The audit flagged /bureau as the hardest page to navigate: 80+ case cards
in a flat grid with no way to narrow them down. Now the reader gets a
filterable browser.
- New lib/cases.ts (server) — shared loader for the case library; pulls
cases off disk, derives the originating agency from the slug prefix
(DoW, FBI, NASA, CIA, DoE, ODNI, DoD, Other) and the incident year via
a tight 19xx/20xx regex that requires non-digit boundaries so embedded
ID numbers don't get mistaken for years (e.g. doc-2070-... no longer
pretends to be a 2070 incident).
- New CaseLibraryBrowser (client) — search input (matches title + opening
in either language), agency chips with live counts, decade chips, sort
dropdown (Most recent / Year ↑ / Year ↓ / A–Z), result count, and a
clear-filters affordance. All four state pieces sync to the URL so a
filtered view is bookmarkable.
- /bureau page rewritten: magazine hero ("89 declassified cases,
narrated.") + dynamic case count + lead, then the browser.
- Cards in the browser carry an eyebrow ("YEAR · AGENCY") so the reader
sees provenance at a glance.
- CaseLibrary (homepage) refactored to consume the shared loader; behaviour
on / unchanged.
Verified live: agency=FBI filter narrows to 23 cases; sort=year-desc places
modern cases first; chip counts reflect filtered population.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Case bodies hold EN and PT-BR scenes interleaved (## I. EN, ## I. PT, ...),
but the reader rendered the whole body, so an EN visitor saw every scene
twice — once in English, once in Portuguese — and vice-versa.
Add pickLocaleBody(): split by section-number occurrence (first = EN, second
= PT-BR, the narrator's mandated order), with language sniffing only as a
fallback for unpaired/unnumbered sections, and full-body fallback when a body
can't be split (English-only legacy files). Wire it into the case reader
(body, lead, OG description) and the homepage card openings.
Also fix extractBody: it discarded the English H1 by treating the second
(PT-BR) H1 as "the first real heading". Future narrations keep both titles.
Verified live: d44 and doc-65 render EN-only under locale=en and PT-only
under locale=pt-br. Bulk-checked 89 files: 80 clean, 8 structurally clean
(source-language verbatim quotes retained per spec), 1 English-only legacy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
User wants every case in the archive documented in the narrated format.
Queued a case_report for all 122 documents (slug = doc_id, scoped to that
doc's chunks). The LISTEN worker drains 2 at a time (~5h, ~$18 OAuth).
5 reports already existed; ~122 new jobs queued, skipping any already
queued/running/complete by slug.
Title rendering: the batch seeds `topic` from the auto-derived
canonical_title ("Doc 18 100754 General 1946 7 Vol 2"), which is ugly as a
headline. The narrator writes a proper magazine H1 in the body, so:
- /c/[slug]: extract the two body H1s (EN + PT-BR), use the locale one
as the headline, strip both leading H1s from the rendered body so the
title isn't duplicated. Falls back to frontmatter topic.
- case-library.tsx + featured-case.tsx: same H1 extraction for card
titles, so /bureau and the homepage show real titles not "Doc 18…".
- featured-case: pin the flagship (green-fireballs-narrative, which has
a curated hero painting) to the featured slot instead of most-recent,
so the batch's random completions don't take over the homepage hero.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
User explicit: "1 bilhão de entusiastas pelo mundo ovni" — site is for the
UFO-curious public, not for skeptics. The 8-detective scaffolding becomes
invisible plumbing; the reader sees stories about what was observed.
Reader-facing changes:
New homepage (web/app/page.tsx)
- SiteHeader: magazine-style top nav (no detective tiles)
- HeroBanner: full-bleed editorial opener with declassified-page art
background, display-serif headline, live stats row (122 docs,
2047 events, 1861 witnesses, 867 craft catalogued)
- FeaturedCase: cover-story treatment of the most recent case_report,
uses a real document page as hero image, links to /c/[slug]
- PortalGrid: 6 thematic doorways into the archive — Sightings,
Witnesses, Craft, Hot spots, Programs, Documents — each tile shows
a real entity count and short editorial blurb
- GreatestHits: top 9 most-cited events from the corpus
(Kenneth Arnold 1947, Mantell 1948, …) as a magazine grid
- Doc list kept but reframed as "the primary record"
New sub-pages (5)
- /sightings → events (2047), magazine grid
- /witnesses → people (1861), compact table
- /objects → uap_objects (867), magazine grid
- /locations → locations (1757), compact table
- /operations → organizations (1596), compact table
- /documents → full doc list with thumbnails (mirrors homepage section
for direct deep-link)
All share <EntityListPage> shell with per-page i18n + JSON-LD ItemList
Stripped detective surfacing
- /jobs/[id]: "Sherlock Holmes / Dr. Watson" → "Investigation in progress"
- chat-bubble: detective-named card → neutral "Investigação em andamento"
- quick-launch: 7-kind detective dropdown → single "investigar um caso"
input (kind=case_report hardcoded)
- /bureau: rewritten as the case-file library (no artefact dumps)
Typography + design
- Fraunces variable serif loaded for display headings
(`.font-display` class)
- Gold-amber accent (#e0c080) unified as the brand colour
- Asymmetric magazine grids (1+2+3 column, generous whitespace)
- Hover micro-interactions (image scale on featured case, translateX
on portal arrows)
SEO + GEO
- layout.tsx metadataBase + title.template + per-route Metadata exports
- Organization JSON-LD on root layout
- WebSite + SearchAction JSON-LD on homepage
- CollectionPage + ItemList JSON-LD on every entity list page
- openGraph + twitter cards, pt-BR primary + en-US alternate
- ai:purpose meta tag for Generative Engine Optimization — declares
the site as a citation-linked primary-source archive
- robots: index + follow with large image preview
The detectives themselves remain alive in the backend (runtime, DB, audit
log), but the reader never sees "Holmes / Sun-Tzu / Watson" in the UI. The
next phase will reorient case-writer to write as a single best-seller voice
synthesising all the internal sources.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Luiz Gustavo