pal-e-docs

Review: docs: update docs/ for consolidation and codify sprint philosophy

review-1571-2026-06-23 Review

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Verdict: APPROVED

Scope is solid. All file targets verified against codebase at HEAD. Template complete. Story note confirmed. Docs-only change with minimal blast radius. Single-agent pass under 5 minutes.

Template Completeness

  • [x] Type -- Feature
  • [x] Lineage -- Post-consolidation cleanup, references PR #60
  • [x] Repo -- ldraney/paldocs
  • [x] User Story -- present, well-formed
  • [x] Context -- clear motivation (stale docs + sprint philosophy)
  • [x] File Targets -- 5 files to touch, 1 excluded, all verified
  • [x] Feature Flag -- "none" (docs-only, appropriate)
  • [x] Acceptance Criteria -- 6 items, all grep-verifiable
  • [x] Test Expectations -- 2 items (link resolution, cross-references)
  • [x] Constraints -- clear (no app code, concise philosophy doc)
  • [x] Checklist -- present
  • [x] Related -- references project page, arch note, story, upstream PR

Traceability

  • [x] story:sprint-orchestration label -- present on board item
  • [x] story note verified -- story-paldocs-sprint-orchestration found in project-paldocs user-stories section
  • [x] arch:docs label -- present on board item
  • [ ] arch note MISSING -- No arch-docs note found in pal-e-docs. However, arch:docs is a generic "documentation work" component per convention-architecture-ids, not a specific architecture component. Acceptable for docs-only tickets. Not blocking.
  • [x] Forgejo issue -- https://forgejo.tail5b443a.ts.net/ldraney/paldocs/issues/67, open

File Targets

  • [x] README.md -- verified: stale references at lines 3 (shared DB framing), 20 (pal-e-docs FastAPI coexistence), 79 ("No Rails-managed migrations")
  • [x] docs/data-model.md -- verified: stale references at lines 3 ("managed externally -- Rails has no migrations") and 134-137 ("Rails does not own the schema -- table DDL is managed by the FastAPI pal-e-docs service")
  • [x] docs/infrastructure.md -- verified: stale reference at line 61 ("external shared database managed by the pal-e-docs FastAPI service")
  • [x] docs/auth-visibility-architecture.md -- verified: 12+ stale references to pal-e-docs as schema owner, Alembic migrations, shared DB conventions
  • [x] docs/sprint-philosophy.md -- correctly marked as NEW, does not exist yet
  • [x] docs/user-stories.md -- correctly excluded, no stale schema references confirmed

Repo Placement

Correct. Issue filed on ldraney/paldocs, all file targets are in paldocs repo. Single-repo change.

Dependencies

  • Upstream: paldocs#60 (schema ownership transfer) -- merged, confirmed at HEAD
  • Downstream: paldocs#50 (sprint schema) -- open, next_up column. Correctly documented as "informs" not "blocks"
  • No blockers in in_progress column

Acceptance Criteria

6 criteria, all verifiable by grep/search. AC6 ("No stale references to Alembic or pal-e-api schema ownership in any doc") provides comprehensive sweep coverage. Test expectations (link resolution, cross-references) are reasonable for a docs-only change.

Blast Radius

Minimal. Docs-only change -- no app code, no models, no migrations. Constraints explicitly forbid touching app code. No downstream consumers affected.

Decomposition Assessment

5 file targets in 1 repo. 6 acceptance criteria. All docs-only edits. Estimated agent time well under 5 minutes. No decomposition needed.

Recommendation

No action needed. Ticket is ready for implementation.