The sidebar named its four sections by hand, so adopting from a new repository
needed a config edit — a second place to update, which is exactly what the
autogenerated directories were already avoiding one level down. It is written
from the locks now and astro.config.mjs names nothing.
guarantees.usages.md is the first usages facet here with a short real answer,
because this site is built with the tool: check-reports-does-not-fix is what lets
npm run check run in CI, and the etag being the publisher's verbatim is what the
guide stamps are.
It also records what we lean on that the page explicitly does not promise — the
command surface, quoted in our README. A renamed command breaks our documentation
and not our build, and no check will catch it, because the thing that moved is
not a document we adopted.
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Astro Starlight over .loom/externals/. Every reference page is a copy of a
document published by another loom repository, adopted with loomctl, locked to
the etag it was fetched at. Nothing is written twice.
Two kinds of page. Generated ones are overwritten every build because nobody
typed them. Guides are hand-written, never overwritten, and stamped in
frontmatter with the etags they were written against; when a source moves, the
build renders a banner onto the page asking whether it is still true. It cannot
answer that — only a person can — so it asks where a reader will see it too, and
the site degrades honestly instead of reading as authoritative and being wrong.
npm run ack is the person saying they re-read it.
Declined: having the build stage a polad into the cart. loomctl external check
does that and is right to, but a docs build runs in CI and in worktrees where
there is no cart, and staging a polad is an act of judgment. The build reports;
a person raises.
The guides are worked examples rather than explanations, deliberately. An
explanation is a second saying of a rule owned on the page beside it and goes
stale silently; an example goes stale visibly, because the artifacts in it are
the wrong shape.
Generation is byte-deterministic — locks are walked in path order, no timestamps
— because the diff is most of the value.
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