The entry said to measure first and put the number in the commit, so: a plain page renders in 14µs, a twelve-picture gallery in 1.23ms. Of that, ~102µs per picture was reading, hashing and decoding bytes the previous request had already read. Remembering that one fact — keyed by path, size and modification time — brings the same gallery to 63µs. 19.5× faster, 21× fewer bytes allocated, twenty-odd lines. After which nothing is slow enough to justify caching whole pages, so ADR-0044 declines the page cache and leaves the parked validity model parked, now with a measurement rather than an intuition behind its trigger. That parked model has five axes and was written before any code existed. The problem it would have been built for turned out to be one repeated file read. Benchmarks live in internal/web so they measure through the real handler, which is also what conventions.md wants before any cache goes in the render path. The invalidation risk has its own test: an edited picture is a different key, so the memo cannot serve yesterday's dimensions. Everything runs clean under -race, since the map is read by concurrent requests.
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If this file disagrees with the code, the code is right and this file is a bug.
Inventory
| File | Purpose | LOC |
|---|---|---|
go.mod |
module khosra; goldmark, x/text, yaml.v3 direct |
10 |
internal/content/doc.go |
package comment | 5 |
internal/content/content.go |
bundles: os.Root open, walk, frontmatter split, key/lang derivation, NFC, tag slugs, partial files, permalink building |
381 |
internal/content/settings.go |
site.yaml: the site's own declarations (base, title) and absolute-URL building (ADR-0039) |
59 |
internal/content/site.go |
the indexed site: lookup with language fallback, aliases, Query and Run, sections, Sequence, Everything, slug routes |
395 |
internal/render/render.go |
goldmark with the typographer, per-kind template sets with site override, the Partial/Origin seams features render and resolve through, Page/List/Sequence/head |
409 |
internal/render/chrome.go |
the engine's own words: phrase table, month names, digits, and the t/num/day template funcs (ADR-0034) |
105 |
internal/render/templates/ |
reference theme: base.html, page.html, list.html, shortcodes.html, theme.css (ADR-0026) |
— |
internal/ext/shortcodes/ |
first feature: {{< name key="value" >}} block parser and node renderer, rendering through a theme fragment (ADR-0036). figure, gallery, include, plus the derivative pass and remembered picture inspection (ADR-0042, ADR-0044) |
564 |
internal/ext/widows/ |
second feature: joins the last two words of a paragraph or heading with a non-breaking space, over the tree so code spans are safe | 108 |
cmd/khosra/wire.go |
the only list of enabled features (extensions.md) |
20 |
internal/web/resolve.go |
URL → (key, lang, page, tag) or a canonical redirect: language prefix, /en/… fork guard, pagination, tags, trailing slash |
112 |
internal/web/asset.go |
files inside a bundle's own directory, looked up through the owning bundle so visibility can only ever inherit (ADR-0024) | 58 |
internal/web/feed.go |
Atom for the site, a section or a tag, from dated bundles via one Query (ADR-0043) | 125 |
internal/web/discover.go |
/robots.txt and /sitemap.xml, absolute and only with a declared base (ADR-0039) |
74 |
internal/web/web.go |
handler: resolve, look up with fallback, section and tag listings, sequence, /static/ (misses and refusals alike answer 404), degrade on failure |
152 |
cmd/khosra/main.go |
flags (-site, -addr, -base, -cache), wiring, startup including the derivative pass — the only place things are assembled |
88 |
*_test.go |
table-driven, one file per source file; symlink escape (content and static), canonical paths, language fallback, aliases, pagination, tags, sequences, chrome, typography, shortcode escaping, galleries, includes, partials, widows, site settings, absolute URLs, robots, sitemap, slug routes, bundle assets, derivatives, feeds, 404, plus benchmarks for the render path | 2457 |
Serves a bundle at /{section}/{slug}/ — the slug derived, or declared in frontmatter without moving the
key (ADR-0035) — a paginated listing per section, tag listings global and
section-narrowed, sequence navigation and a series archive on any nested bundle, static/ verbatim, a directory bundle's own files under its
URL, generated derivatives under /derived/, Atom feeds per site,
section and tag, plus /robots.txt and /sitemap.xml.
Chrome text, dates and digits render in English or Bengali; authored text is untouched but for typographic
smoothing and widow prevention (ADR-0034). This repo holds engine source only — the site root is external and passed with
-site (ADR-0011). site.yaml declares base and title; with a base, canonical, hreflang and OpenGraph
URLs go absolute (ADR-0039).
Frontmatter the parser lifts today: title, date, tags, aliases, order, slug. Every other key in
content-model.md's table — including draft and type — lands in Extra unread, so that table
is the accepted format, not a list of what runs.
Dependencies: four, all allowlisted — goldmark, golang.org/x/text, golang.org/x/image, gopkg.in/yaml.v3.
Counters — the earn-it authority
Never anticipate a threshold. Increment when the code lands, then check whether the extraction is due this change.
| Counter | Now | Extraction due at | What it buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Render transforms — page-level only | 0 | 3 | Stage pipeline (ordered func(ctx,*Page) error). Parse-phase work does not count and must not: goldmark's extender list is already an ordered pipeline for it, so typography, shortcodes and widows compose there (cmd/khosra/wire.go) and a second pipeline beside it would be pure duplication. This counts transforms over the assembled page, which nothing hosts yet — OpenGraph and JSON-LD (queue 15) are the first candidates |
| Routing cases | 9 | 2 — done | Resolver at internal/web/resolve.go: bundle, language prefix, pagination, tag, section-narrowed tag |
| Collection pages | 4 | 1 — done | Query primitive: content.Query{Section, Tag, Lang} + Site.Run. The fourth — a series archive — resolves through Site.Sequence instead: membership is structural and the sort ascends, so it shares the index but not the Query |
| Views — per-bundle selection only | 0 | 2 | The View layer architecture.md describes: view: in frontmatter choosing a presentation, resolved through the cascade. Nothing selects a view yet. Output formats are counted separately and are not it: HTML, sitemap XML and Atom are three functions with nothing to share — an interface over them would have one member and no leverage |
| Effects | 1 | 2 | Effect runner + trigger wiring (change / schedule / demand). The first is the derivative pass (ADR-0042), called straight from cmd at startup — one call needs no runner, and startup is the only change signal until queue 21 |
| Extensions | 2 | 3 | Extension registry (extensions.md). The wire file arrived with the first feature rather than the registry — cmd/khosra/wire.go, one line, no struct |
| Interface implementations | — | 2 | The interface itself |
| Non-stdlib dependencies | 4 direct | budget in scripts/budgets.env |
— |
Allowlist, all four imported: goldmark (markdown), golang.org/x/text (NFC, ADR-0015),
gopkg.in/yaml.v3 (frontmatter, ADR-0020), golang.org/x/image (resampling and WebP, ADR-0040).
Latent items — known, deliberately unfixed
Do not fix these mid-feature. They become features when the human says so. An arc does not close with an untriaged item: at each arc boundary every row is fixed, scheduled into an arc, or accepted with a stated reason. A list nothing drains is a graveyard of known defects.
| Item | Why it waits | Trigger to fix |
|---|---|---|
| No mechanical check that the counters are correct | Accepted at the Arc 1 boundary: the coupling gate makes forgetting them impossible, which is the real failure mode, and checking the values needs code to count | The first page-level transform (queue 15), now that the transform counter means something narrower |
| No mechanical gate on the untrusted boundary (ADR-0003) | Scheduled to Arc 3: nothing untrusted is read yet. Half of it is now mechanical — verify.sh rejects WithUnsafe, so authored Markdown cannot become HTML — but there is still no check that a future untrusted source stays out of shortcode and template evaluation |
The comment path — a test that untrusted input reaches no shortcode or template evaluation |
date stays in Extra after being lifted onto Bundle.Date, unlike title, aliases, tags and order, which are deleted |
Spotted while adding order; the theme contract says Extra holds what the parser does not name, so one of the two is wrong. Harmless today — a template reading .Extra.date gets the raw YAML value |
Whatever next reads Extra generically: feeds (queue 14) or check (17) |
A gallery's images carry no alt |
width/height now come from the original (ADR-0042), so only alt text is missing, and a filename does not supply one. An empty alt is honest for a picture the page has already introduced |
Captions per gallery entry — a sidecar or a frontmatter list — if the reference theme ever needs them |
Sequence resolution rescans the index on every bundle request — two passes over every key, each doing a Lookup |
Measured at the same time as the pictures (ADR-0044): a whole page is ~63µs, so this is not what costs anything. Remembering it would be a cache with no measurement behind it | A page render exceeding a few milliseconds, which is also what would revive the parked cache model |
| The picture memo is never evicted — one entry per picture on the site, for the life of the process | Correct for one author's site, and the alternative is an eviction policy nothing needs. It is keyed on size and modification time, so it cannot go stale, only grow | A site root large enough that memory matters, or a long-running process where pictures churn |
Open questions
None. Nothing blocks Arc 1 or the first deploy.
Every ADR in decisions.md is accepted; none is open or proposed.
Build queue
Working plan lives in .scratch/build-queue.md, which is deliberately not committed — git log is the
record of what actually landed. If that file is absent, read the log and rebuild the plan from it.
Arc retro log
One line per completed arc: what it cost, what it taught, what it made unnecessary.
- Arc 1 — the spine. 619 core lines, 3 dependencies, 4 queue entries. Taught:
os.Rootmakes the path guard a property of the type, so the latent item that shipped with the harness died instead of being implemented; and running the gates against real code found six defects in the gates — an allowlist parser that rejected its own documented format, two advisories that fired only on correct code, a coupling gate that demanded explanations for permission edits, an untidygo.modhiding a direct dependency, and a nesting check off by one level. Made unnecessary: a hand-rolled traversal cleaner, and a second routing branch — the resolver arrived by counter at exactly the right moment.