docs(shard): record the REST projection gap the Part A smoke test found

The live five-rung smoke test of the visibility framework found that Part
A enforced it on the SSE path and on /guilds + /governors, but not on the
remaining public REST reads - so one event was projected live and served
verbatim from stored history.

link/v3.md gains 3.6.1 with the full list (the anonymous acct/webId leak
on /feed, the flattened ownerAcct on /idoc, the dead `houses` field
rules, /feed ignoring live config, the empty-allowlist fall-through, and
the Date-to-{} projection bug), plus the rule it leaves behind: a read
path that returns shard data and does not project is a bug, and every new
Part B/C surface must gate its kind set on live config rather than on
PUBLIC_KINDS.

3.5 also corrected: the table is NOT seeded on boot. An absent row means
"use the compiled default", which keeps the defaults in one place instead
of duplicating them into a seeder that could drift.

BACKEND_DESIGN.md 6.5 records the same as a security contract: rule 1
locks a field by meaning rather than spelling; PUBLIC_KINDS is a
module-load constant and must not answer per-caller questions;
projectFeature walks arrays and plain objects only.

SHARD_VISIBILITY.md gets the admin-facing version - that stored history
answers the same way the live stream does, and that turning live updates
off stops the push, not the reading.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

website/BACKEND_DESIGN.md

@@ -711,6 +711,10 @@ rather than silently ignore:
 1. **`acct` and `webId` are admin-only, always.** They are not exposed as configurable fields, and a
    stored row attempting to loosen them is discarded on read as well as rejected on write. A character
    name is visible in game; the account behind it and the website user it links to are not.
+   The lock is on the field's **meaning, not one spelling**: `isLockedField(key)` matches a key that
+   *is* or *ends in* `acct`/`webId`, case-insensitively, so the flattened forms the read models emit
+   (`shapeHouse` → `ownerAcct`, `shapeGuild` → `leaderWebId`) are covered too. An exact-key check was
+   the original implementation and it let `GET /public/shard/idoc` serve `ownerAcct` anonymously.
 2. **A kind absent from `KIND_FEATURE` is never broadcast below `admin`.** Fail closed. This is what
    keeps the kind map a security boundary rather than a convenience filter, and it means a shard that
    starts emitting an unknown event degrades to staff-only, never to public.
@@ -731,14 +735,31 @@ it picks, it fails open on one side.)
 | Nav | `GET /public/shard/features` returns only what the caller may reach, so the SPA never renders a link that would 403. Presentation only. |
 
 Config reads are cached ~5s, so admin changes take effect within seconds **including on already-open
-streams**. `PUBLIC_KINDS` still exists and is still exported (`/feed` filtering, `notificationStreams.js`)
-but is now **derived** from the kind map rather than hand-maintained, so the two cannot drift.
+streams**. `PUBLIC_KINDS` still exists and is still exported (`notificationStreams.js`) but is now
+**derived** from the kind map rather than hand-maintained, so the two cannot drift.
+
+**`PUBLIC_KINDS` is a module-load constant and must not be used to answer "may this caller read this
+kind?"** — it is computed from the compiled *defaults*, so it cannot see an admin's changes. Use
+`visibleKinds(level, config)`, which resolves against the live config. `/feed` uses it; it originally
+used `PUBLIC_KINDS` and consequently kept serving `guild.join` to anonymous callers after an admin had
+moved `guilds` to `staff`. `visibleKinds` deliberately ignores the `stream` flag: that governs SSE
+fan-out only, so a feature whose live firehose ships off (market) stays readable from stored history.
+
+**Every read path that returns shard data must call `projectFeature`.** The stored-history endpoints
+are not exempt — `/feed` returns the same events the stream does, and returning them unprojected
+reopens on the REST side exactly what the stream closes. Relatedly, `shardEvents.db.list` treats an
+**empty** `kinds` array as "serve nothing", never "no filter"; the fall-through it used to take would
+have turned a fully-gated config into a dump of the entire event log.
+
+`projectFeature` walks **arrays and plain objects only**. A `Date`, `Buffer` or other class instance
+is passed through as a value — rebuilding one key-by-key yields `{}`, which is the difference between
+the pure-JSON wire frames and the DB-backed read models whose rows carry real `Date` columns.
 
 **Defaults reproduce pre-3.0 behavior exactly**, so installing the framework is a no-op until an admin
-changes something — with one deliberate exception, which is the leak it was written to close:
-`/public/shard/guilds` and `/public/shard/governors` previously returned the raw stored payload, whose
-`leader` / `governor` actors carry `acct` and `webId`. Those fields are now stripped for every caller
-below admin.
+changes something — with deliberate exceptions, which are the leaks it was written to close.
+`/public/shard/guilds`, `/public/shard/governors` and `/public/shard/feed` previously returned the raw
+stored payload, whose actors carry `acct` and `webId`; `/public/shard/idoc` returned the flattened
+`ownerAcct`. All are now stripped for every caller below admin.
 
 ---
 

website/SHARD_VISIBILITY.md

@@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ game to anyone standing next to them; the **account** behind it is not, and neit
 user it's linked to. Publishing those would disclose something the shard itself doesn't, and would
 tie a player's in-game identity to their forum identity without their consent.
 
+This rule matches the *meaning* of a field, not one spelling of it. Some responses nest the player
+who owns a record (`leader.acct`); others flatten it into the row (`ownerAcct`, `leaderWebId`,
+`governorAcct`). Every one of those is locked, and the admin API refuses to configure any of them —
+so a new response shape can't quietly reopen the hole by naming the field differently.
+
 **2. Unknown event kinds are never broadcast below admin.**
 The live stream maps each event kind to a feature. A kind with no mapping — a new event from a shard
 plugin the site doesn't know yet, say — goes to admins only. It fails closed. This is what keeps the
@@ -99,6 +104,15 @@ Three places, one config:
 - **Navigation** hides links a viewer can't follow, so they don't hit a wall. This is presentation
   only — the gate is server-side either way.
 
+**Stored history answers the same way the live stream does.** The activity feed reads from the event
+log rather than the live stream, but it resolves the *same* question against the *same* config: which
+kinds you may read, and which fields survive. So moving a feature up a rung hides it from the history
+as well as the stream — there is no back door where yesterday's copy of an event is more revealing
+than today's.
+
+One deliberate asymmetry: turning **live updates** off for a feature stops the push, not the reading.
+The marketplace ships this way — its history and its pages are public, only the firehose is off.
+
 Changes take effect within about five seconds, **including on streams that are already open**. You
 don't need to restart anything.