From e8f5deac461b95f05a967f50c8e6405663b8ad0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Meta Vens <rwvens@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 04:09:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Relax song swarm candidate slugs

---
 tools/run-song-snippet-trial-swarm.ps1 | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/run-song-snippet-trial-swarm.ps1 b/tools/run-song-snippet-trial-swarm.ps1
index 0c73b1e..92447d2 100644
--- a/tools/run-song-snippet-trial-swarm.ps1
+++ b/tools/run-song-snippet-trial-swarm.ps1
@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ function Assert-SongCandidates {
 
     foreach ($file in $files) {
         $stem = [IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($file.Name)
-        if ($stem -cnotmatch '^[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*__[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*__[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*$') {
-            throw "Candidate '$stem' must be <agent-id>__<family>__<hypothesis>.aqua with lowercase kebab-case segments."
+        if ($stem -cnotmatch '^[a-z0-9]+([-_][a-z0-9]+)*__[a-z0-9]+([-_][a-z0-9]+)*__[a-z0-9]+([-_][a-z0-9]+)*$') {
+            throw "Candidate '$stem' must be <agent-id>__<family>__<hypothesis>.aqua with lowercase slug segments."
         }
     }
 }