check:packets-all reported "zones covered : 2 of 28", which reads as twenty-six nobody had got
round to. Six of those twenty-six could not be generated by ANY command, for two causes, and the
report could not tell the difference between a gap you close by working harder and a gap you
cannot close at all.
1. `deaf` WAS UNREACHABLE BY CONSTRUCTION. allZones() looped three keys of clusters.json —
lists (13) + asia_lists (12) + uncovered_lists (2) = 27 — and the file carries zones in a
FOURTH, deaf_lists (2), which legend-tree.js collapses into ONE unified leaf (affinity bloc
A017). legend-tree.js:106 states the real arithmetic: "13 + 12 + 2 + 1 deaf = 28". So `deaf`
was a poster and a legend row with no obtainable packet: ONLY=deaf exited 1, "no zone matches".
Fixed by enumerating through leafZones(buildLegendNodes(...)) — the SAME seam the poster
generator and upg-100-list.vue use, so all three now agree on what a zone is. Leaves do not
carry selectors, so they are re-attached by id exactly as generate.mjs:2801-2808 does it.
2. THE FIELD LIST WAS PART OF THE SELECTOR CONTRACT AND NOBODY HAD SAID SO. The records query
asked for country_code and no other selector field, while selector-evaluator reads three more:
rop1 (affinity_bloc -> deaf), wagf_block (west/east/central-africa) and wagf_region (europe,
and the southern-africa-islands union). Those six zones evaluated to an EMPTY set for every
record and were skipped as "no groups resolved" — which reads as missing DATA and was missing
FIELDS. The tell: the records cache holds 123 groups with "Deaf" in the name and evaluate()
still returned 0 slugs. Verified both directions against the evaluator — 0 slugs when a record
lacks the field, the correct slug (and only that one) when it carries it, for all six selectors.
The list is now DERIVED from presentation fields + the evaluator's own requirements, so a new
selector type is a change in one place rather than a superset someone must remember to widen.
3. OFFLINE=1 WAS DOCUMENTED AT THE TOP OF THIS FILE AND COULD NEVER HAVE WORKED. loadRecords()
has an OFFLINE branch that needs no API, but the fail-closed guard ran first and exited 1
without consulting it. The note above that guard records it being taught about PACKET_RECORDS
for this exact reason; OFFLINE was never added. Worse than an undocumented flag: it sends a
reader down a route the program refuses. Any env var that makes the API unnecessary is now
named at the guard.
MEASURED, not assumed: an ordinary zone still builds identically through the new enumeration
(Tibet, 43 groups / 7 pages, check-packet-render PASS with --expect-funnel), all 28 zones now
carry a selector, and OFFLINE=1 generated 22 of them from the cache. The other six need a
records source carrying wagf_block/wagf_region/rop1; the cache predates the fixed field list, so
their render is still unverified and the gate now says so by name rather than by count.
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