Rework Matins readings into a pooled, distributed model

Replaces the fixed Nocturn 1 = plan / Nocturns 2-3 = patristic slotting
with one ordered pool (scripture plan, winner/commemorations/temporal id,
active octaves) sliced evenly across however many nocturns the day has.
Also makes the bible-plan store dual-keyed so the Dec 25 - Jan 13 stretch
can key off a fixed calendar date alongside the usual (temporalId,
weekday) key. Mechanism only — content authoring is still 2 proof dates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TODO.md

@@ -4,6 +4,62 @@ A real backlog, not scattered code comments. Update this file when something
 here gets done, and add to it when new gaps turn up — don't let it drift back
 into "only findable by reading commit messages."
 
+## Priority
+
+Work in this file follows one methodology, repeated every time a new hour or content type
+gets built: **mechanism first, then a minimal live-verified proof (1-2 clean dates/entries
+authored fully, end-to-end) to confirm the mechanism is right, then bulk content
+authoring/import against the whole calendar once it's trusted.** A section marked "mechanism
+built" but not yet "full sweep" or "all N done" is mid-pipeline, not stalled — its next work
+is more content in the same already-proven shape, not a design change. This file's dated
+build log (below "Open work, in priority order") is the record of that pipeline running
+across every hour and content type in this app.
+
+## Open work, in priority order
+
+1. **Mechanism gaps** — a real design/code piece not built yet, blocking any content pass on
+   it from starting:
+   - Pre-1955-but-post-1617 saints' differently-structured Matins readings — source confirmed
+     (Tridentine/Divino Afflatu, combine-where-sensible applies the same way), but the actual
+     sourcing/modeling pass hasn't started — see "Matins ordo" below.
+   - The "which Sunday governs this date" temporal-id algorithm (23rd-Sunday-before-Advent
+     rule, Epiphany-Sunday transfer to the end of the liturgical year, the
+     Saturday-before-Septuagesima 6th-Epiphany-Sunday commemoration edge case) — tabled, not
+     started.
+   - Easter's own octave — tabled, "a whole different discussion."
+   - What "a Gospel reading is its own kind" should mean structurally/in the UI, beyond the
+     `isGospel` flag on a plain Matins `lesson` — open; deferred until there's a UI to
+     evaluate it against.
+
+2. **Minimal-proof-done, bulk content pending** — mechanism is built and trusted (a proof
+   date/entry already resolves correctly end-to-end); what's left is authoring/importing more
+   content in that same shape across the rest of the calendar:
+   - Matins: convert the rest of the user's ~390-row bible-plan TSV (2 proof dates converted
+     so far); author patristic/hagiographic readings for every saint where one can be
+     sourced — no longer Duplex+-gated, content is pooled and shown regardless of rank (see
+     "Reading-pool redesign"); expand the per-book Matins responsory pool beyond its one
+     seeded book (`isa`); once the pre-1955 mechanism gap above is resolved, source those
+     saints' readings too.
+   - The bulk Vulgate (Latin) + Douay-Rheims (English) scripture import into
+     `src/data/scripture/` — long-term project, explicitly deferred; Matins scripture
+     citations resolve to `missing` text until it lands.
+   - A handful of individually-flagged content gaps, each already flagged in place rather than
+     silently dropped: St. Frances of Rome's and St. Bibiana's Benedictus antiphons
+     (structurally can't win their own day under this app's calendar in any near-term year,
+     needs a very late test year to check); Ss. Ursula and Companions' Benedictus antiphon
+     (a category-of-one, no live rendering to verify against); "Our Lady of the Snows" (not
+     modeled at all); the four "…benedícta…" octave-day Ant+V/R+collect blocks (not yet
+     modeled).
+
+3. **Known, deliberate simplifications** — flagged as intentional, not a bug, no plan to
+   revisit unless priorities change: see "Known, deliberate simplifications" at the end of
+   this file, plus the Matins "Duo Seraphim" closing-responsory gap and the 5 Vespers hymns
+   whose seasonal doxology substitution isn't modeled (both flagged in their own sections
+   below, not repeated here).
+
+Everything from here down is the dated build log this priority list is drawn from — kept for
+the sourcing/verification detail behind each decision, not itself in priority order.
+
 ## Content gaps — mechanism built, data incomplete
 
 ### Lauds psalmody overrides + office-bundle overrides — done (2026-08)
@@ -1231,11 +1287,41 @@ counts, Te Deum presence, reading citations and statuses, Gospel flagging
 and its Common-fallback exclusion, responsory matching) — not just checking
 the YAML files exist. `npm test` (359 tests) and `npm run build` both pass.
 
+### Reading-pool redesign — done (2026-08)
+
+**Corrected a miscommunication in the original mechanism build above**: readings are now
+pool-assembled, not fixed-slotted. Every source that can contribute for a day — the office
+winner, every commemorated saint, a transferred-in feast (already folded into `day.winner`
+by `resolveDay`, no separate lookup needed), every active octave, the plain temporal id, and
+the user's own scripture-plan reading — is gathered into one ordered pool
+(`buildReadingPool` in `src/hours/matins.ts`), then sliced into however many nocturns the
+day's psalmody has (`distributeIntoNocturns`, ceiling division, pool order preserved). No
+reading kind is pinned to a specific nocturn anymore — scripture is no longer reserved for
+Nocturn 1, patristic content no longer reserved for Nocturns 2-3.
+
+The 1-vs-3-nocturn psalmody gate (Duplex+/Sunday) is unchanged — it governs psalm/canticle/
+Te Deum structure only. It no longer limits which days get patristic content authored or
+shown: a sub-Duplex ferial day's single nocturn now pools in patristic/hagiographic content
+whenever it's been sourced, alongside the scripture-plan reading — direct instruction, "we
+want patristic readings for every saint where we can source one, not just duplex+."
+
+`src/propers/bible-plan.ts`'s `getBiblePlanReadings` is now dual-keyed: most rows still key
+off `(temporalId, weekday)`, but the source TSV's Dec 25 - Jan 13 stretch keys off a fixed
+`MM-DD` calendar date instead (read straight through regardless of which temporal Sunday
+governs the day) — a date can match both keys at once (e.g. a Sunday after Epiphany landing
+inside Jan 1-13), and both are pooled rather than one overriding the other. No calendar-date
+rows are authored yet (mechanism only); see memory `vu-matins-design` for the full design
+writeup. `npm test` (359 tests, unchanged — the two proof dates still resolve the same
+content, just via the new pool/distribute path) and `npm run build` both pass.
+
 **Not done in this pass — explicitly deferred, not silently dropped:**
 - All ~390 rows of the user's own bible-plan TSV — only the two proof
-  dates' rows are converted so far.
+  dates' rows are converted so far (both temporal-id-keyed; no
-- Full Sunday/feast-calendar patristic-reading authoring (the ~75 Duplex+
+  calendar-date-keyed rows for the Dec 25 - Jan 13 stretch yet).
-  saints eligible for Nocturn 3, per the user's own threshold).
+- Full Sunday/feast-calendar patristic-reading authoring — now framed as
+  "every saint where a reading can be sourced," not just the ~75 Duplex+
+  saints that get their own Nocturn 3 slot (see the reading-pool redesign
+  above: content is no longer rank-gated, only nocturn *count* is).
 - Pre-1955-but-post-1617 saints' differently-structured readings (source
   confirmed as Tridentine/Divino Afflatu rather than Monastic 1617,
   combine-where-sensible rule confirmed to apply the same way — the actual

src/hours/matins.ts

@@ -11,19 +11,33 @@
 // reconstruction. The reference engine's Monastic 1617 data is a content
 // and structure source, not a spec to reproduce — several real, deliberate
 // departures from it are built in here:
-//   - Nocturn 1 is always the user's own continuous scripture-reading plan
+//   - Readings are pool-assembled, not fixed-slotted (user, 2026-08,
-//     (src/propers/bible-plan.ts), never the historical per-day lectionary
+//     superseding this file's original "Nocturn 1 = plan, Nocturns 2-3 =
-//     — a *variable* number of readings, not the historical fixed 3 (or 1,
+//     patristic" design): every source that can contribute for the day —
-//     in the source's own "summer" contraction — deliberately not
+//     the user's own scripture-reading plan (src/propers/bible-plan.ts,
-//     reproduced here; this app reads in full year-round).
+//     a *variable* number of readings, not the historical fixed 3 or the
+//     Rule's own "summer" contraction, deliberately not reproduced —
+//     this app reads in full year-round), the office winner's and every
+//     commemorated saint's own patristic/hagiographic/Gospel content, the
+//     plain temporal day's own content, and every active octave's own
+//     reading — is gathered into one ordered pool (`buildReadingPool`),
+//     then sliced into however many nocturns the day's psalmody has
+//     (`distributeIntoNocturns`), with no reading kind pinned to a
+//     particular nocturn number.
 //   - Where the historical office splits one continuous source across
 //     several numbered lessons, this app recombines them into one reading
 //     (see src/propers/octave-readings.ts's resolvePassages / src/propers/
 //     nocturn-readings.ts) — split only where the underlying source
 //     genuinely changes (e.g. a Gospel pericope vs. the homily on it).
-//   - Nocturn 3 is gated at Duplex-and-higher (plus every Sunday,
+//   - The *number* of nocturns (1 vs. 3) is still gated at Duplex-and-higher
-//     unconditionally) — the user's own choice (2026-08), not the
+//     (plus every Sunday, unconditionally) — the user's own choice
-//     historical Rule's own more permissive threshold.
+//     (2026-08), not the historical Rule's own more permissive threshold.
+//     This is a psalmody-structure decision only; it no longer limits which
+//     days get patristic reading content authored — a sub-Duplex day's
+//     single nocturn can and should include patristic/hagiographic content
+//     from the pool whenever it's been sourced for that day (user, 2026-08:
+//     "patristic readings for every saint where we can source one, not
+//     just duplex+").
 //   - A Gospel reading is sourced from exactly two places: the user's own
 //     plan (flagged via BiblePlanReading.isGospel — never present on a
 //     Sunday, a deliberate editorial choice in the user's own plan, not a
@@ -34,10 +48,10 @@
 //     benedictusCommon elsewhere), so this exclusion falls out of the
 //     store's own shape rather than needing special-case code.
 //   - Every commemorated saint (not just the office winner) and every
-//     active octave gets its own Nocturn 2/3 contribution, when authored —
+//     active octave contributes its own reading to the pool, when
-//     "be generous, not winner-takes-all" (user, 2026-08) — mirroring
+//     authored — "be generous, not winner-takes-all" (user, 2026-08) —
-//     getDayCollects's own "one collect per commemoration" pattern, applied
+//     mirroring getDayCollects's own "one collect per commemoration"
-//     to readings instead.
+//     pattern, applied to readings instead.
 //
 // Only a small, growable slice of content is authored so far (one clean
 // ferial day, one clean Sunday) — this is the mechanism build, not the
@@ -151,26 +165,14 @@ function ferialPsalmody(day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
   return psalmRefParts(getPsalmsFor('matins', day.weekday));
 }
 
-/** Nocturn 1 — always the user's own reading plan, on every kind of day
+/** Every id whose own patristic/hagiographic/Gospel content should be
- * (see this file's header). Empty when nothing's authored for this
+ * gathered for `day` — the office winner (if sanctoral), every
- * (temporalId, weekday) yet — an honest absence, not a placeholder. */
+ * commemorated saint (a transferred-in feast already appears as `day.winner`
-function nocturn1ReadingParts(temporalId: string, day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
+ * once `resolveDay` has applied the transfer, so it needs no separate
-  const readings = getBiblePlanReadings(temporalId, day.weekday);
+ * lookup here), and the plain temporal id itself (for an ordinary day's own
-  return readings.map((r) => ({
+ * patristic content, e.g. a plain Sunday's Moralia-in-Job-style
-    kind: 'lesson',
+ * commentary) — deliberately inclusive, not just the winner, per the
-    text: { text: r.text, status: r.status, citation: r.citation },
+ * user's own "be generous, not winner-takes-all" instruction (2026-08). */
-    nocturn: 1,
-    isGospel: r.isGospel,
-    responsory: r.responsory ? { text: r.responsory, status: { la: 'verified', en: 'verified' } } : undefined,
-  }));
-}
-
-/** Every id whose own Nocturn 2/3 content should be gathered for `day` —
- * the office winner (if sanctoral), every commemorated saint, and the
- * plain temporal id itself (for an ordinary day's own patristic content,
- * e.g. a plain Sunday's Moralia-in-Job-style commentary) — deliberately
- * inclusive, not just the winner, per the user's own "be generous, not
- * winner-takes-all" instruction (2026-08). */
 function nocturnReadingIds(day: LiturgicalDay, temporalId: string): string[] {
   const ids = new Set<string>();
   if (day.winner.kind === 'sanctoral') ids.add(day.winner.id);
@@ -186,44 +188,77 @@ function nocturnReadingPart(r: NocturnReading): ResolvedPart {
     kind: 'lesson',
     text: { text: r.text, status: r.status, citation: r.citation },
     label: r.source,
-    nocturn: r.nocturn,
     isGospel: r.isGospel,
     responsory: r.responsory ? { text: r.responsory, status: { la: 'verified', en: 'verified' } } : undefined,
   };
 }
 
-/** Nocturns 2-3's patristic/hagiographic/Gospel content for a 3-nocturn
+/** The full pool of readings available for `day` — every source that can
- * day — gathered from every relevant id (see nocturnReadingIds) plus every
+ * contribute (see this file's header): the user's own scripture-plan
- * currently active octave's own already-authored octave-day reading (see
+ * readings, the office winner's and every commemorated saint's own
- * src/propers/octave-readings.ts — built well ahead of this file, never
+ * patristic/hagiographic/Gospel content, the plain temporal id's own
- * wired to anything until now). Filtered to the requested nocturn number. */
+ * content (e.g. an ordinary Sunday's patristic commentary), and every
-function nocturnReadingParts(nocturn: number, day: LiturgicalDay, temporalId: string, date: string): ResolvedPart[] {
+ * currently active octave's own reading. No source is pinned to a
+ * particular nocturn — `distributeIntoNocturns` slots the whole pool
+ * across however many nocturns the day's psalmody has, per the user's own
+ * "assemble everything, then slot it in" instruction (2026-08), a
+ * deliberate departure from this file's earlier "Nocturn 1 = plan,
+ * Nocturns 2-3 = patristic" design. Order here is preserved by
+ * `distributeIntoNocturns`, so it doubles as reading priority: the user's
+ * own scripture reading first, then each id's authored content in its own
+ * file order (patristic commentary typically precedes a Gospel+homily —
+ * see data/propers/nocturn-readings/*.yml), then active octaves. */
+function buildReadingPool(day: LiturgicalDay, temporalId: string, date: string): ResolvedPart[] {
   const parts: ResolvedPart[] = [];
+  for (const r of getBiblePlanReadings(temporalId, day.weekday, date)) {
+    parts.push({
+      kind: 'lesson',
+      text: { text: r.text, status: r.status, citation: r.citation },
+      isGospel: r.isGospel,
+      responsory: r.responsory ? { text: r.responsory, status: { la: 'verified', en: 'verified' } } : undefined,
+    });
+  }
   for (const id of nocturnReadingIds(day, temporalId)) {
     for (const reading of getNocturnReadings(id)) {
-      if (reading.nocturn === nocturn) parts.push(nocturnReadingPart(reading));
+      parts.push(nocturnReadingPart(reading));
     }
   }
-  if (nocturn === 2) {
+  for (const octave of activeOctavesFor(date)) {
-    for (const octave of activeOctavesFor(date)) {
+    const reading = getOctaveReading(octave.id, octave.dayNumber);
-      const reading = getOctaveReading(octave.id, octave.dayNumber);
+    if (reading) {
-      if (reading) {
+      parts.push({
-        parts.push({
+        kind: 'lesson',
-          kind: 'lesson',
+        text: { text: reading.text, status: reading.status },
-          text: { text: reading.text, status: reading.status },
+        label: reading.source,
-          label: reading.source,
+        isGospel: false,
-          nocturn: 2,
+        responsory: reading.responsory
-          isGospel: false,
+          ? { text: reading.responsory, status: { la: 'verified', en: 'verified' } }
-          responsory: reading.responsory
+          : undefined,
-            ? { text: reading.responsory, status: { la: 'verified', en: 'verified' } }
+      });
-            : undefined,
-        });
-      }
     }
   }
   return parts;
 }
 
+/** Splits `pool` into `nocturnCount` contiguous, as-even-as-possible
+ * chunks (ceiling division), preserving pool order within each chunk —
+ * "depending on how many we have" (user, 2026-08), not a fixed count per
+ * nocturn. A pool of 5 across 3 nocturns lands 2/2/1, not the historical
+ * fixed lesson-count-per-nocturn scheme. */
+function distributeIntoNocturns(pool: ResolvedPart[], nocturnCount: number): ResolvedPart[][] {
+  const chunks: ResolvedPart[][] = [];
+  const size = Math.ceil(pool.length / nocturnCount);
+  for (let i = 0; i < nocturnCount; i++) {
+    const chunk = pool.slice(i * size, (i + 1) * size);
+    // Stamp each reading with the nocturn slot it actually landed in —
+    // only meaningful once distribution has happened, not while the pool
+    // is still unordered-by-nocturn (see ResolvedPart's own 'lesson'
+    // variant, `nocturn?: number`).
+    chunks.push(nocturnCount > 1 ? chunk.map((part) => ({ ...part, nocturn: i + 1 })) : chunk);
+  }
+  return chunks;
+}
+
 export function resolveOrdo(date: string): ResolvedOrdo {
   const day = resolveDay(date);
   const winner = resolveOfficeWinner(day);
@@ -234,6 +269,8 @@ export function resolveOrdo(date: string): ResolvedOrdo {
   // convention every other per-feast override in this app already uses
   // (see hours/resolve-common.ts's getOfficeOverrideId).
   const threeNocturns = day.weekday === 'sunday' || isDoubleOrHigher(winner);
+  const pool = buildReadingPool(day, temporalId, date);
+  const [nocturn1Readings, nocturn2Readings, nocturn3Readings] = distributeIntoNocturns(pool, threeNocturns ? 3 : 1);
 
   const parts: ResolvedPart[] = [
     { kind: 'versicle', text: resolveCommon(getOpeningVersicleId(day.season, day.winner)) },
@@ -244,15 +281,15 @@ export function resolveOrdo(date: string): ResolvedOrdo {
 
   if (threeNocturns) {
     parts.push(...sundayPsalmNocturn(sundayAntiphons.nocturn1, day));
-    parts.push(...nocturn1ReadingParts(temporalId, day));
+    parts.push(...(nocturn1Readings ?? []));
     parts.push(...sundayPsalmNocturn(sundayAntiphons.nocturn2, day));
-    parts.push(...nocturnReadingParts(2, day, temporalId, date));
+    parts.push(...(nocturn2Readings ?? []));
     parts.push(...sundayCanticleNocturn(sundayAntiphons.nocturn3, day));
-    parts.push(...nocturnReadingParts(3, day, temporalId, date));
+    parts.push(...(nocturn3Readings ?? []));
     parts.push({ kind: 'te-deum', text: resolveCommon('te-deum') });
   } else {
     parts.push(...ferialPsalmody(day));
-    parts.push(...nocturn1ReadingParts(temporalId, day));
+    parts.push(...(nocturn1Readings ?? []));
     parts.push({ kind: 'chapter', text: resolveCommon('matins-capitulum-ferial') });
   }
 

src/propers/bible-plan.ts

@@ -1,20 +1,22 @@
-// The user's own continuous scripture-reading plan for Matins Nocturn 1 —
+// The user's own continuous scripture-reading plan, one contributor among
-// deliberately not the historical per-day lectionary (see hours/matins.ts's
+// several to Matins' pooled reading list (see hours/matins.ts's header and
-// header and TODO.md's Matins section): a personal year-round reading plan,
+// TODO.md's Matins section) — deliberately not the historical per-day
-// keyed by the same (temporalId, weekday) pair every other content store in
+// lectionary. Most rows key off the same (temporalId, weekday) pair every
-// this project already uses to identify a day, sourced from a TSV the user
+// other content store in this project already uses to identify a day, but
-// maintains outside this repo. Replaces the historical Nocturn-1 lesson
+// the source TSV's Christmastide/Epiphanytide stretch (Dec 25 - Jan 13)
-// count entirely — a *variable* number of readings per day, no RB summer
+// keys off a fixed calendar date (MM-DD) instead, since that stretch is
-// contraction (see calendar/temporal-id.ts's resolveTemporalId for the
+// read straight through regardless of which temporal Sunday governs the
-// id scheme this keys off).
+// day. The two key types can both apply to the same date (e.g. a Sunday
+// after Epiphany landing inside Jan 1-13) — `getBiblePlanReadings` checks
+// both and pools whatever each produces, rather than one overriding the
+// other.
 //
 // Only a small, growable subset is authored so far — this is the mechanism
 // build, not the full-calendar content pass (~390 rows total in the
 // source TSV); see TODO.md for what's deferred. Every entry not yet
 // authored here simply resolves to no readings (honest absence, not a
-// placeholder) — matins.ts falls back to whatever nocturn-2/3 content
+// placeholder) — matins.ts's reading pool just has nothing from this
-// exists for the day, or renders nothing for Nocturn 1 on a day with
+// source that day.
-// neither.
 import type { LanguageCode, TranslationStatus } from '../psalter/types';
 import { resolvePassages, type ScriptureCitation } from './octave-readings';
 import { getResponsoryForBook } from './matins-responsories';
@@ -49,8 +51,13 @@ interface BiblePlanReadingRecord {
 }
 
 interface BiblePlanDayRecord {
-  temporalId: string;
+  /** Mutually exclusive with `calendarDate` — a row keys off one or the
-  weekday: string;
+   * other, never both (see this file's header). */
+  temporalId?: string;
+  weekday?: string;
+  /** "MM-DD", for the Dec 25 - Jan 13 stretch that reads straight through
+   * regardless of which temporal Sunday governs the day. */
+  calendarDate?: string;
   readings: BiblePlanReadingRecord[];
 }
 
@@ -85,9 +92,10 @@ const modules = import.meta.glob<{ default: BiblePlanDayRecord }>('../data/hours
   eager: true,
 });
 
-const readingsByKey = new Map<string, BiblePlanReading[]>();
+const readingsByTemporalKey = new Map<string, BiblePlanReading[]>();
+const readingsByCalendarDate = new Map<string, BiblePlanReading[]>();
 for (const mod of Object.values(modules)) {
-  const { temporalId, weekday, readings } = mod.default;
+  const { temporalId, weekday, calendarDate, readings } = mod.default;
   // Cycles independently per book (not per reading) so two same-day
   // readings from the same book don't collide on the pool's first entry —
   // see matins-responsories.ts's own cycling doc comment.
@@ -98,13 +106,23 @@ for (const mod of Object.values(modules)) {
     seenPerBook.set(book, index + 1);
     return resolveReading(record, index);
   });
-  readingsByKey.set(`${temporalId}-${weekday}`, resolved);
+  if (calendarDate) {
+    readingsByCalendarDate.set(calendarDate, resolved);
+  } else {
+    readingsByTemporalKey.set(`${temporalId}-${weekday}`, resolved);
+  }
 }
 
-/** Empty array, not undefined, when nothing's authored for this day yet —
+/** Every reading this plan contributes to Matins' pooled reading list for
+ * `date` — both the (temporalId, weekday) row and the fixed-calendar-date
+ * row (if any), pooled together rather than one overriding the other, since
+ * both can genuinely apply to the same date (see this file's header).
+ * Empty array, not undefined, when nothing's authored for this day yet —
  * every caller already treats "no readings" as a valid, renderable state
  * (see hours/matins.ts), so there's no separate "missing entirely" signal
  * to preserve here the way getOctaveReading needs `undefined` for. */
-export function getBiblePlanReadings(temporalId: string, weekday: string): BiblePlanReading[] {
+export function getBiblePlanReadings(temporalId: string, weekday: string, date: string): BiblePlanReading[] {
-  return readingsByKey.get(`${temporalId}-${weekday}`) ?? [];
+  const byTemporal = readingsByTemporalKey.get(`${temporalId}-${weekday}`) ?? [];
+  const byCalendarDate = readingsByCalendarDate.get(date.slice(5)) ?? [];
+  return [...byTemporal, ...byCalendarDate];
 }