bdeshiandClaude Opus 5
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One idea at a time: definition, necessity, priority, layer, recommendation. Every row is now shipped, scheduled, parked with a trigger, or dropped with a reason — so both tracking files are gone rather than left as a parallel backlog. Roughly a third already shipped. A quarter needed only a theme fragment or CSS, including several the list assumed were features: arbitrary `theme.*` frontmatter attributes already reach templates through Extra (verified), native lazy loading already ships and is deliberately absent on lead figures, and in-page timelines are a theme-defined container. roadmap.md gains an "Order of work" — nine bodies of work in sequence, because the sections this review added had accumulated without one. Item 0 is a decision, not work: core sits at ~2965 of 3000 and logging alone wants the remainder, so discover.go moves out *and* the ceiling rises with an ADR. feed.go and web/extras.go cannot move; they are resolver cases, and three parked items now wait on that same seam decision. Two ADRs came out of it. ADR-0083: the dependency rule described a practice it forbade. "Stdlib first, always" and "usually 40 lines of stdlib" would, read literally, have argued against all five modules here — every one is a format or algorithm somebody else specified, and their allowlist comments say so. Surfaced when this agent proposed hand-rolling Reed–Solomon for QR encoding. The test is now whether you can verify it, not whether you can write it, with compute-versus-hold as the counterweight. conventions.md and allowed-deps.txt contradicted it and were realigned. ADR-0084: the Effect primitive said every Effect is "idempotent and re-runnable from scratch" — true of derivatives, false of anything outbound, since a sent message cannot be recalled. Split into artifact-producing and outbound, the latter idempotent only against a delivery ledger, at-least-once with a dedupe key, and ledgers in a -state directory distinct from the disposable cache. Asked for as forward-looking design so webmentions need no redesign; recorded as a shape rather than built, the way extensions.md records the Extension struct. Also fixed a STATUS claiming Effects were "not buildable yet" when the derivative pass has inhabited them since ADR-0042. Findings that were defects rather than ideas: the Atom feed emits no <author>, which RFC 4287 requires. HTML comments in content are published verbatim — verified — so anything commented out is already public, and a check warning is scheduled rather than the engine deleting authored bytes. `Page` has no Date, so a theme cannot mark up dt-published or show an article's own date. A frontmatter naming rule after this agent proposed `archive` alongside the accepted `archived`: no near-homograph keys, and name the benefit rather than the vendor. reference/microformats-and-indieweb.md is new and is the reference asked for — microformats2 properties and IndieWeb rel values mapped to where a theme puts them, with spec URLs, marked scheduled. rel="me" is the highest-value lowest-cost item in that space and needs no endpoint at all. Four things this agent got wrong and the human caught: asserting "the engine never fetches" from a sentence scoped to the content repo, twice; inventing a data-sovereignty argument for an item he had filed as "a cool geeky thing", when the raw Markdown in his git already is the sovereignty; the archive naming; and claiming microformats could be fully implemented today. 15 files, +556/-385. No code changed. Nothing was scheduled that this agent could not name a consumer for. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reference — facts worth keeping
Durable information surfaced in conversation that would otherwise be lost: measured numbers, external constraints, how a tool actually behaves, links worth having. One file per subject.
Not decisions (harness/decisions.md), not proposals (ideas/), not the present state of the code
(harness/state.md). A fact only true today belongs in state.md; a rule belongs in the doc owning the
topic.
Each file states how the fact was established — measured, read from a spec, or asserted — so a later reader knows whether to trust it or re-check it. An unattributed number is a rumour.
Scratch code illustrating a fact is welcome; verify.sh ignores .go here entirely, so it need not
compile.
Out of agent context by default, this index included. Opened only when the human names the topic.
Index
- agent-session-costs.md — how context and token cost accumulate in an agent session
- math-on-the-web.md — rendering maths with no JavaScript, and the state of Go TeX→MathML
- syntax-highlighting-choices.md — chroma's cost, what it gives, and why there is no lighter option
- goldmark-behaviours.md — the goldmark surprises that caused or nearly caused defects
- microformats-and-indieweb.md — microformats2 properties and IndieWeb
relvalues, mapped to where a theme puts them and what the engine supplies.