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Claude Opus 5andbdeshi de1ce73430 track the demo as a real site in examples/, gated like the docs
The human asked for a demo extensive enough to review by hand, tracked as files,
and kept current the way docs are. Generated filler cannot be reviewed — you cannot
read a Go function and see what a reader sees — so the generator is deleted and
`examples/demo-site/` is an ordinary site: 33 Markdown files, six pictures,
site.yaml, a template override and static files.

My reason for generating it was ADR-0011, and I had that rule wrong: it puts the
*author's site root* outside this repository, not fixtures. conventions.md already
keeps golden files in testdata/, and this is the same category one size up. Keeping
both a generator and files would have been two sources of truth, so one had to go.

Kept true by two gates rather than by good intentions. A table-driven test in
internal/web serves the directory through the real handler with one case per
feature — thirty-five of them, each naming what it proves — and verify.sh runs
`khosra check` over it and fails on anything fatal. Adding a feature now means
adding it to the demo and adding its case, and the build says so if you don't.

Extensive on purpose: eleven dated posts so a section actually paginates, a
four-chapter series so first/last are not the neighbours, a gallery with three
JPEGs and an SVG so both the resampled and the untouched paths show, a Bengali-only
bundle, a titleless status, a draft, a future date, an include, a nested extras
tree, and a typography page that demonstrates what the engine will not do.

Two expectations of mine were wrong and the demo corrected them: the site's own
list template overrides *tag* listings too, so there are no group headings there —
which turns out to be the better demonstration of ADR-0046, since the theme picking
the flat shape is exactly the point. And template literal text is not escaped, so
an apostrophe stays an apostrophe.
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examples/

demo-site/ is a complete khosra site, kept here to be read and served — the demonstration a person walks through to see what the engine does, and the fixture the engine tests itself against (ADR-0051).

make demo                 # serves it at localhost:8080
khosra check -site examples/demo-site

It is content, not a fixture in disguise: every file is what an author would write. Two things keep it honest, both in verify.sh:

  • TestTheExampleSiteExercisesEveryFeature (in internal/web) serves this directory through the real handler and asserts one case per feature. A feature that changes shape breaks it.
  • khosra check runs over it and must report nothing fatal.

Adding a feature means adding it here, with a case in that test. A feature the example does not show is a feature nobody can see working, and the gates are what stop that from being optional.

What each part is for

Path Demonstrates
site.yaml the two site-level settings: base and title
content/posts/day-01…11 pagination — eleven dated posts against a page size of ten
content/posts/first-light/ two languages, a directory bundle owning a picture, a figure with a caption
content/posts/only-english the fallback chain, and a canonical link naming the variant actually served
content/posts/renamed-thing/ slug moving an address, aliases keeping the old one working
content/posts/unfinished a draft: invisible without -dev on
content/posts/scheduled a future date: published by the clock, with nothing to run
content/comics/the-long-monsoon/ a series — structural membership, sparse order, prev/next/first/last, an archive, and a landing page in two languages
content/art/monsoon-studies/ a gallery: three JPEGs sized into a srcset, and an SVG left exactly as drawn
content/writing/notes-on-water/ an include whose fragment has no URL, and an extras/ tree with a nested directory
content/writing/typography what the engine does to prose, and what it deliberately does not
content/pages/* undated bundles: reachable, and absent from every feed
content/pages/bengali-only a bundle that exists in one non-default language only
content/status/* a titleless bundle — legal, and the one check warning this site expects
templates/list.html overriding a single named block and inheriting the document
static/note.txt files served verbatim

The one expected warning

khosra check reports the titleless status note. That is deliberate: titleless is legal, the theme falls back to the bundle's key, and the warning exists so an author who did not mean it finds out. A fatal finding here would fail verify.sh.