AsterTable — Trustworthy Restaurant Reservations

AsterTable is a restaurant reservation project built by NightWatch Factory for the Tablekeeper track. It aims to make a simple promise: when a diner receives a confirmation, the table is genuinely theirs. Availability should reflect real capacity, overlapping bookings should never claim the same table, and a lost network response should not create a duplicate reservation. The project is developed through a four-seat BAND factory. A Coordinator manages stage gates, an Implementer writes the service, a Conformance Reviewer checks the official specification, and an Adversarial Verifier challenges edge cases. Their handoffs, findings, and repairs are recorded in the room so the development process can be inspected, not just the final code. The current Stage 1 implementation is a Go service backed by PostgreSQL 18. Its latest tested revision passes all 120 official Stage 1 harness checks, while an additional reviewer-discovered import validation issue remains open for repair and re-review. A React booking experience is designed but not yet implemented in the final app. We will update this submission as the factory completes and verifies later stages, and we will only claim features supported by the code and room evidence.