Fixed a silent infrastructure breakage: the HANDLES KV binding had been dropped when Aneesh's Oracle commit introduced wrangler.jsonc on May 12, causing the contributors page, submit form, and admin UI to fail silently ever since. Fixed by adding the binding to wrangler.jsonc and manually writing the missing KV entry for Sean Stevenson. Added ARCHITECTURE.md as a full technical reference for the website stack (bindings, deployment, APIs, pipelines), and a proper README.md for the GitHub repo landing page.
A running log of non-trivial changes, maintained by contributors.
Added rebuild.yml GitHub Actions workflow — pushes to devlog.md or blurbs.md now auto-rebuild and deploy the site, no manual build.py or wrangler step needed. Added session wrap-up checklist to CLAUDE.md and a security policy (no credentials in tracked files) to CONTRIBUTING.md. Opened issue #10 proposing wiki generation pipeline and browsing layer options.
Promoted Aneesh's Oracle preview to /oracle — the stub is now the live RAG interface. /notes redirects to /oracle. Oracle is public (no auth gate). Nav updated to include Devlog. Also merged PR #9 (Oracle infrastructure): created R2 bucket worldmachines-notes, applied Pages R2+AI bindings, set up CFAITOKEN/CFR2TOKEN GitHub secrets, ran first notes-ingest (743 notes embedded). Added two raw notes: Prime Radiant and Stigmergic-Verbose Cycle. Opened issue #10 proposing wiki generation pipeline.
Working Oracle preview at /notes: a personal-notes Parquet on R2 with EmbeddingGemma-300M vectors per row, in-browser DuckDB-WASM does cosine-similarity retrieval, Gemma-4-26B answers via a Pages Function — single-voice Oracle output, no citations. tools/notes-pipeline/ uv project builds the parquet (single- or multi-contributor mode). A new notes-ingest GitHub workflow rebuilds and uploads the parquet on every push to raw-notes/. ADR at wiki/decisions/0001-notes-oracle-architecture.md. Page is unlinked from site nav and not at /oracle — that stub stays until Venkat reviews.
Added a "Project Chat" link to the site nav pointing to the Zulip server (worldmachines.zulipchat.com), so contributors can find the chat from any page.
Governance and tooling session. Reviewed and merged Kyle's repo restructure PR; resolved a ruleset conflict where the hard PR-gate was blocking the ingest bot, settling on soft governance (CODEOWNERS and approval-policy workflow active but advisory). Added this devlog page and a devlog-check workflow to flag non-trivial commits that skip the log.
Reorganized the repository for multi-person collaboration. Three zones now: raw-notes/ for per-collaborator working notes, wiki/ for the shared AI-organized knowledge layer, and website/ for the public site. Added CODEOWNERS and an approval-policy workflow enforcing zone-specific review requirements (website PRs need Venkat; wiki PRs need any admin; raw-notes are self-owned).
Metadata backfill. Recovered publication dates for all 22 essays via trafilatura URL extraction, and first-publication years for 31 of 38 books via the Open Library API. Seven books still need manual correction — the API returned edition or translation dates rather than original publication years.
Site structure and contributor tooling. Split content into a blurb landing page, /contributions for member essays, and /resources for the curated reading list. Added self-service /profile editing, a /theory introduction page, and a comprehensive CSS overhaul. Batch-loaded all 60 articles (22 contributions, 38 resources/books).
Project launch. Stood up the full pipeline: Cloudflare Pages hosting at worldmachines.org, Access email-OTP gate for contributors, Pages Functions backed by KV for the handle registry, and GitHub Actions ingest (trafilatura text extraction → build.py HTML generation → Pages deploy).