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docs(phase6b): document curriculum expansion

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PHASE6B_ROOT_CURRICULUM_EXPANSION.md — the phase summary: what was
authored per course, the is_required extension, the capstone unlock
fix, verified scenario coverage before/after (44 -> 88 of 98, 89.8%,
by direct query not estimate), and honest known limitations/Phase 6C
recommendations.

ROOT_CAPSTONE_READINESS.md — the readiness module and the server-side
unlock fix in full detail, including why the module's completion and
the real assessment's unlock gate are deliberately independent systems.

Updated ROOT_CURRICULUM_INVENTORY.md (Phase 6B coverage numbers),
ROOT_PROGRAM_ARCHITECTURE.md (ROOT 08/09 PARTIAL, new module lists per
course), COURSE_CONTENT_MODEL.md (is_required completion rule, a new
content-versioning section per this phase's own requirement),
COURSE_AUTHORING_STANDARD.md (classifying near-duplicate/advanced
scenarios), ENGINEERING_SOP.md (new Phase 6B section),
REMOTE_AND_SELF_PACED_ARCHITECTURE.md (cross-reference), and
platform/README.md (e2e-phase6b.js, the Phase 6B rehearsal, isolation-
per-suite regression guidance).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
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@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ All 13 rows below are `courses` under the ONE existing program, `root-kubernetes
(`programs` table, unchanged — see §"why one program, not thirteen" below). Every status claim
here is grounded in `docs/ROOT_CURRICULUM_INVENTORY.md`, not aspirational.
**Updated for Phase 6B** (`platform/api/migrations/023_phase6b_curriculum.sql`,
`docs/PHASE6B_ROOT_CURRICULUM_EXPANSION.md`): ROOT 08 and 09 moved from PLANNED to PARTIAL, and
6 courses gained new teaching modules — the module-level detail and evidence for every new
placement lives in `docs/ROOT_CURRICULUM_COVERAGE_MATRIX.md`, not duplicated here.
## Course sequence
| # | Course | Status | Why |
@@ -17,15 +22,15 @@ here is grounded in `docs/ROOT_CURRICULUM_INVENTORY.md`, not aspirational.
| 2 | Linux Administration & Networking | **PLANNED** | Same — no Linux-admin scenario content exists. |
| 3 | Git & Collaborative Development | **PLANNED** | No Git scenario content exists. |
| 4 | Containers & Docker | **PLANNED** | No Docker-specific scenario content exists (the Lab itself runs k3s, but no student-facing "learn Docker" scenarios exist). |
| 5 | Kubernetes Foundations | **PARTIAL** | Real content: the existing "Foundation" stage's 20 scenarios, wrapped as one module (`root-05-m01-pods-and-kubectl-basics`). No teaching lesson content authored yet — bare labs only. |
| 6 | Kubernetes Application Workloads | **PARTIAL** | The existing "Workloads" stage's 8 scenarios, one module. Bare labs only. |
| 7 | Kubernetes Networking & Configuration | **PARTIAL** | The existing "Networking" (2) and "Configuration" (5) stages, two modules. Bare labs only. |
| 8 | Kubernetes Storage & Scheduling | **PLANNED** | Real scenario content exists (PV/PVC, StorageClass, taints/tolerations, PDB — see inventory §5) but is not yet wired into a module. Deliberately left PLANNED rather than fabricating a module shell with no honest content behind it — Phase 6B. |
| 9 | Kubernetes Security | **PLANNED** | A substantial 22-scenario CKS-style bank exists (RBAC, PSA, network policy, supply chain, runtime hardening) but is not yet wired into a module — Phase 6B. |
| 10 | Kubernetes Troubleshooting & Observability | **PARTIAL** | Contains the Phase 6A gold-standard module (READY) plus the existing "Troubleshooting" stage's remaining 5 scenarios as a second, bare-lab module. |
| 11 | DevOps & Platform Engineering Foundations | **PLANNED** | No CI/CD/IaC/GitOps scenario content exists anywhere in this repository. |
| 12 | RootNode Real Ops | **PARTIAL** | The existing "RootNode: Real Ops" stage's 4 scenarios (3 RootNode-authored + 1 generic), one module. Bare labs, no teaching content — the gold module already gives one of these four (`rootnode-probe-port-mismatch`) a full teaching treatment elsewhere; this module exercises it again alongside the other three, deliberately (see module notes below). |
| 13 | ROOT Capstone — Operate and Recover a Production-Like Environment | **PARTIAL** | The existing, fully working `rootnode-capstone` assessment (90 min, mixed required/random pool). No capstone orientation/briefing lesson authored yet. |
| 5 | Kubernetes Foundations | **PARTIAL** | Phase 6B added a READY front-door module (`root-05-m00-kubernetes-mental-model` — full lesson/demo/knowledge-check/guided-exercise/lab/reflection) sequenced before the existing 20-scenario bare-lab bank (`root-05-m01`), which now sits behind it. |
| 6 | Kubernetes Application Workloads | **PARTIAL** | Phase 6B added a READY `root-06-m02-deployments-scaling-updates` and a PARTIAL `root-06-m03-jobs-cronjobs-daemonsets`, both in front of the existing bare-lab bank. |
| 7 | Kubernetes Networking & Configuration | **PARTIAL** | Phase 6B added a READY `root-07-m03-services-and-service-discovery` and a PARTIAL `root-07-m04-ingress-networkpolicy-foundations`. The existing configuration bank (`root-07-m02`) still has no authored teaching content — an honest, documented gap. |
| 8 | Kubernetes Storage & Scheduling | **PARTIAL** | Phase 6B wired the real scenario content the inventory identified (PV/PVC, StorageClass, taints/tolerations, PDB, quotas/limits) into two new PARTIAL modules — moved off PLANNED for the first time. |
| 9 | Kubernetes Security | **PARTIAL** | Phase 6B built the 22-scenario CKS-style bank into four modules (Security Model & SecurityContext — READY; ServiceAccounts & RBAC, Network & Supply Chain Security, Cluster Hardening & Runtime — all PARTIAL), classifying scenarios CORE/GUIDED/INDEPENDENT/ADVANCED/ASSESSMENT-BANK rather than exposing them as 22 disconnected tasks — moved off PLANNED. |
| 10 | Kubernetes Troubleshooting & Observability | **PARTIAL** | The Phase 6A gold-standard module (READY, unmodified) plus a new PARTIAL `root-10-m03-troubleshooting-framework` (the generalized Observe/Evidence/Hypothesis/Test/Repair/Validate/Prevent framework) and the existing bare-lab bank, now sequenced last. |
| 11 | DevOps & Platform Engineering Foundations | **PLANNED** | No CI/CD/IaC/GitOps scenario content exists anywhere in this repository — unchanged, out of Phase 6B's authoring scope. |
| 12 | RootNode Real Ops | **PARTIAL** | Phase 6B added an incident-response framing lesson and a post-incident reflection wrapping the existing 4-scenario module — the incidents themselves are unchanged, still deliberately un-guided. |
| 13 | ROOT Capstone — Operate and Recover a Production-Like Environment | **PARTIAL** | Phase 6B added a READY Capstone Readiness module (orientation, no answers) sequenced before the existing capstone assessment module — see `docs/ROOT_CAPSTONE_READINESS.md`. |
No course is marked READY at the course level in Phase 6A — that's honest: a course only earns
READY once every module in it has real teaching content, and Phase 6A deliberately built exactly