Created phase 10 to fix bugs

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 - Obey the Hard Constraints in NOTES.md (stack, layering, prepared statements, no innerHTML with dynamic data, no new dependencies without a note in docs/DECISIONS.md).
 - Write at least one happy-path test and one failure-path test when the step adds behaviour.
 - Never delete or weaken existing tests to make them pass.
+- Write the failing test first and confirm it fails before fixing; the test must assert exact values, never just a status code.
+- Never put assertions inside `if` branches that can skip them. Never accept multiple status codes for one expected outcome.
+- If two places compute the same thing, extract one shared function. Do not copy-paste logic.
+- If a step changes an API response, update the frontend code that reads it.

 ## Headless rules (important: nobody can answer prompts)
 - Never run a command that waits forever. To test the server, start it in the background