Maintenance Security Loop

Maintenance & Security Loop

Goal: keep dependencies current and the app free of known vulnerabilities — one safe batch per iteration. Cadence: weekly.

Phase 0 · IDEA

• Triage the risk surface: npm audit, npm outdated, check CI secrets jobs.
• Group findings into a coherent batch.
• verify: batch is scoped.

Phase 1 · PLAN

• Write docs/features/platform/maintenance/PLAN.md.
• List each package target, severity, breaking changes.
• verify: explicit "no behaviour change" criterion.

Phase 2 · IMPLEMENT

• Run safe semver-compatible fixes (npm audit fix).
• Explicitly bump major/pinned dependencies.
• Commit atomically per group.
• verify: package-lock.json updated; revert path clean.

Phase 3 · TEST

• Run full unit suite (failures-only).
• Run E2E smoke tests for critical flows.
• verify: suites green WITHOUT editing tests (otherwise it's a behaviour change).

Phase 4 · QUALITY GATE

• rtk npm run version:validate — MUST exit 0.
• Re-check npm audit for 0 high/critical.
• Security review for auth/payments adjacencies.
• verify: version:validate exit 0. Audit clean.

Phase 5 · SHIP

• Create PR: "chore(deps): weekly security batch".
• Check CI jobs, specially Gitleaks/secret scan.
• verify: CI green, Gitleaks clean.

Phase 6 · REFLECT

• Append to ITERATION_LOG.md: CVEs closed, deferred bumps, breakages (Never-Repeat).
• Set overrides if a transitive dep is stubborn.
• verify: log updated.