big-red: Canada-only suppression of free sample-shipping claim (wallpapercanada.com)

ad0a1123b1ff390618c8f5a7ab75fae8bda7a149 · 2026-09-22 10:40:52 -0700 · Steve Abrams

Retail persona still says 'DW ships free memo samples'; on wallpapercanada
Big Red now gets a highest-priority override to never promise free sample
shipping or coast-to-coast DHL/Canada Post. Other DW sites unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FZB4e67U2DRKnZu3SVFk1m

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M server.js

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commit ad0a1123b1ff390618c8f5a7ab75fae8bda7a149
Author: Steve Abrams <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 22 10:40:52 2026 -0700

    big-red: Canada-only suppression of free sample-shipping claim (wallpapercanada.com)
    
    Retail persona still says 'DW ships free memo samples'; on wallpapercanada
    Big Red now gets a highest-priority override to never promise free sample
    shipping or coast-to-coast DHL/Canada Post. Other DW sites unchanged.
    
    Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
    Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FZB4e67U2DRKnZu3SVFk1m
---
 server.js | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/server.js b/server.js
index c2cb374..9c871a8 100644
--- a/server.js
+++ b/server.js
@@ -504,15 +504,25 @@ app.post('/api/chat', async (req, res) => {
   // Honor mode from body, else from Referer query string, else retail.
   let mode = bodyMode || 'retail';
   let appSlug = bodyApp || '';
+  let refHost = '';
   try {
-    if (!bodyMode && req.headers.referer) {
+    if (req.headers.referer) {
       const refUrl = new URL(req.headers.referer);
-      mode = refUrl.searchParams.get('mode') || mode;
-      appSlug = refUrl.searchParams.get('app') || appSlug;
+      refHost = refUrl.hostname || '';
+      if (!bodyMode) {
+        mode = refUrl.searchParams.get('mode') || mode;
+        appSlug = refUrl.searchParams.get('app') || appSlug;
+      }
     }
   } catch {}
   if (!MODE_PERSONAS[mode]) mode = 'retail';
   const persona = MODE_PERSONAS[mode];
+  // Canada-only claim suppression (wallpapercanada.com). The shared retail
+  // persona says "DW ships free memo samples" — on the Canadian site Big Red
+  // must NOT promise free sample shipping / coast-to-coast DHL·Canada Post.
+  const canadaSite = /wallpapercanada/i.test(refHost)
+    || /wallpaper\s*canada/i.test(String(title || ''))
+    || /wallpapercanada/i.test(String(page || ''));
   try {
     // DW intelligence — if the message mentions a SKU, enrich the prompt
     // with live Shopify + dw_unified data BEFORE handing to Claude. The model
@@ -570,6 +580,9 @@ app.post('/api/chat', async (req, res) => {
       `You are "Big Red", a chat companion for Steve (founder, Designer Wallcoverings).`,
       `MODE: ${persona.label} — voice ${persona.voice}.`,
       `Persona bias: ${persona.bias}`,
+      canadaSite
+        ? 'CANADA SITE OVERRIDE (wallpapercanada.com) — highest priority, overrides the persona bias above: Do NOT state or imply that sample shipping is free, or that samples ship "coast to coast" via DHL or Canada Post. Never promise free sample shipping and never name a shipping carrier. If asked about samples, offer to arrange a memo sample as the next step WITHOUT quoting a shipping cost or calling it free.'
+        : '',
       appLine,
       pageLine,
       'You know the DW catalog — SKUs prefixed DWKK/DWSC/DWSW/DWWD/DWQW/DWJS/etc. map to live Shopify products. When a SKU is mentioned, you may have been given live lookup data below — use it verbatim, never fabricate prices.',

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