@timekast/factory 1.23.0 → 1.23.1

package/dist/lib/package-json.js

@@ -258,6 +258,19 @@ export function emptyShippedE2EPort(pkgPath) {
         return 'already-empty';
     if (current !== SHIPPED_E2E_PORT)
         return 'preserved';
+    // 🔴 The VALUE alone cannot tell "the kit's obsolete default" from "the dev deliberately wants
+    // this number". A project whose specs assemble their own origins from this key has to pin it,
+    // and the number it pins back is `3006` — the very one this function empties. Every update then
+    // re-emptied it and the suite broke again, silently, on a re-run of something that had already
+    // been fixed. Worse, the rebuild below DROPS the existing `//e2e` and writes the kit's, so the
+    // reason the dev wrote down disappeared along with the value.
+    //
+    // So the sibling comment carries the intent: the kit only ever writes ITS OWN text there, so a
+    // different one means a human wrote it. That is a decision, and the kit does not overrule it.
+    // Reported by a derivative, 2026-08-14.
+    const comment = block[PORTS_E2E_COMMENT_KEY];
+    if (typeof comment === 'string' && comment !== PORTS_E2E_COMMENT)
+        return 'preserved';
     // Rebuilt rather than assigned in place: an object literal's key order is its insertion
     // order, so this is what puts the comment immediately before the key it describes while
     // leaving every sibling (`dev`, whatever else the project keeps here) where it was. An

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@timekast/factory",
-  "version": "1.23.0",
+  "version": "1.23.1",
   "description": "Public, thin CLI to bootstrap and maintain TimeKast Factory derived projects.",
   "type": "module",
   "license": "UNLICENSED",