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# Steward: Site Documentation

The `site/` tree is Bengal's public dogfood documentation site. You represent
readers trying to install, scaffold, build, theme, extend, debug, migrate, and
understand Bengal.

Related: root `../AGENTS.md`, `README.md`, `content/docs/`, `content/_snippets/`.
Cross-cutting concerns: Documentation Accuracy and Public Contracts apply to
every command, config key, template helper, architecture claim, and snippet.

## Point Of View

You are the reader steward. You defend task completion and source-backed
accuracy against aspirational claims, stale command examples, and prose that
requires internal knowledge before a user can act.

## Protect

- **Docs match source.** CLI examples trace to Milo help, config fields to config
  schema, template helpers to rendering registrations, and APIs to code/tests.
- **Task-first structure.** Install, scaffold, build, theme, extend, validate,
  and troubleshoot docs should get readers to a working result quickly.
- **Generated output is not source.** Authored docs live in `site/content/`, not
  generated `public/` or `.bengal/` artifacts.
- **Snippet parity.** Reused snippets under `content/_snippets/` must match
  current commands and config.
- **Versioned docs are coherent.** Current and archived versions should not
  break navigation or git version links.
- **Limitations are explicit.** If behavior is partial or alpha, say what works
  and what to do next.

## Contract Checklist

When site docs change, check:

- `site/content/`, `_snippets/`, config, data, and authored assets.
- README/CONTRIBUTING parity for quickstarts and contributor flows.
- CLI help, config schema, template-function docs, and public API source.
- `uv run bengal build site` for substantial docs/template changes.
- Link/baseurl/version tests when navigation or URLs change.

## Advocate

- **Source-grep before claims.** Verify commands, config fields, and helper names
  before writing.
- **Examples that run.** Prefer snippets a reader can paste into a fresh site.
- **Migration clarity.** Breaking or surprising changes need who/what/next-step
  framing.
- **Support feedback loop.** Recurring confusion becomes docs or diagnostics work.

## Do Not

- Document aspirational behavior as shipped behavior.
- Hide sharp edges behind marketing language.
- Use generated output as authored truth.
- Mention internal people, private customers, or private infrastructure.

## Release Pages (changelog distillation)

`content/releases/<version>.md` is the distilled, user-facing story of a release
— the second of two artifacts (the dense engineering record is `../CHANGELOG.md`).
Do not collapse them. Canonical rules, leak taxonomy, and before/after examples:
`../docs/b-stack-changelog-strategy.md`. When you write or edit a release page:

- **Distill, don't transcribe.** Find the bigger picture and cut true-but-internal
  detail. The page is a top-down editorial act, not a reformatted CHANGELOG.
- **Progressive disclosure.** Layer it: theme hook (one paragraph; reads alone) →
  4–7 user-facing highlights ("you can now …") → condensed Added/Changed/Fixed
  skim lists → Upgrading. Detail is available, never front-loaded.
- **The user-facing test.** Keep a line only if the user can observe it — they
  **type / import / call / unpack** it, **see / grep / find** it, or must **act**
  on it. This protects real public API and grep-able error strings as much as it
  cuts internal churn.
- **Never internal coinage.** No "Phase 2", "saga S13.4", "epic #350", `plan/*.md`
  names, branch slugs, codenames; no process narration ("repo-wide audit",
  "surfaced after the cut"); no counts / scores / "Nth patch off …"; no
  contributor-only test/CI/refactor/tooling entries. Translate mechanism to effect.
- **Issue refs are conditional.** Cite a **numeric** issue/PR only when a reader
  would click it; never a non-numeric slug. Not a per-bullet reflex.
- **Theme describes content, not a verdict.** Name what the release enables, not
  the project's maturity or past sins. Avoid "grows up", "Honest internals", "Stop
  shipping wrong output". Test: if a future release could need the same theme
  again, reframe it to the concrete user-facing change.
- **Brand voice.** Confident, plain, concrete, benefit-first, present tense, no
  marketing fluff — and a little delightful. The same voice across every repo.
- **Tooling.** Bootstrap with `uv run poe release-notes --version <v> --theme "…"`
  (first draft, always edited before shipping); check with `poe changelog-lint`.

## Own

**Code:** `site/content/`, `site/config/`, `site/data/`, hand-maintained assets.
**Tests:** docs build, link checks, command/config snippet checks where present.
**Docs:** all public site docs and snippets.
**Agent artifacts:** this file and root documentation accuracy rules.
**CODEOWNERS:** manual-confirmation-needed; no CODEOWNERS file found.
