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+# Sprint Plan — Next Wave (G onward)
+
+Continues the sprint lettering from `docs/GLOBAL-SPRINT-PLAN.md` (Sprints A–F, all closed 2026-08-05: stub-page closure + widget layout/carousel fixes). Created 2026-08-05.
+
+**Relationship to `docs/NEXT_PHASE.md`:** that file stays the one *phase-level* roadmap and owns the backend-integration sequencing. This file is the *task-level* tracker for work that is actionable now, plus an explicit parking list for what is blocked and on what. Where the two overlap, `NEXT_PHASE.md` wins on ordering.
+
+---
+
+## Tier 1 — Actionable now (nothing blocks these)
+
+### Sprint G — Dead-config sweep
+
+**Why:** This is a config-driven multi-tenant product, so "setting exists in the editor, nothing reads it at runtime" is the signature failure mode — and it reaches clients directly. Three instances were found *by accident* during other work: theme mode (`data-theme-mode` set, no CSS reads it), `HeaderConfig.showProfile` (fixed, Sprint A), `layout.columns` (fixed, Sprint F, and was the root cause of a real client bug report). A mechanical sweep finds the rest in one pass instead of one complaint at a time.
+
+- [ ] Enumerate every field in `BootstrapConfig` and its sub-models (`src/app/shared/models/config/*.model.ts`) — produce the full field inventory as a working list
+- [ ] For each field, grep for a real runtime consumer (a component/service that reads it and changes behavior), distinguishing: **live** (read + has effect), **dead** (never read), **inert** (read but effect is unreachable/no-op — the `data-theme-mode` case)
+- [ ] Cross-check against the editor: which dead/inert fields are *user-editable* today (those are the client-facing ones, highest priority)
+- [ ] Produce a findings table: field → status → editable? → recommendation (wire it / hide the control / delete the field)
+- [ ] Fix the trivially-wireable ones in the same pass (a field with an obvious consumer that was simply never connected)
+- [ ] For each remaining dead field, either hide its editor control or open a scoped follow-up — do **not** leave an editable control for a field nothing reads
+- [ ] Record findings in `docs/KNOWN-ISSUES.md` (real defects) / `docs/PRODUCT_BACKLOG.md` (needs a decision), matching how the earlier audit was folded in
+
+**Known starting points (already confirmed dead/inert):** theme mode (`PRODUCT_BACKLOG.md`, needs a dark-mode decision — not a wiring fix). Verify no others in `HeaderConfig`, `FooterConfig`, `CatalogConfig`, `ProductPageConfig`, `UserExperienceConfig`, `FeatureFlags`, `SeoConfig`.
+
+### Sprint H — Test suite foundation
+
+**Why:** 5 `.spec.ts` files exist in the entire repository. Project standards mandate 80% coverage and a TDD workflow; neither is happening. `NEXT_PHASE.md` Phase 2 defers testing until after backend integration — **this sprint deliberately front-runs part of that**, on the argument that tests written against the *current mock gateways* lock in today's behavior and make the eventual real-gateway swap far safer. Post-backend E2E work stays in Phase 2 where it is.
+
+- [ ] Confirm the test runner actually works end to end (`npm test` → `ng test --watch=false --browsers=ChromeHeadlessNoSandbox`) and fix the harness if it doesn't
+- [ ] Establish the house pattern with one exemplar spec per layer, so later tests have something to copy: a pure util, a service, a facade, a component
+- [ ] Facade-level tests against existing mock gateways for the highest-risk domains first: `ProjectEditorFacade` (undo/redo, draft persistence, validation gating on publish), `AdminAnalyticsFacade` (the never-fabricate-a-number contract), cart/checkout state
+- [ ] Unit tests for the pure validator primitives (`project-editor/schema/validators/primitives.ts`) — zero-dependency, highest value per line of test
+- [ ] Regression tests for the bugs fixed this cycle so they cannot silently return (carousel `layout.columns` sizing, manifest-filtered layout options, header profile login/logout gating)
+- [ ] Wire coverage reporting; set a realistic starting floor and ratchet it up rather than declaring 80% on day one
+- [ ] Decide whether to gate CI on it (`.github/workflows/architecture-governance.yml` already exists as the integration point)
+
+### Sprint I — Widget `settingsSchema` enforcement
+
+**Why:** Same disease Sprint E cured for `supportedLayouts`. Every widget in `widget-manifest.json` declares a JSON Schema for its props under `settingsSchema`, and **nothing reads it** — verified: only `supportedDataSources` is consumed anywhere (and only by a diagnostics validator, not the editor). Consequences: widget props are never validated against their own declared contract, and unknown widget types fall back to raw JSON editing in the Widgets section. (`enabled` *is* honored correctly — `widget-registry.bootstrap.service.ts` filters on it.)
+
+- [ ] Read `settingsSchema` in the Widgets editor section and validate widget props against it, surfacing failures through the existing `ProjectValidator` issue pipeline (`fieldKey`/`section`/`severity`) rather than a parallel mechanism
+- [ ] Add a `widgetSettingsSchema` validator alongside the existing `widgetConfig` check in `project-validator.service.ts`
+- [ ] Evaluate replacing the raw-JSON fallback editor with schema-generated fields for widget types that have no hand-authored editor — scope this honestly; if the schemas are too thin to generate a decent UI, keep the JSON fallback and just add validation on top
+- [ ] Confirm the diagnostics page (`features/diagnostics/`) reflects schema violations too, since it already consumes the manifest
+
+---
+
+## Tier 2 — Blocked on backend
+
+Sequencing is owned by `docs/BACKEND.md` §9 and `docs/NEXT_PHASE.md` Phase 1. Not re-planned here — that checklist is already the authoritative task list. Frontend-side items that unblock the moment backend lands:
+
+- [ ] **Ed25519 auth error codes** (`docs/KNOWN-ISSUES.md` Open #1) — `session-expired` and `invalid-signature` recovery screens are built and wired but permanently unreachable, because `toAuthErrorShape()` derives the code purely from HTTP status and never reads a body-level code. Needs: backend returning a distinguishable `error.code` (`BACKEND.md` §6), then a small frontend change to prefer it over the status fallback.
+- [ ] **Swap every mock gateway for its real counterpart** behind the existing DI tokens, in the dependency order `BACKEND.md` §8 specifies
+- [ ] **Maintenance-mode frontend UI** (`BACKEND.md` §10 flags full-page takeover, per-module banners, scheduled countdown as not existing) — deliberately not built during Sprint C for exactly this reason
+- [ ] **Real Monitoring data source** — page currently renders mock activity (`NEXT_PHASE.md` Phase 4)
+- [ ] **Re-profile performance under real latency** (`NEXT_PHASE.md` Phase 3) — mock responses are instant, real ones won't be; loading/skeleton timing is untested against reality
+
+## Tier 3 — Blocked on a business decision
+
+No engineering work should start on these until answered. Full detail in `docs/PRODUCT_BACKLOG.md`.
+
+- [ ] **Dark mode** — does the client want it? If yes it's a real project (dark palette + CSS strategy + `matchMedia` for "system"), not a wiring fix. Blocks the theme-mode selector, which is inert today.
+- [ ] **Brand color contrast (WCAG AA)** — `--border-color` fails 3:1 in every theme; several status colors fail 4.5:1 as text. Fixing means visibly changing the brand — needs theme-owner sign-off.
+- [ ] **Stars rating glyph token** — literal hex with no matching design token; add a token or reuse an existing one (visual shift either way).
+- [ ] **Contacts page content** — nothing written for it at all. Content question.
+- [ ] **Advanced analytics** — no data source exists for traffic/funnels/heatmaps. Build vs. buy, and launch vs. later.
+- [ ] **Additional payment providers** — which ones, if any, before integration work starts.
+
+## Tier 4 — Deferred, non-blocking
+
+From `docs/FUTURE_FEATURES.md`. No decision needed, just not worth doing now.
+
+- [ ] **Angular 22 upgrade** — researched, ~2–3.5 days, needs a dependency fix and Node bump first. Plan: `docs/ANGULAR22_PLAN.md`. **Run as its own dedicated session** — framework upgrades don't share a session with feature work.
+- [ ] **Bundle splitting** — `project-editor` (~896 kB) and `catalog-container` (~330 kB) lazy chunks are large; no mechanical split found, needs a dedicated profiling task, ideally under real backend latency
+- [ ] **Cart payment modal → `app-dialog`** — composition cleanup, functionally and accessibly complete as-is
+- [ ] **Homepage hero-to-categories spacing** — traces to mock fixture padding values, not a confirmed defect; needs reproduction with real tenant data before it's worth investigating
+
+## Tier 5 — Infrastructure
+
+- [ ] **Server deploy** — no deploy pipeline exists in this repo (only `.github/workflows/architecture-governance.yml`). Deploys are currently manual/out-of-band. Worth deciding whether a real pipeline should exist; separately, SSH from the agent harness is blocked, so agent-driven deploys need either a permission rule or a different mechanism.
+
+---
+
+## Suggested order
+
+**G → H → I.** Sprint G is cheap, mechanical, and directly prevents more client-reported ghost settings (it is the same class of bug as the one already reported). Sprint H is the highest-value thing available that isn't blocked on anything, and it gets more valuable the earlier it lands, since every later change rides on it. Sprint I is real but narrower — it hardens an editor path rather than fixing something users hit today.
+
+Tier 2 starts the moment backend Phase 1 lands. Tier 3 needs answers, not engineering. Tier 4 is genuinely optional.