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Platform foundation

Work record: application source inspected 3 October 2026.

The project has a public website, an editorial application and a product service. Their responsibilities are separated so an editor can update content without owning a person's account, reputation or rewards.

What has been produced​

The public website has navigation, page layouts and the connected account experience. The product service implements account identities, sessions and nickname onboarding. Shared request definitions connect the website to those operations. Background delivery supports the email-code flow.

The editorial application uses Payload. The intended staff experience brings content work and permitted product operations into one staff workspace. That agreed direction does not establish that the new catalogue forms, moderation commands or staff permissions are already implemented.

The diagram explains responsibilities. The dashed staff connection needs its selected permissions and integration; it is not a claim of a working screen.

What was checked​

The dated inspection examined application code, account storage, shared clients, test configuration and development deployment configuration. It found the email, Google, session and account operations described in the account work record.

It also found home-page Casino, discussion, contributor and score sections that still used example data or presentation-only state. A page's appearance therefore cannot establish that its underlying product feature is complete. The older Casino reader still used the historical evaluation endpoint, rather than proving the new catalogue design was connected.

The inspected tests include browser flows using controlled account responses and a separate check against a real product-service process. This record does not claim those tests ran or passed during the documentation inspection. Deployment configuration alone also does not establish a live environment.

What this enables next​

The agreed ownership gives the next feature a clear home: editors maintain catalogue content, product operations own accounts and contributions, and search uses a derived view of published information.

Read the editorial workspace for staff tasks, or review the first platform scope to choose the next observable product outcome.