Step 1-2 (audit + plan): classified 35 project markdown files into
Core/Architecture/ADR/Temporary-audit/Sprint-report/Generated-review/
Duplicate/Obsolete/Historical. Agent-tooling files (.agents/skills/**,
.superpowers/**, docs/context/**, CLAUDE.md/GEMINI.md/AGENTS.md/
.github/copilot-instructions.md) explicitly out of scope — intentional
per-tool duplication, not documentation debt.
Step 3 (merge, no information lost):
- docs/PROJECT.md -> docs/PROJECT_INDEX.md, rewritten as the single
entry point: system overview, living-doc index, archive pointer,
current status, and a critical-finding callout up top.
- docs/backend/BACKEND-INTEGRATION.md -> docs/BACKEND_API.md,
docs/backend/REMAINING-BACKEND-WORK.md ->
docs/BACKEND_API_REMAINING_WORK.md (also folded in a legitimate
uncommitted status update that had been sitting unstaged all
session: categories marked DONE, order-creation endpoint noted done).
- RELEASE-NOTES.md merged into CHANGELOG.md (was a near-duplicate of
the same release content in friendlier prose), then deleted.
- KNOWN-ISSUES.md: added item 13 (see below) and item 14 (missing
canDeactivate on admin/products edit, from the archived PROJECT-STATE
audit, re-verified still true); added a correction note to Fixed
item 7.
- All cross-references to renamed/moved files fixed across every
kept doc (grep+sed pass, then verified with a link-existence check
across all 58 in-scope markdown files -> 0 broken links).
Step 4 (archive, nothing deleted without merging first): created
docs/archive/, moved 19 files there (3 root sprint reports, 1 platform
report, SPRINT-PLAN.md, and 14 one-off audit/review/report docs).
Added correction headers to the 3 archived docs whose conclusions were
affected by the finding below, rather than silently leaving them
misleading.
Step 5: docs/PROJECT_INDEX.md rewritten per the mission brief -
someone opening the repo should understand the whole system from it.
IMPORTANT FINDING (surfaced during this audit, not the mission's
primary goal but too significant to bury): pages/category/*,
pages/search/*, pages/item-detail/*, pages/info/**, pages/legal/**
(40+ files) are entirely unrouted dead code - app.routes.ts's
cmsContentRoutes is a literal empty array, and category/search/product
routes redirect to CatalogContainerComponent/
ProductDetailsContainerComponent, not these files. Confirmed against
app.routes.ts directly and cross-checked against FRONTEND.md's own
routing description. This means several fixes from earlier this cycle
(RC-Premium-01, RC STORE-01) and the dead-code cleanup sprint's
conclusion that these files were live were all wrong - documented as
KNOWN-ISSUES.md item 13, flagged at the top of PROJECT_INDEX.md, and
noted on the 3 archived docs whose conclusions it affects. No
application code was changed to fix this (out of scope per this
session's 'documentation only' constraint) - it needs a wire-it-up-or-
delete-it decision first.
Verification: tsc --noEmit clean, npm run build green, all markdown
links across 58 in-scope files resolve (checked programmatically).
No application/Angular/backend code modified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
No upgrade performed, per mission ('do NOT upgrade automatically').
Verdict: safe, ~2-3.5 days effort. Repo is actually already on Angular
21.1.5 (not 18 as docs implied) — one major behind, not several.
Key findings:
- 2 concrete blockers before any upgrade attempt: barry-cache@^0.1.0
no longer resolves (ETARGET, root cause of the primeng-removal
blocker already tracked in KNOWN-ISSUES item 12), and this dev
environment's Node (v22.16.0) doesn't satisfy Angular 22 CLI's
requirement (^22.22.3 | ^24.15.0 | >=26.0.0).
- Zero usage of any Angular 22-removed API (ComponentFactoryResolver,
provideRoutes, CanMatchFn) found in src/app/**.
- One real behavioral risk: route param inheritance default changes
emptyOnly -> always; app has no explicit override, needs a manual
route-by-route audit, not just a green build.
- App's existing standalone/signals/OnPush posture (190/191 OnPush)
means most of the v22 migration cost is already paid.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
