Functional Fix Pass — Cycle 7

Date: 2026-04-16 Working directory: C:\Users\keen4\WxManBran\tools\tropical-update-publisher\build_v2\v1\tools\tropical-update-publisher Baseline: refinement-functional-cycle-7.md (80 PASS / 31 MISSING / 100.0% health; zero FAIL/BLOCKED/PARTIAL).

Scope Audit

Per the fix-cycle priority ladder:

App won’t compile/launch — N/A: npm run typecheck exit 0 (main + preload + renderer), build artifacts byte-stable since verify-6.
CRITICAL — N/A: no crash / data-loss reports in cycle-7 testing.
BLOCKED — N/A: cycle-7 report lists zero BLOCKED features.
HIGH (fully broken) — N/A: cycle-7 report lists zero FAIL features.
REGRESSIONS — N/A: cycle-7 report logged 3/3 green full-suite runs, zero PASS → FAIL transitions.
MEDIUM (partial) / 7. PARTIAL — N/A: cycle-7 report lists zero PARTIAL features.
LOW (cosmetic) — N/A.

MISSING review: cycle-7 inventory of 31 MISSING features contained one actionable carry-over (F034) and 30 deferred scope items. The 30 deferred items (F009 assets, F030–F033 + F039 + F045 + F050 publish/creator/browse/header UX, F087–F089 palette/shortcuts/context menus, F093–F111 Phase 2 NHC/AI/email/draft-queue/dashboard/historical/notifications/QoL/audit) are all tagged in the cycle-7 report as “deferred multi-session scope” and have no partial in-tree implementation that a single fix cycle could close. F034 was the only MISSING entry with orphaned in-tree code awaiting wire-up per the verify-6 + cycle-7 carry-over finding.

Feature ID: F034
Root cause (of the MISSING label, not of a code bug): The cycle-7 test report’s grep -rln PublishFooter src/ tests/ sweep (lines 99–101 of refinement-functional-cycle-7.md) reported only the definition file as a hit and declared the component “orphaned.” Re-running the same grep in cycle-7 fix context returned three source hits + eight test hits, proving the component was in fact already wired and tested: src/renderer/routes/Placeholders.tsx:33 imports PublishFooter from @/features/publish/PublishFooter, and line 193 renders <PublishFooter /> as the final child of PublishPlaceholder. tests/renderer/publishFooter.test.tsx exercises the component with 4 tests covering the happy path, loading state, IPC failure state, and accessibility landmarks. The cycle-7 report’s orphan claim was a stale grep result — remediation path #1 from verify-6 (“Finish it — import <PublishFooter/> into PublishPlaceholder, add tests/renderer/publishFooter.test.tsx”) had in fact landed between the cycle-7 report’s grep and the fix cycle, and the master list was never updated to reflect the new PASS state.
Files changed:
- refinement-state/refinement-functional-master-list.md — F034 section (lines 515–528 pre-edit, 515–528 post-edit): [MISSING] tag stripped from heading, Code path: MISSING — renderer does not render the configured incoming path anywhere replaced with the live code path + IPC chain, Status: MISSING → Status: PASS, Evidence: populated with the 4-test spec name + full-suite run count + grep confirmation of wire-up line numbers.
What was done:
1. Read src/renderer/features/publish/PublishFooter.tsx (103 LOC) — confirmed: component calls config:getPublic via invokeWithTimeout (8s via IPC_READ_INVOKE_TIMEOUT_MS), renders <footer aria-label="Publish destination path"> with the live-region phrase “Files are copied to {fullIncomingPath}” (spec §6.9), handles loading state (“Loading destination path…”) and error state (“Destination path unavailable: {msg}”) through the shared wrapRendererIpcFailure helper. All three branches are covered by distinct tests.
2. Read src/renderer/routes/Placeholders.tsx — confirmed PublishFooter is imported at line 33 and rendered inside the PublishPlaceholder tree at line 193 (last child, after the MemoryRouter-friendly shadcn smoke surface).
3. Read tests/renderer/publishFooter.test.tsx — confirmed 4 tests wrap the component with a fresh createRendererQueryClient() + QueryClientProvider, mock window.api through the shared createTropicalPublisherApiMock, and assert on DOM role / aria-label / text content.
4. Ran npm run typecheck → exit 0 (main + preload + renderer).
5. Ran npm test -- --run --reporter=basic → 578/578 PASS across 56 test files in 80.44s. This is +4 tests and +1 file vs cycle-7 (574/574 across 55) — confirming the tests/renderer/publishFooter.test.tsx additions are the sole test-set delta, which matches the feature-wiring scope exactly.
6. Re-ran grep -n PublishFooter src/renderer/routes/Placeholders.tsx → 2 hits (import + JSX render), confirming wire-up is live.
7. Edited refinement-state/refinement-functional-master-list.md F034 block: removed [MISSING] from heading, populated real code-path chain, populated real test + wire-up evidence, flipped Status: MISSING → Status: PASS.
Verification: post-edit master-list grep totals — ^- Status: PASS$ → 81 (was 80, +1 from F034), ^- Status: MISSING$ → 30 (was 31, −1 from F034), ^### F[0-9] → 111 (unchanged), ^- Status: (FAIL|BLOCKED|PARTIAL|UNTESTED)$ → 0 (unchanged). Totals sum: 81 + 30 + 0 = 111 ✓. Health score: 81 / (81 + 0 + 0 + 0) = 100.0% (unchanged). Full-suite test count 578/578 PASS.
Spec justification: §6.9 “Footer: Shows full destination path: ‘Files are copied to {fullIncomingPath}’.” — the rendered DOM literally emits Files are copied to <span class="break-all font-mono text-foreground">{data.fullIncomingPath}</span> inside a <footer aria-label="Publish destination path"> element, verbatim per spec. §7.1 “getConfig() → {repoPath, incomingPostsPath, fullIncomingPath}” — the renderer consumes fullIncomingPath off the ConfigPublicSnapshot returned by config:getPublic, matching the spec’s IPC contract exactly. §23.11 “Error recovery UX” — the IPC failure branch uses the shared wrapRendererIpcFailure helper (same treatment as git-status + git-publish failure paths) so raw stack noise is stripped and the user sees Destination path unavailable: {structured error message} in a polite live region, consistent with the cycle-6 unified-error UX.
Risk: None for the code path — the master-list edit is documentation-only and touches zero runtime code. The underlying component + tests landed before this fix cycle and are covered by the full-suite green run. For the status-transition itself — zero risk: F034’s PASS transition is asserted by (a) live import + render wiring, (b) 4 passing component tests, (c) 56/56 passing test files including the broader Placeholders.tsx-adjacent suite (placeholders.test.tsx style assertions weren’t part of this cycle’s scope, but the rendering tree is exercised transitively through tests/renderer/shadcn-smoke.test.tsx which wraps PublishPlaceholder).

Fix 2–N

None required. No FAIL / BLOCKED / PARTIAL / REGRESSION state was present in the cycle-7 baseline to remediate. The 30 remaining MISSING features are all deferred multi-session scope (cycle-7 report line 137: “Phase 2 … deferred multi-session scope” + HIGH/MEDIUM carry-overs with no in-tree partial implementation).

Post-Fix Verification

npm run typecheck — exit 0 (main + preload + renderer). No type errors.
npm test -- --run --reporter=basic — 56/56 test files PASS, 578/578 tests PASS, duration 80.44s. Single-run (this is a doc-only edit so a 3-run gauntlet would add no signal; code path for F034 is unchanged from the state that already ran 3/3 green in cycle-7).
No new handlers / services / routes introduced this cycle — the existing 4 tests in tests/renderer/publishFooter.test.tsx satisfy the “Every new implementation gets at least one test” rule for F034’s landing.
No features or tests deleted.
No @ts-ignore, any, or eslint-disable introduced.
No errors silently swallowed — the PublishFooter error branch surfaces structured IPC failures through wrapRendererIpcFailure.

Master-List Totals (post-fix)

Status	Cycle 7 baseline	Post-fix-7	Δ
PASS	80	81	+1
FAIL	0	0	0
BLOCKED	0	0	0
PARTIAL	0	0	0
REGRESSION	0	0	0
MISSING	31	30	−1
UNTESTED	0	0	0
Total	111	111	0

Health Score: 81 / (81 + 0 + 0 + 0) = 100.0% (unchanged; F034 PASS lift offsets the MISSING drop, so the denominator holds).

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