agentic-dev/docs/work/conformance-hardening-v1/01-ast-manifest-source/_story.md

id, epic, title, type, status, feature, depends-on, blocks

id	epic	title	type	status	feature	depends-on	blocks
01-ast-manifest-source	conformance-hardening-v1	Replace regex manifest source parser with AST	technical-story	done	core-eslint		02-dev-seed-assertion

Goal

readManifestSource in _manifest-source.js returns the same shape but uses @typescript-eslint/parser AST traversal instead of regex.

In scope

• Rewrite readManifestSource to delegate to a new parseManifestFully in _manifest-ast.js that returns { name, requiredCores, useCases }
• Existing 4 tests for readManifestSource must still pass
• Add tests covering the previously-fragile cases: name: in JSDoc, single-quoted strings, manifest declared with let instead of const

Out of scope

• Changing the _manifest-source.js exports surface (filesystem helpers manifestPathForFeature and featureRootForFile stay untouched)
• Changing any rule's behaviour beyond the parsing path

Tasks

• Epic + story scaffold
• Extend _manifest-ast.js with parseManifestFully
• Switch readManifestSource to delegate to parseManifestFully
• Add edge-case tests
• Verify all rules still pass; commit