catalog-import-merge: dear-reality (new=0 discontinued=9 updated=5)

[jeffreylouden]

Merge plan

Read this first: Dear Reality has been wound down, and this PR retires the whole line.

Dear Reality's own site is sunset. Every one of the 11 catalog URLs under
https://www.dear-reality.com/en-us/products/ now answers 301 and lands on a single
Sennheiser brand page, /en-us/immersive/dear-reality,
which is the only remaining first-party source. That page says, in its own words:

Dear Reality will no longer continue as an independent company.

Dear Reality products will no longer be developed or maintained. To continue using your
purchased plugins without any restrictions, a new installer must be downloaded as the current
license manager will be deactivated on July 31, 2025.

So every entry gets the discontinued category. Two (dearvr-mix-se, dearvr-unity) already
carried it on main and were left byte-for-byte alone, which corroborates the read.

This is the one judgement call in the PR and it is worth a reviewer's attention: the entries all
still match the current listing, so merge-diff's discontinued bucket is empty by
construction. The retirement was driven by the page's explicit end-of-life statement instead,
through a supplementary plan (eol-plan.json) handed to apply-merge-discontinued.ts. Nothing
was deleted, no ID moved, and the category is the catalog's canonical marker rather than a
top-level discontinued: key.

⚠️ Auto-resolved — verify these before merging

The heuristic promoted 16 fields. Nine reached the YAML; the rest were safe-keep or
type/categories, which the apply step skips as non-schema.

• data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-pro-2.yaml field description → applied extracted value
  • reason: prefer extracted (default trust). Gains the full closing clause "that puts you in
    the center of the sound".
• data/software/dear-reality-exoverb-micro.yaml field description → applied extracted value
  • reason: prefer extracted (default trust). Gains "in modern audio production".
• data/software/dear-reality-exoverb.yaml field specs → applied extracted value
  • reason: prefer extracted (default trust). Gains the format bullet (AAX/VST3/AU).
• data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-micro.yaml field specs → applied extracted value
  • reason: prefer extracted (default trust).
• data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-music.yaml field specs → applied extracted value
  • reason: prefer extracted (default trust). Gains the format bullet.
• data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-ambi-micro.yaml field specs → kept existing
  • reason: specs are equal once the list is rendered as a block.
• data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-spatial-connect.yaml field specs → kept existing
  • reason: guard refused a truncated prefix (see Deterministic checks).

Four default-trust promotions were reverted by the review pass, because the live page's copy
is worse than what main already carried. Each is a typo or naming slip on Sennheiser's side,
not a correction:

File	Page said	Kept
dearvr-mix-se.yaml	"to turns your audio workstation"	"to turn your"
dearvr-mix.yaml	"from different manufactures"	"manufacturers"
dearvr-spatial-connect.yaml	"dearVR PRO2 spatializer"	"dearVR PRO 2"
miya.yaml	"for all kind of audio tracks"	"all kinds of"

Reverting the dearvr-mix-se description left that file identical to main, so it is not in
the diff at all.

Buckets

Bucket	Count
new	0
updated	5 (of which 0 have field conflicts)
discontinued	9 (files modified; 2 already marked)
unchanged	0

Auto-resolved by heuristic: 16 field(s) — see list above. Nine files changed in total.

Conflicts requiring human review

None. conflictCount was 0.

url was deliberately not extracted and every entry keeps the one main carries: there is
no per-product page on sennheiser.com any more, only the shared listing page, so re-pointing the
entries would replace a redirecting URL with a listing URL. That decision is filed as a finding
(below) rather than made here.

Deterministic checks

Check	File	Rule	Detail
merge-guard	data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-spatial-connect.yaml	specs	keep: extracted value is a truncated prefix of the existing one (the hand-added "Fully accessible 360° mixing space" bullet survives)
prose-lint	data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-micro.yaml	spelling (details)	flagged: Sennheiser's — possessive form, false positive
prose-lint	data/software/dear-reality-exoverb-micro.yaml	spelling (details)	flagged: EXOVERB's — possessive form, false positive
prose-lint	data/software/dear-reality-exoverb-micro.yaml	spelling (specs)	flagged: EXOVERB's — possessive form, false positive
prose-lint	data/software/dear-reality-exoverb.yaml	spelling (description)	flagged: EXOVERB's — possessive form, false positive
slim-pass	data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-music.yaml	storefront copy	fixed: dropped "available to existing owners through Plugin Alliance" from details, a marketplace availability notice rather than product description
slim-pass	data/software/dear-reality-miya.yaml	missing field	flag: no formats, while eight siblings have one. Neither the entry nor the page names a format, so there is nothing to fill it from. Needs an external source.

supersedes-resolve.ts found no candidates. Scoped pnpm validate --strict-unknown-keys,
unscoped pnpm validate, pnpm validate:translations and pnpm build are all clean for these
files; every ID is preserved.

Data review

• Mode: slim consistency pass (9 entries)
• Auto-fixes applied: 5 (1 slim-pass edit, 4 copy reverts)
• Remaining notes: miya has no formats (see above)

Counts, features and format lists reconcile across description / details / specs on every
entry: AMBI MICRO's 3rd order, MICRO's 5 acoustic materials, MIX's 55 headphone models, MUSIC's
18 reverb scenes, PRO 2's 35 formats / 9.1.6 / 46 environments, EXOVERB's 50 scenes and EXOVERB
MICRO's 8.

Robots

Metric	Value
Hosts crawled	2
robots.txt: ok	8 (rules fetched and applied)
URLs considered	24
Dropped by robots	0 (0.0%)

Findings filed

Outcome	Count
Filed	0
Already open	0
Held back	0
Failed	1

• failed: broken-url:dear-reality:dear-reality-com-sunset

This finding was recorded and not filed, and it needs a person. file-findings.ts exited 0
as designed, but gh issue create was refused with
GraphQL: Resource not accessible by personal access token (createIssue). SUBMISSIONS_GITHUB_PAT
was not set in this run, and the ambient token can read catalog-submissions and create labels
but has no Issues:write. The finding itself: all 11 Dear Reality entries carry a url under the
sunset dear-reality.com, each 301s to the shared Sennheiser listing page, and no per-product
page exists any more. Someone has to choose between leaving the redirecting URLs, pointing all 11
at the listing page, or dropping url. The payload is in
scripts/catalog-import/data/dear-reality/findings.jsonl and can be re-filed by re-running
file-findings.ts with a token that has Issues:write.

Two further products are named in the page's FAQ and have no catalog entry: dearVR MONITOR
and dearVR PRO (the v1 the catalog's dearvr-pro-2 supersedes). They were deliberately not
filed as new-product submissions: both are legacy, neither has a product page anywhere any
more, and a submission that cannot be imported would loop through the maintenance lane forever.
Recorded here so the decision is visible.

Known tooling defect found by this run

scripts/shared/sitemap.ts throws RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded on very large
sitemaps (allUrls.push(...urls) spreading a huge array at line 219). It is what made this
brand's prestage record a failure stub ("reason": "Maximum call stack size exceeded",
platform: "none", 0 products) and it kills discover-urls.ts against sennheiser.com.
Discovery here was done by reading the brand page directly instead. Not fixed in this PR, which
is a catalog data change; it belongs in racks.

Audit trail

• Inventory snapshot: scripts/catalog-import/data/dear-reality/inventory.json
• Merge plan: scripts/catalog-import/data/dear-reality/merge-plan.json
• End-of-life plan (drove the discontinued pass): scripts/catalog-import/data/dear-reality/eol-plan.json
• Extracted envelopes: scripts/catalog-import/data/dear-reality/extracted/
• Page text: scripts/catalog-import/data/dear-reality/pages/ (one file per product, plus the
  brand page, which is what to read to verify a claim offline)
• Findings: scripts/catalog-import/data/dear-reality/findings.jsonl
• Robots ledger: scripts/catalog-import/data/dear-reality/robots.jsonl

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Product Updates
  • Dear Reality software listings are now clearly marked as discontinued, including dearVR, EXOVERB, and MIYA products.
  • Product descriptions and specifications have been refined for clearer information about spatial audio features, reverb scenes, output formats, plugin compatibility, and supported input options.
  • Availability wording has been updated where applicable to reflect current product status.

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• data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-ambi-micro.yaml
• data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-micro.yaml
• data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-mix.yaml
• data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-music.yaml
• data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-pro-2.yaml
• data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-spatial-connect.yaml
• data/software/dear-reality-exoverb-micro.yaml
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• data/software/dear-reality-miya.yaml

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Walkthrough

The changeset retires the Dear Reality plugin line. Nine product records gain discontinued status. Five product records receive updated descriptions or specifications.

Changes

Dear Reality catalog updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Discontinued status metadata .changeset/import-dear-reality.md, data/software/dear-reality-*.yaml	The changeset records nine discontinued plugins. The affected product categories include discontinued.
Product descriptions and specifications data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-micro.yaml, data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-music.yaml, data/software/dear-reality-dearvr-pro-2.yaml, data/software/dear-reality-exoverb-micro.yaml, data/software/dear-reality-exoverb.yaml	Selected descriptions and specifications are expanded or reworded. The dearVR MUSIC availability statement is removed.

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• PR: catalog-import-merge: dear-reality (new=0 discontinued=9 updated=5) #910
• Branch: catalog-import-merge/dear-reality-2026-09-20
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Cycle 1

• Reviewed SHA: a4af9c7cde14ae337a5973b0ac6e130698912665
• CodeRabbit's automatic review was paused on the included-plan limit, so it was re-triggered on demand. It then reported no actionable comments across all 10 changed files.
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• Pushed SHA: none (no edits were required).

Local gate (run against a4af9c7c): lint, validate, validate:translations, format (no diff), build 0 all green. validate-urls --changed-only reports 0 broken, 9 redirected — every dear-reality.com product URL 301s to the Sennheiser sunset page, which is the documented state of the brand and the premise of this PR, not a defect.

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Outcome: clean — 1 cycle, 0 findings applied, 0 skipped.

• CodeRabbit: 0 actionable comments, 0 unresolved threads. The discontinued-category judgement call flagged at the top of the PR body drew no objection.
• CI: green. Required contexts validate and audit both present and passing; no broken-urls label; mergeable: MERGEABLE.
• Local gate: green (see cycle 1).

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