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- docs/reference/superseded-decisions.md (new) — one authoritative table of all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 **Superseded ...**" notes at each stale claim, so a claim can never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.
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CLAUDE.md is loaded into context on every request, so every line has a
recurring cost. Applies one rule to decide what earns its place: keep what
changes behaviour (rules and gotchas Claude cannot discover before it acts);
extract what merely describes code (Claude reads the code anyway, and prose
about code silently drifts).
The four stale facts fixed in the previous commit were all in the
"describes code" class -- active_trip, the Admin2 version, demo-load's
scope, the gitignore list. None were rules. That is the argument for moving
this material next to what it documents.
Extracted (kept as pointers):
- entry-map + trip-feed-col parameter contracts (56 lines) -> reference/
architecture.md "Shared partial contracts". CLAUDE.md keeps only the
invariants: single map path, must assign window.tripMap/homeMap, keep
trip-feed-col single-purpose, initTripStats depends on MapUtils.
- Prod override runbook (49 -> 9 lines) -> guides/deploy-cycle.md "The env
override tree", incl. the Twig dev/prod table and WEB_HOST. CLAUDE.md
keeps the two behavioural rules: never commit prod values, and Admin on
the server writes to the env tree (so check both config paths, env wins).
- GPX API routes, session auth and the Blob/FormData upload gotcha ->
guides/gpx-manager.md "How the manager is wired".
- Trip-switch procedure -> guides/trip-switching.md. CLAUDE.md keeps the
one rule that matters: never re-add pageconfig.parent to post-form.md.
- Also trimmed the dev-command table and custom-plugin table added in the
previous commit; both largely restated the Makefile and blueprints.
Fixed the guides being pointed into, so the pointers lead to truth:
- trip-switching.md instructed editing a pageconfig.parent that no longer
exists -- its whole "two files must be updated together" premise was
obsolete and would have reintroduced the desync it warned about.
- architecture.md: Grav 2.0.4->2.0.7, Admin2 2.0.10->2.0.12, corrected the
posting pipeline to show cache-on-save injecting parent before the write,
added entry-actions to the custom-plugin list.
- japan-korea-2026 -> denmark-2026 across guides/reference (docs/solutions
keeps its historical references intact -- those are incident records).
Verified: every markdown link resolves, every referenced section heading
exists, and each extracted item was confirmed present in its new home.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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