A shared guest account was hand-seeded into the production DB on 2026-09-22 so
the frontend developer could see the notification and leaderboard screens before
any real traffic exists: deviceId "frontend-test-device", user 6, with 24
Notification rows and 20 LeaderboardEntry rows across both periods, ordered
differently per period so the ?period= parameter is visibly doing something.
None of that was recorded in the repo. db.sqlite3 is gitignored, so the account
existed only in the head of whoever set it up — exactly the kind of thing that
disappears at a handoff. It is now in docs/frontend/README.md, where the
frontend developer looks, and in docs/operations.md, where whoever runs the
server looks.
Verified against production before writing it down: the account still resolves
to user 6 with isNewUser false, notifications return rows, and both leaderboard
periods return six entries. The notifications payload is keyed "items", not
"results", which is noted because it is easy to read as an empty response.
The operations entry carries the warning that matters: this is hand-written data
in a production database, purge_demo_data will not catch it (it only matches
[SEED]/[DEMO] prefixes on Grade/Plan/Character/User), and it has to go before
real users arrive or they will see invented notifications.
The Swagger description now says a deviceId can be any string and that
pre-seeded ones exist on request, but deliberately does not print the specific
value: /api/docs/ is reachable from the public internet, and a public API
reference should not advertise a shared account that anyone can sign into.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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