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Aron PrinsandClaude Opus 5 325c9eb819 seo: hand-write titles and descriptions for all 192 pages (#115)
## Why

The build derived `<title>` from the **sidebar label** and the
description from the **first paragraph clipped to 220 characters**. Both
are the wrong source. A sidebar label is written for a 240px-wide nav
that supplies its own context; a search result has none.

On production that produced:

- **7 pages titled "Overview"**, and 32 pages sharing a title with
another page
- **109 of 193 descriptions cut off mid-word**, and 174 over 160
characters (where Google truncates)

```
/guides/welcome/key-concepts/
  BEFORE (220):  ...and if you misunderstand them early, the product wi
```

Near-identical titles are the weak-differentiation signal behind
"crawled — currently not indexed", which is the exact symptom on this
property.

## What changed

`seo_title` and `seo_description` frontmatter on **every one of the 192
pages**, written by hand against each page's real content and optimised
for the click — lead with what the reader can do, name the concrete
things covered, no keyword stuffing, no repeating the title.

| | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Duplicate titles | 32 pages | **0** |
| Duplicate descriptions | — | **0** |
| Descriptions cut mid-word | 109 | **0** |
| Descriptions over 160 chars | 174 | **0** |
| Title length (incl. suffix) | up to "Overview" | **26–60** |
| Description length | 31–240 | **122–158** |

**No prose was rewritten.** I measured content overlap between the
colliding pairs first — only 17–23%, so these were always distinct pages
wearing the same label, not duplicate content. The `docs/` diff is **564
insertions, zero deletions**.

### Examples

```
BEFORE — all seven identical:  "Overview | Paperclip Docs"
AFTER:  "Adapters Overview"      "API Overview"        "CLI Overview"
        "Deployment Overview"    "Bundled Skills"      "Optional Skills"
        "Experimental Features"

BEFORE — both identical:  "Issues | Paperclip Docs"
AFTER:  "Issues: Creating and Tracking Work"   /guides/day-to-day/issues/
        "Issues API"                           /reference/api/issues/
```

```
/guides/getting-started/five-minute-path/
BEFORE (220):  The shortest route from a running Paperclip instance to an agent that has
               just completed work for you. After Paperclip is installed, the path takes
               about 5 minutes: create a company, hire a CEO agent, approve its first s
AFTER  (131):  Install Paperclip, create a company, hire a CEO agent, and approve its
               first strategy — a working AI company in about five minutes.
```

## Plumbing

- **`site/build-release.mjs`** prefers the authored fields; the derived
path stays only as a fallback the CI gate prevents ever reaching.
`<title>`, `<meta name="description">`, and the `TechArticle` JSON-LD
all read from the same source.
- **`site/app.js`** uses the same fields, so a client-side transition
cannot leave a different title on screen than the crawler was served.
Verified in-browser: navigating `/guides/day-to-day/issues/` →
`/reference/api/issues/` swaps to exactly the server-rendered values, no
JS errors.
- **`scripts/verify-seo-metadata.mjs`** (new) enforces presence,
uniqueness, length, complete-sentence endings, and the
frontmatter-safety rules. Wired into `docs:test` and CI as its own step.

I negative-tested the gate rather than assuming it works — it correctly
fails on a duplicate title, a mid-word description, and a missing field,
and passes again once restored.

## Automating it going forward

`skills/sync-docs/SKILL.md` now:

- gains an **"Authored SEO metadata"** section: why the fields exist,
the enforced rules as a table, and how to actually write them (title
names the subject not the nav position; description writes for the
click; never generate mechanically from the first paragraph — *that is
the fallback the gate exists to prevent*).
- requires both fields in the **page-authoring instruction** given to
every subagent, with guidance on when to update an existing description
versus leave it.
- runs `docs:test:seo-metadata` and `docs:test:crawlable-links` as
**fail-loud gates in Phase 7** before commit.
- documents all six build gates in the files/gates section.

So once this lands, a new page cannot ship without hand-written
metadata, and a title collision cannot reach production.

## Verified

All six verifiers pass:

```
Static route verification passed
Asset fingerprint verification passed
Hierarchical Skills nav verification passed
Skill source block verification passed (11 skill pages, 1 control page)
Crawlable-link contract passed: 40886 internal links across 194 pages resolve in one hop
Authored-SEO contract passed: 192 pages carry a unique, hand-written seo_title and seo_description
```

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-08-25 22:51:42 +02:00
631a6a0c53 Release docs for paperclip v2026.817.0 (content + screenshot overhaul) (#95)
Ships the v2026.817.0 docs to live: the doc content that was authored
and verified
earlier, plus a full screenshot overhaul.

The content half (`cdf81e2` and the nightly commits behind it) has
already been
reviewed. **The screenshots are the part that needs eyes** — `f24d734`,
342 PNGs.

## Screenshots

Everything was recaptured against the release commit
`213dabab4f8e1f3bb1803a2924c0fea1289fcd4c`
(`upstream/candidate/release-2026.817.0`). The previous shots were 375
parent-commits stale (v2026.720.0), with 228 of 310 entries flagged
pending. All
342 registry entries now carry that SHA.

> ⚠️ Worth knowing: the release commit is **not** an ancestor of the
parent's
> `master`, and local `master` was four days *older* than it. Capturing
against
> `master` would have both missed release UI and leaked 93 post-tag
commits' worth
> of UI into the release docs.

### New coverage (34 entries)

Three guides shipped with **no images at all** despite being 115–136
lines. They
now have them:

| Guide | Shots |
|---|---|
| `guides/day-to-day/decisions.md` | queue, an agent-proposed decision
with its options, triage strip, filter panel, named queue, Decided
curtain, empty state |
| `experimental/status-cards.md` | board, New card dialog, and all four
drawer tabs |
| `experimental/task-chat.md` | thread, composer mode picker, side pane
|
| `reference/api/secrets.md` | the board-side Proposals tab |

Chat-Style Tasks is captured in a **separate pass**:
`enableTaskChatRedesign` is
instance-wide, so leaving it on would have turned every classic
issue/task/work-mode
shot into the redesigned chat.

## Two defects that were already live

Both were shipping in the docs before this PR:

1. **`issues/detail-chat.png` and the `tasks/*` shots were mostly plugin
debug
output.** The Kitchen Sink example plugin mounts a panel into the issue
page
that dumps the raw issue JSON, and the seed installed it. Those guides
were
illustrating a debug panel instead of the task page. The seed no longer
   installs it.
2. **The seeded task thread was a monologue** — four board-user messages
in a row,
because the board actor cannot post agent comments. It is now a real
two-sided
   exchange.

## Targets repointed because the UI moved

| Target | Why |
|---|---|
| `activity/*` | `Activity.tsx` deleted; `/activity` renders
`pages/audit/CompanyActivity.tsx` |
| `experimental/cloud-upstream` | `CloudUpstream.tsx` deleted; the route
now redirects to `/company/export` |
| `settings/*`, `plugins/*`, `adapters/*` | `/instance/settings/*` are
legacy redirects now |
| `dashboard/stale-tasks-panel` | panel removed from `Dashboard.tsx` —
target dropped |

Plus eight targets with **silent selector drift**. A failed interaction
step falls
back to "whatever state was reached", so these had been quietly
producing wrong
images — a plain inbox where the doc promised a mode picker, a whole
dashboard
where it promised one panel. Full table in
`docs/user-guides/screenshots/SCREENSHOTS_PLAN_v2026.817.0.md` §C2.

## Pipeline

Decisions, status-card summaries and secret proposals are all
**agent-authored**,
and the board actor the seed runs as is refused by every one of them
(`"Agent run context required"`, `"Secret proposals require a verified
run-bound
agent token"`). Rather than insert rows behind the API,
`seed-new-surfaces.mjs`
borrows the two doors a real run already has — a board-minted agent API
key, and a
locally signed agent JWT — so every write goes through the production
code path.

Also:
- `capture.mjs` records a real `captured_against` on a detached checkout
instead of
the literal string `"HEAD"` (which is what every pre-2026.817 entry
recorded), and
  gains a `scrollTo` step for content below the fold.
- `run.mjs` gains `--serve` for iterating on the seed, the task-chat
phase, and a
keeper that holds the demo board's issue statuses steady — the demo
`process`
agents finish runs without declaring a disposition, so the stalled-work
sweep
re-blocks issues every few minutes over a capture that runs far longer.

## Reviewing

Light and dark both captured at 1440×900 @2x. The new surfaces are the
ones to
scrutinise; the rest is a like-for-like refresh.

### One leftover

Dropping `dashboard/stale-tasks-panel` leaves
`{light,dark}/dashboard/stale-tasks-panel.png`
tracked but unused — they need deleting by hand.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: DevRel Gemini <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Paperclip <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Dotta <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: ClaudeCoder <[email protected]>
2026-08-18 12:43:56 +02:00
Aron PrinsandClaude Opus 4.8 2ff5539127 nightly: skills "required" retirement, paperclip-dev cleanup, task watchdogs guide (paperclip d1e6662e)
Round 2 — worked the human-review items, verified each against parent source:

- Skills: the per-agent `required` attribute is retired upstream
  (AgentSkillEntry dropped required/requiredReason; AgentSkillOrigin dropped
  paperclip_required; resolveDesiredSkillAssignment now persists exactly the
  desired set with no bundled union). Fixed reference/skills.md and
  reference/cli/skills.md: removed "non-required" qualifiers, the retired
  `required` frontmatter row, the wrong "forced into every agent" claim, and
  corrected the snapshot example + the UI grouping (Company skills + Unmanaged,
  no "Required" group).
- paperclip-dev skill removed upstream: dropped from the bundled list and
  swapped stale source/key examples to paperclip-create-agent.
- Experimental features: strengthened the settings.md caution to match the new
  in-app "no compatibility guarantees" warning.
- Task watchdogs: new operator guide page (guides/projects-workflow/
  task-watchdogs.md) + nav entry. API/config/behaviour verified against
  routes/issues.ts, schema/issue_watchdogs.ts, and doc/TASK-WATCHDOG.md intent.

Reviewed, no change needed: instance-scoped environments (routes still match
docs), skills store (UI reframe; guide already accurate), plugin-sdk lease
params (fields not documented).

verify-edit all clean; build/links/nav/drift all green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-06-22 11:42:03 +02:00
Aron PrinsandClaude Opus 4.8 b243dfe70d Release docs for paperclip v2026.609.0
Publish accumulated nightly drafts to main and document the new surfaces
shipped between v2026.529.0 and v2026.609.0 (130 parent commits).

New pages (gaps not covered by nightly drafts):
- docs/reference/cli/token.md — `token agent` / `token board` API-key commands
- docs/reference/cli/connect.md — interactive `connect` setup wizard
- docs/reference/api/teams-catalog.md — teams catalog REST API

Also:
- Stamp paperclip_version: v2026.609.0 on 49 release doc pages
- Register the 3 new pages in site/content.json nav
- Bump .sync-state.json base_release_tag to v2026.609.0

Verification: 49 pages checked against v2026.609.0; 11 verifier flags,
all confirmed false-positives (flagged flags/env-vars exist in parent).
Drift: 0. Reconciliation: 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-06-10 12:08:31 +02:00
Aron PrinsandClaude Opus 4.8 70ed497e12 nightly: full CLI reference handbook + wireframe skill + OpenAPI endpoint
CLI API-parity coverage (paperclip #6626, parent 03e1e3ab) cleared 24h
quarantine and is now eligible. Adopt the comprehensive per-command CLI
reference under Reference → CLI, replacing the single-page commands.md
monolith. Guide/runbook track deferred to a later expansion.

- Reference → CLI rebuilt to 28 per-command pages (overview, installation,
  common-options, output-and-scripting, setup, dev-environments,
  authentication, company, project, goal, issue, agent, prompt, run,
  routine, adapter, approval, activity, dashboard, cost, workspace, access,
  skills, secrets, cloud, plugin, asset, feedback).
- Retire commands.md + control-plane-commands.md → "moved" tombstones plus
  route redirects in site/redirects.json. Repoint inbound links
  (reference/skills.md, how-to/sync-to-cloud-upstream.md).
- Rewrite deferred-guide links to existing equivalents; smooth an
  installation.md example that tripped a drift false-positive.
- Document the bundled `wireframe` catalog skill (reference/skills.md,
  guides/org/skills.md).
- Add the GET /api/openapi.json endpoint to the API overview
  (server/src/routes/openapi.ts).

Verified: docs:build OK, sync:check OK (links clean, drift 0, screenshots
indexed; 2 intended tombstone orphans). Regenerated PENDING.md +
SCREENSHOTS_PENDING.md; updated .sync-state.json.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-06-04 21:26:13 +02:00