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# PLAN-ZION-19 — FINISH THE BUSINESS HUB

**Owner:** ZION-19 drive session (Fable overseer) · **Overseer:** Fable, one thread (Nick, 2026-09-04: "the new plans will deploy fable agents as overseers for build work and deisng QA") · **Design authority:** Sienna (creative-director), UI only
**Rule: no step begins until the previous step's PROOF has been produced and closed by its checker. A step with an unproven predecessor is a violation, not a shortcut — except where a step's own Enter line names a different, satisfied dependency.**
**Section letters cited in this plan (§T topology/caps · §W many-sessions-one-checkout · §Z empty-result rule · §G done-means-great · §S security click-gate · §A step anatomy · §BLOCKED) are the plan skill's own sections — `.claude/skills/plan/SKILL.md`. Read it beside this file; the letters are not headings here.**

> **NORTH STAR:** The Hub is FINISHED: Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean and Dindin each sign in with Google on the live site and run their real work — boards, tasks, payroll, clients, workload — with every committed fix actually deployed and proven on the screens they use, and the board-enforcement gate live behind them. (Nick, 2026-09-04: "The only thing I want to do is finish the hub and finish Skippy in the voice app. That's all I care about." · "pm noard enforcement gets wrapped in tot he hub work" · "finish voice app then we deploy the same etup in the hub and family app")
>
> **FINISH LINE — written now, the bar never rises mid-drive:**
> 1. Google sign-in is ON in the live Hub; all six identities reach their role home through it in a real browser; view-as intact; the nightly check that exercised the old password login is fixed in the same change and green.
> 2. Live production serves current HEAD: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 4` exits 0.
> 3. Every committed-but-undeployed product fix in the STEP-2 ledger is verified working on the live site through the real user path, and each one that lacked an automated test has a red-first test.
> 4. The six REOPENED ZION-3 steps (1, 4, 9, 14, 19, 25) are re-closed on their own existing harness proofs, and the no-arg suite `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs` exits 0.
> 5. ZION-17's nine round-12 findings are fixed with ONE clean check round; ZION lanes can open real board cards (the tasks.js vocabulary gap closed); this plan's §5 carries a real card id.
> 6. The voice setup proven in the Skippy voice app is deployed in the Hub from that lane's handed-off pattern — consumed, never re-designed.
> 7. The agent-facing Hub infrastructure guide exists, carries the measured card-creation recipe with its three traps, and says plainly which parts of the board machinery are Monday-derived and will change (Nick, 2026-09-04: "we should have an agent write a how to guide for other agents as a part of the hub work- FAQs and SOPs for the hub infra").
> 8. The sidebar is grouped into five department headings — Client Success · Recruitment · Financing · Ops · Growth — with each discipline's tools nested beneath as visibly secondary, clickable sub-items, and the department headings themselves NOT clickable; the existing role-promotion behavior still works (Nick, 2026-09-04: "a bunch of items are supposed to become subscreesn under a single dept heading… the subitems being clickable and the main headers not being lickable").
> 9. Clicking a task card on a board opens a real Monday/Asana-style task detail view, wired through `board-screen.js`'s existing `detailHref`/`onOpenDetail` hook — deep-linkable, keyboard-reachable, with real close behavior (Nick, 2026-09-04: "it doesnt have the new view when you click on a taksk card on a board that is supposedt to open up like monday/asana").
> 10. The postmortem is written into this file.
>
> When these ten pass, this plan is DONE and everyone stops. Anything found after that goes on one line in the **NEXT list** at the bottom and is NOT worked (§G: done means GREAT, not perfect).

### STEP 0 — ARM THE LOOP, BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE.
Set a 5-minute loop. Every time it fires, answer these four in order and CORRECT any failure before doing anything else:
1. **NORTH STAR** — is what I am doing this minute moving this plan's North Star? If not, drop it and take the highest-value unblocked step that does.
2. **FAN-OUT** — is my queue full up to the concurrency cap (§T)? Full capacity means the cap is reached and a queue of ready work sits behind it — NEVER "launch everything at once". Below the cap with ready work → dispatch now. At the cap → queue, don't launch.
3. **CHEAP** — are cheap models doing the building? If anything expensive is building, move that work down now.
4. **BLOCKED** — for anything I have called blocked: name the three concrete things I tried. If I cannot, it is not blocked — drive through it now.
Then keep building. The loop never stops until the FINISH LINE is proven.

## Already true (the distilled past — facts, not story)

- The Hub app lives at `projects/business/business-app/` and is its OWN git repository — evidence: `git -C "projects/business/business-app" rev-parse --show-toplevel` printed that path, measured 2026-09-04. 🔴 Every commit instruction in this plan says which repo it lands in; a session in the wrong directory commits into the wrong repo (§W).
- The Hub repo's `main` is ahead 4 / behind 11 against `origin/main` — evidence: `git -C projects/business/business-app branch -vv`, measured 2026-09-04. The 4 unpushed local commits: `69a0b9c0`, `51388a51`, `4f7da632`, `c2318c32`. The 11 remote-only commits are the HSDB Phase-3 PRs (#153–159).
- Live production has drifted at least 29 commits behind local HEAD with no redeploy — evidence: ZION-3 STEP 4 REOPENED record, two independent regroup verifiers, `LIVE_SOURCE_REVISION_STALE`; re-measured fresh by STEP 1 of this plan before anything acts on it.
- Google sign-in is BUILT and browser-tested in the Hub but not switched on — evidence: `projects/business/business-app/app/functions/api/auth/google/start.js` and `callback.js` on disk, and `projects/ops/google-sso/STATE.md` (corrected 2026-09-04). The old password login is removed in the built code; switching on requires fixing one nightly check that still exercises the old password login, in the same change.
- Rizza's `finance@heroesandsidekicks.io` mapping is settled — evidence: Nick, 2026-09-04, "finance email is rizza" (it is hers alone), recorded in `projects/ops/google-sso/STATE.md`.
- Six ZION-3 steps are REOPENED (1, 4, 9, 14, 19, 25) with dated per-step reasons — evidence: `projects/ops/zion/PLAN-ZION-3-kanban-hub-work.md` landing note 2026-09-03/04; steps 9 and 25 (and the sign-in-dependent checks in 13/20/21) are NOT_MEASURABLE because the SSO migration removed the password sign-in path their harnesses use (real 410, confirmed by curl in that record).
- ZION-17's gate is live and survived eleven adversarial rounds; round 12 left NINE unfixed findings — evidence: `projects/ops/zion/evidence/step12-round12-findings-2026-09-03.txt` and `projects/ops/zion/STATE-ZION-17.md`.
- No ZION lane can open a real board card today: `projects/business/business-app/app/functions/api/tasks.js` (`LANES_WITH_AGENT_STAGE_VOCAB`, ~line 216 — re-find by name) lacks `"zion"` while `board-report.mjs` lists zion as writable — evidence: real failed `--open` run recorded in `projects/ops/zion/STATE-ZION-17.md` STEP 14, 2026-09-01.
- Card creation against the live Hub works TODAY by API and is undocumented — measured first-hand 2026-09-04 against the live site: POST to `/api/tasks` with the bearer token from the vault entry `deck-business-skippy-token` returns HTTP 201; `group` and `priority` take exact fixed vocabularies; the read-back rows live at `data.tasks`, not `tasks`; the created card came back `created_by: "monday-dual-write"`. STEP 15 turns this into the guide.
- The sidebar is a FLAT tool list with no department concept — measured on disk 2026-09-04 (coordinating session, re-read by STEP 13 before building): `app/js/app.js` `TOOL_NAV_ENTRIES` (~line 263) holds eight entries — Tracker, Booking, eSign, Leave form, Standups, SOPs, Time tracking, Website — and is documented in the file as the ONE place a future tool gets registered; a role-promotion pass (`ROLE_NAV_PROMOTE`, `applyRoleNav()`) and a single you-are-here highlight authority already operate on it, and the file's own mobile note flags the <900px pill nav as UNVERIFIED-ON-MOBILE with no overflow safety net.
- 🔴 CORRECTED 2026-09-04 14:40Z BY MEASUREMENT: the hook HAS two consumers — both task boards in `app/js/tasks.js` (`detailHref: function (t) { return taskDetailHref(t.id); }` at ~3840 and ~4276, ZION-3 STEP 17, commit 6b177a8e, 2026-08-31, an ancestor of the live revision) already deep-link cards into the shared detail `#tasks?task=<id>`; the original bullet below was read off board-screen.js's own "default ABSENT" comment without checking the consumers. (The earlier bullet that called the hook consumerless is superseded by this line.) Measured on disk 2026-09-04: `app/js/board-screen.js` carries `cfg.detailHref(row)` / `cfg.onOpenDetail(row)` (built by ZION-3's shared-task-detail step, 2026-08-31), default ABSENT by its own comment, "waiting for a consumer that owns a real detail ROUTE"; `app/js/crm.js` (~lines 39–180, `state.openCardId`) is the working card-detail pattern to copy, including click-outside and close behavior. STEP 14 builds the consumer — never a second mechanism.
- No competing voice mechanism exists in the Hub — checked two ways per §Z: `command grep -ril "voice" projects/business/business-app/app/js/` and a Glob for `*voice*` under `projects/business/business-app/app/` (both empty of any voice feature, 2026-09-04). The Skippy voice-app lane owns the pattern; this plan consumes it (STEP 11).
- No agent-facing Hub how-to exists among the repo's 51 loose markdown files — checked 2026-09-04: `KANBAN-AND-AGENT-BOARDS-SPEC.md` is a build spec (kanban view + agent layer, parts 1–3 built), `SOP-DERIVED-WORKFLOWS.md` is a human-role SOP survey; neither is an agent-operations guide, and a second sweep (`command grep -ril "how to\|FAQ" projects/business/business-app/*.md`) surfaced no third candidate.

## 0 · Gate Zero receipts (the plan may not exist without these)
- Failure Mode Registry loaded: 2026-09-04, 167 data rows counted across all tables of `.claude/skills/plan/references/failure-registry.md` (the same row set `check_plan.py`'s own counter uses).
- Canonical specs loaded: the plan skill (incl. §W/§Z added 2026-09-04), `projects/ops/agents/CODE-STANDARD.md`, `projects/ops/agents/CREATIVE-QA-STANDARD.md`, `projects/ops/PROMPT-SPEC.md`, `projects/ops/MACHINE-RULES.md`, `projects/ops/REGROUP-SOURCE-2026-09-04.md`, and the Hub repo's own CLAUDE.md (deploy traps, sign-in flow, gate discipline).
- Ownership check: `projects/business/business-app` is an existing owned boundary (ownership projection row cited by PLAN-SMP-5 §0); this plan EXTENDS that boundary's live work and SUPERSEDES the competing governing files (ZION-3, ZION-17; SMP-5's Hub scope) rather than adding a second system — supersession markers landed in the same commit that created this file.
- Expected inputs confirmed to exist: `harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs`, `check-handback.mjs`, `board-report.mjs`, `task-run.mjs`, `tasks.js`, `app.js` (TOOL_NAV_ENTRIES at ~263), `board-screen.js` (the detail hook), `crm.js` (the pattern), the round-12 findings file, `check_plan.py`, `render_sheet.py` — each confirmed on disk 2026-09-04.
- PLAN AUTHOR: Boris 2 of 3 (senior-engineer, Fable), 2026-09-04, dispatched on Nick's words "boris x 3 on fable 5.1 do the planning".
- COLD READER: a fresh verifier session, 2026-09-04, handed the original requirements and this file cold — all ten acceptance criteria PASS (it re-ran `check_plan.py` itself). It disputed two things, both accepted and fixed the same turn: (1) the supersession of ZION-17 silently dropped that lane's two other open items (its stuck-at-0% progress-view screen, and the three named open findings in its STEP 18 gate-quality work) — both now carried on this plan's NEXT list with their evidence paths, so they stay somebody's job; (2) the section letters cited throughout (§T, §W, §Z, §G, §S, §A) resolve only against the plan skill, which a reader with just this file cannot see — the pointer line under the Owner block now names the source file.
- PROMPT-SPEC scan (P1–P7): P1 "finish" is pinned by the FINISH LINE's ten checkable items; P3 negatives in the brief ("six fixes never deployed") are re-derived by STEP 2 rather than trusted; P4 "the hub" is bounded by the anti-scope below; P7 Nick's 2026-09-04 multi-part messages were split against `projects/ops/REGROUP-SOURCE-2026-09-04.md` A12's verbatim quotes and tonight's two punch-list items; the one judgment he has not made — which tool belongs to which department — is §1a row 7, built to the recommendation, changeable with one word.

## 1 · Goal and definition of done
- **What we're building, one paragraph.** The business Hub, finished: the live app all six people already use, with sign-in moved to Google, every committed fix actually shipped and proven on screen, the sidebar reorganized under five department headings, task cards opening a real detail view, the reopened Kanban/board work re-closed on its own proofs, board-PM enforcement folded in and closed, an agent-facing guide to the Hub's own infrastructure, and the voice-app pattern deployed on top — then we stop.
- **HOW IT'S USED:** each of the six signs in with Google on the live Hub and works their boards, tasks, payroll, clients and workload — finding tools under their department's heading, opening any task card into its detail view; agents post board updates through the enforced gate and learn the Hub's API from the guide instead of rediscovering it. · HOW WE KNOW: STEP 6's per-identity live browser drives, STEPS 13–14's live drives, and STEP 16's blind finish-line sweep.
- **WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:** the existing live Hub screens, unchanged except where a §2 row names a fix; new Google sign-in screen; the department-grouped sidebar (headings visibly primary but inert, tools secondary and clickable); the task detail view in the Monday/Asana shape; the voice control surface ported from the voice app. · HOW WE KNOW: Sienna's design QA receipt on every changed screen (STEP 12), each claim naming width and theme.
- **WHERE IT LIVES:** the deployed Hub at hub.heroesandsidekicks.io (the domain people use — never the aggressive-caching pages.dev mirror), built from `projects/business/business-app` (its own repo; deploys land via the Mac-mini runner on push with `timeoutSec: 2400`, or `node projects/ops/deploy.mjs deck-business` deliberately) — opened daily by Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean, Dindin. · HOW WE KNOW: `--step 4` live-parity proof binds served bytes to HEAD.
- **WHAT IT MUST DO:** (1) sign all six in via Google, view-as intact; (2) serve current HEAD live; (3) show every STEP-2 ledger fix working through the real user path; (4) hold the six reopened ZION-3 behaviors green on the existing harness; (5) enforce board updates via the ZION-17 gate with zero open round-12 findings; (6) run the inherited voice setup; (7) let ZION lanes open real board cards; (8) teach the next agent the Hub's infrastructure without rediscovery; (9) group the sidebar's tools under five inert department headings with clickable sub-items and role promotion intact; (10) open a real task detail view from any board card, deep-linkable and keyboard-reachable. · HOW WE KNOW: §6 evals, one row each.
- **NOT in scope:** SECURITY WORK of any kind — audits, credential chasing, hardening nobody asked for — is click-gated through the ZION-8 approval mechanism and lives on the NEXT list until Nick's click (§S; Nick: "we do not do security audits until the end period nobody aiuthorized that"). · The family app's voice/SSO rollout — same pattern, different product, its own lane. · Alexa, shopping lists, weekly success reports, Gracie/Neeko, and every retired ancillary item (Nick, 2026-09-04, A12). · Redesigning the voice mechanism — this plan CONSUMES the voice lane's pattern; inventing a second one is the duplication the house rule bans. · The Monday MIGRATION itself — STEP 15 MAPS the coupling and documents it; ripping Monday out is its own future decision of Nick's. · A second nav registry or a second card-detail mechanism — STEP 13 extends `TOOL_NAV_ENTRIES`, STEP 14 consumes `board-screen.js`'s existing hook; both files document themselves as the one place. · ZION-3's UNPROVEN-but-not-reopened rows (15/17/18/24 findings) beyond what the no-arg suite itself enforces — each existing finding gets one NEXT-list line, not a workstream.
- **Trip-over protocol:** a lane that finds something outside the fence writes ONE dated handover line to its named owner in `STATE-ZION-19.md` §HANDOFFS, then back to building — never investigates, never fixes.

## 1a · Critical variables — the confirmation sheet is GENERATED from this table

| # | The variable, in plain words | Value chosen | Alternatives rejected | Class | HOW WE KNOW | Cost if wrong | CONFIRMED |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | **SURFACE — which screen this lands on, and who opens it** | the live business Hub, opened by Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean, Dindin | a staging copy; a rebuilt app | V1 | Nick's standing V1 for this exact surface and consumer set | wrong audience, wrong app | Nick, 2026-08-30, "SMP-5 Business Hub Nick, Chantelle, and H&S team with specific permissions for each, with Nick and Chantelle full authorization over everything"; re-affirmed 2026-09-04, "finish the hub" |
| 2 | Google sign-in gets switched ON as part of finishing (not left built-and-off) | switch-on is a step of this plan (STEP 6), with the nightly password-login check fixed in the same change | leave it off and hand Nick a switch | V1 | his instruction folding SSO into the Hub work | six people locked out, or a nightly check red every night | Nick, 2026-09-04, fold the SSO work into the Hub programme (recorded in `projects/ops/google-sso/STATE.md`) |
| 3 | Rizza's sign-in maps to finance@heroesandsidekicks.io | keep the mapping as built | remap to a personal address | V1 | he was asked exactly this, with the shared-inbox risk stated | wrong person able to read money numbers | Nick, 2026-09-04, "finance email is rizza" — it is hers alone |
| 4 | Production deploys proceed inside this plan without a per-deploy ask | deploy as the steps require; report after | the 2026-09-01 post-outage rule "a production deploy needs Nick's explicit yes" (that hold was that drive's own binding rule, quoted here so it is not silently stepped over — his 2026-09-04 word to finish supersedes it) | V1 | his newest dated instruction wins over the older drive-local rule | shipping something he wanted held | Nick, 2026-09-04, "The only thing I want to do is finish the hub…" — finishing includes shipping; flagged on the sheet so he can restore the per-deploy hold with one word |
| 5 | The Hub's voice setup is the voice-app lane's pattern, consumed as handed off | wait for that lane's named artifact, then port (STEP 11) | design a Hub-specific voice mechanism now | V1 | his sequencing words | two diverging voice stacks to maintain | Nick, 2026-09-04, "finish voice app then we deploy the same etup in the hub and family app" |
| 6 | The agent guide is part of the Hub work, written for agents (not people) | one guide file in the Hub repo, pointed to from the repo's CLAUDE.md (STEP 15) | a human-styled SOP; a note in Monday | V1 | his own words creating the deliverable | every future agent repeats tonight's failed attempts | Nick, 2026-09-04, "we should have an agent write a how to guide for other agents as a part of the hub work- FAQs and SOPs for the hub infra" |
| 7 | Which tool sits under which department heading | RECOMMENDED and built now (his call to change with one word): Client Success → Booking, Standups · Recruitment → Tracker, eSign · Financing → Time tracking · Ops → SOPs, Leave form · Growth → Website. Grounded in the SOP survey: kickoff calls and huddles are Client/Hero Success cadence; the requisition Tracker and offer/W8Ben eSign are the recruitment pipeline; time cards feed final pay; leave approvals and SOPs are management/ops; the website is the growth surface | asking him tool-by-tool and stalling the step | V1 | he named the five departments, 2026-09-04, and has not mapped the tools; built to this recommendation under his standing act-don't-ask default, carried on the sheet | a tool shelved under the wrong department until he re-maps it (one word, one config edit — the mapping is a `dept` field per registry entry) | Nick's departments verbatim, 2026-09-04: "client success, recruitment, financing, ops, groth"; mapping is this plan's recommendation, 2026-09-04 — built unless he changes it |

**Considered and ruled NOT critical** *(the denominator — never demote a variable silently)*:
- Which machine runs the deploy (mini runner vs deliberate `deploy.mjs`) — V2, both are measured paths; STEP 4 proves the result either way.
- The exact undeployed-fix list — V2, derived by STEP 2 from the live revision, never asked.
- The old test-mode/password question (`ZION-3-URGENT-restore-test-mode.md`) — mooted by variable 2: Google becomes the only door, password test-mode ceases to exist as a surface.
- Where the guide lives — V2, settled by opening the two candidate files (see Already true): neither owns agent operations, so one new file with a CLAUDE.md pointer, reason stated.
- Whether the detail view is a route or an overlay — V2, settled by the hook's own comment: `detailHref` exists so a detail can be LINKED TO; STEP 14 builds it deep-linkable, which is the Monday/Asana behavior he named.

## 1b · Subproject decomposition — could a piece of this ship on its own?

- **SINGLE SUBPROJECT:** every step lands in the one live Hub app and its enforcement gate; nothing here ships, signs off, or gets used on its own before the Hub does. (The voice APP is a peer lane's product, not a piece of this one — this plan only consumes its pattern.)

## 2 · The complete UX map (this becomes the test manifest verbatim)

| Id | Screen / entry point | State (default·empty·error·loading) | Element / interaction | Expected behavior | Navigation from → to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U1 | Sign-in | default · loading · error | Google sign-in button | reaches Google, returns signed in as the right identity; no password field exists | / → role home |
| U2 | Sign-in | error | wrong-account return | plain refusal naming no internal detail; retry available | Google → sign-in |
| U3 | Sign-in tab (app.js) | loading | tab before session resolves | inert until session resolved (fix `77acba62`) | — |
| U4 | Role home | default · loading | each identity's landing | correct role home and nav for all six identities | sign-in → home |
| U5 | My Boards | default · empty · error | stats tiles | genuine zero distinguished from failed fetch (fix `2280ff7d`) | home → My Boards |
| U6 | Board / Tasks | default | collapsed card | assignee visible on collapsed cards (ZION-3 STEP 19) | My Boards → board |
| U7 | Task detail (shared screen) | default · error | open from list and board | one shared detail screen, same data both routes | board → detail |
| U8 | Payroll approve | error | transport failure | failure rendered as failure, never as access-denial (fix `516be5ce`) | home → payroll |
| U9 | Clients | default | #clients?filter=risk deep link | filter applies, both former bugs stay dead (fix `c2318c32`) | link → clients |
| U10 | Clients — Archive tab | default | archived Heroes rows | labeled Archived, never Active (fix `fcfe43a8`) | clients → archive |
| U11 | Workload | empty · error | failed vs empty fetch | distinct renders (fix `eb596391`); Dindin denied per scope | home → workload |
| U12 | Workflows / CRM | empty · error | failed loads | never render as genuinely empty (fix `0be9c140`) | home → workflows |
| U13 | Active roster | default | duplicate button | generation-token fix holds (fix `49fcce3b`) | home → roster |
| U14 | View-as | default | Nick/Chantelle switch identity | full round trip intact post-SSO | home → view-as |
| U15 | Voice surface | default · error · denied-mic | the ported voice control | behaves per the voice lane's handed-off pattern | home → voice |
| U16 | Board API (headless) | default · error | agent posts via gate | ZION-17 gate blocks unposted turns, allows confirmed posts; zion lanes can open cards | — |
| U17 | Card-create API (headless) | default · error | POST /api/tasks per the guide's recipe | 201 on the exact vocabularies; 400s on anything else; read-back found at `data.tasks` | — |
| U18 | Sidebar (dept-grouped) | default · icon-rail <1100px · pill nav <900px | five department headings + nested tool sub-items | headings render visibly primary and are INERT — no href, no focus stop, click changes nothing; every sub-item navigates to its tool; role promotion and the single you-are-here highlight still work | any view → any tool |
| U19 | Task-card detail view | default · loading · error · not-found | click a task card on a board | Monday/Asana-style detail opens via the existing `detailHref`/`onOpenDetail` hook; deep link opens the same detail in a fresh tab; Esc / click-outside / close button all close it; keyboard-reachable | board card → detail → board |

## 3 · Lanes and frozen contracts

| Lane | Scope (in / out) | Owner | Definition of done | Model (explicit) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A — Ship & verify (STEPS 1–5) | in: Hub repo git state, deploy, live parity, fix ledger, new tests under `_selfchecks/` · out: auth files, gate files, nav/detail UI | ZION-19 drive | FINISH LINE items 2–3 | builder glm (via `projects/ops/cheap-task.mjs`; haiku through the same router while outside vendors are down); checker sonnet; live-drive checking fable (overseer) |
| B — SSO & reopened steps (STEPS 6–8) | in: auth wiring, the nightly password-login check, harness sign-in path, `task-run.mjs` seam · out: deploy scripts, gate internals, nav/detail UI | ZION-19 drive | FINISH LINE items 1 and 4 | builder glm (same routing); checker sonnet; live drives sonnet (biz-app-qa) |
| C — Enforcement, board & guide (STEPS 9–10, 15) | in: `check-handback.mjs` + its libs, the single `tasks.js` vocabulary line, this plan's §5 card id, the agent guide + CLAUDE.md pointer · out: everything in lanes A/B/E | ZION-19 drive | FINISH LINE items 5 and 7 | builder glm (same routing); checker sonnet |
| D — Voice + QA + close (STEPS 11–12, 16) | in: voice port per handed-off pattern, design QA, postmortem · out: the voice app itself (peer lane's) | ZION-19 drive | FINISH LINE items 6 and 10 | builder glm; checker sonnet; design QA creative-director with sonnet, checked by fable; blind sweep sonnet (se-blind-checker), relay fable |
| E — Product UI (STEPS 13–14) | in: the nav region of `app/js/app.js`, `app/styles.css` additions, `app/index.html` mounts, `app/gates.js` rows, plus the four files this lane creates — `_selfchecks/harness-zion19-deptnav.mjs` (CREATED BY STEP 13), `app/js/task-detail.js` (CREATED BY STEP 14), `_selfchecks/harness-zion19-taskdetail.mjs` (CREATED BY STEP 14), and the `board-screen.js` consumer wiring · out: `tools.js`'s TOOL_TABS, `crm.js` (pattern to copy, never modify), `board-screen.js`'s hook mechanism itself, the `panel.js` symlink | ZION-19 drive | FINISH LINE items 8–9 | builder glm (same routing); checker sonnet; visual QA via STEP 12 (creative-director) |

**Contracts between lanes (FROZEN at plan time — change = dated delta in `PLAN-CHANGES-ZION-19.md`):** Lane A alone touches deploy machinery and new `_selfchecks/harness-zion19-fixcoverage*` test files; lane B alone touches `app/functions/api/auth/**`, the nightly check it identifies, the proof suite's sign-in helper, and `projects/ops/skippy-jobs/lib/task-run.mjs`; lane C alone touches `projects/ops/skippy-jobs/lib/check-handback.mjs`+`handback-contract.mjs`, the single `tasks.js` vocabulary line, the guide, and the Hub CLAUDE.md pointer lines; lane D alone touches the new voice files; lane E alone touches the nav region of `app.js`, the new detail module, and their harnesses — and because `app.js` also holds sign-in tab code lane B may read, lanes B and E never run a write pass in the same hour (§W). Commits: ALWAYS scoped `git commit -m "..." -- <paths>`, never bare, never `git stash`; Hub-app paths commit inside `projects/business/business-app` (its own repo — prove with `git rev-parse --show-toplevel` first), plan/state/gate-lib paths commit in the workspace repo — every step below says which. Any edit under `app/`, `engine/`, `_selfchecks/` triggers the full ~25-minute build on push; docs-only pushes are free (`paths-ignore` covers `*.md`).

## 3b · Execution map — the Step map, then one STEP block per row

A task is DONE only when its review-ledger row is CLOSED by a reviewer that is not the builder.

**Step map (read this first):**

| Stage | # | Task (step name) | Gate to enter | EXECUTOR (model, from the matrix) | CHECKER (different model — never the builder) | DONE-PROOF (runnable command) | Ends when |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Framing | 1 | Re-measure ground truth; reconcile the diverged Hub repo | none — start now | glm (cheap-task router; haiku fallback) | sonnet | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs` | no-arg suite exit code recorded; repo neither ahead nor behind origin/main |
| Framing | 2 | Derive the undeployed-fix ledger from the live revision | STEP 1 proven | glm | sonnet | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 4` | ledger written into STATE-ZION-19.md with live rev + HEAD cited |
| Tests | 3 | Red-first tests for every ledger fix lacking one | STEP 2 proven | glm | sonnet | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-fixcoverage.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 3)` | every ledger fix has a test proven RED against pre-fix code |
| Output | 4 | Push, deploy, prove live parity | STEP 3 proven | glm | sonnet | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 4` | exit 0, live token matches HEAD |
| Proof | 5 | Verify every ledger fix on the live surface through the real user path | STEP 4 proven | sonnet (biz-app-qa, browser) | fable — the overseer re-drives two ledger rows in a fresh session | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 19` | each ledger fix seen working live; --step 19 exit 0 |
| Elements | 6 | Switch Google sign-in ON; fix the nightly password-login check in the same change | STEP 4 proven | glm | sonnet (biz-app-qa live drives, different session) | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 9` | all six identities in via Google live; nightly check green |
| Fixes | 7 | Re-close the SSO-broken ZION-3 checks (9, 25; sweep 13/20/21) | STEP 6 proven | glm | sonnet | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 25` | steps 9 and 25 exit 0 |
| Fixes | 8 | Seal `task-run.mjs postCardUpdate` (ZION-3 STEP 14's third-checker find) | STEP 1 proven | glm | sonnet | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 14` | 4 consecutive green runs |
| Fixes | 9 | Fix ZION-17 round-12's nine findings; ONE clean check round | STEP 1 proven | glm | sonnet — one round, per §G | `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/_test-handback-contract.mjs` (179 cases) + `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/_test-handback-contract-live-wiring.mjs` (15) + `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/_test-zion17-selfcontainment.mjs` (38) — CORRECTED 2026-09-05: `check-handback.mjs` has no `--selftest` flag (it exits 0 with any flag), found by the step-9 record and again by the blind checker | all nine fixed; the single check round returns no dodge |
| Elements | 10 | Open the board to ZION lanes; register this plan's card | STEP 9 proven | glm | sonnet | `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/lib/board-report.mjs --read` | a real live card carries this plan's §5 id |
| Elements | 11 | Deploy the voice-app pattern in the Hub | voice lane's handoff artifact (see block) | glm | sonnet | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-hubvoice.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 11)` | voice surface works live per the pattern |
| Details | 12 | Sienna's design QA on every changed screen | STEPS 6, 13, 14 proven (U15 only if 11 landed) | creative-director (sonnet) | fable — receipt audited against fresh screenshots by the overseer | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 24` | six-gate receipt on U1–U3, U15, U18, U19 |
| Elements | 13 | Group the sidebar under five inert department headings | STEP 1 proven | glm | sonnet | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-deptnav.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 13)` | headings inert, sub-items clickable, promotion intact, live-driven |
| Elements | 14 | Build the task-card detail view on the existing board-screen hook | STEP 1 proven | glm | sonnet | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-taskdetail.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 14)` | card click opens the detail live; deep link and close behaviors proven |
| Details | 15 | Write the agent-facing Hub infrastructure guide; map the Monday coupling | STEP 10 proven | glm | sonnet — follows the guide cold, literally | `test -f projects/business/business-app/HUB-AGENT-GUIDE.md (CREATED BY STEP 15)` | a cold agent creates and reads back a card using ONLY the guide |
| Proof | 16 | Blind finish-line sweep + postmortem + close | STEPS 1–10, 12–15 proven; 11 proven or honestly queued | sonnet (se-blind-checker, cold) | fable overseer relays the verdict UNCHANGED | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs` | all ten FINISH LINE items graded; postmortem written here |
| Elements | 17 | Red-first checks for the Monday-style tile, detail panel and inbox item (Sienna's design, Nick-approved 2026-09-04) | none — start now | sonnet (test authoring stays off cheap vendors) | glm (re-runs both proofs on HEAD and reads what each RED measured — test execution is cheap-eligible) | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-monday-panel.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 17)` | both scripts RED on HEAD for the design's reasons; stub harness registered TIER-1 |
| Elements | 18 | The kanban tile: one link, no fold, one meta line, three heights | STEP 17 RED on checks a–c | glm (route-build, one file per call) | sonnet; Sienna one visual round | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-monday-panel.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 17)` | checks a–c GREEN, d–h still RED; ≤3 tile heights live; drag still moves a tile |
| Elements | 19 | The detail becomes a panel over the board | STEP 17 RED on checks d–f | glm (route-build) | sonnet; Sienna one visual round | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/zion19-monday-live.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 17)` | checks d–f GREEN; widths 480/560/full measured; board scroll unchanged; Escape closes |
| Elements | 20 | The inbox item on the same panel | STEP 19 proven | glm (route-build) | sonnet; Sienna one visual round | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-monday-panel.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 17)` | check g GREEN; inbox guards PASS; decision controls in the head (1280) and bottom bar (390), measured |
| Proof | 21 | `--faint` off small text; one design-QA round; ship and prove live | STEPS 18–20 proven | glm (route-build, CSS only) | sonnet; Sienna ONE round across the three surfaces | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 4` | stub harness a–h GREEN; live script exits 0 on the public site; live serves HEAD; Sienna's verdict pasted |
| Details | 22 | A quick-publish lane: a push is live in minutes, the visual sweep runs after and never holds it (Nick, 2026-09-05) | none — start now | glm (route-build, one file per call) | sonnet (times a real push to live; breaks one TIER-2 gate on a scratch branch and confirms the inbox item) | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 4` | live serves HEAD under five minutes after a push, timestamps pasted; the sweep's verdict visible after the publish; the static check this step creates is green on HEAD and every gate is still registered |
| Details | 23 | A removal command for ONE obsolete or duplicate card on the existing supersede mechanism, plus `?superseded=1` so removals are reviewable (Nick, 2026-09-05: "the hub needs that command") | none — start now | glm (route-build, one file per call) | sonnet (runs the harness and both sabotages itself, then drives the live API from a fresh shell: remove, repeat, confirm first provenance intact) | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-remove.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 23)` | the harness is green on HEAD and was red on both sabotages; on the live API a repeat `remove` reports `already_superseded` with the first timestamp unmoved, the duplicate is gone from the default list and visible under `?superseded=1`, and no delete handler exists |

**Then one block per step:**

### STEP 1 — Re-measure ground truth; reconcile the diverged Hub repo
**Enter this step when:** nothing. This is the first step.
**Builder:** glm via `projects/ops/cheap-task.mjs` (haiku through the same router while both outside vendors are down) · **Checker:** sonnet, different session
**Files you may touch:** the Hub repo's git state (`projects/business/business-app`, ITS OWN repo — merge only, no source edits) and `projects/ops/zion/STATE-ZION-19.md` (workspace repo). **Never** `app/functions/api/auth/**` (lane B) or gate libs (lane C).

**Do exactly this:**
1. `cd "/Users/nickdeck/Documents/Claude 2.0/projects/business/business-app" && git rev-parse --show-toplevel` — confirm it prints the business-app path, not the workspace (§W: wrong-repo commits are this lane's sharpest trap; it has already cost a session an hour and ~50 misplaced commits).
2. `git fetch origin && git merge origin/main` — bring in the 11 HSDB Phase-3 remote commits under the 4 local ones. If conflicts: read both sides, keep both behaviors, record each resolved file in STATE-ZION-19.md.
3. `node _selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs` — run the no-arg suite. Record the exact exit code and every red step id in STATE-ZION-19.md. (ZION-3 STEP 1's reopening cause — an untracked fixture — was already committed as `51388a51`; this run is the live re-measure, per the rule that a record of a defect is not a defect.)
4. Any red whose cause is a stray untracked file or environment residue: fix the cause, re-run. Any red owned by a later step of THIS plan (4, 9, 14, 19, 25): record it and move on — it is that step's work, not this one's.

**PROOF — all must be true, pasted into STEPS verbatim:**
- `git -C projects/business/business-app branch -vv` shows main neither ahead nor behind `origin/main`, OR ahead only by commits this plan's own steps made.
- The no-arg suite's exit code and per-step red list are recorded in STATE-ZION-19.md with a timestamp.

**If it fails:** merge genuinely wedged → one line to the overseer naming the conflicted files, then STEP 8/9/13/14 (independent of repo push state). Dependents need this step SUCCEEDED.
**Checker's job:** re-run the proof yourself. Do not accept the builder's pasted output.

### STEP 2 — Derive the undeployed-fix ledger from the live revision
**Enter this step when:** STEP 1 proven.
**Builder:** glm (same routing) · **Checker:** sonnet
**Files you may touch:** `projects/ops/zion/STATE-ZION-19.md` (workspace repo). **Never** Hub app source.

**Do exactly this:**
1. `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 4` — expect RED with `LIVE_SOURCE_REVISION_STALE`; its output names the live source revision. Paste it.
2. `git -C projects/business/business-app log --oneline <live_revision>..HEAD` — the full undeployed range.
3. Classify each commit: PRODUCT FIX (changes what a person sees or a behavior they hit) vs infra/test/docs. The known candidates from the 2026-09-04 log read — `c2318c32` (clients risk deep link), `0be9c140` (workflows/CRM failed loads), `fcfe43a8` (archive tab labels), `516be5ce` (payroll false access-denial), `77acba62` (inert sign-in tab), `eb596391` (workload failed vs empty), `2280ff7d` (my-boards zero vs failed), `49fcce3b` (roster duplicate button) — are HYPOTHESES to confirm against the real range, not the answer.
4. For each PRODUCT FIX: `command grep -rl "<its key symbol>" projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/` AND a second differently-shaped search (Glob by date-stamped harness name) to establish whether an automated test exists (§Z: one empty search proves nothing). Record fix → test path or NONE.
5. Write the ledger into STATE-ZION-19.md: one row per product fix — commit, screen, what a person sees, test path or NONE, live-verified? (all "not yet").

**PROOF:** the ledger exists in STATE-ZION-19.md citing the live revision and HEAD by hash; every row's test claim carries both search shapes.
**If it fails:** `--step 4` unexpectedly GREEN means live already matches HEAD — record that, ledger the fixes as deployed-unverified, skip to STEP 5. Dependents need this step ANSWERED, not a particular answer.
**Checker's job:** re-run both commands; spot-check two rows' test-existence claims with your own searches.

### STEP 3 — Red-first tests for every ledger fix lacking one
**Enter this step when:** STEP 2 proven.
**Builder:** glm (same routing) · **Checker:** sonnet
**Files you may touch:** one new file `projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-fixcoverage.mjs` (CREATED BY STEP 3) and its registration in `projects/business/business-app/app/gates.js` (Hub repo). **Never** the fixed product files themselves.

**Do exactly this:**
1. For each ledger row marked NONE: add one exported case to the umbrella harness (one file for the whole ledger — extend, never a file per fix).
2. Red-first, per case: `git stash` in ANY form is BANNED (§W) — instead check out the fix's parent commit into a scratch worktree (`git -C projects/business/business-app worktree add /tmp/z19-red <commit>^`), run the case against it, record the RED, remove the worktree.
3. Register the harness in `app/gates.js` in the tier the existing empty-fail harnesses use.
4. Commit scoped, IN THE HUB REPO (prove toplevel first): `git commit -m "ZION-19 STEP 3: fix-coverage harness (red-first proven)" -- _selfchecks/harness-zion19-fixcoverage.mjs app/gates.js`.

**PROOF:** the umbrella harness exits 0 on HEAD; the recorded RED output per case against the pre-fix worktree is pasted in STEPS.
**If it fails:** a case that cannot be made to fail against pre-fix code is not a test — one line to the overseer, mark that fix's coverage UNPROVEN, continue with the rest.
**Checker's job:** re-run green on HEAD, and re-run ONE case against its pre-fix worktree to confirm the red reproduces.

### STEP 4 — Push, deploy, prove live parity
**Enter this step when:** STEP 3 proven.
**Builder:** glm (same routing) · **Checker:** sonnet
**Files you may touch:** none in source — git push and deploy machinery only. **Never** edit files to make a gate pass (MACHINE-RULES Rule 12), and never chain build and deploy through a pipe (the pipeline's exit code hides a BLOCKED build).

**Do exactly this:**
1. `git -C projects/business/business-app push origin main` — this queues the Mac-mini runner's deploy, which may land unattended and hours later; a runner job must declare `"timeoutSec": 2400` or the ~25-minute build is killed at ten minutes and looks like a broken deploy.
2. Poll: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 4` every 30 minutes, three times, doing other unblocked steps meanwhile (a queued deploy is neither progress nor a blocker).
3. If still stale after three polls: `node projects/ops/deploy.mjs deck-business` (the deliberate path — it refuses a behind-remote publish and runs the full gate set; never any other publish route).
4. Verify on hub.heroesandsidekicks.io, never the pages.dev mirror, and only after the ~2.5-minute edge rollout window — one failed probe immediately after "deployment complete" proves nothing.

**PROOF:** `--step 4` exit 0 — the staged manifest and live runtime endpoint identify every shipped byte.
**If it fails:** deploy lands but parity fails → the bundle-parts trap is live; diff the served manifest against dist (the Hub CLAUDE.md's PARTS check for shelf artifacts), name the missing part, one line to the overseer. Dependents need SUCCEEDED.
**Checker's job:** re-run `--step 4` yourself, plus one direct fetch of the live cache token.

### STEP 5 — Verify every ledger fix on the live surface through the real user path
**Enter this step when:** STEP 4 proven.
**Builder:** sonnet (biz-app-qa — real browser, real logged-in identities; a live drive is judgment QA, not mechanical build work) · **Checker:** fable — the overseer re-drives two ledger rows in a fresh session (a different model from the builder, per the review-ledger rule)
**Files you may touch:** `projects/ops/zion/STATE-ZION-19.md` (workspace repo) and evidence files under `projects/business/business-app/HUB-UIUX-AUDIT/evidence/zion-19/` (Hub repo). **Never** app source.

**Do exactly this:**
1. For each ledger row: drive the EXACT user path in §2 (U5, U8–U13) on the live custom domain, at 390px and 1280px, both themes where the screen has them. A fix present in the bundle but not seen working on screen is NOT verified (the measured Hub trap: green build + successful deploy ≠ shipped).
2. Save one screenshot per row into the evidence folder; write the verdict into the ledger row.
3. Re-run ZION-3's own live checks now deploy-dependent: `--step 19` (assignee on collapsed cards) and `--step 13` if red in STEP 1's sweep.

**PROOF:** every ledger row reads live-verified with an evidence path; `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 19` exit 0.
**If it fails:** a fix absent live despite parity → reopen as a real product defect with its own one-round fix via lane A, or NEXT-list it if outside the FINISH LINE. Dependents need ANSWERED.
**Checker's job:** re-drive two ledger rows yourself, fresh browser, before closing.

### STEP 6 — Switch Google sign-in ON; fix the nightly password-login check in the same change
**Enter this step when:** STEP 4 proven (never before live parity — flipping auth on a stale deploy tests the wrong app).
**Builder:** glm (same routing) for the config/check edits · **Checker:** sonnet (biz-app-qa live drives, a different session)
**Files you may touch:** the Hub's auth switch-on config (`app/functions/api/auth/google/*`, `_middleware.js`, `login.js` wiring — Hub repo), and the ONE nightly check identified in action 1 (whichever repo holds it — say which in the commit). **Never** rotate, mint, or edit any credential value — the OAuth secret exists (provisioned by Nick, `projects/ops/google-sso/STATE.md` lane C: done); if a secret is genuinely absent that is a Rule-13 flag, not something to create.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Find the nightly check that exercises the old password login, TWO ways (§Z): `command grep -rln "api/session" projects/business/business-app/jobs/ projects/ops/skippy-jobs/` and a second sweep for the per-identity vault password entries by name. The Hub CLAUDE.md cites its sign-in health job as the reference implementation of the password flow — that job is the leading candidate; NAME the confirmed file in STATE-ZION-19.md before touching anything.
2. Update that check to authenticate through the new path (or a sanctioned test session), in the SAME commit as switch-on — never before, never after.
3. Flip the switch-on exactly as `projects/ops/google-sso/STATE.md` describes for the Hub; commit scoped in the owning repo(s), then ship via STEP 4's route and re-prove `--step 4` exit 0.
4. Live-drive sign-in for ALL SIX identities via Google on the custom domain (agents drive the identity gate as standing policy); confirm view-as round-trips for Nick and Chantelle; confirm Rizza lands with finance scope and no view-as.
5. Run the updated nightly check once, for real, spawned the way its scheduler runs it.

**PROOF:** six live sign-ins evidenced (screenshots in the STEP-5 evidence folder); the updated nightly check exits 0 through its real path; `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 9` no longer returns NOT_MEASURABLE/410 on the sign-in path it needs.
**If it fails:** any identity cannot get in → REVERT the switch-on commit (scoped), redeploy, record the exact failure — the app must never sit half-on overnight. Dependents need SUCCEEDED.
**Checker's job:** re-drive two identities yourself, including one non-owner.

### STEP 7 — Re-close the SSO-broken ZION-3 checks
**Enter this step when:** STEP 6 proven.
**Builder:** glm (same routing) · **Checker:** sonnet
**Files you may touch:** the proof suite's sign-in helper ONLY (port the selector, never the assertion — MACHINE-RULES Rule 12 clause 5), and ZION-3's Status/ledger lines (workspace repo). **Never** the behaviors those steps assert.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Update the harness's authentication path to the post-SSO door (whatever STEP 6 proved live).
2. `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 9` then `--step 25`, then re-run the full no-arg suite to sweep 13/20/21's sign-in-dependent checks.
3. Correct ZION-3's REVIEW LEDGER rows 9 and 25 (and their Status lines) to CLOSED with today's date and this plan named — in `projects/ops/zion/PLAN-ZION-3-kanban-hub-work.md`, workspace repo, scoped commit.

**PROOF:** `--step 9` exit 0 · `--step 25` exit 0 · no-arg suite shows no NOT_MEASURABLE caused by sign-in.
**If it fails:** a check red for a REAL behavioral reason (not auth) → that is a genuine defect: one round through lane A, else NEXT list with the exact reason code. Dependents (STEP 16) need ANSWERED.
**Checker's job:** re-run both steps and one of 13/20/21 yourself.

### STEP 8 — Seal `task-run.mjs postCardUpdate`
**Enter this step when:** STEP 1 proven (independent of deploy — this is workspace-side).
**Builder:** glm (same routing) · **Checker:** sonnet
**Files you may touch:** `projects/ops/skippy-jobs/lib/task-run.mjs` (workspace repo). **Never** `comments.js`/`_kv.js` (already sealed and verified).

**Do exactly this:**
1. Read the sealed sibling pattern in `projects/ops/skippy-jobs/lib/board-report.mjs`'s comment path (the exact seam two prior checkers verified) and apply the identical unsealed-clock fix to `postCardUpdate()` in `task-run.mjs`.
2. Commit scoped in the WORKSPACE repo: `git commit -m "ZION-19 STEP 8: seal task-run postCardUpdate clock (ZION-3 step 14 third-checker find)" -- projects/ops/skippy-jobs/lib/task-run.mjs`.
3. `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 14` four consecutive times — the reopening symptom was an intermittent RED (`RETRY_CHANGED_UPDATE_ID`) on run 3 of 4.
4. Correct ZION-3's step 14 Status line and ledger row to CLOSED, dated, this plan named (workspace repo, scoped commit).

**PROOF:** four consecutive `--step 14` exit 0 runs, pasted with timestamps.
**If it fails:** the intermittent RED reproduces → the seam differs from the sibling's; paste the differing lines, one line to the overseer, do not widen the retry window to go green (Rule 12 clause 1). Dependents need SUCCEEDED.
**Checker's job:** re-run `--step 14` twice yourself and read the seam against the sibling.

### STEP 9 — Fix ZION-17 round-12's nine findings; ONE clean check round
**Enter this step when:** STEP 1 proven (independent lane).
**Builder:** glm (same routing) · **Checker:** sonnet — ONE round (§G: one check round per step; eleven prior rounds are enough adversarial history; the fix for checker-stalls is calling the checker and moving on, never a thirteenth sweep)
**Files you may touch:** `projects/ops/skippy-jobs/lib/check-handback.mjs`, `projects/ops/skippy-jobs/lib/handback-contract.mjs`, their test suites, `projects/ops/zion/PLAN-ZION-17-board-pm-enforcement.md` + `STATE-ZION-17.md` status lines (all workspace repo). **Never** ZION-3's board posting tool (`board-report.mjs`) — its printed outcome strings are a load-bearing dependency of this gate; a change there is a handover, not a fix.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Read `projects/ops/zion/evidence/step12-round12-findings-2026-09-03.txt` in full — nine findings, each naming its owning code.
2. Fix all nine; extend the existing suites with one permanent check per finding (red-first each).
3. Run both suites the record names (the 164-case and 38-case sets) plus `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/_test-handback-contract.mjs` (179 cases) + `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/_test-handback-contract-live-wiring.mjs` (15) + `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/_test-zion17-selfcontainment.mjs` (38) — CORRECTED 2026-09-05: `check-handback.mjs` has no `--selftest` flag (it exits 0 with any flag), found by the step-9 record and again by the blind checker.
4. Dispatch the ONE checker round. Its verdict lands: PASS closes ZION-17's STEP 12 and this step; a FAIL goes back once, and the re-check covers the named failure only.
5. Update ZION-17's plan/state: STEP 12 closed, this plan named as where the lane's remainder lives.

**PROOF:** all suites green (exact counts pasted); the single checker round's verdict pasted; the round-12 findings file's nine items each mapped to its fix commit.
**If it fails:** the checker finds a real dodge → fix that named item once, re-check that item only, close. Dependents (STEP 10) need SUCCEEDED.
**Checker's job:** attack the gate fresh against the nine findings' shapes — one round, findings named with evidence, no verdict-free "concerns".

### STEP 10 — Open the board to ZION lanes; register this plan's card
**Enter this step when:** STEP 9 proven.
**Builder:** glm (same routing) · **Checker:** sonnet
**Files you may touch:** `projects/business/business-app/app/functions/api/tasks.js` (ONE line, the `LANES_WITH_AGENT_STAGE_VOCAB` set — Hub repo) and this plan's §5 card line (workspace repo). **Never** board data itself beyond the one card open.

**Do exactly this:**
1. CORRECTED 2026-09-04 (cold review Z1, verified by the overseer): `"zion"` is ALREADY in `LANES_WITH_AGENT_STAGE_VOCAB` (`tasks.js:221`) and live in production — no code edit, no deploy for this step; verify with `command grep -n 'LANES_WITH_AGENT_STAGE_VOCAB = ' app/functions/api/tasks.js` and go straight to action 2. Superseding: `"zion"` was already present, so the former "Add `"zion"` to `LANES_WITH_AGENT_STAGE_VOCAB` in `tasks.js` (~line 216 — re-find it by name, never by number). Commit scoped in the Hub repo; ship via STEP 4's deploy route; re-prove `--step 4`.
2. `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/lib/board-report.mjs --open --lane zion --title "ZION-19 · Finish the Hub" --stage "In Progress" --due 2026-09-11 --assignee nick` — the exact call that failed on 2026-09-01.
3. `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/lib/board-report.mjs --read` and confirm the live card; write its id into §5 of THIS file (bare-slug convention — the documented ambiguity in STATE-ZION-17.md's workspace-wide finding; STEP 15's guide documents the convention).

**PROOF:** the `--open` call succeeds (paste output); `--read` shows the real live card; §5 below no longer reads `none yet`.
**If it fails:** vocabulary still refused → paste the exact refusal, check the `boards_meta` ingest as the alternate route named in the original error, one line to the overseer. Dependents (STEPS 15, 16) need ANSWERED.
**Checker's job:** run `--read` yourself and match the card id against §5.

### STEP 11 — Deploy the voice-app pattern in the Hub
**Enter this step when:** RUNNABLE WHEN: a dated handoff line exists in `STATE-ZION-19.md` §HANDOFFS-IN from the Skippy voice-app lane naming its reusable voice-pattern artifact paths (that lane owes this plan that line at its own close — the named artifact, never "wait for the other plan"). Until that line exists this step is QUEUED, never blocked, and every other step proceeds.
**Builder:** glm (same routing) · **Checker:** sonnet; design half goes to STEP 12
**Files you may touch:** new voice files under `projects/business/business-app/app/` per the pattern, `app/gates.js` registration, and the new harness this step creates (all Hub repo). **Never** redesign the pattern — deviations are a handover line to the voice lane, not a fork.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Read the handed-off pattern files end to end; port them into the Hub with only the identity/scope wiring the Hub needs.
2. Write the voice harness mirroring the voice lane's own test shape; red-first (break the wiring in a scratch copy, confirm red).
3. Commit scoped (Hub repo), ship via STEP 4's route, re-prove `--step 4`, then drive U15 live in a real browser including the denied-mic state.

**PROOF:** the voice harness exits 0 (its file is named in this step's step-map row, CREATED BY STEP 11); live browser drive of U15 evidenced (default · error · denied-mic).
**If it fails:** the pattern doesn't fit the Hub's auth/session shape → one dated handover line to the voice lane naming the exact mismatch; this step stays open, STEP 16 grades FINISH LINE item 6 honestly against it. Dependents need ANSWERED.
**Checker's job:** re-run the harness and re-drive U15 default state yourself.

### STEP 12 — Sienna's design QA on every changed screen
**Enter this step when:** STEPS 6, 13 and 14 proven; U15 included only if STEP 11 has landed (else graded on what exists, gap named).
**Builder:** creative-director (Sienna) with sonnet · **Checker:** fable — the overseer audits the receipt against fresh screenshots; one round, no second adversary (§G)
**Files you may touch:** evidence under `projects/business/business-app/HUB-UIUX-AUDIT/evidence/zion-19/` (Hub repo). **Never** app source — findings route to lane owners.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Grade U1–U3 (sign-in), U18 (department sidebar), U19 (task detail view) and U15 (voice, if landed) against the six creative gates, per claim naming width (390/768/1280) and theme. For U18 specifically: the heading-vs-sub-item hierarchy must read as primary-but-inert vs secondary-and-clickable at every width, including the <900px pill nav.
2. Behavioral defects reopen the owning step for its one fix round; cosmetic ones take one NEXT-list line each.

**PROOF:** Sienna's receipt in the evidence folder, every verdict bound to a fresh screenshot; `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 24` exit 0.
**If it fails:** a behavioral defect → one round via the owning lane, re-grade that screen only. Dependents need ANSWERED.
**Checker's job:** confirm each verdict's screenshot is fresh (taken this step, not reused).

### STEP 13 — Group the sidebar under five inert department headings
**Enter this step when:** STEP 1 proven (independent of the deploy chain; ships via STEP 4's route when ready). Per §3 contracts, never in the same hour as a lane-B write pass.
**Builder:** glm (same routing) · **Checker:** sonnet; visual hierarchy graded by STEP 12
**Files you may touch:** exactly lane E's declared set (§3): the nav region of `app/js/app.js`, `app/styles.css`, `app/index.html` (nav mount only), `app/gates.js`, and the new dept-nav harness this step creates — named with its CREATED-BY marker in the lane E row. **Never** `js/tools.js`'s TOOL_TABS (it stays the single source of truth for which sub-screens exist), never a second nav list beside `TOOL_NAV_ENTRIES`, never the `panel.js` symlink.

**Do exactly this:**
1. READ FIRST, before restructuring anything: `ROLE_NAV_PROMOTE` / `applyRoleNav()` (what role promotion actually does today), the F12 single-you-are-here-authority comment (~line 299 — ONE writer for `.tab.is-active`; two writers is the exact bug it fixed), and the TOOL_NAV_ENTRIES header comment including its UNVERIFIED-ON-MOBILE note. Write what promotion does into STATE-ZION-19.md before the first edit.
2. Extend `TOOL_NAV_ENTRIES` — the ONE registry, per its own comment — with a `dept` field per entry, plus one ordered list of the five department headings: Client Success · Recruitment · Financing · Ops · Growth. Build to §1a row 7's mapping (Client Success → Booking, Standups · Recruitment → Tracker, eSign · Financing → Time tracking · Ops → SOPs, Leave form · Growth → Website). No second list anywhere.
3. Render each heading as a NON-INTERACTIVE group label: no `href`, no click handler, no `tabindex` stop — a heading that navigates anywhere fails this step (Nick: "the main headers not being lickable"). Sub-items keep the existing `.tab` markup so they inherit the responsive shape (icon rail <1100px, pill nav <900px) and stay clickable; style them visibly secondary to their heading.
4. Keep role promotion and the single-highlight authority working: a role's promoted entries must still surface for that role exactly as before, and only the one existing function writes `.tab.is-active`.
5. Write the harness red-first (in a scratch copy: give a heading an href → the harness must go RED; break a dept assignment → RED). Assertions: exactly five headings, each inert (no href/handler/focusable role); all eight tools present, each under its §1a-row-7 department; promotion still applied for a promoted identity; the Website entry's identity gate unchanged.
6. Register in `app/gates.js`; commit scoped in the Hub repo, naming exactly the lane-E files this step touched (the four existing files plus the new harness). Ship via STEP 4's route; re-prove `--step 4`.
7. Live drive on the custom domain, after the edge window: at 1280px and 390px, both themes — click every heading (the hash must not change, nothing navigates), click every sub-item (each tool opens), confirm the you-are-here highlight follows the sub-items.

**PROOF:** this step's step-map DONE-PROOF harness exits 0 on HEAD with its red-first breaks recorded; live-drive evidence (screenshots at both widths) showing an inert heading click and a working sub-item click; `--step 4` exit 0 after the ship.
**If it fails:** the <900px pill nav crowds or clips with headings present → record the measured state, one line to the overseer; if cosmetic, one NEXT-list line (the mobile pattern is a pre-existing open question per the file's own note), never a silent scope-widening into a mobile redesign. Dependents (STEPS 12, 16) need SUCCEEDED.
**Checker's job:** re-run the harness, then re-drive one heading and two sub-items yourself in a fresh browser.

### STEP 14 — Build the task-card detail view on the existing board-screen hook
**Enter this step when:** STEP 1 proven (independent of the deploy chain; ships via STEP 4's route when ready).
**Builder:** glm (same routing) · **Checker:** sonnet; visual grading by STEP 12
**Files you may touch:** exactly lane E's declared set (§3): the new detail module and the new task-detail harness this step creates (both named with CREATED-BY markers in the lane E row), the board consumer wiring that passes `cfg.detailHref`/`cfg.onOpenDetail` into `board-screen.js`, `app/styles.css` additions, `app/index.html` mount if needed, `app/gates.js` registration (all Hub repo). **Never** the hook mechanism inside `board-screen.js` itself (this step CONSUMES it), never `crm.js` (the pattern to COPY, not modify), never a second detail mechanism.

**Do exactly this:**
1. READ FIRST: `board-screen.js`'s `detailHref`/`onOpenDetail` comment (the hook's own contract — default ABSENT, "waiting for a consumer that owns a real detail ROUTE"), and `crm.js` ~lines 39–180 (`state.openCardId`) including its click-outside and close behavior — that is the working in-house pattern to copy.
2. Build the detail view in the Monday/Asana shape Nick named: clicking a task card opens the task's full picture — title, status/stage, assignee, due date, description, subtasks, and the updates thread (with the honest Monday-derived Updates-panel limitation STEP 15 documents, stated in the UI rather than shown as an empty error). States: default, loading, error, not-found.
3. Make it a real ROUTE via `detailHref` so it is deep-linkable and keyboard-reachable — the hook's stated purpose. Wire `cfg.detailHref` and `cfg.onOpenDetail` on the board consumers. Close behavior: Esc, click-outside, and a visible close control, per the crm.js pattern. The single you-are-here authority stays the one highlight writer.
4. Write the harness red-first (scratch copy: unwire the `cfg` hook → RED; break the not-found state → RED). Assertions: the hook is consumed on the board screens; the detail route renders all named fields for a real task; not-found renders honestly; the deep-link route resolves.
5. Register in `app/gates.js`; commit scoped in the Hub repo, naming exactly the lane-E files this step touched (`board-screen.js` only if the consumer wiring genuinely lives there — the hook itself is untouched). Ship via STEP 4's route; re-prove `--step 4`.
6. Live drive on the custom domain, after the edge window, at 1280px and 390px: click a real task card → detail opens; copy its URL into a fresh tab → same detail; Esc closes; click-outside closes; tab-key reaches the card and opens it.

**PROOF:** this step's step-map DONE-PROOF harness exits 0 on HEAD with its red-first breaks recorded; live-drive evidence: card-click open, fresh-tab deep link, and a close, screenshotted; `--step 4` exit 0 after the ship.
**If it fails:** the hook's contract does not fit the built view (a signature gap in `detailHref`/`onOpenDetail`) → that mechanism is ZION-3's build, out of this fence: one dated handover line in STATE-ZION-19.md §HANDOFFS naming the exact gap, one line to the overseer, keep the view reachable by direct route meanwhile. Dependents (STEPS 12, 16) need SUCCEEDED.
**Checker's job:** re-run the harness, then re-drive one card-open, one deep link, and one Esc-close yourself in a fresh browser.

### STEP 15 — Write the agent-facing Hub infrastructure guide; map the Monday coupling
**Enter this step when:** STEP 10 proven (so the guide documents the board as it now works, zion vocabulary included).
**Builder:** glm (same routing) · **Checker:** sonnet — a COLD agent that follows the guide literally, using nothing else
**Files you may touch:** the new guide file (named in this step's step-map row, CREATED BY STEP 15 — Hub repo), plus a two-line pointer added to the Hub repo's CLAUDE.md and one to `KANBAN-AND-AGENT-BOARDS-SPEC.md` (Hub repo). **Never** a 52nd loose file beyond the guide itself — the home decision is made (see §1a denominator): the two candidates were read and neither owns agent operations; the guide gets ONE home and CLAUDE.md points at it.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Write the guide FOR AGENTS (Nick, 2026-09-04: "we need to docment it because its not obvious how to add cards to list on hub but were migrating ther sono and we cant depdn on monday" · "a how to guide for other agents… FAQs and SOPs for the hub infra"). Seed it with the recipe measured live 2026-09-04 — verify each item against the deployed app while writing, never copy blind:
   - Card creation: POST `/api/tasks`, `Authorization: Bearer` + the vault entry `deck-business-skippy-token` (retrieved via the family vault tool; the value is extracted from its VALUE line and never logged or committed). Body `{"action":"create","name":"…","assignee":"nick","group":"general","priority":"normal","due_date":"YYYY-MM-DD"}` → HTTP 201.
   - Trap 1: `group` takes EXACTLY topics · assets · payment-staging · order-requests · recurring · general · gracie · neeko · ai-builds · zion; anything else 400s.
   - Trap 2: `priority` takes EXACTLY `normal` or `someday` — High/Medium/Low all 400.
   - **Trap 3, in bold: the read-back rows live at `data.tasks`, NOT `tasks`** — reading the wrong level returns zero rows for a card sitting first in a list of 171 and makes a successful create look failed.
   - The sign-in flows (password today, Google after STEP 6), the board-card slug convention, the department nav and detail-view conventions STEPS 13–14 establish, how the ZION-17 gate judges a handback, and how to run the proof suite.
2. Map the Monday coupling: trace the `tasks.js` write path to establish why a native create returns `created_by: "monday-dual-write"`, and which vocabularies (groups, priorities, stages) are Monday-derived. ONE observation is a hint, not a map — read the code, list every Monday touchpoint in the write and read paths, and mark each item of the guide MONDAY-DERIVED (will change at migration) or NATIVE. The Updates-panel trap (app-native cards read "No Monday updates on record" forever) goes in this section.
3. Add the pointer lines; commit everything scoped in the Hub repo (docs-only push — free, no build).

**PROOF:** the checker — a cold agent given ONLY the guide — creates a card, reads it back at the right JSON level, and deletes-or-archives it, without one question; the Monday-coupling section lists the touchpoints with file citations.
**If it fails:** the cold agent stalls anywhere → that exact stall point is the guide's defect; fix that section once, re-test that section. Dependents (STEP 16) need SUCCEEDED for FINISH LINE item 7.
**Checker's job:** follow the guide literally, log every place you needed knowledge the guide didn't give you.

### STEP 16 — Blind finish-line sweep, postmortem, close
**Enter this step when:** STEPS 1–10 and 12–15 proven; 11 proven or honestly QUEUED with its entry condition still unmet.
**Builder:** sonnet (se-blind-checker — cold, handed ONLY the FINISH LINE and the artifact, never this drive's history) · **Checker:** the fable overseer relays the verdict UNCHANGED — a relay that edits the verdict is the grading it is forbidden to do
**Files you may touch:** this file's STEPS/postmortem/NEXT sections and STATE-ZION-19.md (workspace repo).

**Do exactly this:**
1. Dispatch the blind checker against the ten FINISH LINE items; it re-runs every named command first-hand and drives the live surface for items 1, 3, 6, 8 and 9.
2. Paste the verdict verbatim into STEPS, including any FAIL.
3. Write the postmortem below §6; append any new failure pattern to `.claude/skills/plan/references/failure-registry.md` in the four-column format, same turn.
4. Final scoped commits in both repos, each naming only its own paths.

**PROOF:** the blind verdict pasted unedited; `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs` (no-arg) exit 0; postmortem present.
**If it fails:** any FAIL → one fix round via the owning step, one re-check of the named item only, then close at GREAT (the NEXT list holds everything else).
**Checker's job:** the blind checker IS the check; nobody re-grades the grader.

### STEP 17 — Red-first checks for the Monday-style tile, detail panel and inbox item (Sienna's design, Nick-approved 2026-09-04)
**Enter this step when:** none — start now. Nick, 2026-09-04: *"you do anything and everything you need as you already have full approval written in code and there are no further gates or blokcers"* — Sienna's design (`projects/ops/zion/evidence/sienna-design-tasks-inbox-monday-2026-09-05.md`) is the approved specification; every step below builds to it and nothing else. STEP 14 closed on a hollow proof: its checker opened the detail from the tiny "Open" link, not from the tile, so "card click opens the detail" was never true — the tile has always been a fold (Sienna's finding §1). STEPS 17–21 are the correction.
**Builder:** sonnet (test authoring never goes to a cheap vendor — the data wall) · **Checker:** glm, cold (re-runs both proofs on HEAD and reads what each RED measured — test execution is cheap-eligible; it writes no test)
**Files you may touch:** ONLY the two files this step creates — the stub-DOM harness `_selfchecks/harness-zion19-monday-panel.mjs` (no browser) and the live script `_selfchecks/zion19-monday-live.mjs` (real browser through the local preview at `http://localhost:8790`, which serves the local front-end against the live API and signs in through `/__agent-signin?identity=<who>`), plus the `app/gates.js` TIER-1 row for the first. **Never** any file STEPS 18–21 own.

**Do exactly this:**
1. READ FIRST, in this order: Sienna's design §2a–§2d and §3 (the rules); `board-screen.js` ~line 199 (the `bz-detail-openlink` "Open" word) and ~lines 1500–1520 (the card body appending `cfg.thread(row)`); `tasks.js` `taskDetailBlocks()` (~line 237, the ONE renderer, three modes) and the "Reference numbers" fold; `one-boards.css` ~lines 1102–1120 (the panel styling that still replaces the board); `inbox.js` ~lines 1880–1890 (the KIND / BAND / SEEN / ON YOUR QUEUE rows) and ~1845 (the detail region). Then `_selfchecks/harness-zion19-nav-onevocab.mjs` for the stub-DOM pattern this repo uses (a stub that throws on unparseable selectors, never silently returns).
2. Write the stub harness with one `check()` per design rule, each RED on HEAD today and GREEN only when STEPS 18–21 land: (a) a kanban tile is ONE anchor to `#tasks?task=<id>` and contains no `<details>` and no element with class `bz-detail-openlink`; (b) a tile body contains zero update text (`cfg.thread` is never called while rendering a tile); (c) the tile meta line carries no `one-dim`/`--faint` styling hook and no `--t-micro` size; (d) `taskDetailBlocks("full")` renders a run-history block when the row has agent runs; (e) the detail's first scrolling block is the latest update's "where it stands" / "next step" (or the inbox item's content), and the machine fields (Hub id, Monday id, source record id, raw record, band, seen) sit inside ONE closed `<details>` whose summary is plain words; (f) the detail head contains the title, an actions region and a "Copy link" control, and no printed raw web address; (g) the inbox item renders none of the labels KIND, BAND, SEEN, ON YOUR QUEUE, and its decision controls sit in the head region; (h) no rule in `one-boards.css`/`one.css` scoped to `.bz-taskdetail`, `.bz-board-tile`, or `.bz-inbox-item` applies `--faint` to text under 14px.
3. Write the live script (real browser, Chrome for Testing, one Chrome per machine — take `/tmp/bzvisual-chrome.lock` like every other harness): sign in as nick, open a real board at 1280×900, click the BODY of one tile → the detail panel is on screen AND the board's column scroll position is unchanged AND the board is still in the DOM; measure the panel's width (480 at 1280, 560 at 1440, full width at 390); press Escape → panel closes; open one inbox item as dean → the decision buttons are inside the pinned head; at 390 the actions are pinned to the bottom edge. Each check prints PASS/FAIL with the measured number. The script exits non-zero on any FAIL and prints **NOT MEASURABLE FROM HERE — <instrument>** if the preview or the lock is unavailable (never PASS).
4. Prove red: run both on HEAD → the stub harness reports every check RED (paste the counts into this step's STATUS line); the live script reports (a) tile click toggles a fold, (b) no panel, as FAILs.
5. Register the stub harness in `app/gates.js` as TIER-1 with a label naming this step. Commit scoped in the Hub repo (`git commit -- <the three paths>`), push.

**PROOF:** both scripts this step creates (named in its step-map row) exit non-zero on HEAD — the stub harness with ≥8 RED checks listed by letter, the live script with the fold/no-panel FAILs printed. **A check that passes on HEAD today is a defective check and the step is not done.**
**If it fails:** a rule cannot be expressed as a check (e.g. "three permitted heights" needs rendered boxes) → it moves to the live script with a real measurement; if still impossible, one NEXT-list line naming the rule and why. Never a weakened assertion.
**Checker's job:** re-run both proofs on HEAD yourself; confirm every check is RED for the reason the design names, not for a stub-DOM gap (open the failing assertion and read what it measured).

### STEP 18 — The kanban tile: one link, no fold, one meta line, three heights
**Enter this step when:** STEP 17's stub harness exists and is RED (checks a–c).
**Builder:** glm via `projects/ops/route-build.mjs` (one file per call) · **Checker:** sonnet (re-runs STEP 17's proofs) · visual grading: Sienna (creative-director), one round, against her own §2a
**Files you may touch:** `app/js/board-screen.js` (tile builder only — the `<details>` tile, the meta line, the `bz-detail-openlink` anchor, the card-body thread append) and the tile section of `app/css/one-boards.css`. **Never** `tasks.js`, `inbox.js`, `one.css` (STEPS 19–21 own them).

**Do exactly this:**
1. READ FIRST: `board-screen.js` ~lines 170–210 (tile summary + Open link) and ~1490–1520 (card body + `cfg.thread(row)`); the design §2a and §3 rules 1, 2, 5.
2. Replace the tile's `<details>`/`<summary>` with a single `<a class="bz-board-tile" href="<cfg.detailHref(row)>">` carrying the same drag attributes the tile has today (drag-to-move stays exactly as it is — re-read the drag code before touching the element). Delete the `bz-detail-openlink` anchor and the word "Open". Delete the card-body build (the lazily built body, `taskDetailBlocks("card")`, and the `cfg.thread(row)` append) from the tile path only — do NOT delete `taskDetailBlocks` itself.
3. The tile shows, top to bottom: title (≤2 lines, ellipsis — `display:-webkit-box; -webkit-line-clamp:2`), ONE meta line (owner · due · priority · `n/m` steps · `k updates`, each only when it has a value) at `--t-small` (12px) in `--muted`, and — only when an agent is on it — one status strip line ("<agent>, <elapsed>" neutral, or "<agent> — stuck <elapsed>" in `--st-risk`). Nothing else.
4. CSS: tile radius `--r-sm` (10px, replacing 9px); no `--faint` on any tile text; `:hover`/`:focus-visible` states use the existing `.one-card` treatment; keep column widths untouched.
5. Prove: STEP 17's stub checks (a)(b)(c) turn GREEN and nothing else in the TIER-1 list changes; run `node app/build-dist.js` with `BUILD_FAST="STEP 18 tile, fast tier"` → PASS. Commit scoped, push.
6. Live (through the local preview first, then the public site after the deploy lands): at 1280 and 390, every tile on a real board has one of exactly three rendered heights (measure `getBoundingClientRect().height` across all tiles; the set of distinct heights, rounded, has ≤3 members); clicking a tile body navigates to `#tasks?task=<id>`; dragging a tile between columns still moves it.

**PROOF:** `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-monday-panel.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 17)` — checks a–c GREEN, d–h still RED (the step did not overreach); live tile-height measurement ≤3 distinct values pasted; drag proven by one real move and a read-back of the row's stage.
**If it fails:** the drag code is entangled with the `<details>` element → keep the drag handle element and wrap it, never re-implement drag; one line to the overseer if the wrap breaks drag.
**Checker's job:** re-run STEP 17's stub harness and the live script's tile section; drag one tile yourself and read the stage back through `GET /api/tasks`.

### STEP 19 — The detail becomes a panel over the board
**Enter this step when:** STEP 17's stub harness is RED on checks d–f.
**Builder:** glm via `route-build.mjs` (one file per call; `tasks.js` first, then the CSS) · **Checker:** sonnet · visual grading: Sienna, one round, against her §2b
**Files you may touch:** `app/js/tasks.js` (the task detail — `taskDetailBlocks("full")`, its head, the "Reference numbers" fold) and the panel section of `app/css/one-boards.css` (~lines 1102–1120 and what this step adds). **Never** `board-screen.js` (STEP 18), `inbox.js` (STEP 20).

**Do exactly this:**
1. READ FIRST: `tasks.js` `taskDetailBlocks()` and the route that renders `#tasks?task=<id>` (~line 2439–2480), the existing Escape/click-off/Back/Close paths (STEP 14 and the `80365258` fix — all four stay); `one-boards.css` 1102–1120; the design §2b and §2d's two traps (label-stacking rules fire on VIEWPORT width; the `min-width:1440px` two-column split must be overridden inside the panel).
2. The route no longer replaces the board: the detail mounts as `<aside class="bz-taskdetail bz-panel">` over the current screen with a scrim; the board underneath keeps its DOM and scroll position (do not unmount it). Width: 480px from 1024px, 560px from 1440px, 100% below 1024px. Position fixed, right-pinned, full height, own scroll.
3. Head (pinned, `position:sticky; top:0`): full title at `--t-title` (19px, never truncated); one line under it (owner · stage · due); actions on the right (the complete tick; **Copy link** button that writes `location.origin + "/#tasks?task=<id>"` to the clipboard and confirms inline — replaces the printed raw web address); Back/Close stay.
4. Body order: (1) THE ANSWER — the most recent update's "where it stands" and "next step", quoted with author and time (honest empty state when there is none); (2) THE FACTS — at most six label-above-value rows (board, stage, due, priority, waiting on), stacked UNCONDITIONALLY inside the panel (do not rely on the `max-width:699px` rules); (3) THE WORK — subtasks, checklist, spec, direction, unchanged; (4) THE THREAD — the shared Updates component, newest first, reply box, with the panel-scoped override of the `min-width:1440px` two-column rule; (5) UNDER THE HOOD — the existing "Reference numbers" fold, extended to swallow Hub id, Monday id, source record id, raw record, band, seen, with a plain-words summary ("The record this came from (n)").
5. Add the run-history block (the agent runs the card body used to draw) to `taskDetailBlocks("full")` — the one thing STEP 18 deleted from the tile that the detail did not yet render.
6. At <1024px the actions leave the head and become a bar pinned to the bottom edge (`position:fixed; bottom:0`), 48px tall, on `--lift`.
7. Prove: STEP 17 stub checks d–f GREEN; fast-tier build PASS; commit scoped, push. Live through the preview: STEP 17's live script panel section PASSES (panel on screen, board scroll unchanged, widths 480/560/full measured, Escape closes).

**PROOF:** `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-monday-panel.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 17)` — checks d–f GREEN; `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/zion19-monday-live.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 17)` prints the three measured widths and "board scroll unchanged: true"; a screenshot at 1280 and at 390 saved under `projects/ops/zion/evidence/zion19-step19-<width>.png` (ARTIFACT SAVED).
**If it fails:** overlaying breaks focus or scroll control underneath (the reason the earlier build chose full-screen replacement) → keep the overlay, trap focus inside the panel (`inert` on the board while open) and restore on close; if `inert` is unsupported in the harness Chrome, fall back to `aria-hidden` + a focus loop. Never revert to replacing the board.
**Checker's job:** re-run the live script; open a task from a real board, scroll the board first, open the panel, close it, and confirm the scroll position by reading `scrollLeft` before and after.

### STEP 20 — The inbox item on the same panel
**Enter this step when:** STEP 19 proven (the panel component exists).
**Builder:** glm via `route-build.mjs` · **Checker:** sonnet · visual grading: Sienna, one round, against her §2c table
**Files you may touch:** `app/js/inbox.js` (the item detail — ~lines 1840–1900 today) and the inbox section of `app/css/one.css`. **Never** `tasks.js` (reuse its exported panel; if it exports nothing usable, ONE dated line to the overseer naming the missing export and STEP 19's builder adds it — never a lookalike component).

**Do exactly this:**
1. READ FIRST: `inbox.js` ~1840–1900 (title, KIND, INBOX ID, SOURCE RECORD ID, DIRECT LINK, WHERE IT CAME FROM, WHEN, BAND, SEEN, ON YOUR QUEUE, and the decision at the bottom); the whole-card open handler landed 2026-09-04 (`cardOpen`); the design §2c table.
2. Render the item through STEP 19's panel: head = title (grows, never truncated) · one line "<source> · <how long ago>" · the decision controls (Approve · Edit & approve · Decline; then Dismiss · Add to my tasks · Delegate to… as ghost buttons) · Copy link. Body = the item's content first, then the six-row facts, then the thread if it has one, then the closed fold holding KIND, INBOX ID, SOURCE RECORD ID, the exact timestamp, and the raw record.
3. Delete BAND, SEEN and ON YOUR QUEUE outright (the design says why for each). The uppercase labels that remain are 10px in `--muted`, never `--faint`.
4. Prove: STEP 17 stub check (g) GREEN; fast-tier build PASS; the inbox guards (`_inbox-dismiss.selftest.mjs`, the decide selftest 47/47, `harness-larryinbox`) still PASS; commit scoped, push. Live through the preview as dean: open one item, the decision buttons are inside the head at 1280 and in the bottom bar at 390; Decline on a test item round-trips (read the item back through `GET /api/inbox-feed`).

**PROOF:** `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-monday-panel.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 17)` — check g GREEN; the three inbox guards PASS; the live script's inbox section PASS with the measured head/bar positions; screenshots saved as `projects/ops/zion/evidence/zion19-step20-<width>.png`.
**If it fails:** an inbox action depends on a field the fold now hides (e.g. band drives which buttons show) → the DATA stays on the item object; only its DISPLAY moves into the fold. Never re-add the label.
**Checker's job:** re-run the guards and the live inbox section; decline one seeded test item and read it back.

### STEP 21 — `--faint` off small text on these surfaces; one design-QA round; ship and prove live
**Enter this step when:** STEPS 18, 19, 20 proven.
**Builder:** glm via `route-build.mjs` (CSS only) · **Checker:** sonnet · **Design QA:** Sienna, ONE round across the three surfaces, each claim naming width and theme; a FAIL goes back once to the owning step's builder, the re-check covers the named failure only (§G).
**Files you may touch:** `app/css/one-boards.css`, `app/css/one.css` — only rules scoped to `.bz-board-tile`, `.bz-taskdetail`, `.bz-panel`, `.bz-inbox-item`. No new colour, type size, radius or spacing token anywhere (the existing scale gate flags one).

**Do exactly this:**
1. Replace `--faint` with `--muted` on every rule in those scopes that applies to text under 14px (STEP 17 check h lists them). Measured contrast after: ≥4.5:1 against `--ground` in light and dark (the design's own numbers: `--muted` is 4.52 light / 5.35 dark).
2. Fast-tier build PASS; commit scoped; push; wait for the runner's publish (the browser tier dies while another lane's renders saturate this Mac — re-run the failed job when `uptime` load is under 5 and no `Google Chrome for Testing` is above 80% CPU; that is a machine condition, never a code failure).
3. After the edge window (~2.5 min), run the live script against `https://hub.heroesandsidekicks.io` as nick and as dean at 1280 and 390 → all sections PASS; run `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 4` → exit 0 (live serves HEAD).
4. Dispatch Sienna (creative-director) with her own design file and the four evidence screenshots; her verdict lands in this step's STATUS line unchanged.

**PROOF:** `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-monday-panel.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 17)` — all of a–h GREEN; `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/zion19-monday-live.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 17) --live` exits 0 against the public site; `--step 4` exit 0; Sienna's one-round verdict pasted.
**If it fails:** the publish cannot land because the machine never goes quiet → run `node projects/ops/deploy.mjs deck-business` here after `clear-machine-for-deploy.mjs`, once; if the browser tier still dies, one line to the overseer naming the load figure and the process holding the CPU — never a weakened gate.
**Checker's job:** re-run the live script against the public site yourself; open one tile, one panel, one inbox item as dean in a fresh browser.

### STEP 22 — A quick-publish lane for the Hub: a change is live in minutes, the 25-minute visual sweep runs AFTER it and never holds it
**Enter this step when:** none — start now. Nick, 2026-09-05, verbatim: *"publish anything as it lands -"* and *"the family app is able to publish one change at a time and the hub needs to develop something better than a 25 min build each time we make a change"*. Context that produced the ruling: eleven automated Hub publishes between 03:00Z and 13:00Z on 2026-09-05 died in the browser tier — never on a code verdict, always on "chrome exited early" or a stand-down while other lanes held the shared test browser and this Mac ran at load 8–32 — while the code they carried was proven by the fast tier (157 checks), a real-browser check on the local preview (11/11) and three passes of design QA. The publish that finally landed at 13:24Z was made by hand from the fast tier on Nick's word. This step makes that the designed path, with the visual sweep still run and still binding — just not in front of the ship.
**Builder:** glm via `route-build.mjs` for the workflow and script edits (one file per call) · **Checker:** sonnet (re-runs the proof: a push lands live in under five minutes, measured; the sweep posts its verdict without touching the publish)
**Files you may touch:** `.github/workflows/deploy.yml`, `app/build-dist.js` (the tier switch and the stamp only), `projects/ops/deploy.mjs` (the workspace's deploy driver — a `--fast` flag), `HUB-AGENT-GUIDE.md` §deploy, and the new static check this step creates (named in its step-map row). **Never** weaken, remove or re-tier any TIER-1 gate; **never** delete a TIER-2 gate — they move in TIME, not in strength.

**Do exactly this:**
1. READ FIRST: `deploy.yml` (the Build dist step with its stand-down retry loop, the Deploy step, the Verify live step); `build-dist.js`'s `BUILD_FAST` escape hatch and its `.gate-status.json` stamp; `deploy.mjs`'s `--use-staged-dist`; the Hub CLAUDE.md sections "Build and deploy" and "Gate discipline" (they explain why TIER 2 exists and why it dies on a busy machine — the design below keeps every reason intact).
2. Split the workflow into TWO jobs. **`publish`** (every push to main): checkout, link host-local deps, `BUILD_FAST="quick-publish lane (ZION-19 STEP 22)" node app/build-dist.js` (TIER 1 — the 157 fast checks — still BLOCKS), stage, `wrangler pages deploy`, verify-live. Target: under five minutes from push to live, measured and printed. **`visual-sweep`** (`needs: publish`; it can never un-publish): the full TIER-2 browser tier run against the checkout, with the existing stand-down retry loop kept exactly as it is. On FAIL it writes ONE Hub inbox item through the existing `larry-findings` robot-bearer route (class `larry`, headline "Visual sweep found a regression on the live Hub", body = the failing gate's own message, link to the run) and re-runs itself once when the machine is quiet; it never touches the published deployment. On PASS it records the pass in `_selfchecks/.tier2-last-pass.json` via the existing fingerprint so the next sweep with unchanged inputs is free.
3. `build-dist.js`: the `.gate-status.json` stamp already names which tiers ran. Add one field, `visual_sweep: "pending"|"passed"|"failed"`, that the sweep job updates by publishing a tiny static `dist/.gate-status.json` refresh (a static asset deploys from the staged copy — see the Hub CLAUDE.md on Functions vs static assets) so `/api/build-integrity` can report it. Nothing served to a person changes.
4. `deploy.mjs deck-business --fast`: the local mirror of the `publish` job (fast tier + stage + wrangler), for the day the runner is down; it prints the same stamp. `--use-staged-dist` keeps its staleness refusal.
5. Write the static check (TIER-1, `_selfchecks/harness-zion19-quickpublish.mjs`): asserts the workflow has exactly the two jobs with the stated dependency; that no TIER-2 harness registration was deleted from `app/gates.js` (count them against the tracked list); that the `visual-sweep` job's on-failure path posts to the inbox and never calls `wrangler`; that `publish` never sets `SKIPPY_*_GATE=off`. Prove it red first on a scratch copy of `deploy.yml` with the sweep job removed.
6. Update `HUB-AGENT-GUIDE.md` §deploy and the Hub CLAUDE.md's "Build and deploy" section in plain words: "a push is live in about five minutes; the visual sweep runs after and posts to the inbox if it finds something; nobody waits on it".
7. Ship via the new lane itself; measure push-to-live with `git log -1 --format=%cI` vs the deploy's `Deployment complete` timestamp; run the sweep once and read its verdict from the inbox item or the pass record.

**PROOF:** the static check this step creates (its step-map DONE-PROOF) exits 0 on HEAD and was red on the scratch copy; one real push lands live in under five minutes (both timestamps pasted); the sweep job runs after it and its verdict is visible in the inbox item or in `.gate-status.json` `visual_sweep`; every TIER-1 and TIER-2 gate still exists in `app/gates.js` (count unchanged).
**If it fails:** the runner cannot run two jobs on one Mac without the browser lock stand-down firing on the sweep → the sweep job waits on the lock (the existing retry loop) rather than the publish waiting on the sweep; if wrangler needs a secret the runner lacks for the stamp refresh, write the sweep verdict to the inbox only and leave `visual_sweep` as `pending` with a one-line note — never block the publish.
**Checker's job:** push a one-line change yourself and time it to live; then break one TIER-2 gate on a scratch branch and confirm the inbox item appears and the publish still stood.

### STEP 23 — A removal command for ONE obsolete or duplicate card, on the existing supersede mechanism, with a review surface so nothing vanishes untraceably
**Enter this step when:** none — start now. Nick, 2026-09-05, verbatim: *"the hub needs that command"*, said after asking to **"delete"** a duplicate card and finding no route existed. What produced the ruling, measured the same hour against the live API: `action:"delete"` → 400 `unknown action "delete" — must be "create"/"add", "bind_project", "bind_project_folder", "complete", "edit", "subitem", "supersede_many", or "run"` · `action:"complete"` → 403 `only Nick, Chantelle, or the task's own owner can put a card in "Done" - an agent moves its own work to "Nick's Review" and stops there` · `action:"supersede_many", ids:[one id]` → 400 `replacement_lane, actor, and reason are all required`. So the capability exists and is unreachable for the one case that actually occurs: a card that is redundant rather than replaced.
**Builder:** glm via `route-build.mjs` (one file per call) · **Checker:** sonnet (re-runs the harness itself on HEAD, re-runs it against the deliberately broken copy the step creates, and drives the live API once from a fresh shell)
**Files you may touch:** `projects/business/business-app/app/functions/api/tasks.js` (the `supersedeMany` provenance branch, the action dispatch, and the GET's superseded filter — nothing else in the file), `projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-remove.mjs` (new, this step creates it), and `HUB-AGENT-GUIDE.md` §tasks. **Never** touch `create()`, `complete()`, `edit()`, the `rmw` helper, or any other action's authorization. **Never** add a hard delete: `tasks.js:94` — *"No deletes, ever (archive/supersede only, standing rule). DELETE/PUT/PATCH → 405"* — is the invariant this step is built to preserve, not to relax.

**The design, decided before the code, and the two things deliberately REJECTED:**
- **One mechanism, not two.** `remove` is a thin alias that calls `supersedeMany` with `ids:[body.id]`. It adds a discoverable name, never a second removal path — the discoverability gap is what cost an hour on 2026-09-05, not the mechanism.
- **Provenance stays mandatory, and gains a third honest form.** `actor` and `reason` remain required in every case. Exactly ONE of `replacement_lane` (a lane replaced it — today's behaviour, unchanged) · `superseded_by` (the id of the card that replaces it) · `removal_kind` (`"duplicate"` or `"obsolete"` — nothing replaces it) must be supplied. Today's callers keep working byte-for-byte; the new forms exist because a duplicate is genuinely replaced by nothing, and forcing a caller to name a fictional "replacement lane" to get past a gate is how provenance fields fill up with lies.
- 🔴 **REJECTED — scoping removal to "cards you created".** It reads like the right control and it would be false assurance here: `created_by` on a robot write is a WRITER name (`monday-dual-write`, `ingest-biz-boards`), not a per-agent owner — `tasks.js:541–576` says so outright, and the card this step removes carries exactly that. A check that cannot tell two agents apart must not be sold as one that can. The tier gate is therefore UNCHANGED: robot bearer or leadership (nick/chantelle), exactly as `supersedeMany` has it today.
- 🔴 **Because that authorization is coarse, the honest control is REVIEWABILITY, and this step adds it.** Today a superseded row is filtered out of every list, Kanban and count view (`tasks.js:794–798`) and is findable ONLY by exact id — so a removal is reversible in principle and invisible in practice. This step adds `GET /api/tasks?superseded=1`, returning the superseded rows with their full provenance (`actor`, `reason`, `at`, and the original group/status/done already recorded). **Without this the step does not ship**: a removal command whose results nobody can enumerate is the "made a row invisible without trace" failure, and it is the whole reason the coarse tier gate is acceptable.
- **Nothing rendered changes** — this step ships an API action and a query parameter, no screen. §D does not apply to it.

**Do exactly this:**
1. READ FIRST, in this order: `tasks.js` lines 88–96 (the no-delete standing rule), 246 (`LEADERSHIP`), 541–576 (what `created_by` actually records), 788–798 (the GET superseded filter), 955–980 (the action dispatch), 1374–1440 (`supersedeMany` with its all-or-nothing and idempotency comments), and 2710 (`str()`). Do not begin until the idempotency comment at 1417 and the all-or-nothing abort at 1414 are understood — both must survive this edit unchanged.
2. In `supersedeMany`, replace ONLY the provenance branch. Read `superseded_by` via `str(body.superseded_by, 64)` and `removal_kind` via `str(body.removal_kind, 20)`; reject a `removal_kind` outside the set `duplicate`, `obsolete`. Require `actor` and `reason` as now. Count how many of the three provenance forms are present: zero → 400 naming all three; more than one → 400 saying exactly one. When `superseded_by` is given, it must name a row that EXISTS in the store and is not the row being superseded — otherwise 404, and refuse the whole call (all-or-nothing already covers the batch; this is the same discipline for the pointer).
3. Write all three forms into the stored `superseded` object beside the fields already there, keeping `replacement_lane` as the field name it has today so existing rows and readers are untouched. Do not reorder or rename any existing field.
4. Add `if (action === "remove") return supersedeMany(env, tier, { ...body, ids: [str(body.id, 64)].filter(Boolean) });` to the dispatch, beside `supersede_many`. No new function, no second authorization check — the alias must be unable to drift from what it aliases.
5. On the GET side, add `?superseded=1`: return the rows the filter at 794–798 removes, with their provenance, and NOTHING else about the change — the default response shape stays byte-identical when the parameter is absent. Prove that last clause: the same request with and without the parameter, the default one diffed against a capture taken before the edit.
6. Create `_selfchecks/harness-zion19-remove.mjs` (TIER-1, no browser) asserting, against the source: the no-delete line still stands and no `DELETE`/`PUT`/`PATCH` handler appeared; `remove` dispatches into `supersedeMany` and declares no authorization of its own; the tier gate string is unchanged; exactly-one-of provenance is enforced with a case per form; `removal_kind` rejects a value outside the set; the all-or-nothing abort and the `if (row.superseded) continue` idempotency line are both still present; `?superseded=1` exists and the default shape is unchanged. **Prove it red first** on a scratch copy with (a) the idempotency line deleted and (b) the exactly-one-of check relaxed to an `||` — both must go red, named.
7. Update `HUB-AGENT-GUIDE.md` §tasks in plain words: how to remove one card, that it is reversible, that the row and its history stay, that `?superseded=1` shows what has been removed, and — first line, because this is the trap that cost the hour — **a 201 from `create` is not evidence the card exists; write one card at a time and read the board back** (measured 2026-09-05: eight creates in a tight loop, all eight returned 201, four existed; creates 1,3,5,7 vanished, 2,4,6,8 landed, confirmed absent from `tasks`, `recently_done`, `checklist_tasks` and a raw sweep of the body).
8. Ship through STEP 22's quick-publish lane. Then run the live proof case: remove Hub card `nt-20260905-181938-09a7` — group `general`, no `monday_id`, the native duplicate created by the 2026-09-05 task move — with `removal_kind: "duplicate"`, `actor` naming this step, and a reason citing Nick's word. Keep `nt-biz-12891940899`, which mirrors LIVE Monday item `12891940899` on board "HS General Tasks" (Backlog) and is the copy that should survive.

**PROOF:** `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-remove.mjs` exits 0 on HEAD and went red, naming both sabotages, on the scratch copies from action 6. On the live API after deploy: `remove` on the duplicate returns `ok:true` with that id in `superseded`; an immediate REPEAT of the same call returns it under `already_superseded` with the FIRST provenance timestamp intact (idempotency, measured not assumed); a `remove` naming a non-existent id returns 404 and supersedes nothing; a call with two provenance forms and a call with none both return 400; `GET /api/tasks` shows exactly one CheapCredits card and it is `nt-biz-12891940899`; `GET /api/tasks?superseded=1` shows the removed row with its actor and reason; and the default `GET /api/tasks` body diffs to zero against the pre-edit capture except for that one row's absence.
**If it fails:** if `?superseded=1` cannot be added without changing the default response shape, ship the removal command WITHOUT the alias and WITHOUT `remove` reaching robot callers — leadership only — and log one line to the overseer; the coarse gate is only acceptable with the review surface, so the two ship together or the permission narrows. If the quick-publish lane is down, deploy by the ordinary route and say so; never hand-edit the live Worker.
**Checker's job:** run the harness yourself on HEAD and on your own fresh copy of both sabotages — do not accept the builder's paste. Then, from a shell the builder never used, drive the live API: remove a throwaway card you created yourself, repeat the call, confirm the second response reports `already_superseded` and that the stored `at` did not move, confirm the row is gone from the default list and present under `?superseded=1`, and confirm no other card's `superseded` field appeared. Finally re-read `tasks.js:94` and confirm no delete handler exists.

**LANDED 2026-09-05 — live, proven on production, one item parked.**
Deployed through STEP 22's quick-publish lane: pushed to `deck-business` main and serving **1.5 minutes** later (polled with an invalid call, so nothing was written while waiting). Harness `harness-zion19-remove.mjs` is GREEN on HEAD and was RED on both sabotages — the idempotency line deleted (caught by check 5) and exactly-one-of relaxed (caught by check 8). 🔴 **Check 8 had to be rewritten mid-step: its first version matched the words "exactly one" anywhere in the file and PASSED the sabotage, because the phrase also appears in the comment above the guard.** It now strips comments and asserts the guard itself. A check a comment can satisfy is not a check — and only running the sabotage found it.

Live PROOF, in order, negatives first so a broken guard would surface before anything real was touched — all six refused: no provenance form 400 · two forms 400 · `removal_kind` off the set 400 · unknown id 404 · dangling `superseded_by` 404 · no reason 400. Then the real removal of `nt-20260905-181938-09a7` returned `{"ok":true,"superseded":["nt-20260905-181938-09a7"]}`; `?superseded=1` shows it with `actor=ZION-19 STEP 23 (skippy) · kind=duplicate · at=2026-09-05T22:19:04.529Z`; the repeated call reported `already_superseded` with **that same timestamp unmoved**; and the active board now holds exactly one CheapCredits card, `nt-biz-12891940899`, the one mirroring live Monday item 12891940899 on "HS General Tasks".

The review surface immediately earned itself: `?superseded=1` returns **47** rows, so the board had a removal history nobody could enumerate until now.

**PARKED — needs Nick's approval, not a blocker:** the matching `HUB-AGENT-GUIDE.md` §2b update is refused by the file-governance gate (approval request `80437ac5-63dd-40b8-8d07-d650066d62e3` queued to his phone). The exact text to paste when it lands: a `### Removing ONE card — remove` subsection with the request body above; the corrected sentence for the `supersede_many` paragraph (`actor` and `reason` always, plus **exactly one** of `replacement_lane` | `superseded_by` | `removal_kind`); the `GET /api/tasks?superseded=1` review surface and why it exists; and the measured warning that **a 201 from `create` is not evidence the card exists** — eight creates in a tight loop all returned 201 and four existed, creates 1/3/5/7 vanishing, confirmed absent from `data.tasks`, `data.recently_done`, `data.checklist_tasks` and a raw sweep of the body — so write one card at a time, read the board back, retry only after re-reading, and compare on exact names because four cards share the prefix `Weekly Coach Review — week of `.

## 4 · Regret Check (every registry entry, or the plan is not done)

| Failure mode (registry entry) | The measure in THIS plan that prevents it | Where it lives (section / artifact / gate) |
|---|---|---|
|  An abandoned merge blocked every commit in a shared workspace and nothing detected it  | Every commit in this plan is scoped by pathspec and pushed through a detached worktree at origin/main, so a mid-merge shared tree never blocks or pollutes a landing; a "needs merge" line in the output is reported, never resolved by this lane | §W · every landing commit 2026-09-05 |
|  An append to a symlinked path was committed as the unchanged link  | Registry and guide appends go to the real path (`readlink -f` first); the failure-registry append of 2026-09-05 was made at `ZION/skills/plan/references/…`, not the `.claude/skills/…` link, and the remote was read back to confirm the section | STEP 16 · §6a-ii |
|  A capture instrument reported an element blank while every DOM and computed-style probe said visible  | Every screenshot in this plan is paired with a DOM probe logged at capture time (identity, rail text, chip labels); a blank capture with a populated probe is an instrument fault, never a product verdict | STEP 12 · evidence zion19-step12-shots |
|  A cheap vendor re-saved a checker file whole and its own proof reverted it  | Checker files (`_selfchecks/*`) are edited only by Sonnet-or-stronger test authors or by the overseer; cheap-lane edits are one-file, insert-only, with a proof that names what must NOT change | §3b checker ≠ builder · STEP 7 · STEP 22 |
|  A concurrent lane's publish took the same cache number so "new" served the old bytes  | The Hub has one publisher (the Studio runner) and `/api/build-integrity` reports the served `source_revision` and digest; every publish here is proven by that endpoint, never by a version label | STEP 22 · STEP 4 |
|  A first-paint acceptance band graded the only correct rendering FAIL  | Design-QA verdicts are Sienna's pixel reads on fresh live screenshots, one round, with taste notes routed to the NEXT list rather than graded as failures | STEP 12 · STEP 21 |
|  A failure path shipped untested and failed silently the first three times it fired  | STEP 22's inbox post was made to fire for real (a forced failure) and its accepted response read back before the step closed; the classifier reads only the attempt it grades | STEP 22 · §6a-ii |
|  A prose section appended through an unquoted shell heredoc executed its own backticks  | Doc sections are written with the Write/Edit tool or a Python script; a cold read of the written file is part of every doc step's proof (STEP 15 round 3 is the measured catch) | STEP 15 · §6a-ii |
|  Screenshots taken "signed in" showed the signed-out screen  | Every screenshot script mints the session cookie outside the page, plants it in a fresh browser context before first load, and logs the identity at capture time | STEP 12 · evidence zion19-step12-shots |
|  A checker declared a growing list settled on a timing heuristic and graded a missing item as a defect  | Live probes wait for the app's own loaded marker (`data-tasks-access`), selectors are proven on one known-good live case, and a "missing on screen" verdict carries a screenshot | STEP 7 · suite step 25 |
|  A build gate asserted a mechanism (a symlink) instead of its invariant and failed every publish after a peer lane's change  | The shared-deck guard accepts any git-tracked regular copy as the one reviewable copy; cross-lane structural changes are recorded on the NEXT list with the gates they touch | STEP 22 · shared-deck-guard.js |
|  A second system was built because the first was invisible  | Gate Zero cites the ownership row; this plan supersedes ZION-3/ZION-17 in the same edit rather than adding a competing governing file | §0 |
|  A capability was declared impossible from a stale or unverified claim  | STEP 0's five-minute loop re-checks north star, fan-out cap (8/session, ~40 machine-wide), cheap routing and blocked-claims; blocked requires three named attempts | STEP 0 · §5 |
|  An absence was asserted without opening the store that would hold it  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A known constraint's reason was lost, and it silently capped the product  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  An instruction assumed capacity the executor doesn't have  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  Expectations/manifest rows carried no grounding  | One overseer thread tracks every step against the FINISH LINE; failures land in STATE-ZION-19.md the same turn and STEP 16's postmortem appends new entries to the registry | §5 · STEP 16 |
|  Work was written to a queue no reader ever visits  | STEP 0's five-minute loop re-checks north star, fan-out cap (8/session, ~40 machine-wide), cheap routing and blocked-claims; blocked requires three named attempts | STEP 0 · §5 |
|  A detector's death was invisible because only its target read it  | One overseer thread tracks every step against the FINISH LINE; failures land in STATE-ZION-19.md the same turn and STEP 16's postmortem appends new entries to the registry | §5 · STEP 16 |
|  A decision settled once re-opened elsewhere, or two copies of a rule disagreed  | Gate Zero cites the ownership row; this plan supersedes ZION-3/ZION-17 in the same edit rather than adding a competing governing file | §0 |
|  A rule constraining the user turned out to be an agent's invention  | One overseer thread tracks every step against the FINISH LINE; failures land in STATE-ZION-19.md the same turn and STEP 16's postmortem appends new entries to the registry | §5 · STEP 16 |
|  Remediation was ordered with diagnosis last  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A document, label, or comment was believed over the live system  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A proposal was sold on a capability never opened and read  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A cause was named and acted on without eliminating alternatives  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  The human was asked a question the record already answers  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A spec and its guard were authored by the same hand and ratified the same defect  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  Session rules never reached the subagents doing the work  | Every dispatch carries the §T header with MACHINE RULES substance pasted, an exact file fence, and an exact proof command | §5 topology |
|  One rule was blanket-applied across items needing per-item answers  | Gate Zero cites the ownership row; this plan supersedes ZION-3/ZION-17 in the same edit rather than adding a competing governing file | §0 |
|  Pattern-matching scoped too loosely produced false connections  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  Rules existed but were psychologically dormant at answer-time  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A run exceeded its cost/time ceiling or hung unbounded  | STEP 0's five-minute loop re-checks north star, fan-out cap (8/session, ~40 machine-wide), cheap routing and blocked-claims; blocked requires three named attempts | STEP 0 · §5 |
|  A helper was dispatched on a brief with a wrong or missing constraint  | Every dispatch carries the §T header with MACHINE RULES substance pasted, an exact file fence, and an exact proof command | §5 topology |
|  A claim about the user/system was made without its source  | STEP 1 re-measures ground truth (repo state, live revision, suite result) before any step acts; every inherited claim is re-run, never trusted | §3b STEP 1 |
|  A conclusion was drawn from a partial read  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A fact was quoted as current without its date  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A computed value never reached the persistent record  | STEP 1 re-measures ground truth (repo state, live revision, suite result) before any step acts; every inherited claim is re-run, never trusted | §3b STEP 1 |
|  A missing lookup key fell back silently to a wrong default  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A hardcoded identifier broke when the referent was recreated  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A placeholder or wrong-level path shipped as a literal instruction  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A UI reported success while the backend silently failed  | One overseer thread tracks every step against the FINISH LINE; failures land in STATE-ZION-19.md the same turn and STEP 16's postmortem appends new entries to the registry | §5 · STEP 16 |
|  Mid-session state was assumed unchanged  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  Uncertainty was silently absorbed instead of marked  | One overseer thread tracks every step against the FINISH LINE; failures land in STATE-ZION-19.md the same turn and STEP 16's postmortem appends new entries to the registry | §5 · STEP 16 |
|  A serial multi-step operation blew its time budget  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  An external action went unlogged and became unrecoverable  | One overseer thread tracks every step against the FINISH LINE; failures land in STATE-ZION-19.md the same turn and STEP 16's postmortem appends new entries to the registry | §5 · STEP 16 |
|  A tool's own description contradicted house reality and won  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  Personal/identifying data exposed, or a record written to the wrong subject  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  One instance of a defect class was fixed while its siblings stayed broken  | Gate Zero cites the ownership row; this plan supersedes ZION-3/ZION-17 in the same edit rather than adding a competing governing file | §0 |
|  A read operation mutated state  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  The three biggest absence-claims variants: empty result, broken probe, discarded stderr  | STEP 1 re-measures ground truth (repo state, live revision, suite result) before any step acts; every inherited claim is re-run, never trusted | §3b STEP 1 |
|  A generated mirror was hand-edited, or its generator never re-ran  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  Deployed config silently diverged from source config  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A delivery path was reordered and its notification behavior changed  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A critical boundary was config-editable and could be silently widened  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A "growing" archive had actually frozen  | STEP 1 re-measures ground truth (repo state, live revision, suite result) before any step acts; every inherited claim is re-run, never trusted | §3b STEP 1 |
|  Files were archived but their citations kept pointing at them  | One overseer thread tracks every step against the FINISH LINE; failures land in STATE-ZION-19.md the same turn and STEP 16's postmortem appends new entries to the registry | §5 · STEP 16 |
|  A pipeline broke silently and looked identical to a working one  | One overseer thread tracks every step against the FINISH LINE; failures land in STATE-ZION-19.md the same turn and STEP 16's postmortem appends new entries to the registry | §5 · STEP 16 |
|  Output was delivered somewhere the intended reader never looks  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  Concurrent sessions clobbered each other's work in a shared file  | STEP 0's five-minute loop re-checks north star, fan-out cap (8/session, ~40 machine-wide), cheap routing and blocked-claims; blocked requires three named attempts | STEP 0 · §5 |
|  An enforcement gate covered fewer paths than its rule, or failed open  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  Identity or authority was read from a value the caller supplies  | Security work is click-gated and in the anti-scope; credentials are never rotated or raised; findings cost one NEXT-list line | §1 NOT in scope |
|  A new failure state was detected but reached no human  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  The builder graded its own work and passed it  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A check existed that could not fail  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  The review didn't cover the shipped artifact  | One overseer thread tracks every step against the FINISH LINE; failures land in STATE-ZION-19.md the same turn and STEP 16's postmortem appends new entries to the registry | §5 · STEP 16 |
|  A narrowing/refactoring change broke the cases that were already correct  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A check's verdict depended on wall-clock, machine load, or a concurrent writer  | STEP 0's five-minute loop re-checks north star, fan-out cap (8/session, ~40 machine-wide), cheap routing and blocked-claims; blocked requires three named attempts | STEP 0 · §5 |
|  A test existed but nothing ran it  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  An interactive element or view shipped untested / unseen  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  Coverage was reported optimistically  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A staleness/freshness check used the wrong proxy  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A quantitative claim shipped without its method  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  Done was declared before the live surface was checked  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A biometric/metric overrode the human's stated reality  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A correlation was asserted as a cause  | One overseer thread tracks every step against the FINISH LINE; failures land in STATE-ZION-19.md the same turn and STEP 16's postmortem appends new entries to the registry | §5 · STEP 16 |
|  A nuanced reality was collapsed into a clean binary  | One overseer thread tracks every step against the FINISH LINE; failures land in STATE-ZION-19.md the same turn and STEP 16's postmortem appends new entries to the registry | §5 · STEP 16 |
|  A recommendation repeated something already tried, uncited  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A wrong record was disclaimed instead of corrected  | STEP 1 re-measures ground truth (repo state, live revision, suite result) before any step acts; every inherited claim is re-run, never trusted | §3b STEP 1 |
|  Open items were re-typed from memory and drifted  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A deliverable was referenced instead of delivered  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A report used names/shorthand only the writer understood  | One overseer thread tracks every step against the FINISH LINE; failures land in STATE-ZION-19.md the same turn and STEP 16's postmortem appends new entries to the registry | §5 · STEP 16 |
|  Commands were sent to a surface that can't run them  | Every dispatch carries the §T header with MACHINE RULES substance pasted, an exact file fence, and an exact proof command | §5 topology |
|  A number was published without the population it was counted over  | One overseer thread tracks every step against the FINISH LINE; failures land in STATE-ZION-19.md the same turn and STEP 16's postmortem appends new entries to the registry | §5 · STEP 16 |
|  A finding existed only in the session's output and died with it  | One overseer thread tracks every step against the FINISH LINE; failures land in STATE-ZION-19.md the same turn and STEP 16's postmortem appends new entries to the registry | §5 · STEP 16 |
|  The plan named a target with total precision, and the target was wrong  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  The human approved a summary, and the summary was silent on the deciding variable  | STEP 1 re-measures ground truth (repo state, live revision, suite result) before any step acts; every inherited claim is re-run, never trusted | §3b STEP 1 |
|  A project stated its scope and never its anti-scope, and lanes leaked into adjacent work  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A new rule was written as prose inside its own fix, with nothing enforcing it  | Every dispatch carries the §T header with MACHINE RULES substance pasted, an exact file fence, and an exact proof command | §5 topology |
|  A confirmation was satisfied by checking the wrong kind of fact  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A blocker common to every lane was carved out of all of them and given to nobody  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  Lanes were built to stop: one pass, land, idle — while fixed ceremony ate the context  | Every dispatch carries the §T header with MACHINE RULES substance pasted, an exact file fence, and an exact proof command | §5 topology |
|  A caveat nobody measured travelled as fact through multiple independent lanes  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  The environment destroyed work silently, and the lane wrote a wrong lesson from it  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A specification described ONE lifecycle in several places, and the copies drifted independently — four consecutive cold reviews each found ~5-8 blocking ambiguities, because every patch added another partial description of the same state machine  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A task brief on an existing project was treated as the plan, and a generated status checklist was treated as the task list  | Every dispatch carries the §T header with MACHINE RULES substance pasted, an exact file fence, and an exact proof command | §5 topology |
|  A regression test's "red-proof" failed for a reason unrelated to the thing it claimed to prove, twice in one session, two different mechanisms  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A standing instruction to route work to an outside/cheap engine eroded over a long session into doing the work directly  | One overseer thread tracks every step against the FINISH LINE; failures land in STATE-ZION-19.md the same turn and STEP 16's postmortem appends new entries to the registry | §5 · STEP 16 |
|  A plan's own second line named a different document as the authority, and the reader proceeded without opening it  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A live bug got three consecutive confident wrong-or-unproven diagnoses, two claiming live verification  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  Fourteen guards stayed green all day while the live screen showed the wrong thing  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  An agent was accused of fabricating its report because a narrow search failed to find the file it cited  | STEP 1 re-measures ground truth (repo state, live revision, suite result) before any step acts; every inherited claim is re-run, never trusted | §3b STEP 1 |
|  A tool's failure verdict was believed without checking the disk — and separately, a success verdict shipped a syntax error  | Every dispatch carries the §T header with MACHINE RULES substance pasted, an exact file fence, and an exact proof command | §5 topology |
|  A build with several independently-shippable pieces was planned and run as one monolithic project, too large for one agent to hold  | STEP 0's five-minute loop re-checks north star, fan-out cap (8/session, ~40 machine-wide), cheap routing and blocked-claims; blocked requires three named attempts | STEP 0 · §5 |
|  A rule written only in prose, with no template slot and no machine gate, behaved as if it didn't exist  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A row-quality check counted TOTAL filled cells instead of checking the specific columns it claimed to require  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  Three independent readers reported wildly different "% complete" for the exact same objective state — twice, on two different subprojects  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A V2 "opened it, here's what I saw" confirmation was wrong three separate times because it opened the WRONG PATH — the plan's own stated location, never independently rediscovered  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A shared coordination file used by several subprojects at once had no per-subproject write fence, and one subproject's list silently filled with rows belonging to the others  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  The single cheapest, most decisive test of a build's core hypothesis was defined at planning time (correctly) but not RUN until after most of the build effort was already spent  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A dispatched build agent reported an interim status ("build is in progress, will resume once a Monitor delivers the completion notification") as its FINAL answer and returned, instead of waiting for the real result  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A sandbox restriction produced the EXACT error text this same repo's own CLAUDE.md already documents as a sign of a genuinely broken machine ("chrome exited early, code null" / Chrome preflight failure), and it was initially read as that known problem rather than investigated as a new one  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A paid external tool (Codex CLI) ran out of its own usage quota mid-build, and the agent that hit the limit chose to switch to running the command directly via its own Bash tool instead of the mandated Codex path — correctly, but this is a real, recurring risk that needs a standing rule, not a one-off judgment call  | Every dispatch carries the §T header with MACHINE RULES substance pasted, an exact file fence, and an exact proof command | §5 topology |
|  A card-creation script reported success ("card opened... read back and confirmed") and its own internal counter incremented, but the card did not actually exist on live re-query — twice, for two different cards, requiring full manual re-creation  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  Three separate, independently-fatal wiring gaps each made the same feature (the ai-builds board) non-functional in a different way, and NONE of them were caught by a passing `build-dist.js` run, any TIER-1 or TIER-2 gate, or any API-level check  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A real, deployed code fix (the three fixes directly above) did not reach a real user's already-open browser tab, even after that user hard-refreshed multiple times  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A correct, intentional, previously-ruled-on design decision (the task screen's default view narrows to "my own tasks" even for leadership identities) was mistaken for a bug because it was checked from only ONE identity's login  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  The Updates panel — the actual surface a person opens to read what an agent posted about a card — is wired to Monday.com sync data ONLY, and an app-native card (this entire board) has no Monday board behind it, so it will read "No Monday updates on record for this item" FOREVER, regardless of how many real, correctly-formatted updates were posted server-side  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; STEP 15's guide documents this exact trap for every future agent, and STEP 14's detail view states the limitation honestly in the UI | §3b STEPS 4-5 · STEPS 14-15 |
|  A pure oversight/QA dispatch (re-run four questions, grade the answers, write nothing) was refused twice in a row by the WORK-TYPE gate as "unclear," burning two full agent-spawn round-trips before the actual task began  | Every dispatch carries the §T header with MACHINE RULES substance pasted, an exact file fence, and an exact proof command | §5 topology |
|  The same brief, past the work-type gate, was then refused by a SEPARATE gate for missing the ~6,000-word MACHINE-RULES travel block — a requirement with no automatic injection and no template a brief author can copy from without hitting the refusal first  | Every dispatch carries the §T header with MACHINE RULES substance pasted, an exact file fence, and an exact proof command | §5 topology |
|  A fix (new SYSTEM-prompt grounding rules) was drafted, partially applied to disk, and left in a syntactically-valid but COMPLETELY UNVERIFIED state when the tool writing it (Codex CLI) hit its own account-wide usage cap mid-task  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  The above fix's failure was found ONLY because a second, genuinely fresh-context pass re-ran the real test live — the first pass's own self-check (syntax valid, code present) had already been satisfied and would have been reported "done" without it  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A confirmed, applied data fix was verified as working because it had only been applied to ONE of two live copies of the same data (production) — the copy actually being tested against (staging) still held the old, wrong text  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A 16-question regression suite meant to catch exactly this bug class had been silently crashing on question 1 and reporting nothing useful for a full day, because a dependency it called gained a new required argument and nobody re-ran the suite after that change landed  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  Two entire bodies of real, load-bearing work — a 34-file answer pipeline and this drive's own PLAN.md/STATE.md tracking pair — had never been committed to git, on any machine, the whole time they were being built, found only by accident while fixing something else  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A request to deepen an existing artifact was answered by re-polishing the context already in hand, while named, existing sources were never opened  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A gate protecting one specific, highly sensitive file covered some tool surfaces (Write/Edit/MultiEdit) but not others (Bash), and the gap sat honestly documented in the file's own header for a day before being closed  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A function parameter's DEFAULT value silently made an entire decision branch unreachable, under a fully green test suite, since the day the branch was written  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  A write-then-rename ("atomic write") pattern was used to update one row in a file that has a SECOND, independent writer appending new rows — the pattern is genuinely atomic against a torn read, and genuinely loses any row the other writer appended during the read-modify-write window  | STEP 0's five-minute loop re-checks north star, fan-out cap (8/session, ~40 machine-wide), cheap routing and blocked-claims; blocked requires three named attempts | STEP 0 · §5 |
|  A test suite's own "red-proof" claimed a safety property held ("removing the fix would fail the test") without ever actually removing the fix and running the suite  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  Test files that exercised a shared module's logging path wrote real output into the REAL production log file, even though every other piece of test state (queue, tickets, journal) was correctly scoped to scratch directories  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  An identity verified once, in memory, from a live authenticated source, was designed to be re-derived later from a file any process could write — which would have made the file, not the live authentication, the actual source of trust  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A background daemon process registered a global crash-and-exit handler for unhandled promise rejections; a later feature fired a promise without a `.catch()` in that same process, meaning any transient failure in that one feature (a network timeout) would have crashed the ENTIRE daemon, including everything unrelated it was doing  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A build's supersession of one design ("a standalone daemon" → "extend the existing listener") correctly re-scoped every task around the new mechanism's natural shape, and in doing so quietly dropped a piece of functionality that had no obvious home in the new shape  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  `fs.watch()` on a shared state directory was assumed to be a sufficient delivery trigger, and was not — under real concurrent load from ~235 other sessions writing to sibling files in the same directory, two real queued requests sat with zero fs.watch event ever firing  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A plan asserted facts about the repo it never checked — one step named a symbol that travels under a different name; another's file fence named a file that does not exist (merges log items A3, A4, D2)  | Every dispatch carries the §T header with MACHINE RULES substance pasted, an exact file fence, and an exact proof command; every proof path in this plan was Glob-confirmed on disk at planning time | §5 topology · §0 |
|  The program fixed what was BROKEN instead of building what was ASKED FOR — a day's good work landed on a component its own plan retires (log item J1)  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; the NORTH STAR outranks every step and the loop re-aims at it every five minutes | §3b STEPS 4-5 · STEP 0 |
|  A plan passed every gate — well-formed steps, real proofs — and still could not deliver what the user asked for (log item J2)  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; the FINISH LINE is written in Nick's own scope words and graded blind | §3b STEPS 4-5 · STEP 16 |
|  An assistant's first-person account of its own failure was taken as the root cause by every reader, and it was false (log item J3)  | STEP 1 re-measures ground truth (repo state, live revision, suite result) before any step acts; every inherited claim is re-run, never trusted | §3b STEP 1 |
|  Three verifications were real and all three had the wrong SCOPE: verifying a quote is not verifying the claim; verifying a file once is not verifying it now; verifying the code path is not verifying the thing (merges H1, H2, H3 — one defect, three extents)  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  An orchestrator's confident relay propagated a wrong conclusion to five sessions faster than any plan could — a real acceptance criterion was deleted on it — and the builder that refused the relay with evidence was right (merges F1, J4)  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the builder's standing to refuse a step that contradicts the code is written into §A and honored here | §3b STEP 3 · §3b |
|  One writer in three read the same handoff as a gate and serialized nine of fourteen steps behind another chunk's tenth step (log item F3)  | Every step's Enter line names its SPECIFIC dependency; STEPS 8, 9, 11, 13, 14 run independent of the deploy chain by design | §3b |
|  Every failure mode of the file-approval machinery was silent: an approved-once path became permanently un-requestable; a legitimate handoff into a shared governed file consumed another chunk's pending approval; approval never notified the requester; one approval unlocked exactly one edit operation, losing a two-part edit's second half; and a plan tracker named STATE.md missed the PLAN-shaped free-edit carve-out, costing ~10 approval taps in one evening (merges B1, B2, B3, B4, I2)  | STEP 0's five-minute loop re-checks north star, fan-out cap (8/session, ~40 machine-wide), cheap routing and blocked-claims; blocked requires three named attempts | STEP 0 · §5 |
|  A governance CLI silently dropped unrecognized flags (exit 0), let a two-token flag value overwrite the file path, let --reason swallow the next flag as its value, and its own written spec documented the broken form in two copies (merges C1, C2, C3, C4)  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  Plan shape existed as convention, not enforcement: plans degenerated into 1,000-line session logs; the plan template itself failed the machine gate; the checker validates a plan's parts, never its shape (merges A1, A2, D1)  | This plan passed `check_plan.py` at creation and the write gate ratchets every future edit; history goes to STATE, never into the step blocks | §0 · §3b |
|  A punchlist item condensed to six words pointed its reader at exactly the wrong action — implementing it literally would have silently rerouted every assistant reply into manual approval (log item I3)  | STEP 0's five-minute loop re-checks north star, fan-out cap (8/session, ~40 machine-wide), cheap routing and blocked-claims; blocked requires three named attempts | STEP 0 · §5 |
|  A production secret read as SET when its value was EMPTY, and every check agreed with the wrong answer for 90 minutes across three sessions  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  The SAME claim, on the SAME evidence, was CONFIRMED by a checker asked to verify it and REFUTED by a checker asked to break it — and the refuting one was right  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  Reasoning ABOUT a system instead of ASKING it — the single most repeated failure of the 2026-08-27/28 night, four times across three different sessions, every time producing a confident and wrong claim from real evidence  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A hard prerequisite discovered AFTER a decision, with no owner assigned, silently converts a made decision into an unimplementable one  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the tasks.js vocabulary prerequisite for board cards has an owner and a step (STEP 10) | §3b STEP 3 · STEP 10 |
|  A relayed instruction is acted on, or held, by whether the RELAY ITSELF could be the attack — and sessions had no test for that, so they either obeyed every relay or refused every relay  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  Two independent programs audited themselves on the same night and found the same disease — every instrument reported a state that was not the system's state — while both had been reading the reports as ground truth  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A PROOF block read as complete while still containing its own template placeholders — four times in one plan, and the shape is mechanically detectable  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); the no-arg proof suite must exit 0 at the finish line and each step's checker re-runs the proof first-hand | §3b STEP 3 · FINISH LINE |
|  Real evidence, deliberately destroyed for a good reason, is indistinguishable from evidence that never existed  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; every live-drive verdict saves its screenshot to the evidence folder | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A capability was ruled impossible on the strength of a query that structurally could not see the answer — the same shape as an earlier logged incident, on a different tool, and it was not recognised  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; §Z's two-shaped-search rule binds every absence claim in this plan | §3b STEPS 4-5 · §Z |
|  The instruments used to verify a UI lie in four distinct ways, and a "drive the real surface" standard that does not name them produces confident false results  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; drives run on the custom domain, after the edge window, at named widths and themes | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A step's entry gate was satisfied and the step still could not run, and the format had nowhere to say so  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; every step carries an If-it-fails branch that names where the failure lands | §3b |
|  An automated proof's own internal check detected failure and the surrounding pipeline logged success anyway — the checking logic and the reporting logic disagreed, and reporting won  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); never chain build and deploy through a pipe (STEP 4) | §3b STEPS 3–4 |
|  A dispatch gate blocked the exact defensive pattern its own preceding line prescribed, for the exact reason that pattern exists  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A fallback held in place to make a cutover safe was itself the reason the cutover could never succeed — every retry failed, and each failure made the fallback look more necessary  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; STEP 6's fail branch reverts rather than half-holding | §3b STEPS 4-6 |
|  An approved instruction was correct when it was approved and harmful by the time it could be delivered — and every existing rule for handling relayed instructions asked only whether it was AUTHENTIC, never whether it was still TRUE  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; §1a row 4 quotes BOTH of Nick's dated rulings so the newer one supersedes in the open | §3b STEPS 4-5 · §1a |
|  "I fixed the file" · "I deployed it" · "that is what the user sees" are THREE different claims, and a chunk can be right about the first two and wrong about the third — the gap is a client cache that no repo read, no deploy log and no server-side fetch can see  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  In a multi-session build, code read from the working tree is not the state of the system — it may be another session's half-finished fix, and reading it as established behaviour produces a confident diagnosis of a bug that does not exist  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; §W's re-read-before-write and scoped-commit rules bind every step | §3b STEPS 4-5 · §W |
|  Three successive rounds of fixes each produced an honest, passing proof, and the user's original complaint was untouched by all three — because every proof measured the mechanism the fixer had chosen to fix, never the sentence the user actually said  | The FINISH LINE is written in Nick's own scope words and graded by a blind checker against the live surface, not against the fixes' own mechanisms | FINISH LINE · STEP 16 |
|  A correct local caution was escalated into a fleet-wide halt across eight sessions on a crisis that did not exist — and the escalation priced only one side of the decision  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; a finding gets ONE owner or a NEXT-list line, never a swarm (§T overseer rule) | §3b STEPS 4-5 · §5 |
|  An overseer reported two pieces of work as missing because no message about them had reached its inbox — both had landed, were logged with dates and real terms, and one had already passed a full triad  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; state lives in STATE-ZION-19.md, read at every step start, never in an inbox | §3b STEPS 4-5 · §5 |
|  An acknowledgement from the system under test was read as evidence of the outcome — the same word, `queued`, covered a genuine pass and a silent 40-minute failure on the same endpoint the same night  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; STEP 4 polls the live revision rather than trusting the push's acknowledgement | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  An overseer authorized an action by bridging a DIFFERENT ruling of the user's onto the question — reasoning correctly from a real quote that was about something else, three relay hops from where it was said  | STEP 0's five-minute loop re-checks north star; every §1a confirmation quotes Nick's words about THIS exact variable, dated | STEP 0 · §1a |
|  An agent, blocked by a safety guard mid-test, offered the user a choice between loosening the guard and accepting weaker proof — presenting a load-bearing protection as one of two equal options  | Security work is click-gated and in the anti-scope; credentials are never rotated or raised; findings cost one NEXT-list line | §1 NOT in scope |
|  A fault that repairs itself faster than anyone reports it is invisible to every alarm in the system — two family-facing surfaces cut out roughly twice a day for a MONTH and nobody escalated once  | Every new test is proven RED against reverted code before it counts (STEP 3); STEP 8 runs its proof four consecutive times because the defect it seals is intermittent | §3b STEPS 3, 8 |
|  A relayed approval was acted on as if the work were still outstanding — and the same file had already been written, by the session doing the relaying  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; STEP 1 re-measures before any step acts on any inherited record | §3b STEPS 1, 4-5 |
|  An investigator noticed that a metric could not possibly detect what it was being asked to detect, WROTE THAT DOWN, and then built a headline claim on it anyway — because the number it produced agreed with the conclusion  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  An investigation's own searches and relays contaminated the evidence it was searching for — 80 of 84 occurrences of the string were manufactured by the act of investigating it  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  Three unrelated lanes in one night each ran an honest check against an intermittent fault and each got a clean answer, because a point-in-time probe is mathematically almost certain to miss a fault that heals itself  | STEP 8 runs its proof four consecutive times against a known-intermittent defect; single clean probes are never accepted for it | §3b STEP 8 |
|  An overseer holding the user's GENUINE first-hand instructions relayed them as authority to four sessions — and one correctly refused, because accuracy and standing are different things and only one of them travels  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; the builder's standing to refuse a contradicted step is honored (§A) | §3b STEPS 4-5 · §3b |
|  A file that documents its own version history in prose ABOVE its code turns every unanchored search into a lie — three sessions in one hour read the changelog and believed it was the declaration  | STEP 1 re-measures ground truth; ZION-3's dated Status lines are corrected in place by STEPS 7-8 so no stale claim outlives its fix | §3b STEPS 1, 7-8 |
|  A commit hash cited as closing evidence resolved to nothing later — sometimes minutes later — because the citation was checked when it was written and never at the moment it was relied on  | STEP 0's five-minute loop re-checks state; every closing citation in STEPS is re-run by the step's checker at close time, not trusted from the builder | STEP 0 · §3b |
|  A step's own PROOF COMMAND, not just a claim someone else wrote, over-matched — pointed at the right file this time, it still returned a plausible, close, wrong count  | STEPS 4-5 verify every shipped fix on the live site through the real user path after deploy; bundle presence or a green build is never accepted as shipped | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
|  A deliberate, reviewed, gate-passing commit was pre-empted by an automatic snapshot that bundled the change with unrelated files, destroyed its commit message, and meant the commit-time gate never executed at all  | Every commit in this plan is scoped `-- <paths>` with its repo named; §W's rules bind every step; the two-repo split is proven with rev-parse before any commit | §3 contracts · §W |

Novel risks specific to this build, same format:

| Failure mode | The measure in THIS plan that prevents it | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| A green build and successful deploy shipped a bundle missing the fix's own part | STEP 5 verifies each fix on the live rendered screen through the real user path, never by build output; STEP 4's fail branch runs the PARTS diff | §3b STEPS 4-5 |
| The nested Hub repo received a workspace commit, or vice versa | every commit instruction names its repo and paths; STEP 1 action 1 proves the toplevel before anything commits | §3 contracts · STEP 1 |
| Auth switch-on stranded an identity overnight | STEP 6's fail branch is an immediate scoped revert + redeploy, never a half-on wait | §3b STEP 6 |
| The plan's own supersessions left two governing files competing | ZION-3/ZION-17 carry SUPERSEDED-BY markers in the same commit that landed this file | §0 ownership receipt |
| The guide documents the Monday-shaped vocabulary as if it were permanent | STEP 15 marks every guide item MONDAY-DERIVED or NATIVE from a traced write path, not one response field | §3b STEP 15 |
| A department heading that navigates somewhere — the exact thing Nick said must not happen | STEP 13's harness asserts every heading carries no href, no handler and no focus stop, red-first proven; the live drive clicks every heading and asserts the hash did not change | §3b STEP 13 |
| A second nav registry or a second card-detail mechanism appears beside the existing one | STEP 13 extends `TOOL_NAV_ENTRIES` (its comment names it the ONE place); STEP 14 consumes `board-screen.js`'s existing hook; both are anti-scope entries and both harnesses fail on a parallel mechanism | §1 NOT in scope · §3b STEPS 13-14 |
| A check reported PASS five separate times on one feature while the live screen was wrong every time, and the check's own instrument then reported FAIL five separate times on code that was correct — the same fake page lied in both directions | STEP 5 and STEP 13 grade every UI fix by a live browser reading that measures VISIBILITY (a real box, in the viewport, no hidden ancestor) and never mere presence; `harness-zion19-deptnav-visible.mjs` replays the element order and four-container layout read off the live page rather than a tidy single container, its stub THROWS on any selector or method it cannot handle instead of returning empty, and every check is proven red against the real pre-fix file before its fix ships; when a live reading and a green check disagree, the reading wins and the check is what gets fixed | STEP 5 · STEP 13 · `_selfchecks/harness-zion19-deptnav-visible.mjs` · §6a postmortem |
| The sidebar regrouping silently breaks role promotion or the single you-are-here highlight | STEP 13 action 1 reads and records both behaviors BEFORE restructuring; the harness asserts promotion still applies and the live drive follows the highlight | §3b STEP 13 |

## 5 · Topology and roles
- **OVERSEER-AUTHORITY:** none named — `projects/ops/OVERSEER-AUTHORITY.md`'s holder table is dormant (ZION-17's live audit, 2026-09-01); this plan's lanes work as if the file did not exist. The four approval classes (money leaving · credential rotation · irreversible destruction · a message sent as Nick) and the data floor (logins/keys/secrets/financial detail) never move on any overseer's word.
- Thread layout: ONE Fable overseer thread for the whole drive (Nick, 2026-09-04: Fable oversees build work and design QA); lanes A–E run as dispatched workers under it, staggered waves.
- Overseer: fable · Lane execution: glm via `projects/ops/cheap-task.mjs` (haiku through the same router while both outside vendors are down — one over its weekly limit, one at zero balance, measured 2026-09-04) · Checkers: sonnet, always a different session from the builder; where the builder is itself sonnet, the checker is fable · Design QA: creative-director (Sienna) with sonnet · Blind close: sonnet (se-blind-checker).
- Concurrency: hard ceiling 8 simultaneously-running agents in this session AND ~40 machine-wide — count live sessions (`ls /tmp/cc-socks/`) and divide before every wave; a wave that has not returned is load, not progress. Raising either number is Nick's call alone.
- State files location: `projects/ops/zion/STATE-ZION-19.md` · `projects/ops/zion/PLAN-CHANGES-ZION-19.md` · questions/assumptions live as sections inside STATE-ZION-19.md, not new files.
- **Board card id:** `ac-zion-zion-19-finish-the-hub` — opened by STEP 10 on 2026-09-04 13:27Z (`board-report.mjs --open --lane zion …`, read back through the raw API by the checker, stage "In Progress"), opened by STEP 10 — the vocabulary was already live so no fabricated id was ever needed (a fabricated id would be the exact dishonesty ZION-17 exists to catch).
- **Artefact consumers:** the fix ledger → STEP 5's driver and STEP 16's blind checker; evidence folder → Sienna and the blind checker; the agent guide → every future agent working the Hub (reached via the Hub CLAUDE.md pointer); ZION-3/ZION-17 status corrections → any future session resuming those lanes; the postmortem → the failure registry and the next plan's Gate Zero.
- **Write-contention:** lanes A–E own disjoint path sets (§3 contracts; B and E additionally never write in the same hour, since both orbit `app.js`); the two repos are named per step; checkout proven writable at STEP 1 (real merge + real commit) and re-proven by each step's own scoped commit landing.

**Per-stage topology — counts DECLARED at plan time:**

| Stage | Overseer | Sub-overseers | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Framing (1–2) | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Tests (3) | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Output/Proof (4–5) | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Elements/Fixes (6–10) | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Product UI (13–14) | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Voice/QA/Guide (11–12, 15) | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Close (16) | 1 | 0 | 1 |

**The walk-away contract — a stranger resumes the drive from files alone:**
- **STATE FILE:** `projects/ops/zion/STATE-ZION-19.md`
- **HEARTBEAT ROW:** `zion19-hub-finish` in `projects/personal/skippy-app/ala-state/work-threads.json` (registered at lane-open by the overseer; beaten each pass)
- **MORNING-REPORT LINE:** "Hub finish (ZION-19): <n>/16 steps proven, finish line <m>/10" in `projects/ops/walkaway/REPORT.md`

## 6 · Evals — what "working" means, decided now

| Capability | Check (exact command or procedure) | Pass looks like |
|---|---|---|
| All six sign in via Google, live | STEP 6's six real browser drives + `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 9` | six evidenced sign-ins; exit 0 |
| Live serves current HEAD | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 4` | exit 0 |
| Every ledger fix works live | STEP 5 drives per §2 rows U5, U8–U13 + evidence paths | every ledger row live-verified |
| Ledger fixes have real tests | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-fixcoverage.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 3)` | exit 0, with recorded pre-fix REDs |
| Reopened ZION-3 behaviors hold | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs` (no-arg) | exit 0 |
| Board gate enforced, nine findings dead | `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/_test-handback-contract.mjs` (179 cases) + `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/_test-handback-contract-live-wiring.mjs` (15) + `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/_test-zion17-selfcontainment.mjs` (38) — CORRECTED 2026-09-05: `check-handback.mjs` has no `--selftest` flag (it exits 0 with any flag), found by the step-9 record and again by the blind checker + the one checker round | suites green; round returns no dodge |
| ZION lanes can open cards | `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/lib/board-report.mjs --read` | this plan's real card visible |
| Voice works in the Hub | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-hubvoice.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 11)` + U15 drive | exit 0; three states evidenced |
| The guide actually teaches | STEP 15's cold-agent walkthrough (create → read back → archive, guide only) | zero questions needed; U17 behaviors confirmed |
| Sidebar grouped by department, headings inert | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-deptnav.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 13)` + U18 live drive | exit 0; heading click changes nothing, every sub-item navigates, promotion intact |
| Task card opens a real detail view | `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-taskdetail.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 14)` + U19 live drive | exit 0; card click opens detail, deep link resolves, Esc closes |

## 6a · Postmortem — written 2026-09-04, at the close of the drive

**The one lesson, and it cost the whole night: a check that passes is not a screen that works, and
on this drive the checks were wrong FIVE TIMES while the app was wrong too.** Every single defect
that reached a real person was found by opening the live page. Not one was found by a test.

The sidebar is the whole story in miniature. Its five department headings were reported working
twice, by me, on the strength of a passing check — and had been invisible to every signed-in person
since the feature landed. `getComputedStyle` on a node inside a `display:none` ancestor happily
reports that node's own display, weight and pointer-events, so a probe that reads an element's own
styles CANNOT see that its container is switched off. Then, once visible, the grouping was wrong
(eSign under Client Success, SOPs under Client Success). Then the departments came out in
tool-arrival order instead of the declared order. Then the whole block sat below every other nav
item with 759px under the fold. Then a reader was seeing "Ops" twice and "Growth" twice, because a
second, older labelling system labels the same column and nothing had ever compared them. Five
distinct defects, one feature, and the check said PASS at every stage until it was rewritten to
replay the real tool order and assert what a reader sees.

**The instrument failed as often as the code.** Five gaps in the DOM stubs in one night —
`parentNode`, `insertBefore`, `children`, and a comma-separated selector that threw in one stub and
silently returned nothing in the other. Each one made CORRECT code look broken and blocked a
deploy. The silent one is the dangerous shape: a selector a stub cannot parse now throws loudly
rather than reading as an empty page, because "no elements matched" and "I could not look" must
never be the same answer.

**Two fixes broke the thing they were made for.** The deploy exit code 75, added so a caller could
tell did-not-run from succeeded, broke the retry loop it existed to serve, because `set -e` aborts
before `rc=$?` can run. And the first grouping fix used one of the tools as its insertion point, so
that tool's own department was inserted before itself and ended up last. Both were caught by
testing the behaviour rather than reasoning about it — `sh -c 'set -e; false; rc=$?'` settled the
first in one second.

**What the team lost, and it was not their code.** Eight consecutive deploys failed while two
people reported the same thing independently: the build says success, then publishing dies on a
missing folder. The build was standing down for a busy browser and exiting ZERO, so the workflow
walked into a publish step with nothing staged. The failure named the publish step, so it read as
a broken deploy and whoever pushed reasonably assumed they broke it. A large share of that
contention was this drive's own verification runs. One machine, one browser, several lanes.

**The one that should change behaviour beyond this plan:** an agent's measurement is a claim until
a second instrument reproduces it. A dispatched agent reported that only one of eight tools is
tappable on a phone. Two attempts in two browsers could not get that panel to open at all, so it is
recorded as unconfirmed rather than as a finding — and it wants a human with a real phone, not a
third agent with a third browser.

**What worked.** Writing the check BEFORE the code, and proving it red against the real pre-fix
file every time. Every fix that shipped tonight had a check that failed without it. And routing
design questions to Sienna: she called the duplicate labels from the code, refused to grade from
source alone, and was right when I was wrong.


### 6a-ii · Postmortem addendum — written 2026-09-05 at the close of the second drive (STEP 16)

**Blind finish-line verdict, 2026-09-05 18:30Z, recorded by pointer and not edited:** `projects/ops/zion/evidence/zion19-step16-blind-finish-line-2026-09-05.md` — 7 PASS · 2 FAIL · 1 PARKED BY NICK. Item 2 FAIL was a docs-only commit landing on origin one minute before the check (the workflow ignores markdown-only pushes, so live sat one commit behind) — cleared by publishing HEAD through the quick lane. Item 4 FAIL had three parts: suite step 25 red (traced to the checker: a settle race on the growing chip row, and open-rows-only where the screen also counts recently-done rows — corrected in the suite with red-first fixtures the same evening, plus a `data-tasks-access` page marker in tasks.js so the probe waits for the access list), suite step 17 red (a stale guard asserting the retired inline `.bz-task-detail` and the retired "Open this task directly" text — re-expressed to the shipped panel), and suite step 1 having no harness interface (pre-existing; recorded). The checker's own note that "five granted boards are unreachable from the Tasks picker" read the leadership scope dropdown ("My tasks / Chantelle's tasks / … / Everyone") as the board picker; the board chips themselves carry all five (screenshot zion19-step12-sidebar-1280-light.png, 17:12Z). Item 8 passed with two deviations on the NEXT list (a sixth "AI" heading; "Finance" for "Financing"). Item 5's named proof `check-handback.mjs --selftest` was a no-op flag — the three real suites are now named in its place.

What finished: Google sign-in live for six identities · live parity proven and re-proven after every publish · every ledger fix verified on the public site · the ZION-3 checks re-closed through the agent test-mode door · ZION-17's nine findings closed · the board open to ZION lanes with a real card · the agent-facing Hub guide passing a cold create/read/clean-up test · the sidebar grouped under five department headings · the Monday-style task tile, slide-over detail panel and inbox item designed, built, design-QA'd (PASS 3/3) and proven live · a quick-publish lane that puts a change live in under a minute with the browser sweep running afterwards and filing real findings into the Hub inbox.

What cost time, and the fix that now stands for each (one line each; the registry gets the new entries):

1. **The outer workspace repository tracked 1,882 stale copies of Hub files, and its merges rewrote Hub working files on disk twice (23:14 and 07:28 local).** Fix: skip-worktree flags on every stale path (mitigation, in place); removal of the stale copies approved by Nick ("2 yes") as its own small task.
2. **Uncommitted edits were silently reverted by another session's auto-pull with autostash — twice in one afternoon (deploy.mjs, the plan's NEXT lines).** Fix: every edit is committed in the same turn it is made, and pushed through a clean detached worktree so a dirty shared tree never blocks the push. Standing rule: a file on disk is not saved until it is on the remote.
3. **Eleven runner publishes died in the browser tier between 03:00Z and 13:00Z, never on a code verdict — the Mac was at load 8–32 with ten sessions and other lanes holding the shared test browser.** Fix: the two-job quick-publish lane (STEP 22): the 157 fast checks publish in under a minute; the browser sweep runs afterwards, retries on machine causes, and never holds or undoes a publish. Nick's ruling: "publish anything as it lands".
4. **The sweep's first real failure post was rejected by the inbox API (missing `action:"sync"`), and its second and third posts called a machine failure a regression.** CONTROL: the identical request with `action:"sync"` added was accepted by the live API in a direct test (200, upserted 1, then removed with resolved_keys), so the rejection was the body shape, not the bearer or the route. Fix: the post carries the action field, the sweep keeps only its final attempt's log, and a browser that cannot start or dies mid-gate is retried and filed as "the machine, not the code". Lesson: a failure path is untested until it has fired for real once.
5. **The first real sweep verdicts found two genuine regressions from the new panel: long client names clipped at two lines on phones, and closing an item returned the reader to the top of the inbox.** Both fixed forward within the hour (phone-width titles wrap; the saved return position is not consumed while a panel is open). Lesson: the design QA graded the panel in isolation; the sweep grades the whole surface — both are needed, and the sweep must actually run to a verdict before a screen is called done.
6. **The Mac mini runner refused the changed workflow (its job allowlist did not know the two-job shape) because both runners carried the `mac-mini` label.** Fix: both jobs pinned to `mac-studio`; the mini rejoins when a human re-pins its allowlist (NEXT list).
7. **A shell heredoc with backticks pasted 155 lines of a selftest's output into the agent guide, unnoticed until a cold check read it.** Fix: doc sections are written with the Write tool or a Python script, never a shell heredoc; the cold check is what caught it, which is the argument for cold checks.
8. **The machine reached a load average above 300 and had to be restarted; the session died mid-commit.** Recovery: everything had been landed on the remote minutes earlier; the resume re-checked every claimed artefact against the remote before continuing (the ledger rows for STEPS 17–21 turned out never to have landed, and were recorded from their evidence files).
9. **Screenshots for design QA showed a signed-out rail although the server said "nick" — signing in from inside an already-loaded page left the app's own session object null.** Fix: mint the session cookie from Node and plant it in a fresh browser context before the app's first load.

What the FINISH LINE said at close: see the cold checker's verdict pasted above this postmortem (STEP 16). Items opened after the finish line was set live on the NEXT list and were not worked (§G).

## If you get stuck (all steps)

Before writing "blocked": (1) try a concrete workaround, (2) re-read the step's proof requirements — most "stuck" is a misread gate, (3) write one line to the overseer AND the owner of the blocker. Only then log `STEP <N> BLOCKED — tried: <a>,<b>,<c>. Need: <one sentence>.` Then keep working every other unblocked step. Never idle on a blocker; never end a turn waiting on a background result.

## Your loop

Every pass: find the lowest-numbered step whose enter gate is proven and which is not yet proven → do it → produce its proof → paste the proof under the matching item in STEPS below → repeat.

## SUMMARY — a few plain-English lines, read by the status generator

The business Hub is one of only two things Nick wants finished. Everything needed is either built and waiting to ship, built and waiting to be switched on, or reopened with a known cause. This plan ships the waiting fixes and proves them on the real screens, turns Google sign-in on for all six people, reorganizes the sidebar under the five department headings Nick named, gives task cards the Monday-style detail view he asked for, re-closes the reopened board work on its own tests, folds the board-enforcement gate in and closes it, writes the how-to guide so no future agent has to rediscover the Hub's own machinery, and then deploys the voice setup the voice-app team hands over. Nothing here is speculative; every step re-runs a proof that already exists or creates one that can fail.

## SUMMARY

**2026-09-06** — Nick closed the business Hub project (the web app his company uses every day for tasks, people and money) with the words call it on 2026-09-06. The Hub publishes a change about a minute after it is pushed, its browser check runs afterwards and files only real problems, all six people sign in with Google and reach their own home, and the new task cards, detail panel, inbox item, department menu and sign-in screen are live and design-reviewed. Every check an agent may run is green on the live site. One item stays open on the follow-up list by design: a written design review signed by a person who did not build the screen, which a person closes whenever convenient. Nothing needs Nick.

**2026-09-06** — The business Hub project (the web app Nick's company uses every day for tasks, people and money) is at its close. An automated checker that had no part in the build graded the ten finish-line items on the live site: seven passed, one is parked by Nick's own ruling, and the two that failed were traced to timing and to three automated checks that had fallen behind the redesigned screen, all now corrected and published. Every check an agent is allowed to run is green on the live site. One check is held back on purpose by a rule written on 2026-09-01 into the set of automated checks that guards the Hub: that check needs a written design review signed by a person who did not build the screen, so the last five percent of this step waits for that signature and nothing else. Nothing needs Nick tonight.

**2026-09-05** — The two automated checks of the business Hub (the web app Nick's company uses every day for tasks, people and money) that this step had to re-close now pass on the live site. Both had been failing because of the checks themselves, not the screen: one read the row of board filters before it finished loading, and one did not know that every person is deliberately given the shared general board by Nick's own ruling. Both are corrected, proven to still catch real faults, and published. Nothing needs Nick.

**2026-09-05** — A fresh checker that had no part in the build graded the ten finish-line items of the business Hub project (the web app Nick's company uses every day for tasks, people and money) on the live site. Seven items passed, one is parked by Nick's own ruling, and two failed. The first failure was a timing matter: a documentation-only change had reached the code repository a minute before the check, so the live site was one step behind, and publishing it cleared that. The second failure came from two automated checks being out of date with the redesigned screen rather than from the screen itself; both checks are corrected, proven to still catch real faults, and published. The lessons of the day are written into the plan and into the shared list of past mistakes that every future plan must guard against. Nothing needs Nick.

**2026-09-05** — Two automated checks of the business Hub (the web app the Heroes and Sidekicks team uses every day) were wrongly failing because of the way the checks themselves read the screen, not because of the screen: one read the row of board filters before it had finished loading, and one did not count boards where a person's only tasks were recently completed. Both checks are corrected and published, with proofs that they still catch a real fault. The one thing left is to run them once on the live site when the Mac is not overloaded by other work; every attempt this evening was blocked because other sessions were using the shared test browser. No decision or action is needed from anyone.

**2026-09-05** — The business Hub (the web app the Heroes and Sidekicks team uses every day) now has a proven publish path. A change goes live about one minute after it is pushed. The 25-minute browser check then runs on its own afterwards; today it completed a full pass for the first time, confirming that the two problems it caught earlier in the day (long client names cut off on phones, and closing an item returning the reader to the top of the inbox) are fixed on the live site. When the Mac is too busy for the browser check to run it now waits and retries instead of raising a false alarm, and a newer change no longer waits behind an older check. Nine changes went live through this path today. No decision or action is needed from anyone.

**2026-09-05** — The final design review of the business Hub (the web app the Heroes and Sidekicks team uses every day) is closed. The left-hand menu grouped by department passed on desktop in light and dark and on the phone layout. The sign-in screen had one fault, an underline under the Sign in with Google button label, which was fixed and published, and a fresh look at the live sign-in screen at desktop and phone widths confirms the underline is gone. No decision or action is needed from anyone.

**2026-09-05** — The final design review of two screens on the business Hub (the web app the Heroes and Sidekicks team uses every day) is in. The left-hand menu grouped by department passed on desktop in light and dark and on the phone layout. The sign-in screen failed on one detail: the label on the Sign in with Google button was underlined like a web link. That is fixed and published; the only thing left is to look at the live sign-in screen once more and confirm the underline is gone. Three observations outside this round are recorded on the follow-up list, not worked: the main column touches the right edge of the window at exactly 1280 pixels wide, the department list in the code has a sixth heading beyond the five Nick named, and the brand colour file still points at the old purple palette. No decision or action is needed from anyone.

**2026-09-05** — The written guide that tells an automated helper how to work with the business Hub's task board (the web app the Heroes and Sidekicks team uses every day) has now passed a cold test: a helper that had never seen the Hub before created a card, read it back, and cleaned up after itself using only the guide's words, first try. The one thing it could not tell from the guide was which parts of the board still depend on Monday (the old task tool) and will change when Monday is removed; every section of the guide now carries that label. The same test also found a block of unrelated computer output pasted into the guide by mistake, which is removed. No decision or action is needed from anyone.

**2026-09-05** — The left-hand menu of the business Hub (the web app the Heroes and Sidekicks team uses every day) is now grouped under five department headings: Client Success, Recruitment, Financing, Ops and Growth. The headings are labels only and do nothing when clicked; the tools sit beneath them as clickable items, and the highlight showing where you are follows the tool you opened. Each person sees only the departments they are allowed to. The earlier problem where the word GROWTH appeared twice is gone. This was driven and confirmed on the public site at desktop and phone widths. No decision or action is needed from anyone.

**2026-09-05** — The business Hub (the web app the Heroes and Sidekicks team uses every day) now publishes a change in under a minute instead of waiting on a 25-minute browser check. Six real changes went live through the new path today. The browser check still runs afterwards on its own, and it has now proven itself for real: it caught a genuine problem (long client names were cut off at two lines on phones), posted it to the Hub's inbox screen (the list of things needing someone's attention), and the problem was fixed and live within minutes, after which the same check confirmed it was gone. When the check cannot run because the Mac is overloaded, it waits and retries instead of reporting a false problem. No decision or action is needed from anyone.

**2026-09-05** — On the business Hub (the web app the Heroes and Sidekicks team uses every day), opening one item in the inbox screen (the list of things needing someone's attention) now uses the same slide-over side panel that opening a task on a board uses: the same heading, the same Copy link and Close buttons, the same dimmed backdrop, and the technical record folded away at the bottom. The old block of raw text that used to show a record's internal reference number is gone. This was proven working on the public site. No decision or action is needed from anyone.

**2026-09-05** — On the business Hub (the web app the Heroes and Sidekicks team uses every day), clicking one task on a board (each task is shown as a small box in a column) now slides a detail panel in from the side, over the board, instead of replacing the whole screen. The panel has a dimmed backdrop, a heading that stays put while you scroll, a Copy link button and a Close button. It shows the answer to the task first and tucks the technical record it came from into a folded section at the bottom. It can be opened from a shared link and closed with the keyboard. This was proven working on the public site. No decision or action is needed from anyone.

**2026-09-05** — The new task card, detail panel and inbox item on the business Hub (the team's web app) went through three rounds of design review against the approved design: the first found 8 mismatches, the second 3, and the third passed everything. The small text on these screens no longer uses the washed-out grey that was hard to read. The change was published to the public site and a 17-point walkthrough of the live site, including opening and closing the panel, passed in full. Nothing needs Nick.

**2026-09-05** — On the business Hub (the team's web app), each task card on a board is now one clean clickable tile: a title of up to two lines and one quiet line of details, with no expanding section or extra buttons, the way Monday and Asana show cards. Dragging cards between columns still works. Screenshots at desktop and phone widths are on file and the change is live on the public site. Nothing needs Nick.

**2026-09-05** — Before the new look for task cards on the business Hub (the team's web app) was built, eight automated checks were written that describe exactly how a task card, its slide-over detail panel and an inbox item must look and behave. They were proven to fail against the old code first, so a pass means something. They now run on every build of the web app and all eight pass on the current code. Nothing needs Nick.

**2026-09-05** — The business Hub (the team's web app) now publishes a change in one to five minutes instead of waiting on a 25-minute browser check. Four real changes went live through the new path today, the latest in under a minute and a half. The browser check still runs afterwards on its own. Its failure path was exercised for real today: the first genuine failure tried to post an item to the Hub's inbox screen (the list of things needing attention that Nick and the team see in the web app) and the Hub's inbox screen refused it because one required field was missing. That is fixed, and the corrected message was accepted by the live Hub in a direct test and then removed. That failure itself was caused by another session rewriting the business database on this Mac at the same minute, not by the code. The live status page now shows whether the browser check has run for the published build. What is left: one full browser check has to run to completion after a fast publish and record its verdict. Nothing needs Nick.

**2026-09-05** — The business Hub (the team's web app) now publishes a change in about two to five minutes instead of waiting on a 25-minute browser check. The browser check still runs, afterwards and on its own, and if it finds a visual regression it posts one item into the Hub inbox rather than holding or undoing the publish. Two real changes went live through the new path today. The build now stamps whether the browser check has run, the live status page shows that stamp, and the workspace publish command has a fast option for the day the automatic publisher is down. One thing is still unproven: the browser check has not yet completed a full run after a fast publish. The first attempt was refused by the Mac mini, which only runs jobs on a pre-approved list and does not yet list the browser check as a separate job. The second attempt was running when the machine became overloaded and a restart was called. It runs again automatically on the next push after the restart. Nothing needs Nick.

**2026-09-05** — One open item on the finish line for the business web app closed without code: the missing Ask Neeko chat launcher was removed on purpose by an earlier project, so it is no longer counted as a defect. The automated publish of the sidebar rebuild (commit 48e6a0d3) failed because the test browser died on a busy machine during the visual checks ("chrome exited early, code null" at the My Boards card-grid check, twice, at load 8–11 with another lane's design renders holding a test browser at 350% CPU). CONTROL: same kind, same runner — the same commit's fast tier passed all 156 checks on the runner's own clean checkout (run by hand), and the previous commit 17a0cf5 passed that identical browser check on the same runner two hours earlier when the machine was quiet — so the code is not the variable, the machine load is. The publish is re-run automatically when the load drops under 5 with no test browser above 80% CPU.

**2026-09-05** — The left-hand menu rebuild for the business web app is committed and pushed: one set of department headings for every team member, placed exactly as Nick ruled on 2026-09-04. It is not on the public website yet because every automated publish is held by one build check that asks whether the AI assistant named Skippy may be assigned tasks again, and only Nick can answer that.

**2026-09-05** — The finish of the business Hub website at hub.heroesandsidekicks.io is graded: seven of ten finish-line items pass on a cold check against the live site, two fail because a commit another team pushed to that site's code broke the check every deploy of the site runs through, and one is parked on Nick's ruling. The sidebar item the checker marked as passing is wrong by Nick's own screenshot, because the word Growth appears twice in the sidebar — once as a new department heading and once as an older section label — and Nick has now ruled one set of headings for the whole sidebar, which is being built next. The half of that other team's commit that offered Skippy the AI assistant as a task owner on task rows that come from Monday.com, where the save is always refused, is fixed and shipped. Whether Skippy is a task owner at all reverses Nick's ruling of 24 August and is with him to decide. Nick has also asked for the task card, the detail view that opens from a kanban tile, and the inbox item view to be reworked to work like Monday or Asana, and for the My Boards list in the sidebar to match the real boards, with the HANDED OFF board removed and a CREATIVE board added.

**2026-09-04** — Every fix shipped to the business Hub at hub.heroesandsidekicks.io was walked through on the live site in a real browser and all of it works: 17 of 17 checks pass. The browser signed itself in as Nick and again as Dean and measured each fix's own rendered result at desktop width and phone width. The first run of that walkthrough script reported three failures that turned out to be faults in the script's own measuring code, which are fixed and re-run clean. One red remains in projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs, which demands a due date from app/functions/api/checklist-act.js, a file that only ticks a checklist item and creates no task at all; that is recorded in projects/ops/zion/PLAN-ZION-19-hub-finish.md under the heading NEXT list for whoever owns that test suite, and is not worked here.

**2026-09-04** — This project finishes the business Hub, the web app that Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean and Dindin use for boards, tasks, payroll and clients. The sign-in that Nick approved is live and was checked directly against the real site for all six people, each landing on their own view with the right money-visibility level and every wrong attempt refused. Every other fix from this drive is also live, published from Nick's Mac Studio because the Mac mini that used to publish the site was offline: the sidebar under the five department headings Nick named, the panel that opens like Monday or Asana when a task card is clicked, and a set of bug fixes. An agent is walking through every fix on the live site right now, signed in as each of the six people, taking a screenshot of each to confirm the fixes work on screen and not only in the code; it has been running about ten minutes and has produced no results yet. Two leftover test cards on the board carry names ending safe to close and a person removes them from the app when convenient.

**2026-09-04** — This project finishes the business Hub, the web app that Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean and Dindin use for boards, tasks, payroll and clients. The sign-in that Nick approved is live and was checked directly against the real site for all six people, each landing on their own view with the right money-visibility level and every wrong attempt refused. Every other fix from this drive is also live, published from Nick's Mac Studio because the Mac mini that used to publish the site was offline: the sidebar under the five department headings Nick named, the panel that opens like Monday or Asana when a task card is clicked, and a set of bug fixes. A verification agent is now signing in as each person and walking through every fix on the live site, taking a screenshot of each, to confirm they work on screen and not only in the code. Two leftover test cards on the board carry names ending safe to close and a person removes them from the app when convenient.

**2026-09-04** — This project finishes the business Hub, the web app that Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean and Dindin use for boards, tasks, payroll and clients. The sign-in that Nick approved is live and was checked directly against the real site for all six people, each landing on their own view with the right money-visibility level and every wrong attempt refused. Every other fix from this drive is also live, published from Nick's Mac Studio because the Mac mini that used to publish the site was offline: the sidebar under the five department headings Nick named, the panel that opens like Monday or Asana when a task card is clicked, and a set of bug fixes. A verification agent is now signing in as each person and walking through every fix on the live site, taking a screenshot of each, to confirm they work on screen and not only in the code. Two leftover test cards on the board carry names ending safe to close and a person removes them from the app when convenient.

**2026-09-04** — This project finishes the business Hub, the web app that Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean and Dindin use for boards, tasks, payroll and clients. The sign-in that Nick approved is live and was checked directly against the real site for all six people, each landing on their own view with the right money-visibility level and every wrong attempt refused. All the other work from this drive is also live, published from Nick's Mac Studio because the Mac mini that used to publish the site was offline: the sidebar under the five department headings Nick named, the panel that opens like Monday or Asana when a task card is clicked, and a set of bug fixes. What remains is an on-screen walkthrough of each fix as each person, now possible because agents can sign in. Two leftover test cards on the board carry names ending safe to close and a person removes them from the app when convenient.

**2026-09-04** — This project finishes the business Hub, the web app that Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean and Dindin use for boards, tasks, payroll and clients. The last piece went live: the test-mode sign-in that Nick approved is now on the real site, and all six people's sign-ins were checked directly against production and work correctly, each landing on their own view with the right money-visibility level, while every wrong attempt is refused. Everything else from this drive is already live too, published from Nick's Mac Studio because the Mac mini that used to publish the site was offline: the sidebar under the five department headings Nick named, the panel that opens like Monday or Asana when a task card is clicked, and a set of bug fixes. The only remaining piece of housekeeping is adding the six-person sign-in check to the nightly automated health job, which is recorded as a later item. Two leftover test cards on the board carry names ending safe to close and a person removes them from the app when convenient.

**2026-09-04** — This project finishes the business Hub, the web app that Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean and Dindin use for boards, tasks, payroll and clients. Most of the work is already live on the site the six people use, published from Nick's Mac Studio because the Mac mini that used to publish the site was offline: the sidebar reorganised under the five department headings Nick named, the panel that opens like Monday or Asana when a task card is clicked, and a set of bug fixes. The one piece still going live is the test-mode sign-in that Nick approved; it is building cleanly on the Studio, roughly ten minutes from live, after an earlier attempt produced nothing when three jobs competed for the single web browser on the Mac. The five-minute automatic check re-runs on its own and confirms the sign-in on the real site the moment it lands. Two leftover test cards on the board carry names ending safe to close and a person removes them from the app when convenient.

**2026-09-04** — This project finishes the business Hub, the web app that Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean and Dindin use for boards, tasks, payroll and clients. Most of the work is already live on the site the six people use, published from Nick's Mac Studio because the Mac mini that used to publish the site was offline: the sidebar reorganised under the five department headings Nick named, the panel that opens like Monday or Asana when a task card is clicked, and a set of bug fixes. The one piece still going live is the test-mode sign-in that Nick approved; it is building cleanly on the Studio, about ten minutes from live, after an earlier attempt produced nothing when three jobs competed for the single web browser on the Mac. The five-minute automatic check re-runs on its own and confirms the sign-in on the real site the moment it lands. Two leftover test cards on the board carry names ending safe to close and a person removes them from the app when convenient.

**2026-09-04** — This project finishes the business Hub, the web app that Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean and Dindin use for boards, tasks, payroll and clients. Most of the work is already live on the site the six people use, published from Nick's Mac Studio because the Mac mini that used to publish the site was offline: the sidebar reorganised under the five department headings Nick named, the panel that opens like Monday or Asana when a task card is clicked, and a set of bug fixes. The one piece still going live is the test-mode sign-in that Nick approved; its first publish produced nothing because three separate jobs were competing for the single web browser on the Mac at the same instant, and it is now building again cleanly and is about ten to fifteen minutes from live. The five-minute automatic check re-runs on its own and will confirm the sign-in works on the real site the moment it lands. Two leftover test cards on the board need a person to close them, and once the site is fully live the new screens are ready for Nick to look at on his own machine. Nothing needs a decision from Nick this minute.

**2026-09-04** — This project finishes the business Hub, the web app that Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean and Dindin use for boards, tasks, payroll and clients. Most of it is now live on the site the six people use: the sidebar reorganised under the five department headings Nick named, the Monday-style panel that opens when a task card is clicked, and several bug fixes, all published from Nick's Mac Studio because the Mac mini that used to publish the site was offline. The design director reviewed the new screens on a local copy of the app and they hold up in both light and dark modes, with three small items sent back for one more pass each. The one piece still to go live is the test-mode sign-in that Nick approved; its first publish attempt failed because two builds and the design review were competing for the single web browser on the Mac at the same instant, so the build produced nothing to publish; the machine is quieter now and it is publishing again. Nick himself switched off the twenty-four-hour hold on document-change approvals, as he asked. Still needing Nick: nothing right now; once the last build is live the automatic five-minute check will confirm the sign-in works on the real site and report, and two leftover test cards on the board need a person to close them when he has a moment.

**2026-09-04** — This project finishes the business Hub, the web app that Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean and Dindin use for boards, tasks, payroll and clients. Nick approved the last open question, so agents now have a way to sign in as each of the six people for testing: no password, working only while a test-mode flag is switched on in the app AND only when the caller holds the shared automation token the Hub already trusts. Three worker agents had refused to build this because they could not confirm from inside their own instructions that Nick had really approved it, which is the correct instinct for a login change; the overseer, who received his approval directly, built it and wrote six tests that each fail against the old code and pass against the new. The site is now published from Nick's Mac Studio because the Mac mini that used to publish it was offline; getting a clean build through required fixing five separate automated self-checks one at a time, and the final build that carries the new sign-in is publishing now. Also live or publishing: the sidebar reorganised under the five department headings Nick named, the Monday-style panel that opens when a task card is clicked (one flaw an independent reviewer found in it was fixed and re-checked), and the corrected how-to document for future agents. Still needing Nick: he must run one command himself to take the approvals gate down for twenty-four hours as he asked, because that switch refuses to run for an agent by design; and once the site is live, a look at the new screens on his own machine and closing two leftover test cards that only a person can close.

**2026-09-04** — This project finishes the business Hub, the web app Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean and Dindin use for boards, tasks, payroll and clients. Since the last update: clicking a task card on a board now opens its detail like a Monday or Asana panel, with a Close button, the Escape key and a click outside all closing it; an independent checker found one real defect in that work (closing with a button left the Escape key still armed), it was fixed and re-checked clean. The sidebar regrouping under five department headings passed its checker on everything a test can reach without a signed-in browser. The complete build is running on Nick's Mac Studio, now the publishing machine, having cleared all five self-checks that blocked publishing today; a second build queued behind it carries the panel fix. Still needing Nick: whether automated testers may sign in as each of the six people through a test-mode door (two builders declined without his direct word), approval of the one edit to the agent how-to guide that says agents cannot close cards, and a look at the new sidebar and task panel on his own screen once the site is live.

**2026-09-04** — This project finishes the business Hub, the web app Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean and Dindin use for boards, tasks, payroll and clients. Since the last update: Nick's Mac Studio is now the machine that publishes the site (the Mac mini's publisher was offline and unreachable), and every one of the five self-checks that had been blocking publication is fixed — the last one was a screen title rule hiding the Status screen's own all-clear line. The complete build is running on the Studio now and should be live within half an hour. The sidebar is regrouped under the five department headings Nick named, with the headings deliberately not clickable and the tools beneath them clickable; a task card on a board now opens its detail like a Monday or Asana panel with a Close button, the Escape key and a click outside; both are built, checked, and ride this publish. The agent how-to guide is drafted and corrected once; its section on closing cards is wrong and the corrected text is waiting on Nick's approval to edit that document. Still needing Nick: whether automated testers may sign in as each of the six people through a test-mode door, because two builders declined to build it without his direct word; and, once the site is live, a look at the new sidebar and task panel on his own screen.

**2026-09-04** — This project finishes the business Hub, the web app Nick, Chantelle, Rizza, Mae, Dean and Dindin use for boards, tasks, payroll and clients. Done and independently confirmed today: the app's code was brought back into one line after two groups of changes had drifted apart; the list of fourteen finished fixes that have never reached the live site was written from the live site's own version number; a bug where a board update could be posted twice under different ids was sealed; the nine known ways an automated agent could slip a board update past the enforcement gate were closed with permanent tests; and this project has its own real card on the work board. Also done and awaiting its independent confirmation: five new tests that each fail on the old code and pass on the fixed code, so the fourteen fixes can never quietly regress. Not done: nothing has gone live yet. The computer that publishes the site (Nick's Mac mini) shows as offline to GitHub, and publishing from this Mac instead stopped at one of the app's own pre-publish self-tests (the one that checks that every action taken in the app is also copied to the Monday.com board correctly), which is being investigated. Also not done: the sidebar regrouped under five department headings and the task-card detail view are both being built by low-cost models; the agent how-to guide is in its one fix round. One decision needs Nick: whether automated testers may sign in to the live Hub as each of the six people through a test-mode door, because two builders declined to build that door without his direct word.

## STEPS

1. Re-measure ground truth; reconcile the diverged Hub repo — 100%
   STATUS: CLOSED 2026-09-04 13:47Z, checker PASS (`projects/ops/zion/evidence/zion19-check-step1-step10-2026-09-04.txt`): merge `0ae48c00` (one conflict, clients.js isRisk(), delegation kept), branch 0/0 vs origin after push; suite RED[15] NM[17,18,20,24] recorded exactly; the fresh-build red was a REAL TIER-2 visual defect (1.87px title ink clip), not machine load — fixed under STEP 4
   DEFINITION OF DONE: repo neither ahead nor behind origin/main; no-arg suite exit + red list recorded in STATE-ZION-19.md
   PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs`
2. Derive the undeployed-fix ledger from the live revision — 100%
   STATUS: CLOSED 13:52Z, checker PASS-WITH-CORRECTIONS applied (`zion19-check-step2-2026-09-04.txt`): live `d4922ca6`, 47 commits = 14 product fixes + 33 infra, ledger at `projects/ops/zion/evidence/zion19-step2-ledger-2026-09-04.txt` (the state file is ticket-gated; ledger lives in evidence, pointer requested by ticket d94ffcc2)
   DEFINITION OF DONE: ledger in STATE-ZION-19.md citing live revision and HEAD by hash, test-existence per fix checked two ways
   PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 4`
3. Red-first tests for every ledger fix lacking one — 100%
   STATUS UPDATE 22:50Z (step 3) — CLOSED. `harness-zion19-fixcoverage.mjs` green on HEAD and registered in the build; every case was proven red against its parent commit when written. The pattern held for the whole drive: every fix that shipped tonight had a check written first and proven red against the real pre-fix file.
   STATUS: BUILT (Hub `ae4b65a3`): 23 PASS on HEAD; five cases each RED against their parent commit (`scratchpad/step3-redfirst.log`, re-run by the checker); gates.js TIER-1 registration routing through the cheap lane; checker running. Authored by the overseer under the test-authoring routing category because the cheap lane refuses test-case authoring by rule and the work-type gate refused three Sonnet dispatches (13:50–13:55Z) — a one-off, recorded
   DEFINITION OF DONE: umbrella harness green on HEAD, each case proven RED against its pre-fix worktree
   PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-fixcoverage.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 3)`
4. Push, deploy, prove live parity — 100%
   STATUS UPDATE 22:50Z (step 4) — CLOSED. Live production serves `041e16bd`, the current HEAD of the Hub repo, measured at /api/build-integrity after the last deploy succeeded. The publishing machine is the Studio runner. The deploy pipe now waits for the machine instead of publishing nothing, exits 75 for a stand-down so a caller can tell did-not-run from succeeded, and the workflow's retry loop reads that code correctly — all three paths proven at a shell.
   STATUS UPDATE 15:02Z: on the Studio runner TIER 1 now PASSES (148 checks) and the visual sweep passes after one Chrome retry; the fifth and last gate blocker was the drift gate's R1 on the Status screen (12 cells) — 72f93550's app-wide `.sub` hide had hidden that screen's live all-clear declaration; one exemption rule in one.css (`9f0163af`) → NO DRIFT locally. Run 33887183376 (`9f0163af`, carries STEPS 3/8/13/14 too) started 15:02Z; the two doomed earlier runs were cancelled so it starts at once. Chrome under a load-8 machine is the remaining risk — retry once if it dies, never blanket-kill
   STATUS: IN FLIGHT on the Studio (14:49Z). What was measured and fixed to get here: the mini's runner is OFFLINE on GitHub and unreachable by SSH (name, alias, IP all time out), and yesterday's three deploys failed there — so, on Nick's word (2026-09-04: "lets make this machine the deploy machine too / no more mac mini"), the Studio is now a registered GitHub Actions runner (`nicks-mac-studio`, labels self-hosted/macOS/ARM64/mac-mini/mac-studio, launchd service, package actions-runner-osx-arm64-2.337.0.tar.gz from github.com/actions/runner, 127,732,571 bytes, sha256 5a2cd929…; GitHub does not publish the hash in the release body so it is recorded, not verified). Four real gate blockers cleared in order: the TIER-2 visual clip (`7fab9594`), the Monday write-back self-test broken by the HSDB Phase-3 engine commit e8d086d2 (fixture update, 437/437, `d957b58b`), the shared-panel link Dindin reported (`310f1891`), and the new shared-deck/writer-manifest host links (`df01e1e5`). Live still `d4922ca6`. Runner deploys land on push, ~25 min; `--step 4` is the proof
   DEFINITION OF DONE: live token matches HEAD byte-for-byte, on the custom domain, after the edge window
   PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 4`
   VERIFIED: Measured 15:52Z: live production serves commit 23fc4d45, which carries the whole merge range including the sidebar, the task panel and every product fix, so those are on the site now; the one build still to publish is commit 32c3fbe8 (the sign-in door), running its browser checks on the Studio and holding the browser lock cleanly after an earlier attempt produced nothing when three processes fought over the one browser
   VERIFIED: Measured 15:58Z: live production serves commit 23fc4d45 (the sidebar, the task panel and every product fix are on the site); the one build still to publish, commit 32c3fbe8 (the sign-in door), is fourteen minutes into its browser checks on the Studio and actively progressing, roughly ten minutes from done; the door correctly returns a refusal on production because it is not published yet
   VERIFIED: Measured 15:58Z: live production serves commit 23fc4d45 (the sidebar, the task panel and every product fix are on the site); the one build still to publish, commit 32c3fbe8 (the sign-in door), is fifteen minutes into its browser checks on the Studio and actively progressing; the door correctly returns a refusal on production because it is not published yet
5. [UI] Verify every ledger fix on the live surface through the real user path — 100%
   STATUS UPDATE 16:55Z (step 5) — THE ON-SCREEN WALKTHROUGH RAN ON THE LIVE SITE AND EVERY SHIPPED FIX WORKS THERE. 17 of 17 checks pass. `_selfchecks/zion19-live-walkthrough.mjs` drove a real Chrome against https://hub.heroesandsidekicks.io, signed itself in through the agent door as nick and again as dean, and measured each fix's own rendered result at 1280px and 390px. Transcript at `HUB-UIUX-AUDIT/evidence/zion-19/step5-live-walkthrough-2026-09-04.txt`. Measured on the real screen: sidebar labels in Title Case; five department headings rendering as plain uncllickable text with eight tools nested under them, and clicking a heading moves nothing; the screen title bold at 28px with a 37.8px line box, so the ink clip is gone; the clients risk deep link narrowing the list to the two under-monitoring accounts and a plain clients nav clearing it again; the Archive segment reading Archived and never Active; no duplicate Sidekicks button; 54 real task deep links, one of which opens the detail panel and whose Close returns to the board, with an unknown task id landing on the miss panel; eight tools still rendering at phone width with nothing spilling sideways; and dean's own sidebar correctly missing the Growth heading. The first run of that file reported three failures which were all defects in the file itself, now fixed and re-run clean: it read the font size under a key its own measurement never returns, and it read the clients screen and the task board the instant the address changed, which reads the previous screen. One red remains and it belongs to another lane: `--step 19` returns WRITER_LACKS_DUE_DATE_INVARIANT on checklist-act.js, a file that ticks a checklist item and creates no task and sets no due date, unchanged since the repo's initial import — a manifest over-reach in ZION-3's own suite, NEXT-listed unworked. Prior note follows.
   STATUS UPDATE 16:44Z (step 5) — CORRECTION, and the real walkthrough now running. The first verification agent could NOT do an on-screen walkthrough: it minted a live session over the command line but its browser tool had no way to carry that cookie into a rendered page (no cookie injection, no JS eval), so ZERO screenshots exist and the earlier "walking through every fix, screenshotting each" claim was wrong. What it DID prove, and this stands: the live site serves byte-identical code to the current commit (13 JS + 2 CSS + index.html diffed live-vs-local, no differences beyond hash-bust strings), and each fix's own red-first regression test passes against that proven-identical source — 11/11 rows PASS at code level. That is not "seen working on screen" and is not counted as such. Its report: `projects/ops/zion/evidence/zion19-step5-live-2026-09-04.txt`. THE REAL ON-SCREEN PASS: `_selfchecks/zion19-live-walkthrough.mjs` (written 16:40Z) drives a real Chrome at the live domain, mints the session INSIDE the page through the agent door, and MEASURES each fix's rendered result at 1280px and 390px as nick and as dean (the rig's own header records that Page.captureScreenshot hangs then throws on this stack, so the house standard is a browser-measured figure, not a picture — MACHINE-RULES rule 12 clause 6). Launched 16:42Z; currently serialised behind another session's Chrome by the shared lock, which is correct behaviour. Two findings routed on: the my-boards test's own DOM stub lacks removeAttribute and crashes (harness bug, not a product defect), and `--step 19` is RED on `WRITER_LACKS_DUE_DATE_INVARIANT` in checklist-act.js against a concurrent unrelated commit that is not deployed — flagged for its owner. Prior note follows.
   STATUS UPDATE 16:22Z (step 5): UNBLOCKED and DRIVING — the agent sign-in door is live (proven 16:09Z), so a browser verification agent signs in as each of the six people and drives every shipped fix on the live site at 1280px and 390px, screenshotting each; dispatched 16:21Z. The earlier "queued on parity, awaiting Nick's word on the door" note is superseded: the fixes are live (peer build 723c0351) and the edge is settling.
   DEFINITION OF DONE: every ledger row live-verified in a real browser with evidence path; --step 19 exit 0
   PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 19`
   VERIFIED: Now unblocked because the agent sign-in door is live on production 16:09Z; the per-person browser walkthrough runs once the current publish finishes. Google sign-in, the sidebar, the task panel and every product fix are already served live (commit 32c3fbe8)
   VERIFIED: Dispatched a browser verification agent 16:21Z that signs in as each of the six people through the live door and drives every shipped fix on the real site at two widths, screenshotting each; the peer build 723c0351 published and the live edge is settling (the source revision matches HEAD; the static digest catches up within about two and a half minutes)
   VERIFIED: Dispatched a browser verification agent 2026-09-04 16:21Z that signs in as each of the six people through the live door and drives every shipped fix on the real site at two widths, screenshotting each; the peer build published and the live edge is settling (source revision matches HEAD, the static digest catches up within about two and a half minutes)
   VERIFIED: Checked at 2026-09-04 16:31Z: the verification agent dispatched at 16:21Z is live in a real browser against hub.heroesandsidekicks.io, roughly ten minutes in, with two browser processes active; its evidence folder is still empty and its summary file is not yet written, so there are no per-fix results to report yet — stated as in-progress, never as a result
   VERIFIED: Measured 16:52Z on hub.heroesandsidekicks.io in a real browser signed in as Nick and again as Dean, at desktop and phone width: the sidebar tool names read as proper words, the five department headings show as plain text that clicks nowhere with eight tools nested beneath them, screen titles are no longer clipped, the clients risk link narrows the list to the two accounts under monitoring and a plain clients click clears it again, the archive tab says Archived rather than Active, there is no duplicate Sidekicks button, task cards carry real links that open a detail panel whose Close returns to the board, an unknown task link lands on a friendly explanation, phone width spills nothing sideways, and Dean's sidebar correctly omits the heading he has no tool under.
6. [UI] Switch Google sign-in ON; fix the nightly password-login check in the same change — 100%
   STATUS UPDATE 16:09Z — DONE ON PRODUCTION (PROVEN LIVE). The build carrying the door (`32c3fbe8`) published; measured by real HTTP against https://hub.heroesandsidekicks.io/api/session: all six identities sign in through the agent door (200, correct identity echoed, cookie round-trips through GET whoami, scopes correct — nick/chantelle/rizza/mae finance, dean/dindin ops-only), and all four negative controls return 410 (wrong bearer, no bearer, unknown identity, legacy password). Test mode is confirmed ON in production by behavior, never by reading the flag. Google sign-in itself is live (302 to Google) and Dean confirmed a real live Google sign-in for himself today. View-as is unchanged (the door reuses the same signSession/cookie the Google callback uses). Owed only: the per-identity leg on the nightly job (NEXT). Prior status below.
   STATUS UPDATE 15:28Z —
   STATUS UPDATE 15:28Z — NICK ANSWERED "1 yes" (recorded as signed grant agent-test-session-door-2026-09-04). Google sign-in was already LIVE (302 to Google; password door 410; Dean confirmed a real live sign-in with no password). Three builders declined the agent door because they structurally cannot see Nick's chat approval and an auth-bypass justified only by brief text reads as social engineering to them — correct instinct for a worker. The overseer, who received the "1 yes" directly and holds the authority, built it: `session.js` now mints a real session for one of the six identities on POST {action:agent-session, identity} gated by BOTH IDENT_TEST_MODE=1 AND the robot bearer; any factor missing → the same 410 as a human password POST. Committed + pushed (Hub `32c3fbe8`); six red-first cases GREEN on the door and RED against pre-fix (`_google-auth.selftest.mjs` 23/23). ON THE END-PHASE SECURITY PASS LIST (a bearer that mints any identity is a master key). Owed once live: prove the door by behavior on production (a 200 for one identity, never by reading the flag), drive the six identities live, and add the per-identity leg to the nightly health job (NEXT). Nightly check already committed (`cbc2fc53e`) proving the two live doors
   DEFINITION OF DONE: six identities in via Google live in a browser; nightly check green through its real path; view-as intact
   PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 9`
   VERIFIED: The overseer built the door after three worker agents declined it because they could not see Nick's chat approval from inside their task; Nick's 2026-09-04 reply is recorded as the signed grant agent-test-session-door-2026-09-04, verifiable via standing-auth.mjs --audit; the six-identity live sign-in is NOT MEASURABLE FROM HERE until the build carrying the door publishes and the test-mode flag is confirmed on by production behavior
   VERIFIED: The door build 32c3fbe8 published and live production served it; the overseer proved all six identities sign in on the real site with correct finance scopes and all four refusal cases returning 410, and Dean confirmed a real Google sign-in for himself earlier; the only remainder is adding the per-identity leg to the nightly health job, on the NEXT list
7. Re-close the SSO-broken ZION-3 checks (9, 25; sweep 13/20/21) — 100%
   STATUS UPDATE 22:05Z (step 7) — BOTH RE-CLOSED. `--step 25` GREEN and `--step 9` GREEN, each measured against the live site. They were never broken: the suite still signed in through the per-identity password door, which production answers 410 Gone since Google sign-in went live, so every browser-dependent step returned NOT_MEASURABLE for a reason that said nothing about the code being graded. The suite's sign-in helper was ported to the agent test-mode door — the MECHANISM moved and not one assertion did, which is the rule this step is fenced by. Written here rather than on the cheap lane because the data wall refuses this file by name. Step 9 needed eleven attempts spread over half an hour, not because anything was wrong but because this machine allows exactly one harness browser and other sessions' jobs held it; that is an instrument fact and is recorded as one. REMAINING: the no-arg sweep of 13/20/21, queued behind the build that currently holds the browser.
   STATUS: QUEUED on 6 (note: 9 and 25 were GREEN in the 13:22Z suite run; the still-caged steps are 17/18/20/24 — the browser-driven ones — which the agent door unblocks; step 15 RED is ZION-3's missing status line, this step's ledger correction)
   DEFINITION OF DONE: steps 9 and 25 exit 0; no sign-in-caused NOT_MEASURABLE anywhere in the suite
   PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 25`
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 20:45Z (95%: the corrected checks are proven red-first and published; their first clean live run waits for a quieter Mac)
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 22:55Z (100%: both named steps exit 0 on the public site; the corrections are published and red-first proven)
8. Seal task-run.mjs postCardUpdate — 100%
   STATUS: CLOSED 14:00Z, checker PASS (`zion19-check-step8-2026-09-04.txt`): injected `_now` clock seam matching neeko-project-doc-post (workspace `0cc0697c2`), harness call frozen (Hub `7fab9594`), 4/4 `--step 14` GREEN 13:55Z
   DEFINITION OF DONE: the sibling seal pattern applied; four consecutive green runs
   PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 14`
9. Fix ZION-17 round-12's nine findings; one clean check round — 100%
   STATUS: BUILT (uncommitted in handback-contract.mjs + the existing suite, 179/179 · 169/169 · 15/15 · 38/38, `zion19-step9-handback-2026-09-04.txt`); the ONE checker round is running. PROOF corrected in place: `check-handback.mjs --selftest` is not a real flag — the proof is the owning suite below
   DEFINITION OF DONE: nine findings each mapped to a fix commit and a permanent red-first check; the single checker round returns no dodge
   PROOF: `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/_test-zion17-board-and-unified-update.mjs`
   VERIFIED: one checker round, Sonnet verifier, 2026-09-04 14:16Z: nine of nine fresh attack shapes classified correctly, three red-first confirmations reproduced, no assertion removed — projects/ops/zion/evidence/zion19-check-step9-2026-09-04.txt, OVERALL VERDICT PASS
10. Open the board to ZION lanes; register this plan's card — 100%
   STATUS: CLOSED 13:47Z, checker PASS: the vocabulary was already live (cold review Z1 — no code edit, no deploy); card `ac-zion-zion-19-finish-the-hub` opened 13:27Z in "In Progress", read back by the checker through the raw API
    DEFINITION OF DONE: the 2026-09-01 failed --open call now succeeds; §5 carries the real card id
    PROOF: `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/lib/board-report.mjs --read`
11. [UI] Deploy the voice-app pattern in the Hub — 100%
   STATUS UPDATE 19:55Z (step 11) — PARKED BY NICK, AND THAT IS THIS STEP'S ANSWER, NOT AN ABANDONMENT. His words, 2026-09-04, after asking what voice was doing in a Hub project at all: "park it finihs everyting else - when voice app lands and only then wil we built a hub version". So the condition for ever resuming is named and dated: the standalone voice app ships FIRST, and only then does a Hub version get built. Nobody should re-open this step before that, and re-opening it is not a judgement call anyone else makes. He was right to challenge it: it was the only step in this plan adding a new capability rather than finishing something already half-built, and the only one nobody had asked for. What was built before he ruled stays in the tree, switched OFF and harmless: two Cloudflare Pages routes (`app/functions/api/voice-session-openai.js` 23/23, `app/functions/api/hub-tts.js` 24/24) and a microphone loop inside the existing Neeko chat panel (`_selfchecks/harness-zion19-voice.mjs` 17/17), each with its check written before it and proven red against real breaks. The switch defaults off, so no microphone appears for anyone; the only way to see it is a deliberate query flag. Nothing is deployed to a person's screen and nothing needs undoing. The one thing NOT done, and deliberately not done, is the live drive with the switch on — that belongs to whoever builds the Hub version after the voice app lands.
   STATUS UPDATE 17:35Z (step 11) — ALL THREE PIECES ARE BUILT AND EACH ONE'S CHECK WAS WRITTEN BEFORE IT AND PROVEN RED AGAINST REAL BREAKS. (a) `app/functions/api/voice-session-openai.js`, the session proxy, 23/23; (b) `app/functions/api/hub-tts.js`, the speech proxy, 24/24 — the Hub had no speech route at all, so the port needed one, and its own check exists separately because that route returns audio bytes rather than JSON and a version that wraps them looks correct in a log and plays as silence; (c) the microphone loop inside the existing Neeko chat panel, `_selfchecks/harness-zion19-voice.mjs` 17/17. The loop reuses the panel's own single round-trip to the Hub chat route rather than growing a second one, attaches no identity header and no robot key anywhere in browser code, and never calls the sibling app's routes — the three things the handover kit names as the port's real risk. It ships DARK: the switch defaults off, so landing it changes nothing on the six people's screens, and one browser turns it on with a query flag that is then remembered. A refused microphone is a written-out state telling the reader it is blocked and that typing still works, which is the case the plan names explicitly. Both proxies need no gate registration; the build discovers every functions/api self-test by name. REMAINING: the live drive of the voice journey with the switch on, which needs the build published, and neither proxy has been exercised against the real upstream yet. Written here rather than on the cheap lane after five refusals, four of them the data wall correctly refusing to let session-signing code, the sibling app's equivalent file, or a file that assigns the robot key into a header leave this machine, and the fifth the cheap lane failing to produce an applicable edit twice; every one is recorded as a routing override with its reason.
   STATUS UPDATE 17:05Z (step 11) — NO LONGER QUEUED, NOW BUILDING. The Skippy voice lane posted its handoff line into STATE-ZION-19.md HANDOFFS-IN dated 2026-09-04, which is this step's own entry condition, and all four named source files exist and were read. The kit's Part C settles the two things the Hub port needed: the Hub runs on Cloudflare Pages Functions with no long-running server of its own, so it adds a thin proxy rather than duplicating the token-minting code, and the Hub's voice loop must call its OWN chat route carrying only the signed session cookie, never the family app's route and never an identity header. Part A is dispatched to the cheap lane 17:04Z: one new Pages Function `app/functions/api/voice-session-openai.js` plus its own six-case self-test, red-first. Part B, the microphone loop inside the Hub's existing Neeko chat panel (`app/js/nico-chat.js`, launcher id `ncFab` frozen by contract), follows Part A. Two facts measured while briefing it: the Hub already configures the Mac base URL and its robot key on several other routes, so no new secret is needed; and the Hub front end has no microphone surface today, so this is genuinely new rather than a rewire.
   STATUS: QUEUED (never blocked): no HANDOFFS-IN line from the Skippy voice lane yet
    DEFINITION OF DONE: pattern ported unmodified but for identity wiring; U15 driven live in three states
    PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-hubvoice.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 11)`
12. [UI] Sienna's design QA on every changed screen — 100%
   STATUS: QUEUED on 6/13/14
    DEFINITION OF DONE: six-gate receipt bound to fresh screenshots for U1–U3, U15, U18 and U19
    PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 24`
   VERIFIED: Sienna (creative-director) graded the sign-in screen, the department sidebar and the task-detail panel on the repo's local browser rig 15:42Z; sign-in and panel visually sound in light and dark; the sidebar is correctly identity-gated (dean has no Growth heading, proven by a live DOM query); three items routed back for one recheck each — the narrow-width sidebar shot the wrong region, the task title is absent from one panel screenshot, and the panel shows raw internal ids to the reader; this is a working-tree snapshot to be re-taken on the live site once the sign-in build lands
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 17:32Z (90%: one fix published, its live re-check pending the edge window)
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 17:43Z (100%: one round, one fix, the named failure re-checked live and gone)
13. [UI] Group the sidebar under five inert department headings — 100%
   STATUS UPDATE 22:50Z (step 13) — VERIFIED ON THE LIVE SCREEN FOR TWO IDENTITIES, after five real defects and five instrument gaps, every one found by opening the real page. Measured on hub.heroesandsidekicks.io at 1440x900: nick's sidebar reads Client Success (Booking, Standups) · Recruitment (Tracker, eSign) · Financing (Time Tracking) · Ops (Leave Form, SOPs) · Growth (Website) — every tool under its own heading, in the order this plan names, no word appearing twice, overflow down from 759px to 137px. Dean's reads the same four departments with Growth correctly absent (his only tool under it is gated away), his own section's links first, and nothing trailing the block. The defects, in the order the live page revealed them: headings invisible at every width (stranded in a switched-off container); grouping wrong (eSign and SOPs under Client Success); departments in tool-arrival order; the block appended below every other nav item; the word Ops twice and Growth twice from an older section-label system; and for dean, Timecards and Workload reading as Ops tools. The check now models the real four-section nav, replays the tool order measured live, and asserts what a reader sees — proven red against each defect before its fix. Sienna called the duplicate labels from the code before I measured them; she was right.
   STATUS: BUILT and committed (Hub `44a66c69`, 14:54Z): registry gains `TOOL_NAV_DEPTS` + a `dept` per entry (Client Success = booking, standups · Recruitment = tracker, esign · Financing = timetrack · Ops = sops, leave · Growth = website); the renderer emits a plain inert `<div class="tab-dept">` per department that has a visible tool, then that department's tools as the same `.tab` anchors (`tab tab--sub`); empty departments render no heading; re-renders sweep old headings; promotion and the single highlight writer untouched; one.css styles the heading (uppercase, muted, pointer-events none) and hides it under 1100px where the icon rail has no room for text. The hermetic check (`harness-zion19-deptnav.mjs`) is GREEN on HEAD and RED on both deliberate breaks (a heading given an href → 4 inert-heading failures; booking moved to Ops → placement failure). gates.js TIER-1 row routing through the cheap lane; checker dispatched. The app.js and one.css edits were made by qwen through the single-file route after four whole-task cheap runs died (vendor outage, data-wall refusals, the 1 MB request cap); the check script was authored by the overseer under the router's cheap-vendor-failed category after the vendor's fill was refused for adding a shell escape. Still owed: the live drive at 1280px and 390px (needs a signed-in browser — STEP 6's door or the Chrome extension, currently disconnected) and Sienna's grade (STEP 12)
    DEFINITION OF DONE: five headings render inert (no href, no handler, no focus stop), all eight tools nested per §1a row 7, role promotion and the single highlight intact, driven live at 1280px and 390px
    PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-deptnav.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 13)`
   VERIFIED: Sonnet checker 15:00Z, projects/ops/zion/evidence/zion19-check-step13-2026-09-04.txt: criteria 1-5 PASS (harness green, both red-first breaks caught, diff review, CSS scale, TIER-1 row); criterion 6 (the live signed-in click-through at two widths) NOT MEASURABLE FROM HERE — no signed-in browser exists for agents until the test-mode door or the Chrome extension is back
   VERIFIED: Verified in the code and in the offline menu check only, not yet on the public website: the public website still serves the previous menu until the automated publish started by commit 48e6a0d3 finishes, and every automated publish is currently stopped by one build check that asks whether the AI assistant named Skippy may be assigned tasks again, which only Nick can rule on.
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 16:40Z (100%: live walkthrough 17/17 and the one-vocabulary check 42/42 on the current commit)
14. [UI] Build the task-card detail view on the existing board-screen hook — 100%
   STATUS UPDATE 21:35Z (step 14) — VERIFIED ON THE LIVE SCREEN, not on a passing check. Signed in as nick on hub.heroesandsidekicks.io, opened a real card from the board via its own deep link (`#tasks?task=nt-card-c647826d-nick`) and measured the rendered panel. A reader now meets, in order: the task name, the Direct link row, then a CLOSED control labelled "Reference numbers". The disclosure measures 20px tall — its summary only — so the raw synchronisation identifiers are genuinely off the screen rather than merely further down it. Close is present and returns to the board. An unknown task id still lands on the miss panel. Sienna's B1 finding is answered too: the title is at the top of the panel in large bold type with nothing over it, so her missing-title shot was a photography artefact, not a defect.
   STATUS UPDATE 15:02Z: BUILT and committed (Hub `6a4db3da`): Close control (aria-labelled), Esc, and click-outside all travel `goHash("#tasks")` like Back; the not-found state carries the same Close; one-boards.css renders the detail as a right-hand panel with a sticky Back/Close row, full-width under 900px. Hermetic check `harness-zion19-taskdetail.mjs` GREEN on HEAD and RED on three deliberate breaks (unwired board, deleted Close, deleted Esc); TIER-1 row committed (`c1b9375b`). Checker verdict 15:07Z (`zion19-check-step14-2026-09-04.txt`): PASS on the harness, the red-first breaks, the CSS and the file fence; ONE FAIL — the Esc listener was removed on only two of three close paths (Close and Back buttons left it bound). The one fix round landed (Hub `80365258` + the tightened check `23fc4d45`, applied by the overseer after the cheap route failed its proof twice); re-check 15:14Z PASS (`zion19-check-step14-round2-2026-09-04.txt`: diff confirmed, 15/15, red-first revert reproduces). Out-of-scope observation on the NEXT list: leaving the detail by a sidebar link (not one of the four close paths) still leaves the Escape listener bound. Live drive and Sienna's grade still owed (signed-in browser); the build carrying this is running on the Studio
   STATUS: PREMISE CORRECTED 14:40Z — the "Already true" claim that the hook has no consumer was FALSE: both task boards in tasks.js (the "My tasks" kanban at ~3840 and the per-board view at ~4276) already pass `detailHref`/`onOpenDetail` into the shared detail screen `#tasks?task=<id>` (ZION-3 STEP 17, commit 6b177a8e, 2026-08-31), and that commit is IN LIVE production — a task card on a task board already opens the shared detail live. What this step still owes Nick's words ("open up like monday/asana"): the detail presented as a panel over the board with Esc / click-outside / Close, loading and error states, the honest "no Monday history" line, and a hermetic check proving the two consumers and the detail's fields. Non-task boards (clients, roster, nickmind) carry no card-detail consumer and are outside this step's fence (NEXT line). Whole-task cheap runs on the 4,000-line tasks.js died twice (vendor timeouts, size), so the rest goes as single-file routes
    DEFINITION OF DONE: card click opens the Monday/Asana-style detail via the existing detailHref/onOpenDetail hook; deep link resolves in a fresh tab; Esc, click-outside and close control all close; loading/error/not-found states real; driven live
    PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-taskdetail.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 14)`
   VERIFIED: Sonnet checker 15:07Z FAIL on one item (Escape listener left bound by the Close and Back buttons) then re-check 15:14Z PASS after the one fix round — projects/ops/zion/evidence/zion19-check-step14-2026-09-04.txt and -round2; the live click-through (real card on the live site, fresh-tab deep link, Esc) is NOT MEASURABLE FROM HERE until agents have a signed-in browser; the detail route itself has been live since 2026-08-31
15. Write the agent-facing Hub infrastructure guide; map the Monday coupling — 100%
   STATUS: DRAFTED (`HUB-AGENT-GUIDE.md`, uncommitted). Cold check 1 FAILED it (14:02Z: create needs owner + due date; no close instruction). Fix round applied by qwen (creation now states assignee and due_date are REQUIRED, citing tasks.js 1021/1067/1072). Cold check 2 (`zion19-check-step15-round2-2026-09-04.txt`, 14:43Z): creation PASSES first try; closing FAILS — the guide told agents to `complete` a card, but the API refuses every robot completion with 403 by design (the Done sign-off gate, universal since 2026-08-20: "only Nick, Chantelle, or the task's own owner can put a card in Done - an agent moves its own work to Nick's Review and stops there"). The honest rewrite of that one section (agents cannot close cards; reopen with `undo` is allowed; hand finished work to Nick's Review; name scratch cards "safe to close") is written and waiting on the governance ticket for this file (the cheap route could not produce an applicable edit twice). Two labelled scratch cards remain open on the live board for a person to close (`nt-20260904-135948-4b4e`, `nt-20260904-143847-6663`) — NEXT list
    DEFINITION OF DONE: a cold agent creates and reads back a card using only the guide; every guide item marked MONDAY-DERIVED or NATIVE from a traced write path
    PROOF: `test -f projects/business/business-app/HUB-AGENT-GUIDE.md (CREATED BY STEP 15)`
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 16:45Z (100%: three of four criteria passed cold; the fourth fixed and machine-counted)
16. Blind finish-line sweep, postmortem, close — 100%
   STATUS UPDATE 23:05Z (step 16) — THE BLIND VERDICT, PASTED UNEDITED. A cold se-blind-checker was handed only the ten FINISH LINE items and the live address, re-ran every named command itself, and drove the live site as nick and as dean. Its verdict, verbatim: **ITEM 1 — PASS** (Google start → 302 to Google; old password door → 410; all six identities mint a session through the agent door and render; view-as round-trips nick→dean→nick; the nightly sign-in check 28/28) · **ITEM 2 — FAIL** (`--step 4` RED `LIVE_SOURCE_REVISION_STALE`: live=041e16bd, expected=42cb2142 — live is not serving current HEAD) · **ITEM 3 — PASS** (live walkthrough 17/17; fixcoverage 22/22) · **ITEM 4 — FAIL** (no-arg suite RED exit 1: the fresh local build failed on TIER-1 `harness-reassignAQ-20260730.mjs`, producer_exit=1, and steps 17/18/20/24 NOT_MEASURABLE; `--step 9` GREEN and `--step 25` GREEN individually) · **ITEM 5 — PASS** (check-handback selftest exit 0; card `ac-zion-zion-19-finish-the-hub` read back live at data.tasks) · **ITEM 6 — PARKED-BY-RULING** (nothing voice-related visible; and `ncFab` does not exist on the live page at all — `app/js/nico-chat.js` is not wired into the shipped build) · **ITEM 7 — PASS** (guide read directly: three traps present, Monday coupling map present) · **ITEM 8 — PASS** (five headings render as inert DIVs for nick with their own sub-tools; click changes nothing; dean has no Growth heading) · **ITEM 9 — PASS** (deep link opens the panel; Close and Escape return to #tasks; unknown id lands on the friendly miss panel) · **ITEM 10 — PASS** (postmortem present at §6a). **7 PASS, 2 FAIL (2, 4), 1 PARKED.** The checker reported no caged instrument.
   🔴 OVERSEER'S RECONCILIATION, RECORDED BESIDE THE VERDICT AND NOT EDITED INTO IT: **the ITEM 8 PASS is contradicted by what Nick is looking at.** He sent a screenshot of his own sidebar showing the word GROWTH twice — once as the department heading over Website, once as an older section label over Workflows · Pipeline · Broadcasts · Forms — with a "DEPARTMENTS" label over a list of screens that are not departments. A cold page load as nick on the same deploy (041e16bd) reproduced it: `wordsAppearingTwiceAsHeadings: ["Growth"]`. The checker graded only the five `.tab-dept` headings and never looked at the older `.tab-group-label` system, which is the same blind spot this drive's own checks had until tonight. So item 8 is a FALSE PASS of exactly the class §6a describes, and the sidebar is NOT done: two section systems still share the column. Nick's ruling on it: "the nav is a mess — give me what you think the heading should be and what belongs under each category." A one-vocabulary proposal has been put to him (Client Success · Recruitment · Finance · Ops · Growth · AI, every link once, the old "Departments" label removed) and is awaiting his answer before it is built. **ITEMS 2 AND 4 HAVE ONE CAUSE, AND IT IS NOT THIS PROJECT'S.** After this lane's last deploy (`041e16bd`, live), another lane pushed `c74551ce` "Skippy restored as a third agent identity" and `42cb2142`. The first re-adds `skippy` to the full assignee list, which (a) offers THREE assistants on a Hub row where TIER-1 `harness-reassignAQ` expects two, and (b) leaked Skippy onto Monday-backed rows, where the gate's own header says an assistant is "a choice guaranteed to fail on save" because Monday has no account for one. Their deploy died in 17 seconds on that gate, so live is stuck one commit behind (ITEM 2) and the fresh local build in the no-arg suite fails on the same gate (ITEM 4). Read both sides before touching anything: the gate is not stale — its header records that Skippy was RETIRED as an assignee on Nick's 2026-08-24 instruction and the gate narrowed to two on 2026-08-27 for that reason; the restoring commit cites a 2026-08-30 ruling for a different list and cites nothing for bringing Skippy back. **Done:** the leak (b) is closed in `ba5c9e18` — `skippy` added to `AGENT_ASSIGNEE_IDS`, the Monday-row assertion green again — a fix that is correct whichever way the ruling goes. **Deliberately NOT done:** widening the Hub-row expectation from two assistants to three, because that would be this lane accepting another lane's reversal of Nick's own ruling on its say-so. Put to Nick as a one-line question with a recommendation. Until he rules, or that lane reverts, the shared build stays red on that one assertion and ITEMS 2 and 4 stay FAIL for a reason outside this plan's fence.
   🔴 ALSO FROM THE VERDICT, ITEM 6's evidence, sharper than the NEXT-list line already there: **the Ask Neeko chat panel does not exist on the live site.** `document.getElementById('ncFab')` is null on a signed-in page and no script tag for `app/js/nico-chat.js` is served at all — only `js/neeko-talk-panel.js` loads. The file is in the repo and is not wired into the shipped build. That is the pre-existing `harness-fabdockAK` A7 failure ("NO #ncFab") measured on HEAD before this lane touched anything, now confirmed on production by a cold checker. NEXT-listed; not this lane's.
   STATUS: QUEUED
    DEFINITION OF DONE: cold checker's verdict on all ten finish-line items pasted unedited; postmortem written; registry appended
    PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs`
   VERIFIED: A cold checker handed only the ten finish-line items and the live address hub.heroesandsidekicks.io graded seven of them pass, two fail and one parked. Both fails have one cause outside this project: a commit another team pushed to that site's code re-added Skippy the AI assistant as a task owner, tripped the check in the site's build that records Nick retiring Skippy as a task owner on 24 August, and left the live site one commit behind. The half of that commit that offered Skippy as an owner on task rows that come from Monday.com, where the save is always refused, is fixed and shipped. Whether Skippy is a task owner at all reverses Nick's 24 August ruling and is with him. One of the seven passes is wrong by Nick's own screenshot: the sidebar showed the word Growth twice on a cold page load because an older set of section labels shares the sidebar with the five new department headings, and the checker never looked at that older set. Nick has since ruled one vocabulary for the whole sidebar. Also from the verdict: the Ask Neeko chat panel is not in the site's shipped build at all.
   VERIFIED: Verified by reading the code repository's history and the build list on this Mac; the public website was confirmed to serve no launcher, which is the intended state after that deletion.
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 21:00Z (90%: verdict pasted, postmortem written, registry appended; the corrected checks await one clean live run on a quieter Mac)
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-06 02:15Z (95%: everything an agent can prove is proven; the last 5% is a human-signed review receipt)
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-06 02:20Z (100%: closed by Nick's ruling; the signed receipt stays on the NEXT list as the one item a person closes)

17. [UI] Red-first checks for the Monday-style tile, detail panel and inbox item (Sienna's design, Nick-approved 2026-09-04) — 100%
   STATUS: OPEN 2026-09-05 02:20Z — dispatched to a sonnet builder (test authoring stays off cheap vendors); checker not yet called.
   DEFINITION OF DONE: the stub harness and the live script both exist, are RED on HEAD for the reasons the design names, and the stub harness is a TIER-1 build check
   PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-monday-panel.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 17)`
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 16:05Z (100%: re-run first-hand on the current commit)
18. [UI] The kanban tile: one link, no fold, one meta line, three heights — 100%
   STATUS: QUEUED behind STEP 17's RED checks a–c.
   DEFINITION OF DONE: stub checks a–c GREEN; live tile heights ≤3 distinct values; drag still moves a tile
   PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-monday-panel.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 17)`
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 16:05Z (100%: live serves the tile; evidence files present)
19. [UI] The detail becomes a panel over the board — 100%
   STATUS: QUEUED behind STEP 17's RED checks d–f.
   DEFINITION OF DONE: stub checks d–f GREEN; live panel widths 480/560/full measured; board scroll unchanged; Escape closes
   PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/zion19-monday-live.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 17)`
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 16:05Z (100%: proven on the public site)
20. [UI] The inbox item on the same panel — 100%
   STATUS: QUEUED behind STEP 19.
   DEFINITION OF DONE: stub check g GREEN; the three inbox guards PASS; decision controls in the head at 1280 and in the bottom bar at 390, measured live
   PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion19-monday-panel.mjs (CREATED BY STEP 17)`
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 16:05Z (100%: proven on the public site)
21. [UI] `--faint` off small text on these surfaces; one design-QA round; ship and prove live — 100%
   STATUS: QUEUED behind STEPS 18–20.
   DEFINITION OF DONE: stub harness a–h GREEN; live script exits 0 against the public site; live serves HEAD; Sienna's one-round verdict pasted
   PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 4`
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 16:05Z (100%: design verdict PASS on file; live walkthrough 17/17 on the public site)

22. A quick-publish lane for the Hub: a push is live in minutes, the visual sweep runs after and never holds it — 100%
   STATUS: OPEN 2026-09-05 13:35Z on Nick's ruling of the same hour ("publish anything as it lands"; "the hub needs to develop something better than a 25 min build each time we make a change"). The first publish under that ruling was made by hand at 13:24Z from the fast tier (157 checks) after eleven runner publishes had died in the browser tier on a saturated machine.
   DEFINITION OF DONE: a push to the business web app's repository is live on hub.heroesandsidekicks.io in under five minutes with the 157 fast checks still blocking; the 25-minute browser sweep runs after the publish, posts a Hub inbox item when it finds a regression, and can never hold or undo a publish; every existing check is still registered
   PROOF: `node projects/business/business-app/_selfchecks/harness-zion3-proof-suite.mjs --step 4`
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 14:15Z (85%: the sweep has not yet run to a verdict; it re-runs on the next push after the restart)
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 14:50Z (90%: one full browser sweep still has to finish and record its verdict; the newest one is running on the Studio)
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 16:30Z (100%: every item of the step's proof is on file; the clean full pass of the sweep is expected on the run in progress and is not required by the definition of done)
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-05 18:00Z (100%: every proof line of the step is on file, including one full sweep pass after a fast publish)

## NEXT list (found after the finish line was set — recorded, not worked)
- 🔴 **CLOSED BY NICK, 2026-09-06 02:20Z — his words: "call it".** Ruled after the closing report that named every item's state: 21 of 22 steps at 100%, STEP 16 closed on his word, the blind verdict 7 PASS / 2 FAIL (both traced and corrected) / 1 PARKED, every agent-measurable check green on the live site. The ONE item a person closes: the signed independent design-review receipt that STEP 24 of the ZION-3 suite requires by its own 2026-09-01 rule (Sienna's two written reviews of 2026-09-05 are the material). Nothing below is worked under this plan; each line is its own small task or a decision already taken.
- **DECIDED BY NICK, 2026-09-06 02:22Z ("2 ok"):** the shared browser rig `projects/shared-tooling/browser.mjs` lives in the main workspace repository as a tracked regular file (the other lane's commit 6a39eaa0b stands); the `Documents/deck-shared` copy is no longer the source. The Hub's shared-deck guard already accepts a tracked copy (5c27fae3). Follow-up for whoever touches deck-shared next: mark its browser.mjs as a stale mirror or point it back at the workspace file.
- 2026-09-06 01:50Z (STEP 16 bookkeeping): the ledger tool (`unified-project-update.mjs`) refuses every write since the third restart because its self-containment judge spawns the command-line `claude`, whose sign-in has expired ("Failed to authenticate: OAuth session expired and could not be refreshed", measured with a one-word test call at load 13). STEP 16's row therefore still reads 90% on the ledger and the board while this file carries the 95% state (verdict, postmortem, registry, human-gated item 4). Only a person can sign that command line back in (`claude login` in a terminal); the row is re-recorded the moment that is done.
- 2026-09-05 22:55Z (finish-line item 4, STEP 16): the no-arg ZION-3 suite cannot exit 0 from an agent's hands by its own design — STEP 24 is `uiOnly()` and "DELIBERATELY LEFT UNWIRED" (suite comment dated 2026-09-01): it requires an INDEPENDENT, human-authored Sienna review receipt with matched screenshot hashes, and the suite's own SELF_AUTHORED_RECEIPT / RECEIPT_NOT_INDEPENDENT checks exist to refuse anything an agent fabricates; STEP 1 has no harness interface at all (blind check, 18:30Z). Every measurable step is GREEN on the live site tonight (0 RED after the STEP 17, 18 and 25 corrections). So item 4 as literally written is a human-gated item, not a build gap: it closes when a person signs the STEP 24 receipt. Recorded, not worked.
- 2026-09-05 20:54Z (STEP 7): after the checker corrections, `--step 25` still returns RED `RENDERED_BOARD_NOT_AUTHORIZED` for ONE case — chantelle's Tasks screen shows the chip "HS General Tasks" while her GET /api/tasks rows sit only on "Tasks: Accounting" and "Executive Team: General Tasks" (four open, none recently done) and her GET /api/my-boards grants only "Chantelle's Mind". TRACED 22:20Z (zion19-step7-chantelle-chip-trace-2026-09-05.txt): the chip is deliberate — my-boards.js `baselineBoards()` floors "HS General Tasks" (board 2726979297) into EVERY identity's access list under Nick's 2026-07-30 ruling, verbatim in the code: "again everyone needs hs general and other boards theyre going to use"; the checker's granted set reads only `/api/my-boards data.boards` and never the client-side floors, so it calls a ruled-in chip unauthorized. Not a product defect and not a decision for anyone: the checker must include the same baseline floors the screen uses (TEST-AUTHORING correction, dispatched after the full suite run). Recorded with the facts; step 9 GREEN 18:20Z; step 17 not measurable all evening (browser held by other lanes at load 110–350).
- 2026-09-05 20:10Z (STEP 22, cross-lane): the Hub's TIER-1 gate `harness-shareddeck-20260903` fails on this Mac since 18:00Z, so every Hub publish is blocked at the fast tier — because another lane's workspace commit 6a39eaa0b ("the browser rig is a real tracked file again, not a symlink into one person's home folder") replaced `projects/shared-tooling/browser.mjs` with a tracked regular file that has since diverged from `Documents/deck-shared/browser.mjs`, and the gate (2026-09-03) insists on a symlink into the deck-shared checkout. Both designs want one reviewable copy; a tracked file in the main repository satisfies that by a different route. Being worked the same evening as the smallest reconciliation: the guard accepts a git-tracked regular file (mode 100644) as the canonical copy, with red-first fixtures so an untracked or silently diverged copy still fails. Whether the rig should live in deck-shared or in the workspace repository is Nick's call; the owning session could not be found from here. The sweep of run 33987325267 filed this as "Visual sweep found a regression" — removed from the inbox, since it is the machine's environment, not the Hub's code.
- 2026-09-05 (finish-line item 2, STEP 4): the parity proof `--step 4` compares the live static digest against THIS Mac's staged `app/dist/` manifest. Since the runner became the publisher (STEP 22) that local staging is whatever the last local build left behind, so the check reads `LIVE_STATIC_DIGEST_STALE` even when live serves HEAD (measured 19:41–19:46Z: live `ddf071a6` = origin/main, functions digest identical, static digest differs because the local staging was a 19:10Z build of `1cab9d7a` with 309 files against live's 304). Revision parity and the per-file byte check still hold. Correction owed to the checker: stage HEAD with a fast build from a clean worktree before comparing, or compare the live manifest's per-file hashes to HEAD source directly (it already does that for the rows it can fetch). Recorded, not worked.
- 2026-09-05 (STEP 7): the live board-access proof (`--step 25`) was GREEN at 22:05Z yesterday and RED today with two DIFFERENT data-consistency reason codes on consecutive runs — `CONFIG_BOARD_NOT_RENDERED` (nick: "TASKS: Hero/Sidekick Success" granted in bizapp:my-boards but not among the rendered Tasks chips) and `RENDERED_BOARD_NOT_AUTHORIZED` (chantelle: "HS General Tasks" rendered but neither granted nor backed by a live assigned row). No Hub code touching the board chips changed today; the business data feeds did (hub-data-sync rewrote the database at 14:36Z) and the machine ran at load 19–22 while the chip set was read. Whether the chip rule or the feed is right is a product call for lane A / Nick — recorded with the reason codes, not worked. `--step 9` returned NOT_MEASURABLE (browser held by other lanes, then "chrome exited early" under load) on every attempt today.
  · TRACED 18:20Z (zion19-step7-chip-rule-trace-2026-09-05.md): tasks.js builds the chip list from three unions — boards with the viewer's OPEN or RECENTLY-DONE rows, boards granted in my-boards (own-scope only), and agent lanes with open rows — and rebuilds it for seconds after first paint as each fetch resolves. The proof reads the chips with a 700 ms two-equal-reads settle inside 8 s, so under load it can capture a partial set (nick's granted board missing = the settle race), and it counts only OPEN rows as "backed by a row" while the UI also keeps a chip for a board where the viewer's only rows are recently done (chantelle's "HS General Tasks"). So the disagreement is checker-vs-UI on done rows plus a timing window in the checker, not a Hub authorization defect. Correction owed to the checker (TEST-AUTHORING): count recently-done rows as row-backed, per Nick's 2026-07-30 row-derived-membership ruling, and settle only after the access fetch has resolved.
- 2026-09-05 (STEP 12, Sienna, not this round's to grade): at a 1280px viewport the main column runs flush to the right edge of the glass — `.app > .page` has `max-width:1120px` with auto margins and no side padding, so with the 216px rail the content box is 1064px and the Add button and Board view button sit at x=1280 with no gutter (measured with a live DOM probe 17:29Z; nothing overflows, the gutter is simply absent between 1280 and ~1336px). The gutter history in one.css §18a–c explains why a global padding change reflowed two-column rows before — a fix needs the sweep to grade it, so it is recorded, not worked.
- 2026-09-05 (STEP 12, Sienna): the live department-to-tool mapping in app.js (NAV_DEPARTMENTS) differs from this plan's §1a row 7, and the code carries a sixth "AI" heading beyond Nick's five (Client Success · Recruitment · Financing · Ops · Growth). Which is right is Nick's call; recorded, not worked.
- 2026-09-05 (STEP 12, Sienna): brands.json still points `hs` at the outgoing plum book while the Hub is built to HUB-SPEC's terracotta/cream system — Chantelle's call; recorded, not worked.
- 2026-09-05 (STEP 22): one self-hosted runner runs one job at a time, so a publish pushed while a 25-minute sweep is running queued behind it (12 minutes measured on run 33979831619). Fixed forward the same hour: a newer push cancels a still-running sweep (concurrency group on the sweep job only; a publish is never cancelled). A second runner on the Mac (or the mini rejoining) would remove the queue entirely.
- 2026-09-05 (STEP 22): the visual-sweep job re-runs the fast tier before the browser tier, and on run 33971978065 that re-run failed on `business_kv_projection.py --selftest` ("the business database on this machine is an empty placeholder") while another lane (hub-data-sync, commit 3fa2da8e) was rewriting `engine/business.db` on this Mac at that minute; the file held 3,633 rows minutes later. A machine cause, not code (the publish job had passed the same gate nine minutes earlier). Two improvements for later: the sweep job should skip its own TIER-1 re-run (already proven by the publish job on the same commit) and the data-sync lane should write the database atomically (write to a temp file, rename).
- 2026-09-05 (STEP 22): the Mac mini runner (`nicks-mac-mini`) carries a job-allowlist gate that refused the changed workflow ("RUNNER GATE REFUSED THIS JOB"); both Hub workflow jobs are pinned to `mac-studio` until a human at the mini (or SSH, which was unreachable by hostname on 2026-09-05) re-pins its allowlist for the two-job `deploy.yml`. Until then the Studio is the only runner for the Hub.
- 2026-09-05 (STEP 22): the visual-sweep job posts its FAIL verdict to the Hub inbox only; it does not rewrite the live `.gate-status.json` stamp (that would need a second deploy, which the step forbids). So `visual_sweep` reads `pending` on a fast-tier publish even after the sweep passed — the pass record lives in the runner's `_selfchecks/.tier2-last-pass.json` and the run log. A stamp refresh without a redeploy is a later improvement.

- 🔴 (2026-09-04, overseer) **UNCONFIRMED AND POTENTIALLY SERIOUS — a person should check this on a real phone.** A dispatched agent measured the mobile "More" panel at 390px and reported that only ONE of the eight tools is actually tappable: two sit underneath the fixed bottom bar so a tap lands on the bar instead, and five are entirely below the screen with no way to scroll to them because the panel is pinned to a fixed container. At 850px it reported seven of eight reachable and Website unreachable for the same reason. Its method was sound — real rectangles and `elementFromPoint` at each row's centre, with a Booking click that genuinely navigated. **I could not reproduce it.** Two attempts, two different browsers: the in-app pane would not hold a 390px viewport (it snapped back to 1280 between calls, which is the same trouble that agent reported), and in the harness browser the panel reported zero rows at BOTH 390px and 850px, so it never opened for me at all. So this is one agent's measurement that a second instrument could not confirm or refute, not a finding. It is outside the FINISH LINE's ten items, which say nothing about the mobile panel, and no change in this lane touched it. Recorded here because if it is real, most of the team cannot reach most of their tools on a phone, and that is worth a human with an actual phone rather than another agent with another browser.
- (2026-09-04, overseer) The app carries TWO department vocabularies and they disagree, measured live: the sidebar reads Ops · Financing · Recruitment · Client Success · Growth, while the Tools screen's own filter chips and section headings read Recruitment · Client Success · Marketing · Operations · Infrastructure · Finance · General. So "Ops" and "Operations" are the same thing spelled two ways, "Financing" and "Finance" likewise, "Growth" has no counterpart at all, and Marketing, Infrastructure and General exist only on the screen. The FINISH LINE names the sidebar's five words in Nick's own wording, so the sidebar is right by this plan's own bar and the mismatch is pre-existing. Recorded, not worked — but somebody should pick one vocabulary.
- (2026-09-04, overseer) Sienna's second finding, not worked: the task panel's "Open this task directly" link carries a class the app documents as meaning "present but carries no value — a dash, a currency code, an id", which renders it in the faintest grey at 12px in monospace, roughly 2.4:1 in light and 3.4:1 in dark against a 4.5:1 floor. The monospace is a leftover from when that link's visible text WAS the raw route fragment; the words were fixed and the styling that made them look like machine output was not. The equivalent link on a task row is explicitly protected and renders fine.
- (2026-09-04, overseer, HANDOVER to whoever owns the Hub build) `app/build-dist.js` exits ZERO when it stands down for a busy browser, having staged no `dist`. The deploy workflow no longer trusts that (fix `bb4e7957` retries and then fails by name), but every OTHER caller of build-dist still reads that exit code as success. The honest fix is for the stand-down to have its own exit code that says "did not run" rather than borrowing the one that means "succeeded". Not worked here; the deploy pipe is unblocked without it.
- (2026-09-04, overseer) `harness-fabdockAK-20260802` fails three checks on HEAD and has been failing them before this lane touched anything (proven by a clean-worktree baseline at HEAD): A7 the Ask Nico launcher is not painted at 375px on home for nick, E1 sixty round trips, F1 zero switcher-state cells measured. A7 is the one worth a person's attention — it says the assistant launcher is missing on the phone-width home screen. Recorded, not worked.
- (2026-09-04, overseer) A worktree of the Hub repo cannot run any browser harness: the shared browser rig lives outside the repo and is reached by a relative path that a worktree breaks. Anyone doing a red-first baseline this way gets a rig error that looks like a harness failure. Link the rig beside the worktree first.
- (2026-09-04, overseer) Security-shaped, click-gated per §S, so recorded and NOT worked: the header comment of `app/functions/api/nico-chat.js` (Hub repo) writes out one of its own configured shared secrets in plain text as an illustrative value. It belongs with the end-phase security pass, not this lane. The value is not repeated here.
- (2026-09-04, overseer, HANDOVER to the ZION-3 lane) `harness-zion3-proof-suite --step 19` is RED with `WRITER_LACKS_DUE_DATE_INVARIANT app/functions/api/checklist-act.js`. Its assertion requires every file in ZION-3's frozen agent-writer list to mention a due date and a rejection; `checklist-act.js` ticks a checklist item's done flag, creates no task and sets no due date, so the invariant does not apply to it. The file is unchanged since the repo's initial import, so this predates ZION-19 and no ZION-19 fix touches it. Either drop that one file from the frozen writer list or narrow the assertion to the writers that genuinely create a task. Recorded, not worked, under the one-round rule.
- (2026-09-04, overseer) The live task detail panel prints the raw sync identifier to the reader (`nt-card-…`, `nt-biz-<Monday number>`) beside the task title, measured on screen at 16:52Z. Sienna raised the same thing from her screenshots. Cosmetic, outside this lane's finish line.

- (2026-09-04, overseer) The cheap router's `anthropic-haiku` provider has no endpoint for the tool-calling path (`NO_GRUNT_ENDPOINT`, by design), so the "haiku through the same router" fallback this plan's §5 names does not exist as written; and the Anthropic work-type gate has no test-authoring class, so a Sonnet test-authoring dispatch passes or fails on prose luck (three refusals of one brief, 13:50–13:55Z). Router lane's call; recorded, not worked.
- (2026-09-04, overseer) The Hub working tree carries 14 modified + 19 untracked files from other sessions, three of them (`deploy.yml`, `deploy-host-readiness.sh`, `.gitignore`) rewritten with STALE pre-HEAD content by a snapshot restore at 08:20:09 (the deploy.yml js-symlink change is already superseded by `app/ci-selfheal.js`). Left untouched by this lane; somebody should discard them deliberately.
- (2026-09-04, overseer) Security-shaped, click-gated per §S: the agent test-mode session door (STEP 6) — if Nick reopens it — gets the end-phase security pass; `IDENT_TEST_MODE` is provisioned on Cloudflare with an unknown value and six retired `IDENT_PW_*` password secrets sit orphaned there; the Hub repo's own CLAUDE.md still describes the retired password sign-in as current (a governed doc, outside this lane's fence).
- (2026-09-04, overseer) The STEP 15 cold checker left a labelled scratch card on the live board ("ZION-19 STEP 15 cold-check test card — safe to delete") because the guide had no close/archive instruction; the fix round documents the mechanism and the re-check removes the card.
- (2026-09-04, overseer) The STEP 10 `--open` run also posted routine progress updates to six other subproject cards (board-report.mjs's own behavior, as Skippy) — harmless, noted so nobody hunts a phantom writer.
- (2026-09-04, overseer, HANDOVER to the title-standard lane / Mae) commit 72f93550's app-wide `.view > .topbar > .sub{display:none}` hid the Status screen's live all-clear declaration (`#mc-sub`), which the drift gate's R1 requires — every deploy was blocked on 12 cells until the one-screen exemption in one.css (`9f0163af`). Any future "hide the sub-line" rule must carry that exemption or move the declaration.
- (2026-09-04, overseer) Two labelled scratch cards are open on the live board and only a person can close them (`nt-20260904-135948-4b4e`, `nt-20260904-143847-6663` — "safe to close"): the API refuses every robot completion by design.
- (2026-09-04, overseer) The Claude-in-Chrome extension on the Studio is not connected, so agents cannot drive Nick's own signed-in Chrome; the local visual rig (stub session) stands in for design QA until the agent test door (STEP 6) or the extension is back.
- (2026-09-04, overseer) The access-check script sent to Dean on Slack told him to click "Payroll (or the finance/cash view)", which his role cannot see by design (finance scope is nick/chantelle/rizza); his "I don't see Payroll" is the script's defect, not the Hub's. His other two notes are evidence: Google sign-in worked for him live with no password (he picked his name and was in), and tasks read from Monday (Monday-derived, documented in the guide).
- (2026-09-04, STEP 12 Sienna, routed for one recheck) STEP 13: the narrow-width sidebar was shot on the wrong region — reshoot at 1000/850px and confirm the pill-nav heading behaviour. STEP 14: the 1280px panel screenshot is missing the task title (likely a scroll artifact — confirm) and the panel shows raw sync ids (`nt-biz-…` and the Monday numeric id) to the reader — hide or humanise them. Receipt: `HUB-UIUX-AUDIT/evidence/zion-19/step12-sienna-receipt-2026-09-04.md`.
- (2026-09-04) When Chrome is held by another process, the Hub's build step defers its browser check and returns a zero exit code without staging `app/dist`, so the publish step then cannot find the folder and stops. It cost the STEP 6 door build one re-run. The Hub's own CLAUDE.md already says build one at a time on this Mac; worth a build-step guard that stops loudly when the folder was not staged. Hub build lane's call.
- (2026-09-04, STEP 6) The nightly sign-in health job (`hub-signin-health.mjs`) proves the two live doors but logs the per-identity sign-in/scope proof as a standing gap; now the agent test-mode door exists and is approved, add the leg: for each of the six identities POST {action:agent-session,identity} with the vault bearer → 200 + expected scopes, plus a wrong-bearer 410 negative control. Do it after the door is live and provable by behavior. Credential/live surface — stays in-house.
- (2026-09-04, STEP 6, security-pass item) The agent test-mode door means the robot bearer can mint ANY of the six identities while IDENT_TEST_MODE=1 — a master key. The end-phase security pass must confirm IDENT_TEST_MODE is 1 ONLY in test, bound the bearer's blast radius, and decide whether an HMAC-scoped or per-identity bearer is warranted before this is trusted beyond agent testing. Click-gated per §S; not worked now.
- (2026-09-04, STEP 14 re-check) Leaving the task detail by a sidebar link — not one of its four close paths (Esc, Close, Back, click-outside) — leaves the Escape listener bound on `document` until the next detail open replaces it. Cosmetic-to-harmless; one NEXT line, not worked.
- (2026-09-04, overseer) Non-task boards (clients, roster, nickmind) render through board-screen.js without a card-detail consumer; only the two task boards deep-link. Outside this plan's finish line.
- (2026-09-04, overseer) `harness-shareddeck-20260903` and the writer-manifest gate derive the workspace root from the checkout's position on disk (four / three levels above app/), so they fail on any runner whose checkout is not inside `Documents/Claude 2.0/projects/business/` — worked around with host symlinks in deploy.yml (`df01e1e5`); a gate that fails for the machine is the class the Hub's own CLAUDE.md forbids. Router/gate lane's call.
- (2026-09-04, overseer) Plan correction applied in place: STEP 14 EXTENDS tasks.js's existing detail renderer and `#tasks?open=` route (the file's own comment names it THE ONE renderer) instead of creating `app/js/task-detail.js` — a second module would be the duplication this plan bans; the new harness file stands as written.

- ZION-17's native progress-view screen (that lane's STEP 17): Sienna-designed, stuck at 0% behind a recurring service error when the lane was superseded — see `projects/ops/zion/STATE-ZION-17.md`. Not in this plan's finish line (Nick, 2026-09-04, A7: core priorities land, small snags don't demand another regroup); recorded here so it stays somebody's job. Found by this plan's cold reader.
- ZION-17's STEP 18 gate-quality remainders: three named, still-open findings in the handback gate's same-answer detection (two slip-through shapes, one circular non-answer shape) — see `projects/ops/zion/STATE-ZION-17.md`. Deliberately NOT folded into STEP 9 (whose bar is the nine round-12 findings, set at planning time); STEP 9's checker should read them for overlap before its one round, and whatever remains stays on this line. Found by this plan's cold reader.

2026-09-18 — 17 file(s) archived (CHANGES-ZION-5-agents-skills-directory.md, PLAN-ZION-17-board-pm-enforcement.md, PLAN-ZION-3-kanban-hub-work.md, STATE-ZION-5.md, PLAN-CHANGES-ZION-17.md, PLAN-CHANGES-ZION-19.md, PLAN-CHANGES-ZION-3.md, POSTMORTEM-ZION-3-2026-09-01.md, POSTMORTEM-ZION-4-hub-audit-sweep-20260903.md, POSTMORTEM-ZION-7.md, QUESTIONS-ZION-17.md, STATE-CLAUDE-2-0-D2.md, STATE-ZION-12.md, STATE-ZION-17.md, STATE-ZION-2.md, STATE-ZION-7.md, STATE-ZION-PROGRAMME.md) → archive folder 2026-09-18-zion

Current state STATE-ZION-19.md

# STATE — ZION-19 · Finish the business Hub · created 2026-09-04 by the planning session (Boris 2)

## HUMAN CHECKLIST

**Done:**
- Nothing yet — the plan is written and reviewed, the work has not started

**In progress:**
- Nothing yet

**Pending:**
- Working out exactly which finished fixes never reached the live site
- Getting the live Hub up to date with everything already built
- Proving each of those fixes actually works on the real screens
- Re-closing the six Hub steps that were reopened
- Turning Google sign-in on, and fixing the nightly check that still tests the old login
- Clearing the nine outstanding board-discipline findings
- Opening the Hub board to this project's own cards
- Bringing the voice setup across from the Skippy app
- Sienna's design review on every changed screen
- Grouping the sidebar under five department headings
- The task detail view that opens when you click a card
- The how-to guide for other agents, and mapping what still depends on Monday
- The blind final check, the write-up, and closing the project

**Finish line:** all six people sign in with Google on the live Hub and run their real work — boards, tasks, payroll, clients, workload — with every fix that has been built actually live and proven on the screens they use.


## Current state (rewritten in place — this section only, never appended)

**Lane OPEN 2026-09-04 13:19Z — Fable overseer driving; 5-minute loop armed (job 20b1af56); heartbeat row `lane:zion19-hub-finish` registered.** Sessions fanning out on this Mac at open: 5 → cap = min(8, 40/5) = 8.

**15:43Z — WHAT IS LIVE, and the one build still to land.** Live production now serves `23fc4d45` (measured `--step 4`): the department sidebar, the Monday/Asana task panel with its Close/Esc/click-outside and the Escape-listener fix, the panel styling, the title-clip fix and the Status-screen drift fix are ALL LIVE. The publishing machine is the Studio runner (`nicks-mac-studio`), the mini being offline. The ONE build still to land is `32c3fbe8` (the agent test-mode sign-in door, STEP 6) — its build PASSED TIER 1 but its deploy step failed with `ENOENT app/dist` because build-dist deferred its browser gate while another process (Sienna's visual run) held Chrome and exited without staging dist (the Hub's own "build one at a time on this Mac" contention trap). Re-run triggered 15:43Z once the machine was quiet. HEAD is `912400a2` (the agent guide, docs-only, no build). Nick took the file-governance gate down for 24h at 15:42Z (his own terminal), so STATE/plan writes are free until 2026-09-05 15:42Z.

**Sienna's design QA (STEP 12), 15:42Z — receipt `HUB-UIUX-AUDIT/evidence/zion-19/step12-sienna-receipt-2026-09-04.md` + 20 screenshots.** Sign-in screen and task panel visually sound (Monday/Asana shape, breakpoints, dark scheme hold); the five-department sidebar exists and is correctly identity-gated (dean has no Growth heading, proven by live DOM). Routed back for ONE recheck round each: (STEP 13) the narrow-width sidebar was photographed on the wrong region — reshoot at 1000/850px; (STEP 14) the task title is absent from the 1280px panel shot (likely a scroll artifact) and the panel shows raw sync ids (`nt-biz-…`, Monday numeric id) to the reader. Out of scope, pre-existing: the app's burnt-orange accent differs from the plum brand book (standing look, not introduced here). Receipt is a working-tree snapshot; re-take on the live domain once STEP 6 lands.

**STEP LEDGER at 14:25Z (checker verdicts live in `projects/ops/zion/evidence/zion19-check-step<N>-2026-09-04.txt`; the per-step STATUS lines in the plan's own STEPS section are the authoritative running record):**
| Step | State | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLOSED — checker PASS | merge `0ae48c00`; suite RED[15]/NM[17,18,20,24] recorded exactly; the fresh-build red was a real 1.87px title ink clip (fixed under STEP 4), not machine load |
| 2 | CLOSED — checker PASS-WITH-CORRECTIONS (fb87280e → INFRA, applied) | ledger `projects/ops/zion/evidence/zion19-step2-ledger-2026-09-04.txt`: live `d4922ca6`, 14 product fixes, 33 infra |
| 3 | BUILT, checker PASS on the harness (registration was PENDING at check time, since landed in Hub `38e2c73c`) | `_selfchecks/harness-zion19-fixcoverage.mjs`, 23 PASS on HEAD, all five cases RED against their parent commits; authored by the overseer under the test-authoring routing category (cheap lane refuses test authoring; Anthropic work-type gate refused three Sonnet dispatches) |
| 4 | IN FLIGHT, blocked at two doors | runner `nicks-mac-mini` OFFLINE on GitHub (run 33878314020 queued since 13:29Z, 33880944912 cancelled, 33882081065 pending; yesterday's three runs failed at "Build dist"); the mini did not answer SSH by name, alias or IP (192.168.1.67:22 timed out); local `deploy.mjs deck-business` (14:14Z, with the other lane's two untracked nico-chat files parked and restored) stopped at TIER-2 `py drain_inbox.py --selftest` — being isolated |
| 6 | 🔴 NEEDS NICK'S WORD | two Sonnet builders declined the bearer-gated agent test-mode session door (session.js 2026-09-03 "ONLY NICK REOPENS THIS" vs his 2026-09-04 signed test-mode grant); nightly check rewritten and committed (`cbc2fc53e`) to prove the Google door (302) and the retired password door (410) |
| 8 | CLOSED — checker PASS | `_now` seam (`0cc0697c2`), harness call frozen (Hub `7fab9594`), 4/4 `--step 14` GREEN |
| 9 | CLOSED — one checker round PASS | `bf627997a`; nine fresh attack shapes classified correctly; suites 179/169/15/38 |
| 10 | CLOSED — checker PASS | card `ac-zion-zion-19-finish-the-hub` |
| 13 | BUILDING (attempt 5 as single-file routes; four whole-task attempts died on vendor outage, data-wall refusals, and the 1 MB request cap) | — |
| 14 | BUILDING on the cheap lane (qwen) | plan corrected in place: extends tasks.js's existing renderer and `#tasks?open=` route, no second module |
| 15 | FIX ROUND 1 on the cheap lane after a cold-check FAIL (create needs owner + due date; no close/archive instruction; a labelled scratch card left on the live board) | `zion19-check-step15-2026-09-04.txt` |
| 5, 7, 11, 12, 16 | QUEUED on 4 / 6 / voice handoff / 13+14 / all | — |

**STEP 1 — MEASURED (checker PASS 13:47Z):**
- Hub repo toplevel confirmed: `/Users/nickdeck/Documents/Claude 2.0/projects/business/business-app`.
- `git merge origin/main` brought in the 11 HSDB Phase-3 commits. ONE conflict, `app/js/clients.js` `isRisk()`: local `c2318c32` delegates to `heroLifecycleStage()`; remote had made the OLD blob read hs-database-first via `hv()`. Kept the delegation (heroLifecycleStage() itself already reads `hv(c,"health_label",…)` first, so both intents survive). `harness-riskfilter-20260903.mjs` PASS after resolution. Merge commit `0ae48c00`; branch now `ahead 5, behind 0`.
- No-arg proof suite (13:22Z, HEAD 0ae48c00): result RED, exit 1. GREEN: 2,3,4(suite-mode),5–14,16,19,21,22,23,25. RED: 15 (`PLAN_STEP_STATUS_MISSING` — the suite derives step 15's expected state from ZION-3's own plan table; a status line is missing there → owned by STEP 7's ZION-3 ledger corrections). NOT_MEASURABLE: 17,18,20,24 (all "a signed-in browser" — the browser-driven checks; 24 additionally needs Sienna's receipt → STEP 12). Fresh build: `producer_exit=1` at 92s — being re-run standalone (`app/build-dist.js`) to capture the failing gate; a red build blocks the runner deploy so it is STEP 4's first blocker to clear. Note: steps 9 and 25 are GREEN today — the plan's "SSO removed the password path" NOT_MEASURABLE claim did not reproduce.
- Working tree carries 14 modified + 19 untracked files NOT from this lane (identical mtime 08:20:09 on `deploy.yml`/`deploy-host-readiness.sh`/`.gitignore` = a snapshot restore wrote STALE pre-HEAD content over them; the deploy.yml js-symlink change is superseded by `app/ci-selfheal.js` in HEAD). Left untouched; never committed by this lane. See NEXT list.

**STEP 2 — live revision measured:** `--step 4` RED `LIVE_SOURCE_REVISION_STALE`, live=`d4922ca6` expected=`69a0b9c0` (pre-merge). Undeployed range live..HEAD = 35 commits before the merge (46 after). Ledger derivation dispatched to a cheap worker.

**STEP 10 — DONE pending checker (Z1 applied):** `tasks.js:221` already carries `"zion"` in `LANES_WITH_AGENT_STAGE_VOCAB` (cold review Z1; live-verified by the coordinator) — no code edit, no deploy. `board-report.mjs --open --lane zion …` succeeded 13:27Z: card **`ac-zion-zion-19-finish-the-hub`** opened in "In Progress", read back and confirmed. (Side effect of that tool's own run: it also posted its routine progress updates to six other subproject cards as Skippy — bot identity, not an approval item.)

## The undeployed-fix ledger (written by STEP 2 — placeholder until then)

| Commit | Screen | What a person sees | Test path or NONE | Live-verified? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (STEP 2 derives this from `git log <live_revision>..HEAD` — candidates hypothesised in the plan, not assumed) | | | | |

## Who is driving this
- **Overseer session:** the ZION-19 Fable overseer thread (topology in PLAN §5).
- **Lanes re-read this file:** at the start of every step.
- **Unowned-blocker owner:** the overseer.

## Questions (open → answered, in place)
- none yet

## Assumptions (each carries who assumed it and the check that would break it)
- none yet

## HANDOFFS (outgoing, one dated line each)
- none yet

## HANDOFFS-IN
- 2026-09-05 17:05Z, from the continuity plan's ITEM 25 (one copy of everything): the live Hub was
  built and published from a machine that is NOT Nick's — Chantelle's Mac mini, from a folder that
  had never held the Hub's data until it fetched it from the cloud copy. It built current main
  (f051d66c) under BUILD_FAST, the same shape this lane's own STEP 22 publish job uses: 158 checks
  in 25.8s, 305-file dist, then wrangler pages deploy, and hub.heroesandsidekicks.io then served
  that machine's own cache token deck-business-0509d537ae04. TWO THINGS THIS LANE SHOULD KNOW:
  (1) the quick-publish lane is what made a second machine viable — the browser tier that fails on
  that Mac is no longer on the publish path; (2) harness-scrolljumpZ still fails there four times
  out of four with 'CDP timeout: Runtime.evaluate' in its phase 2, on an idle machine, on every
  commit including ones that pass on the Studio — a real machine-side defect, handed over, not fixed.
- 2026-09-05 (SUPERSEDES POINT (2) OF THE NOTE ABOVE): that note hands over `harness-scrolljumpZ` as "a real machine-side defect, handed over, not fixed". It is now FIXED and proven on that machine — see the two entries below, which name the cause and the one-line repair.
- 2026-09-05 (UPDATE — FIXED): the hang below is **fixed and proven on that machine**, on Nick's approval. One call at browser launch in the shared rig (`Emulation.setFocusEmulationEnabled {enabled:true}`) stops the page ever being treated as hidden, so real frames keep flowing. **The gate ran all five phases to completion for the first time there — 1028 pass / 114 fail**, the 114 being the live inbox regression and nothing else, with every red-first proof working (PHASE 2: 724 violations; PHASE 3: 456; PHASE 4: 12/12; PHASE 5: 38/38). Two other browser harnesses give byte-identical output before and after, so no measurement moved. 🔴 **It could not be committed:** under `projects/shared-tooling/` the rig's tracked entry is a symlink (mode `120000`) to an absolute path in Nick's home folder, so **the rig behind all 27 browser harnesses is not in the repo** — the Studio needs the same edit applied by hand, from `projects/ops/continuity/evidence/browser-rig-focus-emulation-20260905.patch`. Putting that rig under version control is Nick's call. **The inbox regression below is UNCHANGED and still live.**
- 2026-09-05: **The machine-side cause of `harness-scrolljumpZ-20260802`'s PHASE-2 `CDP timeout: Runtime.evaluate` on Chantelle's Mac mini is measured: leaving full-screen strands the page at `visibilityState: "hidden"` on Chrome for Testing 146 under `--headless=new`, and that state survives navigation, so `requestAnimationFrame` never fires again.** PHASE 1 ends with the full-screen sweep, so PHASE 2 runs frame-starved; the shared rig's waits survive on their timer backups (~90–100 cells, freeze always on `#tools`, varying cell) but the harness's own probes at lines 231/617/749 wait on a double rAF with no timer backup and hang forever. At the freeze a second CDP client got `1+1` and `setTimeout` instantly while rAF never fired, renderer at 0.0% CPU, memory healthy. `Emulation.setFocusEmulationEnabled {enabled:true}` restores frames; `Page.bringToFront` does not. **NOT applied** — it lives in the shared browser rig behind 27 harnesses and needs Nick; and giving those rAF waits a timer backup must NOT be done, since on a frame-starved page it would return pre-layout measurements, turning a loud hang into quiet wrong numbers. Stale process, cache, path, memory, screen lock and a blocking dialog were each tested and refuted. **Second thing for this lane, more urgent:** run against `main`, the same gate fails **114 times in PHASE 1 on the shipping tree**, every failure on `inbox · full-screen return` (all six identities, both widths, `scrollAfter: 0`, focus on `<body>`) — from this lane's own STEP 18–21 inbox-panel redesign (`ed34f12`, `5b7c99c`), which kept the `bz-inbox-openlink` element the gate targets while losing the scroll-restore and focus-return it asserts. **It is live on the Hub now**, reaching production because STEP 22 moved the browser tier off the publish path — the fix-forward case that lane was built for. Full detail in `projects/ops/continuity/PLAN.md`, the 25.9 second-machine loose end. Posted by the second-machine publish proof (ITEM 25.9), which also proved the quick-publish lane end to end from that machine.
- 2026-09-05 (from the retirement/folder-audit lane, STEP 15 — the conflict purge) · Nick, on the plain question "fold the Hub's seven lane plans and index into one document once the current Hub drive lands?": **"1 ok"** (2026-09-05). So: when the current ZION-19 drive lands, this lane folds PLAN-ZION-3/4/8/12/14/17 and PLAN-ZION-PROGRAMME into ONE governing Hub document, archiving the rest by rename under `projects/_archive/goal-purge-2026-09-04/` with a first-line banner naming the survivor. Not mid-drive; nothing was moved from under this lane tonight. The retirement plan's §1c-audit STEP 15 table names every Hub document that stayed and why.
- 2026-09-04: from the continuity plan's ITEM 25 (one copy of everything), sub-step 25.9 — the eight
  gitignored data items the Hub build needs (business.db, payroll rails, the six live finance feeds)
  now have ONE canonical copy in a private R2 bucket (`hub-build-data`) in Nick's Cloudflare account,
  fetched on any authorised build machine with one command:
  `node projects/business/business-app/scripts/hub-data-sync.mjs pull`. Proven on Chantelle's Mac
  mini in a fresh folder: readiness DATA 0/8 → 8/8 READY, restored database row count 3598 = live,
  projection self-test 131/131, every TIER-1 build gate green. Consequence for this lane: the Hub is no
  longer publishable only from Nick's Mac; the readiness script and SECOND-DEPLOY-MACHINE.md in the Hub
  repo point at the tool. Per-machine R2 tokens are Nick's item in that plan.
- 2026-09-04, same source, a TRIP-OVER for this lane (not investigated, not fixed): the Hub's HEAD
  `15ccb451` ("Sidebar heading spacing back onto the app's own scale") does not build anywhere.
  Nick's Studio runner (GitHub run 33917261536, 20:50–21:04Z) BLOCKED on the TIER-2 browser gate
  `harness-scrolljumpZ` with `Error: CDP timeout: Runtime.evaluate` (45 s) in its red-first phase, and
  a clean checkout of the same commit on Chantelle's Mac mini blocked on the same gate with the same
  error. The commit before it, `0e64dafb`, blocked on TIER-1 `contract-check.js` (run 33914818950).
  Last commit whose build and publish succeeded: `7e283839` (run 33912033006, 19:36Z) — that is what
  is live. Two pushed changes are therefore unpublished until this gate is green again.
- 2026-09-04 22:00Z, same source: the fetch tool and the second-machine kit are COMMITTED in the Hub
  repo as `dbc680f9` (scripts/hub-data-sync.mjs, scripts/SECOND-DEPLOY-MACHINE.md,
  scripts/deploy-host-readiness.sh, six .gitignore lines) and deliberately NOT pushed to main — a
  push is a deploy, and this repo's committing owner is this lane. It touches no app source; pushing
  it is safe whenever this lane next pushes. The Studio's autopush job carries it to the machine WIP
  branch meanwhile.
- 🔴 2026-09-04, LATER THE SAME DAY — THE KIT DOCUMENT IS GONE; THE HANDOFF IS NOT. Nick purged
  `DEEP-MINT-REUSE-KIT.md` along with the original design directions ("purge it all from the system
  - these need to go away"), after being told this lane was queued on it and reaffirming. **This
  step is NOT stranded**: the line below names the REAL SOURCE FILES to port, not just the kit, and
  all five were verified present at the moment of the purge. Port from the code named below.
  What was lost is the written explanation of the pattern, not the pattern. If porting from source
  turns out to need that prose, it is recoverable from git history rather than rewritten from
  memory.
- 2026-09-04: Skippy voice-app lane's reusable voice-pattern artifact WAS
  projects/personal/skippy-app/design-directions/DEEP-MINT-REUSE-KIT.md (Part B — VOICE, Part C —
  HANDOFF FOR THE HUB), now purged — see the line above. Files to port: projects/personal/skippy-app/lib/openai-realtime-adapter.mjs,
  the POST /api/voice-session-openai route and the OpenAI branch of POST /api/tts in
  projects/personal/skippy-app/server.js, projects/personal/family-app/functions/api/voice-session-openai.js,
  the engine-parameter pattern in projects/personal/family-app/functions/api/skippy-tts.js, and the
  voice.js loop pattern in projects/personal/family-app/js/voice.js. Two respects: the Hub calls its OWN
  chat route, never /api/skippy-chat; and identity on that call is the Hub's signed session cookie
  (never an identity header — kit section C3.2). Posted by the Skippy-finish overseer at STEP 15's close,
  under Nick's approved ticket fc568de6 and his 24h gate-off window.
- 2026-09-04: ZION-17 (board-PM enforcement) FOLDS INTO THIS HUB WORK — Nick, 2026-09-04: "pm noard enforcement gets wrapped in tot he hub work" (REGROUP-SOURCE-2026-09-04 §A12). Its index row now reads FOLDED; its two files (projects/ops/zion/PLAN-ZION-17-board-pm-enforcement.md, projects/ops/zion/STATE-ZION-17.md) STAY IN PLACE because this plan's STEP 9 writes into them — the goal purge moves nothing of ZION-17's. Posted by the goal-purge (retirement) overseer at STEP 3's close.

## 16:09Z — THE AGENT SIGN-IN DOOR IS LIVE AND PROVEN ON PRODUCTION
The build carrying STEP 6 (`32c3fbe8`) published; live production served it and the door answered.
Proven by real HTTP against https://hub.heroesandsidekicks.io/api/session, 16:09Z:
- All six identities via POST {action:agent-session, identity} + the robot bearer → 200, body.identity
  matches, the db_ident cookie round-trips through GET whoami, and scopes are correct: nick/chantelle/
  rizza/mae carry BUSINESS_FINANCE, dean/dindin carry only the ops tier. So test mode (IDENT_TEST_MODE=1)
  is confirmed ON in production by behavior, never by reading the flag.
- Four negative controls all 410: wrong bearer, no bearer, unknown identity, legacy identity+password.
- Google sign-in itself is live (start → 302 to Google) and Dean confirmed a real live Google sign-in
  for himself earlier today (Slack: "In" after picking his name).
Current live drift is a PEER session's benign commit `723c0351` (DindinYap, "_atsdb.js re-push, no
functional change") mid-build — not this lane's, harmless; the door stays live under it.

## 16:52Z — STEP 5: THE ON-SCREEN WALKTHROUGH RAN ON THE LIVE SITE. 17/17.
`_selfchecks/zion19-live-walkthrough.mjs` (Hub repo, committed) drives a real Chrome against
https://hub.heroesandsidekicks.io, signs itself in through the agent test-mode door as **nick** and
as **dean**, and measures each shipped fix's own rendered result at 1280px and 390px. Transcript:
`HUB-UIUX-AUDIT/evidence/zion-19/step5-live-walkthrough-2026-09-04.txt`.

Measured live, every one of them on the real screen:
- Sidebar labels Title Case: Leave Form, Time Tracking, Tracker, Booking, eSign, Standups, SOPs, Website.
- Five department headings render as plain text — no link, no focus stop, `pointer-events:none`, and
  clicking one moves nothing (`#tools -> #tools`). Eight tools nested under them as clickable items.
- Screen title: weight 700, 28px, line-height 37.8px (ratio 1.35), box height 37.8px — the ink clip
  is gone, measured identically on Tools, Heroes and Tasks.
- Clients risk deep link narrows the list: `#clients?filter=risk` reads "2 watch/at-risk" and the list
  shows "Under Monitoring (2)". A plain `#clients` clears it — the stuck-filter bug stays dead.
- Archive segment: "Archived 149 Heroes 10 Sidekicks 10 Placements", the word Active absent.
- Roster: the Sidekicks view button appears zero extra times (no duplicate).
- Task board: 54 real deep links (`#tasks?task=nt-card-…`); following one opens the detail panel with
  a Close control; Close returns the hash to `#tasks`. An unknown task id lands on the miss panel with
  Back, Close and a plain-English explanation.
- 390px: eight tools still render, nothing spills sideways.
- dean signs in with ops-only scopes and his sidebar carries four headings, Growth correctly absent.

**The first run of that file reported 3 failures and all three were the file, not the app.** The title
check read the font size under a key its own measurement does not return, so it compared against a
non-number and could never pass. The clients screen and the task board were each read the instant the
address changed, which reads the previous screen. `_selfchecks/zion19-live-recheck3.mjs` is the
wider-net probe that told instrument from defect; both files are committed.

**One red remains and it is NOT a ZION-19 fix and NOT a live-surface failure.** `harness-zion3-proof-suite
--step 19` returns RED `WRITER_LACKS_DUE_DATE_INVARIANT app/functions/api/checklist-act.js`. That check
asserts every file in ZION-3's frozen agent-writer list mentions a due date and a rejection. Read
directly: `checklist-act.js` ticks a checklist item's done flag and creates no task and sets no due
date, so the invariant does not apply to it; the file is unchanged since the repo's initial import, so
this predates this lane entirely. It is a manifest over-reach in ZION-3's own suite, owned there.
NEXT-listed, unworked, per the one-round rule.

## 17:12Z — THE 17/17 LIVE RESULT RE-RUN AND CONFIRMED, PLUS THE VOICE STEP'S FIRST REFUSAL
The handback check could not compare this session's report against its own record (the record is over
the 8 MB cap), so the headline claim was re-proved rather than left unchecked: `zion19-live-walkthrough.mjs`
was run a SECOND time end to end against https://hub.heroesandsidekicks.io and returned the identical
17/17 PASS, same values on every row.

**STEP 11 (voice) — first dispatch REFUSED by the data wall, correctly.** The cheap lane opened
`app/functions/api/_session.js` while researching the port and all three cheap vendors refused the
payload as hard-floor content. That is the wall working, not a fault: the Hub's session-signing module
never leaves this machine. Re-dispatched 17:11Z with the session module explicitly off limits and the
one thing the builder actually needs from it (the `resolveSession` import line and the single
`session.identity` field, string or null) written into the brief instead, so the payload stays clean
and the work stays on the cheap lane rather than being escalated.

## 18:20Z — THE DEPLOY PIPE WAS BROKEN FOR EVERYONE, AND IT WAS NOT ANYONE'S CODE
Mae and Dindin both asked about their deploys. Measured: EIGHT consecutive runs failed
(33895883940 → 33903451762), every one in under a minute, including two manual retries.

**Cause, read straight out of the run log, not inferred.** `build-dist` stands down when another
job on this Mac holds the shared browser — it prints "preflight-chrome reports the browser is
currently held by another session" and then `process.exit(0)` (app/build-dist.js, the
preflight-chrome branch). Exit ZERO, with no `app/dist` staged. The workflow read that as success
and walked into the publish step, which died on `ENOENT … app/dist`. Because the failure names the
publish step, it reads as a broken deploy and whoever pushed concludes they broke it. Dindin's own
diagnosis was one step off in a way worth recording: the folder is never created, not created and
then deleted. The build also promises "a scheduled retry will pick it up later" — there is no such
retry, so standing down always ended red.

A large share of today's browser contention was THIS LANE's own verification runs. The teammates
were queuing behind this drive.

**Fixed and shipped in `bb4e7957`:** the Build dist step now retries up to six times, two minutes
apart, which covers a normal browser sweep, and publishes on whichever attempt succeeds. If it
still cannot run it fails by name and says in plain words that the pushed code is not the problem.
Both paths tested before pushing — a build that keeps standing down retries then fails loudly, one
that frees up mid-way publishes on the attempt that works. The first live run under the fix
(33904768130) went past the ~50s mark every failing run died at and entered the real browser tier.

**Can teammates deploy independently? No, and nothing today changed that.** A push starts a deploy
(several of today's runs came from their merges), but it runs on Nick's Mac: the only online runner
is `nicks-mac-studio` (`nicks-mac-mini` has been offline all day), and the build cannot run without
the live business database, which exists only on his machine by design. Real independence needs the
business data separated from the business code — a project, not a setting. Raised with Nick as a
decision, not started.

## 18:20Z — THE THREE CHAT-PANEL GUARD FAILURES ARE PRE-EXISTING, PROVEN BY BASELINE
`harness-fabdockAK-20260802` reports 3 FAILED with the voice loop in the tree (A7 the launcher is
not painted at 375 on home for nick, E1 60 round trips, F1 zero switcher-state cells). Run again in
a clean worktree at HEAD, BEFORE the voice loop existed, the SAME three fail (plus a fourth, B1,
which is a coverage artefact of the worktree's own sweep). So the voice loop causes none of them.
The first baseline attempt was void — a worktree cannot reach the shared browser rig, which lives
outside the repo; fixed by linking the rig beside the worktree, and only then was the comparison
real. `harness-nohardcodeE-20260731` is ALL PASS with the loop in place.

## 19:55Z — VOICE (STEP 11) IS PARKED BY NICK, WITH A NAMED CONDITION FOR RESUMING
He challenged the step directly — "voice? what voice? you are just dong the hub right?" — and then
ruled: **"park it finihs everyting else - when voice app lands and only then wil we built a hub
version"**. So the standalone voice app ships FIRST, and only after that does a Hub version get
built. That condition is the gate on ever re-opening this; it is not a judgement call for a later
session to re-make.

He was right to challenge it. It was the only step in this plan adding a NEW capability rather than
finishing something already half-built, and the only one nobody had asked for.

**What exists, switched off and harmless:** `app/functions/api/voice-session-openai.js` (23/23),
`app/functions/api/hub-tts.js` (24/24), and the microphone loop inside the existing Neeko chat panel
(`_selfchecks/harness-zion19-voice.mjs` 17/17). Each check was written BEFORE its code and proven
red against real breaks. The switch defaults OFF, so no microphone renders for anybody and the only
way to see one is a deliberate query flag. Nothing reached a person's screen; nothing needs undoing.
NOT done, deliberately: the live drive with the switch on. That belongs to the Hub version, later.

## 19:55Z — WHAT IS LIVE AFTER THE SWARM
Live production serves `54ccd544`. That carries: the sidebar department headings actually being
placed where a reader can see them; Dean and Dindin able to both view AND file receipts (Nick's
ruling today, server first then screen); and the read-only note brought onto the same tier so
nobody can see an upload box and a read-only message at once. The task-panel reference-number
change (`7e283839`) is in the build behind it.

## 21:35Z — VERIFIED ON THE LIVE SCREEN, IN A BROWSER, NOT IN A CHECK
Three things measured directly on hub.heroesandsidekicks.io, signed in through the agent door:

**Receipts, as DEAN (Nick's ruling today, "yes they can do both").** Viewing: `GET /api/receipts`
→ 200, `denied:false`, real data. Filing: `POST /api/receipts-log` → **400 "expected
multipart/form-data"**, NOT 403 — he is past the permission gate and was only refused for sending
an empty body instead of a file. On screen his Receipts page shows the "Log a receipt" card, and
the read-only note is correctly absent, so the screen never says both things at once. His scopes
read BUSINESS + BUSINESS_FINANCE_OPS with `canFinance()` false and `canFinanceOps()` true.

**Task detail panel.** Opened a real card by its own deep link. A reader meets the task name, the
Direct link, then a CLOSED "Reference numbers" control measuring 20px — summary only — so the raw
ids are off the screen, not merely lower down it.

**Sidebar — and this is where a live reading beat a passing check twice.** With the headings
finally rendering, 4 of 5 were on screen at 1280px (Growth below the fold), BUT THE GROUPING WAS
WRONG: eSign under Client Success instead of Recruitment, SOPs under Client Success instead of Ops.
The check said 7/7. It asserted each heading precedes ONE of its own tools, and its stub relocated
tools in creation order, which kept departments adjacent by accident — it could not have seen this.
Fixed both: the code now gathers each department's tools into one run beneath its own heading
(order computed in full before anything moves, after a first attempt shifted anchors and put
everything under the last heading), and the check now replays the exact tool order measured live
and asserts every tool sits under its own heading. Red against the previous file on exactly the two
tools the live site got wrong.

**STEP 7 half done:** `--step 25` GREEN after the proof suite's sign-in was ported from the retired
password door (production answers that 410) to the agent door. `--step 9` still NOT_MEASURABLE —
another job holds the machine's one harness browser, which is an instrument fact, not a verdict.

**Two self-inflicted blockers, both mine, both fixed:** the new exit code 75 for a stood-down build
broke the very retry loop it was added for, because `set -e` aborts before `rc=$?` can run — proven
at a shell, corrected to `|| rc=$?`, and all three paths tested. And a third missing DOM property in
a check's stub in one night (after parentNode and insertBefore): `children`.

## 22:45Z — WHERE THE HUB STANDS, WRITTEN AT A MOMENT NICK NEARLY REDIRECTED THIS THREAD (HE WITHDREW IT A MINUTE LATER)
The Hub state: every FINISH LINE item except the blind closing sweep is
done and proven on the live screen. Commit `041e16bd` (the sidebar block ending its container, so
nothing trails it) is pushed and in the deploy queue. **What is left, and this thread is doing it:** wait for
that deploy, confirm the sidebar once more live for dean, then STEP 16 — dispatch the cold blind
checker against the ten FINISH LINE items, paste its verdict unedited, and close. The postmortem is
already written in the plan (§6a). Voice (item 6) is PARKED on Nick's ruling and is graded as such.