Adopts ideas/token-conservation.md, parked 2026-07-28, plus the disciplines the human added: read the compressed form first, discover by mechanism, shrink output at the source, never pay twice for the same bytes. docs/context-economy.md owns all of it and leads with a floor, because every cheap failure mode is also a token saving — skipping the owning doc, guessing a signature, reporting from a diff, thinning a test — and each has already cost this repo a defect. Frugality is for presentation and discovery, never for the artifact or the evidence. Mechanical, not remembered: - scripts/surface.sh generates docs/surface.md — every top-level declaration with its line, 261 lines standing for 3757 of source. The pre-commit hook regenerates and stages it, so it cannot be stale, and verify.sh compares independently for a clone that never set core.hooksPath. The hook refuses a commit with unstaged .go changes, since what it generated describes the working tree, not the commit. - verify.sh --quiet: 48 lines of gate output become 1. The hook uses it. - CLAUDE_LOC_MAX=150, the only budget billed per turn rather than per read. Both new gates were watched failing before being kept: a doctored surface.md, and CLAUDE_LOC_MAX temporarily set to 5. state.md's inventory loses its LOC column. It had already drifted on six files (content.go 381→450, render.go 447→454, web.go 206→217, check 216→223, watch 129→137, chrome 105→110) which is what a number written in two places does; the generated file owns sizes now, the table owns purpose. The subagent question is recorded there as the one open decision, with the case for and against written out in the idea file.
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.