Collections declare a `fields:` schema in `.collection.yaml`; entries carry
typed metadata (enum/tags/text). New central `metadata_schema` module parses
the schema leniently (INV-3) and validates entry values — advisory at read
(corpus mirror flags violations as `metadata_malformed` without hard-failing),
the enforcement point for the write boundary (edit endpoints land SLICE-4/5).
- app/metadata_schema.py: parse_fields (lenient/normalizing) + validate
- registry.parse_collection_manifest reads `fields:` into collection config
- collections.get_collection unpacks `fields`; served by the collection API
- cache._refresh_collection_corpus validates each entry advisory-only
Non-breaking, opt-in: no `fields:` → unchanged (INV-5); default `document`
collection declares none (N=1 unchanged). No DB migration — schema rides in
collections.config_json. SLICE-2 of
docs/design/2026-06-06-configurable-collection-metadata.md §7.2.
Backend suite green (601 passed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ben Stull
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