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Connor JohnstoneandClaude Opus 5 185b45dbfc Add the prune rule, its tests, and a corpus validator
The rule PLAN.md describes and the rationale it gives for that rule
disagree on one shape that turns out to be common. 235 checkboxes in the
corpus sit under a plain bullet used as a group label, and by the letter
of the rule those have no checkbox ancestor, so a finished one would be
dropped on its own. But section 4 already argues the opposite case for
checkbox parents: a finished item under an unfinished group is context,
not cruft, and a label like `- Trellis "Ergonomics" Fixes` is a group in
every sense that matters.

Resolved in favour of the rationale, which collapses both cases into one
rule. A top-level bullet is any bullet with no bullet ancestor in its
section. It is dropped, with its subtree, exactly when that subtree holds
at least one checkbox and all of them are [x]. Prose bullets hold none and
so are never eligible, which is the property section 4 wanted.

Validated across all 228 notes with zero invariant failures: no heading,
no unfinished item and no checkbox-free subtree is ever removed, and no
group label is left with its children gone. 270 lines would be dropped
across 118 files.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PU5ZFfQFtDTFqqhvMTWdGH
2026-09-09 18:30:29 -04:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Prune completed work out of a daily note.
A top-level bullet is one with no bullet ancestor in its section; headings reset
scope. Such a bullet is dropped, with its whole subtree, exactly when the
subtree contains at least one checkbox and every one of them is [x].
That single rule covers both shapes that occur in practice. `- [x] Climb` is a
subtree of one and goes. A group, whether its label is `- [ ] Add OpenID` or a
plain `- Trellis "Ergonomics" Fixes`, survives entire until its last child is
checked, because a finished item under an unfinished group is context rather
than cruft. Prose bullets hold no checkboxes and so are never eligible at all.
"""
import argparse
import re
import sys
BULLET = re.compile(r"^(\s*)([-*+])\s+(?:\[(.)\]\s+)?(.*)$")
HEADING = re.compile(r"^#{1,6}\s")
FENCE = re.compile(r"^\s*```")
DONE = "x"
class Line:
__slots__ = ("text", "indent", "is_bullet", "state", "is_heading", "in_fence")
def __init__(self, text):
self.text = text
self.is_heading = bool(HEADING.match(text))
self.in_fence = False
m = BULLET.match(text) if text.strip() else None
if m:
self.is_bullet = True
self.indent = len(m.group(1))
self.state = (m.group(3) or "").lower() or None
else:
self.is_bullet = False
self.indent = len(text) - len(text.lstrip())
self.state = None
def parse(text_lines):
out = []
fence = False
for t in text_lines:
ln = Line(t)
if FENCE.match(t):
fence = not fence
ln.in_fence = True
elif fence:
ln.in_fence = True
if ln.in_fence:
ln.is_bullet = False
ln.is_heading = False
out.append(ln)
return out
def subtree_end(lines, i):
"""Last index of the subtree rooted at bullet i, wrapped continuation lines included."""
base = lines[i].indent
last = i
j = i + 1
while j < len(lines):
ln = lines[j]
if ln.in_fence or ln.is_heading:
break
if not ln.text.strip():
j += 1
continue
if ln.indent <= base:
break
last = j
j += 1
return last
def top_level_bullets(lines):
"""Indices of bullets that have no bullet ancestor within their section."""
stack = []
for i, ln in enumerate(lines):
if ln.in_fence:
continue
if ln.is_heading:
stack = []
continue
if not ln.is_bullet:
continue
while stack and stack[-1] >= ln.indent:
stack.pop()
if not stack:
yield i
stack.append(ln.indent)
def dropped_indices(lines):
drop = set()
for i in top_level_bullets(lines):
end = subtree_end(lines, i)
states = [
lines[j].state
for j in range(i, end + 1)
if lines[j].is_bullet and lines[j].state is not None
]
if states and all(s == DONE for s in states):
drop.update(range(i, end + 1))
return drop
def prune(text):
lines = parse(text.split("\n"))
drop = dropped_indices(lines)
return "\n".join(l.text for k, l in enumerate(lines) if k not in drop)
def main():
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
ap.add_argument("file", nargs="?", help="note to prune, default stdin")
a = ap.parse_args()
src = open(a.file).read() if a.file else sys.stdin.read()
sys.stdout.write(prune(src))
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()