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Robert Bond 0150e243ed Merged PR 2408: updated context for current state at 19062026
updated context for current state at 19062026

Related work items: #23754
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# Open Questions
## Entry Template
```
date: YYYY-MM-DD
author: <agent|name>
scope: <files/routes/features>
type: question
rationale: <why unresolved>
impact: <user/system/security/i18n/a11y>
status: open|resolved
Question:
Needed from:
Decision deadline:
```
---
### Q-001: Auth Logging Redaction Standard
date: 2026-03-11
author: Cline
scope: auth/email APIs and actions logging
type: question
rationale: Existing logging appears verbose in sensitive flows.
impact: Potential privacy/security exposure via operational logs.
status: open
Question:
What mandatory redaction and structured logging policy should be enforced for auth/email/document flows (fields blocked, allowed metadata, and incident correlation expectations)?
Needed from:
Security lead + application owner
Decision deadline:
Before Sequence B Workstream B2 rollout
Current context:
- Relay logging policy has already been hardened in middleware, but auth/email/file routes still have uneven logging style.
- Reference planning docs:
- `context/next-work-plan-sequence-b.md`
- `context/current-state-scorecard.md`
### Q-002: Test Strategy Baseline for Sparse `tests/`
date: 2026-03-11
author: Cline
scope: testing strategy repository-wide
type: question
rationale: `tests/` currently appears minimal; validation relies heavily on manual checks.
impact: Increased regression risk and slower release confidence.
status: open
Question:
What minimum automated coverage should be required per change type (feature, bug fix, high-risk integration), and which suites become mandatory CI gates?
Needed from:
Engineering lead + QA
Decision deadline:
Before enabling Sequence C CI parity gate rollout
Current context:
- Focused high-risk automation exists in phase21/phase22 (auth redirect, i18n route parity, relay hardening, endpoint contract slices).
- A formal CI baseline decision is still needed to institutionalize these checks.
---
### Q-003: Runtime canonical startup path selection
date: 2026-03-25
author: Cline
scope: runtime startup path and operational documentation
type: question
rationale: Dual server entrypoints (`server.js` and `server/server.js`) remain a known architecture ambiguity in review artifacts.
impact: Operational ambiguity can increase deployment and incident-response risk.
status: open
Question:
Which startup path is canonical for dev/test/prod, and what is the deprecation plan for the non-canonical entrypoint?
Needed from:
Technical lead + DevOps owner
Decision deadline:
Before runtime-affecting refactor or next deployment process update
---
### Q-004: Representation Participation Availability business validation
date: 2026-06-18
author: Cline
scope: representation participation availability across summary/search/domain policy
type: question
rationale: Technical characterization is complete, but several compatibility-sensitive behaviours may be historical rather than intentional and need business confirmation before any further representation-policy adoption or behaviour change work.
impact: User-facing participation availability, blocked messaging, cross-portal consistency, and future domain-boundary decisions.
status: open
Question:
Which current representation participation behaviours are intended business rules, and which are historical compatibility behaviours only?
Needed from:
Product owner + business analyst + relevant SME/CRM data owner
Decision deadline:
Before any further representation-policy adoption, expansion, normalization, or behavioural change work
Current context:
- Technical characterization and documentation are now recorded in:
- `docs/representation-participation-availability.md`
- `docs/representation-participation-business-review.md`
- Business validation is especially needed for:
- Rights of Way behaviour when process information is incomplete or stored differently
- Advertisement behaviour when process information is incomplete or conflicting
- whether all portal areas should behave consistently
- Householder blocked-message suppression
- CPO ended-message / deadline consistency
- missing or conflicting process information handling
---
### Q-005: Portal API Security Boundary Assessment
date: 2026-06-19
author: Architect Review
scope: API endpoints and ownership enforcement
type: question
rationale: Discovery programme complete. Security/access boundary review identified as the highest-value architecture stream.
impact: security, privacy, maintainability
status: open
Question:
What is the current ownership-validation and access-control posture across public and authenticated API endpoints?
Needed from:
Architecture review stream
Decision deadline:
Before major domain-layer adoption or API modernization work.