poster-wall translates its section headings by looking the key up by the
English: one table maps a zone id to a heading, a second maps that heading
to a catalogue key, and the helper returns the raw English when the second
table has no entry. Two headings reachable from four zone ids had no key, so
they printed in English in all eleven locales. upg100 found and fixed that
one; this is so the next table cannot repeat it.
The hardcoded-English scan cannot see this class. There the English is a
lookup index rather than a rendered label, and the key is computed, so a
scan that reads keys written literally at the call site has nothing to
check. Resolving arbitrary key expressions is a static-analysis problem;
this does the decidable part — two object literals in one file where the
values of the first are the keys of the second, and coverage is a set
difference. The table list is declared, not discovered, because a heuristic
hunting for related-looking objects would be guessing about code it has
never read.
Two things the check has to get right and could quietly get wrong. It
compares the VALUES of the producing table, not its keys — the ids are
never translated, and reading them finds nothing while looking like a
check. And a label passed straight to the helper as a literal counts as
produced: three of the nine headings never appear in the table at all, and
"Other" is exactly the catch-all that gets added last and keyed never.
A renamed table fails loudly rather than comparing two empty sets and
calling it agreement. The self-test covers a covered table, a gap, a gap
reachable only through a literal argument, and the renamed case; poisoning
either parser or the object matcher trips it.
Verified against both real states: development's poster-wall fails naming
Americas and Europe, and upg100's fix passes.
RegionCountryMap builds its map popup by concatenation and escaped every value
in it -- the name, the religion, the description, the image, both button labels
-- except the two URLs:
<a class="cm-popup__btn" href="${profileUrl}">
Both come from joinBase(props.researchUrl, p.slug), and joinBase says plainly
that it only normalises slashes. So two untrusted values reached an HTML
attribute raw: the slug, which is API data, and the base URL, which is an
attribute set by whoever embeds the element. With a slug of
`x" onerror=alert(1) data-x="` the rendered tag is
<a href="https://doxa.life/research/x" onerror=alert(1) data-x="">
out of the attribute and into new ones. esc() was already imported in that file.
The same omission in library/packet/packet-render.js, found by sweeping for the
class rather than assuming it was one site: the people-group card writes
src="${src}" where src is photos.get(slug), and usePosterPrints builds that Map
directly from the API's image_url. esc(g.name) sits two lines below it.
Neither could be caught by review or by template analysis -- both are inside
template literals -- and the popup had never once rendered, because the Regions
map was grey. So the gate: no href= or src= in built HTML takes a raw
interpolation. Data URLs, blob URLs, encodeURIComponent and safeUrl() are
recognised as safe, each verified at its call site rather than assumed from the
name; anything else needs an href-escaped-ok: reason in the four lines above.
Two such reasons are recorded, for the two sites the check cannot see the safety
of: useMapAttribution's hrefs are module constants selected by engine type, and
export-public builds its rel entirely from encodeURIComponent one line earlier.
The sweep also cleared seven sites it first flagged -- three blob: URLs from
createObjectURL, two data: URLs from readAsDataURL, safeUrl(), and the
encodeURIComponent pair -- so the check now recognises those shapes instead of
reporting them.
Mutation-tested: reverting either fix alone turns the gate red. 6 self-tests
carry the founding bug and the safe shapes. gates:pre 65/66, the one red being
check:poster-action-print waiting on gospel's GiTree fix.
check:poster-action-print asserted that PosterWall defaults to printing and
that any consumer passing posterAction 'download' explains itself. Both held,
and both missed the case that actually shipped: a component that never touches
PosterWall and writes its own <a download> for a poster image. GiTree had a
"Download SVG" button as the sibling of its own printPoster(), same
makePoster() behind each, so the poster could reach disk without the print
dialog ever opening.
Second arm: no shipped file may set a.download to an image or document name
(svg/png/webp/pdf/jpg) unless the line is reached only after a print attempt
failed (if (!opened) / if (!w)), or is the prop-gated opt-in the first arm
already polices, or carries a posterAction-download: reason. Data exports stay
out of scope -- csv, txt and json are not posters, so the five legitimate CSV
and letter exports stay green.
Keying on the filename at the call site rather than on the helper matters:
four of the seven download sites pass a variable, so a check written against
the helper would have passed them without being able to see what they wrote.
Six self-tests carry the shapes: the GiTree line fails, the print-blocked
fallback passes, the gated opt-in passes, the explained exception passes, csv
and txt pass. They are the proof the arm still bites now that no offender is
left in the tree.
An absolute embed address works where it was built and breaks everywhere
else, which is how the CDN route failed and was retired. The build config
keeps embedBaseUrl empty, so the committed tree is relative and a deploy
makes it absolute at build time (EMBED_BASE_URL). But nothing stopped a
tree built with EMBED_BASE_URL from being committed: check:drop looks for
root-relative "/..." references and deliberately skips https:// ones.
With embedBaseUrl empty in the config, the manifest must say embedBase "."
and every scriptUrl, iframeUrl and embed snippet src must be relative. Data
addresses (runtime.apiBaseUrl) are not the tree and are not checked. SKIPs
when the config sets embedBaseUrl. In gates:post, after check:drop.
Today's tree: PASS, embedBase "." and 173 embed addresses, all relative.
Poison-tested, each fails: an absolute snippet src, an absolute embedBase,
a protocol-relative iframeUrl, an empty manifest. A real deploy manifest
built with EMBED_BASE_URL fails with 174 findings, as it should.
gates:post: PASS 82, NOT MEASURED 13 (browser/server), FAIL 1: the known
check:packets-all worktree failure (no generated zone packets here).
The country wall passed no records, so each of its 175 cards offered only the poster and said the
prayer list was "coming soon", while the people groups were one request away. library/lists/
peopleGroupRecords.js is the records half of the print standard: one people-groups fetch per language
(normalised the way the prints read rows, list membership applied), then a SELECTOR picks the set — a
country by ISO3, explicit slugs, any field, or a host's own selector language. A selector nobody
understands selects nothing rather than every group on earth, and a failed fetch is not cached.
The country wall uses it by ISO3, so every country now prints the list, the deck (all five stocks) and
the full or lightweight packet. The packet's page 1 is, for now, the country's stored poster when it is
really there; the in-browser map generator will replace that.
check:people-group-records asserts the selection two-sided with an injected fetch; registered in
gates:pre.
Every reference to the Driver in internal/ is reworded the same way as in
library/: the reason stays, the speaker and the quote go, an open decision
reads "provisional, pending a product decision", and agent names and decision-
sheet rows are dropped. Where a gate printed the word, its message now names
the reviewer or the ruling instead.
Three spots were code, not comments, and changed with their callers:
- the element census's allowlist field `driver` is now `ruling`, in the gate
and both presets (same validation: match, ruling, date and card required);
- check:i18n-never-translated's DRIVER-GATED marker is DECISION-PENDING, in
the entries and in the regex that counts them (its output is otherwise
byte-identical);
- the package.json description of the census says "ruling".
public-hygiene-check keeps its two patterns for the word: they are what keep
it out of the served folder.
The pattern this replaces built a sentence by concatenating translated fragments
around untranslated text — "languages have", "of", "people." are each a separate
string in gospel-resources today. Arabic does not put those clauses in English
order, so translating the fragments yields Arabic words in English order:
grammatically broken, and worse than leaving it English, because it looks
translated and nobody re-checks it.
library/composables/useSentence.js takes ONE message with named placeholders and
a value per name. It renders sentinels, splits on them and drops the values back
in, so a translator moves the clauses freely and the markup survives as slotted
content: the bold counts and the dir="ltr" island are passed in, never written
into the catalogue. No <i18n-t>, and it works with precompiled messages.
Built to studio's four constraints: the caller passes a whole key literal (the
helper takes a MESSAGE and cannot assemble a key, so the build's area scan still
sees it); t comes from the calling component; a sentence with two counts receives
each already pluralised from its own key, since vue-i18n resolves one plural form
per key; and the sentinels are private-use (U+E000+n) so nothing in the pipeline
may rewrite them.
check:sentence-slots, 14 assertions, every arm with a negative control — and two
of them caught real defects in this change. A slot value of 0 rendered as an
empty string (the bug was in my test's flattener, not the helper — 0 is a real
count and "0 of 7,296" is a sentence a filter legitimately produces). And a
private-use character already IN a message was consumed as slot 0, printing
"a X b X" while the arm still passed because it only checked the value was
present; strays are now stripped before ours are placed, so every remaining mark
is ours by construction.
The gate measures the built folder, so it belongs after the build, in
gates:post, with its description beside the others. It now reads the tree
name from _tree-name.mjs like every other tool: the folder was renamed
once already, and a gate hardcoding the old name kept reading it.
The row now says 1205 files, 154 MiB: the folder as it stands with the
350 city and country posters this landing ships.
dx-base measured two defects in the A8 draft for text that goes public:
- Links into the private DX Life repo answer 404 to anyone without an account. The live
example is now plain words (README, DEPLOY), and the clone line points at the public repo
(doxa-open/doxa-maps, as DEPLOY already did). DEPLOY's "three ways" becomes the two routes;
the CDN route is retired.
- The web folder row said 536 files, 76 MiB. The folder is 855 files, 119.2 MiB. New
check:readme-size re-measures public/dx-maps and fails when the row is more than 10% off,
printing the line to paste. It passes at 855/119; the old numbers fail.
Two halves, Node only. The helper, against fake responses: a real WebP
is accepted by type or by its bytes; a host's 200 fallback page is
refused as a raster and as a source; HTML labelled octet-stream is
refused; a 404 and a network error are misses for the raster; a network
error on the source is thrown as itself. The callers: neither
usePosterPrints nor PosterWall may fetch posters/ directly again, since
each once carried its own copy and a guard in one did not reach the other.
Poison-tested: restoring the old accept-anything fetch fails 3 checks,
and PosterWall's direct fetches failed the caller check before its switch.
gates:pre: PASS 67, FAIL 0.
With posterSources on, the tree shipped only the 28 zone poster sources,
so exporting any of the 176 city or 174 country posters said "poster not
found (404)": 350 of 378 posters could not be printed.
Each poster now ships once: its .html source where one exists, else its
.webp. Generating sources for the 350 was not an option: city posters
need OSM street tiles to regenerate (publish-html.mjs), and a source is
the heavy form (about 1 MB each against about 0.1 MB for a raster).
Measured with check:tree-weight: 102.7 MB before, 137.9 MB after, of
160 MB. The 350 rasters are the tracked data/posters/*.webp: all 350 are
existing git blobs, so the repository gains no new pack bytes.
New gate check:posters-exportable (in gates:post). Every poster id, from
data/posters and the wall's previews, must ship a real WebP or a real
poster source (its class="stage" element), so a placeholder or a host's
fallback page cannot pass. It skips when posters are off by config, which
check:poster-degrades covers. Poison-tested: a missing poster and a fake
image each fail.
A locale can arrive two ways. ?lang and <html lang> are read at script
evaluation, and the preload in i18n/index.js covers them. profile-config —
the channel a host page uses — reaches ProfileLoader's watchEffect and
nowhere else, which is the channel's whole purpose; the comment there
already records that an earlier document-level fix never saw it. So with
the build shipping one locale, a host-configured embed set its locale,
mirrored its direction, and then rendered English with no error anywhere.
One line beside the setRuntimeLocale that marks that path.
The RTL hold is the second half. When the catalogue is fetched rather than
inlined, nine locales get a re-render — the words change, nothing moves —
and Arabic gets a layout flip: English left to right, then the whole chrome
mirrors. So the text waits and the map does not.
Not a v-if on the profile: <component :is="ProfileComponent"> is the entire
plugin, map included, and gating it would hold the one thing that must
never wait. A data attribute on the existing root plus a scoped rule over
named chrome classes leaves every component mounted, re-enters nothing, and
lets the map paint on its own schedule. The classes are named rather than
matched by a blanket descendant rule because two of the text-bearing
components also carry map objects. visibility rather than display, so the
chrome keeps its box and nothing reflows when the text appears — a reflow at
swap time is the same defect as the flip, only quieter.
The gate asserts the seam. "ProfileLoader mentions loadLocale" would pass on
an import nothing calls, so the watchEffect's own body is read by brace
depth and the call has to sit inside it. It also refuses a hold that names
anything map-shaped, a hold applied to the whole subtree, and a fetch that
could run without a pin. Poisoned both halves: removing the call and
pointing the hold at a map container each fail with the message that names
the defect.
poster-wall translates its section headings by looking the key up by the
English: one table maps a zone id to a heading, a second maps that heading
to a catalogue key, and the helper returns the raw English when the second
table has no entry. Two headings reachable from four zone ids had no key, so
they printed in English in all eleven locales. upg100 found and fixed that
one; this is so the next table cannot repeat it.
The hardcoded-English scan cannot see this class. There the English is a
lookup index rather than a rendered label, and the key is computed, so a
scan that reads keys written literally at the call site has nothing to
check. Resolving arbitrary key expressions is a static-analysis problem;
this does the decidable part — two object literals in one file where the
values of the first are the keys of the second, and coverage is a set
difference. The table list is declared, not discovered, because a heuristic
hunting for related-looking objects would be guessing about code it has
never read.
Two things the check has to get right and could quietly get wrong. It
compares the VALUES of the producing table, not its keys — the ids are
never translated, and reading them finds nothing while looking like a
check. And a label passed straight to the helper as a literal counts as
produced: three of the nine headings never appear in the table at all, and
"Other" is exactly the catch-all that gets added last and keyed never.
A renamed table fails loudly rather than comparing two empty sets and
calling it agreement. The self-test covers a covered table, a gap, a gap
reachable only through a literal argument, and the renamed case; poisoning
either parser or the object matcher trips it.
Verified against both real states: development's poster-wall fails naming
Americas and Europe, and upg100's fix passes.
The standing rule is that comments, docs and UI strings say what the code does and why, never who said
what. Several hundred existing lines break it; owners remove them in one sweep per area before the public
giveaway. Until then check:no-new-driver-references (gates:pre) fails any NEW line that refers to the
Driver and baselines the rest, keyed by file and line text with counts rather than line numbers, so
parallel sweeps only ever shrink it. It matches the role word, not a GPU or device driver, and its
self-test proves both that and that a new line beside baselined ones is isolated.
It had a script but no description and sat in no gate list, so a map fetching the people-group list
around the library (upg-neighbor's photo lookup) stayed red on development until someone ran it by
hand. With that lookup allowed by name (the commit before), it passes; it goes into gates:post, where
it reads the shipped bundles too, and now carries its description.
The drop-in was proven on a laptop with one server: the three DX Life branches rendered their maps,
7 of 7 checks passed, with internal/sync-dropin.mjs --from-config --dest <doxa-life>/public. This
makes that the default path:
- dropin.dest is ../doxa-life/public. The old ../doxa-life/public/embed/doxa-maps-build was stale.
- bun run dropin = sync-dropin --from-config; deploy:dev (build + drop-in) now uses it.
- The README gains "The easiest path": the studio for the work, dropin.dest at your site's public/,
then build and drop in.
One hazard came with the new destination, and it is closed here. --prune deletes every file in the
destination outside the drop-in's allowlist, which was right while that was a folder of its own. Into
a site's public/, it would delete the site. deploy:dev passed --prune, so it no longer does, and
sync-dropin refuses --prune into any folder named public/. Measured in a scratch site: --prune into
site/public exits 1 with the reason; a plain drop-in copies dx-maps/ and leaves the site's own
file in place.
Both were registered but in no gate list, because each was red on development: wiring either in
would have failed every landing. They are clean now (the plugin-studio widget release fixed the
first, the country map's legend rows the second), so they go into gates:pre, where a regression
fails the landing instead of waiting for someone to run them by hand.
key-cities is a gated profile: generate-tree leaves it out of the manifest and the pages. Its
bundle file was still in public/dx-maps/key-cities/key-cities.js, committed, and the landing
freshness pass rebuilt it into public/ every time it looked "stale", so any host that serves or
drops in the tree folder whole shipped it.
- vite.config.js builds a gated bundle into .gated/<tree>/ (ignored by git) instead of public/.
- check:composite-freshness skips gated bundles: they have no committed bytes to be fresh against.
- The committed public/dx-maps/key-cities/ is removed. History is not rewritten.
- generate-tree removes a gated folder it finds in the tree (an older build, or a landing that kept the
tree's side of a conflict), so the tree it writes is clean whatever came before. Measured: a planted
public/dx-maps/key-cities/key-cities.js fails the gate, and one regeneration removes it.
- The gated list is read in one place, internal/_tree-name.mjs, beside the tree name.
- check:gated-not-in-tree (gates:pre) fails if a gated name has a folder in the tree, a manifest
entry, or a page referencing its script, and proves each arm on a planted leak first. It FAILED
on the tree before this change (key-cities/ is in the tree) and PASSES after.
The data tables are left alone on purpose: key-cities.json also feeds the production Cities with
Internet map, and whether that dataset should be public is a separate decision.
doxa-maps-spa marks the pane of every tab that has explainer text with data-doxa-help, listens for
doxa:help, and opens the same what/how dialog for the active tab. Closing returns focus to the
exact "?" that opened it (composedPath reaches into the map's shadow root). The top-centre button
and its CSS are gone; a comment for the device-rule toast that sat above the old button's rule
is back on its own rule.
check:help-reachable (gates:pre) keeps it reachable: every map with text has a hosted "?" or a
named help control of its own; the app listens, marks its panes and has no top-centre button; and
the composable, executed on a small fake DOM, dispatches doxa:help bubbling and composed and finds
the host across a shadow root. Six planted defects, each caught.
e18c7f05a declared the map relabeller above LANG, which it reads: a
temporal-dead-zone ReferenceError at startup, so every offline packet
run stopped before building anything. node --check passed, because it
checks syntax and not evaluation order, and no gate ran the generator.
The block now sits after LANG and VARIANT, with a note on why.
packet:ci already built the committed fixture packets through
packet.mjs, with no network, in under five seconds - and it catches
this exactly: exit 1 on the broken generator, exit 0 on the fix. It was
in no gate list, so it never ran. It is now check:packet-offline in
gates:pre.
Its failure message printed the last line of stderr, which for a crash
is Node's version banner ("Node.js v20.20.2"). It now names the error
line: "ReferenceError: Cannot access 'LANG' before initialization".
The map sheets are generated once, in English, so in an Arabic or
Chinese packet page 1's map labelled every country in Latin capitals,
and its privacy line was English.
The labels are now replaced as the sheet is lifted into the packet.
They are recognised by the generator's own rule rather than a list:
generate.mjs draws each label as esc(ISO3_NAME[iso3].toUpperCase())
from the zone data's ISO3_NAME table, so inverting that table under
that transform names the country behind every label it can draw. The
inverse is unambiguous (162 labels, no two countries sharing one), so a
label is known exactly or left as drawn. The map's privacy line is word
for word the packet's privacy_note, so it takes this language's.
A width guard: the generator placed every label and then dropped any
that would collide, measuring the English name, so a translation is
fitted into that same box - estimated wider, it shrinks in proportion
and cannot reach a neighbour the English name did not. On the Sudan
poster, six Arabic names shrink (the longest, Saudi Arabia, from 15px
to 10px); none of the narrower Chinese ones do. Capitals' tracking is
dropped for scripts without capitals, where it breaks Arabic joining.
English is untouched: its relabeller is null, and the lifted sheet is
byte-identical with and without it. No sheet or poster is regenerated -
the change is in the lift, so the tracked 3x4 posters page 1 now uses
are relabelled as they are.
Both print paths supply the relabeller: the UPG 100 profile from its
own ISO3_NAME and the library's country-name resolver, the offline
generator from the same table and the injected ISO-3 to ISO-2 table.
check-map-labels (gates:pre), on the tracked Sudan poster: English
byte-identical; in ar and zh no known English name left, halo matching
fill, privacy localized; the guard fires for Arabic, not Chinese, and
grows nothing; Arabic tracking off, Spanish kept; an unknown label left
alone. Mutation-tested five ways, each caught.
The page says each box is a share of the people in this list. It
printed one DOXA-wide figure - 0.6133% of 209,079,159 people - in
every packet, true of no single list.
That figure had no builder in the repo. build-evangelical-share.mjs
makes its method reproducible, per group: the IMB CSV joined to the
DOXA snapshot by ROP3 + country, each group's EvangelicalLevel band at
its midpoint (0 for No Known Evangelicals, the midpoint read from the
band's own wording), weighted by IMB population. It writes
evangelical-by-slug.json and refuses to write unless the table, summed
over every DOXA group, reproduces christian-share.json exactly: 2,091
matched, 209,079,159 people, 1,282,178 evangelical, 0.6133%. Change a
single band's midpoint rule and it refuses.
Not the API's imb_gsec: GSEC puts 225 groups at "no evangelicals" where
EvangelicalLevel puts 1,444, because its "less than 2%" band also
carries church-planting status. A share from it sits on a different
scale from the method the page's own footnote states.
evangelicalShare.js sums a packet's own groups - pure, zero imports, so
the browser print and the offline generator run the same sum. Across
the 28 zones the page now carries 28 different figures, from 0.182%
(Deaf) to 0.922%. A host that supplies its own figure still wins.
A list with no published levels prints a dash and no number. The old
guard, Number.isFinite(Number(x)), passes null as 0 and would have
printed "0% evangelical" for no data. Where some of a list's groups
lack a level, the footnote says what the figure is computed over; it
says nothing when coverage is whole. That clause is in all eleven
languages.
check-evangelical-share (gates:pre): the table reproduces the committed
figure; different lists differ; no data is a dash; coverage appears
only when partial. Mutation-tested four ways, each caught - the fourth
only once it corrupted an existing group rather than adding one no sum
reads.
Every packet was titled with its zone's hand-written English label, so
a Spanish Sudan packet said "Sudan" and an Arabic one printed Latin
script on page 1, on every profile page's header and in the document's
own title.
A one-country zone's title is that country's name, and Intl supplies it
in every language: the packets now carry it - Sudán, السودان, सूडान,
苏丹 - through zone-title.js's tier A, on both print paths. Every other
zone keeps its hand-written label, since a region's name is not a list
of its countries (tier B and C are a pending product decision). The
selection packet names its cover the same way.
In the browser the title uses the library's country-name resolver; the
offline generator cannot load that module under Node, so it reads the
ISO-3 to ISO-2 table and injects it, the path zone-title.js was built
for. A data set without zone-title.js keeps its labels.
check:zone-title-tier-a was committed unregistered and so never ran; it
is now in gates:pre. Its comments, and zone-title.js's, no longer cite
people or dates.
FULL DETAIL is four front pages, the profiles, four back pages:
map, triangle, life calendar, % evangelical, profiles,
bounded set, centered set, prayer wheel, 12 prayer points.
LIGHTWEIGHT is two front, the profiles, two back:
map, triangle, profiles, prayer wheel, 12 prayer points.
Both are generated from data, in every packet language, from the
browser and from the offline generator.
PAGE 1 - the map, on a vertical page. One lift for every caller
(packet-render.js liftMap): the browser composable, the UPG 100
profile and the offline generator each carried an identical copy of
the old wrapper (250px down, scale 0.62), and three copies of a layout
decision is how page 1 drifts between print paths. The lift prefers
the map-only vertical sheet (mapSheetFiles: <zone>.packet.html, then
the poster) and places it so its names land on the same 60px margin
every other page keeps; a poster falls back fitted under the title at
0.81 rather than 0.62. The title block is drawn after the map, since a
map-only sheet begins with a full-page background. Anything that is not
a map sheet - an icon-sized <svg> from a host that answers a missing
file with a 200 page - is refused, and page 1 says the map is missing.
Page 1 now states which set it belongs to ("One of 28 UPG 100 prayer
lists"), only when the caller supplies the count.
PAGE 2 - one inverted triangle in the Vision Card's look. The card's
steps are the top (every people group, the unreached, the frontier,
the network's list), narrowing to the UPG 100 packets and, at the tip,
this packet. The card's greens, darkening as it narrows, walked
through its own colour stops; every numeral picks white or ink by the
WCAG ratio (all at least 3.4:1, large bold type). Tier widths are
geometric, not proportional - 2,107, 28 and ~100 against 12,379 would
be hairlines - so where two sets truly nest the caption states the
step removed, and the network's list, which does not sit inside
frontier, gets the card's "N of them are frontier" note instead of a
false subtraction. The packets tier and its count appear only when the
caller supplies one.
BACK PAGES - the bounded and centered sets get a page each at twice the
width, under the one page key, so lightweight drops the pair together.
THE WHEEL - the Metacamp Module 1 prayer wheel: its twelve colours,
sampled from the fill operators in the source PDF's content stream; its
orientation, the opening PRAISE at nine o'clock and READ THE WORD at
twelve; white labels with a shadow and a faint outline, so a print
path that drops SVG filters still leaves them legible on the palest
segments; "5 minutes" badges; the attribution with the website. The
labels stay the packet's own rhythm names, translated in every
language and matching the 12 points page.
The offline generator makes both packets (PACKET_VARIANT=lightweight;
the full packet keeps its names, lightweight is <zone>.lightweight and
stamped with its variant).
STRINGS: four new keys, in all eleven blocks - each block's own words
for "packet" and "prayer list", the frontier note aligned to the word
the frontier tier uses on the same page.
GATES: check-packet-a1-structure (registered in gates:pre) reads every
sheet's CONTENT for the order of both variants, page 1's lift in all
four cases, the triangle's tiers and steps, the wheel's colours and
orientation, and all 28 zones. Mutation-tested eleven ways, each caught
by its own message. check-packet-variants now asserts both sets pages
and a four-sheet difference. The browser gate check-packet-render
counted funnel rows and bars by inline-style substrings, which an SVG
triangle has none of - both would have read zero and passed - so it
now counts .funnel-n against .funnel-tier, its sheet arithmetic counts
the sets pages, and its Latin allowlist carries the renamed product
name. check-packet-browser used a copy of the old wrapper; it now uses
the product's lift.
One landing because it is one bundle: the ring band layout wiring (already on
this branch) plus the three set-fit commits, replayed as SOURCE only. The
generated tree is rebuilt below rather than merged — a previous cherry-pick of
mine swept a conflicted generated file into a commit, and hand-resolving build
output is how that happens.
From set-fit: extentFraction 0.17 -> 0.095 on both charts, so the drawing fits
the height the engine's zoom floor leaves it; crossFeature restored from history
and called by BOTH maps through one shared addCrossLayer; and the ResizeObserver
fit restored, which rega found missing because zoomAtOpen read 1.00 in all eight
chart/layout combinations — too clean to be a fit result.
Two things this merge had to get right, and neither was automatic:
- Taking GiCenteredSetMap.vue wholesale from set-fit silently REMOVED the ring
wiring — bandFill, curvedRingLabels and openAndFrame all went to zero while
every gate still passed. Both feature sets are now in the file together.
- Taking package.json wholesale would have deleted studio's check:ring-bands
registration, including its gates:pre entry, landing a gate nothing runs. It is
rebuilt from development's, with only check:gospel-set-fit added — in all three
places this time: script, gates:pre, and //scripts.
layoutCenteredSet gives every group on ring N the same radius, so a crowded ring
draws as one line of dots on a circle. The target needs each ring to be
a BAND, groups spread evenly through it, never overlapping each other or the
ring's label.
library/components/charts/ringBands.js is that geometry, with no Vue, no engine
and no DOM, so the Wall poster can consume the same module rather than growing a
second copy of it. bandFill() places; curvedRingLabels() returns each label's arc
AND the keep-out that bandFill refuses to place inside — computed from one source
so "pins never overlap the labels" is true by construction rather than usually.
Determinism is a requirement, not a nicety: every position is a pure function of
the item's own id, so two printings of one packet compare sheet to sheet and a
dot that moves means the DATA moved. There is deliberately no seed. Input order
does not affect any position either, so a caller that filters or re-sorts does
not reshuffle the chart.
An over-full ring SHRINKS its pins to a floor before anything is dropped — a
visible pin beats an unplaced one — and only then reports the remainder with the
ring and the counts.
check:ring-bands, 16 assertions, every arm with a negative control. One arm is
there because this gate passed the bug it now catches: uncapped, a long label on
ring 1 wanted 96% of that small circle, so capacity was zero and all twelve
groups on the innermost ring were reported unplaced while every arm stayed green
— "reported, not silently dropped" is not the same promise as "the ring draws".
Labels now truncate at a share of their own circumference and report how many
characters fit. Poison-tested: restoring the old share reproduces "empty rings: 1".
Seven shadow-root components each carry their own copy of DX Life's
base/_globals.scss rules, because page CSS cannot reach into a shadow
root. Measured first: where the copies overlap they are byte-identical
(the Cyrillic stack 3x, strong{font-weight:500} 2x, scrollbar-gutter 2x),
so this is deduplication, not a fix.
The module exports FUNCTIONS, not strings, and the measurement forced
that: the six copies of the Cyrillic rule share one declaration but have
six different subjects (.rd-goal-card__title, .rd-h2, .rd-title,
.region-card__title, .rl-title x2). A fixed rule string would have to
pick one class and silently stop styling the other five. The caller owns
its selector; the module owns the declaration.
cyrillicHeading takes a selector LIST, not a selector. GoalCard styles
one heading class; RegionSectionCard groups two into a single rule
sharing one declaration block. A one-selector signature emits two rules
instead of one -- the same CSS to a browser, but not the same
stylesheet, and the bar here is unchanged, not equivalent.
Migrated GoalCard and RegionSectionCard. regions-dashboard's two files
port the same rules and stay with their owner; the harness records them
so that migration can run against this same baseline.
The img border-radius rule (_globals.scss:80) is documented as
deliberately NOT ported, because an invisible omission is one that gets
"fixed" later.
PROOF: internal/check-ported-globals-identical.mjs executes each
component's setup, captures the string handed to useShadowStyles and
hashes it. The emitted CSS is byte-identical across the refactor
(987d94b1cd66110d, 897d948b17b21efe, both captured from 45e31f102).
The harness's first version hashed the SOURCE of the call and was
wrong: this refactor replaces a literal with a function call, so the
source changes by construction -- a text-hash gate fails a perfect
refactor and cannot tell that from a broken one. It measured the
artifact when the property under test was the output. It failed exactly
that way on first run.
Shown capable of failing, four ways: dropping letter-spacing, a wrong
font name, 500->600, and splitting the grouped rule into two. All four
go red; restoring goes green. Components that cannot be evaluated are
reported NOT MEASURED (exit 75), never as a pass.
Seven components with no importer, removed. The interesting part is not the
deletion, it is that an import census was NOT sufficient to authorise it, and
two other agents proved that rather than me.
WHAT AN IMPORT CENSUS MISSED. internal/check-gospel-set-charts.mjs iterated
['BoundedSet.vue', 'CenteredSetTarget.vue'] as literal STRINGS and read their
props off disk. No import, so no census and no build would have warned; deleting
them would have turned a gate red on main with nothing to explain it. gospel
found that in their own file after I asked, and retargeted the arm at the
components that actually render (GiBoundedSetMap / GiCenteredSetMap, 2d2e853a7).
Their retarget also fixed a quieter defect: the seed guarantee had been asserted
against two files NOTHING renders, so it would have kept passing while the
shipping component grew a seed prop.
I did not take either agent's word for it. Verified gospel's retarget on their
sha and ran their gate green before deleting; verified upg100's structural claim
that packet-render.js cannot mount a component at all — 0 resolveComponent, 0
defineAsyncComponent, 0 dynamic import(), with the same probe returning a hit
elsewhere in library so an empty result is a real absence.
DELETED: charts/LanguageTreeChart.vue, components/charts/VisionFunnel.vue,
components/charts/BoundedSet.vue, components/charts/CenteredSetTarget.vue,
components/legends/ListSelectorLegend.vue,
components/dashboards/DashboardBreadcrumb.vue, composables/useMapSelection.js.
NOT DELETED, and worth stating because the names collide: the lowercase
boundedSet.js / centeredSet.js HELPERS are load-bearing — packet-render.js and
GiBoundedSetMap import them directly, and check-gospel-set-charts still does too.
Also left alone: colors/resource.js (a colour STRATEGY resolved by MODE NAME
through _registry.js, 'resource' appearing in mapStore.js and GiResources.vue)
and layouts/app-wrapper-material/nav.js (115 mentions). Both look dead to an
import census and would break a working map.
check:no-dead-library scans for a filename as a STRING across internal/,
library/ and plugin-designs/, and:
· DISTINGUISHES A READ FROM A COMMENT (gospel's ask). check-packet-variants.mjs
discusses CenteredSetTarget.vue in prose while asserting against JSON. A
comment hit is reported, never fatal — a gate that cannot tell the two apart
cries wolf once and is then ignored. It currently reports 4 such mentions.
· IS TWO-SIDED (upg100's ask). It also asserts a KNOWN-PRESENT dynamic
reference is found — LegendDesktop lazy-loads LegendMobile through import().
Mutation-tested: blinding the scanner makes it FAIL on that control instead
of passing with "no references found", which is what a one-sided version
would have done.
· ignores a longer identifier that merely contains the name, so GiBoundedSet.vue
is not read as a reference to BoundedSet.vue.
Both arms mutation-tested and every mutated file restored byte-identical.
Registered in all three places and verified by re-reading the parsed
package.json — the suite insert silently hit the scripts KEY instead of the suite
string on the first attempt, which verifying caught and trusting would not have.
17 of 25 library components that ship motion carried no reduced-motion rule, so
they animated regardless of the reader's OS setting.
The reason it cannot be fixed once, centrally: a @media (prefers-reduced-motion)
rule in the host document does not cross a shadow boundary, and these render
inside one. Measured while surveying: NO generated leaf page ships such a rule
at all — 0 occurrences across the whole built tree — so there was not even a
page rule to inherit. Each component owns its own.
CSS-ONLY AND ADDITIVE. Nothing but new @media blocks; no existing rule changed.
Verified by diff: 0 real removals across 17 files. The two lines git reports as
removed are a trailing comma moving as a new string was chained onto an existing
concatenation, and both original rules are still present — checked by grepping
for them, not by reading the diff.
WHERE MOTION CARRIES MEANING, it is kept rather than hidden:
· SemanticTreeLegend's spinner MEANS "loading". Stopped dead it is a static
ring that says nothing, so it is slowed to a step crawl (2.4s, steps(8)) —
visibly working, no smooth spin.
· LegendProgressBar's only motion is a hover filter, so it simply stops; the
bar's FILL is geometry, not animation, and still reports its value.
The rule goes where each component's styles actually go, and that varies more
than expected: 13 append into a useShadowStyles template literal, 3 into
string-concatenated sheets, and VerticalTabsLayout into its VTL_SHADOW_CSS
constant AND its duplicate <style> block, because its own header says the two
copies must stay identical.
check:reduced-motion asserts both halves, each mutation-tested to fail before I
trusted a pass: strip the rule from an animating component and it fails; move a
rule from the injected sheet into a <style> block and it fails too, because on a
useShadowStyles component that rule would never reach the shadow root. Both
mutated files restored byte-identical.
Two of my own errors caught by tooling rather than by review, and worth naming:
my first patch asserted useShadowStyles existed in every target and RAISED on
VerticalTabsLayout instead of silently skipping it — the assert-the-anchor habit
from the last registration failure working as intended. Then I appended CSS
after the label argument on two concat-built sheets, corrupting the injection
key; check:shadow-css-parses named both files and the fix was to insert before
the label. A gate I did not write caught what I got wrong.
Registered in all three places and verified by re-reading the parsed
package.json.
Two cards, BUILD-LOCALIZED-COUNTRY-NAMES-ISO3-TO-ISO2 and
BUILD-ISO3-TABLE-COVERS-ALL-242-COUNTRIES. I measured before building and most
of both already exists: countryName(iso3, lang) is in library/utils, and the
bridge is already 242 entries with an exact correspondence to countries.json —
0 codes missing, 0 orphans, verified in both directions rather than by trusting
the table's own _meta. All 242 resolve in en, ar and zh today.
So what was actually missing is the thing that keeps it true. Writing the table
and keeping it correct are separate acts, and only the first one looks like work
— which is the same reason this repo already has a gate for orphaned gates.
check:country-names asserts both directions of drift (a data code with no
alpha-2, an alpha-2 the data never uses) and that every code resolves to a real
NAME rather than to its own input, which is what Intl returns for a well-formed
code it does not know.
★ IT CARRIES TWO ARMS THAT MUST FAIL. A coverage gate that only counts hits
passes identically on 242 correct entries and on a table where every lookup
silently returns its input, so the last block feeds it an unassigned code and a
malformed one and FAILS if either is reported as resolved. Mutation-tested in
both directions before committing: deleting TCD from the bridge fails with
"1 code(s) with no alpha-2"; pointing TCD at a bogus QQ fails with three
unresolved lookups, one per locale. Table restored byte-identical after.
ar and zh are not decoration: ar is our only RTL locale, and zh uses a script
where an untranslated Latin code is unmistakable on sight.
NOT WIRED INTO THE REGIONS TABLES AND POPUPS, deliberately, against the brief.
All four regions fetches already send &lang=, so the API returns country labels
in the reader's language and summarizeRegions names each country from that
label — those surfaces are already localized. Swapping countryName() in would
replace a correct localized name with a differently-spelled one: Intl's English
differs from our canonical names for 42 of 242 countries ("Cabo Verde" ->
"Cape Verde", "Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba" -> "Caribbean Netherlands").
I re-measured that 42 rather than trusting the header that claims it. Changing
which name is canonical is a product decision and it would break clone parity
against live doxa.life, so it is not mine to make inside a localization card.
public/README.md's bundle count moves 24 -> 25: generated by bun run tree when
the country-map bundle was added on the parent commit, not hand-edited.
Narrowed by a measurement that arrived after the gate landed. The header and the
package.json description said the ordering was "not the cause" of the grey
Regions tab. True, but far too weak: the ordering is UNCONSTRUCTIBLE today.
region-dashboards.vue:1091 gates the ENTIRE map subtree behind v-if="loading",
and loadRegions assigns points.value inside the try while loading.value = false
sits in the finally. So points are always populated before the element that reads
them is permitted to mount — the map cannot mount with empty points, which is the
one thing this ordering requires.
rega measured it rather than reasoned it: 0 grey in 36 mounts, including a run
with the prayer API held back 20 seconds. The map was constructed AFTER the data
every time (API 44.4s -> construct 45.2s -> addLayer with 175 match arms). The
prediction's precondition never occurred, so it was neither confirmed nor
falsified — it was unreachable.
So this gate guards a FUTURE refactor that drops that v-if data gate. That is a
narrower and more useful claim than "hardening", and it is what the next reader
needs: someone removing the loading gate for a good reason would otherwise
reintroduce a flat-grey fill with nothing to catch it.
Comments and one description string only — no code changed, verified by
filtering the diff to non-comment lines (empty). The gate still PASSES, and
still FAILS when the repaint is stripped, so narrowing the prose did not weaken
the instrument. gates:pre 52/52 on development.
The grey Regions tab stays OPEN and is not this. The untested dimensions are the
engine (all 36 mounts were MapLibre; the Mapbox path reads a vector
country-boundaries source that PRODUCTION-MATRIX:235 records as 403-ing on the
sandbox token), the Plugin Studio preview entry, and what "grey" means — a whole
grey canvas and pale country fills are disjoint bugs.
usePosterLayout has always computed a real layout: the map narrowed by the legend
column and inset by the margins, the title strip and the footer strip. Nothing in
the exporter ever read it. The map was rastered at full page size -- edge to edge,
across the margins and both bands -- and the title, legend and footer were then
composited on top of that image. The legend lay over the map it describes, and
there were no bands at all.
What kept it hidden is that PosterPreview.vue DOES honour layout.map, so the
on-screen preview has always shown the intended design and only the exported file
was wrong. A preview is not evidence for an export.
The obvious fix breaks a different product. country-posters embeds this renderer's
output as a full-sheet <img> inside its own packet page, beneath the packet's own
title, so chrome that is on by default prints a second header and footer within
their page. UPG-100's packet does not call this renderer at all and was never at
risk -- checked rather than assumed. So the composed sheet is requested with
spec.layout === 'poster', and every existing caller, which sets none, keeps what
it had.
That guarantee is stronger than "equivalent": with no layout the renderer passes
the SAME px OBJECT it always did to the rasteriser and composites no sheet, so the
untouched path is unchanged by identity, not merely by value. The check asserts
exactly that, by executing the decision with four real caller shapes -- including
country-posters' A4 at 150 DPI -- rather than reading the source for a promise.
Its second negative test is the ruling's own failure mode: make defaultPosterSpec
set the layout and country-posters is named as silently opted in.
A sheet with no room left for a map after its margins, bands and legend column
falls back to full-bleed and says so, because silence there is the bug above.
Simple Research's export asks for the layout explicitly.
Page 1 of every packet draws the zone map from mapSvg. When the map
fetch fails, the page interpolated an empty string: a title, a
subtitle, a privacy footnote, and nothing where the map belongs. A
failed fetch and a successful render were byte-indistinguishable in
the printed PDF, and the packet read as undeveloped.
It is not a rare edge. The served asset pool ships boundaries, fonts,
images, people-groups, pplr, previews, tables and vendor, and no
posters/ directory at all, because generate-tree gates it behind
posterSources and bundlePosters, both default false. Over live HTTP
against the served tree: previews/sudan.webp 200,
boundaries/world-adm0-web.geojson 200, posters/sudan.html 404. So on a
default build every packet's page 1 has been blank.
The browser path's catch around the poster fetch is right to keep
printing -- a missing map must not cost the reader the people pages --
but degrading and degrading silently are different things, and only
the renderer knows the map is absent when it draws the page. It now
prints one quiet sentence in the map's place.
The sentence is English-only on purpose. t() falls back to English per
key, so the other ten locales print it in English until a translator
supplies theirs, rather than ten invented translations nobody can
check.
The real fix for the blank map is shipping the poster sources in the
asset pool; that is a tree-config change and goes separately.
check-packet-map-missing-loud is two-sided: loud when the map is
missing AND quiet when it is present with the SVG intact, in en/es/ar,
both variants. Shown capable of failing four ways: the silent cover, a
notice that always prints, a notice that displaces the map, and the raw
key printed instead of a sentence.
Page 1 of every UPG-100 prayer packet is the zone map, drawn from
<tree>/assets/posters/<id>.html. The tree shipped no posters/ at all:
generate-tree gates the folder behind posterSources and bundlePosters, both
default false, so the fetch 404'd and the packet, which rightly keeps printing
without its map, printed page 1 blank.
The dx-maps config now sets posterSources: the 28 sources, without the 41 MB of
.webp rasters. Measured: 27 MB raw, 7 MB gzipped. The copies are byte-identical
to the tracked data/posters/*.html, so git stores each blob once and a push adds
no new pack bytes. The code default stays false for other deployments.
check:poster-print-fallback now RUNS by default instead of skipping. Part 1 needs
no browser and runs in every wave: when the config ships sources, the built tree
must carry every data/posters/*.html, byte-identical (a stale copy prints an old
map just as quietly). It FAILs 28 of 28 on the tree before this change and PASSes
after. Part 2 clicks the real print control and is NOT MEASURED (75) outside the
browser slot; with no url it serves this checkout and opens the UPG-100 wall. The
skips that exited 0, which a wave reads as a pass, now exit 75. Registered in
gates:post.
usePosterLayout has always computed a real layout: the map narrowed by the legend
column and inset by the margins, the title strip and the footer strip. Nothing in
the exporter ever read it. The map was rastered at full page size -- edge to edge,
across the margins and both bands -- and the title, legend and footer were then
composited on top of that image. The legend lay over the map it describes, and
there were no bands at all.
What kept it hidden is that PosterPreview.vue DOES honour layout.map, so the
on-screen preview has always shown the intended design and only the exported file
was wrong. A preview is not evidence for an export.
The obvious fix breaks a different product. country-posters embeds this renderer's
output as a full-sheet <img> inside its own packet page, beneath the packet's own
title, so chrome that is on by default prints a second header and footer within
their page. UPG-100's packet does not call this renderer at all and was never at
risk -- checked rather than assumed. So the composed sheet is requested with
spec.layout === 'poster', and every existing caller, which sets none, keeps what
it had.
That guarantee is stronger than "equivalent": with no layout the renderer passes
the SAME px OBJECT it always did to the rasteriser and composites no sheet, so the
untouched path is unchanged by identity, not merely by value. The check asserts
exactly that, by executing the decision with four real caller shapes -- including
country-posters' A4 at 150 DPI -- rather than reading the source for a promise.
Its second negative test is the ruling's own failure mode: make defaultPosterSpec
set the layout and country-posters is named as silently opted in.
A sheet with no room left for a map after its margins, bands and legend column
falls back to full-bleed and says so, because silence there is the bug above.
Simple Research's export asks for the layout explicitly.
RT8 goal (b). Two gates already touch the engine and neither asserts this:
check-leaf-engine-per-provider proves MAPLIBRE purity (zero *.mapbox.com
requests under ?provider=maplibre) and that a map still draws, but never forces
Mapbox; check-provider-switch does load ?provider=mapbox — with a FAKE token, so
the engine LOADING was measured and a tile RENDERING never was, on one leaf.
So "Mapbox works" was unmeasured across the seven production tabs. This measures
it, and refuses to pretend when it cannot.
WHAT IT READS, and why each is the stronger property:
· THE ENGINE off the canvas that drew — .mapboxgl-canvas vs .maplibregl-canvas
— never from which globals exist. A leaf asked for Mapbox that quietly draws
with MapLibre looks identical to success in a screenshot and passes every
paint check; a peer script that merely loaded Mapbox proves nothing.
· THAT IT DREW via queryRenderedFeatures() > 0. A canvas at the right size is
not a map: this repo already had a country map render fully blank while "a
real GL canvas exists at 1200x780" passed.
THREE EXIT STATES, BECAUSE TWO WOULD FORCE A LIE. On this sandbox the Mapbox
/v4/ composite raster endpoint and country-boundaries both 403 — proven outside
the browser with no Referer, with 127.0.0.1 and with localhost, so it is tileset
ENTITLEMENT, not the embed (PRODUCTION-MATRIX:235). Failing on that would
manufacture work for every owner; passing on it would be false. It exits 75 NOT
MEASURED and names the endpoint. No token, or a non-pk. token, is also 75 — a
fake token is exactly the false green this gate exists to refuse.
THE NEGATIVE ARM is in the same file: ?provider=maplibre must draw with MapLibre.
If it does not, the engine check cannot tell the engines apart and every pass
above it is unfalsifiable.
★ TARGETS COME FROM THE MANIFEST, AND SELECTING ON isMap ALONE LOST A TAB.
Measured: it found 6 of the 7 curated tabs. research-map-plus-grid (Simple
Research) is a nested-elements-mfe with isMap:false whose CHILD holds the map, so
it would have been skipped in silence — the exact class of miss this gate is
meant to catch. A composed tab now counts if it is isMap ITSELF or composes a
profile that is: 7 of 7.
Registered in package.json (script + description) and in verify-browser-all's
GATES array — deliberately NOT gates:pre, because it needs the browser seat.
Verified by re-reading the parsed package.json, and check:no-orphan-gates names
only the pre-existing check-gospel-whiteboard.mjs, not this.
HARDENING, NOT THE FIX for the grey Regions tab. That tab has been seen loading
grey on first load and coloured after a reload. This closes one ordering that
can reach a flat-grey fill. On built bundles that ordering did not reproduce the
grey tab (0 of 20 loads grey, the fill present with its expression at addLayer),
so the reported bug stays open; the lead is the dev/HMR re-mount path.
THE ORDERING. regionFillExpression builds a ['match'] from props.points; with
no points it returns a FLAT no-data grey. addLayers SNAPSHOTS that value into
the layer's paint when it creates the layer. applySubject does repaint the fill
correctly, but it guards every write on getLayer() — deliberately — so a change
arriving BEFORE the layer exists is silently dropped and never retried. And on
MapLibre, the DEFAULT engine, the country boundaries are added as an EMPTY
source and populated by a later fetch's setData(), which nothing repainted
after. In that ordering the fill keeps the colour it was born with.
THE CHANGE is one call: repaint after the boundaries setData, which is the first
moment the layer has any features on the MapLibre path and the only repaint
guaranteed to run with both inputs present. applySubject is idempotent and
getLayer-guarded, so it is harmless when the colour was already right — it only
removes the ordering's power to be the last word.
★ TWO THINGS I GOT WRONG FIRST, both caught by the gate rather than by review,
and both recorded because the wrong version was plausible:
1. MY MODEL COULD NOT REPRODUCE THE BUG. The first version's negative control
fired: no arrival order greyed even with no repaint, so it could not have
detected what it existed for. The greying order is not "data before the
layer" — by then the snapshot is already coloured. It is points arriving
AFTER both addLayers and its mount repaint, with the watch's repaint not
landing. Corrected, exactly 1 of 3 orders greys without the fix and none
with it.
2. I BLAMED THE EMPTY SOURCE, WHICH CANNOT CAUSE GREY. An empty source draws
NOTHING; fill-color is an expression over feature properties. A grey
landmass therefore means features ARE present and the expression came back
flat. The repaint after setData is still required, for the narrower reason
above. The gate carries that correction so the wrong reason cannot be
inherited from a comment.
THE GATE'S OWN INSTRUMENT WAS WRONG TWICE TOO. A 400-char window between
setData and the repaint failed on the repaint's own comment. Widening it to
1600 then PASSED when I deleted the real repaint and left an unrelated
applySubject() 1200 chars downstream — measured, not feared. A distance is the
wrong instrument, so the .then() block is now extracted by brace matching and
the repaint required INSIDE it. The first structural attempt anchored on the
nearest '=>' and landed inside the callback body, because `for (const f of ...)`
has one; it anchors on the enclosing '=> {' now. Four arms mutation-tested,
including that decoy, and every mutated file restored byte-identical.
rega's heap snapshots (leak-722ac7789): Simple Research and All People Groups
mounted twice went 54.2 MB to 65.1 MB, with live Vue apps 6 to 8. Every unmounted
application was still there, one copy per mount, and the retainers were all the
same shape -- a window key set during setup and never cleared. The closure keeps
its component, the component keeps its shadow root, and a whole app survives its
own unmount. An element property dies with the element; a window key does not.
The named one was window.__doxaLogoOwner -> Map -> div.rm-map-canvas -> ShadowRoot
-> app, released only when the map's 'remove' event fires. That listener cannot be
the guarantee the global is cleared, because it only runs if remove() is reached;
it is a consequence of the guarantee, not the guarantee itself. useMapInstance now
drops the claim inside destroy(), before removing, so it goes even if remove()
throws part-way.
As for why remove() was never reached: research-map's unmount hook ran ten
teardown steps and called destroy() last, and two of those steps were unguarded
calls into other composables. A single throw anywhere above stranded the map, and
with it the app. I could not reproduce which step threw without a browser, so the
fix does not depend on knowing: each step is isolated and destroy() runs from a
finally, where nothing above it can skip it. Ordering teardown so the most
important step is last, behind nine chances to fail, was the real defect.
The globals themselves are released by the components that set them -- four verify
hooks in research-map, three in the dashboard map panel, the vocabulary hook in
the grid, which had no unmount hook at all. Released as SETS: __rdashPinAt was the
one the snapshot named, but __rdashMap holds the map and retains strictly more, so
clearing only the reported one would have looked fixed and leaked nearly as much.
The deletes are written one per line instead of looped over an array of names, so
that the check can read them. A release a checker cannot see is worth no more than
no release, the day someone removes three of the four.
The check flags only values that actually retain. A warn-once boolean latch and a
page-wide cache keyed off itself are deliberate and must not be reported, or it
becomes noise and gets switched off. It is NOT in gates:pre: 19 sites remain in
other owners' plugins, and this is a fleet pattern rather than one plugin's bug.
useLegendData returns { items, columns, title, activeFilter, setFilter,
totalCount, totalPopulation, progress, fmtPop, fmtCount }. There is no `rows`.
research-map read legend.rows in three places, and because JavaScript answers
undefined rather than complaining, each one failed in a different costume:
- provide('legendRows', legend.rows) provided undefined, and nothing in the repo
injects that key -- the comment above it described a contract no component
implements
- openPoster's fallback, legend?.rows?.value || [], could only ever be [], so on
any tab where the flat legend is empty the poster had no legend rows
- the packet's page-1 slot was rows: legend?.rows?.value || [] with NO second
source, so that poster's legend was empty unconditionally
and useMapPoster skips the legend slot entirely when the row list is empty. So the
missing legend on the exported poster had two independent causes: the renderer
painting it over the map, fixed separately, and this -- an empty array arriving
through a fallback that could never be anything else.
Both poster paths now share one builder, so they cannot drift apart again, and it
flattens children because a prayer legend is a parent plus two child tiers and
printing only the parents describes bands the map does not draw.
Two further calls went the same way: legend.refresh?.() and
legend.build?.(normalizedPeopleGroups), against methods the composable has never
defined. The optional call swallowed both, so two lines that read like steps did
nothing. `items` is a computed and re-derives on its own, so they are gone rather
than repointed.
exp-shepherd found the same misspelling in countries-map, where it threw instead
(NE-17). The check therefore guards the class rather than these lines: it reads
the returned key set from the composable and reports any consumer reading outside
it. It is NOT in gates:pre yet, because it still reports countries-map, which
belongs to another owner.
Writing it turned up two traps worth keeping. Stripping block comments with one
global regex DELETED REAL CODE -- a slash-star inside an ordinary string opens a
comment nobody wrote and the replace runs to the next real terminator -- and the
check confidently reported "no consumers at all" while both sat in the files. And
matching property reads by name flagged every t('legend.colLabel.religion'): an
i18n key spelled like a property access is not a read.
The projection toggle and the zoom toolbar share the top-right corner. The toolbar
was pinned at a literal top:34px, a number that was correct when it was chosen:
the toggle then measured 74x23 and ended at y=31, which this panel's own comment
records as a live measurement. A later accessibility fix gave the toggle
min-height:24px for WCAG 2.5.8. Nothing in this shadow root sets box-sizing
globally -- it appears exactly once, on the legend -- so 24 was a CONTENT height
and the rendered box became 24 plus 8 padding plus 2 border = 34px. Sitting at
top:8 it now ended at y=42 and ran 8px into the toolbar, which has z-index 10
against the toggle's 3 and so drew straight over it.
Nobody did anything careless. A correct fix to one control broke another because
the agreement between them was a magic number living in the other rule, where the
person changing the first had no reason to look.
So the toggle gets box-sizing:border-box, which makes 24 mean twenty-four and
keeps it a legitimate 24px touch target, and the toolbar's offset is now
calc(--rd-proj-top + --rd-proj-h + --rd-ctl-gap). The relationship is stated once,
on the element that owns it, and both the desktop rule and its mobile restatement
read it. Changing the toggle's size now moves the toolbar by construction.
The check computes the toggle's rendered height from its own declarations the way
a browser does, honouring box-sizing, rather than asserting either number --
restating 34 here would have rebuilt the same trap one file further away. Run
against the code as it stood before this commit it reports the overlap and its
exact size. It also requires the toolbar to DERIVE its offset, because a literal
that is correct today is the precise shape of this bug.
Every plugin ships as a self-contained IIFE, so library/utils/embedScript.js is
compiled separately into each one: eleven bundles on main each carry their own
copy. Its cache was a module-scoped const, which made "load exactly once" true
per BUNDLE rather than per page — the opposite of what the file's own header
claimed. Two shells nesting the same child (the Research Gallery and the Plugin
Studio both mounting doxa-research-map) each injected it.
Nothing failed, which is why it survived. The second request came from the HTTP
cache, so no failed request and no extra network row; the bundle then executed in
full a second time — a second Vue, a second vue-i18n, a second pinia, ~375 KiB
gzip of work — and its guarded customElements.define quietly declined at the very
end. Where the two URLs are different versions of one plugin, whichever executed
first owns the tag and the other is discarded in silence.
The cache now lives on globalThis, the only scope that matches the claim, under a
versioned key so a page mixing old and new bundles falls back to a cache each
rather than misreading a shape it does not expect. Entries are keyed by the
resolved href, because the callers do not pass the same string for one file.
A <script> already in the document is adopted, which is what covers bundles built
before this and host pages that write their own tag; that resolves immediately,
and it is safe only because every caller here follows with a wait on the element
itself — the note in the file says so, since a new caller must keep that pairing.
claimTag is a diagnostic, not a guard: by the time a second bundle arrives the
define is long since won, so the thing that was missing was anyone saying so.
The check imports the module twice under different URLs — two module instances
sharing one globalThis, the same shape as two IIFEs on one page. It asserts the
second caller receives the FIRST one's promise, not merely that one script tag
exists: mutation-testing showed the tag count alone is satisfied by the adoption
path, so it would have passed with the original bug restored.
vue-i18n v9 pluralizes by an English-shaped INDEX and applies it to every
locale. Measured on a real instance, authoring 'a | b | c':
ru n=0 -> the ONE form, n=2 -> the MANY form CLDR: 0=many, 2=few
ar n=3, 11, 100 -> ALL the dual form CLDR: few, many, other
That is confidently wrong grammar that looks translated, which is worse than
the single fixed form the regions summary shipped until now. upg100 proposed a
plural key and was correctly refused on this exact ground
(upg-100-list.vue:3006) — "real plural support needs a pluralRules map at
createI18n". The refusal's premise was the missing map, so this adds it.
THE PRECONDITION SWEEP (dx-shepherd), before installing anything: every
catalogue value containing " | " across all 11 locales, and every call site
passing a plural choice.
pipe keys: wall.prayedCount, wall.havePrayed — and ONLY in en. Every other
locale ships a pipe-free label form ("Помолились: {n}").
call sites: exactly two, both in wall-of-people-groups
(CommentsDialog.vue:36, wallCanvas.js:198).
BEFORE/AFTER, 2 keys x 11 locales x n = 0,1,2,3,11,100:
132 renders compared, 0 CHANGED.
Zero changed because the map is SCOPED TO EXCLUDE en, which is the one locale
holding pipe strings today. en is also the case dx-shepherd's assertion (3) is
about: vue-i18n's 3-form default is zero|one|many while CLDR for en is
one|other, so an en string written "none | one | {n}" would change meaning at
n=0. Leaving en out means it cannot.
★ THE BUG I SHIPPED INTO MY OWN FIRST DRAFT, caught by reading the rendered
Russian rather than by any assertion: the index was taken against the fixed
zero|one|two|few|many|other list, which is only correct for a locale that HAS
all six. ru has {one, few, many, other} — no zero, no two — so 'few' sat at
global index 3 while the authored string holds it at 1, and n=2/n=3 rendered
"2 стран" instead of "2 страны". ARABIC HID IT COMPLETELY, being the one locale
that does have all six, so its two indexes coincide. The index is now computed
against each locale's OWN category subset, and ru/ro are authored in that order.
ar 0 لا دول · 1 دولة واحدة · 2 دولتان · 3 دول · 11 دولة · 100 دولة
ru 0 стран · 1 страна · 2 страны · 3 страны · 11 стран · 100 стран
(regionCount likewise; all six categories distinct in ar, all three in ru)
check:plural-forms carries studio's three assertions, each mutation-tested to
fail: FORM COUNT (a 2-form ru string fails against its 4 categories), the
tStatic PATH (reading a pipe key through tStatic fails — tStatic does no
selection at all, so the page would show the literal "a | b | c"), and ZERO (a
5-form ar string fails because ar has an explicit zero category). Every mutated
file restored byte-identical afterwards.
The regions shim gains tc(key, n). t() resolves through tm()+rt(), and rt()
takes a message only — there is nowhere to pass the choice — so a pipe string
would come back whole. tc goes through vue-i18n's own t(key, named, choice).
Registered in all three places and VERIFIED by re-reading the parsed
package.json, not by trusting the replace: my last gate registration silently
no-opped on two of three anchors and studio caught it at the landing.
rega RQ20: the driven page asks for show-search:false and show-filters:false and
renders the search box and the filters bar anyway, with 0 console errors. There
were no errors because nothing failed. The key never arrived:
· the preset writes KEBAB into profile-config — "show-search": "false"
· ProfileLoader PROVIDES that object; it does not bind its keys as props
· the profile reads props.showSearch (CAMEL), which keeps its default of true
Three correct-looking layers and no join between them. A preset key that does
nothing looks exactly like a preset key that works, which is why the fix ships
with a gate rather than a comment.
The grid now reads these flags off the config as well as the prop, in the same
prop -> cfg ladder researchUrl beside them already used, and accepts BOTH
spellings: someone writing profile-config by hand reaches for the kebab spelling
because that is what the docs show on the tag, while the prop is camel.
Accepting one silently is what made this inert. An explicit prop still wins.
Proved on five cases including the exact preset, an explicit prop overriding the
config, and config:true keeping the control on.
check:instance-config-keys asserts every preset key reaches the profile that
renders it. Writing it was the interesting part, and it was WRONG TWICE:
1. First version matched only `cfg.` and reported NINE FALSE POSITIVES across
four plugins — big-picture reads config.value.accent, doxa-simple-map reads
profileConfig?.value?.tabs. The config object's variable name is each
profile's own business; matching on it measured my naming habit, not the
contract.
2. Widening it to "any accessor" then matched `props.showSearch` — the exact
line that does NOT work — and the gate went GREEN on the defect it exists
for. props is the one object that cannot carry a profile-config key, so it
is now masked out before the match.
Mutation-tested after that: reverting the fix to props-only makes it fail again,
and the grid file is restored byte-identical. A gate I have not watched fail is
not evidence, and this one passed for the wrong reason once already.
The four bundles that embed the grid are rebuilt, so the fix is in the shipped
.js and not only in the source rega cannot run.
rega's heap snapshots (leak-722ac7789): Simple Research and All People Groups
mounted twice went 54.2 MB to 65.1 MB, with live Vue apps 6 to 8. Every unmounted
application was still there, one copy per mount, and the retainers were all the
same shape -- a window key set during setup and never cleared. The closure keeps
its component, the component keeps its shadow root, and a whole app survives its
own unmount. An element property dies with the element; a window key does not.
The named one was window.__doxaLogoOwner -> Map -> div.rm-map-canvas -> ShadowRoot
-> app, released only when the map's 'remove' event fires. That listener cannot be
the guarantee the global is cleared, because it only runs if remove() is reached;
it is a consequence of the guarantee, not the guarantee itself. useMapInstance now
drops the claim inside destroy(), before removing, so it goes even if remove()
throws part-way.
As for why remove() was never reached: research-map's unmount hook ran ten
teardown steps and called destroy() last, and two of those steps were unguarded
calls into other composables. A single throw anywhere above stranded the map, and
with it the app. I could not reproduce which step threw without a browser, so the
fix does not depend on knowing: each step is isolated and destroy() runs from a
finally, where nothing above it can skip it. Ordering teardown so the most
important step is last, behind nine chances to fail, was the real defect.
The globals themselves are released by the components that set them -- four verify
hooks in research-map, three in the dashboard map panel, the vocabulary hook in
the grid, which had no unmount hook at all. Released as SETS: __rdashPinAt was the
one the snapshot named, but __rdashMap holds the map and retains strictly more, so
clearing only the reported one would have looked fixed and leaked nearly as much.
The deletes are written one per line instead of looped over an array of names, so
that the check can read them. A release a checker cannot see is worth no more than
no release, the day someone removes three of the four.
The check flags only values that actually retain. A warn-once boolean latch and a
page-wide cache keyed off itself are deliberate and must not be reported, or it
becomes noise and gets switched off. It is NOT in gates:pre: 19 sites remain in
other owners' plugins, and this is a fleet pattern rather than one plugin's bug.
useLegendData returns { items, columns, title, activeFilter, setFilter,
totalCount, totalPopulation, progress, fmtPop, fmtCount }. There is no `rows`.
research-map read legend.rows in three places, and because JavaScript answers
undefined rather than complaining, each one failed in a different costume:
- provide('legendRows', legend.rows) provided undefined, and nothing in the repo
injects that key -- the comment above it described a contract no component
implements
- openPoster's fallback, legend?.rows?.value || [], could only ever be [], so on
any tab where the flat legend is empty the poster had no legend rows
- the packet's page-1 slot was rows: legend?.rows?.value || [] with NO second
source, so that poster's legend was empty unconditionally
and useMapPoster skips the legend slot entirely when the row list is empty. So the
missing legend on the exported poster had two independent causes: the renderer
painting it over the map, fixed separately, and this -- an empty array arriving
through a fallback that could never be anything else.
Both poster paths now share one builder, so they cannot drift apart again, and it
flattens children because a prayer legend is a parent plus two child tiers and
printing only the parents describes bands the map does not draw.
Two further calls went the same way: legend.refresh?.() and
legend.build?.(normalizedPeopleGroups), against methods the composable has never
defined. The optional call swallowed both, so two lines that read like steps did
nothing. `items` is a computed and re-derives on its own, so they are gone rather
than repointed.
exp-shepherd found the same misspelling in countries-map, where it threw instead
(NE-17). The check therefore guards the class rather than these lines: it reads
the returned key set from the composable and reports any consumer reading outside
it. It is NOT in gates:pre yet, because it still reports countries-map, which
belongs to another owner.
Writing it turned up two traps worth keeping. Stripping block comments with one
global regex DELETED REAL CODE -- a slash-star inside an ordinary string opens a
comment nobody wrote and the replace runs to the next real terminator -- and the
check confidently reported "no consumers at all" while both sat in the files. And
matching property reads by name flagged every t('legend.colLabel.religion'): an
i18n key spelled like a property access is not a read.
The Driver, test round 2: some of the dashboard map's controls overlap each other.
The projection toggle and the zoom toolbar share the top-right corner. The toolbar
was pinned at a literal top:34px, a number that was correct when it was chosen:
the toggle then measured 74x23 and ended at y=31, which this panel's own comment
records as a live measurement. A later accessibility fix gave the toggle
min-height:24px for WCAG 2.5.8. Nothing in this shadow root sets box-sizing
globally -- it appears exactly once, on the legend -- so 24 was a CONTENT height
and the rendered box became 24 plus 8 padding plus 2 border = 34px. Sitting at
top:8 it now ended at y=42 and ran 8px into the toolbar, which has z-index 10
against the toggle's 3 and so drew straight over it.
Nobody did anything careless. A correct fix to one control broke another because
the agreement between them was a magic number living in the other rule, where the
person changing the first had no reason to look.
So the toggle gets box-sizing:border-box, which makes 24 mean twenty-four and
keeps it a legitimate 24px touch target, and the toolbar's offset is now
calc(--rd-proj-top + --rd-proj-h + --rd-ctl-gap). The relationship is stated once,
on the element that owns it, and both the desktop rule and its mobile restatement
read it. Changing the toggle's size now moves the toolbar by construction.
The check computes the toggle's rendered height from its own declarations the way
a browser does, honouring box-sizing, rather than asserting either number --
restating 34 here would have rebuilt the same trap one file further away. Run
against the code as it stood before this commit it reports the overlap and its
exact size. It also requires the toolbar to DERIVE its offset, because a literal
that is correct today is the precise shape of this bug.
The Driver, on the Simple Research poster: the legend has to sit beside the map,
never over it, with a proper header and footer.
usePosterLayout has always computed exactly that. computeLayout narrows the map
by the legend column and insets it by the margins, the title strip and the footer
strip, and it has done so since the file was written. Nothing in the exporter
ever read it. The hidden map was spawned at the full page size — edge to edge,
across the margins, the header band and the footer band — and the title, legend
and footer were then composited on top of that image. So the legend was a
translucent white panel lying over the map, and there were no bands at all.
What kept it hidden is worth recording: PosterPreview.vue, the thing a developer
looks at, DOES honour layout.map. The on-screen preview has always shown the
intended design; only the exported file was wrong. A preview is not evidence for
an export, and the two had drifted apart with nothing to notice.
The map is now rastered at the size of its own box and drawn onto a white sheet
at the position the layout gives it. A sheet with no room for a map after its
margins, bands and legend column falls back to full-bleed and says so, because
silence there is the bug this commit removes.
The check has two arms on purpose. A test of computeLayout alone would have
passed every day the bug was alive, since the geometry was never what was broken;
the second arm asserts the renderer consumes it. Both arms are negative-tested,
and two of those tests caught the check reading a function DECLARATION rather
than a call — the parameter is also named px, and a name is present because it is
declared, so presence proves nothing about use.
country-posters renders through the same path and inherits the change: its page-1
map image gains the same bands.
Every plugin ships as a self-contained IIFE, so library/utils/embedScript.js is
compiled separately into each one: eleven bundles on main each carry their own
copy. Its cache was a module-scoped const, which made "load exactly once" true
per BUNDLE rather than per page — the opposite of what the file's own header
claimed. Two shells nesting the same child (the Research Gallery and the Plugin
Studio both mounting doxa-research-map) each injected it.
Nothing failed, which is why it survived. The second request came from the HTTP
cache, so no failed request and no extra network row; the bundle then executed in
full a second time — a second Vue, a second vue-i18n, a second pinia, ~375 KiB
gzip of work — and its guarded customElements.define quietly declined at the very
end. Where the two URLs are different versions of one plugin, whichever executed
first owns the tag and the other is discarded in silence.
The cache now lives on globalThis, the only scope that matches the claim, under a
versioned key so a page mixing old and new bundles falls back to a cache each
rather than misreading a shape it does not expect. Entries are keyed by the
resolved href, because the callers do not pass the same string for one file.
A <script> already in the document is adopted, which is what covers bundles built
before this and host pages that write their own tag; that resolves immediately,
and it is safe only because every caller here follows with a wait on the element
itself — the note in the file says so, since a new caller must keep that pairing.
claimTag is a diagnostic, not a guard: by the time a second bundle arrives the
define is long since won, so the thing that was missing was anyone saying so.
The check imports the module twice under different URLs — two module instances
sharing one globalThis, the same shape as two IIFEs on one page. It asserts the
second caller receives the FIRST one's promise, not merely that one script tag
exists: mutation-testing showed the tag count alone is satisfied by the adoption
path, so it would have passed with the original bug restored.
rega measured a cold load of Simple Research pulling 24 people-group photos, 5.3 MB,
DURING BOOT — alongside the map engine and the API data, on one connection. Nothing was
wrong with any single image. There was no instruction about WHEN to fetch them, so the
browser fetched them all at once, which is the correct behaviour for markup that says
nothing.
Past the first row the cards now load lazily, at low fetch priority, decoded off the main
thread.
★ THE FIRST ROW STAYS EAGER, and that is the half a blanket loading="lazy" gets wrong.
Lazy-loading what the reader is already looking at trades a visible flash of empty cards
for bytes nobody saves. EAGER_IMAGES is a COLUMN COUNT, not a taste: the grid is
repeat(auto-fill, minmax(240px, 1fr)) unless a host overrides cards-per-row, so the first
row is never more than five cards at any width. It is a constant rather than a read of
perRow because the override is the host's state and this only needs a safe CEILING —
generous by a card costs a few KB, short by one lazy-loads something in view.
The size is stated on the element as well as in CSS. .uupg__image already carries
aspect-ratio 1/1, which is what actually reserves the box; width/height repeat the same
1:1 as an intrinsic ratio for the moment before the stylesheet applies. The same truth
twice on purpose, not a second different one.
check:grid-image-loading exists because this component is being MERGED with the regions
list right now, and a merge rewrites markup: four attributes on one <img> survive a review
and not a rewrite, and losing them is invisible — the page still works and costs 5.3 MB
again. It also fails if it cannot find the element, and asserts the first row is eager,
which a bare loading="lazy" would otherwise pass. Negative-tested four ways.
Coordinated with regions-plugin before touching a file they are actively reshaping: their
six hunks bracket this element without touching it, so neither of us collides.
DRV1650-LAZY-LOCALE-IMPORT-RETRY. net::ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED killed an embedded UPG-100's
load, and the card asks for the lazy locale/module loads to retry like
retryableAsyncComponent does.
★ THOSE URLs DO NOT EXIST IN PRODUCTION. The console named module URLs — locale JSON with
?import, useOptionalT.js, useShadowStyles.js, useMapTheme.js. The build is IIFE with
inlineDynamicImports (vite.config.js:216-220), so every one of them is inside the single
bundle and is never fetched separately. They are dev-server module requests. There is no
loader to wrap and nothing a reader could hit, so the card cannot be done as written, and
saying so is most of its value.
★ THE FAILURE CLASS IS REAL ONE LAYER DOWN, and nobody had covered it. A built bundle
still makes runtime requests — the boundaries geojson (twice, two composables), the
people-group list, prayer statistics — and NOT ONE of them retried. The same wifi switch
that killed the Driver's dev load takes out whichever of those is in flight, and the
feature is simply ABSENT: an empty map, a missing country outline, a statistic that never
arrives, with nothing a reader can act on. That is the same defect he reported, at the
layer that ships.
retryFetch is the fetch-shaped sibling of retryableAsyncComponent and deliberately shares
its policy — 3 attempts, growing backoff — because it survives the same event, and two
answers to "how long is a blip" would be worse than one.
It retries TRANSPORT failures only. A 404 or a 500 RESOLVES; retrying those would hide
real breakage and hammer a struggling server, so the response is handed back untouched.
An abort is a decision, not a blip, and is never retried.
check-retry-fetch asserts the behaviour AND that the shared data paths use it. Its
"persistently dead endpoint still fails" arm originally only checked that it threw — which
an UNBOUNDED retry loop also does, eventually. Caught by this gate's own negative test; it
now counts the attempts, because the property is bounded give-up and the bound is the
number. Negative-tested: retrying an abort, changing the default attempt count, and
reverting a data path to bare fetch each turn it red.
NOT wired: usePosterPrints, useCsvExport, PeopleGroupDetail and the token service also
fetch at runtime. They belong to other surfaces or have their own failure handling, and I
am not editing them blind — the list is in the report.
DRV1650-SR-LEGEND-FILLS-SEARCH-GAP. On Simple Research's Regions and Languages tabs the
search bar is gone but the legend does not rise into the space. The other tabs are fine.
The two-tab split was a predicate, not a coincidence. With no geocoder the legend rises
to 14px UNLESS showsFlyTools() is true, and that returns true for exactly 'doxa-regions',
'language-family' and 'language-families'. It stops at 56px to avoid a MEASURED collision
on country-posters, where LegendTools renders at top:14px — the legend's own slot.
★ BUT showsFlyTools() DESCRIBES THE LEGEND TYPE, NOT WHETHER THE TOOLBAR EXISTS. Fly and
Clusters are leaf-only: the composite — which is what a reader calls "Simple Research" —
passes legendTools:false, so the toolbar is never drawn there and the 56px reserved a
slot for nothing. rega measured it at 1440x900 on main e1d0bc20: the band from the map's
top edge (y 44) to the legend card (y 100) is 56px of EMPTY map on both tabs, with no
LegendTools anywhere in the strip.
So the offset now asks whether the toolbar is RENDERED, not whether the type allows one.
Keying it on the tab name would have closed the Driver's gap and reintroduced the
country-posters collision the moment the tools were shown — the guard is kept, it is
simply asked the right question.
showLegendTools moved ABOVE legendTopVar, which reads it. A computed body is lazy so a
later const would have resolved at runtime, but this file has a TDZ history and
check:setup-order exists because of it; position is cheaper to keep honest than to reason
about.
check-legend-top-offset asserts BOTH inputs are consulted — drop either and it fails —
and that the declaration still precedes its reader. Negative-tested.
This is reading (b) of the two I put to dx-shepherd, chosen because rega measured it
rather than because it was likelier. Reading (a) would have been a cosmetic change to a
toolbar that turned out not to be there.
The console showed 24 Vue warnings, 8 each for "profileModules", "appI18n"
and "Symbol(pinia)" — "already provides property with key … inherited from its parent
element. It will be overwritten with the new value." They come from a composite mounting
child custom elements: Vue's CE layer lets a child app inherit its parent ELEMENT's
provides, and app.provide() warns on any key already reachable.
ALL THREE MUST BE THE CHILD'S OWN, so neither silencing the warning nor honouring it by
not providing would have been right. profileModules is the plugin's own .vue glob — a
child rendering its parent's components is a different and worse bug. pinia is
per-instance so two embeds on one page never bleed store state. And the i18n instance is
the one ProfileLoader drives from THIS element's profile-config, which is the whole of
the permanently-English fix from earlier today. Inheriting any of the three would be the
regression, not the warning.
So the shadow is made DELIBERATE at the line that does it. provideOwn() writes to the
app's own provides when the key is already reachable and uses the public app.provide()
when it is not, so the ordinary path is untouched. pinia needs the other shape: its
symbol is module-private, so it can only be provided by app.use(), and the key cannot be
named — withoutInheritedProvides() hides the inherited chain for the duration of the
install and restores it in a FINALLY, so a throwing install cannot leave an element
unable to see its parent.
The helpers are split into library/elements/provide-own.js with NO framework import,
because defineMapElement.js imports ProfileLoader.vue and is therefore unloadable by the
gate that proves it right. Third time today that split has been necessary; the gate now
exercises the shipped helpers rather than a copy.
check-provide-shadowing asserts BOTH halves — the child ends up with its own value, AND
the parent's other provides still resolve afterwards — against a Vue-shaped fake app that
warns exactly as runtime-core does. Its control is the naive call, which must still warn.
Negative-tested three ways, including moving the restore out of the finally.
check-element-bootstrap now accepts either spelling and was re-checked for the thing it
actually guards: removing the provide entirely still turns it red.
The Driver wants MapLibre as the default everywhere, on cost and on how it
looks, with Mapbox supported as an explicit choice.
One line decided it. resolveMapProvider read
explicit || (token present ? 'mapbox' : 'maplibre')
so merely HOLDING a Mapbox token selected Mapbox. That conflated two different
things: having a token is a capability, wanting Mapbox is a decision, and only
the decision belongs in this function. It now reads explicit || 'maplibre'.
The token is still honoured for what it is — with provider:'mapbox' it
authenticates the map, and the token argument stays in the signature because
callers pass one they hold outside the config. It simply no longer votes.
The migration surface is exactly one shape: a host that pasted a real token into
a published embed snippet and set no provider. All 36 shipped snippets carry a
tk placeholder and no provider key, so any host who filled one in is in it. An
unfilled snippet was already MapLibre, because hasMapToken rejects YOUR_
placeholders, and the DX Life branches pass no token at all. Such a host keeps
Mapbox by adding "provider":"mapbox"; ?provider= and window.MAP_PROVIDER are
unchanged.
The gate's four token-selects-Mapbox assertions were the old specification, so
they are inverted rather than deleted — the diff should show what changed for
whom. Two are added: the opt-in still works with a token in hand, which is the
path a migrating host takes, and a real token is still SEEN, asserted apart from
the engine because otherwise the engine could be right while authentication
broke silently.
check:map-props-unit was not in gates:pre, so it proved nothing on a normal run.
It is now, and the suite reads 32 of 32 with it named.
DRV1650-SR-POSTER-EXPORT, the "too much Antarctica" half. The big-poster renderer
stitches a grid of tiles, each drawn into an EQUAL-HEIGHT slot of the output image, and
it chose each row's latitude band by dividing the degree span evenly:
latStep = (ne.lat - sw.lat) / rows
Screen height is proportional to ln(tan(pi/4 + lat/2)), not to latitude, so equal DEGREE
bands are not equal SCREEN bands. MEASURED on a -60..75 view in 4 rows: the top band is
37.0% of the true rendered height and was being painted into 25% of the poster; the next
19.7% into 25%; the bottom 25.2% into 25%. Every row is squeezed or stretched, which is
the wrong aspect, and the bands where a degree buys the most pixels are the most
over-represented -- the Antarctica the Driver saw.
Sliced in Mercator y instead, every row is 25.0%, exactly, because that IS the screen
coordinate.
★ THIRD PLACE TODAY FOR THE SAME MISTAKE. A whiteboard chart nearly shipped with a linear
scale into degrees; a measurement harness nearly reported a false threshold by correcting
the wrong axis; and this has been shipping. Treating latitude as a screen coordinate is
the error, the conversion is one line, and it now lives in library/maps/mercator-slice.js
rather than being rediscovered a fourth time.
check-mercator-slice asserts the PROPERTY across five view/row combinations -- every band
an equal share of rendered height, contiguous, covering the span, north-first -- and its
CONTROL is the old code: degree-linear slicing must FAIL the same assertion, which it does
by 12.0 points. Without that control the test would pass on a tree where nothing changed.
A -90..90 view clamps at the Mercator limit instead of going infinite.
NOT FIXED HERE, because it is a product decision and not a defect: the export also asks
for an 8.5x11 PORTRAIT sheet (research-map.vue:1410), so a landscape map is letterboxed
onto a tall page. That is a deliberate default, it is the other half of the wrong vertical aspect, and changing the poster's default shape is a product decision, not a fix.
DRV1650-SR-LEGEND-FILLS-SEARCH-GAP. On Simple Research's Regions and Languages tabs the
search bar is gone but the legend does not rise into the space. The other tabs are fine.
The two-tab split was a predicate, not a coincidence. With no geocoder the legend rises
to 14px UNLESS showsFlyTools() is true, and that returns true for exactly 'doxa-regions',
'language-family' and 'language-families'. It stops at 56px to avoid a MEASURED collision
on country-posters, where LegendTools renders at top:14px — the legend's own slot.
★ BUT showsFlyTools() DESCRIBES THE LEGEND TYPE, NOT WHETHER THE TOOLBAR EXISTS. Fly and
Clusters are leaf-only: the composite — which is what a reader calls "Simple Research" —
passes legendTools:false, so the toolbar is never drawn there and the 56px reserved a
slot for nothing. rega measured it at 1440x900 on main e1d0bc20: the band from the map's
top edge (y 44) to the legend card (y 100) is 56px of EMPTY map on both tabs, with no
LegendTools anywhere in the strip.
So the offset now asks whether the toolbar is RENDERED, not whether the type allows one.
Keying it on the tab name would have closed the Driver's gap and reintroduced the
country-posters collision the moment the tools were shown — the guard is kept, it is
simply asked the right question.
showLegendTools moved ABOVE legendTopVar, which reads it. A computed body is lazy so a
later const would have resolved at runtime, but this file has a TDZ history and
check:setup-order exists because of it; position is cheaper to keep honest than to reason
about.
check-legend-top-offset asserts BOTH inputs are consulted — drop either and it fails —
and that the declaration still precedes its reader. Negative-tested.
This is reading (b) of the two I put to dx-shepherd, chosen because rega measured it
rather than because it was likelier. Reading (a) would have been a cosmetic change to a
toolbar that turned out not to be there.
DRV1650-SHARE-MENU-MOBILE-OFFSCREEN. On mobile the share/embed menu opens off-screen to
the right on Cities with Internet and Gospel Resources, while Simple Research and Prayer
Progress are correct.
THE SPLIT IS NOT A PLUGIN DIFFERENCE. MapControlMenu resolved the area it places inside
with closest('.dsm-map-area, .rm-map-area, .dm-map-area, [data-map-area]') -- three
hardcoded plugin class names. doxa-simple-map and research-map are on that list. Everyone
else resolved `|| null`, and place() answers a null area by returning an EMPTY STYLE,
which leaves .mcm{position:absolute} at its STATIC position: below-and-right of a button
already at the top right. Off the page.
So the two maps that worked worked because they were named in a string in another
component, and the bug was decided by a literal rather than by geometry. It is also the
SAME failure the 2026-09-22 dashboard fix documents twenty lines below -- not "a wrong
side was chosen" but "nothing chose anything" -- returning through a different door.
MEASURED: cities-internet, gospel-resources, key-cities and upg-neighbor carry no
map-area class and no data-map-area, so FOUR plugins were unanchored. The Driver reported
two. A fix aimed at the two he named would have left the other two, and a gate written
around them would have passed.
The named area is still preferred, because it is a real map's walls and a menu must not
outgrow them. When a plugin declares none, the anchor falls back to the toolbar's own
offsetParent -- the containing block this menu is absolutely positioned against, so
placing against it is correct by definition rather than by registration. A plugin that
adopts a class later simply gets the better anchor; nothing has to be registered anywhere
for a menu to be on screen.
check-map-menu-anchor asserts the PROPERTY rather than the list: that the resolution
cannot produce null from a real toolbar, that place() still guards a genuinely absent
one, and that a declared map area is still preferred over the fallback. Negative-tested:
restoring the allowlist-only resolution turns it red.
NEEDS EYES: this is rendered geometry and I work headless. What I can prove is that the
anchor is no longer decided by a name; whether the menu now sits correctly at 390px on
all four is rega's to measure.
DRV1650-SR-EMBED-URL-RUNTIME-ORIGIN. The Driver copied
`research-map-plus-grid/research-map-plus-grid/index.html` from a page at
http://127.0.0.1:5192/, a link that works on no other site.
resolveShareUrl's tier 1 returns its input VERBATIM, correctly: a host handing over a
whole url has already decided. So a composite that BUILDS a tier-1 url takes on tier 2's
job, and both of mine wrote the same thing:
base ? base + '/' + leaf : leaf
On any host where the tree root cannot be derived from the script url — a dev server, an
ESM build, a tree served from a path that does not match `<name>/<name>.js` — base is ''
and the else branch hands tier 1 a bare relative path, which it then returns unresolved.
★ IT LOOKS RIGHT IN THE ONE PLACE ANYONE CHECKS. A relative share link WORKS WHEN
CLICKED, because the browser resolves it against the page you copied it from. It is the
EMBED that breaks — an <iframe src="…"> on a partner's page resolves against THEIRS — so
the failure is invisible exactly where it is tested and visible only where it ships.
research-map-plus-grid.vue:174 even documents the requirement ("It MUST be absolute,
which is the non-obvious part") four lines above the branch that violates it.
absoluteEmbedUrl() is tier 2's resolution made available to tier-1 builders: the
configured base when known, otherwise resolved against document.baseURI, which yields the
runtime origin. Never relative in a browser. The ladder is unchanged; only its last rung
is.
The gate has both arms, because either alone would rot: the RESOLVER must be absolute
with no base (the failing case, not the passing one), and no plugin may rebuild the
`: leaf` fallback. Negative-tested: removing the origin fallback, and re-introducing the
ternary in a plugin, each turn it red.
"Copy link didn't work" is most likely the same defect rather than a second one —
ShareButton's copy already falls back from navigator.clipboard to execCommand for
insecure contexts, so the copy almost certainly succeeded and produced a useless URL. If
it still fails after this, it is a separate bug and needs a browser to see.
Driver brief §B. gospel-internet's GiTree had NO props and NO emits: it read a board
composable and three module singletons, which is what made it gospel's rather than
anybody's. Everything it reached for is now a prop, and the parts worth testing are no
longer inside an SFC a gate cannot run.
WHAT IS ACTUALLY IN THE COMPONENT: wiring, 160 lines. The drawing is the whiteboard
tiered-points layer, the surface is whiteboard-map.js (moved out of gospel's plugin --
67 lines whose every import already came from library, so it was never theirs), the
hierarchy is language-tree-model.js and the camera is frame-target.js. Four modules,
four headless gates. An SFC cannot be executed by a check, so it should hold as little
as possible.
THREE BEHAVIOURS PINNED BECAUSE THEY ARE EASY TO STATE WRONGLY:
FRAME ON SELECT, NOT ON CHANGE. Clearing does not re-frame; the camera stays where the
reader left it. "It frames when the selection changes" is the obvious phrasing and it is
wrong in exactly the case that annoys people -- being yanked somewhere after deselecting.
A SELECTION THAT ARRIVES BEFORE THE MAP IS REPLAYED. GiTree survived this by ordering:
its host set the node through a composable that waited for data, so the value always
landed after the map. As a PROP the ordering belongs to the host, and a prop whose effect
depends on WHEN you set it is a trap -- a shared deep link would work or not depending on
load timing, which nobody could report. ready replays whatever `selected` is.
HOVER CANNOT MOVE THE CAMERA, structurally rather than by convention: hover sets a filter
on its own layer and there is no camera call on that path to remove later.
AND THE CONSTANTS. gospel's maintainer inherited GiTree and had to read intent out of
structure -- there is no "this took measuring" note anywhere in it. Asked which line they
would flag, they named frame(). So padding 60 (the outermost nodes carry labels that
extend past the point), maxZoom 8 (a two-language family must not fill the screen with
its own neighbourhood gone), duration 900, and the floor zoom that stops framing one node
from zooming the reader OUT are now stated with their reasons and asserted.
Two branch rules with them, both of which a tidy-up would erase: reduced motion is a
DIFFERENT CALL (jumpTo, not easeTo with duration 0 -- the engines do not treat those as
one), and a single point CENTRES rather than fitting a degenerate box, because a
one-language family is ordinary and fitBounds on no extent zooms to nothing.
THE ROLLUP IS OVER THE READER'S SCOPE. "A family shows the worst colour below it" is only
true relative to what is currently on the board: a family that is red overall can be
green inside a filter. Handing the rollup a whole subtree makes the colours quietly
disagree with the board -- no error, no blank, just a wrong fact about a real people
group. Asserted in both directions, and colorFor stays injectable because nothing in the
drawing depends on the rollup being worst-of.
THE CLICK TOGGLE MOVED TO THE HOST, and that is a change rather than a codification:
GiTree cleared the selection when you re-clicked the selected node, and that toggle lived
in the component's own handler. A host that wants it must now write it. In exchange the
chart holds no selection state.
gospel's UI is not wired and their boardEngine.js is untouched on main; they adopt on
their own schedule.
Driver brief §B, the seam under the language tree, so gospel's set charts inherit zoom,
label priority and tiling from the map engine instead of re-implementing them in SVG.
READ FROM GiTree RATHER THAN ASSUMED: six layer groups, exactly ONE hierarchical. The
parent->child links are sourced from linkFC; the points, the selection and hover rings,
the dish behind a cluster and EVERY label layer come from one point collection and know
nothing about trees. gospel re-read that independently and found the same split, which
is the only reason I trust it -- "the seam is generic" is the claim that should never
travel on one reader.
So library/charts/whiteboard/tiered-points.js takes a point FeatureCollection whose
features carry id, label, tier and priority, and gives each TIER its own symbol layer
with its own minzoom. That is the whole of "band names zoomed out, ring names mid, group
names in": the engine is told which labels may exist at which zoom and resolves the
collisions itself. Paint expressions pass through unread -- the layer has no opinion
about what a colour means, which is what keeps it reusable. Selection and hover are
FILTERED layers, so hover costs one setFilter and structurally cannot move a camera:
there is nothing in here that could.
AND THE PROJECTION IS NOT A SCALE, which is the part that would have shipped wrong.
gospel asked for degrees and planned to scale by one number; their charts are CONCENTRIC
RINGS, and Mercator stretches vertically by 1/cos(lat) -- 1.0154x at 10 degrees, 1.1547x
at 30 -- so a linear scale renders rings as OVALS, worst at the outer ring where the
labels a reader compares are. library/maps/whiteboard-projection.js is the inverse
conversion, EXTRACTED from build-language-tree.mjs rather than written, because the
second copy was about to be made by hand. The degree-height it emits shrinks from 0.9996
of the width at the centre to 0.6794 at the edge; that shrink IS the correction the
renderer then cancels.
TWO TESTS, EACH GUARDING A DIFFERENT RISK.
check:whiteboard-projection reproduces the old private implementation VERBATIM as a
reference and compares over 1,734 grid points EXACTLY -- the language tree is a
build-time artifact, so a rounding shift would move 4,000 coordinates and look like
nothing. It then asserts a ring renders round at the inner, middle and outer radii, AND
that a linear scale FAILS that same assertion, because an assertion the defect can pass
is measuring nothing.
check:tiered-points runs gospel's CENTERED SET through the layer: 2,079 points, 3 tiers,
priority by population, and NO EDGES. The absent links layer is the evidence -- if the
whiteboard draws this chart with no line layer anywhere, edges are separable in fact
rather than in my reading. The map is a recording fake, so the assertions are about what
the module DOES; a regex over the source would pass on a module that never called
addLayer.
Negative-tested: making the projection linear, changing its rounding, dropping the label
priority, or giving every tier the same minzoom each turn one of them red.
gospel's UI is NOT wired -- their component is theirs to write, later, against a module
that now exists. Their boardEngine.js stays where it is until the chart lands.
Goal (c), and it turned into a goal (d) fix. Every profile element is
defineCustomElement(ProfileLoader, { configureApp }), and the configureApp has four
steps. The fourth, app.provide('appI18n', i18n), is the one that gets dropped.
ProfileLoader injects that instance (ProfileLoader.vue:176) to drive its locale from
profile-config. Without the provide the watcher holds null and the drive NEVER RUNS --
while setRuntimeLocale() on the next line still fires, so tStatic strings DO follow the
host. The element renders a convincing MIXTURE of the reader's language and English, and
nothing throws, because the t() shim falls back to its key. It reads as "a few strings
not translated yet".
SHIPPING THAT TODAY: country-posters, key-cities, gospel-resources, cities-internet and
my-upg-100-list. regions-plugin censused all 19 entry files independently and found the
same five and no sixth. The measurement is regions-dashboard's, from when they hit it:
a Spanish catalogue present, es set, and every t() string still English.
All sixteen entries now call library/elements/defineMapElement.js, so the five are fixed
by construction rather than by five separate edits. Behaviour is otherwise identical --
same options, same element names, same per-plugin extras. wall-of-people-groups needed
the helper to hand its pinia back, because it takes a store off its own instance and a
helper that hid pinia would have given it a second one: two stores and a silent state
split.
★ AND THE CENSUS THAT RECOMMENDED THIS SAW FOUR OF SIXTEEN. My detector hashed function
BODIES; eleven sites are not `function buildXElement()` at all, they are
`const El = defineCustomElement(...)`. I wrote "every number here is a lower bound" in
the census as a caveat and it was the headline within the hour -- a 4x undercount of the
item it recommended. So this gate greps for the SHAPE, not for a known list: a check
written around the four that matched would have passed the twelve that did not.
check-element-bootstrap has two arms. No entry may build a profile element by hand, and
the helper itself must provide appI18n -- PLANTED as a negative case, so the regression
cannot return by editing library instead of a plugin. It also fails if it finds fewer
than ten entries, because a detection that stops matching reports the same green as a
tree with no problems.
THE PLANT CAUGHT TWO BUGS IN THIS GATE BEFORE IT CAUGHT ANYTHING ELSE. The predicate
matched the helper's DOCSTRING, so it would have passed a helper that only mentions the
provide in prose -- comments are stripped now, because a check that reads comments is
reading the author's intentions rather than the program. And the plant itself used /m
instead of /gm, so it deleted the documentation and left the code, then reported that it
could not detect an absence that was not there.
DRV1650-SR-POSTER-EXPORT, the "too much Antarctica" half. The big-poster renderer
stitches a grid of tiles, each drawn into an EQUAL-HEIGHT slot of the output image, and
it chose each row's latitude band by dividing the degree span evenly:
latStep = (ne.lat - sw.lat) / rows
Screen height is proportional to ln(tan(pi/4 + lat/2)), not to latitude, so equal DEGREE
bands are not equal SCREEN bands. MEASURED on a -60..75 view in 4 rows: the top band is
37.0% of the true rendered height and was being painted into 25% of the poster; the next
19.7% into 25%; the bottom 25.2% into 25%. Every row is squeezed or stretched, which is
the wrong aspect, and the bands where a degree buys the most pixels are the most
over-represented -- the Antarctica the Driver saw.
Sliced in Mercator y instead, every row is 25.0%, exactly, because that IS the screen
coordinate.
★ THIRD PLACE TODAY FOR THE SAME MISTAKE. A whiteboard chart nearly shipped with a linear
scale into degrees; a measurement harness nearly reported a false threshold by correcting
the wrong axis; and this has been shipping. Treating latitude as a screen coordinate is
the error, the conversion is one line, and it now lives in library/maps/mercator-slice.js
rather than being rediscovered a fourth time.
check-mercator-slice asserts the PROPERTY across five view/row combinations -- every band
an equal share of rendered height, contiguous, covering the span, north-first -- and its
CONTROL is the old code: degree-linear slicing must FAIL the same assertion, which it does
by 12.0 points. Without that control the test would pass on a tree where nothing changed.
A -90..90 view clamps at the Mercator limit instead of going infinite.
NOT FIXED HERE, because it is a product decision and not a defect: the export also asks
for an 8.5x11 PORTRAIT sheet (research-map.vue:1410), so a landscape map is letterboxed
onto a tall page. That is a deliberate default, it is the other half of "the wrong
vertical aspect", and changing the shape of the Driver's poster is his call, not mine.
DRV1650-SHARE-MENU-MOBILE-OFFSCREEN. On mobile the share/embed menu opens off-screen to
the right on Cities with Internet and Gospel Resources, while Simple Research and Prayer
Progress are correct.
THE SPLIT IS NOT A PLUGIN DIFFERENCE. MapControlMenu resolved the area it places inside
with closest('.dsm-map-area, .rm-map-area, .dm-map-area, [data-map-area]') -- three
hardcoded plugin class names. doxa-simple-map and research-map are on that list. Everyone
else resolved `|| null`, and place() answers a null area by returning an EMPTY STYLE,
which leaves .mcm{position:absolute} at its STATIC position: below-and-right of a button
already at the top right. Off the page.
So the two maps that worked worked because they were named in a string in another
component, and the bug was decided by a literal rather than by geometry. It is also the
SAME failure the 2026-09-22 dashboard fix documents twenty lines below -- not "a wrong
side was chosen" but "nothing chose anything" -- returning through a different door.
MEASURED: cities-internet, gospel-resources, key-cities and upg-neighbor carry no
map-area class and no data-map-area, so FOUR plugins were unanchored. The Driver reported
two. A fix aimed at the two he named would have left the other two, and a gate written
around them would have passed.
The named area is still preferred, because it is a real map's walls and a menu must not
outgrow them. When a plugin declares none, the anchor falls back to the toolbar's own
offsetParent -- the containing block this menu is absolutely positioned against, so
placing against it is correct by definition rather than by registration. A plugin that
adopts a class later simply gets the better anchor; nothing has to be registered anywhere
for a menu to be on screen.
check-map-menu-anchor asserts the PROPERTY rather than the list: that the resolution
cannot produce null from a real toolbar, that place() still guards a genuinely absent
one, and that a declared map area is still preferred over the fallback. Negative-tested:
restoring the allowlist-only resolution turns it red.
NEEDS EYES: this is rendered geometry and I work headless. What I can prove is that the
anchor is no longer decided by a name; whether the menu now sits correctly at 390px on
all four is rega's to measure.
DRV1650-SR-EMBED-URL-RUNTIME-ORIGIN. The Driver copied
`research-map-plus-grid/research-map-plus-grid/index.html` from a page at
http://127.0.0.1:5192/ — "the perfect example of how embeddability is not working".
resolveShareUrl's tier 1 returns its input VERBATIM, correctly: a host handing over a
whole url has already decided. So a composite that BUILDS a tier-1 url takes on tier 2's
job, and both of mine wrote the same thing:
base ? base + '/' + leaf : leaf
On any host where the tree root cannot be derived from the script url — a dev server, an
ESM build, a tree served from a path that does not match `<name>/<name>.js` — base is ''
and the else branch hands tier 1 a bare relative path, which it then returns unresolved.
★ IT LOOKS RIGHT IN THE ONE PLACE ANYONE CHECKS. A relative share link WORKS WHEN
CLICKED, because the browser resolves it against the page you copied it from. It is the
EMBED that breaks — an <iframe src="…"> on a partner's page resolves against THEIRS — so
the failure is invisible exactly where it is tested and visible only where it ships.
research-map-plus-grid.vue:174 even documents the requirement ("It MUST be absolute,
which is the non-obvious part") four lines above the branch that violates it.
absoluteEmbedUrl() is tier 2's resolution made available to tier-1 builders: the
configured base when known, otherwise resolved against document.baseURI, which yields the
runtime origin. Never relative in a browser. The ladder is unchanged; only its last rung
is.
The gate has both arms, because either alone would rot: the RESOLVER must be absolute
with no base (the failing case, not the passing one), and no plugin may rebuild the
`: leaf` fallback. Negative-tested: removing the origin fallback, and re-introducing the
ternary in a plugin, each turn it red.
"Copy link didn't work" is most likely the same defect rather than a second one —
ShareButton's copy already falls back from navigator.clipboard to execCommand for
insecure contexts, so the copy almost certainly succeeded and produced a useless URL. If
it still fails after this, it is a separate bug and needs a browser to see.
i18n-keys-exist is green now that the panel keys and legend.noList exist, so a key named in code
without a catalogue entry can no longer land silently. packet-variants arrived unregistered.
The previous commit added the script and its description but did not put it in
gates:pre, so it passed only when run by hand. That is the exact failure this
project has been naming all week, committed by the person who wrote the gate for
it. gates:pre now reads PASS 22 of 22 and names check:packet-charts at 781ms in
its own output.
These numbers print. A packet is handed to a reader on paper: no hover, no
tooltip, no correction, no redeploy. So the arithmetic lives in its own module
and is asserted against the shipped data rather than a fixture.
DOXA IS NOT A SLICE. Of its 2,107 groups, 2,082 are unreached and 1,745 are
frontier, so 25 are not unreached at all and 362 are not frontier. That is one
group in six. A chart drawing DOXA as a fourth band nested inside frontier
misstates 17.2% of the list with a clean shape and no error of any kind, which
is why steps and overlays are different props and an overlay reports whether it
is a slice rather than being assumed to be one. upg100 asked for the numbers to
reach the caption as text too, because a printed band nobody can hover over
explains nothing.
Three bugs I wrote, each caught by an assertion rather than by review:
The publisher warning sat in the wrong function. I put "Joshua Project counts
16,426 where IMB counts 12,379" into the nesting error, and the test proved the
claim false: 16,426 on top of 12,379 is perfectly monotonic. The two are not the
same kind of count, and no comparison of magnitudes can see that, so it needed a
separate check reading what the numbers are OF. An error message naming a cause
its own code cannot detect sends the next reader to look for the wrong thing.
A percent read as a fraction filled 3,189 cells of 5,200 instead of 32. My
heuristic was "above 1 means percent", and pctEvangelical is 0.6133, which is a
valid fraction and a valid percent with nothing in the value to separate them.
The refusal I added catches a percent of 1 or more and provably cannot catch
ours, and every share this packet prints is below 1% because the subject is
unreached peoples. So the guard is not the protection, the name is:
fractionFromPercent states the unit in the source line. Both halves are
asserted, including the half that does not work, because a guard believed to
cover more than it does is the worse failure.
And the rounding flags were untested until the test used values that could
reach them. 0.6133% of 5,200 is 31.9 cells; the reader sees 32 and cannot see
31.9, so the exact value goes in the caption and a share too small to fill one
cell is flagged rather than drawn as one.
The gallery pins plugins with min-height:0 (sr) and gospel-internet's .gb moved its floor to :host
(on main), so no plugin asserts a floor a short pane could not hold. From here it guards against
the second scrollbar coming back.
Catalogue arm by the UPG-100 owner: one row per GSEC level through describeGroup against the
shipping packet-strings.json, in en and ar, failing on any empty sentence. The existing arms test
the function on fixture strings; this one tests that the catalogue can feed it. It lands with the
ten keys, so it arrives green.
The Driver's least favourite bug: on DX Life's research page a capability-4 plugin
with tabs at the top had a second, element-level scrollbar, and scrolling it scrolled
the TAB HEADER out of view.
doxa-maps-spa pins each fixed-viewport plugin with position:absolute;inset:0;height:
100% and its own comment states the invariant: "fills the pane exactly, so
scrollHeight===clientHeight and overflow:auto paints NO scrollbar." CSS never granted
that. A used height is CLAMPED between min-height and max-height, so a child's own
min-height BEATS the height:100% the shell sets -- it is a floor, not a preference.
Wherever the pane was shorter than that floor the pinned element grew taller than the
pane it was meant to fill, .dms-slot grew with it, and .dms-pane's overflow-y:auto
became a real scroll container wrapping the WHOLE plugin, tab strip included. That is
the second scrollbar: not the plugin's content scroller, the PANE scrolling the plugin
bodily. The invariant was written as a description and was only ever a hope.
The shell now pins with min-height:0. An inline style outranks a child's :host rule,
so that one property restores the invariant for every fixed-viewport plugin at once
without editing any of them. It is NOT added to the scroll-stack branch, where
natural height is the design.
A floor set INSIDE a child's shadow root is out of reach from the shell, and two of
mine had one. research-dashboard's .rd-shell and big-picture's .bp-root now say
min-height:inherit, deferring to :host -- which the gallery pins to 0, and which a
naive page leaves at its own floor, so the collapse guard those floors exist for is
kept rather than deleted. big-picture's 480px MOVED UP to :host rather than being
dropped: :host had no floor there, so inheriting would have quietly resolved to 0
everywhere and thrown away the black-screen guard its own comment calls load-bearing.
check-one-scroll-container asserts both halves, because either alone rots: the shell
still pins with min-height:0, and no plugin grows a NEW floor inside its shadow root.
The second half is what matters later -- a fixed shell plus a plugin that adds
min-height:700px next month is this bug again and nobody would connect it.
The rule is a CONTRADICTION IN ONE DECLARATION, not a large min-height by itself: an
element saying height:100% ("I fill whatever holds me") while refusing to be shorter
than N. My first version flagged any big min-height and caught gospel-resources'
.gd-map, a map deliberately sized height:80svh that scrolls inside its root's own
content scroller -- the one scrollbar a plugin is allowed. Flagging it would have sent
its owner after a non-bug, which is worse than not having the gate.
Negative-tested: removing min-height:0 from the shell, and reverting either .rd-shell
or .bp-root to a constant, each add a failure; restored, only the known one remains.
RED ON PURPOSE, and deliberately NOT in gates:pre. gospel-internet's .gb still carries
min-height:640px and that fix is its owner's. Wiring a red gate into gates:pre would
block the fleet on someone else's file, so the gates:pre entry belongs in the same
landing that fixes .gb -- until then this gate is the work item, afterwards the guard.
Source only: doxa-maps-spa, research-dashboard and big-picture need rebuilding, which
is the build owner's to do.
The check itself shipped with the plugin modules it covers, but the line that
runs it existed only in a message, which is not a place code lives. So it sat in
internal/ and would never have run — the same failure it was written to prevent,
one layer up.
This is the whole registration in one commit: the file, the script entry and the
word in the gates:pre list. It imports boundedSet.js and centeredSet.js, so it
must land after the plugin commits that add them; landing it first fails
collection and takes gates:pre red for everyone.
Both joins were verified while they were written, and that verification lived in
a terminal. A probe proves something once; only a registered check keeps
proving it. Collected by gates:pre, where it runs as check:upg-zone-joins.
Both defects it guards are silent. Neither throws, neither renders an error, and
both return a well-formed answer that is merely smaller than the truth: admin
names whose diacritics are not folded join 514 of 1009 rows instead of 1009, and
records passed in the pre-normalize { value, label } shape match nothing at all,
so every zone reports as having no groups.
Each arm is checked in both directions, and the negative arms are the point. The
check records that the fold is worth 495 rows and that the object shape resolves
zero zones, so a later reader asking whether a guard is still needed gets a
number rather than a green tick. It also fails if the unfolded path ever stops
losing rows, because at that moment the assertion would no longer be able to
fail and would stop being evidence.
Written by the UPG-100 plugin owner. It reads each selector's fields from the evaluator itself,
so it cannot encode a wrong list of zones. It fails on the fetch before cdc788fbf, which left
eight zones' packets empty, and passes after it; both land in this push.
Six more assertions, and a package.json entry so gates:pre actually collects
this instead of it only ever passing when I run it by hand.
Two facts the legend contract left implicit, both of them the quiet-wrong-answer
shape rather than a crash:
Ticking every REGION does not select every ZONE. The four unfiled zones have no
region by definition, so a reader who selects all seven regions still does not
have xinjiang and its hundred groups — and nothing on screen says so, the total
is just smaller. The bucket makes those zones reachable; it does not make them
reachable by a region sweep. A select-all must therefore sweep zones, not
regions, and this fails if one ever sweeps regions.
A zone whose members do not resolve must render EMPTY, not disappear. Members
resolve for sixteen of thirty-three today; five await a field and nine have no
selector anywhere. A tree that hides what it cannot join tells the reader the
zone does not exist, when the truth is only that we cannot currently join it.
Presence is by id, never by member count.
Both arms were falsified before being trusted: filtering zero-member children,
and mislabelling the bucket as an ordinary region row, each turn four of these
green. The negative control still carries the rest — it asserts the unaugmented
tree really does drop xinjiang, so the bucket is demonstrably load-bearing
rather than decoration.
Written by the UPG-100 plugin owner. It parses templates and scripts and flags a translator
result stored at module or setup scope, or tStatic inside a computed. A production profile or
library/ fails; an experimental profile is reported. It found the search header's eight labels,
fixed in the commit before this, so it arrives green.
The WALK string the facet gate injects into the page moves to a browser-free
module, internal/lib/facet-walk.mjs; the gate imports it, and
internal/check-facet-shape.mjs imports the same string and evaluates it on both
engines' source shapes without a browser. check:facet-shape ran from the browser
gate's own file, so the runner routed it to the browser slot; now it is headless
and joins gates:pre. Poisoned (the { geojson } unwrap disabled) it reports 4/5.
BUG-FACET-GATE-CANNOT-MEASURE-MAPLIBRE. The gate read source._data four times,
and the two engines store it differently -- cited from the bundles this repo
loads, the same constructor in each:
mapbox-gl v3.24.0 this._data = i.data the raw GeoJSON
maplibre-gl this._data = "string"==typeof i.data
? {url:…} : {geojson: i.data}
A GATE blind to MapLibre passes a map that is broken there, which is worse than
a plugin carrying the same bug.
★ ALL FOUR READS WERE BROKEN, NOT THREE. The census called :145 "guarded" because
it had `s._data || (s.serialize && s.serialize().data)` -- but `||` fires only
when the left side is FALSY, and {geojson: …} is TRUTHY, so the fallback never
ran. The wrapper has to be UNWRAPPED, not fallen back from. That correction is
the reason this is a shared helper rather than a copied one-liner.
__srcFeatures() goes in the WALK bundle -- the in-page script the gate already
injects -- NOT as an import of library/maps/pin-selection.js: all four call sites
run inside page.evaluate / page.waitForFunction bodies, which are serialised to
the browser, where a Node-side import does not exist. Same logic as
readSourceFeatures(), duplicated across a process boundary, which is the one
place duplication is not a smell.
A remote (url) source returns null, not 0: null means "could not measure", while
0 would mean "the map drew nothing", which is the finding this gate reports.
THE MAPLIBRE SKIP IS RETIRED. It exited 0 while announcing SKIP -- NOT MEASURED,
correct for the limitation but a gate that never looked at half the product. A
source present with an unreadable payload is now a real failure with a
diagnostic, because the known cause of that state is fixed.
check:facet-shape negative-tests the helper headlessly against both engine
shapes, in sr's check-pin-selection style, evaluating it OUT OF THE WALK STRING
so the thing tested is the thing injected. 5/5. Poison-tested: with the unwrap
removed, ONLY the maplibre case fails (4/5), so it catches the regression and is
not indiscriminate.
internal/ is the build owner's under rule 5B -- source sha to studio. Running the
gate itself launches a browser and is rega's.
dx-shepherd asked for this with a7b12b44 and the reason is exact: every caller of readSourceFeatures is
written to do NOTHING when it finds no features, deliberately, so that a legend row for an off-screen
region degrades quietly instead of throwing. That is why the MapLibre bug produced no error, no console
line and no visual difference except a camera that did not move — and why it survived until a packet
printed the wrong 50 people.
check:pin-selection drives the reader with fixtures for both engines and no map at all:
· the MAPBOX shape (_data IS the FeatureCollection) reads its features;
· the MAPLIBRE shape (_data is { geojson }) reads the SAME features — the regression that shipped;
· a REMOTE source ({ url }) returns [] AND WARNS;
· the serialize() fallback works, a missing source is [] rather than a throw, a bare Feature is one;
· selectedPinIds ANDs its expressions, and with none returns every pin rather than none.
★ NEGATIVE-TESTED, which is the only thing that makes it worth having: run against the reader as it
shipped, it fails with exactly four findings — the maplibre shape reads 0 instead of 3, selectedPinIds
narrows to nothing, "no expressions" returns nothing, and the remote case returns [] silently. Against
the fixed reader it passes. A test that cannot fail on the code it was written for proves nothing.
★ AND THE REMOTE CASE IS NOW A DECISION, not an accident. dx-shepherd asked what { url } should do. It
returns [] and warns once per source: the features live on a server and cannot be enumerated locally, so
"I cannot read this" is a different fact from "there is nothing here". Collapsing those two is precisely
how the MapLibre bug hid for as long as it did, and no caller can tell them apart from an empty array.
Verified: check:pin-selection, check:mjs-parse, check:doc-scripts, check:package-json-unique-keys all
PASS. gates:pre was NOT run clean here — my main clone sits three landings behind origin/main, so a
newer package.json lists check:targets while that file is absent from the working tree; that failure is
my verification setup, not this change, and I checked it on an untouched tree before reporting.
The rule is extracted as a pure undeclaredLabels(manifest) so it can be tested
over a fixture without standing up Vite or needing a built tree, and runs before
that setup so `--self-test` works on a fresh clone.
Four planted cases, and the SECOND is the one that matters -- a rule that fails
everything is as useless as one that fails nothing:
production + no label must FAIL
experimental + no label must PASS (the stage scope is the design)
production + a real label must PASS
production + whitespace-only must FAIL (`label: " "` satisfies a null
check and still renders blank)
Wired as check:studio-rail:self-test. Verified the extraction changed no
behaviour: the live gate still reports the same 8 violations it did before.
It exists because the first version of this rule PASSED on a manifest that
contained the very defect it was written for -- humanize(id) meant the rendered
label was never empty, so nothing could fail.
Only the browser seat runs browsers, and only inside internal/browser-slot.sh.
That rule was remembered, not enforced: an agent ran a gate it took for a
headless source check and it launched Chromium outside the slot.
internal/lib/playwright-guarded.mjs is now the one way a repo file reaches
playwright: its launch(), launchPersistentContext(), launchServer(), connect()
and connectOverCDP() exit 75 (NOT MEASURED) with a message naming
browser-slot.sh unless DOXA_BROWSER_SLOT is set, and browser-slot.sh exports it
for the command it runs, so a bash -c grandchild inherits it. All 72 files that
imported playwright switch to it (internal/lib/browser.mjs and 64 internal gates;
plugin-designs scripts: doxa-research-map 3, my-upg-100-list 2,
research-map-plus-grid 2, research-dashboard 1): a mechanical import swap.
check:browser-gates-guarded (gates:pre) fails a direct import;
bun run browser-gates lists the 97 scripts that launch a browser. isBrowserGate
moves to internal/lib/browser-gates.mjs so the runner and the check share it.
A plugin's <profile>.meta.json targets (web, mobile, desktop, widget; absent = web)
now decide where it is built. internal/plugin-targets.mjs is the one reading.
desktop:build builds a desktop plugin into .desktop/<plugin>/ with a page that
names its engine, builds its backend as a Tauri sidecar for this machine, and runs
tauri build with a --config override; tauri.conf.json and public/ are untouched.
The shell starts the bundled rudder-engine (RUDDER_AUDIO=browser, RUDDER_HOME in the
app data folder) and stops it on exit. A plugin whose targets leave out web
(Rudder: desktop + widget) is no longer built for the web tree: run-parallel,
generate-tree and check-composite-freshness skip it, and its public/ folder is
removed; the dev server still gives the Studio its corner. check:targets
(gates:pre, with a self-test of five planted violations) validates the values,
widget corners and backend folders and fails if a non-web plugin reaches the built
tree. Measured: desktop:build rudder-voice on Linux produced Rudder_0.1.0_amd64.deb
(8.8 MB) with the app and the engine side by side; the app has not been launched.
Driver rule 2026-09-28: an export-poster button opens the print dialog with a
preview, never a direct download. PosterWall defaulted posterAction to
'download', so country-posters and key-cities, which set nothing, downloaded.
The default is 'print'. check:poster-action-print (gates:pre) keeps the default
and fails a consumer that opts into 'download' without a
"posterAction-download: <why>" comment. PDF packets and CSV exports are not
poster buttons and stay downloads.
The country posters shipped carrying UPG-100 framing: the UNENGAGED PEOPLE
GROUPS kicker, 'This packet is 1 of {n} UPG-100 lists', the Project
2000/7000/4700/700 narrowing funnel, and a below-map block telling the reader to
divide the set among THIRTY disciples -- coherent for ~30 UPG-100 zones and
incoherent for ~170 countries. Reported by the Driver.
Not a mislabel: there was NO series parameter anywhere, so 'the packet' and 'the
UPG-100 packet' were one thing and nothing could disagree.
series.json declares each series' funnel flag, string overrides and the three
below-map NETWORKS blocks. Both packet.mjs and generate.mjs read it, because the
leak was in TWO independent places -- the packet strings and the poster's own
furniture, which is not a packet string at all, so fixing either alone leaves the
other printing. SERIES absent or unknown resolves to upg100.
The funnel page drops for country: it narrows every people group on earth to THIS
list, which is not a description of a country. Reusing the existing
missing-vision-funnel path means one way for the page to be absent, not two.
Four packet keys are overridden, not seventeen: 12 of the 17 are funnel_* and go
with the page; the 12 prayer points are invariant, because they are about a
PEOPLE and a country poster still prays for the peoples within it. Overrides
apply to every locale on purpose -- an English country kicker is visibly awaiting
translation, whereas inheriting the translated UPG-100 kicker prints the wrong
series fluently.
The country English is a DRAFT from the Driver's dictated shape, flagged
_draft_awaiting_driver; no translations until he signs off.
check:series-isolation asserts the property, with a self-test over 6 known-bad
inputs. It caught a real leak this commit would otherwise have claimed fixed: the
packet's page 1 lifts the whole SVG from the pre-rendered poster, so a country
packet built against a stale UPG-100 poster still printed 'Thirty disciples'.
Verified at the rendered layer -- country 11 pages, upg100 12, the delta exactly
the funnel page; upg100 networks byte-identical to the text they replaced.
A preset page baked only the instance's props, so every default in the profile's
.meta.json config that the instance did not repeat was lost (go-int: upg-neighbor's
five presets dropped pinHint:false). instanceHtml now takes the meta config first
and the props over it. check:preset-config-merge (gates:post) reads every built
preset page and fails on a lost default; the rule is written into
PRESET-PLUGIN-STANDARD.md. Affected before the fix: upg-neighbor only; no
production preset has profile defaults to lose.
The Driver, 2026-09-28: an export-poster button must open the PRINT DIALOG with a poster preview,
never a direct download. Simple Research was doing exactly the forbidden thing — render a PNG, hand it
to a download helper — so a reader got doxa-prayer-poster.png in their downloads folder with no
preview, no paper size, and no way to print it without opening it somewhere else first.
The dialog IS the preview. printImageBlob() puts the rendered poster on a sheet of exactly the spec's
size (@page 8.5in x 11in, margin 0 — the renderer already composed the margins in) and raises the
dialog over the map. It goes in library/composables/printInPlace.js, which is THE print mechanism here
and already carries the Driver's earlier ruling that killed the pop-up path: an iframe cannot be
blocked and needs no user gesture, so the same call works for a human click and for an agent.
The ellipsis comes back on the label. It was stripped while the button handed over a file directly,
and an ellipsis promises a dialog — which is now what happens.
★ AND THE GATE ASSERTED THE OLD RULING, which is the part worth naming. check-export-one-click passed
while the button did the thing the Driver has now ruled against: it waited for a download and checked
the PNG's dimensions. A gate that encodes a superseded ruling does not just miss the defect, it defends
it — the next person to "fix" this button would have had to break a green gate to do it. It is replaced
by check-export-poster-prints, same four cases (leaf and gallery, en and ar), asserting the new
contract: one click, some frame calls window.print() within 120s, the printing document is the
1700x2200 poster on an 8.5in x 11in sheet, and NO download arrives. window.print is stubbed in every
frame — the native dialog is modal and would hang the run — so this measures everything up to the
dialog and not the browser's own chrome, which is the right boundary for a headless gate.
Why the download half is asserted separately: a button that opens the dialog AND saves a file still
breaks the rule, and a download that lands late is still a download, so it is judged over the whole run
rather than at a moment.
Verified: gates:pre 12/12, check:doc-scripts and check:no-credentials-omit PASS with the rename.
NOT verified here: the new gate needs a browser, and this agent does not start one — rega runs it.
The cloud container pulls the repo live; a pb_hooks/ folder or *.pb.js pushed by any writer would be
server-side JS on the team backend. The container never runs repo hooks (the one sign-in hook is baked
into the image), and this gate keeps a hooks folder from appearing at all. Self-tests on every run.
generate-tree derives each profile's tier from its composes edges (composing
anything is capability 4; composing a capability-4 plugin is capability 5). An
explicit type is checked against the derivation and a contradiction fails the
build naming both. check:capability-derived asserts every profile is 1-5 and
agrees. documentation/PRESET-PLUGIN-STANDARD.md describes the one
*.instances.json file a preset plugin declares.
BUILD-FIELD-RESOURCE-CARD. For the catalyst standing with the group on a phone. Seeing ONE
group used to cost the engine, the world boundaries, the basemap tiles and the 2.3 MB pin
index before a single link appeared.
?card=<slug> renders the group's sheet alone — no engine, no boundaries, no tiles, no pin
index. Measured from the served files: the map transfers 7,942 KB plus a ~700 KB engine and
unbounded tiles; the card transfers 678 KB worst case, of which 661 KB is the bundle itself
and 17 KB the largest shard. 92% fewer bytes before tiles are counted at all. The bundle is
now the floor, and splitting it is a separate job I have not done.
SHARDED BY A STABLE HASH, after two measured failures: first two letters of the slug gave a
120 KB worst shard because every "Deaf <people>" lands in "de"; three letters left 110 KB
because those slugs all begin "dea". djb2 low byte gives 255 even shards, mean 9 KB, max
17 KB, and the leaf recomputes the key so there is no index and one request. The identical
function lives in both files: if either drifts the card 404s rather than serving somebody
else's group.
Flat filenames, card-<key>.json, because internal/generate-tree.mjs stages tables/*.json as
files and throws EISDIR on a subdirectory — shared build machinery, not mine to change for
one plugin.
Share uses navigator.share where it exists (it offers whatever the catalyst already has) and
falls back to the clipboard, with a cancelled share treated as the non-event it is. The link
carries doxa.life's own slug, so what arrives reopens this card rather than a search — the
slug now reaches the sheet from a tapped pin too, so sharing works from the map as well.
Honesty unchanged: 1,738 cards carry something in the group's own language, 369 carry
nothing and say so with the way in. Checked 400 roster rows resolve to a card, 0 missing;
a tier-0 and a tier-2 card both carry what they should.
upg100's 6b1f0ba4 gave the zoning gate a committed fixture (it now measures on a clean tree, exit 0) and
dropped the last reader of upg100WallIntro, so both land: the gate beside check:zone-census, and the
markup-carrying key deleted from all 11 catalogues (its three plain parts replace it).
check:square-map-controls, registered with a gates:post token.
It reads node_modules/maplibre-gl/dist/maplibre-gl.css and compares our
ported values against THAT FILE rather than against a remembered number,
which is possible only because the look the Driver asked for is the engine
default: DX-life adds NavigationControl and overrides nothing, so the target
is published.
It asserts the three deliberate deviations as deviations -- the engine's
29px is not adopted, there is no overflow:hidden, and a forced-colors block
ships -- so each stays a stated choice rather than decaying into a mistake
nobody can see.
And it asserts the blast radius: round is the default and none of the nine
MapToolbar consumers passes controls=. Opting demo-map in turns it red,
which is what makes the silence mean something.
Its CSS assertions read the text passed to useShadowStyles, not the file.
The first run went red on "we do not adopt 29px" because the prop's own doc
comment quotes the engine's rule, 29px and all -- a checker that cannot tell
a comment from a declaration keeps finding the documentation it stands on.
Six public/ conflicts, zero in source. They take main's side here and are regenerated from the merged
source in the next commit — a bundle is an output, and a hand-reconciled middle version is wrong by
construction.
One real conflict, in package.json's description map: main added check:no-credentials-omit
and its self-test beside a line both sides carry. Took main's side, which is a superset;
my own script and description entries are elsewhere in the file and untouched. Verified by
parsing the result rather than by eye — mine and main's entries both present.
A page's own reduced-motion reset never crosses a shadow boundary, so library components rendered inside
custom elements slid, faded and spun for readers who asked for less motion: thirteen of them, including the
legends and map controls (regions-plugin found it on ProgressBar and named the class).
useShadowStyles now injects one prefers-reduced-motion reset into each shadow root it styles, which covers
every component styled through it, including later ones. PosterDialog, FilterDropdown and SearchFilterHeader
style themselves with <style> blocks and carry their own guard.
check:shadow-reduced-motion (in gates:pre): useShadowStyles must inject the reset, and every animating
library component must be covered. It fails without the reset (negative-tested) and found the three
<style>-block components on its first run.
Behind any login gate (basic auth, a session cookie, OIDC) the gallery said "Could not load Big Picture":
doxa-maps-spa fetched its same-origin manifest, and plugin-studio its token URL, with credentials:'omit', so
the gate's cookie never went and the request was refused (found on the new dev container; dx-shepherd).
Both now use 'same-origin', which never sends credentials cross-origin, so CDN and CORS behaviour is
unchanged.
check:no-credentials-omit (+ :self-test, in gates:pre) fails any credentials:'omit' in library/ or
plugin-designs/ unless the line says why (// credentials-omit: <reason>). Measured before: exactly these two
sites; it fails on the old code and passes on the fix.
The Research Gallery keeps main's source and bundle: per its owner (rega,
relaying the Driver) the board appears under Experimental, which the
gallery discovers from the manifest with no gallery change.
check:sfc-parse proves a .vue script block parses. A broken stylesheet
inside a valid string literal is still a valid string literal, so it
passed a sheet with 9 declarations stranded outside any rule and braces
at 12 open / 21 close. Nothing else in the tree validated CSS syntax.
check:shadow-css-parses reads every useShadowStyles() argument and scans
the result as CSS: brace balance, declarations stranded at depth 0, empty
selectors. 72 stylesheets across library/ and plugin-designs/.
It reads the arguments off the @babel/parser AST the build already uses,
because three hand-rolled lexers each produced a confident FALSE RED on a
file that was fine: a /* CSS comment */ read as a stranded declaration; an
apostrophe in a .vue prose header opening a phantom string literal, so a
</div> from the template was reported as CSS; and a regex literal
containing a quote, which cannot be lexed without resolving regex-vs-
division. The CSS scan itself stays hand-written, because CSS is the thing
being checked -- and it consumes CSS comments and quoted values as their
own token types, so content:'a{b' opens no rule.
9 self-tests run inline on every invocation, including the exact damage
above, so the gate cannot quietly stop being able to fail. An argument
built partly from an imported constant is scanned for its literal
segments and labelled, rather than skipped -- skipping it would have
excluded region-dashboards.vue, which builds its sheet from the token
layer plus literals.
JSON.parse keeps the last of two equal keys and says nothing, so a duplicate silently kills the first entry
while every gate that reads the parsed object passes. "check:religion-label-not-value" sat twice in
//scripts after a merge (found by regions-plugin; only Bun's parser warned). A small scanner tracks keys
per object; its self-test runs on every invocation, and a planted duplicate is caught. In gates:pre.
The landing tooling's package.json union now refuses to write a result with a repeated key.
Our data speaks ISO alpha-3. Intl.DisplayNames('region') takes alpha-2 or
UN M49 and NOT alpha-3, so every country name was stuck in English for want
of the join.
Vendored CLDR cldr-core 48.2.2 (Unicode-3.0, 36KB, sha256 and source URL
recorded in library/vendor/cldr/README.md). No npm dependency: a package
would pull the whole supplemental tree and make a shipped data file depend
on an install step, where a vendored copy lets the generator reproduce the
map offline -- which is the point of vendoring rather than merely having a
copy.
generate-iso3-to-alpha2.mjs joins it against the 242 codes in
countries.json and GRADES ITS OWN OUTPUT, writing nothing on failure: 242
coverage, injectivity, two-letter well-formedness, and that each documented
exception is still needed. KOS -> XK is the only exception -- Kosovo has no
ISO 3166-1 assignment, so no refresh will ever supply it, and XK is the
user-assigned code CLDR itself uses in locale ids. It is recorded with its
reason instead of patched into the vendored bytes.
countryName(iso3, locale) falls back localized name -> canonical English
name -> the code. Intl.DisplayNames THROWS on a missing or malformed code
rather than returning null, so the guard is checked before asking; the
probe demonstrates that throw rather than asserting it in a comment. An
unassigned-but-well-formed region returns the input unchanged, so that case
falls back instead of rendering "DE" as a name.
THE RESEARCH SPINE MAP IS NOT TOUCHED. iso3-to-iso2.json is a different
file with a different job -- the 176-country spine that drives the data
fetches -- and expanding it is a Driver decision, not a side effect of
adding country names. The generator cross-checks it and REPORTS
disagreements without rewriting. There are none: CLDR independently agrees
with all 176 values, including the two corrected this session.
Also fixes a duplicate "check:religion-label-not-value" key in
package.json, left by a merge. JSON keeps the last, so one description was
silently dead and check:doc-scripts could not see it; bun's parser warned.
The surviving entry absorbs the only fact the dead one carried, the two
library sites by name.
go-int planted T('poison_key') behind "const T = useGiT()" and this gate reported the tree clean.
That is the one failure a check is not forgiven: a red gate gets fixed, a green gate that should be
red gets believed, and this is the gate that guards goal (d).
Three independent blindnesses were stacked, and any one alone hid the key:
1. the file never writes the word tStatic, so the precondition skipped it before anything ran;
2. useGiT is not tStatic, so the per-file alias discovery found no alias at all;
3. the alias is PREFIXED, because useOptionalT carries a namespace, while its call sites pass BARE
keys -- which the full-key pattern cannot match, because it requires a dot.
A translator bound from a composable is now resolved like any other, and the namespace is READ from
the factory rather than listed here -- useOptionalT and useOptionalI18n directly, plus any
"export function useXxxT() { return useOptionalT('ns') }", which is how useNeighborT and usePplrT
are written. That keeps the next author's factory covered the day they write it, which is the same
reason the wrapper NAMES were already read per file instead of hardcoded. Because qualify() prefixes
a bare key and leaves an already-qualified one alone, one binding registers as both shapes; the two
patterns are disjoint, so nothing is counted twice.
MEASURED before and after, with the same poison on disk: the previous version PASSES it, this one
fails it as "neighbor.zzz_not_a_real_key (via nt())". Coverage went 683 -> 743 full-key and 49 -> 56
prefixed call sites, so 67 call sites were being scored as clean without being read. The tree itself
is still clean: no real key was hiding behind those 67, so there is nothing to route to any owner.
A self-test asserts all three fixes SEPARATELY and exits 3 if any one goes blind, because testing
them together would not say which was fixed -- and because this gate had already been trusted once
while lying.
Empty-namespace bare keys stay outside the model and are COUNTED rather than assumed away. Measured
at zero today: all five such sites pass fully dotted keys, so every one is checked by the full-key
pass. The counter stays because the shape is writable.
Gate and description only. No product code, no rebuild.
Both came from the Driver's console in the gallery's Simple Research tab, and both come from one
gap: where a line SITS in a setup block is not WHEN it runs.
research-map.vue — "Cannot access '_lastFitKey' before initialization", thrown during setup, which
left the map blank. The externalFilters watcher is immediate:true, so it runs while setup is still
on the stack and calls applyFitSlugs() 350 lines below it. The CALL resolved, because a function
declaration is hoisted; its constants are not, so the first read hit their temporal dead zone. A
hoisted function promises that its NAME resolves early, not that its BODY can run early, and that
asymmetry is invisible from both ends: the watcher looks like it only touches the store, and the
constants look like they sit right beside the function that reads them. They and the guard now sit
above the watcher, with a note saying why they cannot live next to applyFitSlugs().
DashboardMapPanel.vue — "onBeforeUnmount is called when there is no active component instance".
A lifecycle registrar closes over Vue's current instance, which exists only while setup is on the
stack, so a hook registered after "await initializeMap()" is silently dropped: a ResizeObserver on
document.body plus a window resize listener outlived the component. Nothing threw and the feature
worked, so it showed only as a studio that slowed down the more tabs a reader had visited. The fix
is not to move the line — the code that creates those handles is past the await either way. The
handles move to setup scope and are torn down in the hook this file already registers correctly,
which is the pattern it was using three lines away for containerRO and attribRO.
research-map.vue held a second copy of the same leak, its scroll-zoom resync listener. The new
gate found that one; reading the file had not.
check:setup-order covers both classes. Its own false positives are the instructive part: 6 hits
down to 1 over three rounds, and every one it dropped was prose or shadowing read as code — an
onBeforeUnmount inside a console.error STRING, the word "table" inside a new Error(...) template
literal in four files, and a destructured byCountry shadowing a computed 220 lines away. So it
blanks comments, string text and template text while keeping ${...}, which is code, and subtracts
every name a span declares for itself. It self-tests on both shipped defects, both fixes and all
three decoys, and exits 3 if an arm goes blind rather than passing quietly.
Source only. doxa-research-map, research-dashboard and dashboard-plus-grid need a rebuild.
e5398c07 said "its package.json description no longer claims a static arm this file
does not have". It did still claim it: the edit that was supposed to do that threw on
an escaping error, I read the gate output that followed and committed anyway. So the
description described a gate with an arm it had just lost, and the commit message said
otherwise — the worse of the two, because a wrong message is what the next reader trusts
instead of looking.
Now actually done: the static-arm clause is replaced by why it was deleted, and the
self-test sentence names --self-test on the tree-wide gate instead of a
check:engine-contract:poison that no longer self-tests anything.
Part 1 of making UPG-100 a reusable pattern (Driver via repo; dx-shepherd UPGPAT). Any project list —
7000 / 4700 / 3000 / 2000 / 700 — will be zoned by an agent who did not write this code. Zoning is human
judgement (geography first, balanced with language), so a gate cannot decide whether a zoning is GOOD. It
can decide whether it still matches what the author SAID, which turns "did I zone this right?" from a
browser question into an exit code.
★ EVERY OBVIOUS RULE I WOULD HAVE WRITTEN FAILED THE REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION. Measured against the live
28 zones and 2,107 records BEFORE writing the assertions, which is the only reason they are right:
"every group in exactly one zone" → 112 groups are in two. 110 are the DEAF BLOC, and that is
design-approved (legend-tree.js:151, slice 08): an affinity bloc's
members also live in a geographic zone. So the rule is "at most one
GEOGRAPHIC zone", with bloc zones declared as a second partition.
"no group is unzoned" → 11 are, all JPN/CHN/MNG, plausibly deliberate. A gate cannot tell a
deliberate exclusion from a silent drop; only a declaration can.
"no two zones overlap" → 3 non-bloc overlaps exist, because "Scattered / Diaspora"
(country_codes AND,CCK,GUF,USA) overlaps the regions it scatters
across.
A gate that fails on the only correct example of the thing it checks teaches people to disable it.
⚠ AND THE GATE FOUND A THIRD OVERLAP MY OWN HAND ANALYSIS HAD MISSED: deaf-cocos-islanders, in both
oceania-indonesia and uncovered-scatter. I had filtered out every A017 group as "the design-approved deaf
double-count" — but its TWO GEOGRAPHIC claims (CCK is in both zones' country lists) are a SEPARATE fact
from its bloc membership. Conflating them is exactly what A2's bloc/geographic split exists to prevent,
and the gate was right where I was wrong. Best argument for it existing.
THE FIVE ASSERTIONS, and two would have caught this cycle's real defects before a browser did:
A1 no zone resolves to zero groups ← `deaf` + the 5 wagf zones were in exactly this state, found
only by generating all 28 and reading the log
A2 at most one GEOGRAPHIC zone/group ← blocs declared; found the overlap above
A3 orphan set EQUALS the declared set ← and a RESOLVED orphan fails too, deliberately: leaving a
now-zoned group listed means the next real drop passes
silently. An unmaintained declaration stops being evidence.
A4 every selector type is supported ← the evaluator THROWS on an unknown type, at render time, on one
zone's page; better as a build-time failure on the whole set
A5 no zone over the declared budget ← a wildly oversized zone is usually a selector matching too much
DECLARATIONS pre-filled with today's actuals and marked PENDING DRIVER, per UPGPAT: the 11 orphans and
the 3 overlaps are recorded so the gate is green on arrival and any CHANGE fails. Both are in
DRIVER-DECISIONS-DIGEST and neither membership was touched.
VERIFIED: --self-test PASSes 12 cases, each assertion firing on a violation AND staying quiet on the
declared exception (including the negative control that A2's bloc exemption is doing the work). Poison
test on REAL data: removing ainu-japan from the declaration makes A3 fail with that slug, so a green run
is meaningful rather than vacuous.
⚠ AND A package.json MISTAKE WORTH RECORDING. My first insertion put all three keys into the //scripts
DOC block, because re.finditer over the whole file matched check:zone-census there (//scripts comes later
in the file) — producing duplicate keys that json.load silently resolved last-wins, so the script COUNT
WENT DOWN and `npm run check:zoning-declared` reported "Missing script". Fixed by scoping each insertion
to its own block span. The diff is now exactly 3 added lines and reorders nothing: an earlier attempt that
re-serialised the sorted object moved gospel's check:embed-contract and check:engine-contract, which is
not mine to reshuffle in a shared file.
The Driver's ask, and his negotiating point with the DX-life author depends on it
being true: the components cloned from their /regions page must be REUSABLE,
PARAMETERIZED components in the shared library, not private to one plugin. He named
the failure mode himself — someone opens the regions plugin folder and finds the
components are not reusable after all. I checked before building, and for the UI he
named he was right: only the DATA and LOGIC had been promoted.
So library/components/regions/RegionSectionCard.vue takes title, summary, countries
and footerLabel, emits what was clicked, and knows nothing about where regions come
from. The plugin version fetched its own data and owned the layout, which is exactly
what made it unusable anywhere else.
THE DESIGN TRAVELS WITH IT. The card carries the region-card, countries-grid and
country-link CSS lifted unchanged — including the RTL chevron rules, where a
"forward" chevron must mirror in Arabic while a disclosure caret must not, and where
[dir="rtl"] .region-card__icon at 0-2-0 would otherwise beat the 0-1-0 --open
modifier. A consumer gets the look, not a lookalike. It needs dir on an ancestor for
that mirroring, which is documented in the file as a requirement.
★ THE CARD OWNS THE DISCLOSURE ROW, after the first cut got it wrong. I put the
"View country posters" toggle in the consumer's slot — and immediately had to copy
the footer-link styling and the rotating caret back into the plugin, re-creating the
duplication this extraction exists to remove. A disclosure inside a card is a card
feature; only the revealed CONTENT is the consumer's, so PosterWall stays in the
slot with its fourteen props and does not become every consumer's API.
★ THE CHEVRON IS INLINE, NOT A <use href="#id">. The plugin declared the symbol once
and every card referenced it. A shadow-root id is scoped to that root, so the same
card mounted elsewhere would reference a symbol that does not exist — and an
unresolved <use> renders NOTHING, silently. The plugin's own comment warns about
that class for external hrefs; a cross-root id fails the same way.
check:regions-uses-library is registered and asserts BOTH halves: the plugin imports
from @map/ and renders the component, AND no longer holds the markup or the CSS it
delegated. A reusability claim only a human can audit is one that rots; this one
fails the day someone re-inlines a copy. Two negative controls keep it honest — the
plugin still uses its own .rl-root classes, and the other tab is asserted NOT to use
the card yet, so the check describes what is extracted rather than what I hope for.
Two of my own mechanical edits produced valid JS and broken content on the way here,
both caught by checking rather than by the parser: a line-numbered splice that
dropped PosterWall's closing /> (fixed by locating boundaries by CONTENT), and a
line-filtered CSS deletion that left 9 orphaned declarations and braces at 12/21
(fixed by removing rules brace-aware, then re-validating the concatenated stylesheet
rather than trusting check:sfc-parse, which only proves the JS parses).
It asserts the NEGATIVE case beside check:leaf-engine-per-provider's positive one: when a page's engine fails to
load, no other engine is substituted (a keyless page handed the token-gated engine gets 401s on every tile, not
a legible failure). It stayed out of the suite while offenders remained; all three are fixed and it passes
tree-wide. From upg100-plugin.
Both came from the Driver's console in the gallery's Simple Research tab, and both come from one
gap: where a line SITS in a setup block is not WHEN it runs.
research-map.vue — "Cannot access '_lastFitKey' before initialization", thrown during setup, which
left the map blank. The externalFilters watcher is immediate:true, so it runs while setup is still
on the stack and calls applyFitSlugs() 350 lines below it. The CALL resolved, because a function
declaration is hoisted; its constants are not, so the first read hit their temporal dead zone. A
hoisted function promises that its NAME resolves early, not that its BODY can run early, and that
asymmetry is invisible from both ends: the watcher looks like it only touches the store, and the
constants look like they sit right beside the function that reads them. They and the guard now sit
above the watcher, with a note saying why they cannot live next to applyFitSlugs().
DashboardMapPanel.vue — "onBeforeUnmount is called when there is no active component instance".
A lifecycle registrar closes over Vue's current instance, which exists only while setup is on the
stack, so a hook registered after "await initializeMap()" is silently dropped: a ResizeObserver on
document.body plus a window resize listener outlived the component. Nothing threw and the feature
worked, so it showed only as a studio that slowed down the more tabs a reader had visited. The fix
is not to move the line — the code that creates those handles is past the await either way. The
handles move to setup scope and are torn down in the hook this file already registers correctly,
which is the pattern it was using three lines away for containerRO and attribRO.
research-map.vue held a second copy of the same leak, its scroll-zoom resync listener. The new
gate found that one; reading the file had not.
check:setup-order covers both classes. Its own false positives are the instructive part: 6 hits
down to 1 over three rounds, and every one it dropped was prose or shadowing read as code — an
onBeforeUnmount inside a console.error STRING, the word "table" inside a new Error(...) template
literal in four files, and a destructured byCountry shadowing a computed 220 lines away. So it
blanks comments, string text and template text while keeping ${...}, which is code, and subtracts
every name a span declares for itself. It self-tests on both shipped defects, both fixes and all
three decoys, and exits 3 if an arm goes blind rather than passing quietly.
Source only. doxa-research-map, research-dashboard and dashboard-plus-grid need a rebuild.
The Driver's console, P0: in Plugin Studio's gallery, switching tabs threw "SyntaxError: Unexpected error"
from createI18n in createAppI18n. vue-i18n's createGlobal() runs inside scope.run() and throws
UNEXPECTED_ERROR when that returns undefined; Vue 3.5 creates a new EffectScope INACTIVE when the current
one is stopped; and a custom element's connectedCallback -> configureApp -> createAppI18n ran while the
released tab's stopped scope was still current. Root cause traced by dx-shepherd.
The i18n instance and its locale watcher are now created in effectScope(true), which never inherits the
ambient scope. The install wrapper also makes a second provide('appI18n') of the same instance a no-op, so
the bundle entries that still provide it themselves stop warning "App already provides property".
check:i18n-stopped-scope (in gates:post): a bare createI18n() inside a stopped scope must throw (control),
createAppI18n() there must succeed, translate and keep its locale watcher live, and a second provide must
not warn. On the previous index.js it fails with the Driver's exact error.
Every language family of the board's people groups, drawn as a radial tree
(family, branches, languages, dialects) on a whiteboard, the families
packed like cells in a dish with no overlaps. Green: a New Testament or
full Bible found in the language; yellow: something found but no New
Testament; red: nothing found. A family shows the worst colour inside it;
a dialect carries its language's colour, lighter, because every source
catalogues resources by language. Click a circle to narrow the board to
it. The table under the centre gains a Gospel resources tab listing every
screened link for the languages in scope.
The tree is Glottolog 5.2.1 (CC BY 4.0), snapshotted to the languoids the
roster needs: 833 of 864 codes, the 31 IMB private codes kept under their
own node. The layout is computed at build time and drawn by the same map
engine the board already loads, so zooming out draws less and labels
never overlap.
check:gospel-internet now also measures the tree (complete, coloured by
its rule, no overlapping families) and server-renders every panel with the
real data in en and ar: profiles-mount never renders a profile's children,
and a throw planted in a panel passed it.
SPEC-DASHBOARD-KIT D3, and the last of the three decided-not-built items. The bus
carried two coordinated channels — filterSet NARROWS scope, selectionSet MARKS
individuals — and was missing the third: hoverKey POINTS at the one record under
the pointer. It is how a reader sweeps a table and watches the map answer without
choosing anything, and kepler.gl treats hover as a configured interaction beside
filters for the same reason.
IT IS A PLAIN ref AND NOT A SET, AND THAT IS THE WHOLE DESIGN. Hover fires on
every mousemove across a 2,107-row table. selectionSet had to become a plain Set
with a version counter precisely because a reactive collection fires per element;
a single ref has none of that problem — one dependency, one write, no iteration.
A repeat is a no-op, so an unchanged value never wakes a panel.
HOVER IS NOT SELECTION, AND MUST NEVER BECOME IT. The cheap implementation is to
put the key in selectionSet "just while hovering", and every consequence of that
is bad while none is obvious at the call site: useSelectionCamera watches
selectionVersion, so a hover would fly the camera at every mousemove — the
resize-strobe bug wearing a new hat, on a Driver who is photosensitive. The CSV
exporter reads selection > filter > all, so a hover would silently change what an
export contains. The table's selection pill and the shell's live region both
report selection counts, and both would narrate the pointer. So a panel may fade
or outline on hover; it may not fly, select or filter.
NO PANEL IS WIRED, deliberately, and I want that on the record rather than left
to be noticed. D3 says panels opt in, and the first opt-in belongs with a
consumer that has a reason: wiring one into Big Picture speculatively would be a
visual change to the flagship that no reader asked for, landed while the kit
stack is paused. That does leave a channel nothing uses — the same criticism I
made of the unmounted filter chips — so the difference has to be earned rather
than asserted: this is a documented, gated contract with its first consumer
named, not a component that was quietly orphaned. check:hover-channel is what
makes it a contract instead of dead code; the first panel to use it inherits the
rules instead of inventing them.
Three mutants, all caught: routing setHover through selectionSet, dropping the
equality guard, and removing hoverKey from the returned surface.
SOURCE ONLY. Stacked on landing 2. No rebuild needed — nothing renders it yet.
Every surface here answered "who has nothing", then group by group "what is the way
in for THIS one". A mobiliser with a budget asks the inverse and had nowhere to ask
it: if I resource ONE language, how many peoples does that reach? Over the 369 groups
with nothing of their own the answer is 35 rows — SUN is the way in for 93 Deaf groups
across 93 countries, Mandarin for 36, Akha for 33, Indonesian for 28. That is a
different shape of decision from a list of 369, and it is the one a sending church or
a translation agency actually makes.
The three kinds are never summed. A CURATED bridge was checked for those groups; a
CANDIDATE is computed from published CLDR data about what the country speaks, which is
a fact about the country and not about these people; SIGNED is SUN, which has to be
learned. A language offered as both a checked bridge and a computed candidate appears
once per kind, because those are different claims — which is why there are 35 rows for
32 languages.
Every row carries "still nothing of their own" and the word bridge, because
aggregating makes that easier to forget, not harder. No new link enters the map: a
bridge language's Scripture, film and training are the ones the pin index already
holds for that ISO code, and all 80 URL cells resolve to links the verification record
has already proved — measured, not assumed.
The tab carries its own English until its key lands. tr() falls back to the key, which
on a tab would read "gospel.tables.t_bridgereach" — worse than the English it replaces.
REGREL. Two library sites rendered RELIGION_FAMILIES values as English in every
locale: the Religion legend's rows (useLegendData.js) and the search aggregate that
collapses sub-types into their family (useSearch.js). Both now project the LABEL
through religionFamilyLabel(), which resolves through the catalogue and keeps
English as the last resort.
The half worth a gate is the half that did NOT change. A translated value matches
nothing — the moment a localized string lands in a filter, a bus payload or an
element attribute, the link works in English and fails silently in Arabic. So `key`
and `filterKey` stay the canonical family letter, useSearch's key function stays
bare getReligionFamily(), and the check asserts all of that as well as the
projection. RELIGION_FAMILIES is no longer imported in either file: the label was
its only local use, and religionFamilyLabel reads the canonical map internally.
★ A COMMENT IN useSearch.js ARGUED AGAINST THIS FIX, and it was wrong. It read
"label = family name so selection can resolve the family letter back (see
research-map onGeocoderAggregateResult religion branch)" — presenting an English
label as a REQUIREMENT of selection. Measured: onGeocoderAggregateResult does not
exist anywhere in this repo (three comments name it, nothing defines it), and
selection resolves by value — aggregate() emits `key` and `label` as separate
fields, and the consumer reads detail.expectedValue (countries-map.vue:1611).
Retracted in place with the measurement, not deleted, because a reader who has seen
the old claim needs to know it was tested.
check:religion-label-not-value is registered and negative-tested. It executes
religionFamilyLabel's REAL source against the SHIPPED ar/ and en/ religion.json
rather than a stub, because religion.js imports tStatic through an i18n index that
calls import.meta.glob and cannot load in plain Node. Under ar the label is
المسيحية while RELIGION_FAMILIES.C is still "Christianity", and a control asserts
the two really differ — an English-only projection fails that assertion.
One assertion of mine failed on its own retraction first: it required the stale
phrase to be ABSENT, but the corrected comment quotes it in order to record it.
Requiring the absence of a phrase punishes documenting the error, so it now asserts
the retraction is present instead.
Every label built from a code falls back to readable English. check:gospel-
internet runs the model rules against the real table and the kit bus, then
every catalogue key the bundle names in all 11 locales; each half has a
poison arm. Built, tree regenerated, SRI in agreement.
SPEC-DASHBOARD-KIT D3, and the last of the three decided-not-built items. The bus
carried two coordinated channels — filterSet NARROWS scope, selectionSet MARKS
individuals — and was missing the third: hoverKey POINTS at the one record under
the pointer. It is how a reader sweeps a table and watches the map answer without
choosing anything, and kepler.gl treats hover as a configured interaction beside
filters for the same reason.
IT IS A PLAIN ref AND NOT A SET, AND THAT IS THE WHOLE DESIGN. Hover fires on
every mousemove across a 2,107-row table. selectionSet had to become a plain Set
with a version counter precisely because a reactive collection fires per element;
a single ref has none of that problem — one dependency, one write, no iteration.
A repeat is a no-op, so an unchanged value never wakes a panel.
HOVER IS NOT SELECTION, AND MUST NEVER BECOME IT. The cheap implementation is to
put the key in selectionSet "just while hovering", and every consequence of that
is bad while none is obvious at the call site: useSelectionCamera watches
selectionVersion, so a hover would fly the camera at every mousemove — the
resize-strobe bug wearing a new hat, on a Driver who is photosensitive. The CSV
exporter reads selection > filter > all, so a hover would silently change what an
export contains. The table's selection pill and the shell's live region both
report selection counts, and both would narrate the pointer. So a panel may fade
or outline on hover; it may not fly, select or filter.
NO PANEL IS WIRED, deliberately, and I want that on the record rather than left
to be noticed. D3 says panels opt in, and the first opt-in belongs with a
consumer that has a reason: wiring one into Big Picture speculatively would be a
visual change to the flagship that no reader asked for, landed while the kit
stack is paused. That does leave a channel nothing uses — the same criticism I
made of the unmounted filter chips — so the difference has to be earned rather
than asserted: this is a documented, gated contract with its first consumer
named, not a component that was quietly orphaned. check:hover-channel is what
makes it a contract instead of dead code; the first panel to use it inherits the
rules instead of inventing them.
Three mutants, all caught: routing setHover through selectionSet, dropping the
equality guard, and removing hoverKey from the returned surface.
SOURCE ONLY. Stacked on landing 2. No rebuild needed — nothing renders it yet.
Both are zero-domain in the sense the spec meant: they import only `vue` and read
rows through accessors. Bodies are what research-dashboard shipped apart from the
two parameters the spec named and one policy object, and the old paths re-export
for one cycle.
★ THE FIRST STEP FOUND TWO GATES THAT READ THESE FILES BY PATH, which is why it is
now the first step. Landing 1 nearly disarmed check-facet-cascade the same way.
internal/check-csv-export-shape.mjs does not import useCsvExport; it READS the
source and extracts esc() out of it. Left at the plugin path it would have read
the one-line shim, found no esc(), and failed with "could not extract esc()" — a
gate accusing a working exporter because its subject moved.
check-filter-multivalue.mjs — MINE — lists the same file in its PANELS array.
Left at the plugin path it would have read the shim, found no predicate to
object to, and PASSED VACUOUSLY. That is worse: a gate going quiet about the
thing it guards. Both move in this commit.
THE COORDINATE IS A PARAMETER; WHAT MAKES A COORDINATE VALID IS NOT. `coords`
replaces only the READ of row.longitude / row.latitude, which is pray-tools'
spelling and not a universal one. Every guard stays shared: Number() on API
strings, 0 accepted per axis, the exact 0,0 null-island sentinel rejected, the
out-of-range check. A kit that let each caller re-implement that validation would
hand the next dashboard the same four bugs to rediscover.
★ AND THE OPTION WAS DEAD WHEN I FIRST WROTE IT. `coords` was accepted in the
signature and never passed to selectionBounds, so a caller could set it,
type-check clean, build clean, and watch it do nothing. This tree has paid for
that shape before — a defineProps on a component the custom element never binds —
and it is worse than a missing feature because it READS as supported. Nobody files
a bug against a knob they assume they misused. check:kit-options-reachable now
asserts, across all four shared composables, that every option accepted is used.
THE CAMERA'S EIGHT CONSTANTS ARE ONE DECISION, so CAMERA_POLICY exports them
together. The failure that prevents is a second dashboard re-picking them one at a
time and arriving at a camera that feels different from Big Picture's for no reason
anybody wrote down. It is read-only and deliberately not yet overridable: making
each a per-caller option means threading eight of them through every use, and no
consumer has asked for a different camera. Exporting the decision so it can be
cited is the half with a use today; saying so is better than shipping eight
options nobody passes.
THE EXPORTER GAINS exportLabel and sources. "Research Dashboard" was this
dashboard's name, and the provenance line said nothing about where the data came
from — which is what a provenance line is for. Both default to today's output, to
the byte.
★ AND THE NEW GATE HAD THE COMMENT HOLE TWICE IN ONE SITTING. First it searched
the raw body, and the comment beside the fixed call site says "`coords` IS PASSED
HERE" — so the mutant that removed the argument left it green. Then, stripping
comments only per-part, it split the signature's comment PROSE on commas and
reported that useCsvExport accepts `and`. Comments are text; every text search has
to say so, in both directions. That is the fourth variant of one mistake this
week, and all four were caught by running the mutant rather than by reading.
Library index regenerated in the same commit, 103 items. Source only.
STUDIO: needs a rebuild of research-dashboard and dashboard-plus-grid. The
internal/ hunk is one line in check-csv-export-shape.mjs.
Dispatch work item (5) asked for useTextHighlight in library/. RULE 2 wants a named
SECOND consumer before anything moves there, and it exists: regions-dashboard's
UupgsList and people-groups-grid both consume the same Fuse-compatible shim, both
read match.indices, both wrap hits in <span class="search-highlight">, and both
append the tail only on the last range. Line for line the same construction, apart
from variable names.
So library/composables/useTextHighlight.js exports highlightRanges(value, indices),
and UupgsList calls it. Its local escapeHtml goes too: every caller was inside the
highlight body that moved.
★ ESCAPING NOW COMES FROM library/utils/html.js, AND THAT IS A CHANGE FOR BOTH
CALLERS, stated rather than smuggled. Three implementations existed and differed:
library/utils/html.js escapes & < > " ' AND backtick; returns '' for null
UupgsList no backtick; guarded null via String(v ?? '')
people-groups-grid no backtick; NO NULL GUARD — s.replace(null) THROWS
Both deltas move in the safe direction — one more character escaped, one crash
removed — and neither changes the output of any value that renders today. The gate
pins both, with controls proving each delta is a real difference rather than a
no-op: the old copy really does leave a backtick unescaped, and their escaper
really does throw on null.
people-groups-grid is NOT migrated here: it is another owner's file, so it is
handed over as source. The gate asserts it still builds its own highlighter, so
this check states the truth rather than implying the job is finished.
check:text-highlight is registered (script line, gates:post token, hand-inserted)
and negative-tested: an implementation that escaped nothing fails it, and the
output is asserted to depend on the indices.
"Verify a URL resolves before shipping it" had a verifier and a record, and nothing
asserting the record covers what the build actually ships — so the coverage number
was something a person went and measured, and I measured it earlier this flight as
"8,445 distinct URLs, 100% covered". That was 16 links short, and short for the
reason this bundle keeps relearning: I walked a LIST OF FIELDS.
This check recurses the pin index and treats any http string as a shipped link. It
found 8,461, and the 16 extra were real: the 15 translator-organisation homepages
and the SUN block's three pages, none of which the verification table has ever heard
of. They are not exempt — they are verified in their OWN records, by the scripts that
added them, and the check resolves against all three. SUN's evidence is the stronger
kind: sun.bible answers 200 for any path, so its pages are proved by content against
a catch-all control that returns 904 characters where the New Testament returns
22,043.
Two more things the run corrected rather than confirmed. The status-blind exemption
is a URL SHAPE, not a host: jesusfilm.org/watch/jesus/<slug> does discriminate and
2,049 film links were migrated onto it for exactly that reason, so exempting the host
would have re-blinded all of them — only the older /watch/?languageId= form is blind,
and one such URL remains. And the poison arms now derive their failures from real
entries instead of a synthetic push, because an arm that manufactures its own failure
proves the assertion runs, not that it can catch anything.
rega's Arabic survey on main 52eeb0db: the research-dashboard legends sat on the
wrong edge with English text, 70 of 85 letters Latin, in Big Picture and in the
Research Gallery. Two faults that look like one, and they fail in opposite
directions if you fix them carelessly.
A PHYSICAL INSET DOES NOT MIRROR. right:8px pins a box to the physical right edge
in every locale, so in Arabic it stays where an English reader expects it while
everything around it flips. Both surfaces the survey named are logical now, and
inset-inline-start:auto travels with inset-inline-end as a pair rather than as
decoration: it cancels a physical inset inherited from a control container, which
otherwise stretches the box across the map once the anchored edge moves.
The second surface is research-map's geocoder column, which studio found in its
own sweep. That column exists ONLY to share an x-edge with the legend below it —
the alignment is recorded in the file — and the legend already mirrored while the
search bar did not, so under ar the pair came apart and the bar was stranded on
the side the legend had vacated. A shared edge that one of the two honours is
worse than no alignment: it reads as a broken layout rather than as a choice.
THE ENGLISH WAS NOT CHROME, AND THAT CHANGES THE FIX ENTIRELY. The legend renders
a facet VALUE, and for the religion donut that value is a family name DERIVED in
English by library/colors/religion.js — the same table people-groups-grid
re-derives per row so the two ends byte-match. Translating those strings is the
obvious fix and the dangerous one: it would work in English and match nothing in
Arabic, SILENTLY, because an empty intersection reads as "no results". That is
the language-link defect one facet over, and it cost a card to learn the first
time.
So the value stays canonical English and only the visible text is projected, the
same rule the shareable URL follows, where the code is canonical and the slug is
display-only. religionFamilyLabel() lives beside the table it projects, so the
next consumer finds it rather than inventing a second spelling, and the table
itself now carries a comment saying these are values and must not be translated.
Ten family names in eleven locales, English wording held.
check:legend-mirrors guards both halves — and its own negative test found a hole
in it. A mutation aimed at the legend's data-key silently hit a DIFFERENT
:data-key, the donut segment, and the gate stayed green while a projection sat on
a wire. There are three such bindings and it was guarding one. It now checks
every :data-key and :data-facet in the file; all three mutants are caught.
★ AND I BROKE THE FILE'S PARSE ON THE WAY, worth recording because the rule is
already written down. I used backticks around CSS property names in a comment
that lives INSIDE a shadow-CSS template literal, where a backtick ends the
literal and everything after it is read as code. check:sfc-parse and
check:no-free-identifiers both caught it immediately. The comment now says so, in
the file, without backticks.
Source only. STUDIO: needs a rebuild of research-dashboard, dashboard-plus-grid,
doxa-research-map and research-map-plus-grid.
The five are NOT one shape, and treating them as one would have changed what
readers see. Measured before touching them:
ApproxPinNote, FilterDropdown fall back to a literal map
SemanticTreeLegend, PosterWall fall back to humanizeKey() — 'legend.columns.name' renders 'Name'
PinHint falls back to a one-key map
SemanticTreeLegend, PinHint also capture i18n.te (used 3x and 1x)
PosterWall also captures i18n.locale
So useOptionalT grew an optional `fallback` hook, and useOptionalI18n was added
for the callers that need te and locale. Every site passes the fallback it
already had, so not one rendered string changes. Routing them through the
catalogue instead would have altered what seven bare-host bundles print, and —
because tStatic honours the runtime locale — would have started translating
strings that are English today. That may be an improvement; it is not this
commit's to make. Changing a default is not a migration.
te keeps its existing contract too: FALSE on a bare host, never "true because the
catalogue has it". PinHint and SemanticTreeLegend both record why — te is how
their callers know to use their own defaults.
THE CHECK NOW LIVES ON MAIN, which is the point of this commit as much as the
migration is. dx-shepherd: the 18-assertion version was in _qa-cycle, so it would
never have run again. internal/check-optional-t-equivalence.mjs is registered as
check:optional-t-equivalence — script line, //scripts note and gates:post token,
all inserted by hand rather than by re-serialising package.json. It carries 46
assertions: the helper's contract across all three host states, a branch-for-
branch equivalence against the old hand-written code, and a PER-SITE REGISTER
that every later C4 wave appends a row to. Negative-tested from outside: strip one
site's own fallback and it fails naming that site.
check:library-index went red on the new composable and is green again after
`bun run library-index`. That is the staleness gate working, not a flake.
The shared legend was placed with physical left/right, while the map controls use inset-inline-end. In
Arabic the controls mirrored to the left, onto a legend that stayed left: on Simple Research, Prayer Progress
and UPG-100 (rega's RTL survey at 52eeb0db; traced by upg100-plugin and repo).
SemanticTreeLegend: the panel, its reopen button, the tree-guide hairlines and the export menu use
inset-inline-start/end; the closed panel slides off to the right and its collapse arrow flips under
:dir(rtl) (additive overrides, as VerticalTabsLayout does). LegendDesktop, LegendMobile, LegendRows,
LegendTools and LegendProgressBar: the card, reopen, detail close/collapse buttons, the name gutters that
clear them, indents and spacing are logical; LegendTools re-centres under RTL. LTR renders the same.
check:legend-logical-insets (with :self-test, both in gates:post) fails on any physical left/right in the
legend components unless it is symmetric, an auto reset, or allowed with a reason.
Landing 4 carries the nine messages keys this branch's packet and poster
funnel call (4be260a0), so the eleven catalogue conflicts resolve to MAIN'S
side in full: measured first, not assumed — my side added exactly those nine
keys to each of the eleven locales, changed no existing key, and all nine are
byte-identical on main. Whole-file take-theirs therefore loses nothing, which
is the only condition under which taking a whole shared catalogue is safe.
The six public/ conflicts are build artifacts and are NOT hand-merged: they
take main's side here and are regenerated from the merged source in the next
commit. A hand-merged bundle is what produced three consecutive SRI
mismatches, where leaf HTML pinned a hash for a bundle that no longer existed
and the browser refused the script — a blank page in 6/6 runs.
useDashboardLayout is the second zero-domain piece: it imports nothing but `vue`
and reads no row. The four mentions of a people-groups grid in it are comments
naming an example of what a host stacks underneath. Body verbatim apart from the
one change the spec required before it could be shared, and the same one-cycle
re-export at the old path.
THE KEY WAS THE REASON THIS COULD NOT JUST BE MOVED. The engine persists the four
divider positions to localStorage under a single constant, so every dashboard
wrote to the same slot. That was invisible while there was exactly one dashboard
— and SHARING THE ENGINE IS PRECISELY WHAT MAKES A SECOND ONE POSSIBLE. Moving it
without fixing this would have shipped a collision into the kit's first reuse:
drag a divider in one dashboard, reload, and the other has moved. Nothing errors,
neither is wrong on its own, and the reader has no reason to suspect the other
element on the page. SPEC-DASHBOARD-KIT section 8 named it as this landing's risk;
the fix belongs in the commit that shares the engine, not in the one that first
trips over it. The key now carries the profile's own id, so a second dashboard
gets its own slot without its author knowing this key exists.
AND NAMESPACING MUST NOT SILENTLY DISCARD A LAYOUT. Every reader who has dragged
a divider has a value under the old shared key; a new key would simply orphan it
and reset them for no reason they could see. The engine reads the old key once
when the new one is absent. It never writes or deletes it: a migration that also
deletes cannot be rolled back, and leaving the old value costs one localStorage
entry.
check:layout-key-namespaced guards all three. It EVALUATES the storageKey
expression the shell actually passes, with two different dashboard ids, rather
than retyping the rule — a gate carrying its own copy of the thing it checks
passes while the product is broken, which is the lesson from
check:linked-vocabulary. Negative-tested: a bare literal fails A, an expression
that ignores the id fails B, and writing or removing the legacy key fails C.
★ THE BUS_SRC LESSON WAS APPLIED BEFORE MOVING, NOT AFTER. Landing 1 nearly
disarmed check:facet-cascade because that gate reads its subject from a path. I
checked first this time: no gate reads useDashboardLayout by path, and the
storage-key literal appears in exactly two places, both of them in this diff.
The library index is regenerated here, per landing, for the same reason as
landing 1 — 101 items now.
SOURCE ONLY. Stacked on D1. STUDIO: needs a rebuild of research-dashboard and
dashboard-plus-grid. package.json is the parent's copy plus two lines beside
check:leaf-engine-per-provider, so D1's registration is preserved.
studio's landing 2 (1d569edd) changed 50 files under library/, so the rebuild was
required — checked with `git diff --name-only 85a417261d569edd | grep '^library/'`
rather than assumed, which is the test that decides this every merge and has come
back both empty and non-empty on different rounds.
The only conflict was the built bundle, a derived artifact: resolved to main's
version and then regenerated from the merged source, because picking a side of a
generated file is meaningless. Zero source conflicts.
VERIFIED BY HASHING, not by fix:sri's summary: upg-100-list, upg-100-mfe and
poster-wall all MATCH the rebuilt bundle, whole-tree sweep 57 integrity attributes
with 0 mismatches.
AND VERIFIED MY OWN WORK SURVIVED, because a 50-file library merge is exactly where
a plugin change quietly disappears: flashRef present, messages.engineNotLoaded
wired, tokenUrl still forwarded in the composite, the new gate intact.
The gate is the better witness than a grep, and it now reports what it should:
1 offender, gospel-resources/resources-map.vue:1490, and NONE in my plugin. Before
this merge it named mine too, because ade12e4c was unlanded. check:i18n-parity PASS.
The gate proves providerFor(map) answers the same as the raw window.maplibregl sniffs it replaced (C3), on
both engines and on the ambiguous inputs where the originals fell through to mapbox. It also proves the
obvious isMapboxMap() rewrite would have inverted that fall-through. Registered in scripts (alphabetical,
with its //scripts note) and gates:post; source-only. From regions-plugin 332dcf74; package.json edited by
hand, not taken whole.
SPEC-DASHBOARD-KIT D1. filterSet[key] may hold an array meaning "any of these";
keys still AND together. The array support is four lines. The reason this is a
landing rather than a patch is the other half.
`a(r) === filterSet[k]` WAS WRITTEN OUT SEVEN TIMES — the shell's filteredRows,
the facet rail twice, the map panel, the table, the charts rail and the CSV
exporter. Seven copies of a one-character rule are survivable while the rule
stays one character. The moment it grows an array case, six of the seven keep
comparing an array with ===, every one of them quietly matches NOTHING, and the
panels disagree with each other about what is on screen. That is not abstract:
the facet rail computes the COUNTS a reader acts on before clicking, so a rail
still using === would print counts for a scope the map and table no longer show.
So the predicate now lives in the bus and every panel calls it. The
de-duplication is what makes the four lines safe.
WHAT A CLICK DOES IS UNCHANGED, deliberately. A plain click still REPLACES. D1
gives the bus the capability; making a rail row additive on an unmodified click
would change what every existing click does to the flagship, which is a product
decision and not this one. The array path is reached programmatically today.
AND THAT PATH IS THE PAYOFF: "Arabic" now narrows the grid. The language tier
covers 22 ISO codes, so no single value expressed it, and the composite had to
send nothing and leave the axis unfiltered — honest, and visibly incomplete,
because the map narrowed and the grid did not. The whole code set now crosses and
the grid ORs it. Verified per tier on the committed fixture rather than on one
example: for all 805 tiers the joined set selects exactly the rows the map
selected.
★ THE SEPARATOR IS `|`, AND MY FIRST DRAFT GOT THAT WRONG IN A WAY WORTH
RECORDING. I joined on `,` and broke label matching outright: 120 of the 864 live
language labels are comma-inverted ("Arabic, Mesopotamian"), so a selection made
BY LABEL was chopped in half and matched nothing. A separator that can also occur
inside a value is not a separator — the rule the URL hash states one file over,
which I had just written and then violated. check:filter-multivalue caught it
before it left this machine, and it caught it because it asserts a behaviour I
was KEEPING (label matching) and not only the one I was adding. Asserting only
the new behaviour would have shipped it.
EMPTY IS NOT A FILTER. An empty array clears the key rather than matching
nothing — a UI deselecting its last chip produces exactly that array, and
treating it as "narrow to zero" is the silent-empty-screen failure the hierarchy
contract already exists to prevent. A one-element array collapses to the scalar
it means, so the hash, the chips and every adapter keep their existing shape
until somebody actually picks two.
THE SURFACES THAT CANNOT SHOW A LIST SAY SO HONESTLY. labelFor resolves each
value and joins them, at the one owner, so the chip bar, the research-filter
chips and the CSV provenance line cannot drift apart. A dropdown shows NO
selection when the key holds several: ticking the first of three would state
something false about the board, which is worse than stating nothing, and the
chip still names every value so the selection is never invisible. The URL hash
carries a list and drops the display slug for it — the slug is one human name for
one code, and there is no honest slug for twenty-two.
check:filter-multivalue runs the real bus, greps the panels for surviving copies
of the predicate, round-trips the hash including a value containing a comma, and
lifts the grid's valueMatches to prove both ends OR the same way. No browser.
Green: check:filter-multivalue, check:language-code-link, check:facet-cascade and
its self-test, check:kpi-unit, check:csv-shape, check:no-free-identifiers,
check:sfc-parse, check:mjs-parse, check:descriptions, check:no-orphan-gates,
check:doc-scripts, check:script-flags, check:quoted-scripts.
SOURCE ONLY. Stacked on kit landing 1, which moved the bus into library/.
STUDIO: needs a rebuild of research-dashboard, dashboard-plus-grid,
doxa-research-map, research-map-plus-grid and people-groups-grid. package.json is
main's copy plus two lines beside check:fits-screen.
The QA widget comments (QaCorner, ProfileLoader, app-wrapper-material) say our own surfaces and the host's
session instead of naming one host; StackLayout describes a normal host page's flow; the live-cors script
note says it was measured on the live test host. Comments and notes only; no behaviour changes.
resources-map resolved its engine as `engineGlobal(provider) || window.mapboxgl`.
engineGlobal already defaults to mapbox, so that fallback could only ever fire for
provider 'maplibre' — and then it returned MAPBOX. A page that chose the keyless
engine silently got the one that needs a token, and because the profile only
assigns accessToken when the provider is not maplibre, the substitute had no token
either: it would have 401'd on every tile. The fix is the deletion. The requested
engine or a named failure, with a console warning for whoever is debugging and the
reader's line through messages.* (English kept inline until the key lands).
check:engine-contract measures it: two providers across engine present, engine
blocked and both blocked, with the CDN blocked by request routing the way a proxy
or an offline kiosk does it. Three of those six arms first failed for reasons that
were mine, not the product's, and each is written down in the gate: Mapbox cannot
mount at all on a static tree without a token, 11s was not long enough for a leaf
that fetches 4 MB before the map exists, and engine attribution read from a debug
handle scored Mapbox-with-a-bad-token as "engine null" — the canvas class cannot
lie about who drew it.
Also in this landing: the pin caveat is translated in 11 locales from the shared
pins.* area, read through this leaf's own guarded t() rather than by mounting
library ApproxPinNote.vue — that component calls useI18n() unguarded, and this
bundle is embeddable in hosts that never called app.use(i18n), where an unguarded
call throws during setup and the shadow boundary swallows it. Same wording either
way. Both "Show all groups" buttons now use the key that already exists in 11
locales, and the engine's own control labels get the provider arm.
A localized CALL SITE is not a localized STRING, and nothing in this tree was
watching the join between the two.
The dashboard's five resize handles read their names through
T('aria.resizeFiltersRail', 'Resize filters rail'). Reviewed, that looks
finished: the call goes to the catalogue and the English is only a fallback.
aria.json held eleven keys and not one of them was a resize key. Every handle
had been announcing itself in English in all eleven locales, and the fallback —
which is right to exist, because a missing key must degrade to readable English
rather than to "aria.resizeFiltersRail" on screen — is exactly what kept it
silent.
No existing gate can see this. check:i18n-parity is satisfied because the key is
missing from ALL locales equally. check:english-leaks and
check:composite-locale-leaks both need the catalogue to HOLD the string before
its appearance counts as a leak, and it does not. check:ui-strings-have-keys
reads templates for typed English. Each is looking at a different end of one
wire. check:i18n-keys-exist asks the question none of them asks: does the key
this code names exist?
It found TWENTY-TWO on its first run, all in this lane — the detail drawer's
five rows, the table's two selection toggles and their hints, the map's loading
line, the breadcrumb, the charts rail and the map legend's aria labels, the
empty-search message, and big-picture's footer. Six of them are the resize keys
on this branch's parent; seventeen are added here, English wording kept exactly
as each call site already reads it, in all eleven locales.
★ THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE GATE WOULD HAVE MISSED THE DEFECT IT WAS WRITTEN FOR.
It matched tStatic/$t/t and reported four missing keys while sailing past the ten
resize keys, because the house pattern is a file-local alias —
const T = (key, en) => tStatic(key) || en — and almost every call site in the
dashboard reads T(...). Matching T( took it from 4 to 22. Prefix helpers like
BpResearchHeader's L(), and any concatenated or template-literal key, are COUNTED
as unresolved and never guessed at: inventing the key set a runtime expression
might produce is how a gate starts reporting keys nobody wrote.
AND BIG-PICTURE, the last HOST-LOCALE failure fleet-wide, gets the two halves it
was still missing. Its title was a hardcoded English literal with no key at all —
the largest text on the element, sitting above an Arabic grid. And it never
reflected `dir`, alone among its siblings, so a host asking for Arabic got Arabic
WORDS in a left-to-right layout: a bug that reads as a styling quirk, which is
why it outlived every locale fix around it. The attribute goes on the
custom-element HOST, because `dir` takes effect through the inherited CSS
`direction` and inheritance crosses shadow boundaries — one attribute covers this
element's chrome and both nested elements beneath it. Only ever set, never
cleared: a host page that declares its own dir owns that decision.
The gate is green with this branch and its parent together, and red without
either. Negative-tested: deleting a key that exists fails naming the key and the
call site; a first argument whose area is not a catalogue file is correctly not
reported.
STUDIO: no rebuild needed for the catalogue, but big-picture must be rebuilt.
package.json adds two lines beside check:i18n-never-translated — a different
region from sr/dashboard-filter-a11y and sr/language-code-link, so the three
merge.
check:embedder-keys asserts regions-mfe forwards the documented embedder keys to its panes, and that
profile and instanceId are NOT forwarded (the host's would overwrite each pane's own and collapse both tabs
into one view). Negative-tested both ways: removing dataSource fails naming it; adding profile fails naming
the collapsed-tabs risk.
The gate lives in the plugin's scripts/ folder, as nine check: entries already do. Its comment stripper is
committed beside it (strip-code.mjs), because a committed gate cannot import from the gitignored QA folder.
Registered in scripts (alphabetical, with its //scripts note) and in gates:post; source-only, ~0.2s.
ade12e4c removed one silent engine substitution. This asserts that nobody
re-adds it, and it found the two I had no business fixing myself:
cities-internet/connectivity-map.vue:365 falls back to mapboxgl
gospel-resources/resources-map.vue:1424 falls back to mapboxgl
and ZERO hits in my own plugin, which is the fail-then-pass proof — on real code
rather than a synthetic mutation.
★ WHY THIS IS NOT A FOURTH DUPLICATE, which I checked before writing it because I
nearly built a redundant check:sri earlier today. Three engine gates exist:
check:leaf-engine-per-provider — a leaf loads the engine its provider asks for
check:provider-switch — the page switch reaches a raw-built map
check:auto-engine — 'auto' = Mapbox with a token, MapLibre without
All three assert the HAPPY PATH: what happens when engines load. This defect only
appears when one does NOT load, so all three were green for as long as it existed.
The property nobody asserted is the negative one — "when the requested engine is
absent, no other engine is substituted".
IT IS A SOURCE CHECK ON PURPOSE. Reproducing this live means serving a leaf with
MapLibre deliberately blocked: a browser slot spent deciding what a grep decides.
The fallback either appears in the file or it does not.
⚠ AND IT REFUSES TO JUDGE RATHER THAN PASS VACUOUSLY: exit 75 when no file calls
engineGlobal at all, because "I found no files" is not "I found nothing wrong" —
a green run on an empty scan is the exact shape of a gate that has quietly stopped
measuring anything.
--self-test proves the pattern still fires, since a source gate that has never
matched is indistinguishable from a broken regex. It matches all three real forms
(window-prefixed, bare, whitespace-padded) and ignores a comment quoting the bad
pattern, a `|| null` fallback and an unrelated `||` token chain. Comment lines are
skipped deliberately: a gate that fails on its own explanation teaches people to
delete the explanation.
check:no-silent-engine + :self-test wired in alphabetical position, with the
reasoning in //scripts.
This map ships Doxa's roster, and the point of a public corpus is that other lists
can stand on it. A partner could already embed the map; their reader then had to
go hunting for their own people among 2,107 dots.
?codes=kfr,cmn,npi draw only those languages, framed on them
?country=IND open that country's sheet — this did NOTHING before unless
a ?code came with it, so the brief's second requirement had
no address, which is exactly what a partner embeds
?view=zero unchanged
The join is ISO 639-3, so a partner's list needs no agreement with ours — only the
codes their own data already carries. It filters and never invents: the notice
reads "74 / 2,107" and is itself the button back to the whole map, labelled with a
key that already exists in 11 locales. A link matching nothing shows an empty map
reading "0 / 2,107", because showing the full map instead would tell a partner
their broken list works.
check:embed-contract gates the promise. Written against the pin index first, it
demanded "12 / 12,379" of a map correctly saying "0 / 2,107" — the gate was wrong
and the map was right, so its numbers and its probe codes now come from the file
the leaf itself reads.
Cross-filtering is the one interaction whose whole point is that acting on ONE
control changes a number somewhere ELSE. Pick "Islam" in the left rail and 2,107
becomes 693 across the KPI strip, the map, the table and the charts. A sighted
user watches that happen. A screen-reader user heard nothing at all: this
element carried exactly one role="status" (the table's selection pill) and zero
aria-live regions. The filter worked; the feedback did not exist.
ONE polite live region in the shell, not one per panel. Six surfaces change on
every brush, and polite announcements QUEUE — six regions would make the user
wait through five repeats before reaching the next control. It is always
rendered and starts empty, because a live region inserted already holding its
text is routinely not announced; it is visually hidden rather than display:none,
which would take it out of the accessibility tree along with the pixels. It is
debounced at 700ms for the same reason the selection camera is debounced: typing
re-derives the row set per keystroke, and an un-debounced region would queue one
announcement per character. It stays silent on arrival and only ever reports a
change. It names the count, the total, the active facets and the search term,
formatted by the shell's own formatter so it can never read as a different
number from the KPI strip beside it.
ONE RESIZE HANDLE ANNOUNCED ITSELF IN ENGLISH in all 11 locales. Four of the five
read their title and aria-label through T(); the map/table one held raw string
literals. It survived review because each half looks correct on its own — the
ternary is right, the strings are right, only the missing T( is wrong. Both now
resolve through the catalogue. (The keys themselves are on
sr/dashboard-a11y-strings: aria.json held eleven keys and not one was a resize
key, so ALL five handles have been falling back to English. The T() call sites
were right the whole time.)
THE CHIP ✕ IS NOW BIG ENOUGH TO HIT. The live strip's remove button was a
~13x16px glyph — the smallest control in the product, and the only way out of a
narrowed board, where a miss costs the reader the whole view. The row height
cannot grow: three comment blocks above it record a measured layout-shift bug and
the Driver's "a lot more subtle" instruction that pinned it to 16px. So the HIT
AREA grows and the BOX does not, via an absolutely-positioned 24x24 ::after that
contributes nothing to the flex row's intrinsic size. Nothing moves by a pixel.
2.5.8 is a TARGET SIZE criterion, not a touch one, so it is unconditional. A
focus-visible ring too, since the chips live in an overflow-x strip where being
scrolled into view is not the same as being visible.
The kit's own DashboardFilterChips were spans with click delegation — not
focusable, no click from Enter or Space. They are buttons now, with an aria-label
naming the ACTION rather than the filter ("Religion: Islam" is a good name and a
useless action), type="button" so a partner's form is not submitted by a chip, a
focus ring and a 24px floor. The reset-all chip deliberately gets NO aria-label:
its visible words already are the action, and overriding them breaks voice
control.
Recording what this does NOT fix, because the measurement that prompted it named
the wrong file. DashboardFilterChips is exported from the kit and mounted by
NOBODY — round 1 of BUG-DUPLICATE-FILTER-BADGES removed it, and the strip on
screen belongs to SearchFilterHeader, whose remove button was already a real
<button type="button"> with a localized aria-label. So the keyboard half was a
latent defect closed before the next dashboard mounts it, not a live one. The
live defect in that same control was its size, above.
check:dashboard-filter-a11y guards all of it, on the kit component AND the strip
that actually ships. It walks the parsed template AST rather than grepping,
because grep cannot tell a bound :aria-label from a literal one, cannot tell a
button from a span named like one, and cannot see a live region hiding inside a
v-show'd cell. It also reads the built bundle, since source-correct plus
bundle-stale is a real repeat failure here. Fourteen mutants were run against it;
every one fails, naming the file and the reason. No browser — that is rega's.
STUDIO: needs a rebuild of research-dashboard and dashboard-plus-grid (the
composite bakes the shell in). Part D of the gate fails until you do, by design.
rega, on MapLibre, in BOTH locales: Languages > Language > "Arabic" sent
map-filtered with {language:"Arabic", languageCode:""}, the composite handed the
grid an empty code, and 2,107 rows became 0. An empty grid reads as "no
results" — the worst shape a wiring bug can take, because the reader believes
the data.
ONE LINE, AND IT WAS MINE. The emitter looked for a row whose language LABEL
equalled the selected name. A language tier's label is not a label any row
carries: the legend builds family > language > dialect and derives the language
tier by splitting the API label at the comma. Measured on the live source —
2,107 rows, every one carrying primary_language as {value,label} — there is NO
row whose label is "Arabic". There is "Arabic, Sudanese", "Arabic, Levantine",
"Arabic, Gulf", twenty-two codes in all. The exact match could never hit, in any
locale, which is why it failed identically in en and ar and why the locale fix
that prompted this code was right about the disease and wrong about this line.
This is the derived-value trap one tier down from where I last wrote it up: a
value that crosses a component boundary has to exist on a row. "Arabic" is a
grouping the legend invented; primary_language.label is a field.
So the rows are now matched the way the legend's own node matches pins — base,
"base," prefix, " base" suffix — rather than by a fourth hand-typed spelling of
a rule that already exists in two places. 61 tiers resolved an empty code
before; "Arabic" was one of them.
AND ONE CODE ONLY WHEN THERE IS ONE. "Arabic" means 22 ISO codes, so no single
value expresses it. Emitting one would filter the grid to a fraction of the
selection while looking correct; emitting the tier NAME is what showed zero. The
honest answer is to emit nothing for that axis and leave the grid unfiltered —
the map is narrowed, the grid is not, and the reader can see both. languageCodes
carries the whole set alongside, so this becomes a real narrowing the day
filterSet goes multi-value (SPEC-DASHBOARD-KIT D1) rather than a rewrite.
Measured on the fixture: 764 tiers now resolve one code and filter the grid; 41
cover several and abstain.
A DIALECT IS A LANGUAGE SELECTION TOO, and it emitted nothing at all — the
watcher never observed selectedDialect, so drilling from "Arabic" to "Arabic,
Sudanese" changed the map and left the grid reporting the tier above. Its
originalLabels are exact API labels, so it is the one unambiguously resolvable
case.
check:language-code-link, headless, no network at run time. It LIFTS the
emitter's match rule and the composite's gridLanguage() out of the shipping
source rather than carrying its own copy — a gate with its own copy of the rule
passes while the product is broken, which is exactly how this survived a green
check:linked-vocabulary. It proves the emitter's predicate and the legend's
filter expression agree on every (label, tier) pair, that every tier selects at
least one row, and that an ambiguous tier narrows nothing. The fixture is the
864 distinct label/value pairs from the live source, deduplicated rather than
sampled so the counts above are about the whole set. Four mutants; reverting the
emitter to the exact-label rule reproduces rega's finding exactly — 61 tiers
selecting zero rows, "Arabic" named first.
STUDIO: needs a rebuild of doxa-research-map and research-map-plus-grid.
A people-group pin is a representative point, not an address, and some pins ARE the same point: on the
Doxa roster 2,107 groups sit on 2,048 coordinates, 108 of them on a point shared with another (gospel-
plugin's measurement). Every map with people-group pins must say so, in one wording.
- library/components/legends/ApproxPinNote.vue: "The dot marks where this people is found, not a town or a
boundary." always; when the selected pin's point is shared, "It sits on the same point as <names> — <n>
groups share this coordinate…". Never prints the raw coordinate. Wording: gospel-plugin's P5 proposal,
in a new pins catalogue (11 locales).
- library/utils/colocation.js: the co-location index, built from the roster THE MAP draws (rows or
GeoJSON features), never a hardcoded count.
- LegendDesktop and LegendMobile (research map, simple map, country posters, cities, UPG-100) show the
note under the legend, and under the detail card with the shared names.
- check:approx-pin-note (headless, gates:post): the index, the two sentences, no coordinate, Arabic.
The Driver's ask: one folder per BUNDLE with its ELEMENTS inside, bundles sorted by capability, highest
first. The rail listed every element flat under its own capability, so a bundle's elements were
scattered (gospel-resources' five screens sat in three sections). Now each capability section (5 → 1)
holds the bundles whose HIGHEST capability it is, in name order; a bundle with several elements is one
folder (country-posters, gospel-resources, my-upg-100-list, regions-dashboard, cities-internet), and a
single-element bundle is shown as its element. Composites keep their folded composition trees.
StudioTree identifies a plugin's row by a `canonical` flag rather than "depth 0", so auto-reveal opens
the bundle folder above an element chosen by URL or restored tab. New folder icon; 'elementsCount' and
'elements' in all 11 studio catalogues.
check:studio-rail (headless, gates:post) runs the studio's real rail code on the built manifest and
asserts the layout and one canonical node per plugin (21 bundles, 33 elements); it fails on the previous
rail. Also: poster.json:dpi is declared identical on purpose in check:i18n-never-translated (a unit
symbol kept as-is by project decision), which had turned that gate red on main.
research-dashboard and dashboard-plus-grid imported '../doxa-research-map/src/colors/…' — another plugin's
private code — which is how two copies of the same palette drifted (C1a moves them to library/colors).
The gate refuses any relative import that resolves into plugin-designs/<other>/ below that bundle's root;
a composite mounting another bundle's PUBLIC profile .vue (the capability-4 pattern) stays allowed. It
FAILs on main (the 4 palette imports C1a removes) and PASSes with C1a; --self-test in gates:post.
ITS ONLY WITNESS WAS MY OWN HARNESS. The browser path honours the universal
`list` prop — upg-100-list.vue calls applyPeopleGroupList() at every fetch site —
but library/scripts/posters/packet.mjs had NO list support at all. So the
non-default-list branch of funnelPage, including the six-row shape where a list's
own total is inserted before the reader's row, could not be produced by the only
pipeline rega can drive. I had unit-tested it through a script I wrote about it,
which is exactly the state I have been objecting to in other people's gates.
rega offered to shoot a ?list= packet and there was no command to give them.
PACKET_LIST=<id> closes that. Rendered for the first time, and it is right:
rows 12,379 -> 7,341 -> 4,754 -> 2,107 -> 1,745 -> 37
bars 1080 / 640 / 415 / 184 / 152 / 26 (six rows, six bars)
label "Project 4700: frontier people groups" between the network's list and
the reader's 37
share "This packet is 2.1% of the 1,745" (no false "1 of 27 lists")
foot provenance only, no coverage claim
row gap auto-adjusted 218 -> 147px for the extra row; last row stays 14px so
the share still reads as its conclusion.
IT READS THE MEMBERSHIP FILE FROM DISK, not through loadListMembership(), which
fetches from the asset pool over HTTP — there is no server in a Node build. Same
file, same slugs, same counts.doxa.
AND IT FAILS CLOSED: an unknown or empty list exits non-zero rather than quietly
producing a packet of every group. peopleGroupList.js makes the same choice for
the same reason ("a map that silently showed all 2,107 while an embed asked for
Project 700 would be showing the wrong list with no sign of it"), and a packet is
worse than a map — it is printed and handed to someone.
⚠ buildFunnel() IS NOW A FUNCTION, NOT A CONSTANT, because it depends on a list
resolved after the records load. It mirrors upg-100-list.vue's packetFunnel()
exactly: the default list is the only one the zone catalogue describes, so it is
the only one that may claim "1 of K lists" and an unassigned count.
── AND A CORRECTION TO MY OWN VERIFICATION ─────────────────────────────────
"Numerals untouched" is about DIGITS, not GROUPING, and I verified the digits and
assumed the rest. rega measured the rendered hi sheet: Indian grouping,
"8,28,85,63,969 लोग" (lakh/crore 2-2-3) rather than Western 3-3-3. That is
CORRECT hi-IN formatting, so changing it would be worse — the real risk was never
the grouping but INCONSISTENCY, the same number printed two ways in one document.
Measured and it is consistent: num() is the only formatter in the renderer, so the
funnel's populations and the card pages' populations group identically — confirmed
against the rendered hi packet (card populations 1,70,000 / 3,37,000 / 8,10,000,
Indian-grouped like the funnel's). Only values at or above 100,000 can distinguish
the systems at all; my first check classified "1,400" and read a mismatch that did
not exist.
Verified: default path byte-identical (43 groups, 7 pages, 5 rows, 5 bars); all
four fixtures PASS with rows==bars; PACKET_LIST=frontier gives 37 of 43 records
and 6 pages; check:packet-strings-parity PASS; vite build clean, bundle unchanged
(the change is Node-side).
TWO FIXES FROM A BROWSER RUN I COULD NOT DO MYSELF. rega measured page 2 in
print media and found the opposite of the defect I feared: no overflow, but the
four global steps ended at y~330 of 1056 while "43 · are in THIS packet" sat
alone at y~965, leaving the middle ~60% of the sheet empty so the reader's own
step read as a detached footer. And it had NO BAR, so the funnel never visibly
narrowed to "yours" — a funnel whose final term is not drawn as part of the
funnel fails at the one thing it is for.
So the five steps are now ONE list with the reader's included, and it has a bar
like the others: 1080 -> 640 -> 415 -> 184 -> 26px, the last two tinted so the
network's list and the reader's list read as one thought. The 26px floor is what
keeps the smallest list a visible sliver rather than a hairline.
THE ROW RHYTHM IS DERIVED FROM MEASURED ROW HEIGHTS, not guessed. A first
attempt subtracted a magic 118px as "about one row" and left 418px of dead space
at the foot — rega's emptiness, just redistributed. Summing the real heights
closes it to ~298px.
AND IT KEEPS DELIBERATE SLACK, because two runtime facts are unknowable at
layout time: whether a step carries a population line, and how many LINES its
translated label wraps to. Arabic and Hindi labels are far longer than the
English, so LINE_SLACK reserves one extra wrapped line per row. Computed: 298px
headroom normally, 196px even if EVERY label wraps an extra line. Tight-packing
this page would trade "60% empty" for an overflow in the locales I cannot eyeball.
── AND A GATE HOLE A NEAR-MISS EXPOSED ──────────────────────────────────────
regions-plugin reported, unprompted, that a merge resolved with
`git checkout --ours` silently deleted the printPacket call site supplying the
funnel data — 60 lines — AND EVERY GATE STAYED GREEN. They filed it as merge
discipline. It is also gate design, and that half is mine: the funnel page is
OPTIONAL by design (buildPacket omits it when the arg is null), so a packet
without page 2 is not malformed, just smaller. My own choice made the deletion
invisible.
--expect-funnel closes it. The wrong fix is to always require the page: the 11
pre-funnel laos packets and any host with no funnel data would go red, and a
false red costs as much as a false green. Instead the CALLER, which knows whether
this packet was built with funnel data, declares it. An absence is then either
DECLARED (no flag, fine) or a FAILURE (flag passed, page missing) — never a
silent nothing.
Verified: all 16 generated packets satisfy the sheet arithmetic, 0 failures,
including the 11 laos packets that have no funnel page. fixture-tibet renders 5
rows with 5 bars ending in 43. Arabic regenerated: 7 sheets, dir="rtl", 5 rows,
5 bars, ZERO Eastern-Arabic digits on the sheet. Mutation-tested --expect-funnel
three ways: baseline+flag PASS, funnel-sheet-deleted+flag FAILS, deleted without
the flag PASSES. Flag filtered from the positional read, so a bare
--expect-funnel is not eaten as the packet path (that trap has bitten this repo
three times). BUNDLE=my-upg-100-list vite build clean, +141 bytes vs main.
NOT re-verified in a browser: check:packet-render needs Chromium, reserved to
rega. The geometry above is computed, not rendered — the print-media layout is
exactly what rega's eyes caught that my arithmetic did not, so this wants one
more look.
Country-level internet data is not good enough for India. This adds the first
sub-national layer, from the one open, machine-readable source verified for it:
NFHS-5 (2019-21, IIPS / MoHFW), "women / men aged 15-49 who have ever used the
internet (%)", urban / rural / total, for every state and UT (CSV transcription
of the state fact sheets, CC BY 4.0; SPEC-GRANULAR-INTERNET.md).
- data/internet/: the two NFHS-5 internet rows (with provenance, licence and
upstream commit), plus a strict crosswalk from source names to the shipped
gb-IND-ADM1 shapeNames.
- plugin-designs/cities-internet/scripts/build-adm1-internet.mjs (`bun run
internet:adm1`) writes data/tables/internet-by-adm1.json. It is GENERIC, one
row per iso3 x adm1 x measure x sex x area, with meta naming measures,
sources, boundary files and the national figures, so go-int and other plugins
can reuse it. It fails on an unmatched name or a value outside 0-100: a name
is never guessed.
- The map draws India's states in a blue ramp (0-25-40-55-70%+), leading with
women, with a Women / Men toggle. A tapped state shows both halves, urban /
rural / total. Its own legend block names the measure, survey, years and ages,
and says it counts people, not subscriptions, so it is never read as the
World Bank country bands. India's national band is taken out under its states.
- The shipped boundary file is the UPG-100 partition (34 of 36 units): Mizoram
and Nagaland have data but no geometry. They stay in the table and the legend
names them.
- 8 new strings under connectivity.adm1, in all 11 locales (library change:
consumers need rebuilding).
Headless: build and tree OK, and the table and gb-IND-ADM1 are staged under
assets/. The fill expression validates with maplibre-gl-style-spec, and all 34
shipped states get a colour (e.g. Bihar women 20.6 -> 0-25, Delhi men 85.2 ->
70+). A crosswalk poisoned to a wrong shapeName fails the generator. Passing:
universal-props, no-free-identifiers, i18n-parity, i18n-never-translated,
profiles-mount, composites-mount, no-orphan-gates, script-flags, quoted-scripts.
Not rendered in a browser.
It claimed to read "only the PALETTE export" but matched every hex from `export const PALETTE` to the
END OF THE FILE, comments included. A later note such as "REJECTED #AF7AC5, scored 2.95, under the 3.0
floor" (regions' affinity-block.js, being prepared) would have obliged every dashboard to ship a colour
rejected on WCAG grounds. paletteHexes() now slices to the export's matching closing brace and reads
hexes only inside string literals. --self-test (check:one-palette:self-test, gates:post) plants a hex
in an inline comment, a block comment, a trailing comment and a later export, and requires only the
two real values back. The verdict on main is unchanged (PASS, 6 palettes).
The credit line said who translated the Scripture and called them "the likeliest
people to ask", then stopped at a name. 838 of the 929 credited groups now reach
that organisation's own homepage from the sheet.
The URL does not come from eBible's homeDomain field, which is still dropped: it
comes from a hand-screened list of 16 organisations, every one fetched on the run
that wrote the table. Where a credit names two, the one it LEADS with wins, so
"Pioneer Bible Translators and The Word for the World International" reaches
Pioneer and not the other way round.
National Bible Societies hold 89+ credits and are deliberately linked to none of
them: several UBS members publish editions carrying the deuterocanonicals, so
whether a Society contact sits inside the 66-book filter is a ruling to be made,
not one to assume. They keep the name without the link, and the count says so.
A contact is screened as somewhere to write to, not as a publisher this map reads
text from — two separate lists, so wycliffe.org appearing as a scripture link is
still a failure. Four organisations answered a datacentre IP with a bot challenge
while serving browsers normally; those are proved by robots.txt and the table
records which method proved which.
pplr-data-maps and the Wall each carried the same ~40-line d3 loader (pinned, SRI, and a trap that keeps
the UMD from writing into a host page's own window.d3). It is now one library helper, fed from the
CDN registry. check:pinned-umd (headless, gates:post): the tag carries the pinned integrity, a host's d3
gains no keys, and a failed load rejects leaving the host's d3 in place. Both bundles build.
library/i18n/index.js globbed every catalogue area into every bundle: 25 areas x 11 locales, other
plugins' strings included, and each new area grew every bundle (CRITIC-10).
- internal/i18n-areas.mjs walks a bundle's SOURCE import graph (relative, @map/, dynamic import,
import.meta.glob) and keeps an area when its name appears as a key prefix or a bare string literal
anywhere reached; runtime-fetched data carries no i18n keys (measured), and every rule errs toward
including.
- vite.config.js: in a BUNDLE build, a pre-transform narrows index.js's glob to those areas; dev keeps all.
- check:i18n-treeshake (gates:post): every area-prefixed key literal in each BUILT bundle belongs to an
included area. Poisoned (one area dropped) it fails.
Measured, raw (gzip): people-groups-grid 611,595 -> 210,308 (203,176 -> 72,658); wall 659,876 -> 332,644;
doxa-simple-map 902,907 -> 686,910; research-dashboard 843,625 -> 637,940.
The library's pin and region popups (useMapEvents) interpolated data fields raw into the HTML handed to
setHTML(); a name like <img src=x onerror=…> from an API or a partner's list would run in the host page
(CRITIC-3). library/utils/html.js adds escapeHtml and safeUrl (http(s) only); every field of both popups
goes through them. check:popup-escaping (headless, gates:post) mounts the real composable, renders both
popups from hostile data and requires no markup, handler or javascript: URL to survive: it FAILs on the
previous code (both popups) and PASSes here. check:cdn-pins and check:no-eval join gates:post too.
check:composites-mount gains --all-profiles: every .vue profile of every bundle, and every preset instance
with its props (62 x en/ar, 124 mounted clean, ~38 s), in gates:post. Its entry defines are now recorded
once per bundle per locale (a bundle's second profile read an empty record). Scope stated honestly: this
is a SOURCE mount; an error that exists only in the built bundle (a minified name hoisted out of order)
needs a mount of the build and is not covered here.
Every map showed DOXA's people groups, and only those. The same maps must serve other projects'
lists: Project 7000 (unreached), 4700 (frontier), 700 (frontier of 500,000 or more), 2000 (DOXA).
The list is now chosen the way the engine is:
profile-config `list` > ?list= > window.MAP_LIST > 'doxa' (exactly today's behaviour)
with ids or project aliases ('700', 'project-7000').
- library/lists/lists.json: each list is a FILTER over the IMB / peoplegroups.org dataset already
in the repo (Lostness Priority, Population, Engagement Status), never a hand-kept roster.
- library/scripts/people-groups/build-lists.mjs (`bun run lists`): writes each list's DOXA members
to data/people-groups/lists/<id>.json, joined the way the Vision Card funnel joins, so the
counts agree with it: unreached 7,341 (2,082 DOXA), frontier 4,754 (1,745), frontier-500k 737
(71), unengaged 2,982 (1,929).
- library/lists/peopleGroupList.js: resolvePeopleGroupList and applyPeopleGroupList(rows, cfg).
The default list returns the same array, unfetched. A list whose membership cannot load shows no
groups (fails closed) rather than DOXA's whole list under another list's name.
- Tier A, every production map: DataSourceManager applies it (and the maps that build one pass
their profileConfig), and so does every direct people-group fetch: people-groups-grid, the
Big Picture header, research-dashboard (data, CSV export; the DOXA-wide /statistics baselines
are skipped under another list), Regions (list, dashboards, their table), UPG-100 (4 fetches +
the poster wall), Gospel's roster, and the Experimental upg-neighbor and Wall. The composites
thread `list` to their children like `provider`.
Gates: check:universal-props gains a `list` column (LIST-FETCH, LIST-DSM, LIST-KEYS; its
self-test now plants 9 bypasses) and passes across 18 bundles, with all-people-groups allowed:
it draws the IMB dataset, so its list is Tier B. New check:list-prop-unit (Node, 17 cases, in
gates:post); poisoning the ladder order or deleting a membership file fails it. Documented in
documentation/reference-universal-props.md section 5.
Headless: all 14 touched bundles build; check:composites-mount 20/20 and check:composite-interop
17 links pass on this tree; no-orphan-gates, script-flags, quoted-scripts, doc-scripts pass. Not
rendered in a browser.
verify-map-paint.mjs:293 asserts shadow && glContext && attribution &&
!asksForToken && cssOk && no-real-errors. Every one of those is TRUE of a
flawless basemap carrying none of our zones, polygons or pins, so a data-layer
regression lands green. Measured by starve-probe (abort our
/assets/{boundaries,tables,people-groups}/ and people-groups API requests,
leave the basemap untouched, then read exactly what verify-map-paint reads):
NINE of its thirteen leaves still report a live canvas, live GL, attribution
and ZERO page errors with none of our data on them. The hole is the majority of
the suite. The other four lose their canvas entirely, so the existing gate
already fails them and they are deliberately not listed here -- a leaf list is
a claim about where a failure would otherwise go unseen, not a trophy cabinet.
TWO MEASURES, PASS ON EITHER, because each alone produces a false red on a real
leaf. dashboard-plus-grid's map is a 686x340 pane whose basemap already
contributes ~846 distinct colours, so removing a choropleth deletes AREA
(26.4% of pixels) while barely moving the palette (ratio 0.788 -- I nearly
reported that as a defect). demo-map is the mirror: palette collapses to 0.196
while only 5.0% of pixels change. A map with NO data moves NEITHER.
A global floor cannot work here at all: check:map-paints requires 40 distinct
colours and a starved upg-100-list scores 306.
THE INSTRUMENT MATTERS MORE THAN THE THRESHOLD, three findings:
- drawImage/readPixels straight off a GL canvas returns an EMPTY buffer
(preserveDrawingBuffer:false). Three leaves read colours:1, nonzero:0 while
visibly full of colour. page.screenshot({clip}) goes through the compositor.
- elementHandle.screenshot() waits for the element to be STABLE, which an
animating dashboard canvas never becomes; it timed out on three leaves.
- A FIXED WAIT MAKES THE GATE FLAKY AND THE FLAKINESS READS AS A DEFECT. With
waitForTimeout(10000): countries-map measured 1868 distinct colours then 54,
and research-dashboard PASSED at 19.1% then timed out, on identical code
minutes apart. The fix is a readiness predicate, not a longer clock --
isStyleLoaded() && areTilesLoaded(), reachable on ANY leaf without a
per-profile handle via host()._instance.provides.mapStore. countries-map
then reported 1862->194 / 46.6% twice, settling in 12.7s and 10.5s: the old
10s wait was 2.7s short, which a clock cannot tell you and the map can.
IT REFUSES TO JUDGE RATHER THAN GUESS, exit 75 (never 0): no canvas, a starve
that aborted 0 requests, images that cannot be compared, a readiness that could
not be measured, or the gate itself throwing. That last one is not theoretical
-- the first run died on a Playwright arity error and exited 1, which a wave
runner reads as "these maps have no data on them". Three leaves are EXCLUDED
with their measured reasons rather than left to emit a permanent no-measurement
that reads as coverage.
--poison starves BOTH runs so neither measure can move and every leaf must go
red; it is mandatory because "either measure moved" is a weaker claim than
either half, and a widened assertion that still passes everything reads as
coverage while proving nothing.
Choosing MST on the research map built and sorted every pair of pins (~2.2 million edges for the
2,107-pin roster), ~12 s on the main thread, and then did it all again for a log line. The page froze,
and check:clustering-modes read the map before any line existed: "MST drew no cluster lines".
- MSTClusteringUtil runs Prim over the implicit complete graph: O(n²) time, O(n) memory, no edge list.
Starting a new tree when the nearest outside point is beyond maxConnectionDistance gives the same
spanning forest as before.
- useMapClustering no longer recomputes every tree for its stats log line.
- check:mst-clustering (headless, in gates:post): same edge count and total length as a reference
all-pairs Kruskal on 2-400 pins, capped and uncapped; 2,107 pins in 872 ms here (budget 3 s).
On the previous code it FAILs at 11,206 ms.
A reader whose OS asks for reduced motion (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) still got flying and easing
maps: callers passed { duration: 0 } themselves, and flyToCoords took no options argument, so theirs was
silently dropped. useMapFly now routes every camera move (flyTo, easeTo, fitBounds: 12 call sites)
through one guard: jumpTo, or fitBounds with animate:false, under reduced motion. flyToCoords takes and
honours caller options. check:map-fly-reduced-motion runs the real composable against a recording map,
headless: 7/7 PASS here; 5 of them FAIL on the previous code.
check:composites-mount and check:composite-interop join gates:post, and composites-mount is also a landing
precondition (3b, ~20-45 s): 08f89f55 blanked Big Picture and Simple Research while every existing check
passed, so a landing that blanks a composite is now refused before it reaches main.
A composite is a composite because its children talk, and every link is a name
written in two files that nothing ties together. Rename it on one side and the
build stays green while the link silently disappears. The interop matrix also
found the other silent way a link dies: research-map.vue looked up its host with
getCurrentInstance() inside a watcher callback, where Vue returns null, so
map-filtered was never sent, and the only proof had used a synthetic event.
Headless, in about a second:
- A: each link's send pattern is in the sender and its listen pattern in the
receiver (17 links across 7 composites).
- B: the literal is in every built bundle that ships an end of the link.
- C: every capability-4 composite is mapped, or states why it has no links
(stack-demo).
- D: no getCurrentInstance() inside a plain function in plugin-designs/ or
library/. The three routed sites are printed as KNOWN, and an entry left
behind after its fix fails.
Negative-tested on 521f8b18, and each of these fails: a receiver renamed in
source, a built bundle out of step, an unmapped composite, a new late
getCurrentInstance (one-line function, arrow, multi-line), and a stale KNOWN
entry. check:no-orphan-gates, check:script-flags and check:quoted-scripts pass.
It is not wired into gates:post; that is the build owner's call.
08f89f55 shipped Big Picture and Simple Research calling getRuntimeLocale,
detectLocale and RTL_LOCALES with no import. The build was green and every
structural gate passed, but setup threw a ReferenceError in every locale and
both composites rendered nothing.
This gate runs the part that failed, with no browser. Vite loads each
capability-4/5 composite the way its bundle entry defines it (configureApp,
plus ProfileLoader's provides where the entry mounts ProfileLoader), and
@vue/runtime-core mounts it on a no-op renderer in en and ar. Any error from
setup, a watcher's first run or a mounted hook fails it, naming the composite.
Measured on 75c4b54e: it fails exactly the two broken composites in both
locales. On 521f8b18 all 20 mounts pass. Throws poisoned into a directly
defined element and into a ProfileLoader profile both fail. It takes about
20 s. check:no-orphan-gates, check:script-flags and check:quoted-scripts pass.
- check:pin-dim-slider: its description sat in "scripts" under the same key as
its command, so the prose won and bash failed on the apostrophe. It moves to
"//scripts".
- check💓 the panel's bin labels now call T(key, en), defined above the
slice the gate evaluates, so the gate threw "T is not defined". It now passes
the same shape, answering in English.
- check:map-props-unit (Node, 26 cases) and check:auto-engine (browser) had no
script, so check:no-orphan-gates failed. Both are registered; map-props-unit
joins gates:post. auto-engine stays a browser run, outside gates:post.
Headless static gate for the contract in documentation/reference-universal-props.md: scans each
production and experimental bundle's source (and the shipped bundle for strings the minifier keeps)
for a bypass. The bypasses: a mapbox:// style in setStyle or a raw new gl.Map (a style handed to
useMapInstance is translated there and passes), a bare mapboxgl constructor, a literal provider pinned
into useMapInstance, a window.DOXA_TOKEN read, a pk. token literal, and toLocaleString('en-US')
(warn-only until the Driver sets a numerals policy). Documented design exceptions are ALLOW-listed
with their reason. A self-test plants each bypass and one clean case; a blind or over-eager rule
exits 3. Today: FAIL, 7 bypasses in 4 bundles (routed as defects), 12 locale warnings.
The gospel-only dev-assets check is gone in favour of the shared one, which is
better at the job: it tests the /__leaf/<bundle>/<profile> prefix — the one that
actually broke — across all seven map bundles, and confirms each leaf hands its
element the base it claims. The gospel version never looked at that prefix, so
keeping both would have meant two implementations and the weaker one still green
while the map was broken.
What the shared gate samples is the POOL, the files every map shares. It cannot
know this leaf also fetches gospel tables by name, so a table that stopped being
staged would leave it green and this map fetching a 404. That is the only gap
left, and this covers exactly it.
The wanted list is parsed out of resources-map.vue rather than written down,
which immediately earned itself: the hand-written list it replaces was already
two short — pray-index and gospel-link-verification were being fetched and were
not in it. A list maintained by hand is the field-list-goes-stale bug, and this
bundle has produced that three times in one day.
Poison-tested by unstaging a real table: FAIL, exit 1, then restored.
A generated map leaf chose its engine at BUILD time and hard-linked it in <head>: mapbox-gl.css,
the geocoder css, mapbox-gl.js and the geocoder js from api.mapbox.com. The provider is chosen at
RUNTIME (profile-config.provider → ?provider= → window.MAP_PROVIDER), so a partner embedding a leaf
with ?provider=maplibre still had every visitor's browser make 4 requests to Mapbox.
- generate-tree: no static engine tags on map leaves; the element's own runtime loaders
(ensureEngineScript / ensureEngineCSS, the geocoder's on-demand loader) load exactly the engine
asked for, the path composite leaves already ran on. The forge page drops its api.mapbox.com
preconnect. A leaf opened with provider=maplibre (same ladder as resolveMapProvider) is token-free,
so the public copy no longer asks a MapLibre visitor to paste a Mapbox token.
- check:leaf-engine-per-provider (new, browser): every leaf at ?provider=maplibre makes 0 requests
to *.mapbox.com and still draws; at its default every map leaf draws with the engine it drew with
before (--baseline <tree> compares against another tree).
- check:dashboard-geocoder-provider is wired into gates:post alongside it; it had been held out
because this generator's tags made it red.
- verify-map-paint: optional GATE_VIEWPORT for a phone pass.
Measured before this landing (browser runs made before the headless rule): leaf-engine vs main's
tree PASS, 56 leaves, 0 Mapbox requests under MapLibre, same default engine. Pins, region popup,
PPLR search and key-cities PASS on both engines with 0 Mapbox requests under MapLibre. RTL shaping
PASS on both engines wherever RTL labels rendered. Paint under MapLibre: the same 4 leaves fail as
on main (country-posters-mfe, upg-100-mfe, regions-mfe, flower-mesh). Pre-existing, not caused here.
Poster "Render" is missing on country-posters and doxa-research-map under BOTH engines. Pre-existing
on main, read from source: countries-map.vue renders <PosterDialog v-if="showPoster"> without
v-model or getMap, and PosterDialog shows only when modelValue is true.
Headless, on this commit's regenerated tree: 57 leaves, 0 carry api.mapbox.com engine tags (main's
doxa-simple-map leaf carried 5), 56 carry the runtime provider check, check:sri PASS.
Every gate for this bundle measured the built tree, and the map was found broken
where none of them look: the dev server. Boundary polygons were missing there on
five maps at once, this one included, while every built-tree gate stayed green —
the thing that differs is how a leaf resolves its asset base, not what the build
produces.
Measured without a browser, which is also why it can run on every change rather
than when a slot is free: /assets/boundaries/world-adm0.geojson answers 404 in
dev while /dx-maps/assets/boundaries/world-adm0.geojson answers 200 with 1.9 MB.
The file is there; the base is wrong.
It asserts bytes and JSON, not just status, because a dev server that answers 200
with an HTML fallback for a missing .geojson is the shell trap this repo has been
caught by twice. A bogus asset path is requested as a control: if that also
answers 200 the gate reports NOT MEASURED, since a server answering everything
cannot tell a present asset from a missing one.
It does not prove the leaf asks for the right path. That fallback lives in
library/ and belongs to studio; this is the other half — whether there is
anything at the end of the base once the base is right.
Reported from a laptop running `bun run dev`: under the Plugin Studio, maps drew with no boundary
polygons and UPG-100 had no posters. The built tree was fine, and every gate measured the built tree.
Cause: a dev leaf page is /__leaf/<bundle>/<profile>. A plugin that falls back to the page-relative
'./assets' asked for /__leaf/<bundle>/assets/…, and the leaf route answered with its own HTML at
HTTP 200, so JSON.parse failed and the map drew without our data. /<tree>/assets/ was not served
in dev at all. The built leaf never hits this because its page passes assetsBase "../../assets".
- dev-plugin serves the pool at /__leaf/…/assets/ and /<tree>/assets/ too, and the dev leaf page
passes assetsBase "/assets" in its profile-config, as the built leaf passes its own.
- resolveAssetsBase's last rung is '/assets' under the dev server (import.meta.env.DEV, false in
every build); the built tree keeps './assets'.
- check:dev-assets (headless): starts a short-lived dev server for this checkout, requires
boundaries/previews/fonts/images/tables to answer 200 and not HTML at every prefix a dev page can
produce, and requires the dev leaf to carry the root-absolute assetsBase. It fails on the parent
commit (4 prefixes and both leaves) and passes here.
The numeric-sibling rule shipped last tick as a rider on the RTL commit
and was never confirmed by a run — both attempts returned RC=75. Live,
plausible and unmeasured is the riskiest state a change can be in, and
a GENERAL exclusion makes it worse: "an element whose own text sits
beside a sibling rendering a number is enumerating data" can go green by
excluding too much, which is the same thing as never checking.
So --self-test INJECTS a real chrome leak in the position the rule is
most likely to swallow: an English catalogue value in a label that HAS a
numeric sibling, plus a control with none. Both must still be caught.
The injected value is read from the catalogue rather than invented, so
the self-test exercises the same comparison the real run does.
SELF-TEST: PASS — 6 of 6 injected leaks caught, including the one
beside a number. The data, facet and enumerated-value exclusions
narrow the population without blinding the gate.
NORMAL: PASS — 8 of 8 combinations in ar/zh/ru/hi, 74-83 comparable
keys each, so no combination was vacuous. dashboard-plus-grid is clean
in all four locales, which closes Big Picture cell E.
⚠ THE SELF-TEST'S OWN FIRST RUN REPORTED NOT MEASURED, and that is worth
keeping: every non-flag argv is a target, so `--self-test` was consumed
as a leaf path and all four locales 404'd. The "no combination
rendered" guard caught my harness instead of reporting 0 leaks caught
out of 0 expected, which I could have read as a pass. Flags are now
filtered out of the target list.
These two maps build `new gl.Map` directly, so they never got useMapInstance's RTL install, and
their bundle entries registered nothing either. The basemap draws each place in its OWN script,
so over the Middle East most labels are Arabic, Persian or Hebrew for EVERY viewer: they were
drawn as disconnected glyphs in the wrong order. installRtlTextPlugin(gl) now runs after the
engine global resolves and before new gl.Map (an entry-time call cannot work once the engine is
injected lazily).
Gate: check:rtl-raw (+ :poison), gospel's check-gospel-rtl-shaping method (pan to Arabia first;
no RTL label on screen is NOT MEASURED; one defineProperty per global for hook + poison) over
cities-internet on both engines and key-cities (Mapbox-only, gated, no leaf: mounted on a
same-origin host page). The shared gate's --leaf argument can replace the cities rows once it
lands; the key-cities host page still needs this one.
Measured: before, cities-internet mapbox 58 RTL labels with the shaper 'unavailable' and maplibre
62 stuck at 'requested', both unshaped; after, shaper 'loaded' on both, and key-cities 56 RTL
labels shaped. Poison: 3/3 rows caught.
