Quote uid in frontmatter and add uid validation

Write uids as quoted strings in frontmatter across event scripts and update tests to expect quoted uids.

Fixes issue where some UIDs gets interpreted as a number written in scientific notation causing a build fail (#49)

Author: SableRaf

.github/scripts/assign-event-uids.mjs

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ for (const { mpath, meta } of metadatas) {
     // Insert uid line after the id line in the frontmatter
     const updated_content = content.replace(
       /^(---\nid: [^\n]+\n)/m,
-      `$1uid: ${uid}\n`
+      `$1uid: "${uid}"\n`
     );
     await fs.writeFile(contentPath, updated_content);
   } catch {

.github/scripts/process-edit-event-issue.mjs

@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ async function main() {
     const markdownLines = [
       '---',
       `id: ${eventId}`,
-      ...(uid ? [`uid: ${uid}`] : []),
+      ...(uid ? [`uid: "${uid}"`] : []),
       '---',
       '',
       fullDescription,

.github/scripts/process-edit-event-issue.test.mjs

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ const EXISTING_META = {
   intake: { issue_number: 99, submitted_by_github: 'olduser', submitted_date: '2026-01-01', maintainer_notes: '' },
 };
 
-const EXISTING_CONTENT = `---\nid: ${TEST_EVENT_ID}\n---\n\nOld content here.\n`;
+const EXISTING_CONTENT = `---\nid: ${TEST_EVENT_ID}\nuid: "abc1234"\n---\n\nOld content here.\n`;
 
 function makeEventPayload(body, { number = 10, login = 'edituser' } = {}) {
   return JSON.stringify({
@@ -228,6 +228,14 @@ describe('process-edit-event-issue', () => {
     assert.equal(content, EXISTING_CONTENT, 'content.md should be unchanged when full_description is blank');
   });
 
+  test('full_description provided rewrites content.md with quoted uid', async () => {
+    const { outputs } = await runScript(makeValidEditBody(), { tmpDir, number: 16 });
+    assert.equal(outputs.valid, 'true');
+
+    const content = await fs.readFile(path.join(TEST_EVENT_DIR, 'content.md'), 'utf8');
+    assert.match(content, /^uid: "[0-9a-f]{7}"$/m, 'content.md uid must be quoted');
+  });
+
   test('all activities unchecked preserves existing event_activities', async () => {
     const body = makeValidEditBody({ activities: '- [ ] Live coding\n- [ ] Exhibition\n' });
     const { outputs } = await runScript(body, { tmpDir, number: 12 });

.github/scripts/process-new-event-issue.mjs

@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ async function main() {
   const markdownLines = [
     '---',
     `id: ${eventId}`,
-    `uid: ${uid}`,
+    `uid: "${uid}"`,
     '---',
     '',
     ...(fullDescription ? [fullDescription, ''] : []),

.github/scripts/process-new-event-issue.test.mjs

@@ -193,11 +193,19 @@ describe('process-new-event-issue', () => {
       eventId,
       'metadata.json'
     );
+    const contentPath = path.join(
+      path.resolve(SCRIPTS_DIR, '../..'),
+      'pcd-website/src/content/events',
+      eventId,
+      'content.md'
+    );
     try {
       const meta = JSON.parse(await fs.readFile(metaPath, 'utf8'));
       assert.equal(meta.id, eventId);
       assert.match(meta.uid, /^[0-9a-f]{7}$/);
       assert.equal(meta.event_name, 'PCD @ Test City');
+      const contentMd = await fs.readFile(contentPath, 'utf8');
+      assert.match(contentMd, /^uid: "[0-9a-f]{7}"$/m);
     } finally {
       // Clean up the generated event dir
       await fs.rm(path.join(

AGENTS.md

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ No install needed — `open-location-code` is already available at `pcd-website/
 Event data lives in `src/content/events/<event-id>/`:
 - `metadata.json` — event fields (id, uid, name, location, dates, organizers, etc.)
 - `content.md` — markdown body (frontmatter must include `id:` and `uid:`)
+  - `uid:` values in frontmatter **must always be quoted** (`uid: "abc1234"`) because unquoted hex strings like `1e46977` are parsed as scientific notation by YAML, destroying the value.
 
 `src/lib/nodes.ts` loads all events at Astro build time using `import.meta.glob()` + `getCollection('events')`, validates plus codes with `OpenLocationCode`, decodes lat/lng, and returns a sorted `Node[]` array passed as props to `<MapView>`.
 

pcd-website/src/content.config.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ const events = defineCollection({
   type: 'content',
   schema: z.object({
     id: z.string(),
-    uid: z.string(),
+    uid: z.string().regex(/^[0-9a-f]{7}$/),
   }).passthrough(),
 });