colitur.git, branch v0.2.0

test(cli): pin the version's shape, not its literal

2026-08-17T19:00:17Z

The release target bumps bin/main.ml and dune-project, but cli.t pinned the literal too, so cutting 0.2.0 failed `make check` on a cram diff that was purely the bump working correctly. Every release would have had to edit a test for no gain. The shape is asserted here instead. The value is already checked where it can actually drift: the release target requires the freshly built binary to report the version it just wrote.

docs: CHANGELOG entry for 0.2.0

2026-08-17T18:57:22Z

feat(cli): --overlay FILE, so a local calendar can be supplied

2026-08-17T15:46:31Z

The Overlay algebra has been built and tested since Plan 2, and Date_spec grew movable variants last commit, but there was still no way to hand colitur a file: bin/main.ml applied exactly one overlay, the shipped data/ef/adjustments.sexp, with the path hardcoded. This is the plumbing. --overlay is repeatable and ordered, and applies ON TOP of the shipped adjustments rather than instead of them. That ordering is the whole point: adjustments.sexp carries RG 110's own 30 June companion, the Major Litanies, St Barbara and Rogation Wednesday, and a user file that replaced it would silently drop all four while appearing merely to add a local feast. Overlay.merge is last-writer-wins, so a local calendar can still override a universal entry deliberately, by naming its slug. The dispatch needed real argument parsing. It matched Sys.argv as an exact array, which does not survive a repeatable flag -- two --overlay arguments are a different array shape from one, and each further flag would multiply the patterns again. Flags are now stripped first and the remaining words matched as command plus year. Hand-rolled, because the dependency list is frozen and this is fifteen lines. One defect found by the cram suite on the first run: the unknown-option guard rejected --help and --version, having excluded only their short forms. Refused, not ignored, on easter and temporal. Neither reads sanctoral data -- temporal deliberately runs the cycle before any layer exists -- so accepting the flag there and silently doing nothing is the failure mode this project refuses everywhere else. A file that fails to load is fatal, exactly as the shipped overlay is; a directive naming a slug that does not exist warns on stderr and the run continues. The second matters more for a user file than for ours: a typo in a diocesan calendar should say so rather than quietly do nothing. test/fixtures/overlay-example-diocesan.sexp is a worked example and is labelled as invented, not calendar data. It carries both shapes a real local calendar needs: a fixed-date patron, and a dedication on "the first Sunday of October" -- which is the case the Date_spec work existed to unlock and which lands on 4 October in 2026, 3 October in 2027, 1 October in 2028. The dedication is I class because a church's own dedication anniversary is I class in that church; at III class it lost to the II-class Sunday every year, which a first draft demonstrated correctly and uselessly. The man page gains an OVERLAYS section saying plainly that an overlay is applied, NOT validated: the five test layers assert things about the shipped calendar and none of them can vouch for a file the user supplies. This is the first feature that lets someone change what colitur computes, and that distinction should not have to be inferred.

feat(kernel): movable Date_spec variants, and Rogation Wednesday

2026-08-17T15:22:43Z

Date_spec carried one variant, Fixed(month, day), and its own header said Sunday- and Easter-relative forms would arrive with the OF sanctoral. They arrive early because two things needed them at once: a user-supplied overlay carrying a local movable feast had no way to express "the first Sunday of October", and Rogation Wednesday's commemoration has been recorded as architecturally blocked since 2026-08-13. That blockage turns out to have been a premise, not a fact. The register concluded the Rogation "is not Commemoration_only sanctoral data by nature... it needs a genuinely THIRD kind of thing this architecture has no name for" -- but the reasoning rested on there being "no civil (month, day) pair to anchor a Fixed entry to". That is a statement about Date_spec's expressiveness. With Easter_offset the entity is ordinary sanctoral data, the identical shape Add major-litanies already ships, differing only in how the date is written. No third channel was needed. The register is corrected rather than left contradicting the code. Two variants: Easter_offset of int, and Nth_weekday of {month; nth; weekday} with negative nth counting from the end. Fixed's sexp representation is untouched, so all 327 sanctoral entries and the whole overlay parse unchanged. Both are re-validated in t_of_sexp through their smart constructors, extending the idiom Fixed already used -- the failure that guards against is invisible, a spec deserialising into something that silently never resolves and a celebration vanishing with no diagnostic. Easter is supplied by the rite, not computed in the kernel. Computus ships Gregorian and Julian both, and picking one here would hard-code a Roman assumption into rite-agnostic code and be silently wrong for a Julian-reckoning rite. Rite.t gains an easter field; Rite_ef supplies the Gregorian one. Layer keeps a split index. Fixed entries stay in the year-independent (month, day) table, which preserves the fast path and the "30 November counted twice in a 371-day span" behaviour validate.mli documents for St Andrew. Movable entries have no year-independent key by construction -- the same spec lands on a different (month, day) each year -- so they resolve per civil year into a rata-die table. index_by_date is removed rather than kept as an alias: two ways to index a layer, one of which silently ignores movable entries, is the trap this change exists to avoid. Two domain-edge defects, both found by the suite rather than reasoning. A liturgical year is Advent-anchored, so resolving civil year y names y +/- 1, and at the edges those are 1582 and 10000, which Computus correctly refuses by raising. The ceiling surfaced through the domain-ceiling test, the floor through `colitur day 1583` failing outright. Fixed once, in Layer.index, the single point that calls the rite's easter -- a clamp repeated per caller would have been two places to get wrong a third time. Rogation Wednesday: RG 87 assigns the Litaniae minores to the Monday, Tuesday AND Wednesday before Ascension (scan1:691); colitur built the first two from the start and never the third. RG 88 keeps it out of the Office, so the Ascension Vigil remains observed. RG 89 routes it through the Major Litanies' rules, but RG 109's closed list names only maiores, so by RG 107 it is an ORDINARY commemoration -- confirmed in the output, not assumed. Name from the Missal's own "feria IV" (scan1:20495-20497), violet to match the Monday and Tuesday offices. Blast radius, full 1583-9999 sweep against the pre-change binary: 2257 days, every one the same shape, zero unclassified, line counts equal both sides. The complement is the informative half -- in the other 6160 years the Rogation does not appear at all, because RG 111 admits one commemoration on a II-class day and an impeded feast takes it under RG 113, a Commemoration_only candidate having no row in RG 91's table. Both shapes are pinned. Allow-lists unmoved: layer 3 compares no commemorations and is blind by construction, and layer 4's 2026-2027 window has a competing feast on both Wednesdays, so the Rogation is capped out in exactly the years the oracle can see. C8 is unchanged, asserted by its own count pin. Not built: Sunday-relative specs, which nothing needs yet, and the --overlay plumbing that would let a user actually supply a local movable feast. Nth_weekday therefore ships with synthetic and property coverage only; inventing a shipped entry to exercise it would be fabricating calendar data. Register: section 6.10.

fix(make): release must not abort when the version bump is a no-op

2026-08-17T14:21:02Z

Cutting a version whose files already carry it -- which is how the first tag went, and what any re-run after a failed gate looks like -- leaves nothing staged, and git commit aborts the target on "nothing to commit" despite everything being in order. The commit is now conditional on something actually being staged, and an existing tag is refused explicitly rather than surfacing as a bare git error.

feat(cli): --version, a CHANGELOG, and a release target

2026-08-17T14:19:02Z

Groundwork for tagging. The project had no version anywhere: not in dune-project, not in the binary, no CHANGELOG, no tags. The version lives in two places -- dune-project, which generates colitur.opam, and a constant in bin/main.ml, which is what --version prints. Two rather than one because dune's watermarking only substitutes in a release tarball, so a binary built the ordinary way from a checkout would report a placeholder. The release target rewrites both and then re-checks both, and finally requires the freshly built binary to report the version it just wrote: a release that bumped one and not the other would ship a binary disagreeing with its own package metadata. --version is deliberately not embedded in the help text. cli.t pins help's first line, and a version there would mean editing a test expectation every release for no gain. The release target mirrors lectio's, refusals included: no release from a dirty tree, none without a CHANGELOG entry for that version, none whose version bump silently failed to apply, and `make check` -- the full 1583-9999 sweep, not the sampling suite -- must pass before the tag is created.

feat(cli): a Makefile, a man page, and --help

2026-08-17T14:11:25Z

Three things the project had no answer for: how to install it without knowing dune, where to read about it, and what it does when asked. Makefile, same shape as lectio's -- PREFIX ?= $(HOME)/.local, BINDIR, MANDIR, and the '## '-comment help target -- so the two siblings are driven the same way. Every recipe wraps dune in `opam exec --`, which is the actual point of having one here: `make build` works from a plain shell with no `eval $(opam env)` first. install goes through `dune install` rather than a hand-rolled copy, because the binary finds its calendar data relative to its own path; the man page is installed separately to share/man/man1, matching lectio. install and uninstall were both run against a scratch prefix and checked: uninstall leaves zero files behind. PREFIX defaults to ~/.local because that is where lectio installs and where it actually lives on this machine, so colitur lands on an existing PATH with no shell change. An earlier install this session went to ~/opt/colitur, which was me over-applying a rule meant for third-party tools to one of the author's own projects; it has been removed rather than left as a second, staler binary competing on PATH. man/colitur.1 documents the four commands, both output formats and why they differ, COLITUR_DATA_DIR and its refusal to fall back, the data resolution order, exit statuses, and -- deliberately -- the limitations: EF only, Epistle and Gospel only with the chants unbuilt and rejected rather than guessed, and the BVM Saturday Mass-selection gap. A man page that only lists what works is half a man page. Renders clean under `groff -ww -z`, no warnings. --help prints to stdout and exits 0; a usage error prints one line to stderr and exits 2. That is the Unix convention rather than a preference: asking for help succeeded and should be pipeable, being invoked wrongly did not and must not pollute stdout. Both directions are asserted in cli.t, along with a loop confirming every command the help text advertises is one the dispatch actually accepts -- the check that catches help drifting away from the code.

test(oracle): a second oracle year, 2038, closing step 4's blind spot

2026-08-17T14:00:23Z

Register section 6.7 recorded that step 4 of the reading chain -- the Common route -- had no external witness of any kind, and proved it by mutation: corrupting a Common citation left both the 16801-day differential and the 730-day oracle green. This closes that. 2038 is the only year in 2005-2050 in which two of the five Common-routed saints are the observed office (Perpetua and Felicitas on 6 March, Frances of Rome on 9 March). 365 days were captured live, one request per day, zero failures. A separate fixture, not more rows on the existing one. sources.md already records that the live endpoint has drifted from lectio's archived 2026-2027 snapshot; merging two versions of one source behind a single set of expectations would make any future disagreement unattributable -- calendar or drift, no way to tell. Nothing in the 2038 comparison is checked against the older fixture, and its provenance file says so, along with the fact that a live capture is not reproducible byte-for-byte on demand the way a snapshot-derived one is. 338 of 365 days match. 27 differ, every one of them in a named, already-adjudicated class, none unexplained: 13 the BVM Saturday votive Mass (M26 shape 1), 7 colour (M21), 2 Judith (M28), 2 Christ the King's week (M26 shape 2b), 1 Christmas multi-Mass (M27), 1 Perpetua's Common, 1 new. Each was decided in a different year, so 2038 re-confirms them independently -- the point of a second window is not new rulings but evidence the old ones are not artefacts of their own year. Two findings came out of it. Perpetua and Felicitas: missalemeum serves the Common of Virgins and calls them "Virgins and Martyrs" in its own oration, where the Missal directs "Missa Me exspectaverunt, de Communi non Virginum I loco" (scan1:27634-27635). Both Commons share the Introit Ps 118:95-96, which is exactly why the calendarium qualifies its direction, and both women were mothers. Verdict colitur; the mechanism is located on missalemeum's side, not merely asserted. Passion Tuesday: the Missal prints "Dan. 14, 27 et 28-42" (scan1:11106) and colitur reproduces that two-part form where missalemeum collapses it to 27-42. Same verses; the convention is deliberate, appearing also in the Seven Sorrows and the Common of Non-Virgins. Verdict colitur, cosmetic. Citations are notation-normalised before comparing, as layer 3 already does: Ecclus/Sir, Joann/John, Luc/Luke, Matth/Matt. Each pair was added because a real row needed it, and no target contains its own source as a substring, so the set is idempotent. Not compared, stated rather than left to be found: commemorations and observed-identity. That machinery is built around a date-literal 28-entry allow-list specific to 2026-2027, and re-deriving it for a second year is its own task. 2038 compares rank, colour, Epistle, Gospel. The extractor's day count was hardcoded to 730, which silently forbade any other window. It is now a parameter defaulting to 730, so the existing documented command keeps its guard and a partial fetch still fails loudly instead of producing a short fixture that passes a comparison it never ran. Teeth, by re-running section 6.7's own experiment: corrupting the Common of Non-Virgins II now reddens four tests, two of them external-oracle, where the same mutation previously reddened neither oracle layer. Residual: isidore-of-seville is still unwitnessed and needs 2035 or 2046; gregory-the-great and patrick are never the observed office in any year 2005-2050, so no fixture in that range can reach them. Register section 6.8 and 6.9.

feat(cli): install the runtime data, and resolve it in three ways

2026-08-17T13:45:27Z

`dune install` produced a colitur that could not run: the binary locates its data relative to its own path, nothing installed the four .sexp files anywhere, and an installed colitur exited 2 unable to read sanctoral.sexp. `dune build @install` produced an empty tree. data/dune installs the four RUNTIME files into /share/colitur/ef. Deliberately not the two allow-lists: those describe where colitur and a comparison oracle disagree, are read only by the differential and oracle tests, and are meaningless to a running colitur -- installing them would ship an assertion about lectio's and missalemeum's behaviour as though it were calendar data. No glob, on purpose: a glob would silently start shipping them again the moment one was renamed. Resolution now probes rather than computing one path and hoping. An installed prefix is tried first, the build tree second, and a candidate counts only if sanctoral.sexp is actually readable inside it -- so a failed or half-removed install falls through to a working tree instead of shadowing it and failing later with a per-file error. COLITUR_DATA_DIR overrides both and NEVER falls through. This was the one real design question and the first version got it wrong: it treated the override as just another candidate, and a deliberately bogus value produced a full, plausible, entirely un-flagged year computed off the build tree. Someone who names a directory has stated an intent, and silently calendaring off a different one is the silent substitution this project refuses everywhere else. It is now exit 2 naming the directory. Verified end to end, not inferred: installed to a scratch prefix, then ran the binary from an unrelated cwd with no build tree near it, and confirmed 2038-03-06 still resolves Perpetua and Felicitas through the Common route. All four paths exercised -- build tree, valid override, bogus override, and an empty share/ falling through. Environment reads stay confined to bin/. The kernel's contract forbids them and nothing below the CLI learns where the data came from; the loaders take a path.

feat(cli): colitur readings, one line per day

2026-08-17T13:24:27Z

The lectionary has been resolvable since Task 4 but invisible from the command line: `colitur day` prints no citations, so the branch's whole deliverable could only be seen through the test suite. A separate command rather than extra columns on `day`, which is where the plan pointed. Its instruction was to append the Epistle and Gospel to each row "matching the existing column style", and that turns out not to be possible: a citation contains spaces and commas ("Ezech 34:11-16", "Ecclus 51:1-8, 12") while a day row is space-separated with a variable-length +slug commemoration tail, so appending them leaves the row unsplittable -- no awk or cut field number recovers where the Epistle ends. That is the opposite of what the row is shaped for. So `day` keeps its format byte-identical, asserted directly in cli.t rather than left implicit, and the citations get their own row with " | "-delimited fields, safe for values containing spaces. Both formats are a stopgap and say so in the source: the design calls for one schema rendered through a logic-less template engine, and two ad-hoc formats are easier to retire later than one overloaded format whose parsing rules nobody wrote down. The year walk is now shared. day_report and readings_report differ only in how a day is printed, and the two-liturgical-year indexing -- with its own reasoning about civil-versus-liturgical spans -- is exactly the part that must not be duplicated and drift. "-" for an absent part, though no EF day can currently print one: layer 2 asserts exactly one First and one Gospel on every day of every year 1583-9999. The CLI still does not assume a guarantee the kernel makes about data rather than about types. cli.t gains the four chain-step cases test_golden.ml pins against the scans, so the CLI path is checked to agree with the library path, plus the 2 January line, which reads the Circumcision's Mass under the Missal's own ferial rubric (scan1:6523-6526) and not RG 17(a). Verified the cram tests actually run and have teeth: corrupting one expectation produces a diff and exits 1. CLAUDE.md: state, test count (369, 370 with the sweep), the readings command and why it is separate, and What's next -- the lectionary landed early rather than inside Plan 4, so what remains there is OF's own lectionary, not the mechanism. Chants stay deliberately unbuilt, and Validate now rejects any part outside First/Gospel.