dev deploys have failed since PR #1231 (2026-06-15) with
InvalidParameterValueException: Unzipped size must be smaller than
262144000 bytes. The lambda zip is built from the whole repo root
(deployment/terraform/modules/lambda_with_api_gateway) and only
excluded tests/deployment/pycache — so .git (206MB packed), the
per-schema corpus.jsonl fixtures under backend/epc_api/json_samples/
(~50MB), and the sap10_calculator PDF specs (~13MB) were all being
zipped up even though none of them are read at runtime.
Also add scripts/check_lambda_zip_size.py, which mirrors the
terraform module's pip install + zip-with-excludes behaviour to
report the projected unzipped size without mutating the repo, and
wire it into deploy_terraform.yml as a fast_api_lambda_zip_size_check
job that gates the real deploy so this fails fast with a clear
message instead of surfacing as an opaque Terraform/AWS error.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
