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fix(legal): matter data is config, never a literal - #144

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A live case number was compiled into the product in seven places. That is the "no defaulting to the active case" prohibition in legal-operating-defaults §8 — and one of the seven is a privilege problem, not a tidiness one.

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Location Was Now
src/routes/bridge/scrape.ts caseNumber || '<case>' — silently substituted one operator's matter when the caller omitted it caseNumber required in courtDocketScrapeSchema; absent matter is a 400
src/lib/cron.ts (×4) scheduled docket sync scraped one hardcoded matter into cc_legal_deadlines iterates KV legal:tracked_cases; unset config → does nothing and says so
src/lib/contextual-ingest.ts LEGAL_CASE_PATTERN keyed sensitivity to one case number matches case-number shapes (superset of the old literal) + KV legal:case_refs
ui/…/LitigationAssistant.tsx field prefilled with a live matter — every user started inside someone else's case empty
ui/…/Legal.tsx placeholder was a real case number format example
src/agents/tools/storage.ts tool descriptions used a real party slug as the e.g. — these ship in the tool schema generic examples

The privilege one is the serious one. Classification that recognises exactly one matter means every other matter's work product was classified non-sensitive. Silent by construction: nothing errors, the protection just doesn't apply.

Behaviour change, stated rather than buried

Non-docket refs (unit numbers, party names) have no derivable shape, so they move to KV legal:case_refs. Until that key is seeded this is narrower than the old hardcoded behaviour. The classifier warns when the key is unset rather than failing silently. Seed it before relying on this.

Not fixed

migrations/0004_seed_data.sql:138 carries a real matter caption. Editing an applied migration carries its own risk — flagged for a separate change, deliberately not bundled here.

⚠️ Verification gap

Typecheck could not run. npm ci fails on main:

npm error notarget No matching version found for hono-agents@^0.19.0

That is a pre-existing broken dependency which #132 is already fixing, not something this branch introduced. All seven changed files pass esbuild parse — which catches syntax, not types. Do not read parse-OK as compile-OK. This needs a typecheck once #132 lands.

Flagging rather than claiming green, per nb-development-defaults: a gate you did not run is a gate you cannot count.

Isolation

Authored in a git wt worktree off origin/main. feat/court-docket-any-case-generic (PR #134) has an open PR and a dirty working tree from another session — deliberately not touched.

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  • New Features
    • Court docket updates can cover multiple configured cases, with each case processed independently.
    • Legal document classification recognizes a broader range of court case numbers and configured matter references.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Court docket requests now require a case number instead of silently using a default case.
    • A problem retrieving one case’s docket no longer prevents other configured cases from being processed.
  • Style
    • Updated example case references in the interface and search prompts.

A live case number was compiled into the product in seven places. That is the
"no defaulting to the active case" prohibition in legal-operating-defaults §8,
and one instance is a privilege problem rather than a tidiness one.

  src/routes/bridge/scrape.ts   caseNumber || '<case>'  -- the route silently
                                substituted one operator's matter whenever the
                                caller omitted it. caseNumber is now REQUIRED in
                                courtDocketScrapeSchema; an absent matter is a
                                400, not a guess.

  src/lib/cron.ts               the scheduled docket sync scraped one hardcoded
                                matter and wrote it into cc_legal_deadlines.
                                Now iterates KV `legal:tracked_cases`. Unset
                                config means the cron does nothing and logs that
                                it did nothing; it never picks a matter.

  src/lib/contextual-ingest.ts  LEGAL_CASE_PATTERN keyed privilege/sensitivity
                                classification to ONE case number. Every other
                                matter's work product was therefore classified
                                non-sensitive -- a §9 privilege gap, silent by
                                construction. Now matches court-case-number
                                SHAPES (a superset of the old literal) plus
                                refs configured in KV `legal:case_refs`.

  ui/.../LitigationAssistant    the case field was prefilled with a live matter,
                                so every user started inside someone else's case.

  ui/.../Legal.tsx              placeholder used a real case number; now a
                                format example.

  src/agents/tools/storage.ts   tool descriptions used a real party slug as the
                                "e.g."; these ship in the tool schema.

BEHAVIOUR CHANGE, called out rather than buried: non-docket refs (unit numbers,
party names) have no derivable shape and move to KV `legal:case_refs`. Until
that key is seeded this is NARROWER than the old hardcoded behaviour, so the
classifier warns when the key is unset instead of failing silently.

NOT FIXED: migrations/0004_seed_data.sql:138 carries a real matter caption.
Editing an applied migration is its own risk; flagged for a separate change.

VERIFICATION GAP, stated plainly: typecheck could NOT run. `npm ci` fails on
main with `No matching version found for hono-agents@^0.19.0` -- a pre-existing
broken dependency that PR #132 is already addressing. All seven changed files
pass esbuild parse, which catches syntax and not types. This needs a typecheck
once #132 lands; do not read parse-OK as compile-OK.

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Legal sensitivity detection now uses configured case references and broader case-number matching. Court-docket scheduling and syncing use configured tracked cases, and scrape requests require a nonempty case number. The interface and tool descriptions use updated case examples.

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Legal case handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configured sensitivity matching
src/lib/contextual-ingest.ts
Legal sensitivity classification recognizes broader court case number formats and case references loaded from KV configuration.
Configured docket processing
src/lib/validators.ts, src/routes/bridge/scrape.ts, src/lib/cron.ts
Scrape requests require a nonempty case number. Scheduled and direct docket processing read tracked cases from KV and process each configured case.
Case entry defaults and examples
ui/src/pages/LitigationAssistant.tsx, ui/src/pages/Legal.tsx, src/agents/tools/storage.ts
The litigation assistant starts with an empty case number. The Case Reference placeholder and entity slug examples are updated.

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Change: Bug fix

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A whitespace-only tracked case can trigger an invalid docket request. Reject blank entries; the remaining merge risk is low.

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Review comments at @src/lib/contextual-ingest.ts:
- Line 76: Update the configuredRefsCache lookup so cached references expire
after a bounded lifetime and KV is read again, allowing configuration changes to
take effect. Do not store lookup failures as a successful empty configuration;
leave them eligible for retry, while preserving the existing handling of a
genuinely unset key.

Review comments at @src/lib/cron.ts:
- Line 218: Move enqueue error handling inside the per-case loop in the court
docket cron job so a failed enqueue for one case does not prevent later tracked
cases from being enqueued. Keep processQueue outside the per-case catch so it
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Verification gap closed — and my earlier caveat was wrong

The PR body says typecheck could not run because npm ci fails on hono-agents@^0.19.0. That was my error, not the repo's.

I ran npm ci in the shared source checkout, which was sitting on feat/court-docket-any-case-generic — a branch that bumps the agents SDK to 0.19.0. This branch is off origin/main, which pins hono-agents: ^3.0.7, and 3.0.7–3.0.12 are all published. I tested the wrong tree and reported its failure as this branch's.

Verified properly, in this worktree:

npm install     → added 272 packages, clean
npm run typecheck → tsc --noEmit, exit 0
npm test        → 68 passed | 39 skipped

So the await matchesConfiguredCaseRef(env, text) added inside classifyCandidate compiles, and nothing else in the diff breaks types.

One test file fails, pre-existing and unrelated: tests/workers/coordinator.test.ts → Cannot find package 'cloudflare:test'. That is a workerd-only test being collected by the node pool — exactly what #143 ("stop the node suite collecting workerd-only tests") and #132 ("separate workerd test pool") exist to fix. It fails identically without this change.

Treat the ⚠️ Verification gap section in the PR body as retracted.

chitcommit and others added 2 commits October 2, 2026 08:22
Two review findings on this PR, both real and both mine.

contextual-ingest: the `configuredRefsCache === null` guard cached the first
result for the isolate's lifetime. Workers reuse globals across requests, so
seeding `legal:case_refs` afterwards would never take effect in that isolate,
and a later config change would never propagate. Worse, a READ FAILURE was
cached as "configured empty" -- permanently downgrading sensitivity
classification for every subsequent request, which is the exact silent
under-protection this PR exists to remove.

Now: 60s TTL, and failures are never cached. On a failed read the previous
good value is kept and retried next call; if there is no previous value the
call returns false for that message only.

cron: a throw from enqueueJob escaped to the outer catch, abandoning every
later tracked case AND skipping processQueue for jobs that had already been
queued. Enqueue errors are now caught per case; processQueue stays outside
that catch so one bad case cannot strand the rest.

Verified: typecheck exit 0; node suite 68 passed, 0 failed.

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🟡 Minor · Reject whitespace-only tracked cases before syncing. · cron.ts:545-553

src/lib/cron.ts:545-553
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject whitespace-only tracked cases before syncing.

getTrackedCases retains " " because it checks only c.length. Direct sync then posts that value as caseNumber to /api/scrape/court-docket, even though the docket contract requires a named matter. Trim each value and reject it when the trimmed value is empty.

Suggested fix
-    return Array.isArray(parsed) ? parsed.filter((c): c is string => typeof c === 'string' && c.length > 0) : [];
+    return Array.isArray(parsed)
+      ? parsed
+        .filter((c): c is string => typeof c === 'string' && c.trim().length > 0)
+        .map((c) => c.trim())
+      : [];
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Review comment at @src/lib/cron.ts around lines 545 - 553:
Update getTrackedCases to trim each string before returning it and exclude
values that are empty after trimming, so whitespace-only case numbers are not
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