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).
