Deleting a post in Decap removes one file: the Spanish original. The German
and Portuguese versions were written by this script, so nothing else deletes
them, and they stayed on the site as posts in a language with no original —
/de/ and /pt-br/ kept listing articles that no longer exist in Spanish.
The pipeline had no concept of removal at all. changed_markdown() filters the
push diff to A and M, so a deletion never reached the translate step; a push
that only deletes posts arrived with no sources and returned early, which is
precisely the case that leaves siblings stranded.
Siblings are now reaped by scanning the content tree for a translated_from
whose source file is gone, which also clears debris from earlier runs and from
renames. A frozen sibling is reported rather than deleted: someone edited that
translation by hand, and throwing the work away on an inference is worse than
leaving one stale page until they remove it themselves. The reaper runs even
when nothing was translated, and commit_and_push stages with --all so a
vanished path commits as a deletion.
Verified: reaps both siblings of a deleted source, keeps siblings whose source
is alive, keeps a frozen orphan, never touches a human-authored original.
16/16 pipeline and 15/15 markdown checks still pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NizVpJ2dwzCbjCrTLCjeHn
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