Research Execution Package

Executive Summary

Implemented a reusable Markdown-to-static-web publishing system for Visual Engineering and future research repositories.

Original Objective

Build a reusable, configuration-driven publishing workflow that generates semantic HTML, search, and public metadata artifacts from Markdown.

Scope

Version 1 covers discovery, normalization, validation, rendering, search, catalog generation, diagnostics, documentation, and reuse proof.

Repository Context

The repository started empty apart from the engineering prompt, so the implementation established both the package boundary and the initial content corpus.

Current Understanding

Static publishing is sufficient now, but the design keeps data generation separate from rendering so future render targets remain possible.

Key Discoveries

• A public JSON catalog is a separate artifact from the full-text search index.
• Compatibility mode is necessary even in a new repository because seed content may include legacy Markdown.
• Reuse is easiest to prove by building a second project from the same package immediately.

Evidence Registry

• EV-2026-001
• EV-2026-101

Hypothesis Registry

• HY-2026-001

Failed Assumptions

• None recorded in version 1 beyond the prompt's broad assumption that all work could be implemented without establishing seed content first.

Open Questions

• How strict should CI become for legacy content over time?
• Which artifact types should get specialized layouts next?

Recommended Next Research

• Broader metadata validation
• Incremental build caching
• Cross-repository federation