fix(rectification): keep clock-stamped events out of window intercept (BUG-631, BUG-632)

Dated life events with clock times were swallowed as birth-window replies, and compare columns still stopped at the first nine candidates after the hour-window cap.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

scripts/rectification/contracts.py

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ _EVENT_PROVENANCE_FIELDS = frozenset({
 })
 _REQUEST_FIELDS = frozenset({
     "birth_date", "start_time", "end_time", "lat", "lon", "tz", "events",
-    "ayanamsa", "node_mode", "asked_probe_keys", "minute_step", "blocks",
+    "ayanamsa", "node_mode", "asked_probe_keys", "column_times", "minute_step", "blocks",
 }) | _REQUEST_PROVENANCE_FIELDS
 ASKED_PROBE_KEY_MAX_LENGTH = 200
 _EVENT_FIELDS = frozenset({"id", "domain", "event_kind", "date_start", "date_end", "precision", "summary"}) | _EVENT_PROVENANCE_FIELDS
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ class RectificationRequest(TypedDict):
     local_time_status: NotRequired[str | None]
     asked_probe_keys: NotRequired[list[str]]
     dropped_asked_probe_keys: NotRequired[int]
+    column_times: NotRequired[list[str]]
     minute_step: NotRequired[int]
     blocks: NotRequired[list[dict[str, Any]]]
 
@@ -354,6 +355,20 @@ def normalize_rectification_request(body: Any, *, today: date | None = None) ->
         cleaned_request["asked_probe_keys"] = cleaned_keys
         if dropped:
             cleaned_request["dropped_asked_probe_keys"] = dropped
+    if "column_times" in body:
+        raw_times = body.get("column_times")
+        if not isinstance(raw_times, list) or not 1 <= len(raw_times) <= 64:
+            raise ValueError("column_times must contain between 1 and 64 HH:MM values")
+        cleaned_times: list[str] = []
+        seen_times: set[str] = set()
+        for index, item in enumerate(raw_times):
+            if not isinstance(item, str) or not _CLOCK.fullmatch(item):
+                raise ValueError(f"column_times[{index}] must be HH:MM")
+            if item in seen_times:
+                continue
+            seen_times.add(item)
+            cleaned_times.append(item)
+        cleaned_request["column_times"] = cleaned_times
     if "minute_step" in body:
         minute_step = body.get("minute_step")
         if isinstance(minute_step, bool) or not isinstance(minute_step, int) or not 1 <= minute_step <= 15: