The base cliloc table now comes over the bridge. `clilocBridge.js` walks
`GET /cliloc` page by page and the model merges the `custom/` overlays over it —
overlays stay on disk because ServUO has no server-side notion of a custom
cliloc, so there is nothing on the shard to ask for.
**The shard wins whenever uo-link is configured and enabled**, with no mode
setting: there is no version of "which source?" an operator benefits from
answering. A file on disk remains the source only where there is no shard link,
plus a one-off explicit `path` — deprecated, not removed, and unchanged.
**Boot no longer imports on the bridge.** The file path could hash 5 MB locally
and skip in 14 ms; a shard round trip in the boot sequence would be spent
answering "no" on every restart but the one after a client patch — and patching a
client is an operator action, so importing became one. Admin → Shard → Import.
Whatever table is loaded keeps serving until then.
Three checks in the walk, each for a way a shard can hand back a table that looks
complete:
* only `cut: 'end'` finishes it — a short page can equally be a spent budget,
and a truncated table renders some items named and some not, which is exactly
what NO table looks like;
* the cursor must advance, or the walk stops rather than spinning;
* every page echoes the source's size and mtime, so a client patched mid-import
is refused outright rather than stitched from two files.
**The base is exempt from the vanished-source rule**, which is an upgrade detail
rather than a preference: an install that used the file pipeline carries its base
file's label in the stored fingerprint, and on the bridge that label is *supposed*
to disappear. Counting it as vanished would demand an approval for a change the
upgrade itself made. Overlays keep the rule in full.
**The protocol pin moves 7 → 8** — the third declaration site, and the one
nothing enforces. Phase 1 moved the sidecar and the overlay together because the
installer refuses a mismatched bundle; this one has to be moved by hand, in the
phase that first calls a protocol-8 route. The schema block above it is the
record of what forgetting costs: two phases of every REST call answered 409.
Verified against a live shard, sidecar and site: 12 pages, 67,496 rows imported
in 1.68 s, the operator's three-row overlay overriding stock strings on top of
it, and the next import correctly `unchanged`.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016wDDVXWMDz82WqE1i969r4
The data half of the extraction: 8 model directories, 13 utils, the shard
stream catalog and the 27-table schema fragment with its purge.
server/core.js is what makes the port a one-line import change per file rather
than a signature change per function. Ported code requires its dependencies at
file scope -- `const { query } = require('../../core')` -- which runs before
register() has been called and before any ctx exists. So every member is a
stable function that resolves ctx when CALLED, and nothing may be destructured
off ctx at init either, because core is free to hand over a getter.
Two helpers are vendored rather than taken from ctx, and the line between them
is the point. utils/excerpt.js is core's deriveExcerpt -- nine lines of pure
text handling. Core's sanitiser next to it was NOT copied: a second copy of a
security control diverges silently the moment either is fixed. announceLinks.js
vendors legError and articleUrl the same way, but baseUrl could not be: core's
reads APP_BASE_URL, and §2.7 forbids a module reading core's environment, so it
comes off ctx.site.baseUrl.
The schema fragment is core's 27 shard_*/uo_link_* statements, verbs CREATE,
ALTER and UPDATE only, every CREATE TABLE guarded. Two of its tables carry a
foreign key INTO users, which is allowed and is why the replay order matters --
core's schema is in place before this runs. The reverse never occurs and must
not: it would make core unable to boot without a module installed.
One real port bug caught by the integration run, not by tests: the atlas art
map resolved `../../../db/data`, which pointed at core's tree when this file
lived there and points outside server/ now. A path that happens to resolve is
exactly what survives a green suite, because the absent-file branch returns {}
and looks like the normal case.
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