Developer builds crash-capture tool after storage corruption bug resists all reproduction attempts

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A developer testing NodeDB-Lite and PageDB, an embedded storage stack for local-first applications, encountered a persistent store corruption bug triggered by an authenticated-page read failure in a full-text search path. The application fell into a restart loop each time it reopened the damaged store, but the developer could not reproduce the corruption through unit tests, benchmarks, or direct stress testing. Despite fixing several unrelated bugs along the way, the corruption kept reappearing during normal use without any deterministic trigger sequence. The leading theory of freed-page reuse could not be confirmed because logs did not capture store state at the exact moment of failure, and errors were returned rather than panics. To break the deadlock, the developer built a minimal crash-capture recorder that preserved the corrupted store and surrounding error context at the detection site before any restart or cleanup could alter the evidence.

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