The gate had been printing a NOTE on every green run: "the tree has outgrown its
floors (leaves 46 vs floor 40, dirs 23 vs floor 17) -- they still catch a
CATASTROPHICALLY gutted tree but no longer a partial one." It was right. At a
floor of 17 it would have passed a tree missing eight directories.
That matters more than it sounds. A totally wiped tree announces itself; a
PARTIAL one is the state that produces a confident false measurement -- "that
bundle is missing", "the dashboard tab does not exist" -- which this flight has
already paid for several times over.
MIN_DIRS 17 -> 21 (the manifest's current bundle count, the number that grows
when a plugin is added, leaving headroom against the directories on disk).
MIN_LEAVES 40 -> 44 (two leaves of headroom for a mid-build transient).
Deliberately NOT derived from the live tree: a floor computed from what is there
can never notice that something is missing.
Negative-tested 5/5: healthy 25/46 passes; the OLD floors exactly (17/40) now
FAIL as the partial wipe they are; losing 5 dirs fails; losing 3 leaves fails;
mid-clean fails. And it still exits 0 on the real tree, with the stale-floor
NOTE gone. check:mjs-parse passes.
These floors stay coarse by design -- check:embed-targets remains the
load-bearing assertion that every embed.iframe target actually resolves.
There were THREE staging surfaces, not two. The repo-root index.html was Vite's default
dev entry, and its title was the line that kept reappearing in front of the Driver:
"doxa-maps · Embeddable JAMstack Maps · staging", above a bundle strip that loaded each
chosen map into the page itself. It is archived with its internal/staging.js, not
deleted, and git recorded both as renames so history follows.
Archiving is safe because it was never a build input: rollupOptions.input is built from
per-bundle JS entries, and the root HTML is referenced only on the dev branch. It was
also already unreachable — the dev plugin intercepts /, /index.html, a query-string
root and /__gallery, all measured returning the studio with no staging title before the
move, and measured again after. What remained was a file that would resurface the moment
the middleware changed.
The settled-tree leaf floor drops from 50 to 40 because the architecture changed, not
because the tree got sicker. That floor was set when the build also emitted a chooser
page per bundle; those 19 pages are deliberately gone, which takes a correct tree from
63 leaves to 44. Left at 50 the gate would fail on every correct build, and the cheapest
way to make it green again would be to restore the choosers — so a stale floor does not
protect the tree, it defends the old architecture. The floor still catches the
partial-wipe it was built for, and the load-bearing assertion is now that every
embed.iframe target resolves: 43 checked, 0 missing.
