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# Todo
The plan. Design questions are settled in `AGENTS.md`; remaining spec detail is settled at its own
milestone. A done item shrinks to its title here; its full text moves to `todo-history.md`.
## Next session
Start a session with: `Read AGENTS.md and todo.md, then do what todo.md's "Next session" says.`
1. The first unchecked item in shipping order, per AGENTS.md §15 — or, where that item has no
release, the planning chunk §15 describes.
2. In flight: 4c has uncommitted work in `.claude/worktrees/scanning-rule-sites` (branch
`4c-scanning-rule-sites`) and a stray `bench-4c.ts` that does not ship; continue from the diff.
3. Before stopping, rewrite this section: the in-flight line, and the prompt itself wherever the
session found it wrong or short.
## Milestones
Shipping order: 3h, 3i, 3j, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5 → `0.1.0` (shipped 2026-09-05); 3k, 11, 4, 12, 13, 4b, 4c, 14, 15, 16, 10, 5g → `0.2.0`;
4d, 5f → `0.2.1`; 6, 7 → `0.3.0`; 9, 17 → TBD; 5e last.
The numbering is the order the work was planned in, not the order it ships. `0.2.0`'s order is settled
(the maintainer, 2026-09-13): 11 makes the tables 4 generates from answer to Atlassian's schema, 4
proves 12, 13 spells 11's gaps in 12's grammar, and 12 rewrites code 4b and 4c change.
- [x] **0 — Scaffold.**
- [x] **1a — The directive grammar.**
- [x] **1b — Block node syntaxes.**
- [x] **1c — Inline node syntaxes and marks.**
- [x] **1d — Corpus start.**
- [x] **1d1 — The CommonMark subset.**
- [x] **1d2 — Block nodes.**
- [x] **1d3 — Inline nodes and marks.**
- [x] **2 — `adfToMarkdown`.**
- [x] **2a — The runner and the CommonMark subset.**
- [x] **2b — Block nodes.**
- [x] **2c — Inline nodes and marks.**
- [x] **2d — The opaque carry.**
- [x] **2e — Carve-outs and combinations.**
- [x] **2e1 — The carve-outs and the claimed line.**
- [x] **2e2 — Mark runs and the runs a carry breaks.**
- [x] **2e3 — Attribute canonicalization and the quoted value's escape.**
- [x] **2e4 — The carry's fallback triggers.**
- [x] **2e5 — Combined documents and the collision property.**
- [x] **2f — The attributes CommonMark cannot hold.**
- [x] **3 — `markdownToAdf`.**
- [x] **3a — The hierarchy.**
- [x] **3b — The leaf blocks.**
- [x] **3c — The container blocks.**
- [x] **3d — Inline text.**
- [x] **3e — Emphasis and links.**
- [x] **3f — The directive grammar.**
- [x] **3g — The node tables read backwards.**
- [x] **3h — The block nodes.**
- [x] **3i — The inline nodes and the marks.**
- [x] **3j — The carry and the combinations.**
- [x] **3k — The CommonMark spec suite.**
- [x] **4 — Round-trip property tests.**
- [x] **4.1 — Editor-normal and the node accessors.**
- [x] **4.2 — The ADF property.**
- [x] **4.3 — The markdown property.**
- [x] **4.4 — The real payloads.**
- [x] **4b — The block walk's retry (`0.2.0`).**
- [ ] **4c — The scanning rule's remaining sites (`0.2.0`).** A trailing-anchored regex re-walks
its run from every start position, so an interior whitespace run costs quadratic time rather
than linear — 3h measured 80k spaces inside an ATX heading at 11.3s, and 3ms once the walk
replaced the regex. Three sites the same sweep did not reach: `normalizeLabel` in
`link-syntax.ts`, whose shortcut-reference input is `scan.source.slice(...)` rather than the
999-capped `readLabel` value, and two in `emit/inline-line.ts`. The fix is the one 3h used —
an index walk, `trimTrailingSpace` where the ends match. A fourth of another shape joins
them: `readNestedDirective` restarts its depth counter per level, so each parse level
re-scans the region below it and nested inline directives cost O(depth × content) — 3f's
cost, which 3i's slot parse doubles rather than changes in class, bounded by the 500-level
guard. A fifth predates 12c: the list-item walk re-scans the rest of a line once per item
level — `isThematicBreak` in `containerStart` on an opener line, `isBlankLine` and
`leadingColumns` in `continuesContainer` on a continuation line, and a blank line
continues every open item without consuming input; 30000 nested items take 4.4s at 59 KB
(the stability-reviewer, 2026-09-16). §11's scanning rule is
the whole argument; the pipeline persona feeds documents nobody typed.
`readDirectiveContent`'s scan splits into named steps with that fix rather than keeping its
complexity (the maintainer, 2026-09-16). A sixth 4b leaves behind: the parser asks
`commonMarkSpelling` at every directive-spelled list it reads, and the answer spells the whole
subtree below, itself quadratic in the depth left, so nested directive lists cost about the
cube of their depth — 250 rule-first levels parse in 1.3 s at 16.5 kB, 1.5 MB of that shape
at 250 levels in 0.6 s — bounded by the depth guard like `readNestedDirective` (the
maintainer, 2026-09-18). A seventh is a throw rather than a cost: `adfDocumentFault` pushes a
node's content with a spread, so past about 125k sibling nodes the guard throws a
`RangeError` where §11 owes a `Result` — a loop over the content closes it (the
stability-reviewer and the maintainer, 2026-09-18).
- [ ] **4d — What the gate says while it runs (`0.2.1`).** `ci.sh` runs nine legs and announces
none of them, so five minutes of a Gitea run read as silence and a hang cannot be told from
a slow pull — the maintainer hit exactly this on the `0.1.0` release. Three causes, each its
own fix. The legs need markers: `plainpages`' `ci.sh` prints a `step()` header per leg and
this one prints nothing, so name the leg and the image before each. The longest leg is the
quietest: `test_output=$(… npm test 2>&1)` buffers the whole Node run to replay it after,
because the zero-test guard greps the count — stream it and grep a copy (`tee`), rather than
trading the output for the guard. And two legs are silenced outright, `npm pack` and the
tarball install, whose `>/dev/null` predates the offline install that made them quick and
quiet. `publish.sh` owes the same: today it says nothing between reading `private` and the
registry answering, which is where its `npm ci` and rebuild sit — the seconds §9 accepts
rather than promoting the gate's `dist`, and unmeasured until the log shows them. Per-leg
timing is what turns "slow or hung" from a guess into a reading; the browser leg's own
5.4–7.9s against a 17s warm gate is the number that made it obviously cheap.
- [x] **5 — Ship `0.1.0`.**
- [ ] **5e — The publish token's deadline.** `0.1.0` published only once the npm
token carried **Bypass 2FA**: the account requiring no 2FA on writes was not enough, and npm
answered `EOTP` until the token itself bypassed. npm retires bypass-2FA tokens for direct
publishing around January 2027, leaving them `npm stage publish`, which a maintainer
approves with 2FA; its replacement — trusted publishing over OIDC — supports GitHub-hosted
Actions, GitLab.com's shared runners and CircleCI's cloud, self-hosted runners planned
without a date. So the release path has an expiry date and no drop-in successor yet. Revisit:
whether npm has added Gitea or self-hosted OIDC, and otherwise whether the
release moves to the staged publish — which fits badly with publish-on-merge,
and is the trade to weigh rather than discover on a red release run.
**Settled** (the maintainer, 2026-09-13): last of the known work, clear of `0.2.0`, placed
there knowing the cutoff may land before `0.2.0` ships.
- [ ] **5f — Publish the bundle size (`0.2.1`).** Measure the shipped artifact and put the number in the
README, kept honest by the release pipeline rather than by a human re-reading it. The
quantity is what a consumer downloads and loads: the tarball `npm pack` produces, its
unpacked `dist`, and the built JavaScript minified + gzipped — the figure the competitors
advertise (marklassian's "12kb") and the only apple-to-apple one, since ours ships tsc's
unminified output and no minifier yet (decide here whether to minify for the build or report
the unminified gzip). A publish/pipeline leg measures it and fails when the README figure
drifts, so the number can't rot; the figure lands in README §The package beside the
"no runtime dependencies" claim. Measured today, unminified: tarball 60.4 kB, unpacked
221.5 kB, JS gzipped 45.6 kB.
- [ ] **5g — Reweight the README for the reader (`0.2.0`).** It opens with the pre-launch rationale —
Atlassian's REST APIs, `pf-editor-service/convert` being decommissioned, a link to
JRACLOUD-77436 — where a shipped package should answer what it is, what it does and for whom
first, then the shortest runnable example.
**Settled** (the maintainer, 2026-09-13): the background goes entirely, no endpoint, ticket or
"why" note left. The top follows the package-README order: an npm version badge and the Gitea
Actions badge, a tagline that is also `package.json`'s `description`, a feature list and a
one-line table of contents, then install and the shortest runnable example; a table of
everything exported sits near the bottom. The HTML directions are one aside line under the API
until `0.3.0` ships them, the `// 0.3.0` signatures and the `0.3.0` guarantee going until then.
The tagline and `description` read "Lossless conversion between Atlassian Document Format and
extended markdown" until 7 restores HTML.
- [x] **5a — Rename to `@larvit/adf-codec`.**
- [x] **5b — The consumer's error surface.**
- [x] **5b1 — The error's source position.**
- [x] **5b2 — The error messages.**
- [x] **5b3 — The code list and the flavour's gaps.**
- [x] **5b4 — The README's consumer surface.**
- [x] **5c — The build and the release pipeline.**
- [x] **5d — The browser leg.**
- [ ] **6 — The HTML dialect spec (`0.3.0`).** Element-by-element mapping, the `data-*` fidelity
scheme, the opaque-carry form, and the documented foreign-element set `htmlToAdf` accepts.
- [ ] **7 — HTML, ship `0.3.0`.** `adfToHtml`, `htmlToAdf`, the composed `markdownToHtml` /
`htmlToMarkdown`. CommonMark spec suite runs against `markdownToHtml` from here (§10). The
README's tagline and `package.json`'s `description` regain HTML (5g).
- [ ] **8 — CLI.** A later goal, shaped around the personas once the library exists.
- [ ] **9 — The online sandbox.** A web page with two textboxes converting back and forth between ADF and markdown, powered by the library's browser build.
- [ ] **10 — Lossy conversion (`0.2.0`).** Markdown other tools render readably, to and from ADF,
keeping the content while dropping what markdown cannot hold — format, design and the richer
nodes.
**Settled** (the maintainer, 2026-09-14): two exports composed around the lossless pair, so §1's
four conversions stay four. `adfToPlainMarkdown(doc)` reduces the document ADF→ADF and hands it
to `adfToMarkdown`; `plainMarkdownToAdf(markdown)` hands the markdown to `markdownToAdf` and
lifts the result ADF→ADF. Both carry markdown conventions, so the reduction sits in
`src/markdown/emit/`, the lift in `src/markdown/parse/` and what both read in `src/markdown/`
(§11). The markdown is the flavour without directives — CommonMark, the pipe table and `~~` —
plus the conventions below, chosen for readability from a survey of GitHub, GitLab, Gitea,
Obsidian, Pandoc, MkDocs, Docusaurus, Typora, Joplin, Logseq, Bear, Notion, Azure DevOps and
Discord, GitHub's renderer confirming each shape. Writing refuses only what the document guard
refuses (`not-an-adf-document`, `unsupported-document-version`, `unsupported-nesting-depth`)
and degrades every other shape; reading refuses what `markdownToAdf` refuses. A lifted node
carries no `localId`. The lift also reads other tools' spellings — type words in any case,
Obsidian's aliases, `[X]` — since it reads their output and never writes those spellings.
- A `panel` is an alert: the marker alone on the quote's first line, a blank `>`, then the body
(`> [!WARNING]`), in GitHub's five words by colour — info `NOTE`, note `IMPORTANT`, tip and
success `TIP`, warning `WARNING`, error `CAUTION`, custom `NOTE`. The lift reads those words
back (`NOTE` info, `IMPORTANT` note, `TIP` tip, `WARNING` warning, `CAUTION` error) and
Obsidian's by meaning (hint tip; success, check and done success; attention warning; danger,
failure, fail, missing and bug error; any other word info). Text after a marker in its
paragraph is the panel's first body paragraph.
- An `expand` or `nestedExpand` is Obsidian's folded callout, `> [!NOTE]- Title`, a blank `>`,
then the body. The lift reads a fold sign (`-` or `+`) as an expand whatever the word, the
rest of the marker's paragraph as its title, and an expand inside an expand as a
`nestedExpand`.
- A `taskList` is a bullet list whose items lead with `[x]` or `[ ]` (`- [x] Write the spec`).
The lift reads a list whose every item is so marked back as a `taskList` — a `blockTaskItem`
where an item holds more than one block, a nested task list moved beside its item — and
leaves mixed and ordered lists plain. A `decisionList` is a plain bullet list.
- `backgroundColor` is `==text==`, and the lift gives `==text==` the Atlassian editor's default
highlight colour.
- `layoutSection`/`layoutColumn`, `bodiedExtension`, `bodiedSyncBlock`, `multiBodiedExtension`
and `extensionFrame` unwrap to their body blocks in order; the CommonMark blocks keep their
spelling, attributes dropped.
- `mention` and `status` become their text, the mention's `@` kept; `emoji` its text or else its
`shortName`; `date` its ISO date in UTC (`2026-09-13`); `inlineCard`, `blockCard` and
`embedCard` a link to their `url`, dropped when they carry only `data`; a `mediaSingle`
holding an external image stays `![alt](url)`; `media`, `mediaGroup` and `mediaInline` their
`alt` text or nothing; `caption` its text as a paragraph; `extension`, `inlineExtension` and
`syncBlock` their `text` attribute or nothing; `placeholder` nothing; a node no row names, or
one standing where no spelling holds it, its blocks or its text.
- A table stays a pipe table: the first row becomes the header, a cell's blocks join on one line
with spaces, and spans and the cells they cover drop.
- `code`, `em`, `link`, `strike` and `strong` stay and every other mark drops, keeping its text —
`subsup` too, since `~2~` is a strike on GitHub; a link no CommonMark escape writes becomes its
text, and a mark run CommonMark's flanking or matching cannot spell drops its mark.
- A newline in text becomes a hard break and edge whitespace is trimmed; carriage returns and
null characters are removed; a paragraph line opening with a code span whose backticks would
read as a fence loses the code mark; an empty paragraph drops, and adjacent lists of one type
merge.
- Rejected in the survey: `~sub~` and `^sup^`, underline and colour spellings, raw HTML
(`<details>`, `<mark>`), MkDocs `!!!` and the `:::` admonition family, footnotes, definition
lists, wikilinks, embeds, tags, comments, TOC tokens, spoilers, task states past `[x]`/`[ ]`,
and lifting bare URLs, `@name`, `:shortcode:` or ISO dates into nodes.
- [ ] **10a — The reduction.** `adfToPlainMarkdown`'s ADF→ADF reduction, tests first, a test per
row above.
- [ ] **10b — The lift.** `plainMarkdownToAdf`'s ADF→ADF lift, tests first, a test per row it reads,
other tools' spellings included; the editor's default highlight colour looked up and cited.
- [ ] **10c — The exports.** `adfToPlainMarkdown` and `plainMarkdownToAdf` exported with their README
sections, and two properties over 4.2's generators: writing refuses only the guard's codes,
and markdown `adfToPlainMarkdown` wrote reads back through `plainMarkdownToAdf` and writes
again byte for byte. AGENTS.md §1 records the pair as composed around the lossless one.
- [x] **11 — Atlassian's ADF schema as the tables' truth.**
- [x] **11a — The vendored schema.**
- [x] **11b — The gate.**
- [x] **12 — The `!adf:` re-spelling.**
- [x] **12a — The spec and the decision.**
- [x] **12b — The inline form.**
- [x] **12c — The block form.**
- [x] **12d — The README, `MIGRATION.md` and the sweep.**
- [x] **13 — The schema's gap attributes (`0.2.0`).**
- [x] **13a — `rule` and `layoutSection`.**
- [x] **13b — The directive link.**
- [ ] **14 — The CommonMark subset's directory (`0.2.0`).** `src/markdown/` holds 16 source
files at its root and 10 adds more there. The CommonMark subset moves under
`src/markdown/commonmark/` — `backtick-runs.ts`, `commonmark-grammar.ts` as `grammar.ts`,
`emphasis-matching.ts`, `entity-references.ts` with its test, `link-reference-definitions.ts`
and `link-syntax.ts` — leaving the flavour's own constructs at the root, the split
`spec/flavour.md` draws between the subset and the flavour (the systems-architect and the
maintainer, 2026-09-16).
- [ ] **15 — The href-less directive link (`0.2.0`).** Refuse `!adf:link[text]` spelling no `href`
with `unsupported-node-shape` naming the attribute, so the mark has one spelling: today it
parses to a mark the emitter writes back as a carry, while the schema requires `href` and
every other directive mark spells without attributes in both directions alike (the
stability-reviewer, 2026-09-16; the maintainer, 2026-09-17).
- [ ] **16 — The link wrapping a link (`0.2.0`).** Read `[<http://x/>](/v)` and
`[!adf:link[a]{href="/u"}](/v)` as `[[a](/u)](/v)` reads — the inner link wins and the outer
brackets stay literal text, CommonMark's rule that no link holds another — rather than
dropping the outer link silently as `closeLink`'s `applyMark` does today, with a normalization
fixture per shape (the stability-reviewer, 2026-09-16; the maintainer, 2026-09-17).
- [ ] **17 — A machine-enforced size guardrail.** Add a per-function complexity check to the gate —
branch count or size — so the fits-in-your-head guardrail fails the build rather than
waiting for a review to catch it (the systems-architect, 2026-09-16); placed after `0.3.0`
(the maintainer, 2026-09-17).
## The ADF inventory to cover
From Atlassian's [structure
reference](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/apis/document/structure/) — not the
whole schema: real payloads also carry `taskList`/`taskItem`, `decisionList`/`decisionItem`,
`layoutSection`/`layoutColumn`, `blockCard`/`embedCard`, `extension`/`bodiedExtension`/`inlineExtension`
and `placeholder`, none documented there. The documented set is the floor: the floor gets designed
syntax, the rest rides the opaque carry (§3) until it does too.
| | |
| --- | --- |
| Top-level block | `blockquote` `bodiedSyncBlock` `bulletList` `codeBlock` `expand` `heading` `mediaGroup` `mediaSingle` `multiBodiedExtension` `orderedList` `panel` `paragraph` `rule` `syncBlock` `table` |
| Child block | `blockTaskItem` `extensionFrame` `listItem` `media` `nestedExpand` `tableCell` `tableHeader` `tableRow` |
| Inline | `date` `emoji` `hardBreak` `inlineCard` `mediaInline` `mention` `status` `text` |
| Marks | `border` `code` `em` `link` `strike` `strong` `subsup` `textColor` `underline` |
Plain markdown covers `blockquote`, `bulletList`, `codeBlock`, `heading`, `orderedList`,
`paragraph`, `rule`, `listItem`, `hardBreak`, `text`, and the `code`, `em`, `link` and `strong`
marks; `strike` is the flavour's `~~` carve-out. Everything else is what the flavour is for.