Require authenticated sidecar cache purge before a deletion can complete and keep failures retryable. Mount tombstones outside restored application data while leaving deletion disabled by default.
- docs/deployment/backup-restore.md: production backup checklist; documents
that deploy.sh loads the env, validates before backup, and validates the
dump. Adds VERIFIED UTF-8/Norwegian-character round trip (æ ø å survive a
real deploy.sh backup -> restore byte-exact; HEX compared). States plainly
that no production database was reached and the owner must run one real
backup + scratch restore.
- docs/deployment/manual-smoke-test.md: owner-run post-deploy checklist
(auth, applications, career profile, CV builder, AI, files). Each item
names what "wrong" looks like. Documents that login requires the owner.
- runner-investigation.md: Finding C -- the latest CI red was a real ICU
code bug the runner caught correctly, not instability. Amends the blanket
"outside the repository" conclusion. A and B stand as separate env issues.
- release-candidate-review.md: corrected drifted line refs after the index
fix; noted the CI ICU finding so the "purely external" verdict is honest.
All claims reflect behaviour verified this session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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