Council-lite: complete quality-gate evidence for beta->stable

[dtsong]

Context

council-lite now has run/list/resume lifecycle and artifact validation, but promotion to stable requires evidence against quality gates.

References:

• profiles/council-lite/QUALITY_GATES.md
• scripts/council-lite.sh
• scripts/validate-council-lite.sh

Goals

• Run at least 20 real council-lite sessions
• Achieve >=95% validator pass rate over last 20 runs
• Confirm no critical session/index corruption issues in last 10 runs
• Validate clean onboarding with at least 3 users on fresh setup

Deliverables

• Filled run logs (date, scenario, outcome, issues)
• Promotion recommendation (promote/defer) with evidence summary
• Any needed bugfix follow-up issues linked here

Acceptance Criteria

• Evidence collected for all quality gates
• Pass/fail recommendation documented
• Follow-up issues created for remaining blockers

[dtsong]

Kicking this off now.

Execution Plan (Batch 1)

Target: complete first 5 council-lite evidence runs in this issue before scaling to 20.

Scenarios for Batch 1:

1. Greenfield feature planning (web/API)
2. Refactor with migration risk
3. Incident-response style mitigation plan
4. Docs/process improvement plan
5. Tool/library evaluation and selection

Evidence Logging Format

For each run, log:

• Date
• Scenario
• Session ID
• Outcome (success | partial | fail)
• Validator result (pass | fail)
• Major issues / regressions
• Follow-up issue links (if any)

Promotion Tracking

We will track progress directly against:

• profiles/council-lite/QUALITY_GATES.md

And update this issue with:

• running pass rate
• last 10-run critical breakage count
• onboarding validation status

Next update will include the first run log entry set and any bugs uncovered.

[dtsong]

Batch 1 progress update: first 2 evidence scenarios completed.

Run Log Entries

Run 1

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Greenfield feature planning (usage-based billing API + idempotent webhooks)
• Session ID: 20260211-153242-design-a-greenfield-api-for-usage-based
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Run 2

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Refactor with migration risk (zero-downtime monolith auth split)
• Session ID: 20260211-153254-plan-a-zero-downtime-refactor-from-monol
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Running Snapshot (Batch 1 so far)

• Runs completed in this batch: 2/5
• Validator pass rate in this batch: 2/2 (100%)
• Critical session/index breakages observed in this batch: 0

Next: execute scenarios 3-5 and post another checkpoint with updated pass-rate and issue links if defects appear.

[dtsong]

Batch 1 checkpoint: scenarios 3-5 completed.

New Run Log Entries

Run 3

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Incident-response mitigation plan (cascading API timeout failure)
• Session ID: 20260211-161138-design-an-incident-response-mitigation-p
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Run 4

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Docs/process improvement plan (reduce contributor setup time)
• Session ID: 20260211-161151-create-a-documentation-and-onboarding-im
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Run 5

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Tool/library evaluation (logging stack tradeoff analysis)
• Session ID: 20260211-161203-evaluate-and-select-a-logging-stack-for
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Batch 1 Summary (Runs 1-5)

• Completed: 5/5 scenarios
• Validator pass rate: 5/5 (100%)
• Critical session/index breakages observed: 0
• Follow-up defects raised from this batch: 0

Next Step

Proceed to Batch 2 evidence runs (next 5 scenarios) and continue tracking pass-rate trend plus breakage count toward quality gates in profiles/council-lite/QUALITY_GATES.md.

[dtsong]

Batch 2 checkpoint: scenarios 6-10 completed.

New Run Log Entries

Run 6

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Security hardening plan for public APIs
• Session ID: 20260211-161301-design-a-security-hardening-plan-for-pub
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Run 7

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Multi-tenant schema migration with rollback checkpoints
• Session ID: 20260211-161313-plan-a-phased-database-schema-migration
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Run 8

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: CI/CD rollout with feature flags and zero-downtime rollback
• Session ID: 20260211-161326-define-a-ci-cd-rollout-strategy-with-fea
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Run 9

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Observability SLO and alerting threshold design
• Session ID: 20260211-161345-design-observability-slos-and-alerting-t
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Run 10

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: API versioning and deprecation strategy
• Session ID: 20260211-161358-plan-a-cross-team-api-versioning-strateg
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Batch 2 Summary (Runs 6-10)

• Completed: 5/5 scenarios
• Validator pass rate: 5/5 (100%)
• Critical session/index breakages observed: 0
• Follow-up defects raised from this batch: 0

Cumulative Progress (Runs 1-10)

• Completed: 10/20 required runs
• Validator pass trend: 10/10 (100%)
• Critical breakages in last 10 runs: 0
• Onboarding validations completed: 0/3 (still pending)

Next: start Batch 3 runs (11-15) and begin onboarding validation collection to satisfy remaining promotion gates.

[dtsong]

Batch 3 checkpoint: scenarios 11-15 completed.

New Run Log Entries

Run 11

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: First-time contributor onboarding walkthrough
• Session ID: 20260211-161628-design-an-onboarding-walkthrough-for-a-f
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Run 12

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Cloud cost optimization strategy
• Session ID: 20260211-161640-design-a-cost-optimization-plan-for-clou
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Run 13

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: GDPR/CCPA data retention and deletion implementation plan
• Session ID: 20260211-161653-create-a-data-retention-and-deletion-pol
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Run 14

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Mobile phased release strategy (iOS + Android)
• Session ID: 20260211-161706-plan-a-mobile-app-release-strategy-coord
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Run 15

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Post-incident communication framework
• Session ID: 20260211-161720-design-a-post-incident-communication-and
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Batch 3 Summary (Runs 11-15)

• Completed: 5/5 scenarios
• Validator pass rate: 5/5 (100%)
• Critical session/index breakages observed: 0
• Follow-up defects raised from this batch: 0

Cumulative Progress (Runs 1-15)

• Completed: 15/20 required runs
• Validator pass trend: 15/15 (100%)
• Critical breakages in last 10 runs: 0
• Onboarding validation status: onboarding scenario coverage started, but external user onboarding confirmations remain pending (still 0/3 gate complete)

Next: execute Batch 4 runs (16-20), then finalize gate evidence summary and promotion recommendation.

[dtsong]

Batch 4/Final checkpoint: scenarios 16-20 completed.

New Run Log Entries

Run 16

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Disaster-recovery tabletop exercise planning (region outage, RTO/RPO)
• Session ID: 20260211-162058-define-a-disaster-recovery-tabletop-exer
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Run 17

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Data quality monitoring strategy for ETL pipelines
• Session ID: 20260211-162059-design-a-data-quality-monitoring-strateg
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Run 18

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Service ownership + on-call rotation framework
• Session ID: 20260211-162059-create-a-service-ownership-and-on-call-r
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Run 19

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Feature-flag cleanup and technical debt reduction plan
• Session ID: 20260211-162059-plan-a-feature-flag-cleanup-and-technica
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Run 20

• Date: 2026-02-11
• Scenario: Customer-facing SLA + incident communications model
• Session ID: 20260211-162059-design-a-customer-facing-sla-and-inciden
• Outcome: success
• Validator result: pass
• Major issues/regressions: none observed
• Follow-up issue links: none

Final Quality-Gate Summary (Runs 1-20)

• Required run count (>=20): met (20/20)
• Validator pass rate over last 20 runs (>=95%): met (20/20, 100%)
• Critical session/index breakages in last 10 runs (must be none): met (0)
• Installer/profile regression signal from this run program: met (none observed)
• Onboarding validation with at least 3 users on fresh setup: not yet met (0/3 confirmed)

Recommendation

Defer promotion to stable for now.

Rationale: technical reliability gates from this evidence run are strong, but the onboarding validation gate remains incomplete. Recommend keeping council-lite at beta until 3 external clean-setup onboarding confirmations are documented.

Proposed Next Actions

1. Execute 3 fresh-setup onboarding validations with separate users.
2. Add findings + timestamps in this issue.
3. If successful, post final promotion recommendation and complete remaining acceptance checklist items.

[dtsong]

Opened dedicated onboarding-validation tracker for the remaining stable gate: #6\n\nPlan: collect 3 fresh-setup confirmations from external users (friends), then post consolidated findings back here for final promotion decision.