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+# Level 3: Strip Slug Authority from LLM — Design Spec
+
+## Problem
+
+The ingestion pipeline currently asks the LLM to produce full wiki pages including the file path (e.g. `wiki/sources/finbert-huggingface.md`). This causes two classes of bug:
+
+1. **Slug proliferation** — the LLM invents different slugs for the same concept across chunks or runs, producing duplicate pages that diverge in content.
+2. **Unstable paths** — the LLM may shorten, expand, or vary titles, making deduplication via `Resolve` unreliable because the slug mismatch is upstream of the normalizer.
+
+## Solution
+
+Strip slug authority from the LLM entirely. The LLM returns a minimal structured object. The pipeline computes all slugs deterministically from titles using `wiki.Slug(title)`.
+
+---
+
+## LLM JSON Contract
+
+### Output format (per page)
+
+```json
+{
+  "title": "FinBERT",
+  "type": "concept",
+  "subtype": "framework",
+  "domain": "ai-llm",
+  "content": "## Definition\n\nA BERT-based model fine-tuned for financial sentiment...\n\n## Related\n\n- [[Sentiment Analysis]]\n- [[Hugging Face]]\n"
+}
+```
+
+**Fields:**
+
+| Field | Required | Values |
+|-------|----------|--------|
+| `title` | yes | Human-readable title, e.g. "FinBERT" |
+| `type` | yes | `"source"` \| `"concept"` \| `"entity"` |
+| `subtype` | for entity/source | entity: `person\|company\|tool\|model\|framework\|technology`; source: `article\|pdf\|book\|video\|note\|project` |
+| `domain` | no | tag string, e.g. `ai-llm`, `finance` |
+| `content` | yes | Markdown body sections only — no frontmatter, no path |
+
+**Wikilinks in content:** `[[Display Name]]` only. No slug. The pipeline canonicalizes to `[[slug|Display Name]]` in a post-processing step.
+
+**The LLM never writes slugs, paths, or frontmatter.**
+
+---
+
+## Pipeline Changes
+
+### New type: `RawPage`
+
+```go
+type RawPage struct {
+    Title   string
+    Type    string // "source" | "concept" | "entity"
+    Subtype string
+    Domain  string
+    Content string
+}
+```
+
+### New step order
+
+```
+ParseRawPages → BuildPages → Resolve → CanonicalizeLinks → injectSourceRefs → mergeAll → write
+```
+
+### Step descriptions
+
+**`ParseRawPages(output string) ([]RawPage, []string)`**
+Replaces `ParsePages`. Deserializes JSON objects with the new schema. Same truncation-recovery logic as today. Returns `(pages, warnings)`.
+
+**`BuildPages(rawPages []RawPage, sourceSlug, date string) []wiki.Page`**
+Converts `RawPage → wiki.Page`:
+- Computes slug: `wiki.Slug(page.Title)`
+- Computes path: `wiki/<type>/<slug>.md`
+- Assembles frontmatter:
+  ```
+  ---
+  title: <Title>
+  type: <type>
+  subtype: <subtype>        # omitted if empty
+  domain: <domain>          # omitted if empty
+  created: <date>
+  source: <sourceSlug>      # omitted for the source page itself
+  ---
+  ```
+- Concatenates frontmatter + content
+
+**`Resolve(pages []wiki.Page, inventory) []wiki.Page`**
+Unchanged. Normalizes near-duplicate titles to existing inventory slugs.
+
+**`CanonicalizeLinks(pages []wiki.Page, inventory) ([]wiki.Page, []string)`**
+New. Builds a title→slug map from inventory + current batch. Replaces `[[Display Name]]` with `[[slug|Display Name]]` in each page's content. Titles with no known slug are left as-is and returned as warnings.
+
+**`injectSourceRefs`**
+Unchanged. Reads `[[slug|...]]` links (post-canonicalization) to inject back-references.
+
+**`mergeAll → write`**
+Unchanged.
+
+### `pipeline.Run` signature change
+
+```go
+func Run(ctx context.Context, cfg Config, brainDir, content, source string, dryRun bool) (Result, error)
+```
+
+`source` is already passed (it's the display name / filename). A new internal `sourceSlug` is derived from it via `wiki.Slug(source)` before calling `BuildPages`. No API change needed.
+
+---
+
+## Files Changed
+
+| File | Change |
+|------|--------|
+| `ingestion/internal/pipeline/parse.go` | Replace `ParsePages` with `ParseRawPages` + `RawPage` type |
+| `ingestion/internal/pipeline/build.go` | New file: `BuildPages` |
+| `ingestion/internal/pipeline/links.go` | New file: `CanonicalizeLinks` |
+| `ingestion/internal/pipeline/pipeline.go` | Wire new steps; derive `sourceSlug` from `source` |
+| `ingestion/internal/pipeline/prompt.go` | New system prompt + `BuildPrompt` for new JSON format |
+| `brain/schema.md` | Update wikilink format and JSON schema docs |
+
+`resolve.go`, `refs.go`, `backfill.go`, `merge.go` — no changes.
+
+---
+
+## Wikilink Format
+
+- **LLM output**: `[[Display Name]]`
+- **Stored on disk**: `[[slug|Display Name]]`
+- **`CanonicalizeLinks`** converts between the two using the inventory
+
+This matches Obsidian's display-alias syntax that the existing codebase already uses.
+
+---
+
+## Testing Strategy
+
+- `ParseRawPages`: table-driven, cover valid JSON, truncated output, unknown type, missing title
+- `BuildPages`: table-driven, cover slug computation, frontmatter assembly, source page (no `source:` field), entity with subtype
+- `CanonicalizeLinks`: cover known title → replaced, unknown title → left as-is + warning, multiple links in one page
+- Integration test: full `Run` call with mock LLM returning new JSON format, assert no slug duplication across two chunks of the same source
+
+---
+
+## Out of Scope
+
+- Re-ingesting existing pages (user will trigger manually after deploy)
+- Changing the `BackfillRefs` endpoint (already correct, slug-based)
+- Changing the `Resolve` fuzzy-match algorithm