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# Devil's Advocate Prioritization Memo
## Position
Do not start with "clean architecture" refactors yet. First, remove business-risk mismatches that can produce incorrect behavior despite clean code.
## What Should Be Prioritized in This Conversation
1. Decide the product contracts that are currently ambiguous.
- Theme creation rules
- Schedule GET semantics
- Canonical defaults
- Theme scoping for import/export/preferred
2. Approve a short "correctness-first" implementation batch.
- Theme-scoped source import/export/preferred fixes
- Theme creation contract alignment
- Theme ownership validation on source writes
3. Lock a test gating policy before refactoring.
- Add deterministic tests for scheduler and SSE progress first
- Avoid relying on live external-provider E2E for CI confidence
## What To Defer (For Now)
1. Large structural decomposition of `synthesis.rs` and major frontend pages.
2. Broad style/lint cleanups.
3. Performance tuning beyond obvious correctness-adjacent fixes.
## Why This Order Is Safer
1. It prevents regressions in core multi-theme behavior before code motion.
2. It creates a stable contract baseline for any future refactor team.
3. It avoids spending effort simplifying code that may be simplified in the wrong direction if contracts change.
## Concrete Next Decision Request
Please confirm these five items so implementation teams can proceed without churn:
1. Draft theme creation allowed or not
2. Schedule GET absent behavior (`404` vs `200 null`)
3. Defaults (`4/3` vs `5/2`)
4. Theme-scoped import/export/preferred policy (yes/no)
5. Fallback label and source-link extraction mode policy