@pathmode/cli 2.1.0 → 2.1.1

package/dist/index.js

@@ -16379,7 +16379,7 @@ const isGitHubAction = (!!process.env.GITHUB_ACTIONS || !!process.env.INPUT_FILE
 program
     .name('pathmode')
     .description('Pathmode CLI — Intent Engineering for AI product teams')
-    .version('2.1.0');
+    .version('2.1.1');
 // ============================================================
 // validate — Existing command (preserved)
 // ============================================================
@@ -17481,20 +17481,38 @@ exports.READINESS_BLOCKER_DESCRIPTIONS = {
 };
 /** Display order for the gate strip (title first, matching the Preflight page). */
 // ── Confirmation anchoring ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+/**
+ * Remove PAIRED markdown emphasis markers and nothing else.
+ *
+ * The earlier version replaced every asterisk in the text with nothing. That
+ * was wrong in both directions at once: dropping a literal wildcard (`search * patterns` ->
+ * `search patterns`) is a substantive edit that kept its confirmation live, while `_italic_` was
+ * left alone so a formatting-only edit invalidated one. Emphasis needs an opening marker followed
+ * by non-space and a matching closer, so a lone `*` or `_` survives. Looped because markers nest.
+ */
+function stripEmphasis(text) {
+    let prev;
+    let out = text;
+    do {
+        prev = out;
+        out = out.replace(/(\*\*|__|\*|_)(?=\S)([\s\S]*?\S)\1/g, '$2');
+    } while (out !== prev);
+    return out;
+}
 /**
  * Fold away everything that is a rewrite of the same claim, and nothing that is a change to it.
  * NFC because one glyph has two encodings; soft hyphens because editors inject them invisibly;
- * quote/dash folding and markdown emphasis because adding `**` around a word is formatting, not
- * a reword. Lowercased and whitespace-collapsed last.
+ * quote/dash folding and PAIRED markdown emphasis because adding `**` around a word is
+ * formatting, not a reword. An unpaired `*` or `_` is left alone: it is content (a wildcard),
+ * and deleting it silently kept confirmations alive across a real change to the claim. Lowercased and whitespace-collapsed last.
  */
 function normalizeAnchor(value) {
-    return coerceText(value)
+    return stripEmphasis(coerceText(value))
         .normalize('NFC')
         .replace(/­/g, '')
         .replace(/[‘’ʼ]/g, "'")
         .replace(/[“”]/g, '"')
         .replace(/[–—]/g, '-')
-        .replace(/\*/g, '')
         .replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
         .trim()
         .toLowerCase();

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@pathmode/cli",
-  "version": "2.1.0",
+  "version": "2.1.1",
   "publishConfig": {
     "access": "public"
   },