Executive Summary
July 3 was a FleetNow GTA knowledge-center cleanup and redistillation day. Chief reviewed the tenant FAQ source before DB upload, found that the coverage was broadly usable but the taxonomy was not clean enough for direct insertion, and turned it into a reviewable handoff package.
The final package keeps the factual answers intact while removing a duplicate, reorganizing the material into cleaner knowledge-center categories, and producing both human-review and tenant-import forms. After the tenant-side topic replacement, Smart also cleaned and redistilled the local FleetNow FAQ taxonomy from the fresh tenant catalog, bringing the local ENV=dev runtime to 124 linked FAQ sources with passing taxonomy tests and healthy preview checks.
The old FleetNow 100-question probe suite was then rerun against the clean redistillation. After discarding one invalid no-auth run and confirming Codex web-auth, the valid run passed all 100 taxonomy/catalog checks.
After Tchiang asked whether specs, docs, and Kanboard were aligned too, Chief updated the taxonomy design spec, expanded the clean-redistillation checkpoint, and aligned the active Kanboard FAQ tenant-knowledge card with the July 3 result.
The aligned Kanboard site was then deployed to Cloudflare Pages and verified against the deployed board JSON and mirrored docs.
The final multi-day wrap check also caught two smaller lane updates from the same operating window: the cashier preview path advanced from a static shell to real-token session loading through the Genius preview proxy, and GasBuddy completed its July 3 market-driver refresh with daily metrics and source-fallback rows.
The original Drive file could not receive native Google Docs suggestion edits because it is still an Office .docx, so the review path is a separate edited artifact plus Drive comments.
Department Report
Genius Console Department - Chief / FleetNow Knowledge Center
The source arrived as a 19-module FleetNow GTA FAQ / knowledge-center document with Q1-Q121. The content looked broadly complete for public customer FAQ use, but it mixed topic layers and included a duplicate Q93, so uploading it directly into the knowledge-center DB would have carried avoidable taxonomy noise.
Chief first created an edited taxonomy draft that preserved source numbering where possible, removed the duplicate, grouped content into cleaner knowledge-center layers, and added edit comments around merge-sensitive and structured-data-sensitive sections.
Tchiang then asked whether the edits could be applied in suggestion mode on the original file. The original was still a Drive-hosted Office .docx, and Docs API / gog access rejected it as a non-native Google Doc. Native Docs access itself was verified with a temporary Google Doc, but current tooling could not apply in-place Suggesting-mode edits to the Office file. A Drive comment was added to explain that blocker.
After approval of the direction, Chief generated the final handoff set: a human-friendly FAQ DOCX, a tenant insertion CSV, a tenant insertion JSONL, and a separate Chief edit comments DOCX. The final set has 120 Q/A entries, keeps source answer text intact, removes duplicate Q93, clears parsed leftovers, and reorganizes topics into 15 categories.
After the tenant topics were inserted, Smart cleaned the old local FleetNow FAQ distillation records and redistilled from tenant faq/sync/catalog/ in local ENV=dev. The distiller now deletes old harvested FAQ rows and taxonomy links before upserting fresh tenant catalog sources, prefers curated catalog metadata before long answer bodies, and uses subject-bound routing for the new Chinese category names.
The redistillation fixed a concrete retrieval issue too: Chinese claim/evidence questions such as 申请赔付需要什么证据? now select the claim-evidence source rather than generic invoice/payment rows.
The final validation step recovered the old 100-question input from the June 19 Codex transcript because the /tmp file had been cleaned. The first smoke runner attempt was not accepted because it was launched without explicit Codex web-auth environment and every AI taxonomy call failed. After confirming CODEX_AUTH_MODE=web and CODEX_MODEL=gpt-5.5 returned status=ok through the Codex provider, the valid rerun passed with total=100, aiOk=100, routed=100, catalogAnswered=100, and tenantSearchFallbackNeeded=0.
The documentation alignment pass updated docs/design/gc-faq-taxonomy-redistillation-v0.1.md from its old June planned state to the July 3 implemented state, including clean-slate source cleanup, catalog-metadata-first inference, Chinese category mapping, final counts, and the boundary between taxonomy/catalog coverage and final Chat UI wording. The active Kanboard GC-FAQ-TENANT-KNOWLEDGE-AUDIT card now includes the July 3 alignment and checkpoint GC-FAQ-KNOW-07.
Kanboard deployment used the existing npm run validate:boards && python3 scripts/publish_genius_console.py --deploy path. The deployed preview verified the updated board JSON and July 3 mirrored checkpoint/spec docs.
Status: Green for handoff, local ENV=dev redistillation, and taxonomy/catalog coverage. Yellow for production wording sign-off because the 100-question run proves route/source coverage, not final public Chat UI answer wording, and the guidebook still uses the current internal category -> subcategory taxonomy shape for runtime compatibility.
Cashier Preview Department - Tenant Payment Preview
The cashier preview lane was brought forward in the wrap boundary. After the initial July 1 static hosting pass, the uploaded cashier frontend received a Genius preview API fallback so session fetches target the preview backend consistently.
Smart then connected the real-token preview path through the Genius proxy. Cashier session requests were proxied to the local tenant tunnel, and tenant asset URLs were rewritten through the masked Genius preview origin so the browser could load payment imagery and session data from the same public preview surface.
Status: Green for preview token/session loading while the local tenant tunnel remains available. Yellow for production because this remains non-production preview plumbing; a deliberate cashier session/payment route contract is still needed before this pattern should graduate.
GasBuddy Tracker Department - Market Drivers
GasBuddy completed the July 3 daily drivers/events run. The lane refreshed external driver series, computed daily GTA metrics, and inserted market-event rows for US-Iran/Hormuz risk, Gulf supply restart and Brent contango, GTA wholesale/local driver context, gated Canadian rack data, and source fallback.
The daily metric upsert recorded median GTA price at 151.9c/L with n=13, USDCAD 1.4181, WTI 66.36, total tax 24.7c/L, residual 68.0c/L, and z=0.52.
Status: Green for daily metrics and market-event insertion. Yellow for source quality because live oil numeric feeds remain degraded, so stale DB fallback values are still being used where WTI/Brent fetches fail, and RBOB still lacks a fallback row.
Verification Evidence
- Original source confirmed as a Drive-hosted Office
.docx, not a native Google Doc. - Native Google Doc creation/access was checked separately with a temporary doc, then the temporary doc was removed.
- Final artifacts were regenerated from parsed Q/A blocks.
- Final Q/A count is 120 after duplicate Q93 removal.
- Final topics are reorganized into 15 knowledge-center categories.
- Artifact links were added back to the original source as a Drive comment.
- Redistillation result: 15 categories, 38 subcategories, 124 linked sources, 0 skipped sources, and 124 tenant catalog refs.
- Redistillation cleaned 124 previous fresh-run FAQ sources and upserted 124 fresh sources.
- Final local DB counts:
knowledge_sources=234,entry.faq.ask sources=124,knowledge_topic_nodes=53,knowledge_node_source_links=236,knowledge_distillation_jobs=3,faq_ask_traces=0,knowledge_gap_records=445. tests/knowledge/test_faq_taxonomy.pypassed (29 passed).- Ruff passed for touched taxonomy/catalog/runner/test files, and
git diff --checkpassed. - Local catalog smoke selected expected fresh sources for shipping-label printing, point-to-point-vs-sorting model, Hamilton/Burlington timing, and claim evidence.
- Local
ENV=devpreview on port8010was restarted with cashier static/proxy env preserved; local and public health, Chat UI, and cashier shell checks passed. - FleetNow 100-question taxonomy/catalog smoke passed after explicit Codex web-auth confirmation:
total=100,aiOk=100,routed=100,catalogAnswered=100,tenantSearchFallbackNeeded=0. - The 100-question artifact spot checks covered item eligibility, point-to-point versus sorting center, same-day delivery, recipient contact, leave-at-door, upstairs/apartment failure handling, label printing, package size/weight, cash payment, FLEET BUDGET, and self drop-off/VIP pricing.
- Kanboard board JSON validated with
python3 -m json.tool; active cardGC-FAQ-TENANT-KNOWLEDGE-AUDITnow has checkpointGC-FAQ-KNOW-07. - Kanboard validation passed for
board.jsonandgenius-console-board.json; Cloudflare Pages deploy completed and verified. - Cashier real-token preview returned tenant session JSON and payment image assets through the masked Genius preview path.
- GasBuddy verification showed July 3 market-event rows and refreshed external-driver timestamps, with WTI/Brent still falling back to stale DB values.
Artifacts
- Edited taxonomy draft:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r1LNlEFNPFG5CyG0v3c-uNPl2ppIG4AN/edit - Human-friendly FAQ DOCX:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/111ngri2ksK8kBQzn9EgL91hE6mGe22v0/edit - Tenant insertion CSV:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nlbufv1FT7qz7ctyJNaGHjfJ6oqR5mer/view - Tenant insertion JSONL:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BdI8-0Bwdcqp97zQUY-9nGIntDx3TKgt/view - Chief edit comments DOCX:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y_VYcBAbhFjo_30xS__yUmSGc4nRqNMh/edit - Redistillation checkpoint:
docs/checkpoints/gc-faq-taxonomy-clean-redistillation-2026-07-03.md - Taxonomy redistillation design spec:
docs/design/gc-faq-taxonomy-redistillation-v0.1.md - 100-question taxonomy/router smoke artifact:
/tmp/fleetnow_100_taxonomy_router_20260703_215823.json - Kanboard card:
GC-FAQ-TENANT-KNOWLEDGE-AUDIT/ checkpointGC-FAQ-KNOW-07 - Kanboard Pages preview: masked Cloudflare Pages preview
Risks and Open Work
- The original Office
.docxstill cannot be edited through native Google Docs Suggesting mode with the current tooling path. - Tenant should review structured operational facts before DB insertion: service areas, delivery windows, cutoff times, surcharges, package limits, sorting-center details, support contacts, and claim boundaries.
- The local guidebook/runtime compatibility layer still uses the existing internal taxonomy shape (
category -> subcategory) rather than fully replacing node keys with the tenant’s 15 human-facing categories. - The 100-question smoke proves taxonomy routing plus local catalog source coverage, but broader final answer-quality smoke through Messenger would still be useful before production sign-off.
- Cashier preview proxying is still non-production plumbing and should not replace a formal production route contract.
- GasBuddy external oil numeric feeds remain degraded; WTI/Brent fall back to stale values when live feeds fail, and RBOB still has no DB fallback row.
Next Operating Step
Review docs/knowledge/fleetnow-faq-guidebook.md and, if Captain wants wording-level QA, run Messenger answer-quality smoke over the same 100 questions or the new 124-topic catalog. For the side lanes, test a fresh cashier token through the full payment actions when needed, and keep GasBuddy source-fallback rows running while hardening live WTI/Brent/RBOB backups.