Realign read-side rules — width range coercion, finite order, symlink pins

The design corpus ratified that ranges are part of a sensible reading:
an exact-integer width below 1 now coerces to 1 read-side (bytes
untouched) instead of reading as malformed — the width division must
never see a zero or negative unit — while a non-finite order (.nan,
.inf) is now the same loud malformed-order rejection as a non-numeric
one, guarded at the single point where the double arrives so loader
and Writer inherit it together. The symlink-never-traversed rule
turned out to be already enforced (the loader has filtered symlinks
ahead of the directory check since the first commit); it and the
copy-preserves-the-link-verbatim behavior are now pinned by tests,
alongside the two hostile shapes the corpus names (width: 0,
order: .nan). Five new tests.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY

Kanban/Storage/FrontmatterFields.swift

@@ -46,11 +46,16 @@ extension FrontmatterDocument {
         read(FrontmatterKeys.schema) { value, _ in if case let .int(value) = value { value } else { nil } }
     }
 
+    /// A non-finite reading (`.nan`, `.inf`) has no place in the total order the tie-break and
+    /// midpoint math assume (01-storage-format.md § Frontmatter, settled) — it is the same loud
+    /// malformed-input rejection as a non-numeric value, not a `.valid(Double.nan)` silently
+    /// poisoning every comparison downstream. An `Int` reading is always finite, so only the
+    /// `.double` case needs the check.
     public var order: FieldValue<Double> {
         read(FrontmatterKeys.order) { value, _ in
             switch value {
             case let .int(value): Double(value)
-            case let .double(value): value
+            case let .double(value): value.isFinite ? value : nil
             default: nil
             }
         }
@@ -67,13 +72,16 @@ extension FrontmatterDocument {
     public var icon: FieldValue<String> { read(FrontmatterKeys.icon, Self.string) }
     public var iconColor: FieldValue<String> { read(FrontmatterKeys.iconColor, Self.string) }
 
-    /// Width multiplier. An int stays; a string or double with an exact integer reading ≥ 1
-    /// coerces (`"2"`, `2.0` → `2`). Everything else — zero, negative, fractional, non-numeric,
-    /// bool, a sequence/mapping — is malformed and renders as the default 1.
+    /// Width multiplier. An exact-integer reading — from an int, a double, or a numeric string —
+    /// always coerces: at or above 1 to itself (`"2"`, `2.0` → `2`), below 1 to 1 (**ranges are
+    /// part of the sensible reading**, 01-storage-format.md § Frontmatter, settled — the table's
+    /// "≥ 1" is a validity bound on the coerced reading, not a gate on which readings are
+    /// sensible). Everything else — fractional, non-numeric, bool, a sequence/mapping — has no
+    /// integer reading at all and is malformed, rendering as the default 1.
     public var width: FieldValue<Int> {
         read(FrontmatterKeys.width) { value, _ in
             switch value {
-            case let .int(value): value >= 1 ? value : nil
+            case let .int(value): value >= 1 ? value : 1
             case let .double(value): Self.exactIntWidth(value)
             case let .string(text): Double(text).flatMap(Self.exactIntWidth)
             default: nil
@@ -109,11 +117,14 @@ extension FrontmatterDocument {
         }
     }
 
-    /// An integer-valued double or numeric string ≥ 1 coerces; anything else (fractional,
-    /// non-numeric, out of `Int` range) has no sensible width reading.
+    /// An integer-valued double or numeric string coerces — below 1 to 1, at or above 1 to the
+    /// value itself; a fractional reading, a non-numeric one, or one outside `Int` range on the
+    /// high end has no sensible width reading at all. The high-end guard is what makes `Int(value)`
+    /// safe below; there is no matching low-end guard because anything below 1 short-circuits to
+    /// the literal `1` without ever converting the (possibly enormous negative) double to `Int`.
     private static func exactIntWidth(_ value: Double) -> Int? {
-        guard value.truncatingRemainder(dividingBy: 1) == 0, value >= 1, value <= Double(Int.max) else { return nil }
-        return Int(value)
+        guard value.truncatingRemainder(dividingBy: 1) == 0, value <= Double(Int.max) else { return nil }
+        return value >= 1 ? Int(value) : 1
     }
 
     /// A quoted timestamp reads the same as an unquoted one — same YAML 1.1 timestamp grammar,

Kanban/UI/Board/LaneLayoutMath.swift

@@ -50,13 +50,15 @@ enum LaneLayoutMath {
     /// The whole units a lane spans on screen: its `width` when that read as a valid integer, 1
     /// otherwise.
     ///
-    /// `Lane.width` is a **lenient** field (01-storage-format.md § Frontmatter): a missing key, a
-    /// non-numeric value, a fraction, a zero or a negative all arrive here as `.missing` or
-    /// `.malformed` and render as one unit — the bytes on disk are left exactly as the author wrote
-    /// them until the user actually changes the width, at which point the Writer replaces them with
-    /// an integer (`BoardStore.setLaneWidth`). The `max(1,)` is belt over braces: the read side
-    /// already refuses anything below 1, and this function is the single place the rest of the UI
-    /// asks "how many units does this lane span".
+    /// `Lane.width` is a **lenient** field (01-storage-format.md § Frontmatter): a missing key or
+    /// a non-numeric/fractional value arrives here as `.missing` or `.malformed` and renders as
+    /// one unit, while an exact-integer reading below 1 (zero, negative) is no longer malformed at
+    /// all — it coerces to 1 at the read side (**ranges are part of the sensible reading**,
+    /// settled). Either way the bytes on disk are left exactly as the author wrote them until the
+    /// user actually changes the width, at which point the Writer replaces them with an integer
+    /// (`BoardStore.setLaneWidth`). The `max(1,)` is belt over braces: the read side already never
+    /// produces anything below 1, and this function is the single place the rest of the UI asks
+    /// "how many units does this lane span".
     static func displayUnits(of lane: Lane) -> Int {
         max(1, lane.width.value ?? 1)
     }

KanbanTests/BoardLoaderTests.swift

@@ -241,6 +241,33 @@ struct BoardLoaderStrayTests {
         #expect(result.model.lanes.map(\.id.rawValue) == [realLane])
         #expect(result.warnings.isEmpty)
     }
+
+    /// The identity predicate is shape-only — "identity-shaped name or not" (01-storage-format.md
+    /// § Fractal layout ▸ Rules, "Symlinks are never traversed", settled). This pins the case the
+    /// previous test's non-UUID name doesn't: a symlink whose *name itself* would pass
+    /// `isUUIDShaped` and which points at a real directory must still be excluded before that
+    /// name shape is ever consulted — `directoryCandidates` filters on `isSymbolicLink` ahead of
+    /// `isDirectory`, so a link is never mistaken for the directory it points to, UUID-shaped name
+    /// or not.
+    @Test func uuidShapedSymlinkToADirectoryIsTreatedAsStrayNotFollowed() throws {
+        let fixture = try BoardFixture()
+        defer { fixture.tearDown() }
+
+        let realLane = uuidFolderName()
+        let linkedName = uuidFolderName()
+
+        try fixture.index("", "schema: 1\n")
+        let realLaneURL = try fixture.index(realLane, "schema: 1\norder: 1024\n")
+        try FileManager.default.createSymbolicLink(
+            at: fixture.root.appendingPathComponent(linkedName),
+            withDestinationURL: realLaneURL
+        )
+
+        let result = try BoardLoader.load(boardRoot: fixture.root)
+        #expect(result.model.lanes.map(\.id.rawValue) == [realLane])
+        #expect(!result.model.lanes.map(\.id.rawValue).contains(linkedName))
+        #expect(result.warnings.isEmpty)
+    }
 }
 
 // MARK: - Non-UUID-shaped folders are strays (01-storage-format.md § Fractal layout ▸ Rules,
@@ -728,6 +755,23 @@ struct BoardLoaderFailFastTests {
         }
     }
 
+    /// A non-finite `order` (`.nan`, `.inf`) is the same loud rejection as a non-numeric one
+    /// (01-storage-format.md § Frontmatter, settled) — NaN has no place in the total order the
+    /// tie-break and midpoint math assume.
+    @Test func nonFiniteOrderOnUUIDLaneThrows() throws {
+        let fixture = try BoardFixture()
+        defer { fixture.tearDown() }
+
+        let lane = uuidFolderName()
+
+        try fixture.index("", "schema: 1\n")
+        try fixture.index(lane, "schema: 1\norder: .nan\n")
+
+        expectFailure(.malformedOrder(raw: ".nan"), path: "\(lane)/index.md") {
+            _ = try BoardLoader.load(boardRoot: fixture.root)
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test func missingOrderOnUUIDCardThrows() throws {
         let fixture = try BoardFixture()
         defer { fixture.tearDown() }

KanbanTests/BoardWriterTests.swift

@@ -1382,6 +1382,46 @@ struct BoardWriterCopyTests {
         #expect(try fixture.entryNames("A.kanban/\(id.rawValue)/\(card)").contains("attachments"))
     }
 
+    /// A symlink surviving a copy as a symlink — never resolved, never followed to its target's
+    /// bytes — is `FileManager.copyItem`'s own default behavior (01-storage-format.md § Fractal
+    /// layout ▸ Rules, "Symlinks are never traversed": "Copy flows copy the link itself, never its
+    /// target"). Nothing in `copyItem` arranges this on purpose — it falls out of leaning on
+    /// `FileManager.copyItem` for the whole subtree rather than reading files one by one — so this
+    /// pins the behavior against a future change (a different copy mechanism, a Foundation
+    /// update) silently starting to dereference links instead.
+    @Test func copyItemPreservesASymlinkVerbatimInsideACopiedSubtree() throws {
+        let fixture = try WriterFixture()
+        defer { fixture.tearDown() }
+        try board(fixture)
+        let cardPath = "A.kanban/\(Ident.lane1)/\(Ident.card1)"
+        try fixture.file("\(cardPath)/attachments/real.png", Data([0x89, 0x50, 0x4E, 0x47]))
+        try FileManager.default.createSymbolicLink(
+            atPath: fixture.url("\(cardPath)/attachments/linked.png").path,
+            withDestinationPath: "real.png"
+        )
+
+        let id = try BoardWriter.copyItem(
+            at: fixture.url("A.kanban/\(Ident.lane1)"),
+            toParent: fixture.url("A.kanban"),
+            order: nil,
+            stamps: .fork
+        )
+
+        let copied = try childrenByTitle(of: "A.kanban/\(id.rawValue)", in: fixture)
+        let card = try #require(copied["Card One"])
+        let copiedLink = fixture.url("A.kanban/\(id.rawValue)/\(card)/attachments/linked.png")
+
+        let values = try copiedLink.resourceValues(forKeys: [.isSymbolicLinkKey])
+        #expect(values.isSymbolicLink == true)
+        #expect(try FileManager.default.destinationOfSymbolicLink(atPath: copiedLink.path) == "real.png")
+        // The source link is untouched too — a copy never touches what it reads from.
+        #expect(
+            try FileManager.default.destinationOfSymbolicLink(
+                atPath: fixture.url("\(cardPath)/attachments/linked.png").path
+            ) == "real.png"
+        )
+    }
+
     /// Template instantiation: born today, not forked — `created` and `modified` both fresh, and
     /// the same `Date` for the whole tree.
     @Test func bornStampsCreatedAndModifiedFreshAtEveryLevel() throws {

KanbanTests/FrontmatterTests.swift

@@ -525,6 +525,16 @@ struct FrontmatterStrictFieldTests {
         #expect(try document("order: \"1024\"").order == .malformed(raw: "\"1024\""))
         #expect(try document("order: [1]").order == .malformed(raw: "[1]"))
     }
+
+    /// NaN has no place in the total order the tie-break and midpoint math assume
+    /// (01-storage-format.md § Frontmatter, settled): a non-finite reading is the same loud
+    /// malformed-input rejection as a non-numeric one, never a silently `.valid(Double.nan)`.
+    @Test func nonFiniteOrderIsMalformedNotValid() throws {
+        #expect(try document("order: .nan").order == .malformed(raw: ".nan"))
+        #expect(try document("order: .inf").order == .malformed(raw: ".inf"))
+        #expect(try document("order: +.inf").order == .malformed(raw: "+.inf"))
+        #expect(try document("order: -.inf").order == .malformed(raw: "-.inf"))
+    }
 }
 
 // MARK: - Lenient fields
@@ -593,27 +603,39 @@ struct FrontmatterLenientFieldTests {
         #expect(try document("title: [a, b]").title == .malformed(raw: "[a, b]"))
     }
 
-    @Test func widthIsLenientForAnythingButAnIntegerAtLeastOne() throws {
-        #expect(try document("width: 0").width == .malformed(raw: "0"))
-        #expect(try document("width: -3").width == .malformed(raw: "-3"))
+    /// Only a fractional or non-numeric reading has no sensible width at all — a sequence,
+    /// mapping, or scalar with no integer reading whatsoever stays malformed and renders as the
+    /// default 1.
+    @Test func widthIsMalformedOnlyForFractionalOrNonNumericReadings() throws {
         #expect(try document("width: 1.5").width == .malformed(raw: "1.5"))
         #expect(try document("width: wide").width == .malformed(raw: "wide"))
         #expect(try document("schema: 1").width == .missing)
     }
 
-    /// A string or double with an exact integer reading ≥ 1 coerces; a fractional reading,
-    /// zero, a negative, or non-numeric text still has none.
+    /// **Ranges are part of the sensible reading** (01-storage-format.md § Frontmatter, settled):
+    /// an exact-integer reading below 1 — from an int, a double, or a numeric string — coerces to
+    /// 1 rather than falling back to malformed. The table's "≥ 1" is a validity bound on the
+    /// coerced value, not a gate on which readings count as sensible.
+    @Test func anIntegerWidthBelowOneCoercesToOne() throws {
+        #expect(try document("width: 0").width == .valid(1))
+        #expect(try document("width: -3").width == .valid(1))
+        #expect(try document("width: \"0\"").width == .valid(1))
+        #expect(try document("width: \"-3\"").width == .valid(1))
+        #expect(try document("width: -1.0").width == .valid(1))
+    }
+
+    /// A string or double with an exact integer reading coerces — below 1 to 1 (see
+    /// `anIntegerWidthBelowOneCoercesToOne`), at or above 1 to itself; a fractional reading or
+    /// non-numeric text still has none.
     @Test func widthCoercesStringsAndWholeNumberDoubles() throws {
         #expect(try document("width: \"2\"").width == .valid(2))
         #expect(try document("width: 2.0").width == .valid(2))
         #expect(try document("width: 2.7").width == .malformed(raw: "2.7"))
-        #expect(try document("width: 0").width == .malformed(raw: "0"))
-        #expect(try document("width: -1").width == .malformed(raw: "-1"))
         #expect(try document("width: banana").width == .malformed(raw: "banana"))
     }
 
     @Test func malformedLenientValuesStillRoundTrip() throws {
-        let text = "---\nschema: 1\nbackground: [red, blue]\nwidth: 0\nicon: {a: 1}\n---\nbody\n"
+        let text = "---\nschema: 1\nbackground: [red, blue]\nwidth: 1.5\nicon: {a: 1}\n---\nbody\n"
         let document = try FrontmatterDocument.parse(text)
         #expect(document.serialized() == text)
         #expect(document.background.isMalformed)

KanbanTests/LaneLayoutMathTests.swift

@@ -139,13 +139,22 @@ struct LaneDisplayUnitsTests {
         #expect(missing.width.isMissing)
         #expect(LaneLayoutMath.displayUnits(of: missing) == 1)
 
-        // Each of these stays `.malformed` on the model — the bytes are preserved, not corrected —
-        // and renders as 1 (01-storage-format.md § Frontmatter's lenient-field rule).
-        for raw in ["wide", "0", "-3", "1.5"] {
+        // A fraction or non-numeric text has no integer reading at all — stays `.malformed` on
+        // the model (bytes preserved, not corrected) and renders as 1.
+        for raw in ["wide", "1.5"] {
             let lane = try lane(width: raw)
             #expect(lane.width.isMalformed, "width: \(raw) should stay malformed rather than coerce")
             #expect(LaneLayoutMath.displayUnits(of: lane) == 1, "width: \(raw) should render as one unit")
         }
+
+        // An exact integer below 1 is a **different** case (01-storage-format.md § Frontmatter,
+        // "ranges are part of the sensible reading", settled): it coerces to `.valid(1)`, not
+        // malformed — same on-screen result, different model reading.
+        for raw in ["0", "-3"] {
+            let lane = try lane(width: raw)
+            #expect(lane.width == .valid(1), "width: \(raw) should coerce to 1, not stay malformed")
+            #expect(LaneLayoutMath.displayUnits(of: lane) == 1, "width: \(raw) should render as one unit")
+        }
     }
 
     @Test("The strip's unit total is the sum over the lanes it is given")