Status note (2026-09-25): Dated audit handoff. Its issue and PR states describe the recorded checkpoint; use current GitHub and repository evidence for live status. Do not infer product fixes from issue promotion.

MVP stabilization handoff — 2026-09-24

TL;DR: record of promoting the audit's eight findings to tracked GitHub issues. Promotion paperwork, not fixes — use current issues and repository evidence for live status.

Completed: promotion, not application stabilization

All eight findings were promoted to real GitHub issues and added to the shared MVP Execution Project. Issue mapping and execution order.

Issue bodies and all eight Project fields were read back and verified. No issue was claimed, assigned, closed or represented as implemented. Blocked means scoped design approval is still required; 004 additionally requires the human's explicit deletion-policy decision.

The remote backend/frontend/scraper branch SHAs still match the original audit. This was API-only revalidation for frontend/scraper; backend refs/tags were fetched in the documentation lease. No second broad audit occurred.

Git preservation

Repository: BloxClips/Bloxclips-backend. Branch: task/mvp-audit-promotion, based on origin/dev at 5474331b320c97b31334d5f54a0713ce6f09c594. Documentation-only commit: 67cea3d8ceee8b4ac4c76f5e795b190a4800a126. Archive: docs/mvp-final-audit/2026-09-24/.

The archive contains 10 byte-identical original audit files, eight approved issue-body snapshots, an approved index and the human decision summary. The original historical “awaiting review” status remains in the original snapshot; current approved-for-tracking status is separate. Outer ticket files now link to their promoted issues.

Validation: original-byte comparison, 20-file scope, 30 archive-local links, staged whitespace checks, remote issue/project readback and clean worktree after commit. No application suite was rerun and no new passing-regression claim is made.

Publication subsequently authorized: commit 67cea3d8ceee8b4ac4c76f5e795b190a4800a126 is pushed on task/mvp-audit-promotion; backend PR #204 targets dev. The PR is documentation-only and does not fix or close the findings. No merge was performed. The publication lease was returned; primary checkout remained clean.

Lease: backend task MVP-AUDIT-PROMOTION, identity 6a54d6223a7904768d803d5de023fc93, worktree /home/kirbysmashyeet/.treehouse/Bloxclips-backend-326cdd/4/Bloxclips-backend. Returned successfully after the clean documentation commit. Other task leases were untouched. The pooled worktree path is not a permanent archive link; the Git branch/commit is the durable local reference.

First bounded design proposal — 003 / backend #196

Status: PROPOSED, NOT APPROVED OR IMPLEMENTED.

Recommend one explicit runtime source: backend DATABASE_URL. Derive diagnostics from that same value and reject deprecated scoped database overrides with an actionable, secret-free configuration error, rather than silently selecting or ignoring them. Update the template and focused config/client tests. This intentionally avoids silently redirecting an existing process to another database.

Preserve the worker's explicit SCRAPER_DATABASE_URL override, since separate worker credentials can be legitimate. Require proof that the actual backend and worker connections reach the intended shared database; do not equate credential-string equality or a hostname hash with physical-database proof.

Acceptance would include synthetic conflicting-setting tests, actual client/diagnostic agreement and a controlled disposable-DB check through both connection paths. Existing deployments would require explicit configuration cleanup and target verification before restart/QA; no production connections, config edits or data migration are implied.

Alternative: route both runtime and diagnostics through scoped selection. That also requires coordinated worker/migrator configuration and carries a greater risk of silently changing the current effective target. No implementation choice is approved by the problem-tracking approval.

The brainstorming skill pauses implementation until this bounded design is approved. No broad spec or new configuration platform is proposed.

QA and remaining gates

Actual QA deployment/database targets have NOT been independently verified during promotion, so no QA session was started. No launch or unrestricted financial E2E is authorized on the audited revisions.

After environment verification, unaffected controlled UI/campaign/group/nonfinancial staff/intake QA can proceed. Recurring observations require 001; real-user linking requires 002; observation-derived earnings/payouts require trustworthy scoped regression evidence, not merely 008 closure; deletion requires approved behavior and its tests.

Preserve all stated finance/worker safeguards. No money movement, production/shared DB mutation, provider write, deployment, legacy purge, architectural restart or subagent work occurred.