The TypeScript helper refactor exposed a separate production risk: builds can fail when the sitemap-endpoints API returns a transient 5xx during Pagefind index generation. Move that fetch into a small helper with retry logic and add a focused prebuild test so this failure mode is caught without waiting on a full deploy.
Constraint: Must keep Pagefind index generation behavior the same when the endpoint is healthy
Rejected: Ignore the failure as external-only | transient 5xx responses can still block deploys and CI repeatedly
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Reversibility: clean
Directive: When external build inputs can fail transiently, add a small retryable helper plus a direct test before relying on full deploy verification
Tested: pnpm exec vitest run test/prebuild/load-sitemap-endpoints.test.ts; pnpm run typecheck; pnpm run test-prebuild
Not-tested: Full production redeploy completion before push
Add Pagefind indexing and browser search adapters behind a provider switch.
This lets prebuild generate either Stork or Pagefind search artifacts and lets the existing search UI run against Pagefind while preserving scoped filters, excerpts, and result metadata.
Share filter parsing and provider mapping logic between Stork and upcoming search adapters.
This keeps the existing Stork API stable while adding Pagefind-oriented filter serialization under test.
