Session 57: Phase 0 — Kill the Lies (2309 tests)

Work-order Phase 0 (Jul 10 live audit): every fabricated UI element deleted
or rewired to real data. Deletion sprint — no new product features.

0.1 Fake NBA game: root cause was scheduleService fetching the ESPN
    scoreboard with no ?dates= param or date filter — off-season ESPN
    returns the NEAREST slate (Jun 13 NYK@SA Finals rendered as tonight).
    Now pinned to the requested ET date + defensive filter; undated events
    dropped. Honest month-aware per-sport empty states (lib/emptyState.js).
0.2 Fake header counters: liveTick stripped to a bare 1s pulse (the
    auto-incrementing "247 graded", sin-driven brain-%, aPlus/cascades are
    dead). New GET /api/snapshot/summary (cache-only, before /:sport) +
    Next proxy; HeartbeatBar shows the real graded count and SYNC =
    elapsed since the last pipeline run (amber past 5 min).
0.3 Ticker: hardcoded fallback items deleted (real snapshot exhaust only);
    MOVE kept — computeLineDeltas is real movement. <4 real items → no
    ticker; bar publishes --ticker-h so the fixed header collapses cleanly.
0.4 /terminal retired: route redirects to /dashboard; VVI/injury-wire/
    leaders layouts preserved unrouted as §12 content-engine templates.
    Nav PRIMARY = Slate/Scan/Ledger; BottomTabBar Terminal→Explore; PWA
    shortcut Terminal→Ledger; #terminal alias → /dashboard.
0.5 ›Query nav pill deleted (duplicate /scan link).

Backend 2289 → 2309 tests (199 suites), web build exit 0.
Spec: specs/phase-0-kill-the-lies.md. Next: work-order Phase 1 (ledger
persistence + settlement).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

web/src/lib/emptyState.js

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/* ============================================================
+   Session 57 (Phase 0) — honest per-sport empty-slate copy (spec §6).
+
+   A sport with zero games must say WHY instead of showing a fixture game or
+   passive "waiting" language. Month-aware: an off-season sport names its
+   return window; an in-season sport calls it an off-day. CommonJS so both the
+   .tsx surfaces (allowJs) and the plain-JS Jest suite can load it.
+   ============================================================ */
+
+// Off-season months per sport (0-indexed). Deliberately conservative: only
+// months where the league is CERTAINLY dark, so an early/late season edge day
+// reads as an off-day rather than falsely claiming the league is done.
+const OFF_SEASON = {
+  nba: { months: [6, 7, 8], returns: 'October' },        // Jul–Sep
+  wnba: { months: [10, 11, 0, 1, 2, 3], returns: 'May' }, // Nov–Apr
+  mlb: { months: [11, 0, 1], returns: 'spring' },         // Dec–Feb
+};
+
+const LABEL = { nba: 'NBA', wnba: 'WNBA', mlb: 'MLB', soccer: 'Soccer' };
+
+/**
+ * Copy for an empty slate. `sport` is lowercase ('nba'|'wnba'|'mlb'|'soccer'
+ * |'all'); anything else falls back to the generic line.
+ * Returns { title, body }.
+ */
+function emptyStateCopy(sport, date = new Date()) {
+  const sp = String(sport || '').toLowerCase();
+  const month = date.getMonth();
+
+  const off = OFF_SEASON[sp];
+  if (off && off.months.includes(month)) {
+    return {
+      title: `${LABEL[sp]} returns in ${off.returns}.`,
+      body: 'The offseason board is dark. The model is running the live slates in the meantime.',
+    };
+  }
+  if (LABEL[sp]) {
+    return {
+      title: `No ${LABEL[sp]} games today.`,
+      body: 'Off-day. The board refills with the next slate.',
+    };
+  }
+  return {
+    title: 'No games on the board today.',
+    body: 'The board refills with the next slate.',
+  };
+}
+
+module.exports = { emptyStateCopy, OFF_SEASON };

web/src/lib/liveTick.js

@@ -1,16 +1,22 @@
 /* ============================================================
    VYNDR 2.0 — living-layer tick engine (§8).
-   ONE interval, many subscribers (fan-out). Drives HeartbeatBar,
-   LiveNumber, NeuralBrain. Plain CommonJS so the React hook imports it
+   ONE interval, many subscribers (fan-out). Drives HeartbeatBar's
+   elapsed-since-snapshot clock. Plain CommonJS so the React hook imports it
    AND Jest drives it manually via tick().
 
    Does NOT auto-start on import (would run in SSR/tests). The React hook
    calls start() on mount; tests call tick() directly. Animations are gated
    behind reduced-motion in the CSS layer (Session 33), not here — the tick
    only updates data.
+
+   Session 57 (Phase 0) — the fake counters are DEAD. This used to carry a
+   cosmetically auto-incrementing graded count, a sin-driven brain-%, and
+   invented aPlus/cascades counts. All deleted: real numbers now come from
+   /api/snapshot/summary (see LiveLayer). The tick survives ONLY as the 1s
+   re-render pulse. Do not add display data back here.
    ============================================================ */
 
-const INITIAL = { tick: 0, graded: 247, neural: 96, aPlus: 6, cascades: 11 };
+const INITIAL = { tick: 0 };
 
 const liveTick = {
   listeners: new Set(),
@@ -28,17 +34,7 @@ const liveTick = {
 
   /** Advance one tick. New state object so React subscribers re-render. */
   tick() {
-    const prev = this.state;
-    const t = prev.tick + 1;
-    this.state = {
-      tick: t,
-      // graded count creeps up roughly every ~7s
-      graded: prev.graded + (t % 7 === 0 ? 1 : 0),
-      // neural % "breathes" 90–98 deterministically (sin-driven, test-safe)
-      neural: 94 + Math.round(Math.sin(t / 3) * 4),
-      aPlus: prev.aPlus + (t % 23 === 0 ? 1 : 0),
-      cascades: prev.cascades,
-    };
+    this.state = { tick: this.state.tick + 1 };
     this._notify();
     return this.state;
   },

web/src/lib/routes.js

@@ -26,12 +26,13 @@ const GATED_ROUTES = [
 ];
 
 /* Open — reachable without auth (marketing + the free funnel + auth itself). */
+/* Session 57 (Phase 0): '/terminal' removed — the route now server-redirects
+   to /dashboard (fabricated surface retired), so it needs no gate exemption. */
 const OPEN_ROUTES = [
   '/',
   '/dashboard',
   '/slate',
   '/scan',
-  '/terminal',
   '/compare',
   '/game',
   '/pricing',
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ const HASH_ALIASES = {
   '#slate': '/dashboard',
   '#dashboard': '/dashboard',
   '#scan': '/scan',
-  '#terminal': '/terminal',
+  '#terminal': '/dashboard', // retired surface (Session 57) — old links land on the slate
   '#compare': '/compare',
   '#ledger': '/ledger',
   '#tracker': '/tracker',