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commit b9e2849d2c90bbcc4e0544c471ec6318af974c2f
parent c5819828c5a08a52d18e419f10dae3dc4a100ec0
Author: I Mean I'm Just Saying <imeanimjustsaying@kiwifarms.st>
Date:   Mon,  5 Oct 2026 05:22:52 -0400

umtool cues: a cited report site is named as such (it publishes no transcripts), not reported as a missing channel

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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umtool/report-to-video/cues.mjs
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umtool/report-to-video/cues.test.mjs
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11
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2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/umtool/report-to-video/cues.mjs b/umtool/report-to-video/cues.mjs
@@ -208,6 +208,16 @@ export function createCueSource({
 
   async function channelEntry(origin, channelSlug) {
     const corpus = await getJson(`${origin}/corpus.json`);
+    // A cited report site (corpus spec 5, `site.scope: "cited"`) publishes its
+    // reports and the moments they cite — no channels, no transcript shards —
+    // so there are no cues to walk to. Say that, not "channel not found".
+    if (corpus.site?.scope === "cited") {
+      throw new CueLookupError(
+        `${origin} is a cited report site (corpus.json site.scope "cited"): it publishes no transcripts, ` +
+          `so cues cannot be read from it — point the manifest at a full archive or use a local corpus`,
+        { channelSlug, videoId: null, tried: [`${origin}/corpus.json`] },
+      );
+    }
     const found = (corpus.channels ?? []).find((c) => c.slug === channelSlug);
     if (!found) {
       throw new CueLookupError(
diff --git a/umtool/report-to-video/cues.test.mjs b/umtool/report-to-video/cues.test.mjs
@@ -474,6 +474,17 @@ test("a channel absent from corpus.json is reported as such", async () => {
   });
 });
 
+test("a cited report site is named as such: it has no cues to read", async () => {
+  const cited = {
+    [`${ORIGIN}/corpus.json`]: { spec: 5, site: { scope: "cited" }, channels: [] },
+  };
+  await assert.rejects(() => source({ fetchImpl: stubFetch(cited) }).load("chan", "vid1"), (err) => {
+    assert.match(err.message, /cited report site/);
+    assert.match(err.message, /publishes no transcripts/);
+    return true;
+  });
+});
+
 // --- reality check ----------------------------------------------------------
 
 // Opt-in: `LIVE=1 pnpm test:scripts`. The stubs above encode assumptions about a