Upgrade decision UX and expand verified catalog

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What changed

• Expanded the verified public catalog from 257 to 266 universities, 1,152 to 1,211 programs, 332 to 355 scholarships, and 60 to 62 cities.
• Added decision-first program and scholarship cards, application summary panels, removable URL filter chips, responsive advanced filters, dual pagination, and bounded city detail rendering.
• Added deterministic SEO indexability gates so thin identities remain reachable but stay out of sitemap and search indexing until complete.
• Unified university, program, scholarship, city, metadata, and sitemap reads on the Catalog repository path.
• Hardened catalog pagination with single-query JSON/D1-v3/Shadow cursor page indexes; malformed histories disable previous navigation without replaying the cursor chain.
• Quarantined group-only application routes and prevented historical 2021 fees, duration, language, and funding facts from appearing as current values.
• Updated the README and added a source-backed expansion audit and design record.

Why

The platform needs to scale as a trustworthy international-student decision tool rather than a large but shallow record dump. This release increases regional breadth while making deadline, fee, application-route, source, freshness, and uncertainty semantics clearer and safer.

Validation

• npm run lint
• npm run typecheck
• npm test — 108 files / 572 tests
• npm run validate:data
• npm run validate:d1
• npm run validate:manifests
• npm run validate:maintenance
• npm run validate:double-first-class
• npm run check:program-coverage:strict — 266/266 universities covered, 0 semantic duplicates
• ingestion, entity-materializer, publisher, and release-builder Worker tests
• Catalog Worker dry-run
• npm run build — 1,109 generated pages
• npm run test:e2e — 38/38 desktop and mobile Chromium scenarios

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated (UTC)
studyinchina	Ready	Preview	Aug 8, 2026 2:41am