Archives advisory-keys-name-their-family (#186, second of two changes) and syncs its deltas: a new database-locks spec (every advisory key is built from its family and an id; a lock helper takes a transaction; the families and the lock order are written once), whose Purpose this commit writes; deployment-docs gains the requirement that the production guide states an upgrade stops the old release first; go-static-analysis gains the lock-site rule; entitlements and entitlement-set-management state the rendezvous by its family. Five requirements added, three modified, no scenario dropped. 91 specs valid. What the work behind both #186 changes taught beyond them: - docs/testing.md: how dbtest.Counted names a statement; a guarantee that needs READ COMMITTED is also tested on a repeatable-read connection; a lint rule's break adds code, not a comment; Abort for a call that may answer without waiting, and a "leaves a weaker lock free" test also checks the lock is held; how forbidigo matches sql.DB.Begin and the calls it cannot see. - docs/go-conventions.md: a third READ COMMITTED case, a locking read that waited failing with 40001 at REPEATABLE READ. - docs/database-management.md: what migrate down rolls back (#242) and how to roll back a core migration by hand; CREATE OR REPLACE resets SECURITY DEFINER, search_path and volatility; sqlc moves a section comment onto the next query. - design.md: the upgrade rule's two rejected alternatives.
title, audience, summary
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| Documentation index |
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Index of member-console documentation, grouped by audience, plus the front-matter convention every doc follows. |
Documentation
Every document in this directory carries YAML front matter declaring its audience, so readers can find what's for them and contributors know who they're writing for.
Front-matter convention
Start each doc with a front-matter block:
---
title: "Human-readable title"
audience: [admin, developer] # one or more of: developer, admin, user (primary first)
summary: "One sentence describing what the doc covers."
---
The three audiences:
- developer — contributing to or understanding the codebase: architecture, design decisions, dev setup, testing, UX research and conventions, the provider-extension contract.
- admin — hosting and operating an instance: installing, configuring an identity provider, building the image, generating secrets, running the service.
- user — the general public or a member using a running service. (None yet — the tag is reserved for member-facing docs.)
List the primary audience first; a doc may name more than one.
For administrators — hosting & operating
- Production Deployment — the sequenced path from a fresh host to a running instance; start here.
- Environment Reference — every configuration key with its default and
MC_*override. - Settings and Configuration — why software uses two words for what a program is told, and how this console applies the rule.
- Hosting member-console — build the image and generate secrets.
- Deployment Architecture — how the console fits alongside a public site and an identity provider.
- Identity Provider Setup — configure an OIDC IdP for login.
- Temporal Authorization Setup — emit the
permissionsclaim Temporal's JWT authorizer expects. - Plan Management — operator guide to plan ladders and grants.
- Stripe Integration — flags, secrets, webhooks, and purchasability.
For developers — contributing & internals
- Database Management — goose migrations and sqlc.
- Database Locks — every advisory and serializing row lock, how each key is built, and the order each path takes them in.
- Design System — UI conventions.
- Domain Model Cards — the model catalog: one card per domain model with invariants, dimensions, and traps.
- FedWiki Integration — provisioning via the FarmManager API.
- Go Conventions — where a rule and an act live, transactions and locks, services that answer after the listener opens, output order, error handling, and dead code.
- HTMX Setup — HTMX under a strict CSP.
- Identifiers — IDs, names, and keys: which entities carry a key, its grammar and scope, and how seeds and lookups use it.
- Operator Information Architecture — the operator panel's IA contract.
- Operator UX Conventions — form and action conventions.
- First-Contact UX Walk Process — the repeatable method for walking the console as a stranger.
- First-Contact UX Rubric — the instrument that method scores with: the A–G question bank, the walker protocol, and the screen coverage checklist.
- Agent Runner — how an agent from another model family reviews or ideates on the code inside a disposable copy: what contains it, how a task is shaped, and what a finding must carry before it counts.
- Operator UI Accessibility Baseline — what operator-UI changes are diffed against.
- Building an Integration — adding a new integration.
- Testing — the test taxonomy and how to run each kind, plus the gates:
make lint(page-anatomy rules and the Go static checks) andmake screens(contact sheets at two widths).
For users
No member-facing documentation yet.
One page per rule
A rule is written on the one page that owns it. Another page that needs the rule links to that page instead of restating it, because two copies of a rule are edited separately and drift apart.
Where things are not
Research, drafts, audits, walkthrough evidence, and other records of how a
decision was reached are not documentation; they stay in a local notebook
that git ignores, so a clone never carries them. When a decision lands,
whatever a reader still needs is written into this directory, which holds
the result without the history. The rule for every kind of file is in
status/MAINTAINING.md.