T-LF7V-gap-report-strip-path-annotation

Status: closed/superseded · Impact: medium · Complexity: small

Goal

The deterministic touchpoint resolver behind sdlc task gap-report (and the readiness gate) treats a ## Today Location cell that carries a human annotation after the path — e.g. `path` (`table` arm) — as one path token and reports file-missing, even though the file exists and only the trailing parenthetical is annotation. Authors are forced to reshape rows purely to green the gate. This task teaches the resolver to ignore a trailing parenthetical annotation, or to resolve the first backticked token in the cell as the path. Surfaced by T-SCPP-cell-position-preservation in git@github.com:sksizer/markdown-contract.git.

The deterministic touchpoint resolver (sdlc task gap-report) treats a ## Today Location cell of the form `path` (`table` arm) as a single path and reports file-missing, even though the file exists and the parenthetical is a human annotation. The Today row had to be reshaped (annotation moved to the Role column) to pass the gate. The resolver could strip a trailing parenthetical annotation, or the gate could resolve the first backticked token as the path. — from T-SCPP-cell-position-preservation