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# Module Builder Internals
This document describes module builder behavior in `internal/briefing`.
## Purpose
`internal/briefing` turns report metadata, collected weather data, and derived
forecast facts into prompt-facing module outputs. The package also owns the
module registry used to validate report composition and config overrides.
Module outputs are structured prompt inputs. They are not rendered report prose
and they are not persisted by this package.
## Inputs And Outputs
Inputs:
- resolved report definition, generation time, timezone, and valid period
- collected facts built from `weatherdata.Bundle`
- derived daily, daypart, precipitation, alert, and storm-window facts where
required
- configured units, timezone, and descriptive location context
- typed module options from report defaults or config overrides
Outputs:
- `ModuleDefinition` values with module ID, stanza name, option type,
supported reports, fact requirements, missing-data behavior, and builder
- `module.Output` values for source-oriented stanzas:
`metadata`, `current_conditions`, `narrative_forecast`, `hourly_forecast`,
`alert_digest`, `spc_convective_outlooks`,
`area_forecast_discussion`, and `weather_story`
- `module.Output` values for derived stanzas:
`derived_daily_summary`, `derived_daypart_summaries`, `precip_timing`,
`outdoor_windows`, and `tomorrow_planning`
Every registered composition entry has a builder. Unknown or unimplemented
module IDs fail validation instead of being skipped.
Prompt-facing module values use local, human-readable date and time labels
where the LLM is expected to reason about report content. Canonical timestamps
remain in report metadata, source provenance, and integration artifacts.
## Boundaries
- This package selects and shapes already-collected weather facts for prompts.
- It validates module composition against report compatibility and option
types.
- It does not fetch weather data, compare prior snapshots, write module
snapshots, build YAML data packages, invoke Scriptorium, or write workflow
metadata.
## Config Fields Used
The app layer passes effective units, timezone, and location context into the
module context. `internal/facts` consumes daypart configuration before module
builders run. Configured `location` values are prompt context only; Weather API
`sourceLocationId` and `sourceLocation` remain source provenance.
`area_forecast_discussion` uses optional `sections` configuration to include a
subset of discussion fields.
## External Adapters Used
None directly.
## State Or Manifest Behavior
None. `internal/app` collects module outputs into a `module.Snapshot`, and
`internal/state` persists that snapshot.
## Skip And Resume Behavior
None. Builders either emit a module output, omit optional unavailable data, or
return an error for invalid required inputs.
## Failure Behavior
- Required derived modules return errors when their dependent facts are not
available.
- Module registry construction rejects duplicate module IDs and duplicate
stanza names.
- Composition validation rejects unknown modules, duplicate modules,
incompatible report/module combinations, duplicate stanza names, and invalid
option shapes.
- Source-oriented module builders omit missing optional current conditions,
forecast discussion, and weather story stanzas.
- Alert digest output distinguishes checked empty alert data from missing alert
source data.
- SPC convective outlook output distinguishes checked empty outlook data from
missing outlook source data and omits GeoJSON geometry from prompt-facing
fields.
## Tests
Inspect:
- `internal/briefing/base_modules_test.go`
- `internal/briefing/derived_modules_test.go`
- `internal/briefing/modules_test.go`
- `internal/app/app_test.go`
## Invariants
- Module outputs contain structured weather facts and source context.
- Common metadata includes RunID, report ID, prompt ID, valid period, source
provenance, source hashes, source warnings, and configured prompt location.
- Prompt input packaging and Scriptorium execution remain outside this package.