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Phase 4 of elastic/docs-eng-team#688, stacked on #3760. After Phases 1–3 the registry docs described a retired system: client-side refresh, registry pass-through, an ETag "documented as useless", a CloudFront "1 h TTL" that hasn't existed since caching was disabled, and a claim that the refresh was "skipped for --artifact-type changelog".

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docs/development/changelog-bundle-registry.md now documents the end state: the scrubber Lambda's RegistryReconciler as the manifest's sole producer (registry = f(state)), the producer field, bundles[].etag as the public object's ETag (finally usable for CDN cache revalidation), consistency stated as convergence with the consumer's listed-but-missing tolerance kept, the deliberate absent ≠ empty manifest semantics, and the registry reconcile / registry verify operator tooling with the reconcile message contract. The scrubber README's event-handling section and cmd-upload.md's registry paragraph are aligned with the same model.

Part of elastic/docs-eng-team#688 (Phase 4).

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Phase 1 of elastic/docs-eng-team#688. The public registry.json was a log of
upload operations (client-written, pass-through copied); every known
consistency gap followed from that. The scrubber Lambda now derives it from
the public bucket's actual state: registry = f(state), never f(event).

- Extract the Lambda's top-level handler logic into testable classes in
  Elastic.Changelog: ScrubberProcessor (batch coalescing by key and group,
  object-level reconcile with post-write source validation) and
  RegistryReconciler (delimited/paginated group listing, ETag reuse with
  amends always recomputed, semantic idempotence, conditional PUT/DELETE
  with bounded jittered retries on 412/409, newer-schema refusal).
  Program.cs is now a thin adapter.
- Retire the registry pass-through in the same deploy: registry-key events
  only schedule a group reconcile, so client-authored JSON no longer
  reaches the public bucket uninspected.
- Add a producer (algorithm version) field to the manifest; a mismatch —
  including legacy pass-through manifests — forces a full metadata
  recompute and a write even when entries are identical.
- Emit per-invocation reconcile metrics as CloudWatch EMF (the Phase 0
  observability item that could only land with the reconciler).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 2 of elastic/docs-eng-team#688. The cutover/heal tooling for the
Lambda-owned public registry:

- `changelog registry reconcile` plans groups (one scope, or the union of
  both buckets so orphan public groups are covered) and sends one versioned,
  discriminated reconcile message per group to the scrubber queue —
  {kind, version, scope, group, correlation_id}, validated through
  ChangelogKeys on both ends. The CLI never mutates S3; the Lambda stays the
  public bucket's single writer. --dry-run prints the plan; the non-dry-run
  path asks for confirmation (--yes for CI). Each run stamps one correlation
  id and prints a ledger line per group.
- On a reconcile message the Lambda performs a full group heal:
  object-level reconcile over the union of both buckets' listings (copy
  what's live, delete what isn't), then the group reconcile — recovering
  lost/DLQ-expired scrub events. Requires the new optional
  PRIVATE_BUCKET_NAME Lambda env var; malformed messages are rejected to
  the DLQ where the Phase 0 alarm surfaces them.
- `changelog registry verify` is the read-only sibling and cutover gate:
  compares each public manifest against what a reconcile would write (same
  listing spec and entry rules by construction) and reports divergence as
  missing/stale/corrupt/object-divergent, with unsupported schemas reported
  distinctly.
- Fix the manifest ETag wire format: the snake_case policy serialized the
  producer-side field as "e_tag" while consumers and the documented format
  read "etag" — recorded ETags were invisible to every consumer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Same suppression RegistryBuilderTests carries: xUnit owns the test class
lifetime and TestDiagnosticsCollector needs no disposal in these tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The scrubber Lambda is the sole producer of the public registry.json,
reconciled from public bucket state on the S3 events every upload already
emits (elastic/docs-eng-team#688 Phase 3). Uploads now write YAML objects
only; RegistryBuilder and the private-manifest write path are removed, and
the amend end-to-end test exercises RegistryReconciler instead.
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The registry docs still described the retired model: client-side refresh,
registry pass-through, pre-scrub ETags, a 1 h CloudFront TTL (caching is
disabled), and a refresh "skipped for --artifact-type changelog". Documents
the reconciler as sole producer, the public-object ETag, convergence
semantics, absent-vs-empty manifests, the reconcile message contract, and
the registry reconcile/verify operator commands (docs-eng-team#688 Phase 4).
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Converting to draft: these docs describe the per-product registry model that's being dropped per the review on #3738. I'll rewrite them once the thin folder→ETag registry shape lands there.

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