Accept liberally, emit conservatively (764a4d4): the gate is 8-4-4-4-12
hex in any case and any UUID version — uuidgen and UUID().uuidString
print uppercase, and a strict lowercase gate would silently stray an
agent's standard-tool card. Identity comparison is UUID-value equality
everywhere: ItemID keeps its byte-faithful rawValue but equates and
hashes on the lowercased canonical form, and the writer's
import-boundary collision check canonicalizes, so a same-UUID arrival
spelled in another case remints instead of slipping past. The app still
mints only lowercase v4 and never renames to canonicalize.
Full suite 342 tests in 63 suites green. Two findings filed.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
The single point through which every mutation becomes a filesystem
operation: read fresh from disk (strict byte-faithful UTF-8), refuse
readable-but-uneditable frontmatter shapes, apply the edit through the
span engine, stamp modified / clear modified-by, then temp-file+rename
atomically. Renumber-visible-children is the sole minimal-touch
exception, tombstones untouched. Structured BoardWriteError carries
operation + path + reason for the future banner surface.
Alongside, three edges the card surfaced:
- The loader now decodes byte-faithfully too, so a BOM'd or non-UTF-8
index.md is rejected at load per the encoding contract, instead of
loading via NSString's silent BOM strip and then refusing every write.
- An appended frontmatter line adopts the file's prevailing line ending
(a CRLF file stays uniformly CRLF when a stamp first lands in it).
- Empty-but-not-blank frontmatter ({}, null, ~) is detected as
uneditable — appending after it would be unparseable YAML.
30 new unit tests; 176 total green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
Only lowercase-hex 8-4-4-4-12 folder names are lane/card candidates;
anything else is a stray — skipped with a distinct warning, never
descended, never able to fail-fast a load. UUID-shaped folders keep the
prior contract (missing index skips, malformed frontmatter fail-fasts).
Design resolution from the Redesign board. +5 tests.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
Pure tree walk: root → lanes → cards, level is position. Fail-fast with
path+reason for bad YAML, missing/malformed schema or order, newer
schema, rootless board; index-less folders skip with a collected+logged
warning; strays, hidden files, and symlinks ignored; board-level
deleted ignored with a warning; tombstones loaded and flagged. 17 tests.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
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