[developer-docs] Developer Documentation Consolidation - 2026-04-08

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Summary

Analyzed new documentation added by PR #25178 ("add WorkQueueOps and BatchOps design patterns"). Consolidated two new design pattern files into scratchpad/dev.md, advancing the document from v5.4 to v5.5.

• Files analyzed: 2 new pattern files
• Tone adjustments: 0 (both files use technical tone throughout)
• Diagrams added: 0 (decision tables are adequate for these patterns)
• Related Documentation links added: 2
• Coverage: 73 → 75 files

Changes Applied

WorkQueueOps Subsection (new)

Added to Workflow Patterns section. Documents four queue strategies with a strategy/backend/best-for table:

Strategy	Backend	Best For
Issue Checklist	GitHub issue checkboxes	< 100 items, human-readable
Sub-Issues	Sub-issues of a tracking parent	Hundreds of items with per-item threads
Cache-Memory	JSON file in cache-memory	Large queues, multi-day horizons
Discussion Queue	GitHub Discussion replies	Community-sourced, async collaboration

Key guidance captured: idempotency requirements, concurrency.group with cancel-in-progress: false, filesystem-safe timestamp convention for cache filenames.

BatchOps Subsection (new)

Added to Workflow Patterns section. Documents four batch strategies and a decision table (when to use BatchOps vs WorkQueueOps):

Scenario	Pattern
< 50 items, order matters	WorkQueueOps
50–500 items, order doesn't matter	BatchOps (chunked)
> 500 items, high parallelism safe	BatchOps (matrix fan-out)
Items have dependencies	WorkQueueOps
Strict rate limits	BatchOps (rate-limit-aware)

Key guidance captured: fail-fast: false for matrix shards, retry-count tracking with permanently_failed after 3 failures, per-item result writes before advancing.

Consolidation Statistics

Metric	Value
Run date	2026-04-08
Previous version	5.4
New version	5.5
Files analyzed	2
New scratchpad files	0
New pattern docs (docs/)	2
Tone adjustments	0
Formatting fixes	0
Mermaid diagrams added	0
Related Documentation links added	2
Total files covered	75
Trigger commit	a5f2a40
Source PR	#25178

Tone Analysis

Both new pattern files (workqueue-ops.md, batch-ops.md) use consistent technical tone. No marketing language found. No adjustments required.

Checked for: "great", "easy", "powerful", "amazing", "seamlessly", "robust", "intuitive", "user-friendly", "significantly improves", "production-ready".

Result: 0 issues.

Validation

• Markdown structure: valid
• Code blocks: all have language tags
• Tone: consistent technical tone throughout new subsections
• Related Documentation: 2 links added, both pointing to source files in docs/src/content/docs/patterns/

References:

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