Rollout

stardust:rollout — whole site → AEM (Edge Delivery Services)

deploy converts one page to AEM. rollout delivers the whole site: it inventories the agnostic output of migrate, then drives deploy across every page, tracking delivery coverage so you always know what's done and what's left.

rollout is delivery-only — it does not redesign. The page-by-page redesign (extract → direct → prototype → migrate) and deploy itself are unchanged; rollout is the across-pages layer on top. Design rationale, coverage model, and phasing are in notes/rollout/PLAN.md. The flow runs A→I below.

When to use

Full mode — the user has a fully migrated site at stardust/migrated/ (per-page HTML + _meta.json from stardust migrate), an EDS/AEM project + DA destination (the same target deploy needs), and wants the entire site delivered, incrementally and resumably.

Archetypes-only mode — the user has one migrated archetype per template plus a full page inventory in stardust/state.json (with type per page), and wants to ship all block code immediately without waiting for every page to be migrated. Sibling pages register as content-pending and get their content later via a separate track.

If there is no stardust/migrated/ tree at all, recommend stardust migrate on at least the archetype pages first. For a single page, use stardust deploy directly.

Setup

1. Run the master skill's setup (skills/stardust/SKILL.md § Setup).
2. Verify stardust/migrated/ exists with at least one *.html page (full mode: all pages; archetypes-only: the archetypes + a state.json with type populated). If not, recommend stardust migrate on the archetypes and stop.
3. Verify the EDS/AEM target is ready exactly as deploy requires (project scaffolding, DA_TOKEN, code branch pushable). rollout adds no new transport.
4. If state.json.handsOff is true (skills/stardust/SKILL.md § Hands-off mode), run full-auto: no per-phase pauses. Every gate and verify step below runs unchanged — hands-off removes waiting, not validation.

Procedure

Phase A — Inventory (build the coverage)

node skills/rollout/scripts/inventory.mjs --site-url <source-url>
# defaults: --migrated stardust/migrated  --out stardust/rollout
# archetypes-only mode: add the full page roster from state.json
node skills/rollout/scripts/inventory.mjs --site-url <source-url> --state stardust/state.json

Writes coverage/pages.json (one row per page: slug, delivered path, templateId, blocks, sourceHash, delivery status), coverage/templates.json (pages grouped by template), and rollout.json (target + DA config + lastRun).

Archetypes-only mode (--state): pages with a _meta.json are seeded as in full mode; pages present only in state.json are seeded with templateId from type, blocks from the archetype sidecar, and delivery.status: content-pending.

Inventory is idempotent and incremental: delivery status is preserved; a page whose migrated HTML changed after delivery is re-flagged stale. Fill in the DA coordinates in rollout.json (site.da.org, site.site, site.da.ref, site.liveHost) if not inferred.

Phase B — Block dedup plan (FIRST-CLASS, before any conversion)

node skills/rollout/scripts/blocks.mjs   # → coverage/blocks.json (the dedup unit)
node skills/rollout/scripts/plan.mjs     # → plan.json + a readable conversion plan

• blocks.mjs collapses every block instance (per-page modules + chrome) into the distinct set, assigns each a canonical edsBlockName (kebab, reserved-class-guarded per deploy #15), and records usedByPages / instanceCount. Chrome (header/nav/footer) is kind: chrome → site-wide fragments. In archetypes-only mode the archetype sidecars fully determine the block set; content-pending pages add none.
• plan.mjs orders pages representative-first per template and gives each distinct block a single conversion point: the first page that uses it CONVERTS it, every later page REUSES it by name. The per-page convert/reuse lists are exactly deploy's Step-7 brief input, so each block converts once without changing deploy. content-pending pages are always convert: [].

Extending an already-delivered site? A "new template" is almost always a new COMPOSITION of the existing block library, not new block code — audit blocks/ first. See reference/operational-learnings.md.

Phase B2 — Metadata contract for dynamic listings (PRE-IMPORT GATE)

Do this before Phase C — the import is blocked on it. What a dynamic listing block can show is bounded by what each page emits, and retrofitting metadata across thousands of already-published pages is a second migration. Before importing, produce dynamic-blocks-map.md (which blocks are dynamic vs static, the index each reads, the fields its cards need) and a metadata contract (the <meta name="…"> each content TYPE must carry). Then have Phase C's deploy brief emit the contract per page, and author helix-query.yaml from the same contract. When stardust:prepare-migration Phase 4.5 already ran, stardust/dynamic-blocks-map.md and helix-query.yaml exist — verify them against the inventory here instead of redoing them.

Mechanics (key→meta-name rules, what a row can carry): reference/dynamic-listings.md.

Phase C — Deliver the site (drive deploy per page, per the plan)

Blocked on Phase B2 — author each page's metadata contract into its metadata block during delivery, so the indexes are rich at import time.

Walk plan.json.steps in order (representative pages first). For each page:

1. Convert + push the migrated HTML (source.migratedHtml) to AEM via the deploy methodology. Pass the plan step into deploy's brief: create only the blocks in convert; for each block in reuse, REUSE the existing block by its edsBlockName (do not recreate).

   content-pending pages (archetypes-only): no migrated HTML — skip the document push entirely (no shell/placeholder), record content-pending, surface as "awaiting content track." Their block code is already deployed via the archetype.

2. Static contract lint (pre-PUT, deterministic). Before the push, run the delivery-contract linter — it catches the cheap, deterministic failures (wrapper, one-CTA-per-<p>, trailing-slash, path-safety, /img/ src, about:error) offline so a broken page never reaches preview. Mechanics in reference/delivery-lint.md. A P0/P1 blocks the PUT.

   node skills/rollout/scripts/delivery-lint.mjs --file <html> --path </da/path>
   node skills/rollout/scripts/media-reconcile.mjs --file <html> --deploy-host <branch>--<repo>--<owner>.aem.live [--apply]
   

   media-reconcile resolves every image on the network and decides optimize/keep/rewrite/omit (skills/migrate/reference/media-reconciliation.md) — the authoritative form of the image-fidelity gate below.

3. Run the delivery gates before flipping a page to deployed. Each is a one-line rule here; mechanics + helpers in reference/delivery-gates.md:

   • Source-fidelity — don't add sections the source lacks; never fabricate facts. node skills/rollout/scripts/section-fidelity.mjs --file <html> --source <url>
   • Image-fidelity — every authored <img> src must return 200 or be omitted; never ship <img src="about:error">. Run media-reconcile.mjs (step 2).
   • Path-safety — normalize source paths to AEM-Edge-safe form (lowercase, no trailing -/_, no -- segment); record original→normalized in stardust/redirects.tsv. (delivery-lint flags violations.)
   • Source-content hygiene — skip dead source URLs; author bodyless/PDF-only sources thin and faithful (tier thin, skills/migrate/reference/fidelity-tiers.md), don't pad with invented prose.
   • Fidelity tier declared — record each page's fidelityTier (archetype/sibling/thin) so coverage shows what was craft-gated vs cloned (skills/migrate/reference/fidelity-tiers.md).

4. Record outcomes with the state-writer (never hand-edit the ledger):

   node skills/rollout/scripts/update-coverage.mjs <slug> --status converting
   node skills/rollout/scripts/update-coverage.mjs --block <id> --status converted --eds-name <name>
   node skills/rollout/scripts/update-coverage.mjs <slug> --status deployed --url <branch-preview-url>
   node skills/rollout/scripts/update-coverage.mjs <slug> --status content-pending   # no document push
   

   Publish in the loop (PUT → preview → live), don't stop at preview — any query-index (Phase D2) builds from the live tree, so a preview-only delivery leaves indexes empty. On failure: --status failed --error "<reason>" and continue (one page's failure never aborts the rollout).

Foundation-first gate (hard block, once per rollout). When the FIRST archetype page flips to deployed, stop and prove the foundation before authoring any second page: run stardust:diff (both probes) against its prototype, plus computed-style invariants in a headless render — grid containers compute display: grid (not stacked single-column), sections are full-bleed where the design says so, and the CTA/button classes are actually styled (per stardust/runtime-contract.json, skills/deploy/SKILL.md § Runtime-detection probe). A wrong runtime assumption (block wrapper class, button classes) is silent and sitewide — typography still looks fine while every grid stacks. This one gate is the difference between fixing one page and rebuilding every template.

Execution model: waves. Deliver in waves of parallel author-only agents — each agent curls its source pages and writes files only, never deploys or edits blocks — template clusters concurrently (non-overlapping pages), representative-first so blocks exist to be reused; then a central deploy per page; then background batches with a per-page OK/FAIL ledger, re-driving FAILs only. For clusters of 6–20+ siblings, the full flow is reference/delivery-gates.md § Batched delivery. The central deploy step should run the bundled, resumable driver rather than a serial loop: node skills/deploy/scripts/deploy-batch.mjs --org <org> --repo <repo> --branch <branch> --content <dir> (concurrency pool, persistent ledger that skips already-live pages, retry/backoff, append-only log, delivered-.plain.html check). After a transient blip, re-run the same command — it re-drives only the FAILs. Then reconcile the ledger into coverage with update-coverage.mjs.

Phase D — Site assembly (whole-site artifacts)

node skills/rollout/scripts/assemble.mjs   # → rollout/site/{sitemap.xml,robots.txt,manifest.json}

Generates site-wide artifacts: sitemap.xml + robots.txt from delivered paths, and a fragments manifest mapping chrome blocks to fragments/{header,footer}.html with their canon/*.html source (deploy pushes the actual fragment content). Redirects: if Phase C's path-safety gate emitted stardust/redirects.tsv, wire it into the EDS redirects mechanism here so original inbound URLs don't 404.

Phase D2 — Dynamic listings (query-index) — optional

Blocks that LIST other pages (directories, news/event feeds, "related" rails) should read an EDS query-index rather than static cards. Build it from the B2 contract: author helix-query.yaml (scoped indexes), rewrite the listing blocks to fetch their index (with filter/sort/paginate + an authored fallback), and validate one flagship end-to-end. The index builds from the published (live) tree — publish before expecting rows. Full mechanics: reference/dynamic-listings.md.

Index resilience. After a bulk publish, poll the index total with a timeout (indexing is async; a freshly-synced config sits at building/404 first) — don't assert once and fail. Decode "requested path returned a 301 or 404" per row as not-published, not a bad selector: publish the page and re-poll (reference/dynamic-listings.md § The publish gotcha). If the index never settles inside the timeout, the documented degraded mode is a committed static index JSON (generated from the coverage ledger, served from the code branch) + regeneration on content change — the listing blocks read the same row shape either way, so the swap back is a URL change.

Phase D3 — Multilingual (per-language trees) — optional

When the source has language trees (/fr/…, /en/…), add them as parallel content trees that REUSE the same block library — only authored content and a little wiring change (language-routed fragments, per-language indexes, per-language path-safety). See reference/multilingual.md.

Phase E — Full-site verify

node skills/rollout/scripts/verify.mjs            # uses rollout.json site.liveHost
# or: --base <url>   (explicit host)   |   --root <dir>   (offline, against a local export)

For every delivered page, verify confirms HTTP 200, no about:error (deploy #75), and that every internal href="/…" resolves to a known delivered path — then flips each page to verified or failed. Exits non-zero if any page failed.

Headless render check (per template). A 200 .plain.html can still render blank — decoration failures (missing script, wrong block wrapper class, 404 chrome) are invisible to a text check. On the FIRST delivered page of each template (home included), load the live URL in a headless browser and assert decoration ran: the runtime's body class is set (body.session under AuthorKit — read stardust/runtime-contract.json), main .section count > 0, zero pageerror events, zero broken images.

Phase E2 — Link-audit completeness

verify.mjs checks the links on delivered pages; this phase closes the set of link targets a roster-driven batch misses (reference/operational-learnings.md § Two verify checks):

• Nav/footer/landing targets are NOT archetype siblings. Enumerate every header/footer/nav-fragment href plus each section's index/landing page and confirm each is deployed + published + verified — otherwise they get committed but never published, their links 404, and the dashboard still reads 100%.
• Localize source-site bounce links whose path has a delivered local 200 page (header/footer/home first); keep an absolute source link only when no local page exists (a bounce beats a 404).
• Strip trailing slashes and .html from internal links. EDS serves extensionless documents with no trailing slash, so /x/y/ and /x/y.html both 404 (render the 404 block) while .plain.html still passes — nav reads green, every link is dead. Normalize every internal href (keep bare /); repoint .html links with no local page at the working source URL.
• The audit GETs each href against the LIVE tree. Structural resolution against the ledger misses trailing-slash and case defects that only delivery exposes.

Phase F — Optimize: multi-source audit + gate (delivery quality)

The in-flow quality gate. optimize aggregates findings from existing audit skills into one ledger (optimize/findings.json + optimize/scorecard.json), tags each by fixability, and gates the rollout. Sources (full mapping in reference/audit-sources.md):

1. rollout:baseline — built-in deterministic detectors:

   node skills/rollout/scripts/optimize.mjs        # uses rollout.json site.liveHost
   # or: --base <url> | --root <dir> | --slug <s> | --all
   

2. impeccable:critique + impeccable:audit — design quality + a11y/perf.
3. The marketing SEO skills — seo-audit, schema, ai-seo, site-architecture.
4. stardust:tensions — mechanical design tensions from stardust/current/brand-review.html.

Normalize each source's findings into the ledger with the writer:

node skills/rollout/scripts/findings.mjs record \
  --source marketing:seo-audit --layer seo --check thin-content \
  --severity P2 --fixability platform-migration \
  --scope-ids blog/post --evidence "…" --recommend "…"
node skills/rollout/scripts/findings.mjs resolve <id> --status accepted --note "…"

All sources share one id space, dedup, scorecard, and the detect → fix → verify loop: re-running a source resolves its own gone findings; a regressed fixed finding re-opens; human accepted/wontfix are preserved. Fixability routing: platform-migration → autofix / re-deploy; design-pass → upstream (surface only); out-of-scope → informational. The gate exits non-zero if any open P1 is in scope — a page is delivery-clean only when verify passes and the ledger has no open P1.

At ~1k-page scale: a head.html-level fix needs a site-wide republish to land and flip its per-page findings; the optimize gate only audits pages in coverage/pages.json; and faithfully migrated parallel source trees produce legitimate duplicate-title findings (a canonical decision, not a bug). See reference/operational-learnings.md.

The judgment layers (brand-tensions, design-ux, content-conversion) are scored null until populated by the impeccable/tensions sources — the scorecard shows not-assessed rather than faking a score.

Phase G — AEM autofix (close the loop)

node skills/rollout/scripts/autofix-aem.mjs --project <eds-root>   # [--dry-run] [--slug s] [--check c]

The platform autofix engine (AEM-EDS, v1 — aggressive). For every open finding whose check has a registered EDS fixer, it edits the EDS project files, logs the change on finding.autofix, and stages the finding in-progress:

• deterministic — eds-fix-h1 (exactly one <h1>), sitemap (re-assemble).
• content-draft (logged for review) — eds-metadata-title / eds-metadata-description, eds-alt-draft, eds-disambiguate-title.
• manual (prepares guidance/payload) — eds-jsonld (use marketing:schema), eds-canonical, eds-landmark-main.

Use --dry-run first. After applying, re-deploy the edited pages, then re-run verify + optimize — staged findings flip to fixed. design-pass findings are surfaced, not auto-fixed.

Phase H — Report

Read rollout.json.lastRun + optimize/scorecard.json (or re-run inventory.mjs):

rollout — <site> → aem-eds
==================================================
Pages       <N> total · <v> verified · <d> deployed · <p> pending · <cp> content-pending · <s> stale
Templates   <T> (per-template delivered/total)
Blocks      <B> total · <c> converted · <p> pending
Quality     health <H>/100 · open P1 <n> / P2 <n> / P3 <n>
To deliver  <list of remaining slugs>
Content     <cp> pages awaiting content track (block code deployed, document not yet pushed)

Surface pending/stale/failed as the explicit "what's missing" list. content-pending pages are listed separately — not failures; their block code is live and they advance to pending automatically when migrate emits their HTML and inventory is re-run.

Also write/refresh stardust/learnings.md per skills/stardust/reference/learnings.md: one entry per failure class this run surfaced (evidence, proposed skill + section to change, status: pending). plugin maintainers harvest pending entries into skill diffs — this is how a run's hard-won fixes stop being re-learned.

Phase I — Dashboard

node skills/rollout/scripts/dashboard.mjs    # → dashboard/index.html + data.json

A self-contained, no-external-JS dashboard rendered in the project's design identity (brand tokens read from a migrated page's :root). Centerpiece: a page tree of every identified page, nested by URL path, each node colour-coded by the most-advanced lifecycle stage it reached:

identified → prototyped → deployed → optimised

The stage spans state.json (rostered/extracted/directed → identified, prototyped/approved/migrated → prototyped), rollout coverage (deployed/verified → deployed), and optimize (optimised = verified and no open findings). A content-pending sibling stays at identified (it's in the ledger so delivery can be tracked, but has no designed document yet). Legend counts are cumulative. Template archetypes are badged T; a page with open findings shows a red count. Also a templates table + the quality scorecard. dashboard/data.json is the inspectable snapshot — regenerate at every iteration boundary. (state.json is read-only and optional.)

Inputs

Outputs

rollout writes under stardust/rollout/ and — only via autofix-aem — to the EDS project it delivers to. It never modifies the agnostic core, state.json, or migrated/ — those are read-only inputs.

Dependencies (audit sources — referenced, not vendored)

optimize orchestrates existing audit skills by invocation; they must be installed:

• impeccable (critique, audit) — already a stardust dependency.
• marketing skills — seo-audit, schema, ai-seo, site-architecture. Optional; surface a note if absent.
• stardust tensions — emitted in-repo by extract (brand-review.html).

Normalize each one's output into the ledger via findings.mjs record. See reference/audit-sources.md.

What rollout does NOT do

• No upstream redesign. design-pass findings are surfaced, not fixed here. autofix only touches platform-fixable findings in the EDS project.
• No new transport. Delivery is deploy's DA Source API path, unchanged.
• No redesign of the agnostic core. extract/direct/prototype/migrate and deploy are untouched.
• No full pre-migration requirement. Archetypes-only mode is first-class: block code is deployed from the archetypes; remaining pages advance from content-pending to deployed as migrate emits their HTML — no rollout restart.

Scripts

• scripts/inventory.mjs — migrated tree → page + template coverage (idempotent, stale-aware). --state <path> enables archetypes-only mode.
• scripts/blocks.mjs — distinct-block dedup ledger (blocks.json).
• scripts/plan.mjs — dedup-driven delivery order + per-page convert/reuse briefs.
• scripts/update-coverage.mjs — deterministic delivery state-writer for pages and blocks; re-derives all roll-ups.
• scripts/section-fidelity.mjs — source-fidelity gate scaffold (authored sections vs source heading outline; informs the gate, never auto-decides).
• scripts/assemble.mjs — site-level sitemap / robots / fragments manifest.
• scripts/verify.mjs — full-site structural verification (HTTP or offline --root).
• scripts/optimize.mjs — rollout:baseline detectors + the multi-source gate; exits non-zero on open P1.
• scripts/findings.mjs — record/resolve findings from the external audit sources.
• scripts/autofix-aem.mjs — the AEM autofix engine (edits the EDS project).
• scripts/dashboard.mjs — design-identity dashboard + data.json snapshot.
• scripts/lib.mjs — shared IO + roll-up + page-loading + autofix-registry helpers.

References

• notes/rollout/PLAN.md — design, coverage model, phasing, open questions.
• reference/delivery-gates.md — Phase C gates + batched-delivery-at-scale flow.
• reference/dynamic-listings.md — metadata contract + query-index mechanics (B2/D2).
• reference/multilingual.md — per-language trees (D3).
• reference/operational-learnings.md — scaled-rollout gotchas (extend, republish, verify).
• reference/audit-sources.md — the audit-source → layer → fixability → autofix map.
• reference/checks.md — the rollout:baseline check catalog.
• skills/stardust/reference/learnings.md — the per-run learnings ledger the report phase writes.
• skills/migrate/reference/fidelity-tiers.md — the archetype/sibling/thin tier contract Phase C records.
• skills/migrate/reference/media-reconciliation.md — the image-fidelity resolver's decision table.
• skills/deploy/SKILL.md — the single-page conversion methodology rollout drives.
• skills/deploy/da-deploy-protocol.md — the DA Source API transport.
• skills/migrate/SKILL.md — produces the migrated/ + _meta.json inputs.
• schemas/*.schema.json — the coverage + config contracts.