Edits engine

Overview

src/edits.ts has no Obsidian dependency. The caller (main.ts) reads the current frontmatter and body and passes them through one of these functions. It then writes the result back with processFrontMatter for the frontmatter and vault.process for the body and log.md.

• applyConfirm appends the person’s verified event. It normalizes a bare mapping to a list first, never touches a prior event, and removes status: draft. applyStaleAfter sets stale_after, in a separate call made only after the person accepts the proposed date.
• applySendBack sets status: draft. The body edit is separate: appendOpenQuestion creates the ## Open questions heading if absent, or appends under it.
• deleteOpenQuestionsSection removes the whole ## Open questions section, from its heading to the next heading of level two or above, and leaves one blank line where it was.
• applyCorrected replaces generated, appends a verified event, and removes status: draft. It replaces generated rather than appending to it, because generated records who produced the current content.
• applyRetire sets status: deprecated and nothing else.
• applyLater keeps or sets status: draft, and sets stale_after only if a date was given.
• upsertCurationLine finds or creates today’s ## YYYY-MM-DD heading in log.md, and updates the single **Curation** line for that curator that day. parseCurationTally reads a line’s counts back, so the line round-trips: a later verb the same day reads the existing counts before incrementing.
• readCurationTally reads this curator’s running tally for today back out of log.md, bounded to today’s own heading, so the log rather than session state carries the count across a session boundary.
• appendDeprecationLine adds a **Deprecation** line right after the Curation line under today’s heading when a concept is retired.
• repeatedSendBackHint gives the repeated-mistake hint: two send-backs the same day whose notes share their first four words.
• renderCurationPolicyTemplate / renderMissingPlaceholder render the two Step-3 command templates.

Open questions

• 2026-09-10, process:ktl-librarian: no real review session has been run against this bundle yet with these functions - the smoke-test fixtures exercise them, but a live Obsidian vault has not.