# Deploy Note: Manual Checkpoint Hardening

Type: SpecForge Deploy Note
Scope ID: SCOPE-0003
Run ID: RUN-0003
Date: 2026-07-07
Status: Done
Area: Manual Continuity Handoff

## Delivered

- Added focused handoff tests for synthesized validation failure: no resume prompt, failed artifact written, and failed artifact rejected as resume input.
- Added idle delivery coverage: idle sends immediately without `followUp`; busy still uses `deliverAs: "followUp"`.
- Strengthened success-path coverage for archive state/path behavior and lock cleanup.
- Kept implementation unchanged because existing handoff code satisfied the new contract tests.

## Evidence

- `npm test` — passed, 4 files and 28 tests (`CMD-0002`).
- `npm run typecheck` — passed (`CMD-0003`).
- `npm pack --dry-run` — passed (`CMD-0004`).
- Fresh reviewer judge — PASS with no blockers/majors/minors (`JUDGE-0001`).

## Decisions

- Kept this slice focused on manual handoff semantics only.
- Did not change `docs/product-spec.md`.
- Did not add status/settings, threshold, or compaction behavior.

## Operational risks

Clean Pi install and live manual smoke remain release-gated future evidence. Exact queued-brief assertion trims trailing whitespace, which preserves substantive disk-sourced content but is not a byte-for-byte newline assertion.

## Artifact refs

- Packet: `specforge/scopes/SCOPE-0003/autonomous-implementation-packet.yaml`
- Run: `specforge/runs/RUN-0003/`
- Judge: `specforge/runs/RUN-0003/subagents/JUDGE-0001.md`