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Resolves #85

A site that narrows a question said the same thing in three places, and the copy on the command line
had nowhere to read from. A run that names none of the narrowing options now takes them from the
stored summaries it read, and standard error says which it took. rainlytics searches --last 7d
against a deployment that narrowed searches to /liju/search/ and /cidian/search/ answers under
that narrowing, and the list stays in lib/analytics/stack.ts alone.

The issue offered two routes. This is the first of them, the command reading the narrowing back. The
second, one declaration both the constructs and the command read, is untouched, and nothing here
adds a home for such a file.

Telling a filter nobody typed from one whose value happens to equal the default is the crux.
rollupRequest fills in a value for every field of every question, so by the time a RollupRequest
exists the two are indistinguishable. RollupAsked.named carries which options actually arrived,
read off context.options before the defaults go in. A typed --path no summary covers is refused
exactly as before.

Where the summaries covering a span were computed more than one way, the command names the option
that would settle it and stops. Adopting one of two narrowings would answer part of the span under a
question the rest never asked, and the rows would look the same either way. Typing the option settles
it, and so does a span on one side of the change. A filter somebody typed still meets the older
refusal, which names every window it disagrees with.

The line rides in the existing summaryReport output, second after the coverage line. It says which
question the rows below belong to, and that belongs with what answered. One block on standard error
also beats two. It prints on the runs that answered, and a run refused for a filter somebody typed
gets the refusal.

One behaviour change to note. A stored summary computed with a smaller --limit than the command's
default used to be refused, and the run now takes the stored count. The refusal stands for a row
count somebody typed.

docs/rollups/#narrowing-a-saved-copy now says the two requests props take the same shape, with
the constant a site passes to both.

New files are src/cli/summary-adoption.ts and src/cli/summary-narrowings.ts. summary-narrowings
is the one place an option name is joined to a field of SummaryQuestion, and refuseAnotherQuestion
moved out of summary-answer.ts next to the adoption. That last move is what kept both files under
the fta score cap.

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  • User-facing behaviour is documented in docs/

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  • New Features

    • Summary commands now inherit stored filters—such as path, host, parameters, redirects, bot inclusion, and limits—when options are omitted.
    • Reports identify which filters were adopted from stored summaries.
    • Explicitly provided filters remain authoritative.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Added clear errors when summaries use conflicting filters or do not match the requested question.
    • Commands now refuse incompatible limits and ambiguous summary selections.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified filter inheritance, compatibility rules, and shared configuration examples.

A site that narrows a question said the same thing in three places. The
`requests` prop on `RollupQueries`, the `requests` prop on
`RollupSummaries`, and the options on every command line reading the answers
back. The third copy had nowhere to read from, so whoever typed the command
repeated what the deployment already declared, and a deployment that changed
its narrowing left every shell alias behind.

A run that names none of the narrowing options now takes them from the
summaries it read, and standard error says which it took. An option somebody
typed is still theirs, and `answersSomethingElse` still stops a run whose
filters no stored summary covers.

Telling a filter nobody typed from one that happens to equal the default is
the whole problem. `rollupRequest` fills in a value for every field of every
question, so by the time a `RollupRequest` exists the two are the same thing.
`RollupAsked.named` records which options arrived, read off the command line
before the defaults go in.

Where the summaries of a span were computed more than one way, the command
names the option that would settle it and stops. That is what a change to the
`requests` prop leaves in the bucket, and taking one of two narrowings would
answer part of the span under a question the rest never asked.

`docs/rollups/#narrowing-a-saved-copy` now says that the two `requests` props
take the same shape, which is the declaration a site can already share.
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Commands now inherit omitted narrowing filters from stored summaries. Explicit filters remain authoritative. The CLI reports adopted filters, rejects inconsistent stored questions, and applies the settled question to limits and answer generation.

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Summary narrowing adoption

Layer / File(s) Summary
Question and option contracts
src/cli/rollup-options.ts, src/cli/summary-question.ts
The CLI records explicitly provided narrowing options and uses a shared NarrowingOption type for question comparisons and stored disagreements.
Stored question adoption
src/cli/summary-narrowings.ts, src/cli/summary-adoption.ts, src/cli/summary-refusals.ts
Stored summary values populate omitted options. Conflicting computed filters and incompatible questions produce refusal errors.
Settled answer and reporting flow
src/cli/summary-answer.ts, src/cli/summary-report.ts
Summary reads use the settled question for validation, row limits, answer generation, and adopted-filter reporting.
Integration coverage and CLI documentation
src/cli/summary-answer.test.ts, src/cli/summary-covering.test.ts, src/cli/summary-help.ts, docs/rollups/README.md
Tests and documentation cover inherited filters, explicit filter precedence, inconsistent summaries, limits, reporting, and shared rollup configuration.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8dedc

When --limit is omitted, the command can retain its default instead of using the stored summary limit, potentially returning results under the wrong row-count constraint. This correctness issue should be fixed before merging; the remaining documentation updates are bounded follow-up work.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RollupCommand
  participant summaryRows
  participant StoredSummaries
  participant summaryReport
  RollupCommand->>summaryRows: Submit requested filters
  summaryRows->>StoredSummaries: Read covering summaries
  summaryRows->>summaryRows: Adopt omitted narrowing values
  summaryRows->>summaryReport: Pass settled question and adopted filters
  summaryReport-->>RollupCommand: Render answer report
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In `@docs/rollups/README.md`:
- Line 606: Update the mixed-narrowing guidance around summaryRows to state that
typing a filter does not settle a span when another covered summary used a
different value; instruct readers to use a span on one side of the configuration
change or use --query.

In `@src/cli/summary-adoption.ts`:
- Around line 103-107: Update the summary adoption flow around
questionDifferences to detect omitted --limit values by exact equality with the
requested/default limit, rather than only using coverage compatibility. Ensure
differing stored limits are included in both adoption and disagreement checks,
including spans containing multiple distinct stored limits, while preserving
existing behavior for explicitly requested limits.

In `@src/cli/summary-help.ts`:
- Around line 59-63: Update the help text describing stored narrowing adoption
to name every supported narrowing option that prevents adoption, explicitly
excluding --redirect-status and --limit; clarify that narrowing options are
available only for rollups where applicable, and state that an explicit --limit
is retained while stored narrowing is adopted.

Apply the same fix in `@docs/rollups/README.md` around lines 576 - 587: The same
incomplete option list appears in the rollup documentation, which omits
--redirect-status.
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A row count is not a narrowing, and treating it as one made a deployment
computing the top hundred print a hundred rows for a bare `rainlytics
pageviews`. The documented default is twenty, and the stored hundred holds
them.

`--limit` now sits apart from the five options deciding which requests were
counted. Those five are taken from the stored summaries where a command line
named none of them. The row count keeps the command's own default, cut to the
shallowest stored window where one of them holds fewer rows than that. A row
count somebody typed is refused as before.

Two windows computed to different depths therefore hold one answer between
them rather than a disagreement, and only the five can be computed two ways
over one span.

Typing a filter no longer settles a span narrowed two ways. The windows
computed the other way refuse it through `answersSomethingElse`, so the
refusal offers a shorter span and `--query` and stops advising the option.

The help text and `docs/rollups/` now name `--redirect-status` alongside the
other four, and say what happens to the row count.
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Thanks, this landed on a real seam. All three are addressed in 9540e74, though the --limit one went the other way round.

On the row count: --limit is not a narrowing, and the fix is to stop treating it as one rather than to adopt the stored value. It decides how much of a ranked answer is printed and leaves what was counted where it was, which is why questionDifferences lets the two overlap in the first place and why docs/rollups/ leaves it out of the line each saved query describes itself with. Adopting a stored 50 would make a bare rainlytics pageviews print 50 rows against a documented default of 20, and the deployment never asked for that. So --limit now sits apart from the five options deciding which requests were counted. Those five are taken from the summaries. The row count keeps the command's own default, cut to the shallowest stored window where one holds fewer rows than that. A row count somebody typed is refused as before.

That also answers the second half of the finding. Stored limits of 50 and 100 covering a default 20 are not a disagreement, and neither are 1 and 5: two windows computed to different depths hold one answer between them, being the shallower of the two. Only the five counting options can be computed two ways over one span now, and storedRowCount in src/cli/summary-narrowings.ts takes the row count.

On the mixed narrowings, you are right and the advice was actively bad. Typing one of the two values sends the run into answersSomethingElse from the windows computed with the other, which is a worse message than the one it started with. computedMoreThanOneWay and the docs now offer a span on one side of the change or --query, and say why typing the filter does not help.

On the option list, --redirect-status is now named alongside the other four in readingASummary and in docs/rollups/, with the row count in a paragraph of its own.

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