docs: drift fixes, decision doc, wiki pages, observer seam page

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Summary

• Rewrite the heaviest doc-drift page (docs/architecture/12-generated-app.md) against the real CLI, plus remaining drift fixes (serve, api routes, generator flags, auth deps)
• Add docs/idea/18-build-vs-wrap.md, the dependency build-vs-wrap decision doc
• Add four new wiki pages (Resource Management, Batching, N+1, Migrations+Backfills)
• Add docs/architecture/18-observer-seam.md: the two statement funnels every SQL statement passes through, attribution/expected-loop scopes, the span, repeatedSql vs nPlusOne, and why an uninstalled observer costs production one branch
• Register every new error code touched along the way

Test plan

• bun run typecheck, bun run boundaries (pre-push hook, green)
• Facts in the new observer-seam page cross-checked against packages/db/src/{observe,client,pglite,attribution,expected-loop,statement-span}.ts, packages/cli/src/{cmd-dev,dev-n-plus-one,serve}.ts, packages/admin/src/dev/panel-timeline.ts

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• Documentation
  • Expanded architecture guidance for generated routes, feature workflows, authorization, live queries, jobs, observability, and database monitoring.
  • Added guidance for batching, preloading, N+1 detection, resource management, migrations, and backfills.
  • Documented build-versus-wrap decisions and dependency guidelines.
  • Updated CLI references with resource and locale generation options.
  • Improved navigation across architecture, capabilities, and operational documentation.

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• docs/architecture/12-generated-app.md
• docs/architecture/15-adding-a-feature.md
• docs/architecture/18-observer-seam.md
• docs/idea/18-build-vs-wrap.md
• packages/cli/src/cmd-generate.ts
• packages/cli/src/templates/scaffold-docs.ts
• wiki/Batching-And-Preloading.md
• wiki/CLI-Reference.md
• wiki/Migrations-And-Backfills.md
• wiki/N-Plus-One-Detection.md
• wiki/Resource-Management.md

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Walkthrough

The PR updates architecture, dependency, observability, feature-workflow, database, and wiki documentation. It adds guidance for routes, authorization, live queries, jobs, statement observation, N+1 detection, batching, migrations, backfills, and resource disposal.

Changes

Documentation refresh

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Feature and route workflow docs/architecture/12-generated-app.md, docs/architecture/15-adding-a-feature.md	Updates route generation, feature actions, row authorization, live queries, jobs, rendering, validation, migration checks, and repair commands.
Statement observation and N+1 documentation docs/architecture/18-observer-seam.md, docs/architecture/README.md, wiki/N-Plus-One-Detection.md	Documents statement funnels, observer contracts, async-local scopes, tracing, ledger behavior, reporting surfaces, exemptions, and test fixture behavior.
Dependency and server-operation rules CLAUDE.md, docs/idea/18-build-vs-wrap.md, docs/idea/README.md, packages/auth/CLAUDE.md, docs/ops/03-observability.md	Records dependency constraints, build-versus-wrap decisions, the removed documented auth dependency, and server-based reporting configuration.
Database lifecycle and CLI guides wiki/Batching-And-Preloading.md, wiki/Migrations-And-Backfills.md, wiki/Resource-Management.md, wiki/CLI-Reference.md, wiki/Home.md, wiki/_Sidebar.md	Adds guidance for batching, preloading, migrations, backfills, disposable resources, generator flags, and wiki navigation.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8905b

The PR is documentation-only, but several pages currently describe incorrect API paths, migration and drift commands, generator defaults, error remediation, and executable examples; readers could generate the wrong files, miss catalogs, or apply ineffective fixes. Merge should wait for these bounded documentation corrections.

Possibly related PRs

• developerz-ai/ultimate#15: Related feature architecture documentation, including publishPost and route-generation conventions.
• developerz-ai/ultimate#61: Implements the resource-management behavior documented here.
• developerz-ai/ultimate#65: Implements batching and preloading behavior documented here.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/architecture/12-generated-app.md`:
- Around line 145-157: Revise the documentation to state two separate API rules:
registerRoute() supports hand-written api/**/route.ts routes, while action,
mutator, query, job, and task modules are collected through defineApi().
Explicitly state that x g route generates only under site/ and app/.

In `@docs/architecture/15-adding-a-feature.md`:
- Around line 82-86: Update the architecture documentation to distinguish source
drift from live-catalog drift: document x db gen failures as X_DB_GEN_FAILED, x
verify as the source-drift check, and x db migrate as the live-catalog-drift
check. Revise the references around the drift explanation and the later
verification section to state the correct checks and executable remediation
commands.

Apply the same fix in `@docs/architecture/15-adding-a-feature.md` around lines 269
- 277: The same migration/drift distinction and executable-fix contract is
repeated in the later section.

In `@docs/architecture/18-observer-seam.md`:
- Around line 176-177: Update the wiki link in the observer seam documentation
to use the repository-root-relative path ../../wiki/N-Plus-One-Detection.md, or
the repository’s canonical equivalent, so it resolves from the document’s
location.
- Around line 40-42: Update the scope-timing sentence in the observer-seam
documentation to state that both funnels snapshot statementObserver(),
expectedQueryLoopReason(), and statementAttribution() before sendOn/send, then
report the event after settlement; do not imply those values are read again
afterward.
- Around line 142-147: Revise the zero-cost claim in the section describing the
disabled observer seam: remove “no span” or explicitly limit it to observer and
N+1 overhead, since withStatementSpan still opens a span without a
StatementObserver. Preserve the claims about direct sendOn/send calls and
avoiding performance.now(), StatementEvent allocation, and AsyncLocalStorage
scope entry.
- Around line 151-154: Update the documentation’s startDev reference to use a
symbol link or the current source range, 111-248, so readers are directed to the
actual implementation in cmd-dev.ts.
- Around line 3-6: Date the load-bearing observer runtime claim by adding “As of
2026-08” to the statement covering observer cost and x dev/serve.ts wiring,
without changing its technical content.
- Around line 114-119: Update the architecture paragraph to document kind and
detail as separate contracts: explain that dev-traces.ts derives kind from
span.name, while STATEMENT_ATTRIBUTE supplies detail and panel-timeline.ts
groups detail for kind === 'sql'. Remove the implication that
STATEMENT_ATTRIBUTE determines the timeline kind, while retaining the relevant
cross-package symbol references.

In `@docs/idea/18-build-vs-wrap.md`:
- Around line 81-91: Keep the Dependency ledger limited to dependencies that
have actually landed: remove the pending NATS row from the admitted-dependencies
table and place it in a separate pending proposal section, or add it only after
PR 21 lands with the pinned version and PR reference.

In `@wiki/Batching-And-Preloading.md`:
- Around line 113-122: Align wiki/Batching-And-Preloading.md lines 113-122 and
wiki/Migrations-And-Backfills.md line 167 with the executable error contract:
document registered or borrowed X_* ownership, the cause, and an exact runnable
fix command, linking to canonical Error-Codes entries where appropriate. Replace
prose/API fragments in Batching-And-Preloading and replace the unqualified
build-time assert in Migrations-And-Backfills with the applicable validation
error code and runnable fix.
- Around line 73-79: Update the likes operations to match the declared key and
tenancy contract: in the upsertAll call, use postId and memberId for onConflict,
and in deleteWhere include orgId, postId, and memberId instead of userId. Leave
the posts updateWhere operation unchanged.

In `@wiki/CLI-Reference.md`:
- Around line 202-203: Update the x g locale handling so an absent --locales
flag reaches resolveLocales as undefined, or ensure resolveLocales treats an
empty list as the default ['en']; preserve explicitly supplied locale selections
and restore catalog generation for the default English locale.

In `@wiki/Migrations-And-Backfills.md`:
- Line 126: Replace the literal NUL byte in the migration checksum table entry
with the printable representation “NUL” or “\0”, while preserving the documented
separator meaning.
- Around line 153-154: Update the generator command synopsis in CLI-Reference to
include the supported backfill command documented by the x g backfill section;
if that command is unsupported, remove the corresponding x g backfill
documentation instead.
- Line 17: Update the migration history statement near “Until 1.2.0” to
accurately distinguish published release 1.1.0 from the unreleased main branch,
explicitly stating that the direct migration-engine behavior applies to
unreleased main or replacing the version boundary with the correct release
boundary. Preserve the existing explanation of the old drizzle-kit shelling-out
behavior.
- Line 155: The generated backfill test’s idempotence assertion must compare
transformed row values rather than object identity. In the test covering the
generated row transform, replace the strict identity assertion with the
project’s deep-equality matcher, such as toEqual, while preserving the existing
once-versus-twice transform comparison.
- Line 53: Replace the table-rebuild rationale in the destructive-operation
explanation with the persisted-data-loss criterion: state that DROP CONSTRAINT,
DROP DEFAULT, and DROP NOT NULL remove or change metadata, while DROP INDEX
removes only an auxiliary index, so these operations are excluded because they
do not remove stored table rows.

In `@wiki/N-Plus-One-Detection.md`:
- Around line 108-112: Update the X_INVARIANT documentation in this paragraph to
include its canonical cause—an omitted or blank reason—and executable fix:
guidance directing users to provide a non-blank reason, or link directly to the
corresponding Error-Codes entry. Preserve the existing AsyncLocalStorage,
concurrency, and nesting behavior description.
- Around line 14-16: Update the documentation sentence to distinguish error-code
metadata ownership from runtime behavior: state that
packages/entity/src/errors.ts defines the codes and their cause/fix text, while
the CLI and testing surfaces report or throw the corresponding verdict according
to execution mode. Preserve the existing identical-message explanation without
attributing x dev’s runtime behavior to `@ultimat3/entity`.
- Around line 62-65: Revise the documentation paragraph around
N_PLUS_ONE_THRESHOLD to claim only that both the x dev ledger and
createTestStatements use the shared threshold of five statements. Remove the
assertion that they detect the same loop by construction, and do not imply
equivalent request-scoped versus fixture-lifetime counting or verdict behavior.

In `@wiki/Resource-Management.md`:
- Around line 30-32: The documentation claim about current async-disposal usage
should be dated. Update the sentence in the await using section to include “As
of 2026-08” and retain the instruction to revise it when the first async
disposable call site is added.

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• CLAUDE.md
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• docs/architecture/15-adding-a-feature.md
• docs/architecture/18-observer-seam.md
• docs/architecture/README.md
• docs/idea/18-build-vs-wrap.md
• docs/idea/README.md
• docs/ops/03-observability.md
• packages/auth/CLAUDE.md
• wiki/Batching-And-Preloading.md
• wiki/CLI-Reference.md
• wiki/Home.md
• wiki/Migrations-And-Backfills.md
• wiki/N-Plus-One-Detection.md
• wiki/Resource-Management.md
• wiki/_Sidebar.md

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