Description

Remove spent one-shot repair/split scripts (repair_dave_thomas{,2015}, manual_split_dave, split_erik{,_advanced}, restructure{dean_wampler,erik_meijer}, fix_gary_flip — ~494 lines, each named after a single person/event with the fix already baked into the data) and the zdots platform CLI vendored into this repo (bin/zdots-brain-{local,debug}, ~818 lines, hard-coding /Users/mike absolute requires — belongs in the zdots repo, not the site). Resolve the three stale Rakefile tasks pointing at missing scripts (generate_interview_pages, generate_video_asset_pages, generate_interview_taxonomy_pages). Foundation cleanup from the ponytail audit; unblocks a clean base for the rest of the pipeline.

Acceptance Criteria

• #1 The 8 named one-shot scripts are removed from bin/
• #2 bin/zdots-brain-local and bin/zdots-brain-debug are removed (or relocated to the zdots repo)
• #3 The three stale Rakefile tasks are removed or repaired to point at real scripts
• #4 rake build and the test suite are green after removal

Implementation Plan

TASK-241 Implementation Plan — retire spent one-shot + vendored scripts

Verified deletion set

git grep on each basename found NO references outside the file’s own body and backlog/ docs (_site/ is git-ignored build output). Safe to delete.

One-shot repair/split scripts (8) — git rm:

• bin/repair_dave_thomas.rb
• bin/repair_dave_thomas_2015.rb
• bin/manual_split_dave.rb
• bin/split_erik.rb
• bin/split_erik_advanced.rb
• bin/restructure_dean_wampler.rb
• bin/restructure_erik_meijer.rb
• bin/fix_gary_flip.rb

Vendored zdots CLI (2) — git rm: zero references anywhere in repo; both hard-code require_relative "/Users/mike/.config/zsh/lib/zdots/..." (belongs in the zdots repo, not the site):

• bin/zdots-brain-local
• bin/zdots-brain-debug

Rakefile changes (single file: /Users/mike/github.com/just3ws/just3ws.github.io/Rakefile)

Confirmed on disk: generate_interview_pages.rb, generate_video_asset_pages.rb, generate_interview_taxonomy_pages.rb are all MISSING (replaced by the InterviewGenerator / VideoAssetGenerator / TaxonomyGenerator Jekyll plugins).

• Remove the three orphan task definitions at lines 62-72: task :interview_pages, task :video_pages, task :taxonomy (each sh’s a missing script).
• Remove the three commented-out references in the generate:all array at lines 37-39 (# :interview_pages, # :video_pages, # :taxonomy).

Order

1. git rm the 10 files (one command).
2. Edit Rakefile: delete task blocks (62-72) and the 3 comment lines (37-39); leave all surrounding tasks untouched.
3. bundle exec rake build (runs generate:all + jekyll build) then bundle exec rspec.
4. rake -T sanity check — no dangling task references remain.

Commands

git rm bin/repair_dave_thomas.rb bin/repair_dave_thomas_2015.rb bin/manual_split_dave.rb \
  bin/split_erik.rb bin/split_erik_advanced.rb bin/restructure_dean_wampler.rb \
  bin/restructure_erik_meijer.rb bin/fix_gary_flip.rb bin/zdots-brain-local bin/zdots-brain-debug
# then edit Rakefile (lines 37-39 comments + 62-72 task defs)
bundle exec rake build && bundle exec rspec

Surprises / risks (low)

• The three stale rake tasks are ALREADY commented out of generate:all (lines 37-39), so the task definitions at 62-72 are pure dead code never invoked by any pipeline — removal is zero functional risk.
• OVERLAP WITH TASK-242 (DAG-ordering note): repair_dave_thomas.rb, restructure_dean_wampler.rb, restructure_erik_meijer.rb also contain direct http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 LLM calls, so they surface in TASK-242’s git grep "8080/v1" sweep. They are DELETED here, not routed. Sequence: run/scope 241 first (or independently) so 242 does not attempt to route files that are about to be removed. 242’s own target list does not include these three.
• No docs reference any of the 10 deleted files (verified — docs only mention forensic_restructure and bin/archive/pipeline.rb, which are NOT in this deletion set). No doc edits needed.

Verify (AC #4)

• bundle exec rake build green and bundle exec rspec green after removal.
• git grep for each deleted basename returns nothing outside backlog/.
• rake -T lists tasks with no reference to the removed generators.

Comments

author: claude created: 2026-07-04 14:47 — Executed: git rm on all 10 files (8 one-shots + 2 vendored zdots CLIs), removed Rakefile lines 37-39 (commented generate:all refs) and the three orphan task defs (interview_pages/video_pages/taxonomy). Verified: rake -T has no dangling refs, rake build green, rspec 53 examples / 0 failures. Changes are STAGED/working-tree only — NOT committed, awaiting review before commit. —

author: claude created: 2026-07-04 14:53 — Committed to master as 8b922e9 (not pushed). Working tree clean; build + tests green. Done. —

Definition of Done

• #1 AC criteria is completed and the change has been verified