An alias is a promise that an old URL keeps working, so it answers 301 to the canonical one rather than serving the same content twice (ADR-0008). Frontmatter takes a scalar or a list and tolerates surrounding slashes, because authors write both. Ambiguity is dropped, not resolved: an alias naming a real bundle, or claimed by two bundles, is logged and ignored so the real bundle keeps its URL. Aliases compose with language prefixes for free, since the resolver splits the language before the key is looked up. The redirect still fires only for an alias that exists, so a nonexistent path cannot be probed by 301 — the property prompt 3 established. Evidence: /pages/bio/ and /about/ both 301 to /pages/about/, /bn/pages/bio/ 301s to /bn/pages/about/, and /pages/nothing/ is 404.
khosra
A flat-file personal publishing engine in Go. Point the binary at a directory of Markdown and it becomes an owned, networked home for fiction, webcomics, art, and essays, in English and Bengali. The site's content lives in its own repository, not this one (ADR-0011).
Build and run
Needs Go 1.26+ and git; nothing else.
make build # or: go build -o khosra ./cmd/khosra
make run SITE=/path/to/site # or: ./khosra -site /path/to/site
make test
make verify # everything the project enforces — green before every commit
make help lists targets. make is a convenience wrapper; go build, go test and
./scripts/verify.sh work on their own and are what the gate uses.
A site root is a directory holding content/, and optionally static/ and templates/. It lives in its
own repository, not this one — the binary is pointed at it.
If you are a human: start at HARNESS.md — what the scaffolding is, how to use it, and what to decide.
If you are an agent: start at CLAUDE.md — the constitution and the read order. It is loaded for you automatically; this file is not a prerequisite and nothing here is a rule.