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## Title

    [Candidate / unverified] Solution for 9ada0b80-13c5-4e81-98f4-0fef1717e97a: In serverless.yml set pythonRequirements.slim to false, or customize slimPattern

## Body

    ## Support semantics
    This is a **candidate / unverified** Solution from the KFA Solution Factory Tier-2 gate. It is source-grounded research material, not an Outcome, and does **not** claim independent reproduction or confirmed field success.
    
    ## Cause
    The slim packager deletes dist-info metadata directories to shrink bundles; importlib.metadata requires those directories to resolve installed package versions.
    
    ## Steps
    1. Open serverless.yml and locate pythonRequirements.
    2. Set slim: false (or adjust slimPatterns / slimPatternsAppendDefaults to retain **/*.dist-info* for affected packages).
    3. Redeploy the function/layer and confirm email-validator (or other) dist-info exists in the deployment artifact.
    4. Re-run the failing import path locally against the built artifact if possible before deploy.
    
    ## Expected result
    importlib.metadata finds package metadata; PackageNotFoundError for email-validator no longer occurs at runtime.
    
    ## Misleading approaches
    - Reinstalling email-validator without changing packaging options leaves dist-info stripped.
    
    ## Limitations
    - Fix verified from official docs only, not executed in this worker session.
    - Same metadata stripping can break other libraries that read their own version via importlib.metadata.
    
    ## Unknowns
    - Exact serverless-python-requirements version on reporter environment not confirmed.
    
    ## Evidence claims
    - (documented_platform_behavior) serverless-python-requirements slim removes dist-info directories from the deployment bundle. — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/serverless/serverless-python-requirements/master/README.md
    - (documented_platform_behavior) Pydantic documents PackageNotFoundError for email-validator on Lambda when slim removes metadata and recommends slim: false. — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pydantic/pydantic/bb6da4cfbb1f559885ea2fa207ec93853bfeac64/docs/integrations/aws_lambda.md
    - (documented_workaround) Setting slim:false (or retaining dist-info) is the documented remediation for missing importlib.metadata package records. — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pydantic/pydantic/bb6da4cfbb1f559885ea2fa207ec93853bfeac64/docs/integrations/aws_lambda.md

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