agentic-dev/docs/work/conformance-hardening-v1/_epic.md

id, prd, title, type, status, features, created

id	prd	title	type	status	features	created
conformance-hardening-v1	null	Conformance hardening v1 — AST manifest parsing + dev-seed boot assertion	epic	done	core-eslint auth blog media navigation marketing-pages	2026-05-13

Goal

Tighten two known fragilities in conformance-system-v1:

1. _manifest-source.js uses regex for name + requiredCores extraction — replace with AST parsing for correctness (comments, quote styles, edge cases)
2. Boot assertion only runs at the production binder's tail. Dev mode (USE_DEV_SEED=true) skips it. Extend to dev-seed paths.

Why

• The regex false-match concern was flagged by the milestone iii.a final reviewer and held only by today's convention; a future manifest with a // name: "x" comment would break required-cores-installed.
• pnpm dev is the inner loop. Drift in dev-seed binders is currently invisible until production boot — too late.

Stories

• 01 — AST-based manifest source parser
• 02 — Dev-seed boot assertion across all 5 features