Garden · the manual, grown as notes
Paper & inka growing garden of working notes
The astro-inkstone manual, grown as a garden — 9 notes across 5 domains, browsable by kind, domain and tag. Every rendering effect on these pages is the package at work. Source: astro-inkstone (this package) · astro-inkbrush (the CMS engine — npm run wiki edits these very pages).
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the last three to change- Pattern2026.08The craft of a small garden
A specimen essay — a note about keeping notes, and about letting the tools carry the ceremony.
- Reference5 chapters2026.08The editing machine
A five-chapter tour of astro-inkbrush, the git-backed CMS engine this garden pairs with — and this very site is its demo: in editing mode, every page here is editable in place.
- Reference2026.08The checks
check-content, check-wikilinks, check-dist, ui_probe, contrast_probe — one gate per layer, each catching a class of silent failure that ships under a green build.
Tokens, theming, the paper-and-ink look
- Reference2026.08Two-layer palette and themes
The raw pigment palette and the two semantic contexts built on it — reading column and browse shelf — the light/dark discipline, the audited contrast, and the single entry point for site identity.
- Pattern2026.08Paper and ink, on purpose
Why this design system commits to a warm paper ground, real serifs, two grounds for two kinds of page, and a hand-set dark theme — a note on the stance behind the tokens.
- Guide2026.08The three-way split
The engine edits, the paper looks, the site is you — who owns what, and why the lines sit where they do.
The Markdown pipeline: dialect, plugins, guard
- Guide2026.08Getting started
A pair of submodules in your site repo, three stylesheet imports, one line of siteMarkdown for the whole Markdown pipeline — and you have a garden.
- Reference2026.08Kitchen sink
Every element of the markdown pipeline performs once on this page — the page itself is their test bed.
The component set and how to compose it
- Reference3 chapters2026.08The component set
A three-chapter tour of every shipped component — and, at the same time, a live demonstration of how a hub note with chapters works.
Checks, probes and the CI story
- Reference2026.08The checks
check-content, check-wikilinks, check-dist, ui_probe, contrast_probe — one gate per layer, each catching a class of silent failure that ships under a green build.
The editing machine: blocks, history, AI, inbox
- Pattern2026.08The craft of a small garden
A specimen essay — a note about keeping notes, and about letting the tools carry the ceremony.
- Reference5 chapters2026.08The editing machine
A five-chapter tour of astro-inkbrush, the git-backed CMS engine this garden pairs with — and this very site is its demo: in editing mode, every page here is editable in place.