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Amends the live smoke's Content API schema layer per #239 so dispatches stop failing on published posts whose rendered body is empty.

Why

Both bootstrap dispatches (32368632595, 32372419243) failed schema-drift because the pinned assertion required a string html for every item, while the live origin has 8 published public posts with html: null — Ghost's Content API behavior for empty-bodied posts (and equally for members-only/paid posts on sites that have them). Empty published posts are mutable editorial content, which the smoke contract requires to be reported, not fatal.

What changed

  • A null html value is tolerated: the item is counted in the resource's items total (pagination totals still reconcile against the API's declared total), increments a new per-resource itemsWithoutHtml count, contributes no structural signature, and never reaches the normalizer or the extractor. Any other non-string html — and a non-object item — remains fatal schema-drift.
  • The job summary gains a Without html column in the per-resource table, so the summary itself is the complete census of empty-bodied content across all pages of both resources. Counts only; no item is ever identified.
  • The empty-census check now keys on structural evidence (signatureCounts.size > 0) instead of item counts: a read whose items are all null-html exercises neither the normalizer nor the extractor and must never become a baseline, exactly like a zero-item read.
  • docs/research/live-ghost-content-api-smoke-contract.md records the amendment with a dated note citing both failing runs and the aggregate classification evidence.

Verification

  • pnpm --filter @tryghost/algolia-html-extractor test — 61 tests across 6 files pass (12 new public-seam cases: mixed null/string pages, per-resource counts, all-null → empty-census, non-string and non-object items still fatal, summary rendering, drift unaffected), plus package typecheck, oxlint, and oxfmt.
  • Root pnpm test, pnpm typecheck, pnpm lint — clean (one unrelated failure comes from a transient .claude/worktrees/ checkout of a separate session that the root vitest glob picks up; the repository's own suite passes fully).
  • No changed or new line is uncovered; the smoke module's branch coverage rose slightly.
  • Privacy assertions extended: mixed and failure summaries are asserted to contain counts and fixed labels only.

Sequencing

Refs #239 — close it only after this merges and a fresh manual dispatch on main returns ok. That green dispatch is also the entry point for resuming #219 (second-maintainer review, baseline, schedule). Rollback is reverting this change; no package release is involved.

Ghost's Content API returns a null html value for a published post with
an empty rendered body, and equally for members-only and paid posts, so
the pinned string-html assertion made every live dispatch fail on
editorial state rather than real drift. Counting such items per resource
keeps the census complete and the summary self-describing, while the
empty-census check now demands actual structural evidence so a read
that never exercised the extractor can still never become a baseline.

Refs #239
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The smoke contract accepts null HTML values, counts them per resource, and excludes them from extraction and structural signatures. Non-null HTML must remain a string. A census must contain at least one HTML-bearing item. Resource summaries include a “Without html” column. Tests cover nullable items, malformed responses, pagination totals, summary output, all-missing-HTML censuses, and baseline comparisons.

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The change narrowly allows published content with empty rendered bodies while preserving failure behavior for other invalid responses; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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- Around line 254-255: Update the description of itemsWithoutHtml to state that
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Comment thread docs/research/live-ghost-content-api-smoke-contract.md Outdated
The aggregate counts every item whose html value is null; on sites with
gated content that includes members-only and paid posts, not only the
empty-bodied public posts observed on the current origin, and the
reporting contract should not promise a narrower classification than
the count can make.
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