md2html

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md2html

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Render a markdown doc as a self-contained HTML view, written by hand for that document. TRIGGER when the user asks for an "html view", "make this readable", "render as html/page", "open as a page", or wants a shareable page of a markdown deliverable (review report, plan, ADR, research/design note). DO NOT TRIGGER to author new content (write the markdown first), for the todo board (use /todo), or to build interactive dashboards and tools (author those directly).

md2html

Markdown is canonical; the page is a view of it. Write the HTML for the document in front of you — no converter, no shared stylesheet — so the layout follows that document's actual shape instead of a template's.

Never author an .html as the only record of a decision or finding, and never hand-edit a rendered one — edit the .md and rebuild.

When to render

Convert on request ("html view", "make this readable", "render as a page"), or offer it in one sentence when a deliverable is long. Never generate an HTML view by default.

Only render local, curated docs you have read. Never paste untrusted markdown (pasted issues, third-party files) into a page without stripping raw HTML first.

Read the doc before designing

Know its genre, its length, what the reader looks for first, and what structure the markdown already carries. A three-paragraph note and a forty-finding audit are not the same page.

Structure the markdown already carries

Surface these; never invent HTML-only formats. The authoring skills own these shapes — for review, severity, impact class, action mapping and the finding template are defined in ../adversarial-review/taxonomy.md. Read the ladders there rather than inferring them from the words on the page.

In the markdown	Means
type: frontmatter	genre: review, adr, plan, design, ideas, note
branch / commit / session frontmatter	provenance to stamp on the page
VERDICT: line	the headline conclusion
### [F-01] `label`	one finding
critical / high / medium / low	finding severity
- [ ], - [x]	plan tasks, open vs done
<details>	evidence; keep it collapsed

A doc without them renders as prose. Do not fabricate structure it lacks.

What each genre must surface

Goals, not implementations — pick the form yourself.

• review — verdict legible before any scrolling; findings individually linkable and scannable by severity; evidence collapsed by default.
• plan — done versus remaining, visible at a glance.
• adr — status (proposed / accepted / superseded) beside the title.
• design, ideas, note — prose; long docs earn a way to navigate.

Navigating a long page

Once a page carries more structure than a reader holds in view — roughly 2,000 words, 7 sections, or 8 findings — its full structure belongs near the top and its destinations stay reachable from anywhere in it. Assume no find-in-page: Lore is a Tauri webview and macOS WKWebView ships no find bar, so the page's own navigation is often the only tool the reader has.

Every decision-bearing item stays in the linear flow — searchable, printable, and reachable by its own link. Collapse only what the source marked secondary, and give each finding and section a stable id that reads as the target once the reader lands on it.

Navigation does not get its own column. Prose already sets the measure, and a persistent rail spends width on a second copy of an index the page states better in flow. Reach for these in order, and stop as soon as the page is navigable:

1. An exhaustive table under the verdict — every finding, not a sample. Carry severity and action as separate columns; they are separate ladders. This is the index; anything later only has to make it reachable again.
2. An overlay that opens on demand for reach from deep in the page — a fixed <details> costs nothing until the reader asks for it.
3. A pinned header on a card that runs past a screen.

Tracking the reader's position needs script and only earns it around 30 destinations. Splitting into sibling pages waits for roughly 15,000 words, and never replaces a single-file edition for search and print.

No tabs. Inactive panels are display:none, which the HTML standard excludes from find-in-page in every engine, and a document has one :target, so tab fragments and #F-01 links cannot both drive it. CSS alone also cannot supply the selected state and arrow-key focus a tab widget owes a screen reader.

Links out

Code locations, issue and PR numbers, revisions and branches are the reader's exits from the page. Resolve them all, which the context-closure rule already requires of any doc that leaves the session.

Code references:

• Pin each ref to the commit its finding was reviewed against, not to a single repo HEAD. A stacked-PR review pins a different SHA per PR; read them off the doc's own source pins.
• Verify the target exists at that SHA (git cat-file -e <sha>:<path>) before emitting a link. An unverified permalink is worse than plain text.
• Leave ambiguous bare filenames and third-party paths as plain code. Guessing which main.rs was meant produces a confidently wrong link.

Issue and PR references:

• #NNN resolves to the repo's /pull/ or /issues/ path. Confirm which it is (gh pr view / gh issue view) — the two are not interchangeable.
• Rewrite only bare refs in prose. Attribute syntax (#[ignore]), anchor fragments, and colour literals also start with # and must survive untouched.

Revisions and branches:

• A commit SHA links to /commit/<sha> and is the durable anchor — it survives deletion of every branch that once contained it.
• A branch links to /tree/<branch> only once git ls-remote --heads resolves it. Merged feature branches are routinely deleted, so the link dies while the commit it pointed at still loads.
• A metadata field that defers elsewhere ("heads pinned below") links to that section, never to a fabricated commit.

Page requirements

• Single file, no runtime fetches: inline every style and script, embed images as data URIs, no CDN or remote fonts. The ban covers resources the page loads to render — outbound citation links (permalinks, specs, issues) are expected and wanted.
• No secrets, no unredacted command output.
• Light and dark both defined explicitly; the page picks up the viewer's theme.
• Wide content (tables, code, diagrams) scrolls inside its own container. The body never scrolls sideways.
• Readable line length for prose; the content sets the measure, not the window.

Output

Same-slug .html beside the .md, opening with the notes header comment (~/notes/CLAUDE.md, "HTML artifacts"):

<!-- canonical-md: <slug>.md | kind: snapshot|tool | commit: <sha> -->

Use kind: snapshot unless the page is a live tool. Scratch renders go to notes/ or a temp path so they never sit beside a durable note. Preview with ~/.claude/scripts/lore-open.py <file.html>.

Never hand-edit a rendered page — change the .md and rebuild.

A page that will be shared leaves the session, so confirm its links resolve and its terms stand alone first. Use the doc-closure skill for the full pass.