Stack-validation checklist: re-home click paths onto the 26.8.0 sidebar

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The 26.8.0 catalog shell replaces the top navigation bar with a persistent left
sidebar (Volumes, Search, Queries, Bookmarks, Ask Qurator, Admin) and moves
Queries off the bucket to a workspace-global /queries page. Four steps in the
5-minute smoke test named controls that no longer exist, so a tester following
it after Monday's release would stall on step 1.

Companion to quiltdata/quilt#5231, which does the same for docs/.

Changes — test-checklists/general-1-stack-validation.md

All three P1s from the 26.8.0 docs sweep, plus the one P2 in the same
find-and-replace class (it is the same shell change, and leaving it would have
left the checklist half-fixed).

Step	Was	Now	Priority
1. Login and User Management	"Click your user id (upper right) → Admin → …"	"Click Admin (left sidebar) → Users and Roles → Users"	P1
2. Bucket Setup	"Click Q logo (upper left) → Select the new bucket"	"Click Volumes (left sidebar) → Select the new bucket"; success check now names the tab set	P2
4. Search Validation	"Click Search button (top bar)"	"Click Search (left sidebar)"	P1
5. Query Test	"Queries tab → Enter and run:"	"Queries (left sidebar; the global /queries page, Athena tab) → Enter and run:"	P1

Step 2's success line also now names the current tabs — Overview, Files,
Packages, Workflows — so "tabs are clickable" is checkable rather than
open-ended. The bucket tab formerly called Bucket is now Files, and
there is no longer a Queries tab.

Verified against catalog source, not the audit's paraphrase

Each click path was checked at quiltdata/quilt origin/master:

• Sidebar items and their exact labels — catalog/app/containers/Sidebar/Sidebar.tsx
  (Volumes :501, Search :513, Queries :525, Bookmarks :543,
  Ask Qurator :553, Admin :569, admin-gated at :558).
• Volumes is the bucket list and owns /b/*, which is why it replaces the
  logo click for "pick a bucket" — Sidebar.tsx:379-391, urls.buckets().
  (The logo still links home, but Volumes is the labelled, discoverable route
  and the one that stays correct with the front-door preview off.)
• Bucket tabs are Overview, Files, Packages, Workflows —
  containers/Bucket/Nav/Nav.tsx:20-38, Nav/Tabs.tsx:50-59.
• Queries is /queries with an Athena subsection at /queries/athena;
  /b/<bucket>/queries redirects there — constants/routes.ts:81-112, 277-281
  and containers/App/queryRedirects.jsx.
• With the elasticsearch-queries flag off (the default in 26.8.0) the Queries
  page renders Athena only and no tab strip, so "the Athena tab" in step 5 is
  parenthetical rather than a required click — containers/Queries/Queries.tsx:75.

Found while verifying — NOT fixed here

Step 5's expected result is stale for an unrelated reason. It runs
SHOW TABLES and then says:

2. Look for yourcompany-test-bucket_packages-view
3. Quick metadata query: SELECT * FROM "yourcompany-test-bucket_packages-view" …

Per-bucket *_packages-view / *_objects-view Athena views were removed in
Quilt Platform 1.70 and replaced by the Iceberg *_package_manifest and
*_package_entry tables (see docs/Catalog/Query.md and
docs/advanced-features/iceberg-tables.md in the quilt repo, and
release-notes/1-70-0-release-notes.md here, which documents the removal). A
tester on 26.8.0 will not find that view and the sample query will fail.

Left out of this PR deliberately: it is a different change from the shell
re-home, was not in the audited finding set, and the replacement query wants
someone to run it against a live stack rather than be transcribed from docs.
Worth its own PR.

Also deferred

• P2 — howto-collect-search-cluster-diagnostics.md: documents only the
  AWS CloudShell/CLI path. 26.8.0 adds an in-catalog trigger at
  Admin > Settings > Support Diagnostics (verified:
  containers/Admin/Settings/Settings.tsx:437-442). Adding an "Option A:
  in-catalog" branch is new prose about a new feature and wants someone who has
  actually run the in-catalog collector end to end, so it is out of scope for
  this mechanical pass.
• No 26.7.0 / 26.8.0 release notes exist here — latest is
  release-notes/1-71-0-release-notes.md. Flagged as a gap, not fixed: release
  notes are their own deliverable.
• Historical release notes (1-62-0 … 1-71-0) still say "navbar", "Bucket
  tab", "Queries tab". Correctly left alone — they are accurate for their own
  releases.

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Greptile Summary

Updates the stack-validation smoke test to follow the 26.8.0 catalog sidebar and workspace-global Queries page.

• Replaces obsolete top-navigation paths with Admin, Volumes, Search, and Queries sidebar entries.
• Names the current bucket tabs so the success condition is explicit.
• Directs query validation through the global /queries page.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge with no actionable issue introduced by the changed checklist instructions.

The updated steps consistently replace obsolete controls with the target release’s sidebar routes, while the known stale query expectation predates this navigation-only change and is explicitly deferred.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
test-checklists/general-1-stack-validation.md	The revised navigation paths and bucket-tab labels consistently update the smoke test for the documented 26.8.0 catalog shell; no changed-code defect was found.

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