docs: reconcile documentation against the code; add a supersession ledger
Five weeks of undocumented evolution left the docs describing a site that
partly no longer exists, with nothing marking which documents were historical.
The code is treated as the source of truth throughout; every claim below was
verified against code, config or the Makefile rather than inferred.
Two mechanisms, following patterns the repo already used:
- docs/reference/superseded-decisions.md (new) — one authoritative table of all
14 reversals: what was planned, where, what is true now, when, and why. Plus
a short list of decisions that were NOT reversed, since their planning docs
are old enough to look suspect.
- Inline "> **Superseded ...**" notes at each stale claim, so a claim can never
be read un-corrected. This mirrors the existing "> History:" notes in
architecture.md and "> **Changed 2026-07:**" in trip-switching.md.
Scope split by tense: present-tense docs (CLAUDE.md, reference/, guides/,
README.md, CONCEPTS.md) are corrected; past-tense records (plans/, specs/,
milestones/, summary.md, pm-analysis.md) are annotated only, never rewritten —
their staleness is what makes them records.
Present-tense corrections:
- CLAUDE.md asserted css-compiled/ is generated from css/style.css and
css/tokens.css. That source relationship does not exist: css/ is hand-authored
and served directly via assets.addCss in partials/base.html.twig, while
css-compiled/ is esbuild output from the CSS imports inside js/src/*.js.
Highest-severity finding — an always-loaded file inviting a hand-edit of a
generated bundle.
- README.md documented every remote-* target without the -test/-prod suffix
guard-env requires, so its entire server runbook was unrunnable, and listed
7 of ~20 targets while CLAUDE.md designates it authoritative for the full
list. Rewritten with all targets, grouped, and the suffix rule stated.
- README.md told readers to "git clone" into user/, which is a submodule.
- architecture.md: nav is Home + Trips + (authenticated) New Post, not
"Home + Past Trips only"; template tree omitted trips.html.twig,
post-form.html.twig and forms/, and placed base.html.twig at templates/ root
rather than in partials/; entry-actions has three API routes, not just delete;
added the undocumented css-compiled/maplibre-gl.css output and a section on
the /post pin editor as the one sanctioned non-entry-map map.
- design-system.md: documented 13 colour tokens against 19 in tokens.css
(missing --color-error, --color-draft-accent and four glass overlays); claimed
"all 3 map templates"; and described --color-canvas as "white".
- design-system-light.md documented a light palette in present tense. No light
mode exists — tokens.css has a single :root block, no prefers-color-scheme or
data-theme switch, and no light hex appears in css/. Banner added.
- posting.md said photos were optional; they are required, 1-6. It documented
hero_image, which was removed for entries (stories keep it). It had no mention
of the frontend edit flow or photo editor, both shipped 2026-07-08. Photo
files are photo-01..NN, zero-padded.
- working/README.md advertised summary.md as the project's "current state" while
summary.md describes Leaflet, /tracker, /map and /stats. Most misleading line
in the tree.
- CLAUDE.md: recorded js/src/location-map.js as the one sanctioned exception to
the single-map-path rule, and documented that make start/setup fail on a clean
checkout because docker-compose.yml still builds a travel-memories service
whose source moved out in a80b0a9.
Also: 2026-07-23-post-form-location-override.md read "Not started" while merged
in user/ as dd19995; status corrected.
Findings that are not documentation problems — the compose breakage, a
repeatable drift check, the unused shortcode-gallery-plusplus, and demo fixtures
for retired views — are collected in
docs/working/2026-07-25-doc-drift-recommendations.md and deliberately not acted
on. Design and verification method: docs/working/specs/2026-07-25-docs-reconciliation-design.md
The submodule gitlink is deliberately not bumped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Stable facts belong in [`../reference/`](../reference/); how-to procedures in [`../guides/`](../guides/); write-ups of bugs already solved in [`../solutions/`](../solutions/).
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> ⚠️ **Everything here is written in the past tense, even when it reads present-tense.** A completed
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> plan describes the code *as it was when the plan landed* — that is what makes it a useful record,
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> and it is not a defect when it no longer matches. Several documents here describe features that were
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> later deliberately reversed: there is no `/map` page, no `/stats` page, no `/tracker`, no Leaflet, no
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> light theme, and no `hero_image` on entries.
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> **Before re-creating anything you find in this folder, check
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> [`../reference/superseded-decisions.md`](../reference/superseded-decisions.md).** Superseded sections
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> also carry an inline `> **Superseded …**` note pointing there. For the site as it is, read
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> [`../reference/architecture.md`](../reference/architecture.md).
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## What's in here
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| `learnings/` | Retrospective notes worth keeping but not yet promoted to `../solutions/` |
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| `backlog.md` | Unscheduled ideas and wishes |
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| `bugs-and-fixes.md` | Running log of bugs found and what fixed them |
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| `summary.md` | Project summary / current state |
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| `summary.md` | **Historical** wrap-up of the original four-milestone branch (2026-06-21). *Not* the current state — for that read [`../reference/architecture.md`](../reference/architecture.md) |
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| `pm-analysis.md`, `git-sync-notes.md`, dated one-offs | Standalone notes, kept for reference |
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