Rollout: flip `AVAILABLE_TECHNOLOGIES_SECTION` on in prod (CTL available-technologies profile section)

[paulalbert1]

Status 2026-07-10: All code merged (#1594, #1596, #1602) and live on staging (staging-on). Prod is untouched (prod-off). This is a GAP row in the feature-flag inventory — staging-on with no owning rollout issue. This issue owns the prod flip.

What it gates

AVAILABLE_TECHNOLOGIES_SECTION gates the "Available technologies" section on the public scholar profile: a compact row (sitting under Funding and Clinical trials) listing licensable inventions from the WCM Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) public portfolio, attributed to each scholar by the CWID in the VIVO inventor link CTL prints beside each PI. Each row shows CTL's reference/docket number, the title, a link to the public technology detail page, patent status, and — scoped to CTL's own publications pane — the related PubMed papers.

It is presence-gated and fails safe: with the flag off the profile payload returns an empty technologies list regardless of table contents, so the ETL seed can land in prod before the flag flips without exposing anything. The section also hides for any scholar with no technologies.

Current per-env state

• Wired per-env in the CDK app stack: staging = on, prod = off. Single app-container copy (no ETL-stack copy).
• Staging: ETL-populated and soaking — the technology table holds ~225 rows across ~120 scholars, and the weekly refresh is scheduled in the deployed staging Step Function (fix(etl): schedule TechnologyWeekly in the deployed Step Function #1596).
• Prod: flag off, table not yet populated, weekly ETL schedule not yet deployed.

Before the prod flip

1. CTL attribution / contact sign-off — the exit criterion in the inventory and the real blocker. CTL must confirm the inventor attributions, and there is an open data-quality ask back to them: ~60 of ~279 portfolio pages carry no VIVO inventor link (some are current faculty). CTL should add links for inventors still here and repoint every VIVO inventor link at Scholars once VIVO retires. The VIVO href is the attribution key — PMIDs are never used to attribute (CTL's linked papers average ~3.2 co-authors, so a PMID would credit every co-author with the invention).
2. Deploy the prod ETL stack so the weekly technologies refresh is scheduled.
3. Populate the prod table — run the technologies ETL once as a one-off task, or wait for the first weekly run.
4. Flip the flag to on for prod in the CDK app stack, then deploy the prod App stack. A prod App deploy releases everything accumulated on master, not just this flag (23 commits as of 2026-07-10), so run the pre-deploy drift report and cdk diff and review it first.

Exit criteria

• CTL sign-off recorded; prod technologies table populated; prod weekly ETL schedule deployed.
• AVAILABLE_TECHNOLOGIES_SECTION = on in both envs, verified in the deployed prod app configuration.
• Inventory GAP row updated to point at this issue / marked converged.

Verification after the flip

• Load a prod scholar profile known to hold CTL technologies and confirm the "Available technologies" row renders with the correct titles, CTL detail links, patent status, and (in the publications pane) PubMed links — attributed to the right scholar via the VIVO link, not by PMID.
• Confirm a scholar with no technologies shows no section (presence-gating holds).
• Confirm the row sits under Funding and Clinical trials as a compact row, not cards.

Refs #1594, #1596, #1602, #1440 (GAP-flag owning issue), #475 (prod App deploy ships accumulated drift).

[paulalbert1]

The flag itself is now flipped on in code — AVAILABLE_TECHNOLOGIES_SECTION: "on" for both envs, merged in #1718 (2026-07-14).

It is inert until the prod app stack is deployed, so this issue stays open, narrowed to the one remaining step:

• Run the prod app-stack deploy so the flag takes effect.

Before that deploy, confirm the prod technologies data is loaded — the section is presence-gated, so with no rows the flag surfaces nothing and the section simply stays hidden.