doxa-maps/internal/check-snapshot-guard.mjs
doxa-maps-88655c70 0e0b142719 A half-finished catalogue fetch can no longer overwrite a good one
The FCBH fetcher read per-fileset video scope for 1,666 languages and that file was
committed. A later run, while live.bible.is was rate-limiting, produced 1,103 and
overwrote the good file with the degraded one. Nothing failed, nothing warned, and the
artefact silently lost a third of its content. It was caught only because git status
happened to be read, and the fix was a git checkout.

That is the third time this shape has appeared here:
  - a VERIFY_LIMIT smoke run replaced the full verification table with 30 rows;
  - dropping a dead link removed it from the corpus, so the next run forgot it was
    dead and the build put it straight back;
  - this one.
Every snapshot in this bundle is built from a network read, and a network read has a bad
day. The dangerous case is never the run that throws - that leaves the old file alone -
it is the run that half-succeeds and writes anyway.

scripts/_snapshot-guard.mjs now stands in front of every catalogue write. A snapshot may
grow freely and may shrink a little, but losing more than a tenth of the previous run is
treated as a failed fetch: the existing file is left untouched and the script exits 1.
It is deliberately not an equality check, because catalogues do genuinely lose entries
when a publisher retires something, and a gate nobody can satisfy gets switched off.
SNAPSHOT_FORCE=1 is the one loud way past it.

Proven by replaying the exact failure: feeding it the 1,103-entry version refuses the
write, names the real numbers (563 fewer, 13.8%, below the 90% floor) and leaves the
file byte-identical to the good one. SNAPSHOT_FORCE=1 writes it. An equal write passes.

All six fetchers are wired: ebible, arclight, arclight-share-urls, door43, zume, fcbh.
Re-running zume, door43 and ebible for real passes the guard at 52, 208 and 1,237 codes
and produces byte-identical data, so the guard perturbs nothing.

The one exception is the checkpoint write in the resumable share-urls fetcher, which
starts from the existing file as a cache and can only grow. It must now declare itself
with a CHECKPOINT-WRITE-OK marker, so the exemption is a statement rather than an
oversight.

New gate check:snapshot-guard fails if any fetch-*.mjs writes OUT directly without that
marker, or never calls writeSnapshot at all - a guard that is easy to bypass is a guard
that will be bypassed. It refuses to run against an empty file list rather than passing
vacuously, and --poison injects a raw write and requires the check to catch it. Chained
into build:unlocked and its doc copy kept in sync.
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#!/usr/bin/env node
/**
* check-snapshot-guard.mjs — every catalogue fetcher must write through the snapshot guard.
*
* WHY. A fetcher writes a snapshot built from a NETWORK read, and a network read has a bad
* day. The dangerous case is not the run that throws — that leaves the old file alone — it
* is the run that half-succeeds and writes anyway. Measured in this bundle: the FCBH fetcher
* read video scope for 1,666 languages, was committed, then a later run during a rate-limit
* produced 1,103 and silently overwrote the good file. Nothing failed and nothing warned.
*
* scripts/_snapshot-guard.mjs refuses a write that loses more than a tenth of the previous
* snapshot. This check exists so the next fetcher someone adds cannot quietly skip it: a
* guard that is easy to bypass is a guard that will be bypassed.
*
* THE ONE ALLOWED EXCEPTION is a checkpoint write in a resumable fetcher, which starts from
* the existing file as a cache and can only grow. It must say so on the line above, with the
* marker below, so the exemption is a deliberate statement rather than an oversight.
*
* Self-test: --poison injects a raw write and confirms this check fails on it.
*/
import { readFileSync, readdirSync } from 'node:fs'
import { resolve, dirname } from 'node:path'
import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
const HERE = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url))
const DIR = resolve(HERE, '..', 'plugin-designs/gospel-resources/scripts')
const POISON = process.argv.includes('--poison')
const MARKER = 'CHECKPOINT-WRITE-OK'
const files = readdirSync(DIR).filter((f) => /^fetch-.*\.mjs$/.test(f))
if (!files.length) {
console.error('SNAPSHOT-GUARD-CHECK: FAIL — no fetch-*.mjs found; this check would pass vacuously.')
process.exit(1)
}
const bad = []
let guarded = 0
let exempt = 0
for (const f of files) {
let src = readFileSync(resolve(DIR, f), 'utf8')
if (POISON && f === files[0]) src += '\nwriteFileSync(OUT, JSON.stringify(out))\n'
const lines = src.split('\n')
let usesGuard = false
lines.forEach((line, i) => {
if (/writeSnapshot\s*\(/.test(line)) usesGuard = true
if (!/writeFileSync\s*\(\s*OUT\b/.test(line)) return
// a checkpoint write must be declared on one of the three lines above it
const above = lines.slice(Math.max(0, i - 4), i).join('\n')
if (above.includes(MARKER)) { exempt++; return }
bad.push(`${f}:${i + 1} writes OUT directly with writeFileSync and carries no ${MARKER} marker`)
})
if (usesGuard) guarded++
else bad.push(`${f} never calls writeSnapshot() — its snapshot is unguarded`)
}
if (bad.length) {
console.error(`SNAPSHOT-GUARD-CHECK: FAIL — ${bad.length} problem(s):`)
for (const b of bad) console.error(` ${b}`)
if (POISON) {
console.log('SNAPSHOT-GUARD-CHECK: SELF-TEST PASS — the injected raw write was caught.')
process.exit(0)
}
process.exit(1)
}
if (POISON) {
console.error('SNAPSHOT-GUARD-CHECK: SELF-TEST FAIL — an injected raw write was NOT caught; this check proves nothing.')
process.exit(1)
}
console.log(`SNAPSHOT-GUARD-CHECK: PASS — ${guarded}/${files.length} fetcher(s) write through the guard; ${exempt} declared checkpoint write(s).`)