## Why The Vite migration is functionally complete, but production runtime still has high-risk gaps in security baseline and worker lifecycle cleanup. Addressing these now prevents avoidable outages, authentication bypass risk, and unstable degradation behavior under pool pressure. ## What Changes - Enforce production-safe startup security defaults (no weak SECRET_KEY fallback in non-development environments). - Add first-class CSRF protection for admin forms and state-changing JSON APIs. - Harden degradation behavior for pool exhaustion with consistent retry/backoff contract and isolated health probing. - Ensure background workers and shared clients (cache updater, realtime sync, Redis) are explicitly stopped on worker/app shutdown. - Fix template-to-JavaScript variable serialization in hold-detail fallback script. ## Capabilities ### New Capabilities - `security-baseline-hardening`: Define mandatory secret/session/CSRF/XSS-safe baseline for production runtime. ### Modified Capabilities - `runtime-resilience-recovery`: Strengthen shutdown lifecycle and degraded-response behavior for pool pressure scenarios. ## Impact - Affected code: - `src/mes_dashboard/app.py` - `src/mes_dashboard/core/database.py` - `src/mes_dashboard/core/cache_updater.py` - `src/mes_dashboard/core/redis_client.py` - `src/mes_dashboard/routes/health_routes.py` - `src/mes_dashboard/routes/auth_routes.py` - `src/mes_dashboard/templates/hold_detail.html` - `gunicorn.conf.py` - `tests/` - APIs: - `/health` - `/health/deep` - `/admin/login` - state-changing `/api/*` endpoints - Operational behavior: - Keep single-port deployment model unchanged. - Improve degraded-state stability and startup safety gates.