Ground-truthed against the templates this pass:
- dashboard.md: real section kinds (system shelves incl. Continue
Series, user collections, custom sections via /custom-section
builder), Customize Dashboard panel semantics (per-library, drag,
switches, 10-50 items, Save Changes), Refresh, This Week widget,
per-item Read/Listen and progress-conflict resolve actions. The old
page listed a wrong shelf set and never mentioned custom sections.
- library-browsing.md: the file was secretly titled 'Saving Custom
Filters' and covered nothing else. Now the browsing page: All Books
toolbar (search, Sort, Filters -> drawer hand-off, Save/Load/Clear
saved filters), book detail as hub, series pages, podcasts split.
- profile-guide.md: field table ground-truthed from profile_form.templ
(username/email DO remain editable there), audio defaults (speed,
resume rewind, keep awake), timezone rendering contract, both theme
doors (7-pick select vs 37-theme Appearance panel), Change Password
with live checks, Danger Zone/Remove My Account + last-admin rule.
- podcasts.md NEW: the Podcasts page had zero documentation. Subscribing
(Add Feed -> RSS URL, library, back-catalog download, download order,
Add & Subscribe), Continue/All Feeds, Download All, player + Play as
Sequence cross-link.
- Trashed user-areas.md, frontend-guide.md, settings-guide.md: stubs
whose planned content now exists as real pages (or duplicates
profile-guide). user-guide.md rewritten as the plain-language front
door with a go-here-when table; index.md rows updated to match.
- ui-controls.md: 10 new gate-checked entries for every newly cited
control (Add & Subscribe via templ-entity fragment).
TestDocsRelativeLinks walked only docs/developer; widening it to all of
docs/ immediately surfaced the same class of rot the gate was built
for, outside its old reach:
- docs/index.md was the old monolith's landing page: linked the deleted
api-reference.md, 10 directory-style area links, and escaped the docs
tree to README/AGENTS/.env/compose. Rewritten as a portal whose every
link resolves, with one representative endpoint doc per API area and
pointers to the new writing-ui-docs.md standard.
- directory-style links in user stubs (devices/, ../operations/)
- case-mismatched links (Development.md) in contributing.md
- monolith-era pointer (API_REFERENCE.md, TROUBLESHOOTING.md) and
escaped AGENTS.md links in contributing/development.md
- docs/development/calibre-opf-implementation.md double-up escapes, a
link to the removed repo-root plan file (absorbed here), and a
source-code hyperlink the docs site can't serve (now inline code)
- operations/operations.md linked three never-written guide pages as
aspirational links - they stay plain text until pages exist
HANDS-OFF (project owner, 2026-11-02): docs/user/filters/** and
docs/user/searching-and-filtering.md are exempt as link sources so no
future checker failure can force edits to the filter documentation.
Files linking INTO them remain checked.
The filter manual (1ed1602e) was reachable only by knowing /docs
already existed — nothing in the UI pointed at it (the parked manual
plan's open decision). Every filter-builder mount now carries a "?"
in its header linking to the guide (opens in a new tab so drawer and
editor state survive): the All Books drawer and the collection rules
page — the two mounts sharing FilterBuilderRows. The docs home
indexes the manual (guide, cookbook, generated field reference).
Two docs-loader fixes surfaced by pinning this:
- Folder URLs resolve to their index page: /docs/user/filters now
serves user/filters/index.md (the manual is a folder: guide +
cookbook + generated reference); previously only root /docs had
index handling.
- The docs folder path is resolved by walking upward (bounded):
`go test` runs test binaries from the PACKAGE directory, so the
relative "docs" path resolved to a folder that didn't exist there
and every /docs route 404'd in tests while working in prod —
found by the new pin, fixed so tests exercise the docs routes
exactly as prod serves them.
Pins: TestFilterHelpAffordance (folder URL serves the guide; drawer
and rules pages carry the link). internal/docs suite + full suite
green (239s).
Three problems, one root cause each:
1. Sidebar jump: the server rendered its own default (current section
open, rest collapsed) and restoreDocsNav corrected it after paint —
open-then-close. Fix: persistence moved server-side. toggleCollapsible
now writes a docs_nav cookie (strictly-necessary UI state, no
identifiers, SameSite=Lax); ApplyNavOverrides merges it into the nav
before render, so first paint IS the visitor's state. The post-paint
restore is deleted.
2. Arrows out of sync / double-click: two visibility mechanisms
disagreed. There was NO data-collapsed CSS at all — collapsed sections
were only ever hidden by JS after paint, and the arrow rotation came
from a different (server) state. Now: style.css hides on
[data-collapsed=true] (single source of truth, server-rendered),
applyCollapsed sets only the attribute, arrows rotate from the same
merged value. Live check: 37/37 collapsibles arrow-consistent.
3. api-reference.md links: all 20+ quick links were directory-style
(authentication/ etc.) that 404 on the docs site, plus stale targets
(books/, ../collections-api.md, websocket 'coming soon'). Rewritten to
real per-file links — all 9 unique targets return 200 live. Same rot
fixed in admin/hash-conflicts.md, development.md, android-app.md,
create_media_item.md, koreader-protocol.md; docs/index.md redirected
from the deleted collections-api monolith (stale 530-line duplicate of
the gated api/collections docs — deleted, per the WO2 doctrine).
New gate: TestDocsRelativeLinks walks docs/developer/** and fails make
test on any relative link that is directory-style or unresolvable —
overview links can never silently rot again.
PROJECT_GUIDELINES.md had drifted out of reality (podman-only rule
while the stack runs docker; verifier scripts wired to Makefile targets
nobody runs). Trashed it, its two verifier scripts, and the Makefile
targets; the rules that still matched reality (docker runtime, schema
in place until release, server binary only via Docker, services layer,
integration-test pool rules) are absorbed into the new AGENTS.md.
The library-visibility family-lens rule now has a real home:
- AGENTS.md: the standing rule agents auto-discover (new media
endpoints MUST thread the visible-library set; 403, never silently
pass; history of the 2026-10-13 leak).
- docs/developer/library-visibility.md: the full explanation (helpers,
SQL pattern, per-item content gates, series per-library), linked
from the developer docs index.
Stale doc links updated (docs index, contributing, development).
User-facing documentation for the rebuilt web reader (§6.5 of the app
handoff): swipe-to-page / tap-for-menu touch navigation, long-press word
selection with drag extension and handles, the selection popover (color
dots, notes with save-together-on-create, copy incl. plain-HTTP LAN,
edit/delete by tapping a painted highlight), below-the-selection popover
placement rationale, PDF/comic behavior, and annotations drawer.
Linked from the user documentation portal and the docs index quick
links / quick-find tables.
- Device setup and quick-find entries now lead with the KOReader guide
and label native Kobo sync as coming soon
- Kobo protocol/API listings tagged as a coming-soon feature
- Fix seven pre-existing broken links: contributing/Development.md had
the wrong case (development.md), and PROJECT_GUIDELINES.md links were
missing the ../ prefix to reach the repo root
- Refresh last-updated stamp
- Update api-reference.md with new endpoint paths
- Update api-reference.md Books API section → Media Items API section
- Update index.md Books API link → Media Items API
- Update get_shelf.md cover_url reference from /api/books/ to /api/media-items/
- Renamed root INDEX.md to index.md (lowercase)
- Changed navigation title from "Documentation Index" to "Index"
- Removed caps lock for cleaner appearance
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