It would be really useful if we could have vcfanno put a value into a field when it is observed to be missing from an annotation source.
I tried to achieve this by using custom lua in the annotation and post annotation sections, but I couldn't work out in both cases how to formulate something that would work. It could be as simple as "op" that lets you set a fixed default value when the annotation source is missing, but the ideal thing would be if you could set it in post annotation.