycles remain unapproved proposals; Step 3 requires Step 2 approval.
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2026-10-30 UTC — Step 3
Necessary/useful instructions
Source: step3_development_plan_do.md, Key Risks and dependent work. Contribution: bounded historical key retrieval and invalidation are explicit gates before browser continuation, preventing the budget from being satisfied only at the visible HTTP layer. Suggestion: retain.
Source: step3_development_plan_after.md, known environment acceptance. Contribution: retains separate tests for delayed sent-message recovery and post-recovery quietness at 115 keys, using ordinary visits rather than repeated test-only refresh. Suggestion: retain.
Source: RAILSPIKE.md, planning commit gate. Contribution: records how to leave the two unapproved sibling cycles and their ledger changes out of the selected cycle's planning commit. Suggestion: retain.
Redundant/unnecessary instructions
No supported findings.
Uncertain assessments
Source: Step 3 one-page target versus mandatory stage fields. Eight bounded stages with required estimates, risks and recovery evidence cannot fit a conventional printed page legibly. Suggestion: allow stage detail beneath a compact completion contract; do not omit material compatibility gates to meet a page count.
Verification: Restored Step 2 approval, debug and extended-estimate state; inspected authentication entry and existing sync/key-resolution paths. Checked stage identities, preserved budgets, contribution attribution, ledger link and document whitespace. No runtime tests or implementation changes. Step 4 remains gated on Approved Step 3.
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2026-10-30 UTC — Step 4 compatibility checkpoint: Stage 3 exact submission-identity key selection failed the added regression for another approved original signer. Full focused tests had not covered that semantic boundary. Withdrew experimental product/schema changes; preserved committed admission/activity work and the regression. Step 2 compatibility revision proposed; Stages 3–8 incomplete. No debug-mode change, dependency change, deployment or accepted outcome.
Revised Step 2 diagnostic — 2026-10-30 UTC
Mode: Debug enabled, inherited; extended estimates enabled, standing P2/R1 study. Request: Continue current sync cycle after user rejects send blocking and agrees to recovery-side fallback. Instructions applied: Host AGENTS/PRINCIPLES/CONTRIBUTING, Railspike Step 2 revision and approval gates; no delegation, dependencies or changes to todo.txt. Actions: Revised Step 2 with no new send restrictions, recorded-key-first verification and bounded fallback; withdrew unapproved legacy upgrade restriction from current recommendation while preserving historical proposal. Updated Step 3 status, implementation summary and study ledger. Evidence boundary: API permits differing submitting/signing keys; constructed regression is not evidence of this condition in user messages. Legacy progress under hard ceilings remains unproven; neither impossibility nor completed compatibility is claimed. Verification: Documentation diff/scope and relative-link checks; no runtime or UI changes, so runtime, UI and deployment verification not applicable this turn. Study: v2/A total 0.95 reaffirmed, original baseline and prior R1 verification inherited, single exposed Codex rater. Prior estimates and incomplete outcome preserved; no measured work or accepted result. Handoff: Revised Step 2 awaits approval before revised Step 3. Completed Stages 1–2 retained; no further implementation, merge or push. Separate retirement/cap proposals remain untouched.
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Revised Step 3 diagnostic — 2026-10-30 UTC
State: Revised Step 2 explicitly approved; debug and extended estimates remain enabled. Same cycle, branch and completed Stages 1–2. Instructions: Railspike Step 3 Before/Do/After; preserve prior work, scope and estimates; no implementation before renewed Step 3 approval. Changes: Plan adds recorded-key-first bounded fallback, separates failed verification from unavailable decryption, defines server-held legacy progress as a candidate requiring real-client validation, and covers timeout checkpoint replacement. Stages 5–7 share results, resume within budgets and test mismatch recovery without changing send acceptance. No new dependency or unapproved legacy error. Evidence: Read current browser combined/legacy processing and checkpoint paths. Ordinary acknowledgments echo server checkpoints; deadline handling can replace them. Feasibility remains unverified until the Stage 3 real-key harness; no new runtime tests or claim of solved compatibility. Study: R1 hashes reverified; 0.95 total and original stage estimates reaffirmed, same baseline and v2/A/P2, single exposed Codex. Earlier projections, incomplete stages and failed experiment retained. Checks: Documentation-only scope, local file targets and git diff --check. Runtime, UI, migration and deployment checks not applicable to this planning turn. No delegation, commit, push or release. Handoff: Request Approved Step 3; then commit revised planning on the existing branch and resume Stage 3. No restart of completed stages or sibling cycles.
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Step 4 closeout diagnostic — 2026-10-31 UTC
Necessary/useful instructions
Source: Step 3 completion contract and step4_implementation_do.md. Contribution: natural 115-key and partial-donor journeys exposed real HTTP-header and foreground/background scheduling defects that narrower service tests missed; stage-scoped commits kept acceptance before operations closeout. Suggestion: retain explicit whole-flow verification and honest limits.
Source: host CONTRIBUTING.md and Step 3 compatibility gate. Contribution: retained old clients and send acceptance, exercised derived-schema startup/in-place rebuild and documented additive-store rollback. Suggestion: retain.
Source: RAILSPIKE.md study recovery and scope preservation. Contribution: retained the withdrawn compatibility experiment, original scores, corrected failures, separate retirement/cap proposals and pending maintainer judgment. Suggestion: retain.
Redundant/unnecessary instructions
No supported findings.
Uncertain assessments
The original Stage 7 projection understated integration corrections; the preserved 0.15 original, 0.25 revision and 0.30 retrospective record that uncertainty without treating time or line counts as an effort measure.
Verification: 57 focused checks, real same-account/sender/direct/115-key browser journeys, API throttling with continued sending, store lifecycle smoke and documentation checks. Earlier failures and environment limitations are retained in acceptance.txt. Zero dependencies. No full-suite or production acceptance, merge or push; maintainer study judgment remains pending.
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Final Step 4 handoff gates: Passed on 2026-10-31 UTC. Planning b58d281c7 contains only approved plans/debug and the plan index, with no implementation summary; all eight stage commits contain their summary updates. Eleven commits from planning through bca91cbce satisfy the minimum planning-plus-eight cadence. All 36 checked local documentation targets exist; touched concepts match implemented behavior, dependency delta is zero, and whitespace checks pass. Stage 7 application revision is 733b180b0; operations/study closeout is bca91cbce. The only remaining working-tree changes belong to the separately queued retirement and active-key-limit proposals. Full-suite/production/full-release rollback verification and maintainer study acceptance remain explicitly unclaimed. This log-only commit records the final handoff check without amending completed stages.
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