Calibrated against fresh probes once Interpreter returned real langdetect
confidence: genuine German detected at 1.0, a correctly-detected but ambiguous
latin string at 0.86. Set _MIN_LATIN_CONFIDENCE to 0.80 (below that band) so
legitimate ambiguous non-English still translates while genuinely-unsure guesses
are rejected. Real langdetect also fixed the original mis-flag at the source, so
this floor is a safety net, not the primary fix. Pin 0.86-accepted in the gate
test to guard against bumping the floor back up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CgZP9v2otxVJymiYsnVuMy
Interpreter now returns a real per-detection confidence (source stays "auto"),
so curator can reject the mis-detections it was blindly storing — e.g. a short
English title mis-labelled as German and rewritten into the archive.
The gate consumes ONLY Interpreter's own reported detection — curator does no
language detection of its own (Scribe rule 133): a field is stored when the
engine actually translated it AND either the detected language is CJK
(script-detected, reliably high — ja/ko/zh trusted outright, incl. pure-kanji
Japanese that lands as zh ~0.75) or the reported confidence clears a
latin-script floor (_MIN_LATIN_CONFIDENCE = 0.90). A latin detection below the
floor keeps the original and marks the post handled; a missing confidence fails
open. The client already sent source="auto" and parsed confidence, so this is
purely the gate + tests.
Tests: pinned interpreter-client test now asserts source stays "auto"; new
pure-unit gate tests (CJK trusted / latin floor / case-insensitive / fail-open)
in the fast lane; end-to-end reject-low-latin, accept-high-latin,
accept-low-cjk sweeps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CgZP9v2otxVJymiYsnVuMy