Audited every *.md in docs/ and root. Merged five overlapping backend
docs (BACKEND_INTEGRATION.md + AUTHENTICATION.md + ERROR_CONTRACT.md +
MAINTENANCE_MODE.md + the already-archived BACKEND_API.md/
BACKEND_API_REMAINING_WORK.md) into one canonical docs/BACKEND.md
(4775 lines, 10 numbered sections) - deleted the four standalone
files outright now that their content is fully inlined.
Archived (not deleted - real historical value): ADMIN.md (Sprint
19-28 build log, sprint-report-shaped, not a living reference) and
FRONTEND-ROADMAP.md (despite its name, a shipped-history changelog
with detail no other doc has - not a forward roadmap, so keeping it
in root alongside NEXT_PHASE.md was exactly the "10 roadmaps"
confusion being cleaned up).
Deleted outright (zero value): SPRINTS.md - a leftover copy-pasted
sprint-kickoff prompt saved as a file, not documentation.
Rewrote docs/PROJECT_STATUS.md with completion-percentage estimates
per area (frontend/backend/UI/admin/storefront) and an explicit
first-customer-readiness call. Rewrote docs/NEXT_PHASE.md to the
strict 5-phase structure (backend integration -> production testing
-> performance -> monitoring -> v2 ideas), pointing to PRODUCT_BACKLOG
.md/FUTURE_FEATURES.md for phase 5 detail instead of duplicating it.
Rewrote root README.md - was stale (referenced deleted pages/info,
pages/legal folders from a prior RC pass), now covers architecture,
frontend/backend status, how to run, mock<->API switch mechanism
(useMockData in environment.ts), current folder structure, and a
documentation map.
Updated docs/PROJECT_INDEX.md (the stated entry point) to link only
the surviving doc set - every remaining document is reachable from it.
Fixed every broken/stale cross-reference to the deleted/renamed
backend docs across ARCHITECTURE.md, EDITOR.md, FRONTEND.md,
PROJECT-STRUCTURE.md, StaticPages.md, KNOWN-ISSUES.md (10 individual
link fixes, verified by repo-wide grep before and after). Left
CHANGELOG.md's two historical entries untouched - changelogs are
append-only history, not live navigation, editing past entries would
misrepresent what was true at the time.
Not touched (explicitly out of scope): docs/architecture/foundation/**
(enforced ADRs/governance, permanent not sprint-shaped),
docs/context/** (Barry Cache infrastructure, "do not edit by hand"
per CLAUDE.md), .claude/worktrees/** (separate git worktrees
containing an unrelated project's docs, not this repo's documentation).
docs/ root: 22 files -> 16. Plus 5 in docs/archive/ (was 3).
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>
Replace ~35 organically-grown docs (docs/platform/*, docs/backend-platform/*,
one-off sprint reports, Search.md, Diagnostics.md, Content-Management.md,
Backend-Handoff-Sprint16.md, docs/superpowers/*, docs/Project-Editor.md,
untracked docs/total.md) with the six canonical docs declared in
.claude/CLAUDE.md: PROJECT.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, BACKEND.md, FRONTEND.md,
BOOTSTRAP.md, EDITOR.md, plus a new PROJECT-STRUCTURE.md.
- BACKEND.md is a punch list per domain (auth, bootstrap draft/publish,
static pages, categories, products, orders, dashboard metrics, activity,
translations, search, product engagement) plus a Known reliability issues
section on the prod 502/504 root cause.
- ARCHITECTURE.md links to (does not duplicate) the enforced
docs/architecture/foundation/** ADRs and standards docs.
- docs/ADMIN.md and docs/architecture/foundation/** and docs/context/** are
left untouched per instructions.
- Updated the one dangling docs/Project-Editor.md reference in
admin-auth.service.ts to point at docs/BACKEND.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
