changelog(2026-08-02_01): corpora-builder curator fixes — comma tags + fetch no-clobber

Ship note for #76 (tags split on commas) and #77 (fetch stops clobbering
operator metadata), plus the search-queue splash highlight.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018UYTYu4MAFZ7iyr2VTo2kq

Author: mpstaton

changelog/2026-08-02_01_Corpora-Builder-Curator-Fixes-Tags-Split-On-Commas-And-Fetch-Stops-Clobbering.md

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+title: "Corpora builder gets its curator fixes — tags split on commas, and fetch stops clobbering your metadata"
+lede: "Two operator-reported curator bugs, fixed the same afternoon they surfaced: comma-separated tag entries now become separate chips instead of one fused mega-tag, and 'Fetch full content' no longer overwrites the title (and bib) you typed — it fills only empty fields and, when a page can't be read, says so instead of silently resetting the title to the URL. Plus the search-queue feature earns a splash highlight."
+date_created: 2026-08-02
+date_modified: 2026-08-02
+publish: true
+authors:
+  - Michael Staton
+augmented_with:
+  - Claude Code on Claude Opus 4.8
+files_changed:
+  - apps/strategy-curator/src/curation.svelte.ts
+  - apps/strategy-curator/src/StrategyPicker.svelte
+  - services/content-ingest/src/corpus.ts
+  - splash/src/content/feature-highlights/fire-many-searches.md
+tags:
+  - Augment-It
+  - Strategy-Curator
+  - Corpus
+  - Bug-Fix
+  - Tags
+---
+
+# Corpora builder — curator fixes
+
+Two bugs surfaced live while curating the humain-vc theses, and both are fixed.
+
+## Tags split on commas (#76)
+
+Typing `Quantum-Computing, Quantum-Innovations, Computational-Biology` used to
+save as **one** dashed token, because the tag helper treated commas exactly like
+spaces. Now commas (and newlines) are tag **separators**; spaces within a
+segment stay word-joiners. Paste a comma-separated list into either tag field —
+source edit or corpus create — and you get distinct chips, deduped, each
+Train-Case. Suggestion clicks are unchanged.
+
+## Fetch full content stops clobbering your metadata (#77)
+
+"Fetch full content" used to overwrite the title you typed with the fetcher's
+guess — or, when the page couldn't be read, with the raw URL, which also hid
+that the fetch had failed. Enrichment is now **additive**: your saved title,
+publisher, date, and authors are authoritative; the fetch fills only fields you
+left empty and pulls the body. When a page can't be read, it now says
+"fetch failed — could not read the URL" instead of silently resetting.
+
+## Also included
+
+- The async **search queue** ("run several searches at once, no babysitting")
+  earns a curated splash highlight, not just a changelog line.
+
+Both curator fixes reach augment.didi.sh on the next redeploy; already-mangled
+records (one quantum source's tags) were corrected directly the same day.