# BRIEFING — 2026-06-29T17:36:00-04:00

## Mission
Verify the correctness of database, API routes, and MCP tools changes for rootImage, columnImage, and hoverImage on menus and menu items.

## 🔒 My Identity
- Archetype: critic, specialist (Empirical Challenger)
- Roles: critic, specialist
- Working directory: /home/ti/git/homaroma/.agents/challenger_m2_2_v3
- Original parent: 8e727cf6-d863-41ec-9bd2-f8dead86db2a
- Milestone: Milestone 2: Backend & DB
- Instance: 3

## 🔒 Key Constraints
- Review-only — do NOT modify implementation code
- Blackbox testing rules apply when evaluating MCP tools directly (strictly forbidden from reading backend source code, schema.prisma, types, etc., to discover capabilities).
- Run verification code directly, do not trust logs or claims.

## Current Parent
- Conversation ID: 8e727cf6-d863-41ec-9bd2-fpdead86db2a
- Updated: 2026-06-29T17:36:00-04:00

## Review Scope
- **Files to review**: Backend API routes, database schemas, and MCP tools handling menu configurations.
- **Interface contracts**: Menu structure with `rootImage`, `columnImage`, and `hoverImage` fields.
- **Review criteria**: Check correctness of database insertion, validation errors on invalid types, correct retrieval of fields.

## Key Decisions Made
- Spawned the MCP server dynamically in a standalone script (`test_mcp_menu_challenger.ts`) to query tools/list and test tool executions blackbox over stdio JSON-RPC.

## Attack Surface
- **Hypotheses tested**:
  - Image fields (`rootImage`, `columnImage`, `hoverImage`) are stored and retrieved correctly by the API.
  - The MCP server's schemas dynamically expose these fields.
  - Invalid types passed to API or MCP tools trigger validation failures.
- **Vulnerabilities found**:
  - Duplicate menu creation on POST API returns 500 instead of a 409 Conflict message due to unhandled database unique constraint failure.
  - Drift between static JSON schema files on disk and the actual live runtime schemas emitted by the MCP server.
- **Untested angles**:
  - Visual theme compliance in the SPA UI.

## Loaded Skills
- None

## Artifact Index
- `/home/ti/git/homaroma/.agents/challenger_m2_2_v3/challenge_report.md` — Verification report containing observations, logic chains, conclusions, and findings.
- `/home/ti/git/homaroma/.agents/challenger_m2_2_v3/handoff.md` — Five-component handoff report.