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What and why

Defines the product and technical contract for #512: paged literal search, accessible flock/customer picker behavior, page adoption, row-owned display fields, Sales URL filtering, validation, and the implementation task ledger.

This is the specification-only split of superseded draft PR #640. It intentionally changes only specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/; implementation and shipped user documentation are in the companion code PR.

Refs #512.

Verification

• Requirements checklist: 16/16 complete.
• Spec Kit cross-artifact analysis completed and remediation items 1–3 incorporated.
• Final task ledger records 66/67 complete. T064 remains unchecked and is explicitly deferred as a non-blocking usability follow-up; automated browser coverage is the merge gate.
• git diff --check: clean.
• Diff scope verified: only the 10 feature-spec files under specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/.

Review order

Review this contract first, then the companion implementation PR #642.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Defined requirements for searchable, paginated flock and customer pickers, including keyboard navigation, accessibility, localization, defaults, and selection behavior.
  • Added specifications for exact entity resolution, scoped eligibility, stable paging, safe asynchronous interactions, and page adoption across multiple workflows.

• Documentation

  • Clarified API contracts for nullable display fields and unavailable or inaccessible references.
  • Added implementation plans, research decisions, data models, quickstart probes, lifecycle guidance, and verification criteria.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR defines searchable, paged flock and customer pickers. It adds HTTP, data-model, UI, adoption, lifecycle, accessibility, localization, implementation, and validation contracts. It specifies nullable unavailable references without identifier fallbacks.

Changes

Searchable Entity Picker

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Feature definition and design decisions specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/research.md, specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/plan.md, specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/spec.md, specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/checklists/requirements.md	Defines picker scope, search and eligibility behavior, exact resolution, scoped references, lifecycle ownership, unavailable display states, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
Data and HTTP contracts specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/data-model.md, specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/contracts/http-api.md	Defines read-only projections, pagination, picker state machines, generation handling, admission rules, discovery routes, exact-resolution routes, nullable display fields, and defensive unavailable behavior.
Picker behavior and page adoption specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/contracts/picker-ui.md, specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/contracts/page-adoption.md	Defines typed picker adapters, asynchronous discovery and selection behavior, keyboard and pointer interaction, ARIA behavior, localization, styling, and page-specific lifecycle rules.
Implementation tasks and validation specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/tasks.md, specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/quickstart.md	Orders implementation across user stories and dependencies. Adds validation for paging, exact lookup, missing or inaccessible identifiers, picker behavior, integration, and repository checks.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 90d3f

This specification-only change introduces no actionable merge-blocking risk; it is merge-ready after normal checks and review.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the documentation change and uses the conventional docs: prefix. It is concise and matches the main purpose of the pull request.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains what changed, why it changed, the issue reference, verification performed, deferred work, and review scope. It omits the template's Checklist section and uses `## Verification…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

The description explains what changed, why it changed, the issue reference, verification performed, deferred work, and review scope. It omits the template's Checklist section and uses ## Verification instead of ## How it was verified, but the core information is complete for this specification-only change.

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Actionable comments posted: 9

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Inline comments:
In `@specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/checklists/requirements.md`:
- Line 9: Update the implementation-detail checklist items in the requirements
specification, including the related check at 30-30, so they are not marked
passed while accessibility attributes, grouped lookup rules, canonical URLs,
fixture constraints, or pull-request smoke-suite constraints remain. Either
narrow each criterion to prohibit only unnecessary implementation details or
change its completion status to reflect the existing content.

In `@specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/contracts/http-api.md`:
- Around line 91-98: Align the searchable entity picker contract with the
documented required-reference behavior: ensure unresolved flock and customer
references fail explicitly rather than returning null, and update the related
response declarations, frontend types, and tests to consistently require
flockName and customerName as strings.
- Around line 74-76: Escape the Markdown pipe separator in the nullable response
types for the User flock assignment and Expense list/detail/adjust rows,
preserving each type as string | null in the rendered contract table.

In `@specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/quickstart.md`:
- Line 80: Update the quickstart paging requirement to use the API’s defined
limit/offset terminology: replace “raw server cursor advancement” with offset
advancement, and keep the deduplication and final empty-page checks unchanged.
- Line 104: Add exact-resolution requests to the quickstart validation step
covering a late-sorting ID and missing or ineligible IDs, so the claim that
exact GETs preserve names outside the visible result group is exercised;
alternatively move that expectation to the test section that already covers
exact GET behavior.
- Line 121: Add the exact smoke-suite invocation npx playwright test
specs/named-entity-picker.spec.ts to the FR-055 quickstart instructions,
preserving the existing command context.

In `@specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/research.md`:
- Around line 7-9: Clarify the offset-paging consistency contract in the
specification: either limit the no-skips/no-repeats guarantee to an unchanged
result set and define tests for that scope, or replace offset semantics with a
snapshot/cursor contract that remains stable across inserts, deletes, and name
changes. Keep the existing limit/offset behavior unless adopting the explicit
cursor alternative.

In `@specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/spec.md`:
- Line 113: Update the row-display requirements in the specification to
distinguish entities ineligible for new selection from entities inaccessible for
display: historical references may resolve to names when display access is
permitted, while unauthorized row references must remain excluded and must not
fall back to identifiers. Align the conflicting Story 4 and FR-039–FR-044
wording so the required output for each case is explicit.

In `@specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/tasks.md`:
- Line 114: Resolve the History lifecycle scope consistently: either revise the
History requirement in contracts/page-adoption.md and align T032/T038, or add
the missing History external-ID exact-resolution and unavailable-state tests
plus implementation coverage. Ensure the chosen scope matches the actual
lifecycle and no contradictory task requirements remain.

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• specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/checklists/requirements.md
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• specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/contracts/picker-ui.md
• specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/data-model.md
• specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/plan.md
• specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/quickstart.md
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Inline comments:
In `@specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/spec.md`:
- Around line 173-175: Update the accessible-reference payload preamble to
require the current scoped name and include flock status only where required,
preserving the explicit unavailable label for unresolved or scope-lost non-null
references and avoiding any implication that Feed/Water or Sales customer rows
provide status.

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• specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/data-model.md
• specs/001-searchable-entity-picker/quickstart.md
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