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Making the implementation handoff a reference contract
Removing duplicated page content and keeping only source mappings, stop conditions, and consistency checks
Purpose
Even after page-level site inputs moved to new canonical sources, an implementation handoff that still retained former wording and a one-page preparation state could carry stale information or different publication boundaries into implementation. Each of the three pages and the shared elements needed one unambiguous input source.
At the same time, copying detailed canonical content into the handoff would create a second place to maintain the same information. The goal was to rebuild design-to-implementation handoff as a small reference contract between implementation surfaces and canonical sources, not as another content master.
Implementation
The former structure of design-to-implementation handoff was removed and replaced with a table mapping four implementation surfaces to canonical sources. / points to Home input, /privacy to Privacy input, /terms to Terms input, and all shared page elements to shared input. This keeps page-specific and shared inputs from overlapping.
- At implementation start, read the designated version and all four canonical sources directly.
- Obtain page-specific information from the matching page source and shared information only from shared input.
- Do not summarize, rephrase, supplement, or redefine canonical wording or meaning in the handoff.
- Do not treat source management information as public copy; follow each source's distinction between managed and publishable content.
- Do not infer content or publication eligibility from existing artifacts, samples, or former handoffs.
- If sources disagree with each other or with the requirement, or remain ambiguous, stop implementation and return the question to the owner.
- If a design, technical, legal, or publication decision is absent from the sources, require confirmation from the appropriate owner as a separate gate.
Change and verification responsibilities were separated as well. A canonical-source change must happen on the source side and identify a newly confirmed version. An implementation change must verify consistency with those sources within its own work. Content-consistency evidence uses the version, source paths, and diff results, while a rule prevents the same content from being recopied into the handoff and promoted into another master.
The initial update restated each page's structure and publication boundaries, expanding the handoff to 175 lines. After the CEO identified the duplication risk, the individual content was removed and the file was reduced to 49 lines containing only the mapping, consumption contract, change and verification rules, and scope. An explanation of a former shared filename was also removed, leaving only the four current destinations.
Checks covered the final diff being limited to design-to-implementation handoff, the presence of all four source paths, the absence of copied canonical content, and successful diff whitespace inspection. Because there were no changes to UI, layout, interaction, or runtime, accessibility, responsive-behavior, and state verification were N/A. Pencil design was also unnecessary, and .pen files, exports, other design artifacts, site implementation, and publication state were outside the change and verification scope.
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What was confirmed
Verification results
The three routes and shared page elements mapped one-to-one to Home input, Privacy input, Terms input, and shared input.
The handoff was reduced from 175 to 49 lines and retained source destinations and the consumption contract instead of detailed copies of page content and publication boundaries.
The final diff covered one Markdown document with 44 insertions and 118 deletions. All four destinations, stop conditions, and change and verification rules were present, and diff whitespace inspection passed.
The duplication risk in the initial version was corrected after the CEO's feedback, and copied canonical content was absent from the final version.
At the cutoff, the new handoff had been applied to the current source. UI, Pencil artifacts, accessibility, responsive behavior, runtime, site implementation, and the public environment were neither changed nor verified in this Activity.
Basis for completion
This scope was complete when each of the four implementation surfaces had one canonical source, the 49-line handoff defined direct reading, no duplication, stop-on-mismatch behavior, and change and consistency-check rules, and the boundaries around unverified UI, Pencil, runtime, and publication state were preserved.