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 16. **Response shape mismatches are silent killers.** The frontend destructures `data.config` and the backend returns the raw entity — no error thrown, no 500, just `undefined` propagating through the template until Vue hits `Cannot read properties of undefined`. The fix is trivial (wrap in `{ config }`), but finding it requires knowing what the frontend expects. Document the contract.
 
 17. **Tools that close the feedback loop are worth 10x their cost.** The debugging bottleneck was never the fix — it was the round-trip of push → rebuild → check → paste → interpret → fix. Playwright and Postgres MCP don't make you smarter, they make you faster. And faster means more iterations, which means better outcomes.
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+18. **When aggregating across N similar modules, scout for the one that doesn't match the pattern — it's always the oldest or the first-built.** The Loot module was the first plugin config module built, so it uses `fetchProfiles()`/`profiles` while the other 8 use `fetchConfigs()`/`configs`. The first implementation defines its own naming before a convention exists. Every aggregation layer (landing pages, batch operations, monitoring dashboards) will hit this drift. A 30-second recon across all N modules before writing the aggregator prevents a mid-implementation refactor.
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+19. **UI scaling problems are invisible when you're adding one item at a time — they only become obvious in aggregate.** Nine plugin config sidebar entries were added across multiple sessions, each one reasonable in isolation. Nobody noticed the sidebar was becoming unusable until all nine were there. When building a repeatable pattern (nav items, config modules, API endpoints), build the aggregation layer early — ideally when N hits 3 or 4 — not after it's already painful.