Lower Matins 3-nocturn threshold from Duplex to Semiduplex

Semiduplex and Duplex should share the same 3-nocturn/3-psalms-each
shape (distinct from Sunday/Duplex-majus+'s 6/6/3-plus-canticles
scheme) — the previous Duplex floor meant a Semiduplex winner like
St. Stephen of Hungary wrongly fell all the way through to the
1-nocturn ferial branch.

New threshold is a separate check from isDoubleOrHigher, which drives
the unrelated antiphon-doubling rule elsewhere and stays floored at
Duplex — the two thresholds only coincided by accident before this
change. No new content authoring was needed: ferialPsalmodyThreeNocturns
already chunks the ferial 9-psalm pool into 3/3/3 as the fallback for
a plain-Duplex winner with no override authored, and Semiduplex
winners now route into that same already-working branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X26BkFT3ARbtUGXuBmzUmD

TODO.md

@@ -4857,3 +4857,22 @@ file's header was a documented-but-unverified assumption, not real content.
 See memory `vu_ferial_matins_antiphons` for full detail.
 
 `npm test`, `tsc --noEmit`, and `npm run build` all pass.
+
+### Matins: 3-nocturn threshold lowered from Duplex to Semiduplex (2026-09-02)
+
+Same session, a separate fix: the 3-nocturn gate (`hours/matins.ts`'s `threeNocturns`) was
+floored at Duplex (`isDoubleOrHigher`). User's own design call, prompted by noticing today's
+Matins (St. Stephen of Hungary, Semiduplex) wrongly rendering as 1-nocturn: Semiduplex and
+Duplex should share the same 3-nocturn/3-psalms-each shape (distinct from Sunday/Duplex-majus
++'s 6/6/3-plus-canticles scheme). Lowered the floor with a new, separate check
+(`isAtLeast(winner.rank, 'semiduplex')`) rather than touching `isDoubleOrHigher` itself, which
+drives an unrelated antiphon-doubling rule elsewhere and must stay floored at Duplex. No new
+content authoring was needed — `ferialPsalmodyThreeNocturns` already existed and already
+chunks the ferial 9-psalm pool into 3/3/3 as the fallback for a plain-Duplex winner with no
+override authored; Semiduplex winners now fall into that same already-working branch. Proved
+via St. Stephen of Hungary (2026-09-02, Common of a Confessor): 3 real nocturns, Common's own
+Terce/Sext/None antiphons+versicles, Te Deum present.
+
+See memory `vu_matins_semiduplex_threshold` for full detail.
+
+`npm test` (823 passed), `tsc --noEmit`, and `npm run build` all pass.

src/hours/matins.ts

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 // Builds its ordo programmatically per day rather than resolving a static
 // `data/hours/matins.yml` parts list the way every other hour does, because
 // the real shape (1 nocturn on a plain ferial day vs. 3 on a Sunday or a
-// Duplex+ feast, with a *variable* number of readings) doesn't fit that
-// pattern.
+// Semiduplex+ feast, with a *variable* number of readings) doesn't fit
+// that pattern.
 //
 // Critical framing (see memory `vu-not-a-reconstruction` / `vu-matins-
 // design`, and TODO.md's own Matins section): this is NOT a historical
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ import { getPsalmVerses } from '../psalter';
 import { getPsalmsFor, type PsalmRef } from '../psalter/distribution';
 import { getScriptureVerses } from '../scripture';
 import { getOpeningVersicleId } from './opening-versicle';
-import { isDoubleOrHigher, applyFlexaMark } from './antiphon';
+import { applyFlexaMark } from './antiphon';
 import {
   resolveCommon,
   getDayCollect,
@@ -547,8 +547,8 @@ function withSingleAntiphon(refs: PsalmRef[], antiphonText: ResolvedText, winner
  * gathered for `day` — the office winner (if sanctoral), every
  * commemorated saint (a transferred-in feast already appears as `day.winner`
  * once `resolveDay` has applied the transfer, so it needs no separate
- * lookup here), and — only on a real 3-nocturn day (Sunday, or a Duplex+
- * feast) — the plain temporal id itself (that Sunday's own Moralia-in-
+ * lookup here), and — only on a real 3-nocturn day (Sunday, or a
+ * Semiduplex+ feast) — the plain temporal id itself (that Sunday's own Moralia-in-
  * Job-style commentary) plus, for dates from the 1st Sunday of August
  * through the eve of Advent, the calendar-month/week id (`month-week-<id>`,
  * calendar/month-week-id.ts's monthWeekId): the real historical Nocturn 2
@@ -734,12 +734,17 @@ export function resolveOrdo(date: string): ResolvedOrdo {
   const day = resolveDay(date);
   const winner = resolveOfficeWinner(day);
   const temporalId = resolveTemporalId(date);
-  // Every Sunday, unconditionally, or a Duplex+ sanctoral winner — the
-  // user's own chosen threshold (2026-08), not gated on whether any
-  // content is actually authored yet, same "eligible, not content-gated"
-  // 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);
+  // Every Sunday, unconditionally, or a Semiduplex+ sanctoral winner — the
+  // user's own chosen threshold (2026-08, lowered from Duplex to
+  // Semiduplex 2026-09-02), not gated on whether any content is actually
+  // authored yet, same "eligible, not content-gated" convention every
+  // other per-feast override in this app already uses (see
+  // hours/resolve-common.ts's getOfficeOverrideId). Deliberately a
+  // separate check from `isDoubleOrHigher` (antiphon.ts) — that function
+  // drives the unrelated antiphon-doubling rule (full vs. incipit antiphon
+  // before the psalms) and stays floored at Duplex; the two thresholds
+  // only coincided before this change by accident, not by shared meaning.
+  const threeNocturns = day.weekday === 'sunday' || (winner.kind === 'sanctoral' && isAtLeast(winner.rank, 'semiduplex'));
   const pool = buildReadingPool(day, temporalId, date, threeNocturns);
   const [nocturn1Readings, nocturn2Readings, nocturn3Readings] = distributeIntoNocturns(pool, threeNocturns ? 3 : 1);
 
@@ -775,19 +780,21 @@ export function resolveOrdo(date: string): ResolvedOrdo {
     parts.push({ kind: 'te-deum', text: resolveCommon('te-deum') });
     parts.push({ kind: 'versicle', text: resolveCommon('te-decet-laus') });
   } else if (threeNocturns) {
-    // A Duplex+ weekday feast — genuinely different psalmody from a real
-    // Sunday's, not the same content reused.
+    // A Semiduplex+ weekday feast — genuinely different psalmody from a
+    // real Sunday's, not the same content reused.
     //   - Saint-specific proper: use its own full scheme, any rank.
     //   - No proper, rank duplex-majus+: Common's own full scheme (own
     //     psalm numbers, canticles) if authored; else the fully bare
     //     ferialPsalmodyThreeNocturns stand-in. Unaffected by the
-    //     duplex-and-below carve-out below (user, 2026-08).
-    //   - No proper, rank exactly duplex (the floor of 3-nocturn
-    //     eligibility): ferial psalm numbers, not Common's own — but
-    //     Common's per-nocturn versicle, and each nocturn's own Terce/
-    //     Sext/None antiphon for that category, if authored (see
-    //     ferialPsalmodyThreeNocturns's own doc comment for why those
-    //     three, not Common's own Matins Nocturn antiphons).
+    //     below-duplex-majus carve-out below (user, 2026-08).
+    //   - No proper, rank Semiduplex or Duplex (below the floor of the
+    //     duplex-majus+ tier, but at or above the floor of 3-nocturn
+    //     eligibility itself, lowered to Semiduplex 2026-09-02): ferial
+    //     psalm numbers, not Common's own — but Common's per-nocturn
+    //     versicle, and each nocturn's own Terce/Sext/None antiphon for
+    //     that category, if authored (see ferialPsalmodyThreeNocturns's
+    //     own doc comment for why those three, not Common's own Matins
+    //     Nocturn antiphons).
     const properOverride = winner.kind === 'sanctoral' ? getMatinsSaintOverride(winner.id) : undefined;
     const isAboveDuplex = winner.kind === 'sanctoral' && isAtLeast(winner.rank, 'duplex-majus');
     const commonOverride = winner.kind === 'sanctoral' && !properOverride ? getMatinsCommonOverride(winner.id) : undefined;

tests/hours/matins.test.ts

@@ -527,6 +527,49 @@ describe('resolveOrdo("matins", ...) Duplex+ weekday-feast (3-nocturn, non-Sunda
   });
 });
 
+describe('resolveOrdo("matins", ...) Semiduplex weekday-feast (3-nocturn threshold lowered 2026-09-02)', () => {
+  // St. Stephen of Hungary (Semiduplex, Common of a Confessor Not a
+  // Bishop, no proper Matins antiphon of his own) -- 2026-09-02, a
+  // Wednesday. Threshold was Duplex-or-higher before this fix, so a
+  // Semiduplex winner used to fall all the way through to the plain
+  // 1-nocturn ferial branch; the user's own design intent (2026-09-02) is
+  // that Semiduplex and Duplex share the same 3-nocturn/3-psalms-each
+  // shape, distinct from the 6/6/3-plus-canticles Sunday/Duplex-majus+
+  // scheme. Reuses the same already-working ferialPsalmodyThreeNocturns
+  // branch a plain-Duplex winner gets (see the describe block above) --
+  // no new content authoring was needed for this fix.
+  const ordo = resolveOrdo('matins', '2026-09-02');
+
+  it('splits the ferial 9-psalm pool into 3 nocturns of 3 each, plus a Te Deum, not the 1-nocturn ferial branch', () => {
+    const psalms = ordo.parts.filter((p) => p.kind === 'psalm').map((p) => (p as { psalmNumber: number }).psalmNumber);
+    expect(psalms).toEqual([3, 94, 65, 67, 67, 68, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73]);
+    expect(ordo.parts.some((p) => p.kind === 'te-deum')).toBe(true);
+    // No canticles -- reserved for Sunday/Duplex-majus+, not this tier.
+    expect(ordo.parts.some((p) => p.kind === 'canticle')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("uses Common-of-a-Confessor's own Terce/Sext/None antiphons and versicles, one distinct pair per nocturn", () => {
+    const psalmParts = ordo.parts.filter((p) => p.kind === 'psalm') as { psalmNumber: number; antiphon?: { text: Record<string, string>; status: Record<string, string> } }[];
+    const nocturnPsalms = psalmParts.filter((p) => ![3, 94].includes(p.psalmNumber));
+    expect(nocturnPsalms[0]?.antiphon?.text.la).toContain('Euge, serve bone');
+    expect(nocturnPsalms[3]?.antiphon?.text.la).toContain('Fidélis servus');
+    expect(nocturnPsalms[6]?.antiphon?.text.la).toContain('Serve bone');
+    for (const i of [0, 3, 6]) {
+      expect(nocturnPsalms[i]?.antiphon?.status.la).toBe('verified');
+      expect(nocturnPsalms[i]?.antiphon?.status.en).toBe('verified');
+    }
+    const versicles = ordo.parts.filter((p) => p.kind === 'versicle') as { text: { text: Record<string, string> } }[];
+    // The 3 nocturn-closing versicles (excluding the opening pair and the
+    // final Te decet laus) are Common-of-a-Confessor's own, one per
+    // nocturn -- not a stray mid-psalmody line.
+    const nocturnVersicles = versicles.slice(2, 5);
+    expect(nocturnVersicles).toHaveLength(3);
+    expect(nocturnVersicles[0]?.text.text.la).toContain('Amávit eum Dóminus');
+    expect(nocturnVersicles[1]?.text.text.la).toContain('Os justi meditábitur');
+    expect(nocturnVersicles[2]?.text.text.la).toContain('Lex Dei ejus in corde ipsíus');
+  });
+});
+
 describe('resolveOrdo("matins", ...) second Duplex+ weekday-feast proof — St. Andrew, Common of an Apostle', () => {
   // 2026-11-30 -- St. Andrew's own day outright ("S. Andreæ Apostoli",
   // not transferred that year: Nov 30 falls on a Monday, not a Sunday),