Expose the verified synthetic retrieval path through a typed React client and a non-root Nginx edge while keeping database credentials and data-network reachability out of the browser tier. A fixed-origin gateway preserves request boundaries and now closes upstream streams even when downstream disconnects before body iteration. The deployment ADR and runbooks record the four-network topology and its accepted Web edge-egress risk.
Constraint: The previously exposed Bailian key must be revoked and no live provider credential may enter Git, images, logs, or the browser.
Rejected: Connect Web directly to the data network | expands lateral reach to PostgreSQL.
Rejected: Publish the database-aware API on the edge network | gives a credential-bearing process a public default route.
Rejected: Buffer streaming responses in either proxy | prevents incremental chat delivery in the future.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Do not mark Stage 1 or Stage 2 complete until the rotated-key live smoke and remaining stage gates pass.
Tested: make verify; 65 backend tests; 14 frontend tests; Docker image build; container health and isolation probes; real HTTP demo/status/search/docs/OpenAPI checks.
Not-tested: Live Bailian models, real document ingestion, business chat SSE generation, and final browser screenshot automation because the browser skill runtime was unavailable.
The backend can now be inspected through a loopback-only gateway while the database-aware API remains on the internal data network. A governed synthetic demo proves readiness, pgvector retrieval, reranking, and citation output through real HTTP without invoking cloud models.
Constraint: The previously exposed Bailian key is compromised and cannot be used for live validation
Constraint: The API must be locally reachable while retaining no internet egress
Rejected: Attach the API directly to the ingress network | a real socket test proved that configuration still had egress
Rejected: Publish a port from the internal-only network | Docker Desktop did not expose the host port
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Keep model and database credentials out of the gateway; do not relax the fixed demo identity/profile filters
Tested: make verify; 63 pytest tests; strict mypy; Ruff; Secret scan; Compose config; three backend image builds; API/DB/gateway healthy; migration exit 0; Swagger browser check; live/ready/meta/status/search HTTP; 20/20/20 index; API egress ENETUNREACH; empty gateway mounts and business environment
Not-tested: Live Bailian calls require a newly rotated key; full generated-answer flow and React UI are not implemented
