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Adds apps/admin/src/editor/engine/slug-machine.ts: a framework-free port of the Ember editor's slug behaviour (generateSlugTask, updateSlugTask, the beforeSaveTask missing-slug path, and the slug-generator service contract), with unit tests. Nothing wires it up yet.

The module's behavior contract (state model, proposal enum, generation/manual-edit/ordering rules, Ember deltas, caller duties) is documented in apps/admin/src/editor/engine/README.md.

What it does

  • loaded({slug, title}) derives the starting mode using Ember's heuristic: a slug that differs from slugify(saved title) is custom, unless the saved title is (Untitled) or ends with (Copy).
  • titleCommitted(title) (title blur) generates a slug through the injected generateSlug port and emits {slug, source: 'generated'}. It skips blank titles, an (Untitled) title when a slug already exists, unchanged titles that already have a slug, and any post in custom mode.
  • slugEdited(input) (manual edit) trims, reverts blank/unchanged input, runs the candidate through the same port, applies Ember's "server only appended an incrementor" guard, then emits {slug, source: 'manual'} and switches to custom permanently.
  • getState() reports status (derived / custom / frozen, computed from lastCommittedTitle, the latest blurred title regardless of outcome), the slug, title (the title the slug was loaded with or last generated from, which drives the same-title check), and pending (a request issued since the last loaded() is in flight). subscribe() listeners receive (state, proposal | null) on every state change, including request start and post load; unchanged proposals carry a reason so a sidebar can reset its input.
  • The machine never persists. Callers route generated/manual proposals through the save queue and decide whether to autosave (drafts) or stage (published/scheduled).

Exported helpers (isCustomSlug, shouldGenerateSlug, normalizeManualSlug, resolveDedupedSlug) are pure and table-tested against the Ember cases.

Concurrency rules

  • Every request takes a ticket; a response applies only while its ticket is still the latest. A later commit, manual edit, or loaded() discards earlier in-flight responses, and loaded() also drops them from pending.
  • Mode is derived, not stored: custom while any manual edit is in flight (so a title blur cannot race it), otherwise a settled mode that only loaded() and an applied manual edit advance. A manual edit that errors, returns empty, or sanitizes back to the current slug leaves the settled mode untouched, in every ordering of overlapping edits.
  • The tracked title advances only when a post loads or a generation applies. A commit that is refused, discarded, or fails leaves it alone, so the next blur of the same title regenerates instead of reading as unchanged.

Wiring contract (caller duties)

  • Pre-slugify the raw title before the generator GET. Ember's slug-generator service does encodeURIComponent(slugify(text)); raw text with characters like a newline 404s on Pro.
  • beforeSaveTask behaviour stays with the save engine: substitute (Untitled) for a blank title before saving, and call titleCommitted for any status when the post has no slug. Title blur itself only drives generation for drafts.
  • Persist proposals through the save queue; do not save a new post on a manual slug edit (Ember defers that to the first explicit save).

Deliberate deltas from Ember

  • Overlapping generator responses apply only while their request is still the latest. Ember tolerates this race (it is the source of "draft has title set with untitled slug" Sentry reports).
  • Within a session the mode is explicit. Ember re-runs the custom heuristic on every blur against the last saved title, so a server-deduplicated slug (hello-2 for "Hello") silently becomes custom and stops following the title. The machine keeps following the title until the post is reloaded, where the load heuristic still mirrors Ember.

Verification

  • pnpm vitest run src/editor/engine in apps/admin: 78 tests, including the stale-response race and the overlapping manual-edit orderings with controlled promise resolution order.
  • pnpm lint and pnpm tsc -b in apps/admin: clean.

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The change adds a slug state machine for the admin editor. It defines slug modes, statuses, proposals, and slug helpers. The machine handles loaded posts, title commits, manual edits, deduplication, stale asynchronous responses, errors, empty results, mode restoration, and subscriptions. Tests cover these behaviors and concurrent request handling.

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A title change can be lost when it overlaps a manual slug edit that later fails or is withdrawn, leaving the slug stale until the title is committed again. The module is not wired into production yet, but this correctness issue should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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- Around line 171-172: Update the slug state machine around the unchanged-title
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Replay the refused title intent after manual failure or withdrawal.

If a manual request is pending, this branch refuses titleCommitted('Changed') and creates no title request. If that manual request later fails, returns empty, or is withdrawn, the machine restores derived mode but does not generate a slug for Changed. Callers receive no generated slug proposal until another title commit occurs.

Retain the deferred title intent and replay it after the latest manual intent becomes inapplicable. Replace the TODO in apps/admin/src/editor/engine/slug-machine.thrash.test.ts Line 211 with regressions for failed and withdrawn manual edits.

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Found one P2 issue in the deferred request queue: a later title blur can silently discard a pending manual URL edit.

At apps/admin/src/editor/engine/slug-machine.ts:431–435 (reviewed commit ef2fbe143f9e89a4ee6da5c14410bff347f630bd), the single deferred slot replaces submissions regardless of their kind. With a slow generator request:

  1. titleCommitted('First') starts generation.
  2. slugEdited('my-custom-url') queues the custom URL.
  3. titleCommitted('Second') replaces that queued manual edit, resolving it as unchanged/stale.
  4. After requests settle, the slug is second and the mode remains derived. The custom URL never reaches the generator.

A later title blur should preserve pending manual intent. Coalescing title and manual submissions separately would address this while retaining request serialization.

I reproduced this against the reviewed commit: all 88 existing tests passed, and an added regression test expecting {slug: 'my-custom-url', mode: 'custom'} failed with {slug: 'second', mode: 'derived'}. Checks ran in isolation using existing local dependencies because fresh setup failed. This module is not wired into the editor yet, so this should be fixed before integration.

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The React editor needs the Ember editor's slug behaviour without its
controller coupling: title blur drives slug generation, manual slug
edits win permanently, and the server's deduplicated result is applied
through the same rules Ember's generateSlugTask/updateSlugTask use.

This lands that behaviour as a framework-free module the save engine
can wire later. The machine only reports proposals; persisting them
stays with the caller so drafts can autosave while published posts
stage the change.

Two deliberate deltas from Ember are covered by tests: overlapping
generator responses apply only while their request is still the
latest, and a deduplicated slug keeps following the title within a
session instead of being re-read as custom on the next blur.
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Two review findings against the concurrency paths. A manual edit
captured the mode at request time and restored it on failure, so when
two manual edits overlapped and the later one failed it "restored"
custom from the earlier in-flight edit and the slug stopped following
the title for the session. Mode is now derived: custom while any manual
edit is in flight, otherwise the settled mode that only load and an
applied manual edit advance.

The tracked title also advanced before generation settled, so a failed
or refused commit made the next blur of the same title read as
unchanged. It now advances only when a post loads or a generation
applies, which also makes same-title retries after an error work.

Listeners are now notified when a request starts and when a post loads
so the pending flag is observable, and the unused isNew field is gone.
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Two review findings against the reported state. The pending flag was a
global in-flight counter, so after switching posts the new post read
as pending until the previous post's discarded request settled. In-flight
requests are now tracked by ticket and cleared when a post loads.

The status field was derived from the title the slug was generated
from, so a blank commit on a derived post still read as derived and a
failed commit on an untitled post still read as frozen although the
next blur would generate. Status now follows the latest committed
title, exposed as lastCommittedTitle, while title keeps its meaning as
the generation source for the same-title check.
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Later title and slug actions could leave obsolete requests valid, and stale completions could publish proposals into the current post. Track cleanup-visible state so superseded work settles without applying or leaking across subscriptions while preserving manual-edit priority.
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Superseded manual slug requests can remain physically in flight, but they can no longer apply and should not block automatic title generation. Derive custom mode only from the latest applicable manual ticket.
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Compared the React machine with Ember behavior and exercised overlapping intents across response orders. Kept intentional parity while fixing bounded races and canonicalization gaps.
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Prevented slow slug responses from overlapping title and manual requests. Retained only the latest deferred submission and preserved active title generation when a queued manual edit is withdrawn.
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Documented the desired ownership, generation, ordering, and observation rules beside the state machine so future changes can be reviewed against one canonical description.
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The slug machine's contract lives in its code and tests, which a maintainer has to trace request by request to learn what the module promises. The README states the observable behavior at one level up: the mode and status model, the proposal enum and what a caller must do with each value, the generation, custom-detection, manual-edit, and ordering rules, the deliberate deltas from Ember, and the duties left to the caller. It is written from the code at head so later changes can be reviewed against it, with one H2 per engine module so other modules can add their sections.
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The README compared the machine to the editor it replaces and named the modules that will consume it, so reading it required knowing both. It now describes only this module's behavior: the sticky custom mode, the (Copy) exception, the dedup guard, and the input reset are stated as rules of the machine, known limitations are stated without attribution, and persistence is described as the caller's responsibility without naming who the caller is.
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