feat: add query-events ability as single event query primitive

[chubes4]

Summary

New ability data-machine-events/query-events — the single primitive for all event date queries. Every consumer that previously built its own WP_Query + posts_clauses filters now calls this ability.

Architecture

                    ┌───────────────────────────┐
                    │  query-events ability      │
                    │  (single primitive)        │
                    └─────────┬─────────────────┘
        ┌─────────────────────┼──────────────────────┐
        │         │           │          │           │
   Calendar   Health     Timezone   Encoding    EventUpsert
   Ability    Ability    Ability    Ability     (5 dedup)
              QualityAudit  TicketUrlResync  CLI Trait
              DuplicateDetection

Input Schema

scope, date_start, date_end, date_match, days_ahead,
time_start, time_end, tax_filters, search, geo,
exclude, per_page, fields (all|ids|count), order, status, meta_query

Files Changed (13)

File	Change
EventDateQueryAbilities.php	NEW — the ability class
CalendarAbilities.php	Uses ability instead of EventQueryBuilder
EventHealthAbilities.php	Inline posts_clauses → ability
TimezoneAbilities.php	Inline posts_clauses → ability
EncodingFixAbilities.php	Inline posts_clauses → ability
EventQualityAuditAbilities.php	Inline posts_clauses → ability
TicketUrlResyncAbilities.php	Inline posts_clauses → ability
DuplicateDetectionAbilities.php	Inline posts_clauses → ability (date_match)
EventQueryTrait.php	CLI inline posts_clauses → ability
EventUpsert.php	5 dedup methods: inline posts_clauses → date_match
EventQueryBuilder.php	Deprecated (kept for external compat)
EventQueryAbilities.php	TODO comment (needs date_query support)
data-machine-events.php	Wire EventDateQueryAbilities instantiation

Net: -109 lines — removes more code than it adds.

Verification

• Calendar: 30,404 upcoming events, page 1/113 ✅
• Counts: 30,407 future / 6,351 past ✅
• Health check: 23,243 events scanned ✅
• Date match: 290 events on 2026-04-15 ✅
• Austin (term 1628): 1,422 upcoming ✅

Cross-repo PR

• Extra-Chill/extrachill-events — 7 files refactored to use ability

[homeboy-ci]

Homeboy Results — data-machine-events

Homeboy

Failure Digest

Lint Failure Digest

• No structured lint details available.
• Full lint log: https://github.com/Extra-Chill/data-machine-events/actions/runs/23455789066

Test Failure Digest

• Failed tests: 75
• No structured test failure details available.
• Full test log: https://github.com/Extra-Chill/data-machine-events/actions/runs/23455789066

Audit Failure Digest

• Drift increased: no
• No structured audit findings available.
• Full audit log: https://github.com/Extra-Chill/data-machine-events/actions/runs/23455789066

Autofixability classification

• Overall: auto_fixable
• Autofix enabled: yes
• Autofix attempted this run: no
• Auto-fixable failed commands:
  • lint
  • test
• Failed commands with available automated fixes:
  • lint
  • test

Machine-readable artifacts

• homeboy-lint-summary.json
• homeboy-test-failures.json
• homeboy-audit-summary.json
• homeboy-autofixability.json

⚡ Scope: changed files only

✅ audit (changed files only)

• Drift increased: no

❌ lint (changed files only)

❌ test (changed files only)

Tooling versions

• Homeboy CLI: homeboy 0.85.3+a74a3c7
• Extension: wordpress from https://github.com/Extra-Chill/homeboy-extensions
• Extension revision: unknown
• Action: Extra-Chill/homeboy-action@v2

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