Harden maturity release evidence and governance checks

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Summary

• Harden the staging soak as authenticated, redirect-refusing, production-denying release evidence with enforceable latency, error, throttling, and authentication thresholds.
• Bind the cross-tenant staging workflow to the exact deployed candidate SHA before any client creation or fixture write, and record checkout/deployed SHAs in evidence.
• Keep both live-drift diagnostics visible, correct the migration remedy, update current database/privacy/release documentation, and queue immutable ledger corrections for #057 and fix(ci): bump checkout/setup-node/cache actions to v5 #231.
• Revalidated the maturity report's two stale P0 premises: production/staging migration history is already aligned at 211 versions through 20260820120000, and the existing fast-route generation deadline already reserves 2 seconds below the 25-second outer budget.

Verification

• npm run verify:pr-local

Verification not run: Work Mode rejected the outstanding-ledger umbrella command earlier in this task, so verify:pr-local and verify:cheap were not retried indirectly. Hosted CI runs the canonical aggregate gates.

• Focused Vitest: 74 tests across 7 files
• Full TypeScript check
• Changed-file ESLint
• Documentation links and npm-script references
• Codebase index and docs inventory
• GitHub Action pin and gate-manifest checks
• Changed-file formatting and git diff --check
• Outstanding-issues generated snapshot check
• Branch review ledger guard and self-tests
• npm run verify:ui

UI verification not run: no UI, routing, styling, or browser behavior changed.

• npm run verify:release

Verification not run: this requires an exact deployed candidate plus explicitly authorized staging/provider activity. The patch makes that future evidence stricter but does not claim it ran.

• npm run eval:retrieval:quality

Verification not run: no retrieval, ranking, selection, chunking, scoring, or answer behavior changed.

• npm run check:production-readiness
• npm run check:deployment-readiness

Verification not run locally: no production/provider mutation was authorized. Focused offline checks cover the changed release tooling and documentation; the first hosted CI run passed its CI-safe production-readiness and offline RAG contract jobs.

Risk and rollout

• Risk: Low to moderate. Operational evidence becomes deliberately stricter, so anonymous, redirecting, mismatched-SHA, heavily throttled, or partially successful staging runs now fail instead of appearing release-ready.
• Rollback: Revert this PR.
• Provider or production effects: None. No database migration, deployment, provider call, live soak, tenancy fixture write, or production configuration change was performed.
• RAG impact: no retrieval behaviour change — test-only assertion pins the existing reserve-aware fast-route generation deadline; retrieval, ranking, selection, comparator, and answer behavior are unchanged.

Clinical Governance Preflight

• Source-backed claims still require linked source verification before clinical use
• No patient-identifiable document workflow was introduced or expanded without explicit governance approval
• Supabase target remains Clinical KB Database (sjrfecxgysukkwxsowpy)
• Service-role keys and private document access remain server-only
• Demo/synthetic content remains clearly separated from real clinical sources
• Source metadata, review status, and outdated/unknown-source behavior remain conservative
• Deployment classification/TGA SaMD impact was checked when clinical decision-support behavior changed

Notes

• The report's missing-live migration_history_versions() finding was already resolved on current main; issue Live drift check failing #1963 is closed. This PR makes the workflow diagnostic and remediation text accurate rather than adding another migration.
• The first hosted Static PR run identified only the expected generated pending-request snapshot drift. That snapshot was refreshed and its focused checker passes at the new head.
• After this PR lands, reconcile the three immutable outstanding-issues inbox requests through the repository's serialized ledger workflow.
• Live staging tenancy, authenticated soak, rollback, browser matrix, clinical approval, privacy/legal approval, and organisational ownership remain operator/governance evidence rather than code-only quick wins.
• PR policy was blocked because the last Clinical Governance item was paraphrased; this template restores the exact required wording.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added authenticated, staging-only soak validation with HTTPS, production protection, latency, authentication, failure-rate, and rate-limit checks.
  • Added exact commit verification for staging tenancy and deployed health checks.
  • Added SHA-pinned staging deployment, rollback, and load-profile requirements.

• Bug Fixes

  • Workflow checks now respond to both new and modified policy documents.
  • Migration diagnostics remain available after preceding workflow failures.

• Documentation

  • Refreshed release policies, privacy assessments, staging procedures, audit guidance, and outstanding-issue records.
  • Updated staging evidence and safety requirements.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change hardens authenticated staging soak and cross-tenant verification, binds evidence to checkout and deployed SHAs, updates workflow failure handling, and refreshes policy, privacy, ledger, and operator documentation.

Changes

Staging release controls

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Authenticated staging soak scripts/soak-test.ts, tests/soak-test.test.ts, docs/audit/capacity-review.md, docs/auth-connection-cap-runbook.md, docs/launch-operator-runbook.md, docs/staging-setup.md	The soak test requires SOAK_BEARER_TOKEN, rejects production targets and redirects, drains response bodies strictly, and enforces endpoint, latency, authentication, failure-rate, and 429 thresholds.
SHA-bound tenancy verification .github/workflows/staging-tenancy.yml, scripts/test-cross-tenant-staging.ts, tests/cross-tenant-staging-config.test.ts, docs/staging-tenancy-release-evidence.md	The staging harness validates the checkout SHA, verifies the deployed SHA from /api/health, rejects unsafe targets, and records both SHAs in schema version 2 evidence.

Workflow and governance alignment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workflow and migration validation .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/live-drift.yml, scripts/check-pr-policy-workflow.mjs, scripts/check-migration-history-alignment.ts, tests/live-drift-workflow.test.ts, tests/migration-history-alignment.test.ts, tests/rag-route-budget.test.ts	Workflow checks now handle modified policy files and preserve migration diagnostics after non-cancelled failures. Related validation covers ordering and remediation messages.
Policy and privacy records PR_POLICY_BODY.md, docs/privacy-impact-assessment.md, tests/maturity-governance-docs.test.ts	Release policy and privacy records now describe authenticated staging evidence, exact-SHA checks, current data flows, mitigated PIA-2 status, and remaining governance evidence.
Ledger and release runbooks data/outstanding-issues-snapshot.json, docs/outstanding-issues-inbox/*, docs/operator-backlog.md, docs/staging-setup.md, docs/branch-review-records/*	Ledger and operational records document migration parity, queued tenancy and soak work, rollback requirements, updated launch gates, and review results.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to eb225

The PR makes staging release evidence stricter and binds it to the deployed candidate, but the operator runbook still needs to say how to select that candidate and one timing assertion may intermittently make verification flaky. The change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up on those bounded risks.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant Operator
participant StagingWorkflow
participant CrossTenantHarness
participant StagingApp
participant SoakTest
Operator->>StagingWorkflow: Start SHA-bound staging verification
StagingWorkflow->>CrossTenantHarness: Pass checkout commit SHA
CrossTenantHarness->>StagingApp: Request /api/health
StagingApp-->>CrossTenantHarness: Return deployed commit SHA
CrossTenantHarness-->>StagingWorkflow: Record verified deployment identity
StagingWorkflow->>SoakTest: Run authenticated staging soak
SoakTest->>StagingApp: Send redirect-refusing bearer requests
StagingApp-->>SoakTest: Return search and answer results
SoakTest-->>Operator: Report acceptance thresholds

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/launch-operator-runbook.md`:
- Around line 130-132: Require the tenancy workflow to be manually dispatched
from a Git ref resolving to the candidate SHA before execution. Update the
workflow guidance in docs/launch-operator-runbook.md lines 130-132 and
docs/staging-setup.md lines 117-124 with this requirement, preserving the
existing SHA-bound workflow and evidence steps.
In `@tests/rag-route-budget.test.ts`:
- Around line 127-131: Make the timeout assertion in the “caps a fresh fast
generation below the outer route deadline” test deterministic by supplying a
fixed now function or freezing the clock before creating the deadline and
asserting generationRequestTimeoutMs. Preserve the expected
answerRouteBudgetMs.fast minus generationRecoveryReserveMs value and dispose the
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