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
Keep the Pagefind bootstrap path from rewriting the remote sitemap
payload locally when the static JSON file is absent. GitHub-hosted runs
only need the fetched data in memory, and stringifying the 385 MB payload
was exhausting Node during netlify-build.
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.
