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+{
+  "schema_version": 1,
+  "task": "profile-last-post",
+  "component": "psf-memo-db",
+  "git_sha": "ace703831ff3d149f2caca10d540f4b1da021499",
+  "branch": "swarmforge-architect",
+  "timestamp": "2026-09-20T22:32:51.673Z",
+  "commands": [
+    {
+      "name": "unit",
+      "command": "npm test",
+      "exit": 0,
+      "duration_ms": 15132,
+      "summary": "431 passing"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "property",
+      "command": "npm run property",
+      "exit": 0,
+      "duration_ms": 56610,
+      "summary": "66 pass / 0 fail"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "acceptance",
+      "command": "npm run acceptance",
+      "exit": 0,
+      "duration_ms": 115161,
+      "summary": "all 22 acceptance suites passed"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "lint",
+      "command": "npm run lint",
+      "exit": 0,
+      "duration_ms": 5671,
+      "summary": "ok"
+    }
+  ],
+  "result": "pass"
+}
diff --git a/docs/reviews/profile-last-post-summary.md b/docs/reviews/profile-last-post-summary.md
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+# Profile Ordering by Last Post — Architect Review
+
+**By architect.**
+
+## Task and commits reviewed
+
+- Task: `profile-last-post` (refactorer handoff
+  `merge_and_process refactorer 6b8da07981`, delivered as a one-item `BATCH`).
+- Merged `swarmforge-refactorer` (fast-forward from the architect HEAD
+  `5fce140`). Commits:
+  - `915971a` Record recent profile identity completion in backlog and briefing
+    (specifier/master; the prior task's completion record, carried in by the
+    fast-forward and outside this task)
+  - `1119988` Specify profile ordering by last post (specifier)
+  - `bdf2c30` Implement profile ordering by last post (coder)
+  - `6b8da07` Refactor profile-last-post: split recency logic, add property
+    tests (refactorer)
+- Architect review commit: `ace7038` — mutation-killing unit tests plus the
+  tool-written `mutate4javascript` manifests and `gherkin-mutator` acceptance
+  mutation metadata. No production behavior changed.
+- Records/summary commit: this commit.
+
+`GET /profile/recent` now lists one row per profile that has at least one
+confirmed qualifying post (top-level post `0x6d02` or topic message `0x6d0c`;
+replies `0x6d03` and poll creations `0x6d10` do not qualify), ordered by the
+most recent qualifying post's block height descending, then seen descending,
+then address ascending, considering confirmed blocks only. The Block and Seen
+columns report the post's values rather than the set-profile transaction's. The
+indexer maintains a `profileRecency` store (one `{ addr, blockHeight, seen }`
+record per profile address) and a backfill rebuilds it from existing data.
+Touches `psf-memo-db` and `psf-memo-indexer` (the client renders the returned
+block/seen unchanged).
+
+## Architectural review
+
+- **UI/Core separation (good).** On the DB side `ProfileQuery` owns all LevelDB
+  access and the recency ordering, `ListRecentProfiles` orchestrates only the
+  page-scoped identity join, and the REST controller maps HTTP. The backfill
+  rules live in the pure, store-injected `src/lib/backfill-profile-recency.js`;
+  the environment-bound CLI wrapper (`util/profiles/backfill-profile-recency.js`)
+  only opens LevelDB and reads env, so the logic is fully testable without a
+  filesystem. On the indexer side `profile-recency.js` holds the recency rules
+  behind injected adapters and is called by the `post` and `set-profile`
+  action handlers, mirroring the existing `topic-indexing.js` shape.
+- **Dependency rule (good).** Adapters near IO depend on nothing upward; the
+  `ListRecentProfiles` use case and the action handlers depend on injected
+  adapter interfaces; the backfill library depends only on injected stores. No
+  new upward or IO-inward dependency was introduced.
+- **Information hiding and encapsulation (good).** `ProfileQuery` exposes only
+  `listRecentProfiles`/`getProfileIdentity`; store names, key formats, and
+  not-found handling stay internal. The indexer exposes only
+  `recordProfileRecency`/`establishProfileRecency`. The cross-boundary contract
+  is the small `{ addr, blockHeight, seen }` record.
+- **Local code quality (good).** `handlePost` extracts the
+  `qualifiesForRecency` predicate, and the recency selection is split into
+  small helpers. CRAP/cyclomatic complexity is at or below CC 6 / CRAP 6.0 for
+  every analyzed function (details below); no dead code or unused imports were
+  introduced.
+- **Accepted tradeoffs (documented, not changed).** The `profileRecency` store
+  is address-keyed for idempotent upsert, so `ProfileQuery.listRecentProfiles`
+  reads and sorts the whole recency index in memory (O(P log P)) rather than
+  using a bounded ordered scan like `topicRecency`'s inverted-height key. The
+  spec explicitly frames the read as "the profileRecency index plus per-page
+  profile lookups" and only forbids scanning `addrPostHeights` or sorting every
+  profile, so this is within spec; a compound key would be a broader index
+  redesign (and would need stale-key deletion like `recordTopicPost`).
+  Separately, orphan recency records (no matching profile) are dropped from the
+  page but still counted in `total`; both writers maintain the
+  every-recency-has-a-profile invariant, so orphans only arise from direct
+  CRUD writes and the defensive drop is tested. The qualifying-post rules are
+  duplicated between the indexer and the DB backfill by design — they are
+  separate deployables with different stores, and sharing code would couple
+  them.
+
+## Fixes applied
+
+No production structural fix was needed: module boundaries, dependency
+direction, and information hiding were accepted as delivered. The architect's
+substantive change is the mutation-hardening unit suite (kill language-mutation
+survivors and cover the one uncovered site), plus tool-written metadata:
+
+- **DB tests** (`test/unit/lib/backfill-profile-recency.unit.js`,
+  `test/unit/adapters/profile-query.unit.js`): cover the status-tip
+  confirmation boundary (no tip, exact tip), unexpected-store-error
+  propagation, addresses without a profile, malformed addrPostHeights entries,
+  missing optional reply/poll stores, missing post seen, stale-record removal,
+  greater-seen tie-break, the `addrPostHeight` key height fallback, the
+  `listRecencyEntries` height/seen defaults, the `listRecentProfiles` default
+  limit/offset, and the address comparator tie-break.
+- **Indexer tests**
+  (`test/unit/use-cases/action-types/profile-recency.unit.js`,
+  `test/unit/use-cases/action-types/set-profile.unit.js`): `isConfirmed`
+  boundaries, recency-record height/seen defaults, missing-store fallbacks,
+  missing addrPostHeight height, missing post seen, status-read-error fallback,
+  newest-of-several selection, and the set-profile stored text plus max-size
+  boundary. The recency test file was refactored onto shared `makeAdapters`/
+  `assertRecency`/`addAddrPost`/`addPost` helpers so `dry4javascript` reports no
+  duplicate candidates.
+- Tool-written `mutate4javascript` manifests refreshed and `gherkin-mutator`
+  `# mutation-stamp`/manifest metadata written into the changed features.
+
+## Verification results
+
+Records (both pinned to the review commit `ace7038`):
+
+| File | Component |
+|------|-----------|
+| `docs/reviews/profile-last-post-verification.json` | psf-memo-indexer |
+| `docs/reviews/profile-last-post-db-verification.json` | psf-memo-db |
+
+- **Language mutation** (`mutate4javascript <file> --max-workers 8` via
+  `swarmforge/scripts/mutate-file.sh`, one file at a time; differential runs
+  that under-selected were rerun with `--mutate-all`): **55 killed, 7 survived,
+  0 uncovered.** Per file (final):
+  - `psf-memo-db/src/lib/backfill-profile-recency.js`: **19 killed, 2
+    survived**, 0 uncovered (was 12/7 with 2 uncovered before hardening)
+  - `psf-memo-db/src/adapters/profile-query.js`: **15 killed, 1 survived**, 0
+    uncovered (was 8/8)
+  - `psf-memo-db/src/use-cases/list-recent-profiles.js`: 2 killed, 0 survived
+  - `psf-memo-db/src/adapters/index.js`: 0 killed, **2 uncovered** (pre-existing
+    adapter wiring, exercised by DB acceptance only)
+  - `psf-memo-db/src/adapters/level-db.js`: 0 mutation sites
+  - `psf-memo-db/src/controllers/rest-api/level/crud-handlers.js`: 0 killed,
+    **2 uncovered** (pre-existing `ENTITY_CONFIG` wiring, acceptance only)
+  - `psf-memo-indexer/src/use-cases/action-types/profile-recency.js`: **14
+    killed, 4 survived**, 0 uncovered (was 4/13 with 1 uncovered)
+  - `psf-memo-indexer/src/use-cases/action-types/post.js`: 3 killed, 0 survived
+  - `psf-memo-indexer/src/use-cases/action-types/set-profile.js`: **2 killed, 0
+    survived** (was 0/2)
+  - `psf-memo-indexer/src/adapters/adapters-index.js`: 0 killed, **1
+    uncovered** (pre-existing adapter wiring, acceptance only)
+- **Documented equivalent survivors (7).** All are guard-redundant
+  comparison operators with no observable difference:
+  - `backfill-profile-recency.js` `isNewer` lines 101 and 102 `> -> >=`: line
+    101 compares only unequal heights (the guard already excluded equality) and
+    line 102 only equal seen values (the same `{ addr, blockHeight, seen }` is
+    written either way).
+  - `profile-query.js` `compareRecency` line 41 `< -> <=`: line 40 already
+    returns 0 for equal addresses, so `<` and `<=` are equivalent.
+  - `profile-recency.js` (indexer) `upsertProfileRecency` line 48 `<= -> <`:
+    an equal height+seen re-write is an idempotent write of identical values.
+    Line 63 `blockHeight ?? 0` is unreachable (`isConfirmed` rejects a null
+    block height first). `newerCandidate` lines 84 and 85 `> -> >=`: line 84
+    compares only unequal heights and line 85 only equal seen values, both
+    writing identical records.
+- **Uncovered wiring (5, pre-existing).** The `profileRecencyDb`/
+  `profileRecency` wiring in `psf-memo-db/src/adapters/index.js`,
+  `psf-memo-db/.../crud-handlers.js`, and
+  `psf-memo-indexer/src/adapters/adapters-index.js` has no unit coverage;
+  `mutate4javascript` runs the unit suite as its baseline, so those wiring
+  sites report uncovered. They are exercised end-to-end by the component
+  acceptance suites, consistent with prior reviews.
+- **DRY** (`dry4javascript`, scoped to the changed production files and then to
+  the changed tests): production **"No duplicate candidates found."**; the
+  test scope is clean after the helper refactor.
+- **Cyclomatic complexity / CRAP** (`crap4javascript`, all at 100% coverage
+  except the pre-existing `handlePost`/`handleSetProfile` error branches):
+  - DB max CC 5 / CRAP 5.0 (`ProfileQuery.compareRecency`,
+    `ProfileQuery.getRecordOrNull`, `qualifyingCandidate`); `getRecord` CC 4,
+    `isQualifyingPost` CC 4, `ListRecentProfiles.execute` CC 1.
+  - Indexer max CC 6 / CRAP 6.0 (`qualifyingCandidate`); `handlePost` CC 5 /
+    CRAP 5.7, `isConfirmed`/`recordProfileRecency`/`upsertProfileRecency`/
+    `newerCandidate` CC 5 / CRAP 5.0, `establishProfileRecency`/
+    `getChainBlockHeight` CC 4, `handleSetProfile` CC 3. All below the 8.0
+    threshold.
+- **Soft Gherkin acceptance mutation** (`gherkin-mutator --level soft
+  --workers 8`, run from `tmp/aps` with the component runner workers):
+  - `psf-memo-db/specs/recent-profile-ordering.feature`: **29 total, 28 killed,
+    1 survived, 0 errors.** The survivor is
+    `scenarios[0].examples[1].limit: 2 -> 6` — at `offset 2` only two rows
+    remain, so limit 2 and limit 6 return the same page. Intrinsic equivalent
+    (the feature records only the clean scenario in its manifest and carries no
+    stamp).
+  - `psf-memo-db/specs/backfill-profile-recency.feature`: **12 total, 12
+    killed, 0 survived, 0 errors** — `# mutation-stamp` written.
+  - `psf-memo-db/specs/recent-profile-identity.feature`: **9 total, 9 killed, 0
+    survived, 0 errors** — `# mutation-stamp` written (the feature changed to
+    load `profileRecency`, invalidating the prior stamp).
+  - `psf-memo-indexer/specs/profile-recency-indexing.feature`: **88 total, 8
+    killed, 80 survived, 0 errors.** Every surviving mutation is a
+    consistent-example-value change (`addr`, `txid`, `text`, `room`,
+    `question`, or a single-post `height`/`seen`) that the scenario passes
+    through both its setup and assertion steps, or a value the scenario does
+    not assert at all, so the mutated value cancels out. The 8 killed mutations
+    are all in the "greatest height wins regardless of processing order"
+    outline, where two independently-named heights/seens are compared. The
+    intrinsic survivors leave an empty `scenarios` manifest and no stamp, which
+    is the tool's expected output for a write-side feature whose only
+    observable result is the recency record.
+  All four features' tool-written metadata is committed as-is.
+
+## Suite status
+
+`verify.sh` **result: pass** for both components at `git_sha ace703831f`:
+
+- `verify.sh db` — unit **431 passing**, property **66 pass / 0 fail**,
+  acceptance **all 22 suites passed**, lint ok.
+- `verify.sh indexer` — unit **146 passing**, property **14 pass / 0 fail**,
+  acceptance **all 9 suites passed**, lint ok.
+
+(The hardening added 18 DB unit tests and 14 indexer unit tests over the
+delivered suite; DB acceptance took ~115 s, indexer ~2.5 s.)
+
+## Handoffs
+
+- End-of-chain `git_handoff` to `specifier` (priority 50) to merge
+  `swarmforge-architect` into `master`, using this records/summary commit.
+- No coder/refactorer follow-up handoff: the review produced no production
+  behavior change, only hardening tests and tool-written mutation/acceptance
+  metadata.
diff --git a/docs/reviews/profile-last-post-verification.json b/docs/reviews/profile-last-post-verification.json
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+{
+  "schema_version": 1,
+  "task": "profile-last-post",
+  "component": "psf-memo-indexer",
+  "git_sha": "ace703831ff3d149f2caca10d540f4b1da021499",
+  "branch": "swarmforge-architect",
+  "timestamp": "2026-09-20T22:33:12.693Z",
+  "commands": [
+    {
+      "name": "unit",
+      "command": "npm test",
+      "exit": 0,
+      "duration_ms": 8680,
+      "summary": "146 passing"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "property",
+      "command": "npm run property",
+      "exit": 0,
+      "duration_ms": 6226,
+      "summary": "14 pass / 0 fail"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "acceptance",
+      "command": "npm run acceptance",
+      "exit": 0,
+      "duration_ms": 2507,
+      "summary": "all 9 acceptance suites passed"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "lint",
+      "command": "npm run lint",
+      "exit": 0,
+      "duration_ms": 3427,
+      "summary": "ok"
+    }
+  ],
+  "result": "pass"
+}