docs(relaunch): reconcile Claracle relaunch readiness across plans, PRD, and BRD

[jmservera]

Summary

Reconciles the Claracle Data Observatory relaunch record: triages the live deploy failure, brings the three overlapping remediation plans to their true delivered state, aligns the PRD and BRD, and consolidates the remaining launch gates into one owner/evidence register.

Epic: #594

What changed

Phase 1 — Live deploy failure (#644)

• Root cause of run 30718600607: a dangling source_manifest.path (data/candidates/2026-W31/30669054860/publish-manifest.json) broke the Podcaster smoke gate.
• Resolved by already-merged fix(smoke): hydrate source manifest referenced by promotion record (#639) #645 / fix(restore): preserve published weekly transaction on restore (#640) #646; deploy-site green since 2026-08-01. 🔴 Deploy Hugo site failed (run 30718600607) #644 is CLOSED — no dedicated fix plan needed.

Phase 2 — Plan checklists → delivered state

• 2026-07-31 deploy-hydration plan: Phases 2–4 marked delivered (fix(crawl): stage only existing generated paths in publish commit #634 / fix(ci): generalize safe hydration guard, restore content/data deploy (#633) #637 / feat(ci): validate embed source_page references before build (Phase 4) #641), Phase 5.2 (🔴 Deploy Hugo site failed (run 30616770243) #627 closed).
• 2026-07-29 plan: Phase 8 (Podcaster smoke gate) marked delivered (fix(ci): pass PODCASTER_API_KEY to the reusable Podcaster smoke workflow #636 / 🔴 Deploy Hugo site failed (run 30706921931) #639 / fix(ci): Podcaster smoke job gets tooling from default branch (#639) #643 / fix(smoke): hydrate source manifest referenced by promotion record (#639) #645), with the real protected Podcaster run still flagged pending.
• New docs/review/data-observatory-relaunch/status-of-record.md: single delivered-vs-pending view + launch-gate register.

Phase 3 — Product docs

• BRD v1.2: added a Change History table, aligned the PRD cross-reference to the current version, linked the status of record.
• PRD v1.3: recorded the 🔴 Deploy Hugo site failed (run 30616770243) #627–fix(restore): preserve published weekly transaction on restore (#640) #646 workstream, added restore-consistency under NFR-002 (Restore runs overwrite live weekly articles via publish→main sync #640/fix(restore): preserve published weekly transaction on restore (#640) #646), marked FR-041 partial (test-level link check only), resolved Q-03, linked the register (REF-10).

Phase 4 — Launch gates

• Every pending gate (GA4/GSC Connect GA4 + Google Search Console (FR-035) #599, NFR-004 security, NFR-005 a11y, real Podcaster run, visuals, Q-01 cost, Follow-ups: harden the site performance / Lighthouse quality gate #626, Data Observatory relaunch — post-review UX polish (Star Velocity bars, topics index, consent banner) #622, sponsor approval) has an owner, dependency, and evidence path.
• Deferred workstreams captured for separate planning in the reconciliation log.

Validation

• pytest tests/ — 1389 passed, 19 skipped.
• test_internal_link_checker and test_embed_sources green; all doc references verified; no stale version strings.

Notes

• Documentation-only reconciliation. Release acceptance remains pending; both rollout flags stay disabled.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR reconciles Claracle Data Observatory relaunch documentation and planning artifacts so the repo has a single, current “status of record” across remediation plans, PRD, and BRD, plus a consolidated launch-gate register (owners/dependencies/evidence).

Changes:

• Adds a new relaunch “status of record” document consolidating delivered vs. pending workstreams and a launch-gate register.
• Updates the PRD (v1.3) and BRD (v1.2) to align cross-references, changelogs, and readiness status.
• Adds reconciliation research/plan/log/detail artifacts under .copilot-tracking/, and updates prior plan checklists to reflect delivered work.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 10 out of 10 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

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File	Description
docs/review/data-observatory-relaunch/status-of-record.md	New consolidated delivered/pending view and launch-gate register
docs/prds/claracle-data-observatory-relaunch.md	PRD bumped to v1.3; reconciles #627–#646 workstream notes and links to status-of-record
docs/brds/claracle-data-observatory-relaunch-brd.md	BRD bumped to v1.2; adds change history and aligns PRD cross-reference
.copilot-tracking/research/2026-08-02/claracle-relaunch-readiness-reconciliation-research.md	New gap-analysis/research writeup backing the reconciliation
.copilot-tracking/research/2026-08-01/restore-consistency-640-research.md	New research artifact documenting restore-consistency rationale/approach
.copilot-tracking/plans/logs/2026-08-02/claracle-relaunch-readiness-reconciliation-log.md	New reconciliation planning log (discrepancies, follow-ons)
.copilot-tracking/plans/2026-08-02/claracle-relaunch-readiness-reconciliation-plan.instructions.md	New implementation plan for the reconciliation work
.copilot-tracking/plans/2026-07-31/claracle-deploy-hydration-remediation-plan.instructions.md	Marks phases/steps delivered with references to merged PRs
.copilot-tracking/plans/2026-07-29/claracle-data-observatory-relaunch-remediation-plan.instructions.md	Marks Podcaster release smoke phase delivered with evidence pointers
.copilot-tracking/details/2026-08-02/claracle-relaunch-readiness-reconciliation-details.md	New detailed step-by-step execution notes for the reconciliation plan

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Copilot reviewed 12 out of 12 changed files in this pull request and generated no new comments.

Suppressed comments (2)

docs/prds/claracle-data-observatory-relaunch.md:10

• The PRD version is bumped to 1.3 (and the changelog is dated 2026-08-02), but the frontmatter ms.date still says 2026-07-31. This makes the document metadata inconsistent with the update and can mislead readers/tools that rely on ms.date as the last-updated date.

Version 1.3 | Status Acceptance pending | Owner jmservera | Team SquadScope Squad | Target Wave 1 (foundation) | Lifecycle Definition

.copilot-tracking/reviews/2026-08-02/claracle-relaunch-readiness-reconciliation-plan-review.md:40

• This review note says “Committing and pushing the review corrections is the only remaining delivery action,” but those corrections are already part of this PR. Keeping that sentence makes the record stale/confusing for future readers.

Complete. The implementation fulfills the recorded user requests and local validation passes. Committing and pushing the review corrections is the only remaining delivery action.

[github-actions]

🔎 Site preview ready

A rendered preview of this PR was built with Hugo extended (drafts + future content included).

Download it: open the workflow run → Artifacts → site-preview.

Then serve and open it locally:

unzip site-preview.zip -d site-preview && cd site-preview
python3 -m http.server 8080   # then open http://localhost:8080/

(Links are root-relative, so open it via a local web server rather than file://.)

Reviewer checklist

• Homepage renders correctly
• Latest weekly article renders correctly
• Representative archive / rollup (monthly, yearly, topics) pages render
• Navigation menu, search page, and footer look correct
• Light + dark themes both look correct
• Mobile widths checked: 320 / 360 / 390 / 414 / 768 px
• Screenshots attached for the operator / Fry / Calculon review

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Copilot reviewed 28 out of 28 changed files in this pull request and generated no new comments.

Suppressed comments (1)

docs/prds/claracle-data-observatory-relaunch.md:11

• The document version was bumped to 1.3 (and the changelog later records 2026-08-02), but the frontmatter ms.date still reads 2026-07-31. This makes the doc metadata inconsistent with the update and can confuse tooling that relies on ms.date as the last-updated marker.

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Version 1.3 | Status Acceptance pending | Owner jmservera | Team SquadScope Squad | Target Wave 1 (foundation) | Lifecycle Definition