Platform Docs

Profile delivery

Profiles are prebuilt by default on every site.

docs/reference/profile_static_delivery.md Reference

Progressive disclosure

Scope: Optional technical details across public, account, and Tools views

docs/reference/progressive_disclosure.md Reference

Project Railspike workflow

New work follows Railspike.

docs/reference/railspike_workflow.md Reference

Local retraction cleanup

The sweep performs repeatable local cleanup from retained accepted records.

docs/reference/retraction_sweep.md Reference

UI copy cleanup prompt

Simplify this page’s wording while preserving its usefulness.

docs/reference/ui_copy_cleanup_prompt.md Reference

v3 CLI Reference

Commands, options, and error handling for the v3 CLI.

docs/reference/v3_cli.md CLI Reference

Railspike effort estimation calibration study

docs/research/effort_estimation/references/R1/calibration-report.txt Research

Implementation diff review for Railspike effort calibration

docs/research/effort_estimation/references/R1/implementation-diff-review.txt Research

manifest.json

docs/research/effort_estimation/references/R1/manifest.json Research

Zenmemes meta feedback summary

docs/research/effort_estimation/references/R1/user-feedback.txt Research

Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Governance for Internet Message Boards

Ilya Gulko

docs/research/sigtbd_fault_tolerant_governance_for_internet_message_boards.md Research

sigtbd_fault_tolerant_governance_for_internet_message_boards.pdf

docs/research/sigtbd_fault_tolerant_governance_for_internet_message_boards.pdf Research

Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Governance for Internet Message Boards

We / MIT

docs/research/sigtbd_fault_tolerant_governance_slides_5min.md Research

Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Governance for Internet Message Boards

marp: true

docs/research/sigtbd_fault_tolerant_governance_slides_5min_marp.md Research

Slide Deck Outline: Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Governance for Internet Message Boards

Present a deadpan-comedic systems talk that argues moderator despotism should be treated as routine infrastructure failure, and that cheap community exit is a…

docs/research/sigtbd_fault_tolerant_governance_slides_outline.md Research

Slide Deck Outline: 5-Minute Version

Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Governance for Internet Message Boards

docs/research/sigtbd_fault_tolerant_governance_slides_outline_5min.md Research

Report: username changes that keep your approvals

Based on reading the code and git history.

docs/research/username_change_report.md Research

Account key approval safety

This release adds explicit approval review, durable acceptance receipts, account key history, and authenticated operator correlation.

docs/runbooks/account_key_approval_safety.md Runbooks

Archive export recovery

Scope: /downloads/repository.tar.gz, /downloads/repository.zip, /downloads/images.tar

docs/runbooks/archive_export_recovery.md Runbooks

Fastmod Historical Audit and Backfill

Use this runbook only as a deployment operator.

docs/runbooks/fastmod_audit_backfill.md Runbooks

Score-derived root tags

Fastmod adds effective labels when posts are read or generated output is built.

docs/runbooks/fastmod_meta_tagging.md Runbooks

High-traffic mode

High-traffic mode serves shared public HTML directly through Apache, including

docs/runbooks/high_traffic_mode.md Runbooks

Image backup and recovery

Image support uses one private local store per content instance, outside Git.

docs/runbooks/image_backup.md Runbooks

Import content from another instance

Use ./v3 import-instance to download a public instance's repository archive,

docs/runbooks/instance_content_import.md Runbooks

Documentation library, rendering and recovery

Existing Platform Docs links and direct /docs/...md URLs use the project-owned

docs/runbooks/markdown_renderer.md Runbooks

Offline Reading Runbook

Offline reading keeps recent public Board, Tag, and thread URLs usable without

docs/runbooks/offline_reading.md Runbooks

Operator Recovery Runbook

How to check and repair the production read model and workers.

docs/runbooks/operator_recovery.md Operations

Phone site-development intake: deployment and Codex configuration

This release lets an existing approved operator start a genuine Railspike Step 1 assessment from a post/reply on zenmemes.com, answer clarification questions,…

docs/runbooks/phone_site_development.md Runbooks

Phone development: live setup and resumption notes

Session: 2026-10-16–17.

docs/runbooks/phone_site_development_live_walkthrough.md Runbooks

Production Deploy Runbook

How to deploy to production, and what a shared host needs.

docs/runbooks/production_deploy.md Operations

QDB Archive Import Runbook

One-shot historical backfill that imports qdb.us's quote archive into a qdb

docs/runbooks/qdb_archive_import.md Runbooks

QDB Shared-Host Capacity Runbook

Use this runbook only after the QDB static-release path has passed staging

docs/runbooks/qdb_shared_host_capacity.md Runbooks

Theme Development Guide

How themes work and how to add one.

docs/runbooks/theme_development_guide.md Architecture

Agent Reply Analyze/Publish Contract

How POST /api/analyze_post stores a post's analysis and, when agent replies are enabled and the reply gates pass, posts the suggested reply as reply-agent.

docs/specs/agent_reply_one_step_analyze_publish_contract_v1.md Extending the Platform

Agent response metadata — named headers v1

New scripture-analysis and expansion replies use these canonical post headers:

docs/specs/agent_response_metadata_v1.md Specs

Approval acceptance receipt v1

A receipt records server-observed facts when an account key grant is accepted.

docs/specs/approval_acceptance_record_v1.md Specs

Asset Fingerprinting and CSS Splitting

Spec for the content-hash asset fingerprinting scheme

docs/specs/asset_fingerprinting_and_css_split_v1.md Specs

Attribution Cutoff Record V1

This document defines the immutable, signed record an operator writes to move