tileflow 0.1.0-alpha.18 → 0.1.0-alpha.19

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- # Hosted authentication and deploy
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- Start with the [tileflow guide](https://github.com/tileflow/tileflow-sdk/blob/main/packages/cli/README.md) for installation and a complete first example.
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- Hosted writes have two independent authorization paths:
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-
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- - Personal developer session: run `npx tileflow login` once for a
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- Tileflow API origin. Login authenticates the account and selects no Map.
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- Map commands exchange it for a brief Map capability; tileset commands use a separate Team data
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- capability.
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- - CI key: create a dashboard `CI deploy` key, store it as
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- `TILEFLOW_API_KEY`, and let the repository workflow deploy without a local login. The server
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- binds that key to exactly one Map.
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-
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- Hosted control-plane requests stay pinned to the configured HTTP(S) origin, apply a hard bounded
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- timeout, and stream at most 1 MiB of response data. CLI diagnostics never echo an untrusted remote
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- response body or bearer credential.
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- Inspect the account, then target the Map shown in the dashboard:
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-
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- ```sh
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- npx tileflow whoami --json
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- npx tileflow deploy --map-id map_AbCdEfGhIjKlMnOp
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- npx tileflow status --map-id map_AbCdEfGhIjKlMnOp
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- npx tileflow logout
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- ```
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-
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- Changing or resetting the hosted account password revokes saved personal CLI sessions. The next
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- account or hosted command stops with a clear message and asks you to run `tileflow login` again.
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- Project API and CI keys are independent project credentials and are not removed by a personal
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- password change.
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- ## Create the Map from the terminal
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- After `tileflow login`, the CLI can create the Map itself; nothing has to be copied from the
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- dashboard. Run `deploy` without `--map-id`, or create the Map first with `maps create`:
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- ```sh
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- npx tileflow login
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- npx tileflow deploy --origin https://www.example.com
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- npx tileflow maps create --any-website --json
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- ```
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- The new Map belongs to a Team you administer. When you administer exactly one Team that can add a
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- Map, the CLI uses it; when several can, it asks, or takes `--team @team`; when none can, it stops
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- and says why (no administered Team, or every Team has reached its Map limit).
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- Browser access is always an explicit choice: `--origin` with an exact website origin such as
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- `https://www.example.com` (repeat it for up to 20 sites), or `--any-website`. Paths, wildcards and
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- bare host names are rejected. On a terminal the CLI asks; without one (for example when an agent
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- runs it), a missing choice stops before anything is created and names the flags. Browser access
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- is stored with the Map in Tileflow and can be changed in the dashboard; it is never written to the
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- repository.
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- `deploy` creates the Map only after the local config, assets and styles pass, then publishes to it
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- in the same run and prints `tileflow deploy --map-id <mapId>` for later deploys. If the manifest
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- already records a Map for that repository map, `deploy` stops and shows that command instead of
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- creating another Map. Each creation prints a setup key; rerunning an interrupted command with
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- `--setup-key <key>` returns the same Map instead of a second one.
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- Map creation uses only the personal session. With `TILEFLOW_API_KEY`, `--api-key`, `--with-native`,
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- or in CI, `deploy` requires `--map-id`.
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- ## Deploy to an existing Map
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- A Map created in the dashboard, or by an earlier CLI run, is deployed with its exact Map ID. If the
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- config contains several maps, select the authored map explicitly:
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- ```sh
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- npx tileflow deploy \
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- --map-id map_AbCdEfGhIjKlMnOp \
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- --map store-locator
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- ```
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- The Map ID is a public destination, not a credential. A successful server-confirmed deploy keeps
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- unrelated manifest entries and records that Map's stable ID, hosted theme URLs, World `v1`
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- generation, and fixed session usage mode. Browser access remains server-owned and is never read
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- from or written to repository configuration. Do not add an API key or payment authority to a copied
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- prompt.
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- Team tileset commands exchange the same account session for a separate Team-scoped data capability;
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- it carries no Map authority. Inspect and preview remain account-free:
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- ```sh
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- npx tileflow tileset inspect ./data/stores.pmtiles --json
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- npx tileflow tileset inspect ./data/stores.pmtiles \
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- --include-values category,status --json
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- npx tileflow tileset publish ./data/stores.pmtiles \
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- --id stores --team @acme --attribution 'Store data © Example' --json
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- npx tileflow tileset list --team @acme --json
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- npx tileflow tileset status stores --team @acme --json
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- ```
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- Inspection schema 1 separates authoritative PMTiles/TileJSON declarations from bounded MVT
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- observations. Sampled fields report present/missing feature counts, observed distinct-value counts,
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- numeric min/max, and truncation. Raw primitive values remain absent unless `--include-values`
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- explicitly selects their comma-separated field names; the command emits at most 16 values per field,
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- 32 selected fields, and 256 characters per string. `--no-sample` returns only authoritative metadata
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- and cannot be combined with value inspection. Directory traversal recomputes addressed-tile and
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- tile-entry counts; the header's tile-content count is reported only as a nullable declaration and is
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- not treated as authority.
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- `publish --id` names a Team-local logical resource; Tileflow owns its opaque delivery ID. The
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- command validates the archive locally before authentication, hashes it in fixed 16 MiB parts, then
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- uploads at most four parts concurrently without buffering the complete file. Interrupted sessions
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- remain resumable for 24 hours: rerunning the same command reconciles server receipts and transfers
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- only missing parts. Normal Queue initialization is polled for at most two minutes before the command
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- returns a resumable availability error. Retryable transfer failures receive fresh short-lived authorization; a changed
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- local file stops before completion. Free accepts versions through exactly 2,000,000,000 bytes and
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- Starter through exactly 4,000,000,000 bytes, subject to the Team's hosted-storage capacity.
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- Publication completes only after server-side integrity and PMTiles validation. A compatible new
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- version becomes current at the same stable TileJSON and tile URLs, so newly resolved browser
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- requests see it without creating a Map deployment. Purge requires `--confirm <exact-id>` and fails
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- with bounded dependency context while any retained Map deployment uses the resource. Automation may set a Team data
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- `TILEFLOW_API_KEY`; that key selects its Team, so commands omit `--team` and never load account
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- state.
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- `tileset publish --json` emits schema version 2 with the Team selector when known, logical and
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- opaque tileset identities, immutable version ID and number, exact byte count, content-hash
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- algorithm/hash, final state, and `changed` or `unchanged` publication result. It never emits the
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- local path, upload session, storage key, signed URL, ETag, credential, or retry details.
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- An explicit key or `TILEFLOW_API_KEY` never uses the saved account session. The deploy API rejects a
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- `--map-id` that does not match the key. Read-only hosted icon comparison validates the same binding
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- before loading its baseline.
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- A deploy-only key grants `styles:write` and `status:read`. Without additional permissions it cannot upload
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- datasets or render images. Give it an expiration, rotate the repository secret
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- before it expires, and avoid non-expiring CI keys.
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- Detected CI never falls back to the credential saved by `tileflow login`: if
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- `TILEFLOW_API_KEY` is absent, deploy stops before loading config or making a
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- request. Once captured, the key is hidden from `process.env` and `--api-key` is removed from the
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- temporary `process.argv` view before the CLI imports executable `tileflow.config.ts`; both process
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- surfaces are restored after the protected operation. Every config-aware command uses the same
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- scope, including validate, build, dev/watch, capture, visual, inspect, icon inspection, and deploy.
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- This is defense in depth, not a sandbox; deploy only reviewed repository code on a trusted runner,
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- and do not pass keys through the `--api-key` command line in CI.
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- The [deploy documentation](https://tileflow.dev/docs/deploy) contains copyable
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- GitHub Actions and GitLab CI workflows. Both use `npm ci`, the committed
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- lockfile, and the repository-local CLI. GitHub exposes the key only to its deploy
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- step. GitLab variables are job-scoped, so its example validates in a keyless job
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- and deploys in a protected `production` job; the locked install and runner are
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- part of that trusted job boundary. Both serialize publications and intentionally
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- omit path filters because `tileflow.config.ts` can import arbitrary repository
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- files.
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- The CLI records bounded private provenance for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI,
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- generic CI, and local runs. These provider fields are descriptive client
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- reports, not OIDC attestations. Provider values can be overridden with:
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- ```txt
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- TILEFLOW_DEPLOY_REPOSITORY
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- TILEFLOW_DEPLOY_REVISION
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- TILEFLOW_DEPLOY_REF
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- TILEFLOW_DEPLOY_RUN_ID
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- TILEFLOW_DEPLOY_RUN_URL
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- ```
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- Invalid explicit values fail before a network write. Provider metadata that is
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- missing, malformed, or too long is omitted. Secrets and the complete
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- environment are never logged.
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- A separate app-build step is absent from the minimal workflows. Self-hosted build and deploy emit the same
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- runtime manifest version 1 shape; Hosted fields are optional identity metadata on its map/theme
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- entries. Filesystem build writers refuse to replace a manifest carrying Hosted metadata by default,
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- and deploy refuses to replace a purely local manifest. Prefer `emitBuildArtifacts: false` or
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- separate output paths when the app deliberately packages a deploy manifest. The explicit
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- `overwriteHostedManifest: true` build option and
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- `tileflow deploy --overwrite-self-hosted-manifest` flag authorize that destination replacement. A
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- retry of the same compiled theme family reuses its deployment version and prints `Unchanged`;
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- changed cartography prints `Published` with a new version. Allowed websites is managed separately
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- in Tileflow and is never read from repository config. The
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- fingerprint binds resource references, not the changing bytes behind referenced
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- glyph or sprite URLs. Every theme of one logical map publishes atomically; separate maps can still
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- partially succeed when no remote batch release is used.
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- All config, theme-style, icon, and compatibility preflight happens before the first style write. After
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- that boundary the current Hosted API has no batch commit across repository-internal orchestration:
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- one singular config can publish before a later config fails. The orchestrator then leaves the
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- previous local manifest untouched, reports which publications succeeded, and tells the operator to
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- retry; idempotent publication converges on that retry. The local manifest
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- writer uses a durable same-directory temporary followed by direct rename and directory sync, so
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- readers see either the previous or next complete manifest. Multi-file artifact writers remain
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- rollback-capable sets. Neither mechanism is a remote transaction or can make several API writes
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- all-or-none.
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- Deploy treats the locally compiled MapLibre Style family as one logical-map artifact. The request
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- contains an exact `styles[theme]` collection, per-theme canonical SHA-256 identities in the build
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- manifest, only bounded hosting policy that does not belong in MapLibre itself, and the exact managed
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- icon-package identity when the family has one. Delivery
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- policy is not inherited with cartographic fields. Deploy does not serialize the module
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- configuration, send a public `tileset` selector, or ask the hosted API to compile the map again.
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- Hosted publication currently requires Tileflow World; `vectorTiles()` remains available for local
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- builds and previews but fails deploy before any remote write. The API binds recognized
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- Tileflow-owned world and terrain URLs to its generated map ID. A successful response must return
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- exactly the submitted theme names and a hosted Style URL for each. Deploy writes strict runtime
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- manifest version 1 with stable theme URLs, `colorScheme`, content revision, optional font faces and
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- style IDs, rather than duplicating dataset configuration. No older manifest is normalized.
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- For a map with `icons: ['./icons']`, hosted validation compiles the local SVG/PNG/JPEG/WebP files
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- without a key. Ordered directories apply left to right and later exact IDs replace earlier files.
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- Deploy uploads the four generated sprite files before its first style write and reuses
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- byte-identical packages by content hash. Source icons and absolute paths remain local; generated
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- atlas bytes and sorted icon names are public. Each hosted package is limited to 1,000 icons and 8 MiB
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- generated bytes as a processing envelope. Large artwork may reach the 2,048-pixel atlas bound before
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- the icon count. There is no package-count quota; physically retained
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- generated packages share the organization's 5/10-GB hosted-storage pool with retained PMTiles,
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- remain protected by deployment/library references, and otherwise enter the technical orphan grace
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- before deletion. Upload success must confirm the submitted `contentHash`, exact icon count, exact
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- generated byte total, one opaque `icp_<id>`, and the corresponding query-free
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- `/sprites/<id>/sprite` URL. The CLI rejects any missing or divergent field before using that URL.
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- Hosted deploy currently rejects local or package-owned web fonts before authentication or remote
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- writes. Use self-hosted delivery or an explicit public glyph provider. Enabling managed font bundles
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- requires a separately deployed ownership, quota, retention, and immutable-delivery contract.
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- A map's own 3D building models (the building models of its `models` directories) are its Team's
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- 3D models, which `tileflow models publish` publishes by name. Deploy uploads no model files: it
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- compiles each placement's `url` as the placeholder `tileflow://team-models/<name>`, leaves the
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- building models out of the build's assets and model source identities, so the map's revision binds
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- their names and not their bytes, and sends `teamModelSources`, the SHA-256 and size of each glTF
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- binary a model was prepared from. Hosted replaces each placeholder with the model's address in the
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- map's Team, which follows the model's current version, and fails the deploy for a model the Team has
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- not published. The response's `teamModels` names each placed model's current version and whether it
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- was prepared from the same files (`match`, `differ` or `unknown`); the CLI warns on `differ`. A
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- deploy with `--with-native` rejects a map's own building models, because MapLibre Native draws no
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- models.
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- For every managed resource kind, `assetSetSha256` remains a separate per-map output identity. It
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- hashes each generated file's exact portable name, media type, byte count, and SHA-256 using Core's
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- asset-set v1 contract; it does not hash only the icon-package manifest. Hosted must
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- confirm the immutable resource bytes, reconstruct those same per-file identities (including the
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- `icons/<mapId>/` and `models/<mapId>/` prefixes), and reject the Style when the submitted
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- build-manifest hash diverges.
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- # Inspect vector features
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- Start with the [tileflow guide](https://github.com/tileflow/tileflow-sdk/blob/main/packages/cli/README.md) for installation and a complete first example.
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- See which bounded source features the exported map sees near a camera before tuning taxonomy,
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- density, or labels:
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- ```sh
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- npx tileflow inspect features \
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- --center=-3.6927512,40.4086555 --zoom=16 \
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- --layers=poi --properties=name,category,type,icon,filter_rank,size_rank --json
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- ```
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- The command supports HTTP(S) TileJSON/vector sources and returns only requested properties plus
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- geometry summaries in stable order. Viewport, tiles, bytes, scanned/returned features, names, and
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- timeouts are bounded. Safe provenance includes origins, a query-free TileJSON path, and configured
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- source revision or `null`; credentials, URL queries, hidden properties, response bodies, and
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- absolute paths are omitted. It is read-only apart from executable config's own possible side
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- effects and removes `TILEFLOW_API_KEY` before loading config.
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- # Local visual feedback
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- Start with the [tileflow guide](https://github.com/tileflow/tileflow-sdk/blob/main/packages/cli/README.md) for installation and a complete first example.
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- Explore with capture itself. The first run may install Playwright's exact pinned Chromium headless
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- shell into its versioned per-user cache:
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- ```sh
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- --map madrid \
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- --theme dark \
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- --center=-3.69201,40.40871 \
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- --zoom=16.15 \
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- --width=1200 \
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- --height=1200 \
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- --json
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- ```
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- The successful entry includes a normalized `definition` with its concrete `theme`, `camera`,
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- `viewport`, and default map `target`. Copy it under a chosen `scenes.<name>` key; the CLI never rewrites
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- executable TypeScript config. Then commit the bounded scene so agents and CI render the same map,
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- camera, and viewport:
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- ```ts
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- import {defineMap} from '@tileflow/core';
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- import {streets} from '@tileflow/maps';
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- export default defineMap({
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- id: 'madrid',
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- name: 'Madrid',
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- version: 1,
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- extends: streets,
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- scenes: {
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- 'madrid-desktop': {
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- theme: 'dark',
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- camera: {type: 'center', center: [-3.7038, 40.4168], zoom: 12},
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- viewport: {width: 1280, height: 800, dpr: 1},
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- },
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- 'madrid-product': {
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- theme: 'dark',
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- camera: {type: 'center', center: [-3.7038, 40.4168], zoom: 12},
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- viewport: {width: 390, height: 844, dpr: 2},
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- target: {
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- kind: 'application',
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- path: '/maps/madrid',
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- captureId: 'product-map',
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- },
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- },
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- },
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- });
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- ```
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- `scenes` is tooling metadata owned by this map. It is not inherited and does not enter the
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- cartographic compiler; tooling supplies the exported map ID when it normalizes a scene internally.
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- Every scene stores a concrete theme; omission and browser-only `system` are invalid.
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- ### Live comparison in Inspector
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- Use the ordinary preview server with a right-hand selection to compare two maps or themes while
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- ```sh
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- # Two maps or themes from one config.
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- Enable **Inspect** and click a rendered feature to see its bounded feature data, paint/layout values,
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- and records each exact SHA-256. A later successful transaction removes stale generated rows or
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- `--force` does not weaken those ownership checks. The inventory is capped at 64 KiB and the complete
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- `--allow-data-mismatch` keeps a data-mismatch report inspectable with exit 0, but does not invent
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- report through invalid edits, and emits deterministic NDJSON with `--json`. An explicit report path
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- Without `--allow-data-mismatch`, an incompatible generation emits `failed`, does not replace the
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- last complete report, and remains an unresolved failure; an allowed data mismatch emits
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- one complete generation and no unresolved invalid or failed state; otherwise it exits 1.
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- ```
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- One-shot success JSON is one deterministic schema-version-1 document plus one newline. It contains
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