Fredagsregler: tre evidensbaserede tilfoejelser fra ugens haendelser

1. text-artifacts-require-explicit-utf8-handling (Type B): to
   produktionshaendelser, samme sygdom - smiley double-encodet via
   HTTP-streng, og en Mode B-batch der skrev mojibake i tre CLAUDE.md
   fordi PS 5.1 laeser BOM-loese .ps1 som cp1252. Reglen: raa bytes
   ved transfer, eksplicit UTF-8 ved write, tekst-transformation i
   Python, grep for maerket foer commit.

2. log-writes-must-survive-rollback (Type B): fejl-logs skrevet i
   samme transaktion forsvinder ved rollback - loggen mister praecis
   de fejl den findes for. Isoleret session (StartSession -> insert +
   commit) er moensteret. Evidens: Wareco IC web-service-log
   2026-07-02; havde tidligere kostet en udvikler det meste af en dag.

3. Skaerpelse af setup-doc-must-not-reference-unpromoted-stable-files:
   kanal-tilstand verificeres via git (ls-remote/klon), aldrig CDN;
   to sande observationer kan modsige hinanden naar verden flytter
   sig imellem dem - tidsstempl al kanal-evidens. Felt-verificeret
   af Conzept-sessionens selvkorrektion 2026-07-03.

Foerste PR foedt direkte i QualityHub.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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bc-version: [all]
domain: architecture
keywords: [logging, rollback, session, transaction, error-log, web-service, telemetry]
technologies: [al]
countries: [w1]
application-area: [all]
---
# Log writes must survive transaction rollback
## Description
The naive instinct when adding logging is to insert the log record inside
the running transaction. That log has a fatal blind spot: when the operation
ERRORS, the transaction rolls back — and takes the log entry with it. The
result is a log that faithfully records every success and silently loses
exactly the failures it exists to capture.
Observed in production design (Wareco IC, 2026-07-02): a log of errors and
duration per web-service call needed entries to persist even when the
business transaction was rolled back. The correct pattern — writing the log
from an ISOLATED SESSION so its commit is independent of the caller's
transaction — had previously cost a developer most of a day to discover.
## Rule
A log whose purpose includes capturing FAILURES must write its entries in a
transaction that is independent of the operation being logged:
1. **Isolated session write:** start a separate session (`StartSession` on a
codeunit that inserts the log record and commits) so the entry persists
regardless of what happens to the caller's transaction.
2. The log codeunit does ONE thing: insert + implicit commit. No business
logic rides along in the isolated session — anything committed there
escapes the caller's rollback by design.
3. Duration/telemetry fields are captured in the caller and passed as
parameters — the isolated session must not re-read state that the
rollback may erase.
4. Logs that only record successes (audit of committed work) may stay in the
main transaction — this rule targets error/diagnostic logs specifically.
## What NOT to do
- Do not `Insert` the error-log record in the same transaction as the
operation — the error you most need to see is the one that deletes it
- Do not "fix" it with `Commit` before the risky call — a stray `Commit`
breaks the caller's atomicity and violates posting-routine rules
- Do not swallow errors to keep the log alive (`if Codeunit.Run then...`
without re-raising) — the log must observe the failure, not suppress it
## Signal to watch for
A log table whose entries are inserted in the flow they measure, with no
isolated-session writer — combined with any error path. In review: search
callers of the log-insert for surrounding `Insert`/`Post` in the same
transaction scope.
## Message to developer
When an in-transaction error log is found, explain: entries vanish on
rollback, so the log is blind to failures; route the write through an
isolated session (StartSession → insert+commit codeunit) with values passed
as parameters.

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3. Consumers (sessions, Mode B) that hit a 404 on a documented stable path 3. Consumers (sessions, Mode B) that hit a 404 on a documented stable path
report the gap — they never silently fetch from `main` instead. The report the gap — they never silently fetch from `main` instead. The
channel discipline outranks the convenience. channel discipline outranks the convenience.
4. **Channel-state evidence comes from git, never from a CDN.** Verify with
`git ls-remote`/a fresh clone — raw-URL caches lag minutes behind, so a
404/200 observed right after a promote can be stale. Two true
observations can contradict each other when the world moves between
them: timestamp every piece of channel evidence before acting on it.
(Field-verified 2026-07-03: a session's real 404 was fixed mid-flight;
it re-verified by cloning the branch and correctly withdrew its case.)
## What NOT to do ## What NOT to do

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bc-version: [all]
domain: architecture
keywords: [encoding, utf-8, powershell, mojibake, here-string, bom, raw-bytes]
technologies: [al]
countries: [w1]
application-area: [all]
---
# Text artifacts require explicit UTF-8 handling — no ambient encoding
## Description
Two production incidents, same disease, different vectors. (1)
`smiley.agent.md` shipped double-UTF-8-encoded for weeks: fetched as string
content over HTTP and re-saved with ambient encoding — every em-dash became
`â€"`, and `file` misclassified the agent as Nim source code. (2) A Mode B
batch script wrote the SAME mojibake into three project CLAUDE.md files:
Windows PowerShell 5.1 reads a BOM-less `.ps1` as cp1252, so UTF-8 em-dashes
inside a here-string were mis-decoded before they were ever written. Both
incidents corrupted deployed instruction files silently; both were caught by
inspection, not by tooling.
The root cause is never the characters — it is trusting an AMBIENT encoding
(HTTP string decoding, PS 5.1 script parsing, `Out-File` defaults) anywhere
between a text artifact's source and its destination.
## Rule
When creating, fetching or transforming CURABIS text artifacts (agent files,
CLAUDE.md, knowledge files, scripts):
1. **Transfers are raw bytes.** Filesystem `Copy-Item` or
`Invoke-WebRequest -OutFile` — never via `.Content` strings.
2. **Writes are explicit UTF-8.** `[System.IO.File]::WriteAllText(path,
text, [System.Text.UTF8Encoding]::new($false))` — never `Out-File` /
`Set-Content` defaults for content with non-ASCII.
3. **Text transformation with non-ASCII happens in Python** (explicit
`encoding="utf-8"` on read AND write) — or, if it must be PowerShell, the
`.ps1` file itself carries a UTF-8 BOM so PS 5.1 parses its literals
correctly. A BOM-less `.ps1` with non-ASCII literals is a latent bug.
4. **Verify after generation:** grep the output for `â€` (the mojibake
signature) before committing or deploying. One line, catches the class.
## What NOT to do
- Do not put em-dashes, æøå or any non-ASCII inside a here-string in a
`.ps1` that lacks a BOM — the corruption happens at parse time, before
your code runs
- Do not fetch a file via `.Content` and re-save it — the double-decode is
invisible until someone reads the artifact
- Do not assume "it looked fine in my editor" — editors auto-detect; parsers
and runtimes do not
## Signal to watch for
The literal byte sequence `â€` (or `æ`, `ø`, `Ã¥`) in any committed or
deployed text file. Also: `file`/tooling misclassifying a markdown file as
source code — that is encoding damage until proven otherwise.
## Message to developer
When mojibake is found in an artifact, report which file, repair by
cp1252→UTF-8 reversal (line-by-line fallback preserves already-correct
lines), and identify WHICH transfer step used ambient encoding — the repair
without the root cause just schedules the next incident.