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+# Phase 03 — Device-Matrix Exit Gate (ROADMAP Success Criterion 5)
+
+**Deployed origin (staging):** https://araharah-bot.araharah-bot.workers.dev/
+**Deployed version:** 2c1336e3-58f9-4b0b-86a8-b25de66e327c (via `npm run deploy` — theme → web → wrangler deploy with `web/dist` as static assets, D-13/D-14/D-15)
+**Status: PENDING REAL-DEVICE VERIFICATION — the phase does not close until every leg has an explicit verdict.**
+
+## Automated half (already green)
+
+- `npm test -w web` — 33 passed, 0 failed (includes BA1–BA6 build-artifact gates over `web/dist`, HTML included)
+- `npm test -w bot` — 48 passed, 0 failed
+- `npm run capture -w web` — CAPTURE OK, 7/7 non-blank captures off `web/dist-harness`,
+  including the Desktop denied card, the `?pin=1` chat-pin relay, light + dark live shots,
+  and the DSGN-02 side-by-side. GEO-03 runtime probe: localStorage / sessionStorage /
+  cookies / IndexedDB all empty after a real boot-to-live cycle.
+- Live canaries at the deployed origin: `GET /` → 200 text/html from the asset binding;
+  `POST /api/session` → 401 for unsigned bodies (the HMAC gate is live);
+  `getWebhookInfo` URL ends `/telegram/webhook` with no `last_error`;
+  `getChatMenuButton` type = `commands`.
+
+## Bot API 10.2 origin prerequisite (hard, blocking)
+
+`wrangler.jsonc`'s `run_worker_first` key drew an "Unexpected fields" warning from wrangler
+4.151.3, but the deployed behavior was verified request-by-request: assets serve non-API
+paths directly, `/api/*` and `/telegram/*` are answered by the Worker code (401/500, not
+asset fallback) — D-13 routing holds in practice; the warnings are cosmetic at this wrangler
+version.
+
+- [ ] **BotFather Mini App URL == the deployed origin above.** Bot API 10.2 rejects Mini App
+  calls from any other origin silently — a mismatch means `Telegram.WebApp.*` no-ops with no
+  error. Check menu button (`/setmenubutton`) / WebApp URL in @BotFather
+  (`arasarah-bot.araharah-bot.workers.dev`), not a localhost or Pages URL.
+  Observed / Symptom: ______________________________________
+
+## The six device legs (each: an explicit verdict + observation)
+
+### 1. Android — real phone, Telegram Android (GEO-01)
+
+- [ ] Boot: BOOT-01 (validating session) → BOOT-02 (acquiring location) → LIVE; the position
+  marker renders on the Rams basemap.
+- [ ] Permission persistence: close the app fully, reopen — **no second permission prompt**.
+  The grant lives in Telegram's per-bot store on the device, outside the WebView.
+  Observed / Symptom: ______________________________________
+
+### 2. Android stale-fix check (retires or confirms assumption A1)
+
+- [ ] With the app LIVE, walk several metres and re-check. If the pin does not move, toggle
+  the phone's Location setting once (off → on) and record whether `navigator.geolocation`
+  then delivered a fresh fix, and whether the FIRST Android verification needed that toggle.
+  Result decides: **A1 stands** (toggle required) or **A1 retired** (no toggle needed).
+  Observed / Symptom (needed toggle? y/n): ______________________________________
+
+### 3. iOS — real phone, Telegram iOS (if available)
+
+- [ ] Boot to LIVE; marker renders; permission grant persists across a reopen.
+  Observed / Symptom: ______________________________________
+  (If no iOS device is available: record `UNVERIFIED — no device`; Success Criterion 5
+  stays open. Do not close the phase anyway.)
+
+### 4. Desktop Telegram (GEO-02 end-to-end)
+
+- [ ] Geolocation is absent by design (issue #77): the app shows the **denied card with
+  identical copy across all clients** (D-06, RESEARCH Pitfall 4) — no client-specific variant.
+- [ ] Tap ASK VIA CHAT → POSTs `/api/location-fallback`; the location keyboard appears in the
+  user's own chat; tap it, share a live pin; the app picks it up via `GET /api/location`
+  (within its poll window) and reaches **LIVE**. This is GEO-02 end-to-end.
+  Observed / Symptom: ______________________________________
+
+### 5. Plain browser (no Telegram context)
+
+- [ ] Open the deployed URL directly in a desktop browser. Expected: the **denied card**
+  renders over the Rams shell (no `initData` → the HMAC session gate 401s), NOT a blank
+  page, NOT the live branch. A blank page is a FAIL.
+  (Optional extra observation: if a browser geolocation prompt leads to LIVE, note it —
+  but the pass condition for this leg is the deliberate denied state.)
+  Observed / Symptom: ______________________________________
+
+### 6. Theme flip mid-session (PX-02 — manual-only verification)
+
+- [ ] With the app LIVE on a real client, switch the Telegram theme **light ↔ dark
+  mid-session** without closing the app. Confirm: (a) shell chrome re-slots (document
+  background, shell ink swap); (b) the status strip stays matte-black; (c) **the map is
+  unchanged** — same style, no flash, no camera jump (D-10 / RESEARCH Pitfall 7).
+  Record a before/after screenshot in each direction and name the client used
+  (this leg can be folded into any of legs 1/3/4).
+  Verdict (chrome re-slotted? strip stayed black? map unchanged?): ______________________________________
+
+## How to report back
+
+- Type **"device matrix passed"** if all six legs reached LIVE or the documented
+  denied-and-recovered state (the theme-flip leg counts as passed when the chrome
+  re-slotted mid-session and the map was visibly unchanged).
+- Otherwise report which leg failed and the exact symptom — a `/gsd-debug` gets opened for it.
+- If no physical Android/iOS device is available: report that. The honest outcome is
+  Success Criterion 5 = UNVERIFIED; the phase is held open with the blocker recorded and
+  either a device acquired or the matrix explicitly deferred to Phase 7 hardening with
+  GEO-01/GEO-02 noted as unverified on real hardware. Never close the phase claiming
+  device verification that did not happen.
+
+## Local-dev note (D-12 / assumption A3)
+
+`localhost:8787` (via root `npm run dev` → `wrangler dev --port 8787 --local`) is a secure
+context, so `navigator.geolocation` works under `wrangler dev` while a LAN-IP dev URL would
+not. Remote staging (the deployed origin above) is used sparingly, immediately before a
+real-device verification session, for exactly that reason.
+
+## 2026-10-23 debug round 1 (mid-gate failure fixes)
+
+**Reported failures + fixes (commit `b1d8768`, deploy `a21c0816`):**
+1. *No webview entry from the bot* — root cause: phase 2 armed the menu button as
+   type `commands` and phase 3 never armed a web_app entry. Fix: new
+   `bot/scripts/set-menu-button.mjs` → `setChatMenuButton` type `web_app`,
+   url = deployed origin (verified live via `getChatMenuButton`).
+   ⚠ Client-cached: the menu surface needs an app restart / `/`-autocomplete
+   to refresh (same quirk as phase 2).
+2. *TRY AGAIN / ASK VIA CHAT dead on one card* — root cause: only the first
+   denied-card instance had listeners; the `awaiting-pin` variant is a second
+   `buildDeniedCard` instance (03-03 recorded stub). Fix: `wireDeniedActions`
+   wires BOTH instances in `web/src/main.ts`.
+3. *Post-fix canaries*: `GET /` 200, unsigned `/api/session` 401, webhook armed
+   (`/telegram/webhook`, no last_error), menu button verified `web_app`.
+
+**Notes for the re-run:** on plain Chrome (no Telegram), TRY AGAIN legitimately
+re-renders the denied card — session can never validate without initData there;
+the pass condition for leg 5 is the deliberate denied state itself. If Android
+still shows dead/absent retry interplay after OS location is enabled, open a
+follow-up.