daftari 1.11.0 → 1.12.0

package/CHANGELOG.md

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 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.12.0] - 2026-05-26
+
+### Added
+
+- **Cross-platform MCPB packaging (#66).** The `.mcpb` artifact now
+  boots on both macOS (arm64) and Windows (x64). A single universal
+  package bundles platform-tagged native binaries for `better-sqlite3`
+  (under `build/Release-${platform}-${arch}/`) and `sharp`, and a
+  one-line loader patch in `better-sqlite3`'s `lib/database.js`
+  selects the right binary at runtime from `process.platform` /
+  `process.arch`. The manifest's `compatibility.platforms` is back
+  to `["darwin", "win32"]`. `npm run pack:mcpb` (new) builds the
+  universal artifact from a darwin-arm64 host.
+
+- **MCP tool annotations.** All 14 tools now carry a `title` and the
+  appropriate safety hint — `readOnlyHint` for read/search/analysis
+  tools, `destructiveHint` for write and curation tools. MCP clients
+  use these to label tools and to decide when to prompt for
+  confirmation before a call.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **`vault_write` no longer rejects writes that omit `updated` /
+  `updated_by`.** The server stamps both fields on every write, so requiring
+  callers to also supply them was redundant — and a caller who omitted them
+  (reasonably) got `invalid frontmatter: updated: missing required field;
+  updated_by: missing required field`. The fields are now filled in before
+  built-in schema validation runs, then re-stamped post-validation by
+  `performWrite` as before. Callers that still supply them keep working — the
+  server-side stamp wins, identical to the previous behavior. The MCP input
+  schema description now flags both fields as server-managed.
+
 ## [1.11.0] - 2026-05-21
 
 ### Added

package/README.md

@@ -1,276 +1,119 @@
 # Daftari
 
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+
+*Daftari* (دفتری) is the Urdu word for a ledger-keeper: the person in a
+trading house who maintained the *daftar*, the bound register where every
+transaction was recorded, cross-referenced, and preserved. The daftar was not a
+filing cabinet. It was a living document. Entries referenced earlier entries.
+Corrections were noted, not erased. The ledger got more valuable the longer it
+was kept, because the accumulated record revealed patterns no single entry
+could.
+
+Daftari is an MCP server that gives AI agents the same thing: a persistent,
+structured knowledge vault they can read, write, and curate over time. A
+cortex, not a clipboard.
+
+## The problem
+
+Every agent conversation starts from zero. RAG retrieves chunks and hopes the
+model stitches them together. AGENTS.md gives static context that nobody
+updates. The knowledge an agent builds during a session evaporates when the
+session ends.
+
+Daftari takes the other path: **compilation over retrieval.** The agent
+synthesizes an answer once, writes it back as a durable document, and every
+later read starts from that compiled result. The vault gets better the more it
+is used.
+
+A human cortex doesn’t re-derive everything from sensory input each time it
+thinks. It consolidates: experiences become memories, memories become
+structure, structure shapes future thought. Daftari gives agents the same
+loop. Drafts consolidate into canonical knowledge. Contradictions surface as
+tensions. Stale knowledge decays on a schedule. The vault is a living system,
+not a filing cabinet.
+
+## What it is
+
+A directory of markdown files with YAML frontmatter, exposed to agents as 14
+MCP tools over stdio. The vault is plain text: you can read it in any editor,
+`git log` it, grep it. Daftari adds the machinery agents need to treat it as a
+shared workspace.
 
-**An MCP server that exposes a curated markdown vault to AI agents.**
-
-Daftari is not RAG. It is not a chatbot. It is a *living, agent-maintained
-knowledge vault* — a directory of markdown files that an AI agent reads from,
-writes to, and curates over time, so that knowledge **compounds** instead of
-being re-derived on every query.
-
-> *Daftari — from دفتر (daftar): notebook, ledger, register. A word shared
-> across Urdu, Hindi, Marathi, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish for the book you
-> write things down in so you don't forget.*
-
-RAG retrieves chunks and hopes the model stitches them together. Daftari takes
-the other path: the agent does the stitching *once*, writes the synthesized
-result back as a durable document, and every later read starts from that
-compiled answer. Karpathy's framing fits — **compilation over retrieval**. The
-vault gets better the more it is used.
-
-A vault is just markdown. You can read it, `git log` it, and edit it by hand.
-Daftari adds the machinery an agent needs to treat it as a shared workspace:
-access control, write safety, provenance, and curation.
-
----
-
-## The four-layer model
-
-Daftari is built in four layers. The first two are table stakes. **The moat is
-layers 3 and 4** — anyone can store markdown and check a permission; keeping
-every write safe and attributable, and managing knowledge decay, is the hard
-part.
-
-| Layer | Concern | What Daftari provides |
-|------:|---------|-----------------------|
-| 1 | **Storage** | Markdown + YAML frontmatter on disk, a git history, a rebuildable SQLite index — FTS5 for lexical ranking, sqlite-vec for vector search. |
-| 2 | **Multi-tenant ACL** | Config-driven RBAC. Roles and per-collection read/write/promote permissions declared in `.daftari/config.yaml`. |
-| 3 | **Write safety** ⭐ | File-level write locks (SQLite-backed, 60s TTL) give single-writer-per-document safety — a competing writer fails cleanly instead of corrupting the file. This is a safety mechanism, not a coordination protocol. The ⭐ is for what is genuinely differentiated: every write auto-committed to git with a provenance log of who changed what and when. |
-| 4 | **Curation decay** ⭐ | The draft → canonical → deprecated lifecycle, TTL-based staleness, tension logging for contradictions, and an advisory linter. Knowledge that stops being true is surfaced, not silently trusted. |
-
-Layer 3 today is *safety*, not orchestration: the lock prevents file corruption
-and simultaneous writers, but a writer can still overwrite another's work if it
-composed its change against a since-changed version of the document. Closing
-that gap — with optimistic concurrency, not queuing — is the v2 direction; see
-[What's not in v1](#whats-not-in-v1).
-
-Layers 1–2 keep the vault *stored and scoped*. Layers 3–4 keep it *coherent as
-it grows* — which is the entire point of a vault that compounds.
-
----
-
-## Quickstart
-
-```bash
-# 1. Scaffold a new vault (collections, config, example documents, git, index)
+```
 npx daftari --init ./my-vault
-
-# 2. Start the MCP server against it, as an identity with a role
 npx daftari --vault ./my-vault --user me --role admin
 ```
 
-The server speaks the Model Context Protocol over stdio. Point any MCP client
-(Claude Desktop, an agent SDK, your own harness) at it. See
-[docs/getting-started.md](docs/getting-started.md) for the full walkthrough,
-including a `claude_desktop_config.json` snippet.
-
----
-
-## The MCP tools
-
-Daftari exposes 13 tools, grouped by layer.
+Point any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, an agent SDK) at it.
 
-**Read path**
+## The four layers
 
-| Tool | Description |
-|------|-------------|
-| `vault_read` | Read one document: markdown body, parsed frontmatter, an advisory validation report, and an inline decay assessment. |
-| `vault_index` | List documents, filterable by collection, status, domain, or tags. |
-| `vault_status` | Vault health dashboard: total file count, per-collection counts, count of documents with invalid frontmatter, a staleness distribution (fresh/aging/stale), unresolved tensions, and recent write history. |
+Storage and access control are table stakes. The moat is layers 3 and 4.
 
-**Search**
+|Layer                |What it does                                                                                          |Why it matters                                                         |
+|---------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
+|**Storage**          |Markdown + frontmatter on disk, git history, rebuildable SQLite index for hybrid BM25 + vector search.|Plain text is the source of truth. Delete every `.db` file and rebuild.|
+|**Access control**   |Config-driven RBAC. Roles and per-collection read/write/promote permissions in `.daftari/config.yaml`.|Multiple agents, scoped access, no user-management system.             |
+|**Write arbitration**|File-level locks (60s TTL), auto-commit to git, structured provenance log.                            |Concurrent agents write safely. Every mutation is attributable.        |
+|**Curation**         |Draft-to-canonical lifecycle, TTL-based staleness, tension logging, advisory linter.                  |Knowledge that stops being true gets surfaced, not silently trusted.   |
 
-| Tool | Description |
-|------|-------------|
-| `vault_search` | Hybrid BM25 + vector search across the vault, with tunable ranking weights; each hit carries an inline decay assessment. |
-| `vault_search_related` | Find documents thematically related to a given document. |
-| `vault_themes` | Surface thematic clusters across the vault via k-means over document-pooled embeddings. Heuristic labels (TF-IDF), per-theme coherence, representative docs, secondary docs (cross-cutting documents from other clusters that also align here), deterministic output. |
-| `vault_reindex` | Rebuild the SQLite search index from the markdown files. |
+## The tools
 
-**Write safety**
+**Read:** `vault_read`, `vault_index`, `vault_status`
 
-| Tool | Description |
-|------|-------------|
-| `vault_write` | Create or overwrite a document. Stamps `updated`/`updated_by`, preserves `created`, auto-commits. |
-| `vault_append` | Append a markdown section to a document. Re-stamps metadata, auto-commits. |
-| `vault_promote` | Promote a draft to canonical — refuses unless the draft's frontmatter is complete. |
-| `vault_deprecate` | Mark a document deprecated with a required reason and an optional `superseded_by`. |
+**Search:** `vault_search` (hybrid BM25 + vector), `vault_search_related`, `vault_themes` (thematic clustering), `vault_reindex`
 
-**Curation**
+**Write:** `vault_write`, `vault_append`, `vault_promote`, `vault_deprecate`
 
-| Tool | Description |
-|------|-------------|
-| `vault_tension_log` | Record a contradiction between two documents to the advisory tension log. Records; does not resolve. |
-| `vault_lint` | Run advisory curation checks: stale-past-TTL, orphans, old drafts, stagnant low-confidence files, deprecated-but-linked, unanswered questions. |
-| `vault_provenance` | Return a single document's full write history from the provenance log. |
+**Curate:** `vault_tension_log`, `vault_lint`, `vault_provenance`
 
-The curation engine is **advisory**: `vault_lint` reports problems and
-`vault_tension_log` records contradictions — neither auto-fixes anything. A
-human or a deliberate agent decision drives every change.
+The curation engine is advisory: `vault_lint` reports problems and
+`vault_tension_log` records contradictions. Neither auto-fixes anything. Every
+change is a deliberate, attributable act.
 
----
+## Two kinds of knowledge
 
-## What an agent call looks like
+Every document declares a `domain`. The distinction drives how the curation
+layer treats it.
 
-Daftari speaks the Model Context Protocol over stdio. An agent invokes a tool
-by name with JSON arguments; the server replies with a JSON text block. Here is
-`vault_search` against a freshly scaffolded vault (`npx daftari --init`):
+**Accumulation** documents compile and compound. A competitive-intel note, a
+pricing breakdown, a researched comparison. Each write builds on the last.
+Going stale is a problem to fix.
 
-**Request**
-
-```json
-{ "method": "tools/call", "params": {
-    "name": "vault_search",
-    "arguments": { "query": "consumption pricing", "limit": 1 } } }
-```
+**Generative** documents speculate. A moonshot sketch, a brainstorm, a “what
+if.” Going stale is expected, not a defect.
 
-**Response** — `content[0].text`, parsed:
-
-```json
-{
-  "query": "consumption pricing",
-  "count": 1,
-  "vectorUsed": true,
-  "weights": { "bm25": 0.5, "vector": 0.5 },
-  "hits": [
-    {
-      "path": "pricing/helios-consumption-pricing.md",
-      "title": "Helios Consumption Pricing (Compute Credit Model)",
-      "collection": "pricing", "status": "canonical",
-      "score": 1, "bm25Score": 1, "vectorScore": 1,
-      "snippet": "# Helios Consumption Pricing (Compute Credit Model) Helios is a fictional platform…",
-      "decay": null
-    }
-  ]
-}
-```
+The same curation rules applied uniformly would either nag about every
+brainstorm or quietly trust every stale fact. The domain split lets the system
+hold each to the right standard.
 
----
+## Access control
 
-## Search internals
-
-`vault_search` is **hybrid**: a BM25 lexical score and a vector (semantic)
-score, blended with tunable weights. Both halves are SQL-native — they
-run inside SQLite, not in JavaScript.
-
-- **Lexical half.** An FTS5 virtual table (`documents_fts`) over title,
-  tags, and body. SQLite's built-in BM25 ranks every MATCH'd row.
-  Triggers on the regular `documents` table keep the FTS index in sync
-  on every write, so the indexer never touches the virtual table
-  directly. Free-text queries are tokenised, stopword-filtered, and
-  prefix-OR'd (`cirrus pricing` becomes `cirrus* OR pricing*`) so a
-  partial-keystroke or stem variation still matches.
-
-- **Vector half.** A sqlite-vec `vec0` virtual table
-  (`embeddings_vec`), sized at the active provider's dim and indexed for
-  KNN cosine queries. The durable `embeddings` cache (one row per
-  `(content_hash, model)`) is the source of truth; `embeddings_vec`
-  mirrors it for query-time access. Switching embedding providers
-  triggers a drop-and-rebuild of the vec table at the new dim — the
-  durable cache survives, so switching back is all cache hits.
-
-**Prerequisite.** sqlite-vec is a loadable SQLite extension. The
-`sqlite-vec` npm package ships pre-built binaries for darwin / linux /
-windows on x64 and arm64; `better-sqlite3`'s npm prebuilt enables
-extension loading by default. In the common case `npm install` is the
-only setup step. If a custom `better-sqlite3` build with extension
-loading disabled is in use, Daftari refuses to start with an actionable
-error: `npm rebuild better-sqlite3 --build-from-source`.
-
-The vector half is worth being explicit about, because a local-first
-tool should never leave you guessing whether a query leaves your
-machine.
-
-### Embedding providers
-
-Daftari ships with two embedding backends. Pick one in
-`.daftari/config.yaml`:
+No user-management system. Roles live in config, the server starts with one:
 
 ```yaml
-embeddings:
-  provider: local-minilm   # default. Other values: openai-3-small.
-```
-
-- **`local-minilm`** (default). `all-MiniLM-L6-v2` (the
-  `Xenova/all-MiniLM-L6-v2` build), a 384-dimension sentence-transformer.
-  Runs entirely **local**: embeddings are computed in-process by
-  [`@huggingface/transformers`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@huggingface/transformers)
-  (Transformers.js). No external embedding API — nothing is sent to
-  Hugging Face, OpenAI, or anyone else at index or query time. Just
-  `npm install` — no Python, no API key. The **first** reindex downloads
-  the model weights (~25 MB) from the Hugging Face hub and caches them on
-  disk; every run after that is fully offline. Slow on cold start
-  (~25 min CPU on a 44k-chunk vault), but free.
-
-- **`openai-3-small`**. OpenAI's `text-embedding-3-small`, a 1536-dimension
-  hosted embedding. **Sends chunk text to OpenAI** at reindex time —
-  enable this only if you're comfortable with that. Requires
-  `OPENAI_API_KEY` in the server's environment (it is never read from
-  config files). ~10x faster than `local-minilm` on large vaults; on the
-  44k-chunk benchmark above, ~2 minutes and ~$0.10. Because Daftari's
-  embedding cache is content-addressed by `(content_hash, model)`, the
-  paid cost is a **one-time event per chunk text** — re-running
-  `vault_reindex` on an unchanged vault embeds zero new chunks. Switching
-  providers between server runs is safe: the cache keeps both providers'
-  rows, so switching back to the other later re-uses what was previously
-  embedded.
-
-- **Graceful degradation.** Whichever provider is active, if it cannot
-  reach the model (no network on the very first `local-minilm` run, before
-  the weights are cached; or OpenAI unreachable), `vault_reindex` still
-  builds the FTS5 lexical index. The vector column is left empty,
-  `vectorUsed` reports `false`, and search transparently falls back to
-  lexical-only ranking.
-
-- **Quality tradeoff.** MiniLM is small and fast, which keeps Daftari
-  dependency-light and snappy, but its recall/precision is below larger
-  hosted embedding models. `openai-3-small` is the obvious next step.
-  Pairing either with FTS5 BM25 covers the common case where a small
-  model misses an exact-term match.
-
----
-
-## RBAC
-
-Access is config-driven. There is no user-management system — roles and their
-per-collection permissions live in `.daftari/config.yaml`, and the server is
-started with `--role <name>` to select one:
-
-```yaml
-version: 1
-vault_name: my-vault
-
 roles:
   analyst:
     read: [competitive-intel, pricing]
     write: [competitive-intel, _drafts]
   researcher:
-    read: ["*"]            # "*" matches every collection
+    read: ["*"]
     write: [moonshot, _drafts]
   admin:
     read: ["*"]
     write: ["*"]
-    promote: true          # only this role may promote drafts to canonical
+    promote: true
 ```
 
-- `read` — collections the role may read and search
-- `write` — collections the role may create, append to, or deprecate in
-- `promote` — whether the role may promote a draft to canonical (default `false`)
-
-Starting the server with no `--role`, or with a name not in the config, falls
-back to a deny-all **guest**: every tool is denied.
-
----
+No `--role` or an unknown name falls back to deny-all.
 
 ## File format
 
-Every document is a markdown file with a YAML frontmatter block. Frontmatter
-*is* the metadata layer — there is no separate database of record.
+Markdown with YAML frontmatter. Frontmatter is the metadata layer; there is no
+separate database.
 
-```markdown
+```yaml
 ---
 title: "Aurora Pipelines — Positioning Overview"
 domain: accumulation
@@ -280,231 +123,64 @@ confidence: medium
 created: 2026-05-17
 updated: 2026-05-17
 updated_by: agent:claude-code
-provenance: direct
+provenance: synthesized
 sources:
   - aurora-product-page
-superseded_by: null
 ttl_days: 120
 tags: [aurora, ingestion, competitive]
 questions_answered:
-  - "How does Aurora frame the ingestion-vs-transformation boundary?"
+  - "How does Aurora frame the ingestion/transformation boundary?"
 questions_raised:
   - "Does an authored-pipeline model slow teams down at small scale?"
 ---
-
-# Aurora Pipelines — Positioning Overview
-
-Aurora Pipelines treats ingestion as an authored, version-controlled artifact
-rather than a managed black box.
-
-## Questions Answered
-- How does Aurora frame the ingestion-vs-transformation boundary?
-
-## Questions Raised
-- Does an authored-pipeline model slow teams down at small scale?
 ```
 
-The optional `questions_answered` / `questions_raised` frontmatter fields make
-a document's epistemic edges explicit and **queryable**: `vault_index` can
-filter on open questions and `vault_lint` flags questions no document answers.
-The matching `## Questions Answered` / `## Questions Raised` body sections are
-an optional human-readable mirror. Full field reference in
-[docs/file-format.md](docs/file-format.md).
+Documents can make their epistemic edges explicit: `questions_answered` is what
+later agents can take as settled, `questions_raised` is where to build next.
+`vault_lint` turns the open questions across the vault into a coverage map.
 
-Daftari's built-in frontmatter covers most vaults out of the box. For
-domain-specific fields, add a `schema_extensions` block to
-`.daftari/config.yaml` — typed extension fields that participate in validation
-and serialize in a stable order, with no core schema change. See
-[docs/schema-extensions.md](docs/schema-extensions.md).
+Full field reference in <docs/file-format.md>.
 
----
+## How it compares
 
-## Vault hooks
+|                    |AGENTS.md        |RAG                          |Daftari                              |
+|--------------------|-----------------|-----------------------------|-------------------------------------|
+|Who writes?         |Humans           |Nobody (retrieval only)      |Agents + humans                      |
+|Scales?             |One file, doesn’t|Scales storage, not coherence|Structured collections with lifecycle|
+|Knowledge compounds?|No               |No                           |Yes, draft → canonical → deprecated  |
+|Contradictions?     |Invisible        |Invisible                    |Tension log surfaces them            |
+|Staleness?          |Silent           |Silent                       |TTL-based decay with advisory lint   |
 
-Hooks are vault-owner-supplied functions that run **before every write** to
-this vault. They let an organisation enforce conventions the built-in
-frontmatter validator does not know about — naming rules, status-transition
-guards, business-specific cross-field invariants, refusal lists — without
-forking daftari or wrapping the MCP server. A hook is a plain ES module that
-exports a default function and returns a list of `ValidationIssue` objects.
-Any issue blocks the write, exactly the way a built-in schema violation does.
+## What’s not in v1
 
-Hooks are declared in `.daftari/config.yaml`:
+Deliberately deferred to keep the surface tight:
 
-```yaml
-hooks:
-  pre_write:
-    - path: .daftari/hooks/forbid-status-skip.mjs
-    - path: .daftari/hooks/require-decision-id.mjs
-```
+- **Cloud-hosted multi-tenant server** with S3/GCS backend and token auth
+- **Remote MCP transport** for claude.ai web, mobile, and Cowork (v1 is a local desktop extension for Claude Desktop and Claude Code)
+- **Conflict resolution beyond file-level locks** (CRDTs, semantic merge)
+- **Background curation agent** running lint on a cadence
+- **LLM reranking** of search results
+- **Enforced domain separation** (v1 documents the convention; v2 enforces it)
 
-The `path` is vault-root-relative. Hooks run in declared order. Every hook
-runs on every write, even if an earlier hook produced issues — the caller
-gets one consolidated list back, not the first failure.
-
-A hook looks like this:
-
-```ts
-// .daftari/hooks/forbid-status-skip.mjs
-//
-// ValidationIssue = { field: string; message: string }
-// context         = { path: string; operation: 'create' | 'update' | 'append' }
-export default function forbidStatusSkip(frontmatter, context) {
-  if (context.operation !== "update") return [];
-  if (frontmatter.status === "canonical" && frontmatter.previous_status === "draft") {
-    return [
-      {
-        field: "status",
-        message: "draft → canonical is not allowed; promote via the dedicated tool",
-      },
-    ];
-  }
-  return [];
-}
-```
-
-A hook is called with the already-stamped frontmatter the write is about to
-land (so `updated` and `updated_by` reflect this call, not the previous
-version on disk). The hook **must not mutate its inputs**; v1 is
-validate-only. Returning a non-array, or an array containing malformed issue
-objects, is itself reported as a blocking issue tagged with the hook path —
-hook bugs surface as loud failures, not silent passes.
-
-### Transform hooks
-
-A `pre_write` hook can observe and reject, but it cannot *change* the
-frontmatter a write lands. **Transform hooks** can. A transform hook runs in an
-earlier phase — before built-in schema validation — so it can derive or
-override frontmatter fields the validator would otherwise reject as missing.
-
-Transform hooks are declared under their own key, `pre_write_transform`:
-
-```yaml
-hooks:
-  pre_write_transform:
-    - path: .daftari/hooks/derive-status.mjs
-  pre_write:
-    - path: .daftari/hooks/forbid-status-skip.mjs
-```
-
-The phase order is fixed regardless of how the config lists the blocks: every
-`pre_write_transform` hook runs (in declared order), then built-in schema
-validation, then every `pre_write` validator (in declared order). A transform
-always runs before any validator sees the frontmatter.
-
-A transform hook returns a `Partial<Frontmatter>` patch — *not* a list of
-issues:
-
-```ts
-// .daftari/hooks/derive-status.mjs
-//
-// context = { path: string; operation: 'create' | 'update' | 'append' }
-export default function deriveStatus(frontmatter, context) {
-  if (frontmatter.decision_status === "ACTIVE") {
-    return { status: "canonical" };
-  }
-  return {}; // no change
-}
-```
-
-The runner merges each patch into the candidate frontmatter **`Object.assign`
-style**: shallow, last-writer-wins. A key present in the patch replaces the
-existing value outright — arrays are replaced whole, never appended to or
-merged element-wise. When two transforms target the same field, the
-later-declared one wins. Each transform sees the merged output of every
-transform declared before it.
-
-A transform **refuses by throwing** — it does not return issues. A throw
-becomes a synthetic blocking issue tagged with the hook path, identical to the
-`pre_write` throw mechanism. Returning anything that is not an object (an
-array, a primitive, `null`) is likewise a blocking issue.
-
-Because transforms run before validation, a transform that sets an invalid
-value — a `status` outside the allowed set, say — is caught by the built-in
-validator exactly as a bad user-supplied value would be.
-
-### Trust model
-
-Hooks are **trusted code**. They run in the same Node process as the daftari
-server, with the same filesystem and network access. v1 does no sandboxing,
-no permission prompts, no signature checking — the vault owner is responsible
-for the contents of `.daftari/hooks/`. Treat hook files the way you would
-treat `package.json` scripts or git hooks: review every change, never run a
-vault you don't trust, and pin hook code in source control next to the
-config that loads it. If you need stronger isolation than that, don't
-register hooks in v1.
-
-### Scope and limits in v1
-
-- **Surfaces:** `pre_write` (validators) and `pre_write_transform`
-  (field-deriving transforms). Future surfaces (`pre_read`, `post_write`,
-  etc.) are reserved — unrecognised keys under `hooks:` are a loud config
-  error, not a silent skip.
-- **Operations:** both hook surfaces fire for `vault_write` (create + update)
-  and `vault_append`. `vault_promote` and `vault_deprecate` deliberately
-  bypass hooks — they're narrow metadata mutations the server controls
-  end-to-end.
-- **Two phases:** a `pre_write` hook returns a list of issues and can only
-  reject. A `pre_write_transform` hook returns a `Partial<Frontmatter>` patch
-  and can derive or override fields before validation — see "Transform
-  hooks" above.
-- **Sync:** hook bodies are synchronous functions. The loader is async
-  (it has to dynamic-import the module), but each individual hook call is
-  not awaited.
-- **No caching across calls:** hooks are re-imported per write; expect to
-  pay one ESM dynamic-import per declared hook per call. The next iteration
-  may cache. Edits to a hook file are picked up on the next write — no
-  server restart required.
-
-See [issue #29](https://github.com/mavaali/daftari/issues/29) for the design
-rationale and the alternatives that were rejected.
-
----
-
-## What's not in v1
-
-A few capabilities were deliberately deferred so v1 ships with a tight,
-defensible surface — a server that does its core job well rather than a wide
-one that does many jobs partially. Not in this release:
-
-- **Self-hosted server mode** — a long-lived HTTP/SSE server multiple clients
-  connect to, with pluggable cloud-storage backends (ADLS, S3, GCS) and OAuth
-  authentication. Self-hosted by the operator, *not* a managed service. v1 runs
-  against a local filesystem as a single stdio process.
-- **LLM reranking of search results** — a model pass over the BM25 + vector
-  candidate set. v1 ships hybrid ranking without a rerank stage.
-- **Enforced domain separation** — v1 *documents* the convention that
-  generative-domain documents are not cross-referenced into accumulation pages;
-  the write tools do not yet enforce it. v2 will.
-
-Each of these is a clean increment on top of a surface that already works —
-deliberately deferred, not forgotten.
-
----
-
-## Documentation
-
-- [docs/getting-started.md](docs/getting-started.md) — end-to-end walkthrough: scaffold, write, search, lint, promote, deprecate, and connect from Claude Desktop.
-- [docs/worked-example.md](docs/worked-example.md) — the compilation thesis shown, not argued: one document maturing across three agent writes, contrasted with RAG.
-- [docs/architecture.md](docs/architecture.md) — the layered architecture, the request path, and the accumulation-vs-generative domain split.
-- [docs/curation-workflow.md](docs/curation-workflow.md) — the reference curation loop: how an agent acts on `vault_lint` output instead of letting it pile up.
-- [docs/file-format.md](docs/file-format.md) — the complete frontmatter reference and markdown body conventions.
-- [docs/schema-extensions.md](docs/schema-extensions.md) — declaring typed, vault-specific frontmatter fields with a `schema_extensions` config block.
-
----
+Each is a clean increment on a surface that already works.
 
 ## Development
 
-```bash
+```
 npm install
-npm run build      # compile TypeScript to dist/
-npm test           # run the vitest suite
-npm run dev        # run the server in watch mode against the sample vault
+npm run build
+npm test
 ```
 
 Design tenets: functions and types, no classes; tool handlers return
 `Result<T, Error>` rather than throwing; tests mirror the `src/` structure.
 
+## Documentation
+
+- <docs/getting-started.md> — scaffold, write, search, lint, promote, deprecate
+- <docs/architecture.md> — layered design, request path, accumulation vs. generative domains
+- <docs/file-format.md> — complete frontmatter reference
+
 ## License
 
-MIT. Open source — `daftari` on npm, [`mavaali/daftari`](https://github.com/mavaali/daftari) on GitHub.
+MIT.

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