fix(wiki): normalise heading casing/whitespace before matching in Merge

Page-aware extraction (previous commit) asks the model to revise the
page it's given, but nothing guarantees it reproduces a heading's
exact on-disk text. Before this, Merge matched sections by exact
string equality, so "Key Claims" vs "Key claims" (or trailing
whitespace) silently created a parallel section instead of updating
the original — the drift #106 calls out by name.

Merge's idx map and the bulletSections/appendSections strategy lookup
now key on normalizeHeading (trim + lowercase), so casing/whitespace
drift matches the same section. The on-disk heading's original text
(secsA[i].heading) is untouched and is what gets written out — the
normalized form is used only to decide "is this the same section,"
never to rewrite a human's heading casing.

Touches wiki/merge.go, which is explicitly out of casual-edit scope
per today's review history on this file: justified because heading
normalization is #106's own checklist item and has to hook into
exactly this matching logic — there's nowhere else to put it. Scope
kept minimal: the two lookup sites only, no other behavior in this
file changed. bulletSectionsNorm/appendSectionsNorm exist because
matching a section by its normalized key but then classifying its
merge strategy by exact-string lookup would silently fall through to
"keep a's version" for a case-drifted bullet/append heading — dropping
b's content instead of unioning or appending it.

Closes hyperguild#106.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

ingestion/internal/wiki/merge.go

@@ -66,21 +66,22 @@ func MergeReport(a, b Page) (Page, []string) {
 	var conflicts []string
 	idx := make(map[string]int, len(secsA))
 	for i, s := range secsA {
-		idx[s.heading] = i
+		idx[normalizeHeading(s.heading)] = i
 	}
 
 	for _, sB := range secsB {
-		i, exists := idx[sB.heading]
+		key := normalizeHeading(sB.heading)
+		i, exists := idx[key]
 		if !exists {
-			idx[sB.heading] = len(secsA)
+			idx[key] = len(secsA)
 			secsA = append(secsA, sB)
 			continue
 		}
 		sA := secsA[i]
 		switch {
-		case bulletSections[sB.heading]:
+		case bulletSectionsNorm[key]:
 			secsA[i].content = mergeBullets(sA.content, sB.content)
-		case appendSections[sB.heading]:
+		case appendSectionsNorm[key]:
 			secsA[i].content = appendNew(sA.content, sB.content)
 		default:
 			// a wins — but say that b disagreed, rather than dropping it mute.
@@ -93,6 +94,34 @@ func MergeReport(a, b Page) (Page, []string) {
 	return Page{Path: a.Path, Content: rebuildContent(refreshOwned(fmA, fmB), preambleA, secsA)}, conflicts
 }
 
+// normalizeHeading returns the key Merge uses to decide "is this the same
+// section" — trimmed and case-folded, so "Key Claims" and "Key claims" match
+// (hyperguild#106: heading casing drift must not fork a section). It is used
+// only for that comparison; the on-disk section's original heading text
+// (secsA[i].heading, untouched here) is what actually gets written out, so a
+// human's heading casing is never silently rewritten by a merge.
+func normalizeHeading(h string) string {
+	return strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(h))
+}
+
+// bulletSectionsNorm and appendSectionsNorm are bulletSections/appendSections
+// keyed by normalizeHeading instead of exact text, so a section's merge
+// strategy (union bullets, append) is chosen by the same normalized identity
+// Merge uses to match it — otherwise a heading that matched an on-disk
+// section (case-insensitively) could still fail the exact-string strategy
+// lookup and silently fall through to "keep a's version," dropping b's
+// content instead of unioning or appending it.
+var bulletSectionsNorm = normalizeSet(bulletSections)
+var appendSectionsNorm = normalizeSet(appendSections)
+
+func normalizeSet(names map[string]bool) map[string]bool {
+	out := make(map[string]bool, len(names))
+	for k := range names {
+		out[normalizeHeading(k)] = true
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // generatorOwned names the frontmatter fields the ingest pipeline may refresh
 // on a page it is revising. Everything else on disk wins.
 //

ingestion/internal/wiki/merge_test.go

@@ -305,6 +305,42 @@ Rewritten by the model.
 	assert.Equal(t, want, got)
 }
 
+// --- hyperguild#106: heading casing drift must not fork a section ----------
+// Page-aware extraction asks the model to revise the page it's given, but
+// nothing guarantees the model reproduces a heading's exact on-disk casing
+// ("Key Claims" vs "Key claims"). Without normalizing the match key, that
+// drift silently creates a near-duplicate section instead of updating the
+// original — the failure mode #106 exists to close.
+
+func TestMerge_HeadingCaseDriftMatchesSameSection(t *testing.T) {
+	a := Page{Path: "p.md", Content: "---\ntitle: X\n---\n\n## Key Claims\n\n- Appetite beats estimation.\n"}
+	b := Page{Path: "p.md", Content: "---\ntitle: X\n---\n\n## Key claims\n\n- New pattern holds under load.\n"}
+
+	got := Merge(a, b).Content
+
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, strings.Count(got, "## Key"),
+		"casing drift in the heading must not create a second section")
+	assert.Contains(t, got, "Appetite beats estimation.")
+	assert.Contains(t, got, "New pattern holds under load.",
+		"the differently-cased section's content must still be unioned in")
+	assert.Contains(t, got, "## Key Claims",
+		"the on-disk heading's original casing must be preserved in the output")
+	assert.NotContains(t, got, "## Key claims",
+		"the fresh extraction's heading casing must not overwrite the on-disk display text")
+}
+
+func TestMerge_HeadingWhitespaceDriftMatchesSameSection(t *testing.T) {
+	a := Page{Path: "p.md", Content: "---\ntitle: X\n---\n\n## Open Questions \n\n- Does appetite scale?\n"}
+	b := Page{Path: "p.md", Content: "---\ntitle: X\n---\n\n##  Open Questions\n\n- What about remote teams?\n"}
+
+	got := Merge(a, b).Content
+
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, strings.Count(got, "## Open Questions"),
+		"surrounding whitespace drift in the heading must not create a second section")
+	assert.Contains(t, got, "Does appetite scale?")
+	assert.Contains(t, got, "What about remote teams?")
+}
+
 func TestRefreshOwned_CommentLinesSurviveUnmangled(t *testing.T) {
 	// Third review round on PR #126: parseFrontmatterBlock dropped the
 	// sibling api package's comment guard (strings.HasPrefix(trimmed, "#")).