gacha-event-tracker/.claude/skills/add-game-source/SKILL.md

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add-game-source	End-to-end workflow for adding a new game (or a new source for an existing game) to the event tracker — legal check, fixture capture, adapter, tests, registration, and first ingest run. Use when asked to add a game, add a second source, or wire up a data source for the calendar.

Adding a game source

The design goal is that a new game costs an adapter, a fixture, and a test — no schema change and no client change. If you find yourself editing src/shared/schema.ts or a React component to make a game fit, stop: either the data model is wrong (raise it) or the game is being forced into a shape it does not have.

Read docs/INGESTION.md and docs/DATA-MODEL.md before starting.

1. Legal and conduct check — a hard gate

Before anything else:

• Fetch <host>/robots.txt. Confirm the target path is not disallowed.
• Skim the site's terms for a prohibition on automated access or scraping.
• Prefer an official API or a community wiki with a permissive license over scraping an official site directly.

If the source forbids automated access, stop and report it. Do not write the adapter and do not look for a workaround. Suggest an alternative source instead.

2. Register the game

If this is a new game rather than a new source for an existing one, add it to GameId in src/shared/schema.ts and give it a display name and lane color in the games registry. This is the only schema edit a new game should require. If it needs more, that is a finding worth reporting.

3. Capture a fixture

Fetch the source page once and save the raw HTML:

fixtures/<game>/<source-id>-<YYYY-MM-DD>.html

Everything after this point works offline against that file. Do not re-fetch while iterating on the parser.

4. Build the adapter

Delegate to the adapter-author agent, or do it inline for a simple table source. Either way the requirements are the same:

• parse is pure over its input — no network, no Date.now(). Time comes from ctx.now.
• Reuse an existing parser from src/ingest/parsers/ if the site is already covered — most new sources are a single entry in SOURCES, with no new parsing code.
• Source-timezone → UTC, region offsets, and ID construction happen in the parser's event builder.

The three domain rules that break new adapters, from CLAUDE.md:

1. Everything stored as UTC ISO 8601.
2. Banners are usually one global end instant; story and login events usually end at each region's daily reset. Set regionScoped and regionEnds accordingly.
3. An unstated end date is endsAt: null with endPrecision: "unknown". Never derive a plausible end from typical patch length. A confidently wrong end date is the failure this product exists to prevent.

5. Test it

Write fixtures/<game>/<source-id>-<YYYY-MM-DD>.expected.json with the exact expected GachaEvent[], and a test asserting deep equality with a pinned ctx.now.

Run bun test. It must pass with no network access.

Then hand-check three or four events against the live page. The test only proves the parser agrees with an expected file you wrote yourself; it does not prove either is right. Say in your report that you did this.

6. Wire it up

• Add a SourceSpec entry to SOURCES in src/ingest/adapters/index.ts: id, game, url, parserId, and optionally priority (higher wins when sources disagree).
• Insert the matching sources row: id, game, url, parser_id, priority, min_interval_ms.

7. First run

INGEST_ENABLED=true bun run ingest --source <source-id> --dry-run

Inspect what it would publish before letting it write. Then run for real and check the review queue at http://127.0.0.1:$ADMIN_PORT/review — a new source commonly lands events in quarantine on its first pass, because nothing corroborates it yet. That is the gate working, not a bug. Review and approve them.

Checklist

• robots.txt and ToS permit it
• Game registered in GameId (new games only)
• Fixture captured, page fetched exactly once
• Adapter implemented; parse pure, no clock access
• Timestamps UTC; regionScoped correct; unstated ends are null
• Expected-output file + passing test, offline
• Manually spot-checked against the live page
• Registered in SOURCES and the sources table
• Dry run inspected, then real run, then quarantine reviewed

When something does not fit

Report it rather than working around it. A game with a fourth server region, an event type the enum lacks, or a source that publishes only relative dates ("starts next Tuesday") are all real possibilities the current model does not cover. Those are design questions, not adapter bugs — say what you found and what it would take.