Hand-authored and promoted notes skip pipeline.BuildPages, so nothing
quotes their scalars. A title carrying an unescaped ": " yields a block
yaml.Unmarshal rejects, and every consumer that reads frontmatter drops
the note silently — 18 files repo-wide today, up from the 8 in #90.
frontmatter.Lint reports it; frontmatter.Fix quotes only what quoting can
rescue and refuses to return a document that still fails to parse, so an
unfixable file comes back byte-identical rather than half-repaired. Scan
walks a tree and reports an unreadable file as a finding instead of
aborting, so one poisoned note cannot hide the rest.
Sequence items are deliberately left alone: "- foo: bar" is valid YAML
that silently becomes a map, which is a type corruption rather than a
parse failure, and repairing it would rewrite notes that currently load.
task lint:frontmatter # report
task lint:frontmatter FIX=1 # repair in place
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BeAp5LTscnz2W7Ubt4eJ6m
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