docs(rebuild): retire REBUILD.md and move its durable parts to their real homes

[thomasluizon]

What

REBUILD.md is deleted (1,251 lines). Everything durable in it moved somewhere that will still be true next month, and all 33 citations were repointed first.

Why now

The document was temporary by design under D12: a document is generated-and-CI-verified, authoritative-and-small, or deleted. It described a migration. That migration finished when Phase 7 completed on 2026-07-25, and a document describing a finished migration is exactly how a document starts lying.

Where the durable parts went

Content	New home	Why there
D1 to D42, the citable register	brain ADR, The Orbit workflow decision register (D1 to D42)	Ticket bodies, CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, the skills and several tools/ headers cite decisions by NUMBER, and nothing regenerates them. This is the one part that had to survive.
The #539 diagnosis: four contrast axes, the 7 named UI defects, the missing-mechanical-specs table	Inlined verbatim into Linear ORB-30	ORB-30 is the only ticket that acts on them. Ticket 0 is now self-contained.
The ui-skills shortlist	brain reference note	The filtering was the work: 185 skills read, about 125 rejected as out-of-stack.
Mobile capture mechanism; denominator register and per-row owners	Already in ORB-32 and the #539 project overview	Verified present rather than assumed, by probing each ticket body for the specific terms.

Numbering is preserved exactly, including D27 sitting after D42 and D18 recording its own partial supersession.

Deleted rather than moved

The phase ledger, the teardown inventory, the "what gets deleted" list, the Phase 5 triage table (marked EXECUTED), and section 12, which closes with its own verdict: "Nothing in this section is open." A finished migration does not need its plan kept.

The 33 citations

Deleting naively would have left 33 dangling pointers. Nothing was deleted until every citation stood on its own:

• 13 in Linear (ORB-30 x6, ORB-32 x3, ORB-36, ORB-38, ORB-40, project overview) rewritten to name the decision or the now-inlined content.
• 17 in the repo repointed to a D-number or to the fact itself. A section number dies with the document; a decision number does not.
• 3 by hand: two CLAUDE.md rows and one tools/README.md row. The docs-registry row for REBUILD.md becomes a row naming the register's new address, so the next reader who greps for a D-number finds it.

Zero REBUILD.md references remain anywhere outside that one intentional pointer.

Verification

Dash Ban baseline            clean
Copy Register                clean
Skill and Agent Frontmatter  34 files parse
Hook parity                  ORBIT HOOK PARITY OK
Harness Execution            ORBIT TOOLS GATE OK
redesign-coverage            exit 0, denominator fully claimed

The tools gate matters here specifically: 12 of the 17 edited files are tools whose header comments changed, and #606's new suite executes every one of them.

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Code Review: PR #609

Scope: PR #609 in repo thomasluizon/orbit-ui-mobile — docs(rebuild): retire REBUILD.md and move its durable parts to their real homes
Recommendation: APPROVE

Summary

This is a docs-only chore: REBUILD.md (1,251 lines, a temporary teardown/rebuild plan that finished its Phase 7 lifecycle per D12) is deleted, and 16 other files get one-line comment/prose edits repointing citations from section numbers in that file to the surviving D-numbered decisions or brain-vault addresses. No executable logic changes; packages/shared/eslint.config.mjs's only "real" edit is dropping a WHY-URL comment line above an unchanged "no-console": "error" rule value. The PR's own claim of "zero REBUILD.md references remain anywhere outside that one intentional pointer" does not hold: two ESLint rule files still carry a dead link to the deleted file (see Medium finding below). Everything else checked out: the D1-D42 register move, the docs-registry row rewrite, and the citation repointing in tools/*.mjs, .claude/hooks/, .claude/playbooks/, and .claude/skills/_shared/ are all consistent and correctly worded.

Findings

Critical

None.

High

None.

Medium

[MEDIUM] Two ESLint rule files still link to the deleted REBUILD.md, contradicting the PR's "zero dangling references" claim

• dimension: Dead / stale code (#2) and Correctness (#1 — PR states this exact fact and it is false)
• location: eslint-rules/no-double-assertion.cjs:9, eslint-rules/no-unjustified-disable.cjs:9
• issue: Both JSDoc headers carry a WHY-URL comment (https://github.com/thomasluizon/orbit-ui-mobile/blob/main/REBUILD.md) that this PR does not touch. Once this PR merges, REBUILD.md is gone from main, so both links 404. The PR body states "Zero REBUILD.md references remain anywhere outside that one intentional pointer" and enumerates "17 in the repo repointed" — these two were missed. Verified via git grep -il "rebuild.md" against the PR head: exactly three hits remain, one intentional (the CLAUDE.md docs-registry row) and these two not.
• risk: Low functional blast radius (a comment, not runtime code), but it is dead documentation debt shipping in the very PR whose purpose is eliminating dead REBUILD.md references, and a future reader following the WHY link for context on the double-assertion or unjustified-disable ban gets a 404 with no path to the real citation.
• fix: Repoint both comments the same way the rest of this PR repoints citations — either drop the trailing URL line and fold the WHY into the existing prose (both files already state the WHY without needing the link), or point at the brain vault ADR address used in the new CLAUDE.md docs-registry row (brain/2 Areas/20-29 Orbit Engineering/Decisions/The Orbit workflow decision register (D1 to D42).md).
• reference: CLAUDE.md rule 2 (delete unused/stale code); PR's own stated verification criterion (33/33 citations repointed).

Low / Info

[INFO] Stray comment removal left odd indentation in packages/shared/eslint.config.mjs

• location: packages/shared/eslint.config.mjs:66
• issue: Removing the // https://.../REBUILD.md line left "no-console": "error", indented 12 spaces instead of the surrounding 6-space block indent. No lint/prettier gate catches this (verified: no prettier config or format script in this workspace), so it is cosmetic only. Not posted as a blocking finding per the rubric's Signal gate (Low/Info are not review-blocking).
• fix: Re-indent to match the surrounding rules block (6 spaces).

Subagents

Agent	Verdict
parity-checker	N/A — no apps/web/** or apps/mobile/** file changed
i18n-syncer	N/A — no user-facing strings or packages/shared/src/i18n/*.json changed
contract-aligner	N/A — no packages/shared/src/types/* / endpoints.ts, no orbit-api changes
security-reviewer	N/A — no orbit-api code changed
design-reviewer	N/A — no apps/* UI files changed

Validation

Check	Result
Lint	IN PROGRESS at review time; all other CI jobs green (Dash Ban, Copy Register, Skill and Agent Frontmatter, Harness Execution x2, Suppressions Ratchet, Cross-Platform Parity, Contract Drift, Expo SDK Pin, CodeQL, GitGuardian, Architecture map drift, React Doctor all SUCCESS)
Type check	PASS (CI: SUCCESS)
Tests	N/A — no test-bearing source changed
Build (api)	N/A — orbit-api not touched
Harness Execution (rubric #15)	PASS — CI SUCCESS (x2); PR body also cites the actual command output (node tools/test-tools.mjs, node .claude/hooks/test-hooks.mjs, redesign-coverage exit 0), satisfying the "EXECUTED evidence" requirement since this diff touches tools/** and .claude/**

Deferred — N/A dimensions & files not verdicted

• SOLID/clean-arch (#3), No-workaround (#5), Type safety (#6), console.log (#7), DESIGN.md/AI-slop (#8), Parity (#9), i18n (#10), Contract drift + backward-compat (#11), Security (#12), Backend hard rules (#13), FEATURES.md parity (#14): all N/A — the diff is comment/prose-only and never touches any of these surfaces.
• The brain-vault ADR file the PR body says now holds D1-D42 is outside this repo checkout and was not independently verified to exist — noted, not claimed clean.
• Lint CI job had not concluded at the time this review ran; given the trivial nature of the diff this is a low-risk gap, but it is explicitly not claimed green.
• All 17 changed files got a verdict (16 clean, 2 carrying the one Medium finding).

What's good

• The citation-repointing strategy is sound and mostly executed correctly: repointing to D-numbers (which survive) rather than section numbers (which die with the document) is exactly right, and 14 of the 16 non-deletion hunks do this cleanly and consistently.
• The CLAUDE.md docs-registry row rewrite accurately describes the new home of the D1-D42 register and why REBUILD.md held it only temporarily, matching D12's "generated, authoritative-and-small, or deleted" contract.
• Verification evidence was actually run and shown in the PR body (Dash Ban, Copy Register, Frontmatter, Hook parity, Harness Execution, redesign-coverage), which is exactly what rubric dimension 15 requires for a tools/**/.claude/** diff — not just claimed.

Recommendation

Safe to merge as-is; the Medium finding is a two-line cleanup (drop or repoint two dangling URLs) that does not block. Fixing it in this PR or a same-day follow-up both satisfy the intent — either is fine given severity.

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Quality Gate passed

Issues
0 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

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