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- # Pack: frontend / client state / UI build
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- Load when: the touch list exhibits Redux Toolkit (`createSlice`, `configureStore`), RTK Query tags, react-router route tables, Tailwind 4 CSS (`@theme`, `personality.css`, `globals.css`), Vite config (`resolve.alias`, env), `@nurix/components` imports, localforage/redux-persist, or date handling crossing the wire.
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- ## redux-persist-shape-migration — CRITICAL · serialized-shape
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- **Contract:** State shapes frozen in the user's browser storage by redux-persist must be readable by the *current* reducers' `initialState` — `version`/`migrate` is the only bridge, and `whitelist`/`blacklist` reference reducer-map keys by literal string.
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- **Detect:** `persistReducer(`, `persistStore(`, `whitelist:`, `blacklist:`, `createMigrate(`, `version:`, `stateReconciler`, storage keys `persist:*`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Default reconciler `autoMergeLevel1` replaces each persisted top-level slice wholesale — a field added to a persisted slice's `initialState` rehydrates as `undefined` for every returning user (fresh installs and dev with cleared storage look fine). Default `version` is `-1` and with no `migrate` supplied nothing transforms old shapes. Renaming a reducer-map key silently drops it from `whitelist` — the slice just stops persisting. The bad merged shape is re-persisted on the next write, so corruption sticks.
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- **Safe change:** Bump `version` + add a `createMigrate` step for every persisted-slice shape change; grep `whitelist`/`blacklist` when renaming reducer keys; test by rehydrating a captured copy of old storage, never a fresh state.
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- ## vite-env-client-exposure — CRITICAL · trust-invariant
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- **Contract:** The `VITE_` name prefix (or `envPrefix`) is simultaneously the exposure gate into the public bundle and the rendezvous for `import.meta.env.VITE_X` reads — naming decides secrecy.
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- **Detect:** `import.meta.env`, `.env*`, `envPrefix`, `define:` in `vite.config.*`, grep `VITE_.*(SECRET|KEY|TOKEN|PASSWORD)` in `.env*`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Any `VITE_`-prefixed value is string-inlined into shipped JS — `VITE_API_SECRET=…` is world-readable with zero warning (fails open). Non-prefixed vars silently read `undefined`. Env access is statically replaced at build: `import.meta.env[key]` dynamic access works in dev and returns `undefined` in production; `import.meta.env.BASE_URL` must appear verbatim (no destructuring, no aliasing to a variable) or it is never replaced.
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- **Safe change:** Audit `.env*` for secret-shaped `VITE_*` names before every release; keep server secrets unprefixed and server-side only; access env only as full literal `import.meta.env.VITE_X` expressions; verify by grepping the `dist/` output for the value.
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- ## localforage-store-identity — CRITICAL · rendezvous-string
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- **Contract:** The `(driver, name, storeName)` triple in `localforage.config()`/`createInstance()` is the *address* of persisted user data — new code must present the identical triple to find old users' data.
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- **Detect:** `localforage.config(`, `localforage.createInstance(`, `name:`, `storeName:`, `setDriver(`, `INDEXEDDB|WEBSQL|LOCALSTORAGE`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Changing `name` (default `"localforage"`) or `storeName` (default `"keyvaluepairs"`) opens a different IndexedDB database/object store — `getItem` resolves `null`, all prior data stranded invisibly; drivers never migrate data between each other. Extra trap: `config()` called after the first data API call **returns** (does not throw) an `Error` object — the reconfiguration silently never applies unless you check the return value. Everything stored is also a serialized-shape: returning users rehydrate last year's object shape into today's code.
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- **Safe change:** Treat `name`/`storeName` as frozen identifiers; to move, write read-old-store→write-new-store migration code; call `config()` once at module init before any data call; envelope persisted values (`{v: 2, data}`) and upconvert on read.
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- ## redux-store-shape-selectors — HIGH · rendezvous-string
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- **Contract:** The keys of `configureStore({reducer: {…}})` ARE the state-tree paths every `useSelector(s => s.key.…)` walks, and `createSlice({name})` is the action-type prefix that string matchers dispatch on.
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- **Detect:** `configureStore(`, `combineSlices(`, `useSelector(`, `createSlice({`, `extraReducers`, `addMatcher`, action-type literals `'slice/action'`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Renaming a reducer-map key while string-path or untyped-JS selectors still read the old key → `undefined` propagates and components render empty, no error (typed `RootState` selectors are the only statically-checked subset). Renaming slice `name` changes every dispatched action type (`user/logout` → `account/logout`) — `extraReducers` string cases, listener-middleware predicates, persistence filters, and analytics stop matching with zero feedback.
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- **Safe change:** Grep old key and old `name` across the repo including string literals; keep reducer-map key identical to slice `name`; export selectors from the slice file instead of inlining paths in components.
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- ## rtk-query-tag-taxonomy — HIGH · rendezvous-string
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- **Contract:** `providesTags` on queries and `invalidatesTags` on mutations rendezvous on identical `{type, id}` tuples from `tagTypes` — matched by runtime string equality only.
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- **Detect:** `tagTypes:`, `providesTags`, `invalidatesTags`, `injectEndpoints`, `enhanceEndpoints({addTagTypes`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Invalidating a tag that no query provides is a silent no-op — the mutation succeeds and the cached list stays stale until an unrelated refetch masks it. TS checks the `type` half against `tagTypes` but the `id` half is untyped: `{type:'Post', id:'LIST'}` provided vs a forgotten/misspelled `id` on the invalidate side never match. Endpoints injected via `injectEndpoints` that use tag types nobody added via `addTagTypes` never invalidate anything.
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- **Safe change:** Define the tag vocabulary once as an exported const and derive `tagTypes` from it; for every mutation, name the exact providing endpoint and diff the full tuple including `id`; verify live via Redux DevTools under `state.<api>.provided` after mutating.
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- ## react-router-route-strings — HIGH · rendezvous-string
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- **Contract:** The route table (`createBrowserRouter` path strings and `:param` names) and every `<Link to>`, `navigate()`, `useParams().x`, `useSearchParams().get('k')` scattered across components agree on literal strings.
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- **Detect:** `createBrowserRouter(`, `path:`, `<Route path=`, `useParams(`, `useSearchParams(`, `navigate(`, `<Link to=`, `generatePath(`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Renaming `:userId` → `:id` leaves `useParams().userId` as `undefined` — the type is already `string | undefined`, so TypeScript stays green. Moving a path 404s every hardcoded `to="/old/path"` with no build error; renaming a search-param key returns `null` silently and breaks inbound deep links (bookmarks, emails) that still carry the old key. Route typegen exists only in **framework mode** (routes.ts + the react-router Vite plugin); plain react-router-dom 7 library mode with `@vitejs/plugin-react-swc` has zero static route checking — do not assume typegen protects you.
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- **Safe change:** Centralize paths as builder functions (`routes.user(id)`) and import them for both route table and links; grep the literal path and param name before renaming; treat public search-param keys as a wire contract — support old keys during a deprecation window.
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- ## single-react-copy-alias — HIGH · dual-authority
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- **Contract:** Exactly one React runtime may own the hooks dispatcher and context registry — `@nurix/*` packages ship a nested `react`, so the app's `vite.config` `resolve.alias` must pin `react`, `react-dom`, `react/jsx-runtime`, and `react/jsx-dev-runtime` to the app's single copy.
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- **Detect:** `resolve.alias` in `vite.config.*`, `node_modules/@nurix/*/node_modules/react`, `resolve.dedupe`, `npm ls react`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Two copies bundle with no warning; symptoms are runtime-only: "Invalid hook call", `TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'useState')`, and the fully silent one — `useContext` inside a library component resolves against the other copy's context object and returns the **default value**; react-redux 9 surfaces this as "could not find react-redux context value" even though the Provider is right there. Dev (esbuild prebundle) and build (Rollup) can dedupe differently, so it can pass `vite dev` and break `vite build`, or the reverse.
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- **Safe change:** Alias all four specifiers — the automatic JSX transform imports `react/jsx-runtime`/`jsx-dev-runtime` directly, so aliasing bare `react` alone is insufficient; after any `@nurix/*` or React upgrade, run `vite build && vite preview` and exercise a library component that consumes app context; confirm a single copy with `npm ls react`.
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- ## tailwind-theme-token-rename — HIGH · rendezvous-string
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- **Contract:** Each `@theme` variable is simultaneously (a) a generated utility family (`--color-brand` → `bg-brand`/`text-brand`/`border-brand`) and (b) a plain CSS variable read via `var(--color-brand)` — one identifier, two independent consumer populations.
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- **Detect:** `@theme` blocks in `globals.css`/`personality.css`, `var(--color-`, `var(--radius`, grep utility classes built from the token stem
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Renaming a token compiles clean; every class using the old utility silently vanishes from the generated stylesheet (Tailwind emits nothing for unknown classes — elements just lose styling), and every `var(--old-name)` reader (handwritten CSS, inline styles, the component library) falls back to `initial`. Namespaces gate generation: only recognized namespaces (`--color-*`, `--font-*`, `--spacing-*`, `--radius-*`, `--shadow-*`, …) produce utilities — a token moved to an unrecognized namespace keeps the variable but kills the utility with no diagnostic.
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- **Safe change:** Grep both consumer forms — utility stems (`bg-old`, `text-old`) and `var(--…-old)` including `node_modules/@nurix/components` dist CSS; keep the old token as an alias for one release; visually diff themed screens after the rename.
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- ## tailwind-theme-inline-indirection — HIGH · config-elsewhere
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- **Contract:** `@theme inline { --color-primary: var(--primary) }` makes utilities emit the *referenced* variable (`background-color: var(--primary)`), resolved per-element at runtime — the org's theming (personality.css vars swapped under `[data-theme]`/`[data-style]`) only flows through utilities via the `inline` form.
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- **Detect:** `@theme inline`, plain `@theme {`, token values that are `var(--…)`, `[data-theme=`/`[data-style=` blocks in `personality.css`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Adding a var-referencing token to a plain (non-`inline`) `@theme` block compiles and looks correct in the default theme; switching `data-theme`/`data-style` then silently fails to restyle those utilities, because the theme variable captured the referenced var's value as resolved at `:root` — subtree/attribute-scoped overrides never reach it. No warning, no error; only the alternate theme is wrong.
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- **Safe change:** Any token whose value is `var(--app-var)` goes in the `@theme inline` block, raw literal values in plain `@theme`; after adding tokens, toggle `data-theme` and `data-style` in devtools and confirm the new utilities respond in both states.
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- ## tailwind-source-detection — HIGH · generated-artifact
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- **Contract:** The generated stylesheet contains only class names that appear as complete, unbroken literal strings in scanned source files — the build-time scanner vs class names assembled at runtime; the default scan set skips `.gitignore`d paths and `node_modules`.
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- **Detect:** `` `…${ `` inside `className`, `clsx(`/`cn(` with computed strings, class names arriving from API/CMS/config/DB, `@source` directives in CSS
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- **Ships green, breaks:** `bg-${color}-500` builds and renders unstyled — the utility is simply absent from the CSS. Class names stored in data or composed in unscanned code work only as long as some scanned file coincidentally contains the same literal — deleting that last literal usage breaks a "different" feature. Gitignored source directories are silently excluded from scanning.
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- **Safe change:** Always write full class literals and select via lookup maps (`{primary: 'bg-blue-600'}[variant]`); safelist genuinely dynamic sets with `@source inline("…")` (v4.1+); add explicit `@source "…"` for out-of-tree or ignored directories.
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- ## dark-variant-data-attributes — HIGH · rendezvous-string
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- **Contract:** `@custom-variant dark (&:where([data-theme=dark] *))` and the personality selectors `[data-theme="…"]`/`[data-style="…"]` rendezvous on the exact attribute name+value that runtime JS stamps on `<html>` (`document.documentElement.dataset.theme/style`).
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- **Detect:** `@custom-variant dark`, `[data-theme=`, `[data-style=`, `dataset.theme`, `setAttribute('data-theme'`, `classList.add('dark')`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Without the `@custom-variant dark` override, Tailwind's default `dark:` variant is the `prefers-color-scheme: dark` media query — every `dark:` class silently follows the OS setting and ignores the app's toggle entirely. A value or mechanism mismatch (JS writes `class="dark"` while CSS expects `[data-theme=dark]`, or a casing typo) leaves the alternate theme unreachable with zero errors. Org default is light: base tokens must stay scoped `:root, :root[data-theme="light"]` or unstamped pages render the wrong theme.
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- **Safe change:** Define attribute name and values as one exported constant consumed by the toggle code; add `@custom-variant dark` the moment any `dark:` utility pairs with an attribute toggle; flip the attribute in devtools and verify both directions plus the no-attribute default.
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- ## nurix-components-styles-tokens — HIGH · rendezvous-string
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- **Contract:** `@nurix/components` is imported by subpath (`@nurix/components/button`) but styled through two separate channels — its own pre-built `styles.css` (imported in `globals.css`) and the app's semantic CSS variables (personality tokens like `--radius-*`, `--color-*`) that its rules read.
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- **Detect:** `from '@nurix/components/`, the library `styles.css` `@import` line in `globals.css`, grep `var(--` in `node_modules/@nurix/components/**/styles.css`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Omitting the `styles.css` import renders every component fully functional but unstyled — no JS error, no build warning, no missing-module failure. Renaming or dropping a personality token the library reads silently degrades components to fallback/`initial` values (e.g. a flat archetype's `--radius-*: 0` re-assertion lost in a token refactor). The library is pre-built, so the app's Tailwind scanner never generates utilities for markup inside it — its shipped CSS is the only style source.
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- **Safe change:** Keep the `styles.css` import at its mandated position in `globals.css`; before touching any personality token, grep the library's dist CSS for `var(--that-token)`; smoke-render a themed library component after every `@nurix/components` upgrade.
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- ## vite-alias-tsconfig-paths — MED · dual-authority
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- **Contract:** Path specifiers like `@/lib/x` are resolved by two independent authorities — `tsconfig.json` `compilerOptions.paths` for typecheck/editor and `vite.config` `resolve.alias` for the served bundle.
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- **Detect:** `"paths":` in `tsconfig*.json`, `resolve.alias` in `vite.config.*`, `vite-tsconfig-paths` in `package.json`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** A missing Vite alias fails loud; the silent case is *divergent targets* — after a folder move or a one-sided edit, `tsc --noEmit` resolves one file while the bundle executes another, and same-named exports mask it completely. Editor auto-imports follow tsconfig and keep generating specifiers Vite resolves elsewhere.
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- **Safe change:** Single-source the mapping (`vite-tsconfig-paths`, or generate both from one constant); update both files in the same commit on any directory move; when suspicious, log `import.meta.url` from the module in dev to see which file actually loaded.
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- **Contract:** `globals.css` must import in the fixed sequence `@import "./personality.css"` → `@import "tailwindcss"` → the library's `styles.css` → `@theme inline {…}` — cascade-layer order is fixed at first appearance of each `@layer` name, so file position *is* the styling contract between Tailwind, the component library, and the personality tokens.
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- ## date-fns-local-tz — HIGH · serialized-shape
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- **Contract:** Datetimes cross the wire as UTC ISO strings or date-only `YYYY-MM-DD`, but date-fns `format()` and accessors operate in the runtime's local timezone — serializer and formatter must agree on the zone, and nothing checks that they do.
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- **Ships green, breaks:** `new Date("2026-07-03")` parses as UTC midnight; `format(…, 'yyyy-MM-dd')` in any negative-offset zone renders `2026-07-02` — dates shift a day only for users west of UTC, while CI (UTC) and the developer's machine may pass. Writing the formatted local date back corrupts stored data. date-fns 4's fix is opt-in, not default: pass `{ in: tz('UTC') }` or use `TZDate` from `@date-fns/tz` — plain `format` remains local-zone forever.
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- - **graphql-schema — CRITICAL · serialized-shape.** The SDL is executed by clients you don't redeploy: removing/renaming a field, tightening output nullability, or removing an in-use enum value breaks live queries at execution. Safe: schema-diff check in CI (GraphQL Inspector / `rover graph check`); `@deprecated` + usage metrics before removal; regenerate client types every change. Federation directives (`@key`, `@external`, `@requires`, `@shareable`) add a cross-*team* facet: composition fails or takes down fields other subgraphs own.
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- - **cache-headers/cdn — HIGH · config-elsewhere.** The cache obeys the header you already sent: `immutable`/long `max-age` on non-hashed assets means users never update; caching a personalized response in a shared cache leaks it; any header the response branches on must appear in `Vary` (and never `Vary: Authorization` on a shared cache). Deploys need a purge step.
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- - **schema-registry — CRITICAL · serialized-shape.** The compatibility mode (BACKWARD/FORWARD/FULL/TRANSITIVE) defines which producer/consumer upgrade orders are safe; Avro fields without defaults and Protobuf number reuse break consumers fleet-wide. CI-enforce a mode; every new Avro field gets a default.
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- - **cdc/debezium — CRITICAL · generated-artifact.** The stream's shape derives from a source schema owned by a team that may not know consumers exist — a column rename silently reshapes the stream; a table rename relocates the topic. Treat CDC-source columns as a published contract; pin topic routing and `REPLICA IDENTITY`.
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- - **event-sourcing/audit tables — CRITICAL · serialized-shape + lifecycle-protocol.** Events are immutable and replayed: today's projector must read events written years ago. Version event types + upcast; never mutate history; test a full replay.
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- - **outbox/saga — HIGH · lifecycle-protocol.** The outbox table schema is co-owned by the writing transaction and the relay (columns additive; keep the relay mapping synced). Every forward saga step needs its compensation wired into the failure path — a mid-saga failure otherwise leaves money reserved and never released.
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- - **workflow-engines (Temporal etc.) — CRITICAL · lifecycle-protocol.** Running workflows replay their history through current code: adding/reordering an `await` on a command-producing call diverges replay and bricks in-flight executions while new-workflow tests pass. Gate logic changes with `patched()`/`getVersion()`; keep I/O in Activities; replay production histories in CI.
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- - **pooled-session-state — HIGH · lifecycle-protocol.** Under PgBouncer transaction pooling, session state (`SET`, prepared statements, advisory locks, RLS GUCs) is shared across clients: use `SET LOCAL` only and disable server-side prepared statements, or tenant context leaks across pooled connections.
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- - **collation/extensions — HIGH · config-elsewhere.** A schema object needs its extension installed before the migration that uses it (from-scratch deploys fail); a glibc/ICU collation change silently corrupts B-tree index order → wrong results and "duplicate" unique rows. Reindex after any collation-version change.
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- - **matviews/read-models — MED · generated-artifact.** Two contracts: the source schema the refresh reads (a source column change breaks it) and the read-model shape consumers query; `REFRESH … CONCURRENTLY` needs a unique index; staleness serves wrong data with no error.
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- - **module-federation — CRITICAL · config-elsewhere.** Host and remotes deploy independently but must agree at runtime on exposed-module names and `shared` singleton versions — drift loads duplicate React and breaks hooks/context silently. `singleton: true` + `strictVersion` for framework libs; coordinate deploys.
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- - **i18n-keys — MED · rendezvous-string.** Key renamed in code but not catalogs shows the raw key; missing interpolation vars render literal `{{name}}`. CI-gate with a parser (`i18next-parser --ci`); generate key types.
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- - **analytics-tracking-plan — MED · rendezvous-string.** Renaming an event or property silently breaks dashboards/funnels and fragments history, with no app error. Centralize names in a typed module; add, deprecate, never rename.
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- - **feature-flags (hosted) — HIGH · rendezvous-string.** A deleted-but-still-referenced flag returns the SDK default (often `false`), silently hiding a shipped feature; off must always mean previous-safe-behavior so disabling is rollback. Two-step removal in distributed systems: make safe unconditionally → deploy everywhere → delete.
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- - **deep-links/oauth-callbacks — HIGH · rendezvous-string.** Links already sent in emails/push are irrecoverable, and OAuth providers allowlist exact callback URLs — a path change breaks both. Keep old paths redirecting; update provider allowlists and AASA/assetlinks in lockstep.
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- - **graceful-shutdown — HIGH · lifecycle-protocol.** Shell-form ENTRYPOINT swallows SIGTERM (signals hit the shell, not the app); a `preStop` sleep covers endpoint-propagation lag. On SIGTERM: fail readiness → stop new connections → drain → exit; grace period ≥ max request time.
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- - **resource-limits — HIGH · config-elsewhere.** The kernel enforces limits the app never sees: a bigger cache OOMKills (exit 137) with no app error; CPU limits throttle silently. Make heap settings cgroup-aware; re-evaluate limits when adding caches/deps.
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- - **service-discovery/ingress/tls — HIGH · rendezvous-string.** Service names, ingress path rules (order- and specificity-sensitive; rewrites must match mounted routes), and cert SANs each bind by exact string — a rename 404s/NXDOMAINs/fails handshake while the app stays healthy. Add hostnames to the cert SAN list before routing traffic.
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- - **mesh-resilience-budgets — HIGH · lifecycle-protocol.** Timeouts must nest (caller > callee × retries) or retries storm a recovering service; these configs live in a different repo/layer than the calling code.
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- - **iac-outputs — HIGH · rendezvous-string.** A consuming stack reads producer outputs by name (`terraform_remote_state`, `Fn::ImportValue`): rename/remove one and every consumer fails to plan. Outputs are public API — deprecate, don't rename.
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- - **trace/metrics/logs naming — MED · rendezvous-string.** Dashboards, alerts, and cross-service queries pin exact metric names, label keys, and log field names — a rename makes the alert go quiet, not fire. Deprecate, don't rename; never put unbounded cardinality in labels.
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- - **worker/ipc boundaries — MED · serialized-shape.** Only structured-cloneable values cross `postMessage`/IPC — class instances lose methods, `instanceof` fails; a renamed IPC channel (`ipcMain.handle` vs `ipcRenderer.invoke`) silently no-ops. Version the message envelope; share channel constants.
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- - **object-storage keys — MED · rendezvous-string.** The key template is a contract among uploader, downloader, lifecycle rules, and DB pointers — changing it orphans existing objects (no FK between DB and bucket). Store the full key in the DB; migrate by copy/re-point.
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- **Contract:** Hand-written canonical DDL (`db/seed/init.sql`) and the Drizzle mirror (`db/schema.ts`) independently declare the same tables/columns/indexes and must match byte-for-byte — the string in `sqliteTable("…")` and every index name equal the DDL.
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Each side validates only against itself — local/test DBs are typically built from `schema.ts` (push) while the real D1 is built from `init.sql`, so tests pass and prod 500s (`no such column`). Subtler drift is fully silent: a column present in DDL but missing from the mirror stays NULL forever (Drizzle never writes it); a DEFAULT that differs between the two gives Drizzle-inserted rows and seed rows different values; a drifted index *name* means a later `drizzle-kit push` DROPs the DDL's index and recreates it under the schema name — hand-tuned index definitions vanish.
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- **Contract:** One database gets exactly one schema-application mechanism — either `drizzle-kit push` (stateless diff, schema.ts is total authority) or `generate`+`migrate` (journaled in `__drizzle_migrations`); the two do not compose.
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- **Ships green, breaks:** `push` diffs schema.ts against the *entire* live DB and proposes `DROP TABLE` for anything not in schema.ts — including tables owned by other tools (Better Auth's `user`/`session`/`account`/`verification`, wrangler's `d1_migrations`); `push --force` in CI auto-approves those data-loss statements with no prompt. `push` records nothing in `__drizzle_migrations`, so a later `migrate` replays the whole folder against the already-pushed DB; `generate` diffs against its own snapshot journal, not the pushed DB, so the generated SQL silently disagrees with reality.
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- **Contract:** SQLite `ALTER TABLE` only does RENAME TO / RENAME COLUMN / ADD COLUMN / DROP COLUMN — any type/NOT NULL/DEFAULT/constraint change makes drizzle-kit emit the rebuild dance (`PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF` → `CREATE __new_<t>` → `INSERT INTO __new_ SELECT …` → `DROP TABLE` → `RENAME`), whose safety depends on FK state during execution.
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- **Ships green, breaks:** `PRAGMA foreign_keys` is a no-op inside an open transaction — when the migration runs transaction-wrapped, the rebuild's `DROP TABLE` fires `ON DELETE CASCADE` and silently wipes every child table (a single column-default change has deleted all related rows, no error). On D1, `PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF` is impossible entirely (every query is an implicit transaction); the sanctioned `PRAGMA defer_foreign_keys=on` defers checks but does NOT suppress `ON DELETE CASCADE`. Column-count mismatches in the copy step have left `__old_push_<t>` holding the data and the new table empty.
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- **Safe change:** Hand-review any generated migration containing `__new_`; on D1 add `PRAGMA defer_foreign_keys = on` as the first statement; back up (D1 Time Travel bookmark) before applying; assert child-table rowcounts after the rebuild.
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- ## seed-regen-upsert-clobber — CRITICAL · dual-authority
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- **Contract:** Generated seed files (`db/seed/*.seed.sql`, UUIDv5 of the natural key, idempotent `ON CONFLICT(slug) DO UPDATE`) and the live DB co-own vocabulary rows — the generator owns `slug/label/description`, the runtime owns `count`, admins own `weight`.
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- **Detect:** `gen-seeds.mjs`, `gen-product-domains.mjs`, `*.seed.sql`, `ON CONFLICT(slug) DO UPDATE`, `excluded.count`, `excluded.weight`, `excluded.id`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** If the generator's `DO UPDATE SET` list ever includes `count`/`weight`/`id`/`created_at`, the next deploy's re-seed silently resets live drift counters and admin-tuned weights to CSV values — no error, data just reverts. Changing the uuid5 namespace or the natural-key string format re-mints every id: the slug-targeted upsert still matches, but `SET id = excluded.id` dangles every external record of the old UUIDs; if the conflict target were `id` instead of `slug`, re-seed duplicates the whole vocabulary. Mixing UUIDv7 (runtime, time-sortable) and UUIDv5 (seed, hash) ids also means `ORDER BY id` ≠ insertion order.
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- **Contract:** Every upsert's conflict target is backed by a live unique (or partial-unique) index declared in a migration far from the query; dedupe correctness lives in the index, not the code.
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Targeted `ON CONFLICT (col) DO UPDATE` at least errors loudly if the constraint is dropped — but targetless `ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING` and SQLite `INSERT OR IGNORE` keep returning success and silently insert duplicates once the unique index is gone (e.g. a rebuild migration recreated the table with `_idx` instead of `_unique`). Partial unique indexes need the predicate restated for arbiter inference — in Drizzle, `onConflictDoUpdate({ target, targetWhere })` must repeat the index's `WHERE`; omit it and PG throws `there is no unique or exclusion constraint matching the ON CONFLICT specification` even though "the index exists".
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Sequential awaited writes read as transactional in review but each auto-commits — a mid-sequence failure leaves permanent partial writes with no rollback. `batch()` is atomic (a failing statement rolls back the sequence) but non-interactive: a later statement cannot branch on an earlier statement's result, so read-modify-write logic ported into a "batch transaction" carries a TOCTOU race between the pre-read and the batch. Code sharing a service layer with a Node/Postgres path (where `db.transaction` works) compiles and unit-tests green, then throws `D1_ERROR` only on the Workers runtime.
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- **Contract:** D1 enforces `PRAGMA foreign_keys = on` for every query and migration and does not allow turning it off (only `PRAGMA defer_foreign_keys` within a transaction), while local SQLite harnesses (better-sqlite3 et al.) default foreign_keys OFF.
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Tests that insert children before parents, delete referenced parents, or import fixtures out of order pass locally (orphans silently accepted) and then throw `FOREIGN KEY constraint failed` only on production D1. Conversely, orphan rows accumulated under local FK-off dev later block a table-rebuild migration on D1. A migration file containing `PRAGMA foreign_keys = OFF` is silently ineffective on D1 — and the sanctioned `defer_foreign_keys = on` still lets `ON DELETE CASCADE` fire.
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- **Safe change:** Enable `foreign_keys = ON` in every local SQLite test/dev harness; order seed and migration statements parent-first; use `PRAGMA defer_foreign_keys = on` (not `foreign_keys = OFF`) in D1 migrations that transiently violate FKs.
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- **Contract:** With D1 read replication enabled, cross-request read-your-writes holds only if `session.getBookmark()` is round-tripped (cookie/header) into the next request's `env.DB.withSession(bookmark)`; the constant `"first-unconstrained"` permits arbitrarily stale replica reads.
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Enabling replication and adopting `withSession("first-unconstrained")` makes POST-then-redirect-GET flows intermittently render pre-write state — only for users near a lagging replica, never reproducible in local dev (no replicas exist there). Sessions guarantee *sequential* consistency within one session object; two independent sessions with no bookmark hand-off share no ordering at all. Non-session `env.DB.prepare()` calls still route to the primary — a partial migration to Sessions creates mixed-consistency paths inside one handler.
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- **Contract:** `slug` is the org's cross-reference key — enforced refs are real FKs `REFERENCES <table>(slug)`, but drift-tolerant vocabulary columns deliberately have NO FK (paired with a `<thing>_in_taxonomy` boolean), and the vocabulary's source of truth is the taxonomy package, not the D1 snapshot table.
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- **Detect:** `REFERENCES sources(slug)`, `_slug` columns without `FOREIGN KEY`, `_in_taxonomy`, `taxonomy/seed/*.csv`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Renaming a slug in the taxonomy CSV regenerates the seed, and the `ON CONFLICT(slug)` upsert *inserts a new row* under the new slug instead of renaming — the old row survives, every existing `_slug` value still points at the now-deprecated slug, joins quietly return empty sets, and `_in_taxonomy` flags go stale. Nothing errors: the columns have no FK by design. FK-enforced references fail loudly instead — but only at write time, long after the rename shipped.
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- **Contract:** Every writer of `created_at`/`updated_at` (`TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT (datetime('now'))`) agrees on the format that default emits: `YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS`, UTC, space separator, no `T`/`Z`/milliseconds.
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- **Ships green, breaks:** App code writing `new Date().toISOString()` (`2026-07-04T09:00:00.000Z`) into the same column creates mixed formats: TEXT comparison is bytewise, `' '` < `'T'`, so `ORDER BY created_at` and range filters silently drop or misorder rows across the two formats. Reading back, `new Date("2026-07-04 09:00:00")` parses as *local* time in JS while the stored value is UTC — silent per-timezone offsets. And SQLite has no `ON UPDATE`: Drizzle's `$onUpdate` fires only on Drizzle-issued updates, so seed upserts and raw SQL leave `updated_at` stale unless they SET it explicitly.
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- **Ships green, breaks:** SQLite INTEGER affinity rejects nothing — a seed or raw SQL writing `'true'` (quoted) stores the TEXT `'true'` inside the INTEGER column; `Number('true')` is `NaN`, so Drizzle silently reads the row as `false`. Any stored value other than exactly `1` (a `2`, a `-1`, `'yes'`) also reads as `false`. Unquoted `TRUE`/`FALSE` keywords are safe (they are 1/0), which makes the quoted variant an easy copy-paste landmine; D1 tables aren't STRICT, so nothing validates at write time.
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- **Safe change:** Write literal `1`/`0` in all hand-written SQL; audit with `SELECT typeof(is_col), is_col, COUNT(*) FROM t GROUP BY 1,2`; ensure every `is_*`/`has_*` column carries `{ mode: "boolean" }` in `schema.ts`.
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- **Contract:** Readers of a JSON column (`TEXT` holding JSON in SQLite — `design_tokens`, `bbox`, `scorecard`, `meta` — or `jsonb` in PG) must parse every shape ever written; old rows keep their old shape forever, and Drizzle's `{ mode: 'json' }` + `.$type<T>()` is a compile-time assertion never validated at read.
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Adding a required field to `T` type-checks green while every pre-existing row lacks it — `undefined` propagates into arithmetic (NaN scores) and skipped branches with no exception; renaming a field silently orphans all historical data under the old key; during a rolling deploy, new-shape writes crash still-running old readers. Tests pass because fixtures are always written by the current code.
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- **Contract:** A Postgres enum's value list and declaration order are shared DDL across all writers, readers, and in-flight migrations; PG (through 17) has no `ALTER TYPE … DROP VALUE` — removal requires a full rebuild (columns→text, drop type, recreate, cast back).
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- **Ships green, breaks:** `ADD VALUE` runs fine inside a transaction (since PG12) but *using* the value in the same transaction throws `unsafe use of new value … of enum type` (55P04) — this bites exactly the migration that adds a value and then seeds rows with it, and only at deploy time. Enum `ORDER BY` follows declaration order, so appending without `BEFORE`/`AFTER` silently reorders sorted output. Mixed-version deploys: new pods write the new value while old pods' exhaustive switches receive an unknown variant. The removal rebuild fails mid-migration if any row still holds the removed value.
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- **Safe change:** Split ADD VALUE and its first use into separate migrations (separate transactions); use `BEFORE`/`AFTER` when sort order matters; deploy readers tolerant of the new value before writers emit it; before removal, count rows holding the value and review the generated rebuild SQL.
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- **Contract:** The query's distance operator, the index's operator class, and the embedding model/dimension must agree: `<->`↔`vector_l2_ops`, `<=>`↔`vector_cosine_ops`, `<#>`↔`vector_ip_ops`, column `vector(N)` fixed to the model's output size.
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- **Detect:** `vector_cosine_ops`, `vector_l2_ops`, `vector_ip_ops`, `<=>`, `<->`, `<#>`, `vector({ dimensions:`, `.op('vector_`, `USING hnsw`, `USING ivfflat`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Operator/opclass mismatch produces no error or warning — Postgres just seq-scans (≈5ms indexed → 30s at 1M rows); the only tell is `EXPLAIN` showing Seq Scan. In Drizzle the rendezvous is the literal `.op('vector_cosine_ops')` string on the index vs the `sql`-template operator in a query file that never imports it. Swapping embedding models at the *same* dimension inserts cleanly and returns confidently wrong neighbors — cross-model similarity is meaningless; a different dimension at least errors.
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- **Safe change:** Grep every distance operator and match it to an index opclass; `EXPLAIN` the hot query after any index or query change; record the embedding model per row (or per table) and re-embed the entire table on model change — never mix.
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- **Contract:** Cache writers and readers across deploys rendezvous on literal key strings and an agreed value encoding; Redis outlives every deploy, so pre-deploy keys, shapes, and TTLs keep serving after the code changes.
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- **Detect:** key-template literals (`` `user:${id}` ``), `JSON.parse(` on `GET` results, `set(` without `EX`/`KEEPTTL`, `maxmemory-policy`, hardcoded prefixes in more than one module
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Renaming a key schema without invalidation leaves old keys serving stale data to any code path still reading the old name — both paths "work". Changing the value shape breaks only on cache *hits*: cold-cache tests and fresh staging pass, production readers throw or mis-parse on surviving pre-deploy entries. Plain `SET key val` (Redis ≥6) silently *removes* an existing TTL unless `KEEPTTL` or `EX` is given — a refresh path without `EX` turns expiring keys immortal. Default `maxmemory-policy noeviction` means a full instance rejects writes (`OOM command not allowed`) instead of evicting.
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- **Contract:** Express route strings are compiled by path-to-regexp v8 in Express 5; route authors and every URL caller meet on a path-string dialect that changed from Express 4.
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Old syntax `*`, `:id?`, `:id(\d+)` throws `TypeError: Missing parameter name` at boot — but the silent ones: `/*splat` no longer matches the mount root (`/files/*splat` misses `GET /files/`; only `/{*splat}` matches root); wildcard params are now ARRAYS of segments (`req.params.splat === ['a','b']`, not the string `'a/b'`; `req.params[0]` is gone → undefined); unmatched optional params are OMITTED from `req.params` instead of present-as-undefined; regex sub-patterns are unsupported, so numeric-only constraints once enforced by `(\d+)` silently stop filtering if approximated wrong.
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- **Contract:** Clients serialize query strings (qs brackets, axios `params`) and the server parses them per `app.set('query parser', ...)` — Express 5 flipped the default from `'extended'` to `'simple'`.
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- **Ships green, breaks:** `?filter[status]=open` now parses to the flat key `"filter[status]"` instead of `{filter:{status:'open'}}` — loose schemas pass it through and filters silently no-op (endpoint returns unfiltered data); strict schemas start 400ing only for clients that send brackets. `req.query` is now a getter: sanitizer middleware doing `req.query = cleaned` silently no-ops (sloppy mode) or throws TypeError (strict). `express.urlencoded()` `extended` also now defaults to `false`.
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- ## express5-removed-response-apis — HIGH · rendezvous-string
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- **Contract:** Handler code meets the Express request/response API by literal method name at runtime — nothing static links plain-JS call sites to Express 5's removed/changed methods.
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- **Detect:** `res.sendfile(`, `app.del(`, `res.redirect('back')`, `res.location('back')`, `req.param(`, `res\.(send|json|jsonp)\([^)]+,\s*\d{3}\)`, `res\.send\(\d{3}\)`, `clearCookie\(.+maxAge|expires`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** `res.redirect('back')` no longer resolves the Referrer — it redirects to the literal relative URL `back` (no error; users land on a 404). `res.clearCookie(name, {maxAge, expires})` silently ignores those options. `res.sendfile`, `app.del`, `req.param()`, `res.send(body, status)`, `res.send(404)` are removed → per-request TypeError → 500s only when the route is exercised. `res.status()` now throws for non-integers outside 100–999. `req.body` is `undefined` (not `{}`) when no parser ran, so `req.body.x` throws where v4 returned undefined.
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- **Contract:** Express identifies an error handler SOLELY by `fn.length === 4`; Express 5 additionally forwards every rejected async handler/middleware promise to that chain as `next(err)`.
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- **Detect:** `app.use((err,`, `(err, req, res, next)`, `express-async-errors`, `.catch(next)`, `next(err)`
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Deleting the "unused" fourth `next` param (a common lint autofix) silently turns the centralized error handler into ordinary middleware — it now runs on EVERY request and never on errors; errors fall through to Express's default handler, which emits HTML instead of the JSON envelope, and envelope-unwrapping clients break. With Express 5's native rejection forwarding, legacy `catch (e) { next(e) }` plus a rethrow (or a lingering `express-async-errors` shim) double-invokes the error chain → `Cannot set headers after they are sent`. Throws inside `setTimeout`/event callbacks are NOT forwarded and still crash the process.
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- ## api-response-envelope — HIGH · serialized-shape
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Server emitting `status: true` breaks client `=== 1` / `=== 0` strict checks — responses classify as neither success nor error and fall through silently. A new endpoint returning a bare payload makes the unwrapper's `.data.data` yield `undefined` — spreads/destructures render empty state, no error thrown. If error envelopes move to non-2xx HTTP codes, axios's default `validateStatus` routes them into the REJECTED interceptor arm where the success unwrapper never runs — code must read `err.response.data.message`, not `res.data.message`. `data: null` on errors breaks optimistic `data.items.map`.
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- ## http-status-code-convention — HIGH · rendezvous-string
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- **Contract:** Server code choices and client interceptor branching meet on exact numeric codes: 200, 201 created, 400, 401 not-authenticated, 403 not-authorized, 404, 500 (plus 429/503 for backoff) — literals on both sides, no static link.
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- **Ships green, breaks:** Returning 403 (or 200 + envelope `status: 0`) for an EXPIRED token means the client's 401→refresh-token interceptor never fires — sessions die silently or error-toast forever. Returning 401 for a pure permissions failure triggers refresh→retry loops that hammer the auth service and can force logouts. Backoff interceptors keyed to 429/503 don't engage if throttling ships as 400/500. 201-vs-200 breaks clients that branch on `status === 201` to read a created id.
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- ## middleware-mount-order — HIGH · lifecycle-protocol
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- **Contract:** The `app.use` sequence is the contract: security/CORS → body parsers → auth/rate-limit middleware → routes → 404 → 4-arg error handler LAST.
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- **Detect:** ordering in `server.js`/`app.js`/`index.js`, `app.use(express.json`, `app.use(router`, `app.use(errorHandler`, `express.json({ limit`
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- ## webhook-hmac-raw-body — CRITICAL · trust-invariant
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- **Contract:** The provider signs the exact raw request bytes; the server must verify the HMAC over those SAME bytes before trusting the event (often payment/provisioning events).
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- **Contract:** Client catch-blocks and retry logic branch on axios 1.x's error taxonomy — `err.response` vs `err.request` vs config error, and literal `err.code` strings — plus its `validateStatus`/`timeout` defaults.
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- A Claude Code skill that is a **thinking partner for designing software** — not a form to fill in. It runs one constant loop (distill → abstract → sync → record) over a conversation, files the thinking into a small set of substance-first pillars, and treats _coherence_ as a measurable target rather than a vibe.
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