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        { "label": "Foundation Models", "d": "Apple FM availability, token counting, and generation.", "href": "https://github.com/kylebegeman/swift-llm/blob/master/docs/02-foundation-models-reference.md" },
        { "label": "Reliability patterns", "d": "Fallbacks, budgets, and prompt contracts in practice.", "href": "https://github.com/kylebegeman/swift-llm/blob/master/docs/03-reliability-patterns.md" },
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        { "label": "Local RAG", "d": "Source-aware, on-device retrieval and citations.", "href": "https://github.com/kylebegeman/swift-llm/blob/master/docs/06-local-rag.md" }
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      "name": "Ophelia",
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      "overview": "Ophelia turns application manifests into validated runtime bundles, dry-run plans, confirmation-gated applies, redacted receipts, and schema-versioned JSON surfaces. It is built for operators and agents that manage VPS-hosted apps without hand-editing Compose files, Caddy snippets, release records, and deployment state.",
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        { "t": "Runtime rendering", "d": "Deterministic Docker Compose, Caddy snippets, env templates, lock files, and rollback bundles." },
        { "t": "Safety gates", "d": "Dry-run plans, production confirmation tokens, redacted receipts, and command-string secret scrubbing." },
        { "t": "Static publishing", "d": "First-class static sites: repo-local build roots, immutable releases, served through Caddy, no Docker required." },
        { "t": "Readiness", "d": "App movement scoring, host placement checks, restore-drill evidence, and live observations." },
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        { "name": "Single & multi-service apps", "purpose": "One or many Compose services behind the shared Caddy edge with health checks." },
        { "name": "Stateful apps", "purpose": "Postgres, Redis, named and host-path volumes, export contracts, and backup readiness." },
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        { "label": "Architecture", "d": "How the control plane is structured.", "href": "https://github.com/kylebegeman/ophelia/blob/next/docs/architecture.md" },
        { "label": "Manifest spec", "d": "The .ophelia.yml contract, field by field.", "href": "https://github.com/kylebegeman/ophelia/blob/next/docs/manifest-spec.md" },
        { "label": "Job & action API", "d": "JSON surfaces agents and tools call.", "href": "https://github.com/kylebegeman/ophelia/blob/next/docs/job-action-api.md" },
        { "label": "Operator runbook", "d": "Day-to-day deploy and recovery flows.", "href": "https://github.com/kylebegeman/ophelia/blob/next/docs/operator-runbook.md" },
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      "name": "Dossier",
      "tagline": "A self-contained, interactive HTML document format for planning, documenting, and deciding with AI.",
      "repo": "https://github.com/kylebegeman/dossier",
      "branch": "master",
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      "version": "0.6.7",
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      "stats": { "commits": 103, "createdAt": "2026-06-26", "updatedAt": "2026-09-16" },
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        { "t": "Human and agent loop", "d": "Review-board blocks let a human choose options and add notes, then export decisions JSON that an agent can read back cleanly." },
        { "t": "CLI and MCP", "d": "Ships a Node CLI plus an MCP server with render, validate, schema, starter, catalog, and decision-reading tools for agent workflows." },
        { "t": "Document contract", "d": "Uses a JSON schema and reusable block model covering hero sections, tables, code, diagrams, charts, risks, action items, reviews, receipts, and more." },
        { "t": "Renderer parity", "d": "Includes the zero-runtime Node generator and a typed React renderer for teams that want live components or SSR integration." },
        { "t": "Agent skill included", "d": "Bundles a Claude Code skill, block cheatsheet, and starter template so agents can author dossiers directly." }
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        { "name": "Review boards", "purpose": "Interactive option triage with selectable rows, notes, filters, and decisions export." },
        { "name": "CLI workflows", "purpose": "Initialize, validate, build, serve, diff, and render self-contained documents from the command line." },
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        { "label": "Live demo", "d": "Every block type in one self-contained Dossier.", "href": "https://kylebegeman.github.io/dossier/" },
        { "label": "README", "d": "How Dossier works and how to use it from an agent.", "href": "https://github.com/kylebegeman/dossier/blob/master/README.md" },
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        { "t": "Decisions and invariants", "d": "Captures why a change exists and which invariants must survive future refactors, not only what shipped." },
        { "t": "Docs impact and coverage", "d": "Audits durable docs links, classifies docs, and fails CI when source changes ship without docs impact or Ledger coverage." },
        { "t": "Conflict guidance", "d": "Extracts conflict rules, invariants, and verification for a given path so merges preserve what matters." },
        { "t": "Offline static reader", "d": "Generates one self-contained HTML file: a searchable, faceted view of entries, decisions, backlog, releases, and raw Markdown source." }
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      "modulesLabel": "What you can run",
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        { "name": "CLI", "purpose": "init, new, validate, index, render, coverage, query, explain, packet, and conflict commands over the .ledger/ record." },
        { "name": "MCP server", "purpose": "Exposes the change record as stdio MCP tools so coding agents can query and act on history." },
        { "name": "TypeScript library", "purpose": "The same parsing, indexing, validation, and reporting primitives, usable programmatically." },
        { "name": "Static reader", "purpose": "A generated offline HTML reader for humans and agents, with no hosted service required." }
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        { "label": "Product", "d": "What Ledger is and who it is for.", "href": "https://github.com/kylebegeman/ledger/blob/master/docs/PRODUCT.md" },
        { "label": "Architecture", "d": "How the CLI, library, indexes, and reader fit together.", "href": "https://github.com/kylebegeman/ledger/blob/master/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md" },
        { "label": "Schema", "d": "The Markdown and YAML frontmatter record format.", "href": "https://github.com/kylebegeman/ledger/blob/master/docs/SCHEMA.md" },
        { "label": "Docs relationships", "d": "How durable, routing, and generated docs relate.", "href": "https://github.com/kylebegeman/ledger/blob/master/docs/DOCS_RELATIONSHIP.md" },
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      "title": "Embrace Pet Insurance: Built the iOS app solo from the ground up",
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      "tags": ["ux", "accessibility", "leadership", "delivery"],
      "body": "Audited and overhauled VoiceOver and accessibility across the file browser, sharing, and notifications; the work was recognized by Apple and featured at WWDC."
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      "context": "Founder, full-stack build",
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      "name": "Chris",
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      "quote": "I've shipped two full products with Kyle start to finish. Strong work ethic, real talent, and genuinely independent. He's pulled off everything I've thrown at him UI and UX wise, gets what I'm going for as a designer, and ships it on the front end with flair. I always want Kyle on the product team, and so far I'm two for two."
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