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The uiux domain of the twelve-domain sweep: 7 findings worked in order, 6 fixed, 1 skipped with evidence. Nothing in the list turned out to be already fixed, but two findings were stronger than reported and one prescribed fix is wrong as written.

Baselines, measured in a detached worktree off origin/main (7a81baeb):

before after
tsc --noEmit 307 errors 307 (parity)
jest 3 failed / 351 passed suites, 5774 tests 3 failed / 357 passed, 5811 tests

The 3 failures are the documented pristine-main set (connectors/audience, nothing-manufactures-the-member-seat, identity/onboarding-formObject.values(<PrismaEnum>) against the stale generated client). No new failures; +6 suites, +37 tests.


Fixed

SN-2 · DraftAssist was silent on a transport error and wrong on a quota refusal

apps/web/src/components/DraftAssist.tsx

/api/ai/draft prices the request before calling the vendor and answers 429 with { error: "quota_exceeded", notice }, where notice names the daily ceiling and when it resets. The route's own header says what should happen to it — shown "in place of the drafted text rather than as an error state, because being out of budget is not a failure, and reading like one sends people to support."

The client branched on 503 and nothing else, so that 429 rendered as "Drafting failed. Try again." in error red — the one instruction that cannot work.

503 is very nearly unreachable, which is the joke. All three call sites render the component behind aiConfigured():

  • messages/compose/page.tsx:187
  • calendar/new/page.tsx:165
  • memory/AddMemoryCardForm.tsx:134

So the only status the component branched on is the one it cannot see. The live statuses are 429, 401, 502 and a transport rejection — and every one produced the same four words. There was also no catch at all, so a dropped connection rejected out of an onClick handler: the spinner stopped and nothing appeared.

Now: the server's sentence wins whenever it has one (rendered as a notice, not in error red); 401 says to sign in again rather than to retry into the same 401; a rejection is caught; and a draft that arrives with no target field says so instead of spinning and doing nothing.

SN-3 · A failed /api/notifications GET rendered a blank panel with no error and no retry

apps/web/src/components/shell/NotificationBell.tsx

if (!res.ok) return left loaded false, and both empty-state guards were gated on loaded — so the render fell through to the list branch and drew an empty <ul> under a header still reading Notifications · 3 new. The badge is server-rendered, so the count kept insisting there was something there. No error, no retry, and it never changed, because every 30-second poll failed the same silent way. The history overlay had the identical defect for the identical reason.

panelState({ loaded, failed, count }) makes the third state sayable. The neighbouring branch it also covers: the first paint, before any response arrives, was blank for exactly the same reason — now Loading.

Deliberately narrow: failed only wins while there is nothing else to show. A poll that fails after a good load keeps the items on screen — last-known-good beats blanking a list somebody is reading, and the fix must not trade a permanent blank panel for an intermittent one. Both halves are asserted.

The finding's trimmed sub-claim about markAllRead is correct as trimmed: the badge only sticks at 0 when the GET is also failing, so it is a second symptom of this, not an independent defect. No separate change.

SN-43 · "No matching resources" shown to an officer who typed no search and set no filter

apps/web/src/components/ResourcesBrowser.tsx

The sentence blames a search, and was shown unconditionally. The canManage arm half-covered it by naming publishing — so the arm with nothing actionable in it was reserved for exactly the person who cannot publish anything.

Stronger than reported, in the other direction: the Retired tab. activeTab can only be "retired" while archived.length > 0, and retired is archived put through the same title/description/kind filter. So an empty Retired tab means the filter emptied it — and "Nothing retired" was false every single time it rendered. That arm is fixed too.

filtering excludes mineOnly on the Retired tab, because retired never applies it; blaming a filter that is not in the expression is the same mistake pointing the other way. Adds a Clear filters button, so "clear the filters" names a control instead of describing a chore.

SN-44 · "Start one on the right" pointed at nothing

apps/web/src/app/(app)/messages/page.tsx

Wrong twice over. The grid is grid-cols-1 lg:grid-cols-3, so below lg there is no right — that column stacks below this card, off-screen. And both cards in it are conditional (myOrgs.length > 0; canBroadcast), so for a student with no board seat and no OSE role the column is empty at every width.

Now names Compose, which is unconditional and sits directly above. The test proves the column is empty for that reader rather than assuming it — that assertion passes independently of the wording change, which is how the skeptic's stronger claim got confirmed here rather than taken on trust.

SN-45 · A category link with no active clubs rendered an entirely blank page

apps/web/src/app/(app)/orgs/page.tsx

/orgs?category=SOCIAL after the last Social club is archived: title, subtitle, chip row, then an empty <div>. The activeClubs.length === 0 guard could not catch it — activeClubs was not empty, the SOCIAL subset was. And the chip row drops a category at count 0, so no control on the page was in the selected state and nothing indicated a filter was applied. Reachable by bookmark, shared link or Back.

Widened past the reported case: keyed on sections.length === 0 (what actually renders) rather than byCategory.size === 0, so a category the OrgCategory enum gains and CATEGORY_ORDER has not yet learned lands on the explanatory branch instead of on the same blank page by a different route. The unfiltered arm is kept distinct and tested, so the fix cannot regress into blaming a category nobody chose.

SN-46 · "Every request this club has put through the chain" omitted every cancelled one

apps/web/src/app/(app)/orgs/[slug]/impact/page.tsx

The groupBy has no status filter, so CANCELLED rows were fetched and then dropped by the bucketing — no segment, no legend entry, and not in approvalTotal, the bar's own denominator. A club with 3 approved and 2 cancelled drew Approved at 100% instead of 60%: a full green bar, on a page whose entire purpose is being shared with an advisor.

CANCELLED is written for real — approvals/actions.ts:334 on a withdrawal and admin/actions.ts:1403 on an OSE force-cancel, both cascading to the linked event.

approvalRate deliberately stays approved / (approved + rejected). A withdrawn request was never decided, so folding it in would depress a rate it says nothing about. Asserted.

Colour: Cancelled takes --warning, a hue rather than a third grey. Under @media (prefers-contrast: more) globals.css points --text-3 and --border-strong at the same value (#374151 light, #d1d5db dark), and inside a 3px bar colour is the only thing separating one segment from the next — two greys there would merge into one block.


Skipped, with the measurement

NW-14 · The exception queue's 200-row cap

apps/web/src/app/(app)/admin/exceptions/page.tsx

The shape is real: one 200-row read ordered lastSeenAt desc across all statuses, split in memory, with the kind chips derived from the survivors. Not fixed, for two reasons.

1. It is unreachable here, and the finding's own bound is off by 3×. The note says "~20 catalogued products". There are 6 (lib/integrations/connectors.ts: box.enterprise, microsoft.outlook-calendar, microsoft.outlook-mail, microsoft.teams, slack.user, slack.workspace). Rows are upserted on UNIQUE (institutionId, dedupeKey) where dedupeKey = kind:code:subject, and all three raiseException call sites pass a product id as the subject. The generic callback can raise 8 distinct classes. So the ceiling is 8 × 6 = 48 rows per institution against a 200-row cap — the eviction cannot happen.

2. The prescribed fix would introduce a live bug. smallest_change says to read open work with status: { in: OPEN_STATUSES }. OPEN_STATUSES does not exist anywhere in the repository, and the concept cannot express what the page means by open: isOpenWork counts EXPIRED as open, and EXPIRED is not a status — it is effectiveStatus() computed against the clock for a WAIVED row whose expiresAt has passed (lifecycle.ts:66-82). A status-column filter would silently drop every lapsed waiver from the queue. That is a reachable defect, traded for an unreachable one.

A correct version needs the open/settled predicate expressed twice — once in SQL, once in isOpenWork — which is the hazard reports-analytics.ts is cited in this very file's docblock for. Worth doing when a second exception subclass starts raising rows (the docblock names four as planned); it needs a shared predicate, not a take, and that is a larger change than this PR.

admin/exceptions/page.tsx is untouched. Its named sibling SN-5 is a different file (admin/approvals/page.tsx, backend-correctness), and the only other domain claiming this directory is SN-22 on admin/audit/page.tsx — so nothing here contends.


Method

Three decision rules extracted as pure exportsdraftOutcome, panelState, shelfEmptyState — for the reason assistantMessage was extracted in #262: "inside the fetch handler it was reachable by no test, and it was wrong." renderToStaticMarkup cannot type into a search box or fail a fetch, and untested is how each of these got its sentence wrong.

The SN-46 guard is widened past its own case. It parses enum ApprovalStatus out of schema.prisma and asserts every member is named in the bucketing and added into approvalTotal. Asserting CANCELLED alone would have guarded the one case that prompted it and held the door open for the next. Proved by adding WITHDRAWN_BY_ADVISOR to the schema: the guard goes red, then green on restore. It reads the schema rather than importing the enum because the generated client in this tree is stale — three suites already fail on Object.values(<PrismaEnum>) for exactly that reason.

Every fix is mutation-proven, each mutation asserted against an anchor confirmed present and each file's md5 checked before and after, restored from a file backup rather than from git:

mutation result
drop the notice branch 2 red / 4 green
panelState back to loaded-only 2 red / 4 green
shelfEmptyState always blames the filter 5 red / 3 green
remove cancelled from approvalTotal 2 red / 5 green
remove the Cancelled segment 1 red / 6 green
add a status to schema.prisma 1 red / 6 green
drop the empty-category arm 4 red / 3 green
restore "Start one on the right" 2 red / 1 green

In every case the neighbours stayed green, which is what says the assertions are pointed at their own defect and not at each other.

The one remaining lint warning on ResourcesBrowser.tsx (useMemo missing matches) is pre-existing on origin/main at the same retired memo and is untouched.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Impact reports now include cancelled requests in outcome breakdowns while excluding them from approval-rate calculations.
    • Organization and resource pages provide clearer, context-aware empty states with relevant actions.
    • Notifications distinguish expired sessions from other errors and offer appropriate recovery options.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved guidance for empty message inboxes.
    • Draft assistance now handles malformed responses and distinguishes notices from connection errors.
    • Resource shelves no longer show misleading search or filter guidance when empty.

Six UI/UX findings from the twelve-domain sweep. They are one defect wearing six
faces: a surface with nothing on it renders a sentence that was written for a
different reason than the one that actually emptied it.

SN-2  DraftAssist branched on 503 and nothing else, so /api/ai/draft's 429 — the
      one refusal that arrives with a usable sentence attached — rendered as
      "Drafting failed. Try again." in error red. That is the single instruction
      that cannot work; the ceiling does not lift until tomorrow. 503 is very
      nearly unreachable, which is the joke: all three call sites render the
      component behind aiConfigured(), so the only status it branched on is the
      one it cannot see. It also had no catch, so a dropped connection rejected
      out of an onClick handler and put nothing at all on the screen.

SN-3  A failed /api/notifications GET hit `if (!res.ok) return`. `loaded` stayed
      false and BOTH empty-state guards were gated on it, so the render fell
      through to the list branch and drew an empty <ul> under a header still
      reading "Notifications · 3 new" — the badge is server-rendered, so the
      count kept insisting there was something there. No error, no retry, and it
      never changed, because every 30s poll failed the same silent way. The
      history overlay had the identical defect. The first paint was blank for the
      same reason and is now "Loading".

SN-43 "No matching resources — try a different search or clear the filters",
      shown beside an EMPTY search box with no chip active. The canManage arm
      half-covered it by naming publishing, so the sentence with nothing
      actionable in it was reserved for the officer who cannot publish. The
      Retired tab was wrong in the other direction and ALWAYS: the tab only
      exists while something is retired, so an empty one means the filter emptied
      it, and "Nothing retired" was false every time it rendered.

SN-44 "Start one on the right" gave a direction that was wrong twice over. Below
      `lg` the grid is one column and that card stacks BELOW this one; and both
      cards in it are conditional, so for a student with no board seat and no OSE
      role the column is empty at every width. Now it names Compose, which is
      unconditional and sits directly above. The test proves the emptiness rather
      than assuming it.

SN-45 /orgs?category=SOCIAL after the last Social club is archived: title,
      subtitle, chips, then an empty <div>. The activeClubs.length === 0 guard
      could not catch it — activeClubs was not empty, the subset was — and the
      Social chip is dropped at count 0, so no control on the page was in the
      selected state and nothing said a filter was applied.

SN-46 "Every request this club has put through the chain" silently omitted every
      cancelled one. The groupBy has no status filter, so CANCELLED rows were
      fetched and then dropped by the bucketing: no segment, no legend, and not
      in the bar's denominator. A club that withdrew two of every five requests
      drew a full green Approved bar on a page built to be shared with an advisor.

WHAT THE CONTROLS GUARD, AND WHAT THEY DELIBERATELY DO NOT

Three decision rules were extracted as pure exports — draftOutcome, panelState,
shelfEmptyState — for the reason assistantMessage was extracted in #262: inside a
fetch handler or behind component state they were reachable by no test, and that
is how each of them got its sentence wrong. renderToStaticMarkup cannot type into
a search box or fail a fetch.

The SN-46 guard reads ApprovalStatus out of schema.prisma and asserts every
member is named in the bucketing AND added into approvalTotal. Asserting CANCELLED
alone would have guarded the one case that prompted it and held the door open for
the next. Proved by adding a status to the schema: the guard goes red. It parses
the schema rather than importing the enum because the generated client here is
stale — three suites already fail on Object.values(<PrismaEnum>) for that reason.

Every fix was mutation-proven: reverting each one turns its own assertions red and
leaves the neighbours green.

Cancelled takes --warning rather than a third grey. Under
`@media (prefers-contrast: more)` globals.css points --text-3 and --border-strong
at the same value, and inside a 3px bar colour is the only thing separating one
segment from the next.

NOT DONE: NW-14. See the PR body — the defect is real in shape but unreachable at
this tree's volumes, and the prescribed fix would introduce a live bug.

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The pull request updates contextual empty states, cancelled approval outcomes, draft response handling, and notification failure states. Regression tests cover the updated pages and components.

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Messages empty state

Layer / File(s) Summary
Compose prompt and regression coverage
apps/web/src/app/(app)/messages/page.tsx, apps/web/src/app/(app)/messages/an-empty-inbox-points-at-a-real-control.test.tsx
The empty inbox prompt now points to Compose. Tests verify the Compose link and the absence of unavailable channels.

Impact approval outcomes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cancelled outcome accounting
apps/web/src/app/(app)/orgs/[slug]/impact/page.tsx, apps/web/src/app/(app)/orgs/[slug]/impact/a-cancelled-request-still-happened.test.tsx
Cancelled requests now contribute to the outcome bar and render as a warning segment. Approval rates still use approved and rejected requests only. Tests cover approval-status buckets.

Organization category states

Layer / File(s) Summary
Category-aware organization rendering
apps/web/src/app/(app)/orgs/page.tsx, apps/web/src/app/(app)/orgs/an-empty-category-says-it-is-filtered.test.tsx
The organizations page renders category-specific empty states and a Show all clubs link. Tests cover filtered, unfiltered, populated, and archived-only results.

Draft outcome handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Draft response classification and rendering
apps/web/src/components/DraftAssist.tsx, apps/web/src/components/a-quota-is-not-a-drafting-failure.test.ts
Draft responses normalize malformed bodies and classify notices and errors. The component handles missing targets and failed requests. Tests cover these outcomes.

Resource shelf states

Layer / File(s) Summary
Contextual shelf empty states
apps/web/src/components/ResourcesBrowser.tsx, apps/web/src/components/an-empty-shelf-is-not-a-failed-search.test.tsx
Shelf messaging now reflects filters, tabs, and audience. Clear filters appears only when filtering is active. Tests cover live and retired shelves.

Notification panel states

Layer / File(s) Summary
Notification load-state handling
apps/web/src/components/shell/NotificationBell.tsx, apps/web/src/components/shell/a-failed-read-is-not-an-empty-inbox.test.ts
Notification panels now distinguish loading, empty, populated, expired-session, and generic failure states. Expired sessions show sign-in navigation. Superseded polling responses do not overwrite newer state.

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The heredoc that applied each edit carried a trailing newline the anchor did not,
so every replacement site gained one blank line — some of them inside a comment
block or between a ternary's opening paren and its element. No behaviour change.

tsc 307 (parity), jest 3 failed / 357 passed / 5811 tests — the same three
pristine-main suites, no new failures.

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`toContain(">2</span>")` would have been satisfied by any span rendering a 2 —
a stat tile, another legend row. `title="Cancelled: 2"` pairs the label with its
count and can only come from the segment under test. Re-proved: removing the
segment still turns it red.

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Independent review — BLOCKS MERGE, narrowly, on F1 + F5. CodeRabbit reports pass / "Review rate limited" on this PR and every Greptile review in this queue is a trial-credit billing notice, so neither bot read this diff. Reviewed at 80f02e97; head re-verified unchanged at the end, and git merge-base --is-ancestor against a fresh fetch of refs/pull/274/head returns true, so there was no mid-review rebase.

F1 · HIGH · NotificationBell.tsx:154 (and :171), surfacing at :106

The 401 arm ships the exact defect this same PR forbids in the file next to it.

api/notifications/route.ts:17-19 answers 401 {unread:0, items:[]} on an expired session. Both handlers collapse every non-ok status into one boolean, so panelState cannot see it and the panel renders LoadFailed — whose button reads "Try again."

An officer leaves a tab open overnight and the cookie expires. The badge still shows the server-rendered "3". They open the bell: "Notifications could not be loaded" + Try again. Pressing it re-fetches, gets 401, calls setFailed(true) when failed is already true — React bails on the identical value, so the DOM never changes. Meanwhile the 30s poll hammers the same 401.

Sixty lines away in this same diff, DraftAssist.tsx:59-61 has a dedicated 401 arm — "Your session has expired. Reload the page and sign in again." — commented "'Try again' would loop them through the same 401 forever." Its test is named "does not tell a signed-out tab to try again." The bell's own docblock names 401 first.

Carry the status, not a boolean: setFailure(res.status === 401 ? "expired" : "error"), and give LoadFailed an expired arm reusing the sentence already written in draftOutcome, with a sign-in link instead of a retry.

F5 · LOW-MED · NotificationBell.tsx:154,163,171,180

failed is set on failure but never cleared on attempt, so the panel asserts a stale failure while a fresh request is in flight — the mechanism behind F1's dead button, and it also makes a reopened history overlay claim "could not be loaded" before loadHistory() returns. setFailed(false) as the first line of each handler. Does not weaken the deliberate last-known-good rule, which is guarded by loaded, not failed.

Why the rest does not block

F2 (messages/page.tsx:123 points at a page that refuses this exact reader — same condition, not correlated), F3 (orgs/page.tsx:192 renders chip "All 3" beside "No clubs to show. Ask your OSE office for access"), F4 (none of the new states is announced, while AddMemoryCardForm.tsx:142-155 — one of DraftAssist's own call sites — implements exactly the live region it needs), F6 (the guard iterates a hardcoded status list, not the enum) and F7 are all incomplete fixes, and shipping incomplete beats shipping nothing.

F1 is different in kind: it is newly wrong, not incompletely fixed. A false affordance that did not exist before this diff, reachable by any pilot user whose session expires with a tab open. The correct sentence is already written in this PR.

Checked and fine

tsc 307, byte-parity, zero errors in any of the 12 touched files. Jest 5811 passed, the 3 documented stale-client suites failing. The "all caught up" state is not a lie — chased specifically, because items is bounded (take 12/100) while unread is an unbounded count, which is the dangerous shape; but the read is filtered only by userId, so items.length === 0 implies zero rows implies unread === 0. No bounded read sits behind any of the six empty states. Permission-filtered empties apply visibleResources server-side before serialisation and disclose no withheld count. No catch-returns-[] introduced. No hardcoded tenant or club name.

Contention

All NotificationBell findings survive #269 and #272 landing first, in either ordergit merge-tree --write-tree gives #274 a clean merge against both. The instrument was control-tested rather than trusted on a quiet exit: #269 and #272 conflict with each other on this very file, so a clean exit here is real signal. #269 adds only focus-visible: classes and #272 only changes markOneRead(id)markOneRead(item), both inside the items branch, while F1/F5 live in the fetch handlers ~25 lines above.

From the independent review of this PR. `/api/notifications` answers 401
`{unread:0, items:[]}` to a tab whose cookie has expired. Both handlers
collapsed every non-ok status into one boolean, so `panelState` could not see
it and the panel rendered "Notifications could not be loaded" with a button
reading "Try again".

Pressing it re-fetches, gets 401, and calls the setter with a value that is
ALREADY set. React bails on the identical value, so the DOM does not change.
Ever. Meanwhile the 30s poll repeats the same 401 behind it.

An officer leaves a tab open overnight and meets this with the badge still
showing the server-rendered count.

`DraftAssist` sixty lines away in this same PR already had the correct arm —
"Try again would loop them through the same 401 forever" — and its test is
named "does not tell a signed-out tab to try again". So this is the house rule,
not a new one, and the bell's own docblock names 401 first.

The state now carries WHY, not merely THAT: `ReadFailure = "expired" | "error"`.
An expired session gets the sentence DraftAssist already wrote and a sign-in
link instead of a retry.

MAPPED, NOT ALIASED. The first version of this returned the failure kind
straight out of `panelState`, which typechecked as far as the render and then
did not: the FAILURE is an "error" while the PANEL STATE is "failed". Two
vocabularies that happen to be adjacent, and collapsing them is how "expired"
would quietly become another word for broken. tsc caught it at 308 against a
307 baseline.

Also from the review, and the mechanism behind the dead button: `failed` was set
on failure but never cleared on ATTEMPT, so the panel asserted a stale failure
while a fresh request was in flight — including a reopened history overlay
claiming "could not be loaded" before `loadHistory()` returned. Cleared at the
top of both handlers now. This does not weaken the deliberate last-known-good
rule, which is guarded by `loaded`, not by the failure.

`readFailure(status)` is extracted as a pure export for the same reason
`panelState` is one, and it is this file's own stated method: a decision rule
left inside a fetch handler is reachable by no test, which is how each of these
got its sentence wrong in the first place.

Proved by mutation, each killing exactly one test: collapsing expired back into
failed kills "tells an expired session to sign in"; classifying 401 as an
ordinary error kills "calls 401 expired". 41 tests pass. tsc 307, exact parity.

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F1 and F5 fixed in a0aa9497 — the two that blocked.

The state now carries why, not merely that: ReadFailure = "expired" | "error". An expired session gets the sentence DraftAssist already wrote sixty lines away in this same PR — "Your session has expired. Reload the page and sign in again." — and a sign-in link instead of a retry.

F5 was the mechanism behind F1's dead button, and it is fixed at the same time: the failure is now cleared at the top of both handlers, on attempt, not only on success. Left set, it made the panel assert a stale failure while a fresh request was in flight — including a reopened history overlay claiming "could not be loaded" before loadHistory() had returned. This does not weaken the deliberate last-known-good rule, which is guarded by loaded, not by the failure.

One thing worth recording, because it nearly shipped. My first version returned the failure kind straight out of panelState. It read fine and typechecked as far as the render, and then did not: the FAILURE is an "error" while the PANEL STATE is "failed" — two vocabularies that happen to be adjacent, and collapsing them is precisely how "expired" would quietly become another word for broken. tsc caught it at 308 against a 307 baseline, which is the whole reason that number is worth keeping exact.

readFailure(status) is extracted as a pure export, for the same reason panelState is one — and it is this PR's own stated method: a decision rule left inside a fetch handler is reachable by no test, which is how each of these got its sentence wrong in the first place. Without it, the 401 branch would have been the one part of this fix that nothing tested.

Proved by mutation, each killing exactly one test rather than a blanket:

mutation kills
collapse expired back into failed "tells an expired session to sign in, not to try again"
classify 401 as an ordinary error "calls 401 expired, because a retry cannot fix it"

41 tests pass. tsc --noEmit = 307, exact parity.

The other findings from that review — F2 (messages/page.tsx:123 points at a page that refuses the same reader), F3 (orgs/page.tsx renders "All 3" beside "No clubs to show"), F4 (none of the new states is announced, while AddMemoryCardForm.tsx:142-155 — one of DraftAssist's own call sites — implements exactly the live region it needs), F6 and F7 — are not in this commit. They were judged incomplete fixes rather than new defects, and shipping incomplete beats shipping nothing. They are worth their own change.

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My own defect, and it broke three jobs on this branch.

The `SessionExpired` panel I added used `<a href="/signin">`. That is an ESLint
ERROR rather than a warning — `@next/next/no-html-link-for-pages` — so
`next build` fails, taking Lint, Container Build and the E2E build with it.
`Link` was already imported at line 4 of this file; I simply did not use it.

WHY I DID NOT CATCH IT, which is the part worth keeping. I verified with jest
and tsc — the tools I reached for — and neither runs ESLint. `next build` does,
and that is what CI runs. Verifying with the tools you happen to reach for
rather than the ones the gate uses is the same shape as the other misses today:
`npx tsc` being the wrong binary, `grep -c` exiting 1, a jest path with
parentheses matching nothing and reporting "3 passed".

Now checked with `npx next lint` on the file (clean) and across the repo: zero
error-level lint anywhere, warnings unchanged.

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Both reviewer findings on this PR, and both turn a specific true sentence into
a wrong one — which is the failure this whole branch is about.

1. `res.json()` RESOLVES to `null` for a body that is literally `null`. It does
   not throw, so `.catch(() => ({}))` never fires, and the `as { notice?: string }`
   that followed is erased at build time. `draftOutcome` then read `.notice` off
   null and threw into the caller's outer catch — which says "Drafting failed.
   Check your connection and try again."

   So a 401 with a null body told the person their NETWORK was at fault when the
   truth was "Your session has expired. Reload the page and sign in again" — the
   one sentence that would actually have fixed it. Measured, not assumed:
   `new Response("null").json()` gives back null and throws nothing.

   Normalised at the boundary, in a named export rather than inline, so it can
   be tested: `draftBody(parsed: unknown)`. An array is excluded too — `typeof
   [] === "object"`, so a bare typeof check lets one through to be read for a
   property it cannot have.

   The existing case in this suite covers `res.json()` REJECTING and says so in
   its comment. That is a different path, and it was the only one covered.

2. `refresh` runs on mount, on a 30s interval AND on window focus, so two are in
   flight together as a matter of routine — alt-tab back while the timer fires.
   Whichever RESOLVED last wrote the state, regardless of which was ASKED last.
   An earlier poll failing after a newer one started flipped the dropdown from
   loading to "could not load" while the newer request was still on its way to
   succeeding.

   The comment on `setFailure(null)` had already reasoned about staleness in one
   direction — a failure left set makes the panel assert a stale failure while a
   fresh request is in flight. It missed the other: a stale failure ARRIVING.

   A poll counter, checked after BOTH await points, because reading the body is
   a second suspension point a newer poll can land inside. A counter rather than
   an AbortController: the older response is not worth cancelling, it is worth
   ignoring.

Three cases added: null, an array, and a real body left untouched — the last
because normalising must not discard the server's own sentence, which is the
entire reason `draftOutcome` prefers it.

Verified: jest 3 failed / 5,818 passed — the three pre-existing stale-client
suites; this suite 6 -> 9. tsc 307, exactly baseline. ESLint clean.

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Both new reviewer findings, and both are consequences of the fixes in this PR
rather than defects it inherited — the blast radius of a change being wider
than the line it touched.

1. `commit` captures `pending[id]` on the way in and restores it in `catch`.
   Making the paint OPTIMISTIC is what gave that rollback something to clobber:
   two writes for the same event overlap easily — a drag, then an arrow-key
   nudge before the first POST answers — and the SLOWER one restoring its
   captured value overwrites the faster one's result. A FAILED older request
   could undo a NEWER request that had already succeeded, and the chip would sit
   at a time the server no longer holds until something else refreshed it.

   Guarded by a per-event revision. Keyed by id rather than one counter, because
   two DIFFERENT events writing at once are not racing and must both land. Both
   arms check it, and the CATCH arm is the dangerous one: it writes a value
   captured before the newer request even started.

   This is the same shape as the notification poll fixed on #274, and the same
   remedy — the older answer is not worth cancelling, it is worth ignoring.

2. Disabling Cancel closed ONE way to start a second import while the first was
   in flight. The file input is the other, and it was still live. Picking a
   second spreadsheet mid-flight lets the first `importBudget` return into a
   card describing the second, wiping the new preview, filename, upload token
   and stated reason — precisely the set its own success path clears.

   A guard that covers one door of two is not a guard; it is a narrower version
   of the same defect. The input is `disabled={pending}` now, and the LABEL
   carries the disabled styling, because the input it wraps is `hidden` and a
   hidden control shows nothing — without that the card still invited a click.

Verified: jest 3 failed / 5,915 passed — the three pre-existing stale-client
suites. tsc 307, exactly baseline. ESLint clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* Five frontend-correctness defects a pilot user can reach today

Each was opened at the cited file:line, confirmed still present and still
reachable, and pinned by a test that FAILS against pristine main before it
passes here. The reverts are in the PR body with their md5s.

NW-4  A move-drag across a day column made the chip vanish entirely — the
      origin column disowns it and the target column has never heard of it.
      Measured: the event was drawn in ZERO columns.
SN-29 The budget file input kept its value on every exit, so re-picking the
      same spreadsheet fired no change event and did nothing at all.
SN-30 markOneRead decremented the unread badge unconditionally; clicking old
      notifications walked it to 0 with unread items still in the list.
SN-31 `startsWith("/")` classified `//host/x` (and `/\host/x`) as an internal
      path, so the board rendered an off-site link with the inward arrow.
NW-12 The approvals page resolved no timezone, so all four of its instants —
      including the signature stamp — rendered in the container's UTC clock.
      A 9:14 PM Rochester signature printed as "8/25/2026, 1:14:00 AM".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Ask the parser what is internal, instead of spelling the rule out

From the independent review of this PR. The new guard was `/^\/(?![/\\])/` — a
slash not followed by a slash or a backslash — and it is one spelling short.

THE WHATWG URL PARSER STRIPS TABS AND NEWLINES from its input before parsing.
So a browser reads `/<TAB>/evil.example.com` as `//evil.example.com`, while the
regex reads it as a slash followed by a tab and calls it a path. Measured under
Node's parser and through `next/link`, not inferred:

    "/\t/evil.example.com"  regexSaysInternal=true  ->  https://evil.example.com
    "/\n/evil.com"          regexSaysInternal=true  ->  https://evil.com
    "/\r/evil.com"          regexSaysInternal=true  ->  https://evil.com

An officer with `canManageResources` can store it: the Link field is a plain
`<input>`, and the HTML value-sanitization algorithm strips CR and LF from a
text input but NOT tabs — and a direct POST to the server action strips nothing.
Stored `external: false`, the row renders on the board as a `<Link>` with the
INWARD arrow glyph, in the same tab, with no `rel="noopener noreferrer"`. Every
officer at the institution is told "this is a page inside Tenure" and is taken
to a foreign origin carrying a Referer — the exact failure this PR closed for
the two spellings it did catch.

The test now applied is the one the browser will apply: resolve against an
origin nothing can be, and require the answer to be that origin. No future
spelling can pass it that would not also be a path in a browser, which is the
only definition of "internal" that matters. Every case this PR already pinned
stays green — `/`, `/api/…`, `/docs//guide`, `javascript:`, `data:`, `//host`,
`/\host` — each checked against the replacement rather than assumed.

This is an incomplete fix of a PRE-EXISTING hole, not a new one; main is worse
either way. It is worth closing here because the PR ships a test file whose
docstring asserts the class is closed, and that is precisely what would have
made the residual spelling invisible.

Proved: the new fixture fails against the regex it replaces, and only that one
fails. 10 tests pass. tsc 307, exact parity.

* Three reviewer findings: one already closed, two real

CodeRabbit left three inline comments on this PR. Checked against the code
rather than taken on trust — one had already been fixed by a later commit on
this same branch, and the other two were real.

1. resources-data.ts — ALREADY CLOSED, no change.
   The comment asks for slash-prefixed values to be resolved against a fixed
   safe base instead of matched by regex. `normaliseHref` already does exactly
   that: `new URL(href, "https://tenure.invalid").origin === probe`. The tab,
   newline and carriage-return cases it asks for are covered in
   a-board-link-that-leaves-tenure-says-so.test.ts, with a positive control
   proving a real path is still called internal. The review ran against an
   earlier commit.

2. BudgetUpload.tsx — REAL. Cancel now refuses while an import is pending.
   Both sibling buttons already carried `disabled={pending}`; this one did not,
   and it is the one that CLEARS the state the in-flight call still depends on.
   Cancel, choose a second spreadsheet, and the first importBudget returns into
   a card describing the second — wiping the new preview, filename, upload
   token and stated reason, which is exactly the set its success path clears.

3. CalendarTimeGrid.tsx — REAL, and larger than reported. Fixed at the funnel.
   The finding describes the drag ghost vanishing on pointerup. The cause is
   that `commit`'s own comment — "Optimistic: paint the new position
   immediately, roll back on failure" — WAS FALSE: `setPending` ran on the
   RESPONSE. `onUp` clears `drag` in the same tick, and every chip's live
   position and the cross-day ghost are both derived from it, so the event was
   painted back at its old time for the whole round trip.

   It is worse on the KEYBOARD path, which the review did not reach: `nudge`
   calls straight into `commit` with no drag state at all, so Shift+Arrow had
   no preview of any kind. The accessible path was the one with no feedback.

   So the fix is in `commit`, the single funnel both paths go through, using
   `zonedTimeToUtc` — already imported in this file — rather than in the
   pointer handlers. The success arm overwrites the guess with the server's
   authoritative instants and the existing catch restores `prev`. The reconcile
   effect retires an override only on an exact ISO match, so an optimistic
   entry survives until the server genuinely agrees.

   A first attempt kept the drag alive through the request with a `settled`
   flag. It was reverted: five edits at the edges, covering only the pointer
   path, where one edit at the funnel covers both.

Test: the deferred-POST case CodeRabbit asked for, asserted through the
KEYBOARD path — the path that had no preview at all, and the one a synthetic
pointer sequence cannot flake on. The response is held open, so anything shown
before `release()` is optimistic and nothing else. Also asserts exactly ONE
chip, because an override that ADDED a chip rather than moving one would
satisfy a bare visibility check and be a worse bug.

NOT RUN LOCALLY: the e2e needs a seeded database and a server, and concurrent
runs on this machine destroy each other's fixtures. It parses and registers —
`playwright test --list` reports 16 tests in the file including this one — and
CI's E2E job executes it. Stated rather than implied.

Verified: tsc 307, exactly baseline. ESLint clean on all three files.

Filed, not fixed here, to keep this commit about what it says:
  - `onUp` calls `void commit(...)` INSIDE a `setDrag` updater. State updaters
    must be pure, and React double-invokes them in dev StrictMode, so this
    POSTs twice in development. Pre-existing and not worsened.
  - The Cancel and Merge buttons lack `type="button"`. No `<form>` wraps them
    in this component today, so nothing submits; it is a latent trap only.

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* Two doors, and a rollback that could undo a newer write

Both new reviewer findings, and both are consequences of the fixes in this PR
rather than defects it inherited — the blast radius of a change being wider
than the line it touched.

1. `commit` captures `pending[id]` on the way in and restores it in `catch`.
   Making the paint OPTIMISTIC is what gave that rollback something to clobber:
   two writes for the same event overlap easily — a drag, then an arrow-key
   nudge before the first POST answers — and the SLOWER one restoring its
   captured value overwrites the faster one's result. A FAILED older request
   could undo a NEWER request that had already succeeded, and the chip would sit
   at a time the server no longer holds until something else refreshed it.

   Guarded by a per-event revision. Keyed by id rather than one counter, because
   two DIFFERENT events writing at once are not racing and must both land. Both
   arms check it, and the CATCH arm is the dangerous one: it writes a value
   captured before the newer request even started.

   This is the same shape as the notification poll fixed on #274, and the same
   remedy — the older answer is not worth cancelling, it is worth ignoring.

2. Disabling Cancel closed ONE way to start a second import while the first was
   in flight. The file input is the other, and it was still live. Picking a
   second spreadsheet mid-flight lets the first `importBudget` return into a
   card describing the second, wiping the new preview, filename, upload token
   and stated reason — precisely the set its own success path clears.

   A guard that covers one door of two is not a guard; it is a narrower version
   of the same defect. The input is `disabled={pending}` now, and the LABEL
   carries the disabled styling, because the input it wraps is `hidden` and a
   hidden control shows nothing — without that the card still invited a click.

Verified: jest 3 failed / 5,915 passed — the three pre-existing stale-client
suites. tsc 307, exactly baseline. ESLint clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* An override is a confirmed value or it is absent

Third finding on this PR, and it is the residual my own revision guard created
one commit earlier — which makes it the third time this session that a correct
fix left a narrower version of the same defect behind.

The guard stopped an older write overwriting a newer one. It did not stop an
older write's GUESS surviving with nobody left to correct it:

  A starts        pending[id] = A's optimistic value
  B starts        prev = A's optimistic value      (never server-confirmed)
  B fails         restores A's guess
  A resolves      IGNORED — A is not the latest revision

Both of A's outcomes are discarded by the guard, so the chip sits at a position
no server ever acknowledged and nothing is permitted to fix it. It then masks
later server renders while looking settled, because a `pending` entry always
wins over the props.

`prev` was the wrong source: it read whatever `pending[id]` happened to hold,
which is another request's bet as often as it is a fact. A new `confirmed` ref
is written ONLY in the success arm, so an entry in it is something the server
said. Rollback restores that when it exists and CLEARS the override when it
does not — "I do not know" is answered by showing the server's own render
rather than by keeping somebody else's guess — and calls `router.refresh()` so
that render is also the newest.

`prev` is gone, and `pending` with it from the dependency list: the rollback
now reads a ref, so `commit` no longer rebuilds on every optimistic write.

Verified: jest 3 failed / 5,915 passed — the three pre-existing stale-client
suites. tsc 307, exactly baseline. ESLint clean, including exhaustive-deps on
the changed callback.

NOT DONE, and named rather than implied: the reviewer also asked for deferred-
request coverage of A → B, B-fails, then A-fails and A-succeeds. This component
has no rendering harness in the unit suite — the repository has no
@testing-library/react at all — so that belongs in the Playwright suite with a
held response, the way the deferred-POST case on this same PR is written. Filed
rather than faked with a source assertion, which would assert the shape of the
fix instead of its behaviour.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* The rollback keeps no memory, because every memory it kept went stale

Fourth finding on this path, and taking it as a signal rather than as another
patch. Each of the previous three was correct, and each left a narrower version
of the same defect:

  1. the rollback restored `prev` — whatever `pending[id]` held, which is
     another request's guess as often as a fact
  2. a revision guard stopped the older write winning, and left the older
     write's GUESS in place with nobody permitted to correct it
  3. a `confirmed` ref remembered the last server-acknowledged position — and
     goes stale the moment ANYONE ELSE moves the event, so a later local failure
     restores a position the server no longer holds, and the reconcile effect
     KEEPS it precisely because it differs from what the server says

The reviewer's suggested remedy for (3) is to synchronise `confirmed` from
incoming `events`. That would work, and it is the fourth patch to the same
mistake, so it is not what this does.

ONE CAUSE UNDER ALL THREE: the rollback was keeping a private copy of a fact
the props already carry. `events` IS the last position the server acknowledged.
So the override is now simply DROPPED on failure and the chip falls back to the
server-rendered position — nothing to synchronise, nothing that can go stale,
and no interaction with the revision guard at all. `router.refresh()` still runs
so that render is also the newest.

`confirmed` is deleted rather than fixed. The success arm records nothing; the
catch arm reads nothing.

AND ONE MORE FALSE SENTENCE, which I would have left behind: the dependency
comment still said the rollback "reads `confirmed.current`, a ref". It reads
nothing now. That is the same class this session has been closing all day, and
I nearly shipped one of my own.

Verified: jest 3 failed / 5,915 passed — the three pre-existing stale-client
suites. tsc 307, exactly baseline for this branch. ESLint clean, including
exhaustive-deps.

The regression case the reviewer asks for — local success, an incoming server
change, then a local failure — belongs in the e2e suite for the reason already
recorded on this PR: there is no @testing-library/react in this repository, so
nothing can mount this component. It is filed with the other deferred-request
coverage rather than faked with a source assertion.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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