docs(localdb): phase 2 truth pass across both repos

Normative first: Component-StoreAndForward.md:83 specified the whole chunked,
ack-confirmed SfBufferSnapshotChunk resync protocol, which Phase 2 deleted. It
is rewritten rather than removed — the failure modes it reasoned about still
exist, they are just bounded differently — and it now states the
duplicate-delivery bound explicitly: a message can be delivered twice only when
the OLD primary delivered it and the status change had not yet replicated when
the gate flipped. One flush interval plus the in-flight ack, and unlike the old
model it does NOT grow with backlog depth or with how long a node was absent.
The N1 directional-authority and N5 orphan-row hazards are recorded as
structurally gone, not merely unguarded.

Frame-size known-issue amended: its 2026-06-26 resolution replaced the
intra-site hop with notify-and-fetch; Phase 2 then deleted notify-and-fetch
itself, so the 128 KB Akka frame constraint no longer applies to that hop in
any form. Successor ceiling recorded (4 MB gRPC cap via MaxBatchSize, which
batches by ROW COUNT), including that the failure mode differs — an oversized
gRPC message is rejected, not silently dropped.

Deployment docs gain the two operational constraints that have no home in code:
a site pair must be stopped and started TOGETHER (the SfBufferSnapshot compat
handler that made a mixed-version pair converge went with the replicator, and a
mixed pair now diverges silently), and a node offline beyond TombstoneRetention
can resurrect deleted rows on rejoin.

Both CLAUDE.md files corrected — each still said Phase 2 was NOT started.

Definition of done closed: build 0 warnings, all 10 suites green (3509 tests,
0 failures, 0 skips). Two DoD items needed amending rather than ticking: the
stale-symbol grep still matches 4 lines, all deliberate comment prose recording
what was deleted (a literal zero would delete the explanations that stop the
old design coming back), and the live gate has 10 evidence items, not the 9 the
checklist claimed.

Deletes the phase2 resume-state scratch doc, which said to delete it on landing.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BL2Vu1ESDQ9SCN4gVKkdts
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@@ -4,13 +4,12 @@ The Store-and-Forward Engine buffers site-originated outbound messages when a ta
## Overview
The Store-and-Forward Engine (#6) is a site-only component. The central cluster has no equivalent buffer; it uses the Notification Outbox (#21) instead for its own queued delivery work. Every site node runs one `StoreAndForwardService` instance, backed by a `StoreAndForwardStorage` SQLite store and an optional `ReplicationService` that fans each buffer mutation to the standby.
The Store-and-Forward Engine (#6) is a site-only component. The central cluster has no equivalent buffer; it uses the Notification Outbox (#21) instead for its own queued delivery work. Every site node runs one `StoreAndForwardService` instance, backed by a `StoreAndForwardStorage` store. As of LocalDb Phase 2 that store writes to the consolidated LocalDb database, and the buffer reaches the peer as the replicated `sf_messages` table — the `ReplicationService` that used to fan each mutation to the standby by hand was deleted.
The component code lives in `src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.StoreAndForward/`:
- `StoreAndForwardService` — the core buffer: enqueue, retry sweep, park/retry/discard, and the `ICachedCallLifecycleObserver` audit hook.
- `StoreAndForwardStorage` — the SQLite layer; all reads and writes against `sf_messages`.
- `ReplicationService` — fire-and-forget buffer replication to the standby.
- `ParkedMessageHandlerActor` — Akka actor bridge that exposes parked-message query/retry/discard to the `SiteCommunicationActor`.
- `NotificationForwarder` — the delivery handler for the `Notification` category; forwards buffered notifications to central via the ClusterClient transport and interprets the ack.
- `StoreAndForwardOptions` — options class bound from the `StoreAndForward` configuration section.
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### Async replication to standby
`ReplicationService` wraps each buffer mutation — add, remove, park, requeue — in a `Task.Run` fire-and-forget. The active node does not wait for standby acknowledgment. The standby applies each `ReplicationOperation` via `ApplyReplicatedOperationAsync`, which calls the same `StoreAndForwardStorage` methods. Replication failures are logged at Debug and discarded; the standby may be slightly behind the active at any moment, producing at-most a few duplicate deliveries or missed retries after a failover — an accepted trade-off for zero added latency on the enqueue path.
Replication is no longer the buffer's own concern. `sf_messages` is registered with LocalDb (`SiteLocalDbSetup.OnReady`), so every insert and status change is captured by a CDC trigger and shipped to the peer on the shared sync stream. The four hand-written operations — add, remove, park, requeue — and the `Task.Run` fan-out that carried them are gone, along with `ApplyReplicatedOperationAsync` and `ReplaceAllAsync`.
The trade-off is unchanged in shape: replication is still asynchronous, so the peer may be slightly behind at any instant. What changed is the bound. Convergence is now per row under last-writer-wins with HLC-ordered tombstones, so a lagging peer converges rather than diverging, and duplicate delivery after a failover is limited to messages the old primary delivered whose status change had not yet replicated. See `Component-StoreAndForward.md` for the normative statement of that bound.
The four `ReplicationOperationType` values are `Add`, `Remove`, `Park`, and `Requeue` (requeue was added to cover the operator-initiated `Parked→Pending` transition so the standby preserves retry intent after failover).