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# Development
This is the first-read landing page for people and LLM coding agents working on
Narratio. It provides a concise repository orientation and routes each kind of
change to its canonical documentation.
Narratio is a stage-driven Go orchestrator for turning D&D session audio into
polished transcripts and generated artifacts. Start with the
[README](../README.md) for product context,
[Architecture](policy/architecture.md) for normative system boundaries, and the
[Internal Overview](internal/overview.md) for implemented component ownership.
## What To Read
| When working on | Read | Why |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finding the package or component that owns current behavior | [Internal Overview](internal/overview.md) | It is the implemented component inventory and routes to focused internal documents. |
| Application shape, boundaries, dependency direction, runtime invariants, safety properties, or dependencies | [Architecture](policy/architecture.md) | It defines the intended system shape, ownership, and non-goals. |
| Any documentation addition or revision | [Documentation Policy](policy/documentation.md) | It defines canonical owners, audiences, current-behavior rules, and maintenance requirements. |
| Adding, changing, reviewing, rewriting, or deleting tests | [Testing Policy](policy/testing.md) | It defines risk-based sufficiency, durable test boundaries, test-double guidance, and test lifecycle decisions. |
| CLI composition or command behavior | [Internal Overview](internal/overview.md) and [CLI Reference](cli.md) | The overview routes to command ownership; the reference owns public syntax and invocation behavior. |
| Configuration loading, resolution, or user-visible configuration | [Internal Overview](internal/overview.md) and [Configuration](config.md) | The overview routes to implementation ownership; the reference owns fields, defaults, discovery, and validation. |
| Session workflow, status, restore, cleanup, or object storage | [Restore Internals](internal/command-restore.md), [Workspace Internals](internal/workspace.md), [Storage Internals](internal/storage.md), [Operations](operations.md), and [Troubleshooting](troubleshooting.md) | These separate implementation mechanics, operator procedures, and symptom-driven recovery. |
| Pipeline sequencing or the behavior of a stage | [Internal Overview](internal/overview.md) and its focused stage documents | The overview owns the implemented stage inventory and routes to each stage contract. |
| Adapters or external tool contracts | [Adapter Internals](internal/adapters.md) and [Integration Contracts](integrations/README.md) | The internal guide owns adapter composition and mechanics; integration documents own external formats and protocols. |
| Manifests, artifacts, workspace paths, or publish behavior | [Manifest Internals](internal/manifest.md), [Artifact Internals](internal/artifacts.md), [Workspace Internals](internal/workspace.md), [Publish Internals](internal/stage-publish.md), and [Operations](operations.md) | These separate implementation state and resolution from operator-visible layout and lifecycle. |
| Maintained configuration or input examples | [Configuration](config.md) and [Examples](../examples/README.md) | The reference owns field meanings; the examples directory owns complete copyable files. |
| Proposed or unimplemented behavior | `docs/roadmap/` | Future work belongs only in roadmap documentation until implemented. |
For an existing subsystem, also inspect its focused tests and package-level
contracts before changing behavior.
## Validation
Use focused package tests while iterating. Every pull request and push runs the
following repository-wide checks before it can be accepted:
```sh
go test ./...
go test -race ./...
go vet ./...
go build ./...
go test ./internal/doccheck
go test ./internal/config -run '^TestExamplesLoadAndValidate$'
```
The documentation check verifies local Markdown links and the dependency graph
of the Woodpecker workflows. The configuration check loads every maintained
pipeline and session example. Release automation repeats these checks and
cross-compiles the CLI before it builds release assets; publishing depends on
that validation path, so a failure cannot publish a release.
Woodpecker also runs `go test -race -shuffle=on -count=3 ./...` on its scheduled
job to expose ordering and repeatability defects. Current runners cross-compile
for macOS and Windows, but do not provide native macOS or Windows execution.
Those cross-builds establish compilation only, not platform-equivalent runtime
evidence. Add native checks only when official runner labels and successful
native-run evidence are available.