HALO Research Handoff
Current evidence · immutable 83ab4ba · research only

The agency back office is real. Its authority is not proven yet.

HALO is a 61-route creator-agency operating system for creators, onboarding, teams, contracts, content, money, reconciliation, gamification and provider-backed operations. Last night's programme mapped the current product, prepared the hardest migrations and component boundaries, and kept every production and authority gate closed.

61routes
63schema tables
314Convex exports
331terminal reads
20domains
0 / 427runtime state proof
01 · Programme outcome

A night of convergence, not a stealth rewrite.

These are bounded receipts, private-mirror candidates and decision contracts—not merged product behavior.

ResearchCurrent product remapped

201 artifacts across 11 groups reconcile the expanded 83ab4ba product and retire the old 39-page narrative.

PASS · research only
Parity61 × persona × state

61 routes, 305 persona cells and 427 state cells are statically specified.

Runtime 0/427
Security + scaleFocused candidates prepared

Security containment and five bounded-query slices passed narrow checks.

Heavy convergence held
PostgresRewrite contracts converged

Identity DTOs, exporter, reader, caller map, cutover DAG, route map and recovery boundaries were reviewed.

currentSourceReady=false
UI system18 bases · six families

51 routes mapped; 10 explicitly unclassified across data, knowledge, chat, game, money and shared primitives.

Every mount false
Provider recoveryBoundary passed, action denied

Twenty selected operation rows and 19 direct storage effects are classified.

10 / 10 admissions false
02 · Evidence ladder

Know exactly what “verified” means.

1
Current static truth

Reproduced from immutable 83ab4ba source.

2
Reviewed preparation

Contracts, adapters and private candidates with focused receipts.

3
Runtime proof

Not complete. Browser, provider, database and broad build evidence is held.

4
Production authority

Not granted. Nothing here changes Camron's systems.

03 · Research ruling

Five findings shape the whole programme.

01

Trust is the critical path.

Browser-controlled identity and presentation gates do not establish trusted server authorization. Credentials, destructive paths and revocation come first.

02

The back office is HALO's moat.

Competitors concentrate on fan engagement. HALO's creator, content, contracts, money, reconciliation and staff workflows are the defensible spine.

03

Scale failures are structural.

The source contains 234 full collections, zero pagination and 103 guaranteed-unbounded reads. Fixes must preserve totals, history and order.

04

Money is not liability-grade yet.

Floating money, divergent states and implicit defaults need minor units and reversible maker-checker reconciliation.

05

Blocks improve surfaces, not authority.

Teable, AFFiNE, Buzz, game and money patterns can standardize UI; HALO must retain identity and domain truth.

04 · Repositories and donors

Useful references, with their blast radius named.

Appearance here is not adoption. License, identity, data and recovery boundaries control every use.

05 · God questions

The questions that prevent a clever wrong build.

  1. Product: internal back office, sellable agency product, or wider agency OS?
  2. Authority: which system owns each aggregate?
  3. Trust: what proves server identity, revocation and negative authorization?
  4. Source: how is one consistent snapshot acquired without secrets?
  5. Recovery: what receipt and high-water proves no replay or silent loss?
  6. Parity: can all routes, personas, states and navigation survive?
  7. Blocks: is a donor only presentation, or taking business authority?
  8. Proof: what moves static evidence to runtime and production?
06 · Decisions and choices

Open choices, without pretending they are technical blockers.

DecisionChoice setState
Current source

Bounded internal query if it fits; otherwise controlled backup custody.

Named choice
Credentials

Re-enrolment recommended; migration is review-only.

Named choice
Sessions

Return to source or retain target after universal revocation and fresh login.

Unselected
Invitations

Lossless return or forward recovery with legacy closure.

Unselected
Provider effects

Receipt-proven compensation or retain target/provider truth.

Prepared · not ready
Agency chat

Preserve /messages; a separate route needs explicit approval.

Product choice
Components

Approve preparation registry before any host-file mount.

No mounts
07 · Blockers

The honest stop signs.

Guardian

Heavy work is denied while swap exceeds 4 GiB.

Source + credentials

No real data or credential action before named mechanisms.

Runtime

State parity is 0/427 at runtime.

Authority

No whole-product flip or client authority exists.

Smallest next move

Decide the product, then unlock evidence—not a donor.

Write HALO's product identity in one sentence. For a private rewrite, select the secret-free current-source fit mechanism and credential direction; then run one private-mirror security/runtime gate only when the guardian admits it.

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08 · Evidence library

Go deeper without losing the boundary.