Dev Log: 2026-08-08 — stubs that answer politely, and a CSS property that doesn't exist

Heavy day, mostly on one private deployment platform, plus a small but instructive fix in a PDF book engine and a pass over a product marketing site.

The through-line, and I didn't see it until I read the day back: almost everything was a thing that answered without being able to answer. A stub that says yes. A column with no producer. A CSS rule the renderer doesn't implement.

1. The platform: making the fakes declare themselves

Fourteen commits, and they're variations on one theme.

An approval gate that approved everything. A rollback engine with a contract and a fake whose step classes didn't exist — so a previous piece of work read the whole seam as scaffolding and routed around it. A complete access-review model with zero callers, meaning the compliance control it was written for couldn't be evidenced at all. A public-IP column with a migration, a UI row, and no driver anywhere that ever set it.