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author: engineer
responsible: architect
phase: 29
status: complete
parent_artifacts:
  - .planning/phases/29-tag-regression-fix/29-01-PLAN.md
  - .planning/phases/29-tag-regression-fix/29-CONTEXT.md
---

# Phase 29: Tag-Regression Fix (server-authoritative) — SUMMARY

**Completed:** 2026-07-01
**Requirements:** TR-01, TR-02, TR-03, TR-04, TR-05, TR-06 — all satisfied.
**Substrate:** SMTC daemon OFFLINE — code claims are grep/read (Structural/Honest tier).

## Recovery note (process honesty)

The engineer subagent building this phase was **aborted at ~35 min** (budget/turn limit) after
committing Tasks 1–6 but before sending an explicit EXECUTE COMPLETE or writing this SUMMARY. The
architect (lead) **recovered**: verified the committed state against reality (re-ran the full gates,
read the load-bearing tests to confirm they are substantive, confirmed the handler wire-in calls the
new primitives), then authored this SUMMARY. All 6 tasks landed committed and green; nothing was
left half-done. The plan handshake had been accepted (all grounding facts verified at HEAD cdef56f).

## Outcome

Workspace tag rename/merge/delete are now durable against v1.4's inline-#tag materialization: a new
region-aware `okf.RewriteHashtags` primitive rewrites affected pages' body `#tags` server-side in the
SAME byte-stable batched commit as the frontmatter change, pinned to the TS Lezer grammar by an
offset-level whole-document parity test. The regression is closed at the source for all FUTURE
operations (incl. body-only and never-reopened pages); pre-fix historical corruption is surfaced
(TR-06 detect+report), not silently claimed away.

## Commits (HEAD cdef56f → 6f1d049)

| # | Commit | Tasks | Content |
|---|--------|-------|---------|
| 1 | `da4adc5 feat(29): ValidateInlineTag inline-#tag grammar-subset validator` | T1 | validate.go + 28-case test; ValidateTagCharset untouched |
| 2 | `d84bcc8 feat(29): okf.RewriteHashtags + Lezer offset-parity corpus` | T2 | hashtag.go (468 ln scanner) + hashtag_test.go + testdata/hashtag_corpus.json + hashtag.fixtures.ts + hashtag.parity.test.ts + hashtag.ts (+span helper) |
| 3 | `351ef60 feat(29): body-inclusive tag enumeration + TR-06 stale-body detect` | T3, T6 | tagscan.go (PagesWithBodyTag + DetectStaleBodyTags) + test |
| 4 | `ffac102 fix(29): rename/merge/delete rewrite body #tags server-side` | T4 | batch.go (body channel) + handlers_tags_admin.go (validators + widened predicate + enumeration) + batch_bodyrewrite_test.go (goldens + 409) |
| 5 | `6f1d049 feat(29): preview surfaces body-rewrite scope` | T5 | client.ts + TagManagement.tsx/.css (body-affected marker) |

## Per-requirement result

- **TR-01 (RewriteHashtags primitive):** PASS. `okf.RewriteHashtags(body, old, new)` (hashtag.go, 468 ln)
  — region-aware (skips fenced/inline-code/escape/indented-code/HTML-block/ATX-heading), conservative
  (skip-when-uncertain), byte-stable on no-match (`TestRewriteHashtags_NoMatchSameSlice` asserts the
  SAME backing slice). Delete whitespace rule D-03a (`TestRewriteHashtags_Delete`) + merge adjacent-dup
  rule D-03b (`TestRewriteHashtags_MergeAdjacentDup`) tested.
- **TR-02 (offset-parity, anti-drift):** PASS. `TestRewriteHashtags_LezerParity` loads the single-sourced
  `testdata/hashtag_corpus.json` (generated by the REAL Lezer parser via `hashtag.parity.test.ts`) and
  asserts BYTE-OFFSET spans over every whole-document fixture — not name-set membership. The TS side
  (`hashtag.parity.test.ts`, 3 tests) regenerates-and-diffs so a Lezer-corpus change the Go scanner
  would miss fails CI. Corpus covers the full hashtag.test.ts positive/negative set + block contexts
  (indented code, HTML block, table, lazy blockquote, `>#tag` abut, Unicode `#café`).
- **TR-03 (rename/merge/delete rewrite body + validator + predicate + body channel):** PASS.
  `ValidateInlineTag` gates rename `new_name` (handlers_tags_admin.go:278) + merge `target` (:362) with
  400 before any write. `buildTagApplyItems` predicate widened to `(changed OR bodyWillChange)` (:240).
  `TagApplyItem`/`ApplyTagsBatch` gained a `BodyOld/BodyNew` channel (batch.go:54-58); the batch
  recomputes the new body from its OWN freshly-read body (TOCTOU-safe, batch.go:150-152) via
  RewriteHashtags, emitting body+frontmatter in one commit. Regression goldens
  (`TestBodyRewriteRenameGolden/DeleteGolden/MergeGolden/BodyOnlyGolden`) prove `ops` does NOT reappear
  and a body-only page (frontmatter unchanged) is still written. `TestBodyRewriteStaleClient409` pins
  the stale-open-client 409 invariant. Existing v1.3 tag-admin tests still pass.
- **TR-04 (body-inclusive enumeration in the pages service):** PASS. `Service.PagesWithBodyTag`
  (tagscan.go:65) walks live `.md` via repo.Tree()+Resolve (SEC-01), reuses the Task-2 region-aware
  recognition, finds body-only pages, excludes fenced-code/trashed/non-.md. `graph/query.go`'s "reads
  NO bodies" invariant is untouched (enumeration is in the pages service, not the graph layer).
- **TR-05 (preview body scope):** PASS. `tagPreviewPage.BodyAffected` (handlers:66) + client.ts
  `TagPreviewPage.body_affected` + a marker in TagManagement.tsx surface which pages' prose will change.
- **TR-06 (detect+report historical corruption):** PASS, scoped to **DETECT+REPORT** per D-07.
  `Service.DetectStaleBodyTags` (tagscan.go:118) flags pages whose body `#tags` disagree with frontmatter
  (a body `#tag` whose frontmatter counterpart is absent — the pre-fix half-reverted signature). No
  auto-fix. **The ROADMAP over-claim "for all pages including never-reopened ones" is thereby softened to
  "for all FUTURE operations" + the surfaced historical set** — the historical corruption is reported, not
  silently left.

## Verification AT HEAD (architect re-ran, post-recovery)

- Backend: `go build ./... && go vet ./... && go test ./...` — 18 pkgs ok (okf, pages, server all green).
- Frontend (from web/): `npx tsc -b` exit 0; `npx vitest run` **803 passed / 65 files** (Phase-28 baseline
  800/64 → +3 tests/+1 file = the parity test; the bulk of Phase-29's new tests are Go-side); `npm run
  build` exit 0 (assertLazyChunks active).
- `internal/web/dist/.gitkeep` present; working tree clean.

## Invariants held

- `graph/query.go` still reads NO bodies (enumeration is in the pages service).
- Byte-stability: only tags-region frontmatter lines + matched body `#tag` bytes change (golden-asserted).
- Single-writer batched commit (N pages → 1 commit) preserved; per-page 409 exclusion + audit logging preserved.
- No second `#tag` parser: the Go scanner is single-sourced against the Lezer corpus (offset-parity, CI-enforced).
- Phase-28 reading-shell surface untouched.

## For QA / notes

- **Frontend preview marker (TR-05):** the vitest delta is only +3 (the parity test); the TagManagement.tsx
  body-affected marker (Task 5) may not have a dedicated frontend test. QA should assess whether the marker
  needs a rendering test or whether the server-side `body_affected` field coverage suffices.
- **TR-02 drift-fails-CI:** the engineer was mid-confirming that a Lezer-corpus change actually fails the Go
  parity test when it was aborted. The regenerate-and-diff mechanism is in place; QA should independently
  confirm drift is caught (e.g. perturb a corpus fixture and observe the Go test fail).
