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>
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