cesnimdaCompleted redesign release preparation — 2026-10-08
Production decision: NO-GO. No production-branch merge/push or deployment occurred. This is a release-candidate/deferred-work checkpoint, not a release record asserting that the application is live. Connor authorized release only after safety gates and P5-14 only after verified release. Those conditions remain unmet. No Docker recovery was attempted.
Source: 9c9157507937b3e084a7ca1e79a2ebd77d0b0928, codex/ui-redesign-phase4. Fetched production target: origin/main 27657f31131cd95d42f0e1290853ec9c9b3959a4. The source is ahead by 43 commits with zero target-only commits at inspection. Authoritative remote: origin, https://git.cesnimda.uk/cesnimda/jobtrackingapp.git. No remote master exists. The final candidate/debt checkpoint is identified by Git when committed; release commit and merge commit: none.
Release routing and protections
CI runs on main pushes and pull requests. Deployment automatically follows its successful test job only for a push to refs/heads/main; it uses the established PROD_HOST, PROD_USER, PROD_SSH_KEY mechanism, resets the server checkout to the workflow SHA and invokes deploy.sh. Do not create/push a new master, force-push or treat a feature-branch push as production deployment. No CI secret was read; no current authorized deployment connection/session is available here. Remote protected-runner acceptance remains unverified; local checks cannot replace it.
The normal deployment script validates environment/ingress, takes database/files backups before replacement and aborts if backup fails, then deploys commit-tagged images. Failure rolls back prior backend/frontend images and remains a failure. Current deployment, backup and disaster-recovery runbooks require current version/counts, complete restorable recovery set, protected keys/tombstones and actual rollback/restore evidence. The existence of a script or historical seeded restore does not establish a fresh production recovery set.
No new database migration exists between fetched main and the source: three historical migration files differ only in documentation comments. The existing CV Version property gains concurrency metadata in the model snapshot; no new DDL migration was added. Startup still runs existing migration/reconciliation behavior. Actual deployed schema/provider/connection settings remain unverified; API fallback to SQLite (F19) is still open and must not substitute for confirming correct deployment configuration. Compose is unchanged. New optional external-AI routing entries in .env.example were already introduced by grounding readiness; no production environment update is assumed or performed.
Candidate scope and deferred capability
| Completed local slice | Implementation checkpoint |
|---|---|
| P5-00 shell readiness | 926f2e5, followed by baseline/concurrent initialization proofs 38cf37e, 57a6bd0 |
| P5-01 AppShell/grouped navigation | 8e56cea |
| P5-02 existing global shell utilities | 0f54007; human screen-reader acceptance remains open |
| P5-03 Jobs Table/mobile cards | 7127005 |
| P5-04a Board presentation | 42a696b |
| P5-04b shared query/workspace integration | readiness 6fc8937, integration 384dfa8 |
| P5-06 personal Dashboard | ec6baae |
| P5-07 existing-report Analytics destination | 42a6e42 |
| P5-08a Job header/Overview | fadf99a |
| P5-08b deeper Job sections | readiness acd1d94, implementation ac6d782 |
| P5-09 CV frame/navigation | revision readiness 046dc30, pagination repair efc9e7b, implementation 44b944e |
| P5-10 CV section editing/source clarity | fc9598b |
| P5-11 live-preview chrome | 673cff1 |
| P5-12 template/document controls | d8d262e |
| Deterministic CV grounding/proposal prerequisites | 2398ff3; model qualification and P5-13 review UI not accepted |
Phase 1–4 foundations/evidence remain in the source history. P5-05 quick preview remains deferred. P5-13 semantic qualification/UI remains DEFERRED — BLOCKED / NOT QUALIFIED in OPEN_BLOCKERS; the frozen corpus/rubric/recovery package remains intact. No model qualification calls or human reviews were added. No Phase 5 completion claim is made.
Withholding unqualified CV review
The candidate exposed both new CV proposal endpoints through the previously shipped CV assistant affordances. A deferred UI alone would not withhold the new API. The smallest release-safety correction uses the controller's existing optional suggestion-service seam: omit CvAiSuggestionService registration in Production, so generation and Apply return the established 503 cv_ai_unavailable before model requests or CV/profile/history mutation. No feature flag, new concurrency/grounding system or global AI disable is introduced. Development qualification/regression routing remains intact; ISummarizerService, AI workspace, job analysis, letters/interview preparation and other AI registrations remain available under their existing authorization/privacy/provider conditions.
Legacy CV assistant controls may remain visible and report existing unavailable errors; no P5-13 review UI is implemented. This is temporary withholding under the explicit deferral, not fulfillment of PRES-C11 model/UI acceptance. Ordinary CV editing/save/history/preview/PDF stays available. The candidate's local Production-mode API proof is separate from live verification: production availability cannot be asserted without the deployed SHA/session. This correction has not been deployed.
The application-code change is confined to JobTrackerApi/Program.cs: one existing service registration becomes environment-conditional. CvAiReadinessTests.cs adds the generation/apply no-write theory cases; playwright.cv-ai.config.ts adds a disposable, isolated Production API using the existing fixture configuration; cv-ai-readiness.spec.ts verifies the actual HTTP constructor/registration boundary and continued unrelated AI availability. The Production fixture disables launch-profile override and retains Secure-cookie semantics over its explicit test-only loopback transport. No controller, prompt/provider, frontend application, renderer, environment file, Compose, CI, dependency or migration implementation was changed for this checkpoint.
Production blockers and next evidence
| Gate | Result / action needed |
|---|---|
| F04 actual ingress/runtime | Open, release-blocking. Existing G-RELEASE requires real Traefik socket peer/nginx trust, effective client IP, listeners/direct/spoofed access, firewall/NAT/IPv6, DNS/TLS/redirect and restart evidence. Local 6-case ingress/3-case Compose checks do not close it. Historical public HTTPS success and connection failures do not prove it; the prior HTTP-to-unreachable-:444 observation remains unverified today |
| Current recovery/configuration/schema/rollback | Unverified, release-blocking. Operator must inspect current backend SHA/version and counts, correct provider/connection settings, a fresh complete DB/files/keys/tombstones recovery set and required restore/rollback evidence. No database reset/volume deletion/destructive migration is authorized |
| Protected CI and deploy outcome | Unverified. The main test job must pass; actual deploy status, deployed SHA and authenticated smoke must be recorded. No main push was performed to discover whether unsafe production gates might pass |
| P5-13 qualification/UI | Explicitly deferred; production CV proposal workflow must stay unavailable until the return conditions pass. Local candidate withholding does not qualify the model or verify current production |
| Human accessibility/font/photo/pointer/touch qualification | Remains open with scope/limitations in each slice; no complete screen-reader/physical-touch certification. Mandatory P5-15 items retained |
Separate debt remains: Dashboard preference-save 500, Board full-result scaling/native touch, deferred followMode UI, nested CV drag/drop ownership, incomplete axe/manual checks and other recorded blockers. Default-disabled workers, paid-deletion/billing activation, provider delivery and calendar semantics are not enabled or silently changed by this candidate. No unrelated remediation occurred.
Local validation and preservation
Final executed results are recorded here after the candidate correction. They do not assert live production acceptance. All 57 capability groups and retained routes are reconciled in PRESERVATION_REVIEW; mapped contracts are not an exhaustive provider/manual/production coverage percentage. PRES-C11 includes the explicit production deferral; ordinary revision/rendering/source boundaries remain required.
All applicable local suites were executed after the final application correction. The sanitized validation summary records actual results, timings, unchanged fidelity tolerances and incomplete accessibility counts; raw disposable data, authentication state, traces and synthetic provider payloads remain outside Git.
| Validation | Final result | Change from inherited baseline |
|---|---|---|
| Complete backend, including auth/authz/account ownership | 1,023/1,023 | +2 unavailable-service generation/apply theory cases |
| Focused AI/privacy/proposal subset | 108/108 | +2, the same cases already included in the backend total |
| CV revision safety subset | 5/5 | Unchanged, included in backend total |
| Frontend | 455/455, 81 suites | Unchanged |
| Complete Chromium browser | 112/112 | Unchanged; 18.9 minutes, no retries/skips/expected failures. P2-D01 remains ordinary passing |
| Isolated real-HTTP AI contract | 2/2 | +1 Production withholding/unrelated-AI proof; Development grounding/stale/no-write proof retained |
| Sidecar | 49/49 | Unchanged; deterministic fixtures, no configured-model qualification |
| Standard native rendering fidelity | 16/16; 36 preview = 36 PDF pages | Unchanged tolerances, no measured failures |
| Settings/native exports | 8/8; 24 preview = 24 PDF pages | Unchanged tolerances, no measured failures |
| Rate-limit / ingress / PDF admission / configuration | 9 / 6 / 1 / 3 | Unchanged; isolated local APIs, not real production ingress |
| Supply-chain helpers / offline evaluation harness / extension | 3 / 5 / 3 | Existing checks; offline harness is not a model run |
| TypeScript / isolated HTTP fixture TypeScript / lint | Pass | No baseline/configuration change |
| Frontend production / API Release build | Pass | API -warnaserror: zero warnings/errors |
| Tracked-secret / whitespace / current local-document targets | Pass | 154 current/root Markdown documents, zero missing targets; historical archive excluded. Frozen qualification evidence unchanged |
The two new backend cases prove 503 cv_ai_unavailable, no provider calls and unchanged CV/profile/history for generation and Apply when the existing optional service is absent. The new native Production HTTP case failed before the correction (expected 503, received 200), then passed with real authentication/Pro scope, section/document generation and Apply unavailable, unchanged persisted snapshots and zero provider calls. It also proves an existing profile-CV rewrite and AI workspace read remain available. Existing grounding evaluation, stale expected-version/history protection, tenant isolation, frozen package/attachment readback and private/public exports pass. A passing mock/synthetic-provider contract does not establish deployed availability or model factuality.
Rendered and accessibility evidence
The unchanged browser suite exercises English/Bokmål, light/dark, desktop/intermediate/320px layouts, shell entry/return, commands/notifications, Jobs Table/Board/Trash and density, Dashboard/Analytics, Job deep sections/frozen content and CV frame/source/preview/settings/history. Fresh assistant visual inspection of dashboard-desktop-light-en.png, dashboard-320-dark-nb.png, desktop-content.png and one-page-code-fit-320.png confirms the existing hierarchy/reflow, white document canvas and visible preview focus remain intact in those captures. These are samples, not complete visual certification; the earlier per-slice evidence and limitations remain authoritative.
229 automated axe scans report zero violations, with incomplete node occurrences retained: color-contrast 1,466; aria-hidden-focus 33; aria-prohibited-attr 191; aria-valid-attr-value 18; th-has-data-cells 4. These are repeated node occurrences across scans, not unique defects or passed checks. Automated browser-driven keyboard contracts pass; no human spoken-name/live-announcement, physical touch, production font/photo, forced-colour or full reflow acceptance was performed. No open item is closed from these automated results.
Reproduction and evidence boundaries
Use the existing installed SDK, bundled Python and sidecar virtual environment, with every shell command prefixed through rtk. Root checks: dotnet build JobTrackerApi/JobTrackerApi.csproj --configuration Release --no-restore -warnaserror; complete dotnet test JobTrackerApi.Tests/JobTrackerApi.Tests.csproj --configuration Release --no-build; focused CvAi|AiWorkspace|AiPrivacyPolicy|MeteredSummarizerService and CvRevisionReadinessTests filters; sidecar pytest; the existing scripts/test-ingress.py, scripts/test-supply-chain.py, scripts/test-ollama-evaluation.py and extension capture tests. Native export comparisons reuse scripts/verify-cv-fidelity.py for the standard and assembled four-pair settings reports, exactly as documented in P5-12.
UI checks: npm test -- --runInBand --silent; npm run typecheck; strict standalone tsc for playwright.cv-ai.config.ts and ai-tests/cv-ai-readiness.spec.ts; npm run lint; npm run build; complete Playwright Chromium suite with PLAYWRIGHT_STATIC_EXPORT=true and fresh CV_FIDELITY_OUTPUT / CV_SETTINGS_FIDELITY_OUTPUT destinations; separate playwright.cv-ai.config.ts, rate-limit, ingress and PDF configurations. The last three share port 5302 and ran sequentially after the complete browser run. All APIs used disposable synthetic local data, inert or deterministic provider fixtures and no production/model access. Local artifacts are under .artifacts/p5-release-readiness/; use the sanitized summary for committed counts.
Stop and continuation boundary
NO-GO for production release; P5-14 not started. No production target commit, merge, deployment, runtime health/login/navigation/Jobs/Dashboard/CV/PDF smoke or new development branch from released main exists for this task. Only the existing development branch receives the bounded debt/safety checkpoint. Do not claim that the changes are live.
Next operator task: supply the existing authorized production connection or sanitized current runtime/configuration/recovery/ingress evidence and complete the already documented G-RELEASE procedure. After those conditions and protected CI are satisfied, revalidate the final candidate, merge history-preservingly into main, push without force, verify deployed SHA/data/authenticated workflows, then create a codex/ development branch from verified main for conditionally scoped P5-14. P5-15 must retain the P5-13 debt, conditional acceptance and individual-checkpoint push rule. No P5-13 UI, P5-14, P5-15 or B07 implementation occurs here.