Changelog

17 October 2026

Every change to the site’s structure, URLs, data files or publishing rules lands here, newest first. Agents: read the top entries before each run and adapt; the linked docs in the repository are the full rules. Also as Markdown at /changelog/index.md.

2026-10-17 · Home: one line instead of the Live strip

• The “Live” strip of update times is gone; home opens on one line, “Managed by agents”. lastmod is still required on every home edit, but no longer shown.

2026-10-17 · Home is agent-managed; Show more in batches

• Home agent: content/_index.md front matter now takes note, pins, hide, shown, step and lastmod. Rules: docs/home-agent.md. Pins and hides take a site path or a Feed item’s url; unknown ones are ignored, malformed ones fail the build.
• Home opens on a “Live” strip: when Posts, Themes, Feed and Home last changed (each section’s newest lastmod). Feed and Themes agents: keep setting lastmod on every update; it now shows on the home page.
• Show more opens one batch at a time (15 rows by default) instead of everything; after four batches the stream links to the section pages.
• About now says how the site runs: which agent runs which part, under Arun’s oversight (runs and oversight in content/about.md).

2026-10-17 · No spike limit

• A Feed day may mark any number of items spike: true; the build no longer rejects a third. Use it for what the reader should know today. The 20-items-a-day limit stays.

2026-10-17 · About page

• New /about/ (in the nav): name, role, a short bio, social links and the hive animation.
• Home is now one stream: posts, every Feed item and the current themes, newest first, with full summaries and Show more. The separate home blocks are gone.
• New glyphs that name content types: a sparkline for theme trend, a calendar for a Feed day, a box for releases, a notebook for blogs.

2026-10-17 · One row style, glyphs instead of numbers

• Rows no longer show index numbers, ranks or counts. Each row starts with a glyph: a page for posts, one per Feed kind (news, blog, paper, release), an arrow per theme status (rising, steady, fading). Rank is the order.
• /themes/ groups themes under Rising, Steady and Fading headings, ranked within each.
• Home order is now Posts, Themes, Feed (nav too). Home Themes shows at most five title-only rows, Feed up to ten, each dated.
• The footer now links here (Changelog), next to RSS.
• Home: compact social links under the name, the hive as the hero background, then a Latest list of the 8 newest updates. Section pages open with one slim title line; the description is no longer shown.
• Agents: no schema change. A new Feed kind also needs a glyph in layouts/_partials/icon.html and an icon in layouts/_partials/news/kinds.html.

2026-10-17 · Themes get their own pages

• Each theme in the newest snapshot now has a page at /themes/<slug>/ (and /themes/<slug>/index.md), with its evidence grouped by Feed day. The slug is the title, urlized; an optional slug field pins it so the URL survives a retitle.
• /themes/ is now a paginated index of themes (10 per page), one row per theme, each opening its page.
• /themes/index.json: every theme gains url and slug.
• The build now also fails on a duplicate slug, or a slug that is not lowercase words joined by hyphens.
• The home page shows the top-ranked theme and the next three; the Latest block shows the top theme when Themes is the newest update.
• Snapshot files are no longer listed outside the Themes section (build.list: local), so they never appear in Latest, RSS or llms.txt.
• Themes agent: nothing to change in the snapshot format. Add slug only to keep a URL when you rename a theme. See docs/themes-agent.md.

2026-10-17 · Themes section

• New section at /themes/: the Feed synthesized into ranked storylines. One front-matter-only snapshot per update in content/themes/YYYY-MM-DD.md; the newest is shown. Rules: docs/themes-agent.md.

2026-10-17 · News renamed to Feed

• The section is now served at /feed/ (/news/ redirects) and covers news, engineering blog posts, papers and releases. Each item needs a kind: news, blog, paper or release.
• Files stay in content/news/YYYY-MM-DD.md. Feed as data: /feed/index.json; RSS: /feed/index.xml. Rules: docs/feed-agent.md.

2026-10-17 · News section

• New section published daily by an outside agent: one content/news/YYYY-MM-DD.md per day with an items list in front matter. A malformed item fails the build.

2026-10-11 · Agent-readable outputs

• /llms.txt index, every post also at <url>/index.md, full-content RSS at /index.xml, JSON-LD on every page, robots.txt allows all.
• Old /utilities/ URLs redirect into /posts/.