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AIA Astro Migration — Living Session Handoff

Last updated: October 13, 2026 (UTC) Repository: AIAMarketing/azinstitute4autism.com Working branch: faithful-astro-migration Last accepted technical implementation: Phase 6C — Library Content and Multilingual Parity Previous accepted checkpoint: Phase 6B.5, a699d467f19fafbfdda5fce1ce6226baa6e5fc3c Implementation checkpoint: the commit containing this handoff update; obtain its actual SHA from Git history after the user creates the signed commit. Next work: read-only production-readiness and integration-gap assessment within the existing migration roadmap.

Phase 6C is technically accepted for checkpoint preparation. Editorial, accessibility, stakeholder and production-release approval remain separate. The user stages, signs and pushes from the host terminal; this handoff does not authorize deployment or integration activation.

Authority and checkpoint history

Read repository-root AGENTS.md, MIGRATION_BRIEF.md and AUTONOMOUS-CODEX.md, then this handoff and the relevant migration summary. Later Phase 6A ratification controls conflicting original recommendations.

• Phase 5C Team: 34d5394b3ce765028a27b9cddd9952de3f09bfe7.
• Phase 6A proposal: 76a035424dc5245443476b168d8c91ea62eed27b.
• Phase 6B.1 search: b20c253383440598c2d07bf6f852906ac00c42df.
• Phase 6B.2 pagination: 6f5ac3c0d233cee5fbbb62be79bc6909e6bec183.
• Phase 6B.3 author archives: 8646792d46a8a117ef617f5dd2582c2550b45d19.
• Phase 6B.4 URL/SEO: 8192ea71c47a7163b40a7fad144ebbd2523282d1.
• Phase 6B.5 multilingual navigation/RTL: the signed replacement checkpoint a699d467f19fafbfdda5fce1ce6226baa6e5fc3c; do not use its superseded unsigned SHA.

Phase 6B.5 visitor navigation remains independent of SEO hreflang. Published locale destinations, explicit fallback notices, native language disclosure, Arabic contact bidi isolation and the two-line shared address remain intact. /ar remains unpublished with an explicit English-home fallback. ContactObfuscation is unchanged; reversed no-JavaScript strings are intentional. The earlier Phase 6B.5 manual acceptance does not cover subsequent Phase 6C work.

Completed Phase 6C technical sequence

• 6C: restored nine missing English articles and source-backed self-hosted media; derived English Library and author page 6 from the catalog.
• 6C.1: restored source-supported Halloween contextual links in English self-advocacy and AAC articles.
• 6C.2: reconciled three materially outdated English articles and current published Spanish school readiness; replaced the obsolete Arabic antecedent/consequence body with a complete translation; audited all 19 established translation relationships.
• 6C.3: reconciled featured-image alternatives, source-supported headings, truncated descriptions and supported modification dates; retained the new Arabic guide's intentional modification-date omission; localized three diagrams.
• 6C.4: reconciled contextual and external links, previous/next/related relationships, image links and fragments; added localized self-advocacy Halloween references while preserving the landing-page ownership gate.
• 6C.5: audited all 74 articles, corrected narrow structural/accessibility regressions, and verified metadata, links, FAQs, translation relationships, pagination, search and publication policies. Technical readiness has documented nontechnical release gates.

Detailed evidence and reviewer checklists are in the final acceptance report. The checkpoint manifest lists 148 implementation/evidence paths; this handoff adds the 149th checkpoint path. Historical phase records retain their original context.

Verified technical baseline

Metric	Result
Library articles / locale search records	55 EN / 12 ES / 7 AR = 74
Generated HTML routes / unique canonical targets	121 / 121
Author archive routes	9
Indexing-enabled sitemap URLs	107
Hreflang links / participating routes	174 / 53
Repository redirect definitions	9, not activated on deployed hosts
Visible/schema-aligned FAQ answers / articles	182 / 30

English Library and author pagination is 10/10/10/10/10/5; Spanish is 10/2, Arabic is one seven-article root. Page 6 is derived, with no page 7 or page-one HTML alias. Search remains locale-scoped, metadata-only and demand-loaded. Publication ordering uses original dates, not modification dates. Existing syndicated external-canonical/noindex exceptions remain unchanged.

Normal staging output is 121 noindex,nofollow HTML pages, an empty sitemap and no hreflang. Indexing-enabled validation is local only. No deployment, redirect activation, form submission or production integration is authorized.

Final source-matching offline evidence is the October 13 final reconciliation: 133 dispositions, 70 historical production requests, schema 2. Its source fingerprint is f11726b057b1d2f0a59ee1b952d847712caab05cf2f1539b36e80442372f2b00. Use the explicit evidence path for read-only checks; do not select an excluded intermediate automatically or recrawl production to refresh a timestamp.

The final parity classifications are 10 confirmed, 58 with accepted intentional deviations, one minor discrepancy, five requiring human review, zero material discrepancies and zero insufficient-verification records against the selected evidence. Findings rely on dated, sometimes cached/prerendered public HubSpot representations; they do not establish independent current origin freshness. The newer Arabic antecedent/consequence translation intentionally supersedes its outdated public Arabic body. Machine-assisted work is not professional approval.

Checkpoint preparation revalidation on October 13 passed sequentially with TMPDIR=/tmp: Astro check (91 files, zero diagnostics), Markdown 20, publication 33, SEO 35, Library 45 and route 10 tests; both build modes; link/image/blog audits with zero failures; explicit offline consistency check; and git diff --check. The last build restores normal staging safeguards. Git identity/signing remains the user’s host-terminal responsibility.

Outstanding Stakeholder Review and Production Release Gates

• Clinical/organizational — AIA: approve eligibility and program-specific ranges against general ABA eligibility of 18 months through eight years; resolve the summer-routine age discrepancy. Review Preparatory Academy ages 2–6 and 1:2 delivery ratio, ABA versus education, Arizona educational guidance, functional assessment, behavior intervention, reinforcement, extinction, aggression, self-injury, safety, treatment/outcome claims and author roles, credentials and biographies. Source publication alone is not clinical approval.
• Fluent Spanish/Arabic and clinical review: revised Spanish school readiness, rewritten Arabic antecedent/consequence guidance and terminology, all three localized Arabic diagrams, localized self-advocacy Halloween additions, operational labels and cross-language notices remain pending.
• Minor localization: /es/library/positive-reinforcement-techniques retains a source-inherited English tip paragraph under “Por qué el refuerzo positivo es importante en el ABA”. It needs bounded fluent/editorial correction; checkpoint preparation does not close it.
• Browser/accessibility: desktop and approximately 390px mobile, keyboard focus, JavaScript-disabled browsing, RTL reading order and diagram scrolling, Arabic visual-language acceptance and a real screen-reader session remain required. Autonomous browser attempts failed. SVG raster inspection and generated HTML checks do not constitute browser or assistive-technology acceptance.
• Landing-page ownership — Phase 9 owner gate: the public /lp/early-intervention CTA from /library/how-many-hours-aba-child-need is provisionally /client-consultation locally. These are not approved equivalents. Do not import the separate landing-pages repository, create a redirect or activate a form without explicit authorization.
• Author SEO: keep archives self-canonical, noindex,follow in indexing-enabled builds, sitemap-excluded and hreflang-excluded. Changes require explicit approval.
• Forms/privacy/analytics/advertising: approve form destinations and submission APIs, HIPAA/privacy safeguards, consent/analytics, Google Ads conversion tracking and each production integration's activation. No new PHI flow is authorized.
• Hosting/release: separately verify Contabo/NixOS deployment assumptions, HTTPS, canonical host, slashless URLs, query preservation, redirect targets and loops, real 404 responses, asset delivery, sitemap/robots, reproducible deployment, rollback and organizational release approval. The temporary Docker/nginx trailing-slash HTTPS-to-HTTP-to-HTTPS chain remains explicitly deferred. Static-build success does not verify these deployed behaviors.

Next: production-readiness planning and verification

Start from the signed checkpoint SHA supplied by the user and verify Git history. Begin with a read-only architecture and integration-gap inventory, not another Library migration or live configuration change. Use the existing roadmap's Phase 7 language/form review, Phase 8 full-page visual fidelity and Phase 9 human-decision gates; do not renumber or invent a conflicting implementation phase.

Inventory Astro/static deployment and environment configuration; hosting assumptions; route/redirect requirements; form/API ownership; landing-page and employee-portal decisions; privacy, consent and analytics; nonproduction browser and accessibility acceptance; rollback and cutover sequencing. Consult the employee-portal decision record without retrieving private staff or clinical records.

Produce a plan separating safe nonproduction technical work, stakeholder questions, live-impacting actions and deferred activation. Stop for review before implementation or production configuration changes. No DNS, nginx, Cloudflare, forms, analytics, advertising or deployment authorization is implied.

Working protocol and protected local files

Preserve the Markdown-first manifest-driven architecture, explicit translation relationships and ratified publication policies. Implement only authorized scope; report evidence and structural diffs before the user stages or commits. Follow AUTONOMOUS-CODEX.md; do not repair identity/signing or bypass sandbox restrictions.

Do not read, modify, move, delete, stage or checksum root merge-plan.md. Preserve all four superseded reconciliation files listed under exclusions in the checkpoint manifest. Exclude those five files and temporary .phase6c-stage-paths.nul from the commit. The staging aid is for the user's host terminal only.