the-custodian/docs/assessments/2026-09-08-helixforge-factory-followthrough.md

Factory implementation return — 2026-09-08

The user authorized following through and selected vergabe-teilnahme as the primary customer service/UI product. The Custodian selected reuse-surface for the first internal capability: its existing hosted registry offers immediate utility; Railiance Fabric’s hosted authority still adds prerequisite work.

Delivered

• REUSE-WP-0022: explicit hosted plan-check, bounded/fresh/unwarned source acceptance, no failure-to-NEW/local fallback, and snapshot provenance. All 208 tests and live Forgejo CI passed. Integrated on main at 998a5ef, with image main-998a5ef published. Change.
• VERGABE-WP-0018-T01/T02: product identity, hosted reuse consumer, container application gate before publication, missing-template build fix and pinned BuildKit setup for the actual Railiance runner. All 82 tests passed on SQLite, disposable PostgreSQL and in the container; live CI and image publication passed. Integrated at fa9f082; image main-fa9f082 published. Change.
• Portfolio hygiene: four obsolete human-needed flags now match explicit published needs_human: false in the completed Forgejo migration source. Task statuses and historical notes were preserved. Thirteen other terminal flags still require source/residual disposition; none was cleared by counting it as completed. Correction evidence.

The dedicated private project is published at prj-helixforge-factory, with local source. It contains the accepted source-backed decision HFACT-DEC-2026-001, current workplan, ten exact owner-return records, delivery evidence and an empty measurement ledger. Hub decision receipt: 21159693-04b7-485e-bbab-1ed8f65aab43. The original staged packet has been replaced with a pointer, preserving its Git history. State Hub registration returned repository UUID 99cc4689-9f73-42a2-9cca-d2e235393014 under the helix-forge topic.

Remaining gates

The routed OpenBao login completed. Both already-integrated PRs now report closed/merged with the exact reviewed commit. Forgejo initially refused the disabled manual-merge style; it was enabled only for each metadata operation and restored to disabled. Current main ancestry was verified before the operations. Non-secret publication receipts are retained in the project.

The credential proxy reported flex-auth unavailable and its configured unknown-zone fail-open behavior during this attended publication. HFACT-WP-0001-T03 retains live policy availability and authorization-negative verification before governed execution acceptance. Login success is not that enforcement proof.

The workplan retains exact native credential/approval/audit receipts through GLAS-WP-0015, protected runtime placement, natural worker claim/heartbeat/close, customer deployment/data/access/recovery acceptance and the 14-day observation window. Today’s attended source delivery does not substitute for those proofs.

Both child workplans were registered and synchronized. The customer repository has no consistency failures; historical warnings remain. Reuse-surface has three archived null-ID failures (REUSE-WP-0017/0018/0019), separate from the successfully registered new plan. HFACT-WP-0001-T02 retains their disposition; CUST-IN-0017 continues to own the pre-existing Custodian historical consistency issues.

Efficiency gains already evidenced

Change	Evidence and practical effect
Reuse before implementation	vergabe-teilnahme consumed the existing hosted registry with 65 capabilities and a dated, hashed snapshot. Source freshness and completeness checks prevent an unavailable registry from silently authorizing new work. No second registry was built.
Repeatable release checks	208 provider tests and 82 customer application tests passed; application tests and migration checks now run before customer image publication. Two actual release defects were found and fixed: missing source templates and missing runner BuildKit support.
Less duplicate CI	Application checks run for PR updates and main, without an additional feature-branch push trigger duplicating the PR run. Main release validation remains explicit.
Less review-queue noise	Four completed tasks with explicit published needs_human: false were corrected in the Hub. The flagged queue fell from 19 to 15 (21%); the two nonterminal flagged tasks were unchanged. A fresh query after login still returned 15: 12 done, 1 cancelled, 1 todo, 1 wait. The other 13 terminal flags need source/residual review.
Clearer coordination	One published project owns factory integration; implementation stays in the two product repositories. Ten dependency-return records name the supplying task, source revision, next action and required evidence. Existing GLAS-WP-0015 coordination is reused.
Fewer stale open records	REUSE-WP-0022 is finished, customer source/release tasks are done, and both PRs now show merged. Customer deployment remains an explicit waiting task instead of being mixed with completed source work.

These are observed improvements in discovery, validation and coordination. Hours saved, monetary savings and autonomous throughput have not been measured. The original 94-plan/264-task portfolio baseline is dated; no later fleet-wide count is implied by these changes. The governed-attempt ledger remains empty and the fourteen-day acceptance window has not started.

Next execution sequence

1. Prepare and accept the exact G0 tenant/actor/project/profile, repository grants, operating owners and enforceable time/spend contract. Project adoption and publication are complete; unattended operating admission is open.
2. Close the existing GLAS-WP-0015 chain: KeyCape service-client custody and registration, audit sender admission, deployed approval claim/consume and native Secrets Engine delivery. Obtain current policy allow/deny evidence. Protected runtime installation can advance alongside that chain.
3. Prove the current Railiance worker's natural claim, immediate heartbeat, execution and accepted terminal close, including lease-loss refusal and durable close replay. Retain one integrated delivery item plus two prerequisite closures as the project's WIP limit.
4. Use that worker for a useful accepted change; admit and deploy the tested vergabe-teilnahme image through its exact tenant, database, storage, access and rollback contract (VERGABE-WP-0018-T03). Keep Railiance Fabric in its existing medium-term placement work until its additional utility is needed.
5. Complete recovery/limit drills, then measure fourteen days: at least five useful accepted changes across two repositories, at least 80% without operator repair, median handling at most 30 minutes per accepted change and routine operation at most 30 minutes per day. Preserve every attempt, failure, retry, cost and operator intervention.