## Daily standup notes - sprint 42

Onboarding for the new starter, alex.chen@example.com (phone: +44 20 7946 0958).
Will need access to the staging API; rotating the team token before EOD.
Reminder: the merchant statement reference is GB29 NWBK 6016 1331 9268 19,
and the test card we use for refund flows is 4111 1111 1111 1111 (Visa, exp
12/26). Do NOT paste real card numbers; the redactor below should grab the
synthetic one anyway.

## Infra / ops dump

aws_access_key_id=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
aws_secret_access_key=wJalrXUtnnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_111111111111111111111111111111111111
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT3BlbkFJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=xoxb-1234567890-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx
STRIPE_SECRET=sk_live_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc
DATABASE_URL=postgres://app:s3cret@db.internal:5432/prod

## Inline JWT and PEM smoke

token: eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIn0.SflKxwRJSMeKKF2QT4fwpMeJf36POk6yJV_adQssw5c
ssh known_hosts excerpt: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBHash...
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIIEpAIBAAKCAQEAxyz123abc456def789==
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnop
qrstuvwxyz0123456789==
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

## Misc body text

The new feature flag rollout went smoothly across all three regions.
We agreed in the retro to move flaky tests behind a per-suite quarantine
tag instead of disabling them outright; CI cost is still trending down
month-over-month but we want a clearer signal on which ones to fix first.

Customer success reports two enterprise tickets blocked on the SSO migration
work; the implementation team is targeting end-of-quarter for the cutover.
Marketing is preparing a Q3 launch with three new pricing tiers - the comms
plan is in the shared deck linked from the weekly digest.

Engineering blog drafts due Friday: postmortem on the Aug 18 incident, a
piece on our caching layer's design constraints, and the long-form on how
we approached test selection for the monorepo. Tech debt prioritization is
still open; sync to follow after the planning meeting on Tuesday.

Sales escalations from last week have all been closed out. Two of them
needed engineering involvement; the other six were billing follow-ups that
ops handled directly. Net new ARR for the month is on track.

Recruiting pipeline: 3 second-rounds, 1 onsite, 2 offers extended. We are
still bottlenecked on senior platform candidates - referrals welcome.

Performance review window opens next Monday. Calibration sessions are on the
calendar; managers have the new rubric. HR will send a reminder email
mid-week. No major changes from last cycle - same five competency axes plus
the new collaboration signal added during the spring retro.

Random non-secret tokens to challenge the prefilter without being secrets:
abc123def456 short_token github-actions[bot] hello-world deployment-pipeline.
Identifier strings used in URLs and slugs: kalix127, secret-stripper,
launch-prep, cross-platform-ci, renovate-bot. None of these should match.

Final line of prose to keep the corpus near the planned ~4 KB size; the
bench is meant to exercise both the prefilter and the redact path under
each preset, so a realistic mix of secret material plus innocuous content
is what we want here.
