Turn the MVP into a self-contained demo. Users now:
1. Land on an empty-state and create a named session.
2. Drag-drop or pick arbitrary PDFs into that session.
3. Annotate, build evidence, link to form fields — all session-scoped.
4. Export the whole session as a single .zip archive (manifest +
per-document PDFs).
5. Import a .zip back — into a new session, or merged into an
existing one (documents deduped by SHA-256 fingerprint;
annotations/evidence/links added additively).
Architecture:
- New shared types: SessionId, Session, SessionArchiveManifest +
parseSessionArchiveManifest with schema-version validation.
- SessionService (engine/services/sessions.ts) handles lifecycle
(create/rename/delete/setActive) + emits 4 new events through its
own bus; SharedContracts.md §4 lists the additions.
- SessionProvider (work/SessionContext.tsx) owns the cross-session
state: service, per-session PdfByteStore registry, per-session
version counter that drives EngineProvider remounts after imports.
- EngineProvider becomes session-aware (sessionId prop drives per-
session localStorage keys). Bumping engineRevision after
restoreFromStorage forces consumers to re-render so restored repos
show up immediately.
- PdfByteStore (source/pdf/byte-store.ts) holds Uint8Array bytes per
document and mints blob URLs; ingestPdfFromFile is the upload
entry-point that wraps the existing ingestPdf pipeline.
- ADR-0008 locks the ZIP layout (manifest.json + documents/<id>.pdf),
the manifest schema (schemaVersion 1), and the merge-on-collision
policy. JSZip is the only new dependency.
- App.tsx restructured: SessionProvider at the root, EngineProvider
keyed by ${sessionId}:${version}, hash routing #/s/<id>[/forms/demo],
SessionMenu top-bar, CreateFirstSession empty state.
- New DocumentRemoved event for per-document delete cleanup in
CollectionList; engine.documents.remove() is the new service method.
Tests:
- Unit: 16 SessionService lifecycle + persistence tests;
per-session snapshot round-trip; PdfByteStore + ingestPdfFromFile;
SessionArchive parser; exportSessionZip + importSessionZip with
create + merge + corrupt-archive paths.
- DOM: UploadDropzone, session-scoped CollectionList delete,
SessionMenu create/switch/rename, routing parser.
- E2E: tests/integration/session-export-reimport.dom.test.tsx walks
the full create → annotate → export → reimport flow and asserts
the additive merge (deduped doc + doubled evidence rows).
- Legacy E2Es updated to use a seed-session helper instead of the
removed fixture-button flow.
Known limitation (documented in ADR-0008): re-importing your own
freshly-exported ZIP creates duplicate annotations. Forward pointer
left for an importBundleId follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
citation-evidence
A document-centered evidence workspace for capturing, managing, presenting,
and re-opening citations. The umbrella over the six-package design described
in INTENT.md and wiki/ArchitectureOverview.md.
During the MVP all code lives here under src/ (see "Repository layout"
below). Sister repos hold INTENT only — code migrates outward when each
subsystem stabilises.
Documentation
| Where | What |
|---|---|
INTENT.md |
Project intent, scope, the umbrella-first decision |
wiki/ |
PRD, Architecture, SharedContracts, DependencyMap |
docs/decisions/ |
ADRs (architecturally significant decisions) |
workplans/ |
Ralph-driven workplans that implement the MVP slice |
history/ |
Time-stamped assessments and post-mortems |
The canonical contracts are in wiki/SharedContracts.md;
the partition boundaries are in wiki/DependencyMap.md.
Both are referenced from every workplan and from each sister repo's INTENT.md.
Repository layout
src/
shared/ # vocabulary, types, pure helpers → becomes part of citation-engine
engine/ # services, repositories, event bus → becomes part of citation-engine
anchor/ # selector creation/resolution, viewer adapter contract → becomes evidence-anchor
source/ # ingest, fingerprint, extraction, recovery → becomes evidence-source
binder/ # evidence-to-target binding, visual guide → becomes evidence-binder
work/ # review UI (sidebar, viewer shell) → becomes citation-work
app/ # the reference workspace shell → stays in citation-evidence
The dependency-edge rules between partitions are enforced by ESLint via
eslint-plugin-boundaries (see eslint.config.js). Extraction to a sister
repo is intended to be a git mv plus a package.json cut — nothing more.
Sister repos
Peers under ~/; each holds INTENT.md only during MVP:
~/citation-engine— shared model + engine services~/evidence-anchor— selectors + adapter contract~/evidence-source— ingest, representation, recovery~/evidence-binder— binding, visual guide, rect registry~/citation-work— review UI surfaces
Dev workflow
Requirements: Node 20 LTS (see .nvmrc) and pnpm 9.
pnpm install
pnpm dev # vite dev server (once src/app/ has a real entry)
pnpm test # vitest one-shot
pnpm test:watch
pnpm lint # eslint with boundary rules
pnpm typecheck # tsc --noEmit
pnpm build # production bundle
Workplans (Ralph)
Workplans drive incremental implementation through the ralph loop. The harness
lives in ~/ralph-workplan/; see workplans/README.md for the active list
and ordering.
/ralph-workplan workplans/CE-WP-0001-foundations.md
The loop self-retires when every task in the file has status: done and the
workplan's frontmatter status: done.