Readiness and official advice

Voyalier separates two kinds of readiness: logistics it can check itself, and high-stakes facts it will only ever quote from a cited source.

Deterministic readiness

The readiness rollup checks plan completeness — schedule conflicts, lodging coverage, and items still pending review — and shows an overall status. This is logistics only, computed on your device from your confirmed facts.

Each non-clear logistics finding offers a local next step. Schedule findings open the matching confirmed fact or traveler-authored plan, a lodging gap opens Add reservation already set to Stay, and pending work opens its one-at-a-time review queue. If the named record disappeared, Voyalier falls back to the owning section and says the exact target was unavailable rather than pretending the finding was resolved.

The separate If something slips view applies the same continuity rule to transport dependencies: each handoff, exposed connection, and operator pointer can open its underlying approved fact. It derives recorded gaps from the local plan and does not display connection grades, fetch live status, predict a delay, or claim an alternative exists. See Trips and the Blueprint.

Sourced items are link-only or consented

Entry requirements, health notices, and government advisories are never asserted or “cleared” by Voyalier, and never authored by a model. They appear as link-only items pointing to the official source (for example, the US State Department advisories index, or the CDC and WHO travel-health pages), and are excluded from the readiness rollup so they never give a false sense of “done.”

Their actions open Visa or Prepare beside the official links. That is navigation, not clearance: Voyalier still cannot determine whether a requirement applies or whether the traveler has completed it.

The entry-requirements item also reports your own tally from visa preparation when you have set a passport for the trip — attributed to you, never verified by Voyalier, and still excluded from the rollup.

Consent-gated snapshots

Two sources can be fetched on an explicit click — the click is your consent, and nothing about your trip is sent:

• UK FCDO travel advice (GOV.UK Content API): stores a dated, verbatim snapshot with its source link, Open Government Licence attribution, retrieval time, a staleness note after 7 days, and a UK-passport-holders label. The country comes from a curated list in code, never from your trip text.
• Weather outlook (Open-Meteo): geocodes the destination and stores a dated daily forecast for your trip window, with honest coverage against the ~16-day horizon, “Weather data by Open-Meteo.com” attribution, and a staleness note. Weather is planning texture, never a safety claim.

Each snapshot is invalidated automatically when you change the trip’s destination or dates, so stale advice never lingers.