The entity name keys a role's instance directory, its compose project and its container name, and was derived only by stripping the longest matching category prefix. Two roles under different categories whose names share a suffix therefore collapse onto one entity and overwrite each other's rendered stack, which no provides: can repair.
A literal entity_name in vars/main.yml now wins over the derivation. web-app-seaweedfs-console takes its shorter name back and declares the entity seaweedfs-console, which frees the seaweedfs key in its own services map for the engine consumer and removes the provides:, covers: and alias entries that stood in for it. A new lint pairs the declaration with the primary key it has to match, because a drift between them would drop the role from the provider set in silence.
Compared across all 288 roles, exactly one entity changes, and it restores what main already keeps on disk, so no instance directory moves.
The function and the filter lose their get_ prefix. Two lints read that prefix as the discriminator between the variable and the filter that fills it; both discriminate on the pipe now. Ansible's templar resolves a filter and a same-named variable independently, verified against ansible-core 2.20.2.
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categories.yml moves from roles/ to the repository-root meta/, joining packages.yml. utils/roles/categories.py owns its location plus the tree-walking helpers that were stranded in entity/name.py, so no caller spells the path or duplicates the lookup.
meta/distros.yml becomes the SPOT for every distribution: os_family, Galaxy platform name, dev-environment base image, and the pkgmgr/pkgmgr-virgin/environment reference templates. It replaces seven scattered copies (DISTRO_FAMILY, VALID_DISTROS, _DISTROS, _CANONICAL_PLATFORMS, two shell arrays, a Makefile literal). INFINITO_DISTROS is no longer a static default but generated by utils/env/handlers/infinito/distros.py; the shell consumers read it through the env layer.
Drops dead CLI surface found along the way: --categories-file and --roles-dir on the provision CLI plus three unused parameters of generate_dynamic_inventory, and the positional roles_file of the invokable categories command.
tests/lint/repository/test_distros_spot.py pins the copies that cannot call the SPOT (workflow literals, docs table) and forbids composing a pkgmgr reference outside it.
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get_entity_name('svc-runner') returned '' because the exact-match branch short-circuited on the category path 'svc-runner' before the shorter 'svc-' prefix could strip. The empty entity produced an empty swarm stack name (docker stack deploy "") and SERVICE_NAME '_' in the swarm convergence probe ('no such service: _' -> timeout). Record the exact match as a fallback and keep scanning so a shorter category prefix wins; simulated across all 254 roles, only svc-runner changes ('' -> 'runner').
Re-key roles/svc-runner/meta/services.yml from 'svc-runner' to the entity name 'runner' (services.yml is keyed by primary entity) and its 12 vars lookups, and add proxy.service_key: runner-1 so the swarm probe targets the real service (runner_runner-1) instead of the non-existent runner_runner.
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Move files that share a delimiter-bounded name prefix within a folder (threshold 2) into a subfolder named after the prefix, dropping the prefix from the filename. Covers plugins/filter (docker, generate, has, merge, get/all), env handler subpackages, utils/roles/entity, utils/tests/swarm/write, role SQL/scripts/templates, keycloak/mailu task-includes, shared tasks/utils/load, and CI scripts. Update every import, query_file/script/include_tasks/src/lookup target, compose bind mount, and python -m path to the new locations.
Extend the prefix-grouped-files lint to threshold 2 with dir-level .nocheck and file-head nocheck opt-outs, and skip groups whose shortest member's stem equals the shared prefix. Keep flat only where a loader forbids nesting: WordPress mu-plugins and the docs/requirements namespace. Ansible filter discovery is recursive, so nested filters stay Jinja-resolvable.
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