sidecar-lint

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Lint and repair citation sidecars in a research corpus — structural integrity (missing Outgoing/Incoming sections, missing frontmatter ref/title/type, doubled-append duplicate table headers), zero-edge orphan detection, (see REF doc) author backfill from the analysis citation block, and affiliation-primary canonicalization to PROF-O slugs. Runs via `aiwg corpus sidecar-lint` / `aiwg corpus sidecar-repair`.

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Sidecar Lint & Repair

Citation-sidecar hygiene for a research corpus. Two read-only diagnostics (sidecar-lint, sidecar-lint --orphans) and two repair tools (sidecar-repair) that backfill authors and canonicalize affiliations.

These operate on documentation/citations/REF-*-citations.md under the resolved corpus root (AIWG_CORPUS_ROOT env > research.corpusRoot in .aiwg/aiwg.config > cwd).

How to run

# Structural lint — missing sections/frontmatter, duplicate table headers
aiwg corpus sidecar-lint

# Zero-edge orphans (no incoming AND no outgoing edges), titled from the analysis doc
aiwg corpus sidecar-lint --orphans

# Repair: backfill (see REF doc) authors + normalize affiliations — DRY-RUN
aiwg corpus sidecar-repair

# Repair for real
aiwg corpus sidecar-repair --write

# Restrict to one repair
aiwg corpus sidecar-repair --authors-only --write
aiwg corpus sidecar-repair --affiliations-only --write

# Write a report to a file (resolved against the corpus root)
aiwg corpus sidecar-lint --out reports/sidecar-lint.txt

What `sidecar-lint` checks

Issue	Meaning
`missing-frontmatter` / `malformed-frontmatter`	No `---` block, or no closing `---`
`frontmatter-missing-{ref,title,type}`	Required sidecar frontmatter field absent
`missing-outgoing-section` / `missing-incoming-section`	No Outgoing/Incoming H2 (merge-redirects with `status: merged` / `MERGED INTO` are exempt)
`duplicate-table-headers-count=N`	Two `\| # \| Title` headers under one sub-header — the doubled-append signature

--orphans lists sidecars with zero REF edges in either section (lenient scan: any REF-NNN token in an Outgoing/Incoming section counts as an edge, regardless of table-column naming).

What `sidecar-repair` does

Authors — for sidecars whose authors: still contains (see REF doc), parse the analysis doc's ## Citation block and write structured authors: - name: entries. Handles Last, F. M. initials, &/and separators, et al. truncation, and institutional single-authors.
Affiliations — normalize affiliation-primary to a canonical PROF-O-{slug} when unambiguous; multi-org / parenthetical / unknown values are left untouched and reported as ambiguous. The canonical map ships as a default and is overridable per-corpus via documentation/profiles/orgs/affiliation-map.yaml (slug → variant names).

Both default to dry-run; nothing is written without --write.

Reconciliation with `research-lint`

This is the sidecar-structural layer. The research-lint skill runs the generic aiwg lint --ruleset research over .aiwg/research/ (note-level frontmatter, REF-id uniqueness, citation-resolves, note orphans). Those checks do not look inside citation-sidecar structure. Use:

research-lint for note/corpus-wide referential integrity and the lint ruleset engine.
sidecar-lint for the citation-sidecar internals (Outgoing/Incoming sections, edge tables, author/affiliation metadata) and edge-graph orphans.

They compose; neither duplicates the other.

Triggers

"lint the citation sidecars"
"find orphaned sidecars"
"fix (see REF doc) authors"
"normalize affiliations to PROF-O"
"sidecar lint" / "sidecar repair"

Notes

All four operations are TS-native (src/artifacts/corpus-tools/sidecar-lint.ts, sidecar-repair.ts) — ports of section9 lint_sidecars.py, find_orphans.py, fix_broken_authors.py, normalize_affiliation.py.
Author backfill matches the source's trailing-dot handling (a final initial like Hinton, G. is stored Hinton, G) for idempotency against corpora already processed by the original script.