vu/TODO.md

Open work

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."

Content gaps — mechanism built, data incomplete

Lauds psalmody overrides (duplex-majus+ per-feast psalms/antiphons/canticle)

Mechanism: src/hours/lauds-psalmody-overrides.ts, gated in hours/lauds.ts's getPsalmodyOverrideFor. Only fires for a saint ranked duplex-majus or higher (per direct instruction) or a named temporal feast (marian-saturday, christ-the-king).

Authored (3): st-lawrence, marian-saturday, christ-the-king.

Not authored yet (32 duplex-majus+ saints, sorted roughly by calendar order) — each needs a live command=prayLaudes query on the saint's own date, Monastic Tridentinum 1617, same method as the three done so far:

conversion-of-st-paul, chair-of-st-peter-at-rome, apparition-of-st-michael, st-matthias, st-benedict*, st-mark, ss-philip-and-james, st-john-before-the-latin-gate, st-john-apostle (Dec 27, distinct from st-john-before-the-latin-gate May 6), st-barnabas, nativity-of-st-john-the-baptist, ss-peter-and-paul, chair-of-st-peter-at-antioch, st-james-the-greater, st-martin-of-tours, holy-innocents, st-thomas-apostle, all-saints, all-saints-of-the-benedictine-order*, st-andrew, st-stephen-protomartyr, ss-simon-and-jude, st-luke, st-matthew, st-michael*, st-maurus-abbot*, ss-placid-and-companions*, st-scholastica, st-bartholomew, st-peter-ad-vincula, assumption, nativity-bvm, immaculate-conception.

* = propers: null in the saint's own record — needs collect + antiphon authored too, not just the psalmody override, before any of this is useful.

Lauds office-bundle overrides (capitulum/responsory/hymn/versicle)

Same override id, separate files (lauds-capitulum-<id>.yml etc. in data/propers/common/) — falls back to the plain weekday bundle when absent, independently of whether the psalmody override exists. Right now only christ-the-king has this — St. Lawrence's own day shows his proper psalms but the plain ferial capitulum/hymn, which is inconsistent with what the live engine actually shows for him (2 Cor 9:6, his own hymn). Worth fixing even before tackling the other 32.

Benedictus antiphons for temporal (non-sanctoral) days — done

<id>-benedictus-antiphon.yml in data/propers/temporal/ — all 53 temporal ids now have one (marian-saturday/christ-the-king from earlier, plus the 51 numbered Sundays/seasons done in one pass), except christmas-octave-sunday, left deliberately unauthored: every possible date this id can resolve to in the real calendar collides with a specific named octave-day feast (St. John's own octave on Jan 3, e.g.) — there's no date where the live engine shows generic "Sunday within the Christmas Octave" content rather than that day's own specific saint, so there's nothing honest to source.

Method: rather than hunting for "clean years" one at a time, wrote a script that iterates every day of a test year through this app's own resolveDay, buckets each Sunday by which temporal id actually won, and picks one real date per id straight from the app's own logic — then cross-checked each date's live D.O. title for a saint collision before trusting the content (a handful, mostly on privileged Eastertide/ post-Pentecost Sundays, needed a different year: this app's own privileged-Sunday rule never lets a saint displace those Sundays, but the live reference engine's calendar is bigger than this app's and does let some by-date saint win there, e.g. St. Mark on Easter V some years, "Our Lady of the Snows" — not modeled in this app at all — landing on Post-Pentecost XI whenever the date lines up with Aug 5).

Octave collects

getDayCollects skips a kind: 'octave' commemoration entirely — no collect has ever been authored for an octave (the octave-reading pull only ever sourced Matins content). Every octave commemoration currently contributes zero text to Lauds'/Vespers' collect sequence.

Benedictus antiphons for every sanctoral/temporal entry (in progress)

Full scope, corrected after actually enumerating it (an earlier pass here under-counted): 109 sanctoral entries have propers set (a saint id that both a collect and an antiphon key off) and need a real Benedictus antiphon; 94 more saints have propers: null (no collect or antiphon authored, ever) and are a separate, bigger prerequisite — see below. Plus ~52 temporal entries (every numbered Sunday/feria) need one too.

Confirmed systemic bug, not just "unverified"

Every pre-existing <saint>-antiphon.yml file (there were 17, pulled during the original sanctoral-content sessions, months before Lauds existed) was sourced from the Roman/secular rite's raw [Ant 1], not a live Monastic 1617 query. St. Lawrence's turned out wrong this way; going back and correcting 3 more (Chair of St. Peter at Rome, St. Agnes, Conversion of St. Paul) while working January confirms it's the same mistake every time, not a one-off — treat all pre-existing antiphon files as wrong until re-verified against a live Monastic query, not just flagged for a look.

Method, worked out the hard way this pass

A saint's raw per-date file (Latin/SanctiM/MM-DD.txt, falling back to Latin/Sancti/MM-DD.txt) is not a reliable shortcut — Monastic doesn't always compute the Benedictus antiphon from a literal [Ant 1] field (major feasts like Lawrence draw it from elsewhere entirely), and a shared date with two co-assigned saints only has one real file, which may belong to whichever saint reliably loses the day, not the one this app's calendar means to ask about. What actually works: a live command=prayLaudes query on the saint's own date, checked by eye against 2-3 different years for a title that plausibly names the saint and stays consistent — full automation kept producing false positives/negatives on exactly these edge cases, so each result needs a human read, not just a script.

Also found along the way, now fixed: this app's calendar and the reference engine's own calendar don't always agree on dates. St. Hilary of Poitiers was assigned Jan 23 here; Divinum Officium's own calendar has him fixed on Jan 14, confirmed directly against the raw [Officium] file (Jan 23's own file is St. Raymond of Peñafort, not Hilary at all). The original Jan-23 sourcing wasn't fabricated — 2029 is a real year where Jan 14 lands on a Sunday and every day through the 22nd is already taken, so Hilary genuinely transfers all the way to the 23rd that one year — but the app had mistaken a transfer-year artifact for his real date. Moved to Jan 14 in sanctoral-calendar.yml; his collect text (unaffected by which day it's said on) re-confirmed identical; antiphon pulled fresh. Worth a pass at some point checking whether any other already-authored saint has the same kind of mismatch.

Progress

• January (9 total): done, all 9. St. Marcellus I, Chair of St. Peter at Rome, St. Paul the Hermit, Ss. Fabian and Sebastian, St. Agnes, Ss. Vincent and Anastasius, Conversion of St. Paul, St. John Chrysostom, and St. Hilary of Poitiers (moved to his real date, Jan 14, per direct correction — see above).
• February (7 total): done, all 7. St. Agatha, St. Dorothea, St. Apollonia, St. Scholastica (translated, source had no English), St. Valentine, Chair of St. Peter at Antioch, St. Matthias (source's own English existed but was jarringly modern next to everything else's archaic register — reworded to match, marked draft).
• March (6 total): done, 5 authored/corrected, 1 flagged. St. Lucius I, St. Thomas Aquinas, the Forty Holy Martyrs, St. Gregory the Great (translated, source had no English — the "non Angli sed Angeli" antiphon), St. Joseph (corrected). St. Frances of Rome left missing: Simplex rank, and March 9 always falls within Lent every tested year (2026-2035) — she structurally can never win her own day outright under this app's own calendar rules, so there's no live-rendered antiphon to source at all.
• April (8 total): done, all 8. St. Francis of Paola, St. Leo I, Ss. Tiburtius/Valerian/Maximus, St. George, St. Mark, St. Vitalis, St. Robert, St. Peter Martyr.
• May (13 total): done, all 13. 3 corrected (Ss. Philip and James, St. John Before the Latin Gate, the Apparition of St. Michael), 10 authored fresh (Athanasius, Monica, Stanislaus, Nereus/Achilleus/ Domitilla/Pancras, Boniface, Ubald, Peter Celestine, Urban I, Eleutherius, John I). Urban I/Eleutherius/John I needed 2038 to find a year not governed by Ascensiontide/Pentecost/Trinity/Corpus Christi.
• June (16 total): done, all 16. 5 corrected (Ss. Basilides/Cyrinus/ Nabor/Nazarius, the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, Ss. John and Paul, Ss. Peter and Paul, Commemoration of St. Paul), 11 authored fresh (Ss. Marcellinus/Peter/Erasmus, Ss. Primus and Felicianus, Barnabas [reworded English, same register fix as Matthias], Anthony of Padua, Basil the Great, Ss. Vitus/Modestus/Crescentia, Ss. Mark and Marcellian, Ss. Gervase and Protase, Paulinus of Nola, William Abbot, Leo II).
• July (9 total): done, all 9. 1 corrected (Mary Magdalene), 8 authored fresh (the Seven Brothers/Rufina/Secunda, Symphorosa and Her Seven Sons, Margaret of Antioch, Apollinaris, James the Greater [reworded English, same fix as Matthias/Barnabas], Anne, Nazarius/Celsus/Victor I/ Innocent I, Abdon and Sennen).
• August (12 total): done, all 12. 1 corrected (Peter's Chains), 9 authored fresh (Dominic, Ss. Cyriacus/Largus/Smaragdus, Assumption, Bernard, Bartholomew [reworded English, same fix as Matthias/Barnabas/ James the Greater], Louis, Zephyrinus, Augustine), 2 already correct as found (Finding of St. Stephen, the Decollation of St. John the Baptist — both plain unmodified matches against the live query, no fix needed).
• September (5 total): done, all 5. 1 corrected (Nativity of the BVM), 4 authored fresh (Matthew [reworded English, same fix as Matthias/ Barnabas/James the Greater/Bartholomew], Ss. Cyprian and Justina, Ss. Cosmas and Damian, Jerome).
• October (7 total): done, all 7. Francis of Assisi, Callistus I, Luke [reworded English, same fix as Matthias/Barnabas/James the Greater/Bartholomew/Matthew], Ss. Chrysanthus and Daria, Vigil of Ss. Simon and Jude, Ss. Simon and Jude [same reworded-English fix], Vigil of All Saints.
• November (7 total): done, all 7. 2 corrected (Cecilia, Andrew), 4 authored fresh (All Saints, Clement I, Catherine of Alexandria, Silvester Abbot). Martin of Tours already matched the live query as found, no change needed.
• December (10 total): done, 9 authored/corrected, 1 flagged. 2 corrected (Lucy), 6 authored fresh (Nicholas, Immaculate Conception [minor English fix -- the source's own translation said "her Birth" for a Conception antiphon, an obvious copy-paste leftover from the Nativity-of-the-BVM formula this reuses; corrected, marked draft], Damasus, Thomas of Canterbury). Thomas Apostle, Stephen Protomartyr, John Apostle, and Holy Innocents already matched the live query as found, no change needed. St. Bibiana left missing: Simplex rank, and Dec 2 falls within Advent in every tested year 2026-2029 -- same structural block as St. Frances of Rome (March) and (partly) Marian Saturday collisions elsewhere, she can never win her own day outright.

All 109 sanctoral entries with a propers id: done. 3 left honestly missing across the whole pull (Hilary was relocated, not left missing; the true missing ones are St. Frances of Rome, St. Bibiana, and Ss. Urban I/Eleutherius/John I do have content -- they just needed a very late test year). Every pre-existing antiphon file that predated this pass has now been checked against a live Monastic query; most needed correction (confirmed Roman-rite sourced), a handful already matched.

• All ~52 temporal entries: done (see the section above for method and the one deliberate exception, christmas-octave-sunday).
• 94 propers: null saints: not started — need a collect authored (a bigger, separate task) before an antiphon id even has anywhere to attach.

Bug found while checking February's results, not yet fixed

hours/resolve-common.ts's splitNamedAntiphon always marks its output verified regardless of the input status (verifiedText() hardcodes it) — so a draft-marked antiphon (Scholastica's translation, Matthias's reworded English) renders as if fully verified everywhere it's actually displayed, even though the source YAML correctly says draft. Affects every split antiphon across every hour (Prime, Terce, Compline, Lauds), not just these two — pre-existing, just never surfaced until content with a real draft status went through it.

Mechanism not built at all

• Vespers (src/hours/vespers.ts is still a stub). First/Second Vespers overlap (DayWinner.vespersFrom) already exists as a type but nothing populates it for Vespers itself yet (only Compline uses resolveEveningDay so far).
• Matins (src/hours/matins.ts is still a stub) — needs its own resolution path (reading-candidate pool, nocturn structure), not the static parts-array pattern the other hours use.
• The "which Sunday governs this date" temporal-id algorithm — the fixed 23rd-Sunday-before-Advent rule, Epiphany Sundays transferring to the end of the liturgical year when they don't fit before Septuagesima, and the Saturday-before-Septuagesima edge case (also commemorate the 6th Sunday of Epiphany that day, in overflow years). Described in detail in an earlier conversation, explicitly tabled, not started. Distinct from Christ the King, which didn't need it (last-Sunday-of-October is direct date math).
• Easter's own octave — explicitly tabled ("easter needs a whole different discussion").

Known, deliberate simplifications (not bugs — working as designed)

• getDayCollects: each collect in a multi-collect day renders as its own complete "Let us pray ... Amen." block, not the more compressed real form (one "Let us pray," only the last collect's doxology).
• Suffrage omission only checks omitOnDouble (+ Marian Saturday's own Cross/BVM filter, + Christ the King's explicit id check). Real seasonal suppression (e.g. during Advent/Lent) isn't modeled.
• data/calendar/temporal-categories.yml's season→category reconstruction is from general knowledge of the pre-1955 tradition, not independently verified against a primary source for every entry (flagged inline where it matters).
• St. Michael's Sep 29 date — kept as a deliberate simplification despite the live engine showing nothing there across 6 tested years (documented in st-michael.yml and sanctoral-calendar.yml).