Wayfinder: Plan the Override chapter-season catalogue and administration

Destination

Produce an implementation-ready specification and sequenced engineering plan for making Chapter 7 Season 4: Override the default FortSprite catalogue, with persistent sign-in, role-gated sprite administration, remotely stored images, and an editable chapter-season sprite catalogue.

Notes

Planning only: do not implement within this map. Preserve the existing historical catalogue and its current behaviour. Use /grilling and /domain-modeling for human decisions; use /convex:convex-expert before any future changes under convex/.

Settled product direction: a Chapter Season is the catalogue boundary; one administrator-selected Chapter Season is current; variants have independent progress; unavailable content stays visible and locked; progress is scoped to a Chapter Season; administrators are Clerk users whose public metadata includes the sprite-admin role; images use Convex File Storage; entries with progress are archived rather than hard-deleted.

Decisions so far

• Verify Clerk and Convex integration capabilities — Use verified Clerk role claims in every privileged Convex function, and Convex File Storage with public player image URLs plus explicit lifecycle controls.
• Specify the Override catalogue data contract — Model permanent Sprite and Variant identities within a Chapter Season, with a shared archived Variant-definition list, independent Variant progress, one-way release, and image storage IDs.
• Validate player and administration journeys — Players get one season hub with Chapter Season pills and Locked Sprites inline on the matrix; administrators get a separate plain back office, so the board carries no administration controls.
• Decide the initial Override catalogue loading workflow — Sprite administrators manually enter the initial catalogue, choose Locked or available at creation, and require no second-person approval.

Not yet specified

Out of scope

• Implementing the new catalogue, administration portal, or storage integration.
• Changing the existing historical catalogue or its current progress behaviour.

Read issues 24, 27, 26, and 25 for the settled Clerk, Convex, catalogue, journey, and loading decisions. Review the existing historical catalogue and current progress behaviour, then use /grilling and /domain-modeling for any human decisions before consulting /convex:convex-expert for future work under convex/. Done is an implementation-ready specification and sequenced engineering plan, without implementation.