citation-evidence/workplans/CE-WP-0001-foundations.md

id, type, title, domain, repo, repo_id, status, owner, created, updated, spec_refs

id	type	title	domain	repo	repo_id	status	owner	created	updated	spec_refs
CE-WP-0001	workplan	Foundations — TS scaffold, folder layout, lint boundaries, normalization, fixtures	citation_evidence	citation-evidence	a677c189-b4e2-4f2a-9e48-faa482c277e6	todo	Bernd	2026-05-24	2026-05-24	wiki/ProductRequirementsDocument.md wiki/ArchitectureOverview.md wiki/SharedContracts.md wiki/DependencyMap.md

CE-WP-0001 — Foundations

Establish the skeleton of the umbrella-first MVP: a TypeScript project with a folder layout that mirrors the future subsystem split (so that extracting to sister repos later is a git mv plus a package.json cut), lint rules that enforce the dependency map at the folder level, the versioned canonical-text normalization function, and a small but representative PDF fixtures corpus.

No product features yet. This workplan exists so that everything from CE-WP-0002 onward has somewhere to land.

Decisions captured here

Each task below corresponds to a Phase-0 ADR. The ADR lives at docs/decisions/ADR-NNNN-<slug>.md. If a task involves a choice that wasn't already decided, the agent stops and asks Bernd before writing code.

Dependency Order

T01 (toolchain decision + package.json)
  └─ T02 (folder layout per DependencyMap §4)
       └─ T03 (lint rules enforcing dep edges)
       └─ T04 (canonical text normalization v1, versioned)
       └─ T05 (fixtures: 5+ representative PDFs + a manifest)
       └─ T06 (README upgrade + dev workflow doc)
       └─ T07 (write the six pending ADRs as stubs)

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T01 — Toolchain + package.json + tsconfig

id: CE-WP-0001-T01
priority: critical
status: todo

Decide the TS toolchain (vite vs tsc-only vs Next.js) and write a single package.json at the repo root. Decisions to lock in this task as an ADR (docs/decisions/ADR-0001-toolchain.md):

• Bundler: vite (recommended, fastest dev loop for a React MVP)
• Package manager: pnpm (recommended, plays well with future workspace split)
• React 18+
• Strict TS

Deliverables:

• package.json with dev, build, test, lint, typecheck scripts
• tsconfig.json with strict mode, paths for the src/ partitions
• .nvmrc pinning Node version
• docs/decisions/ADR-0001-toolchain.md written and committed

Do not install application dependencies yet — just the toolchain.

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T02 — Folder layout matching DependencyMap §4

id: CE-WP-0001-T02
priority: critical
status: todo
depends_on: [T01]

Create the source folder layout:

src/
  shared/    # will become @citation-evidence/engine (types + contracts)
  engine/    # will become @citation-evidence/engine (services)
  anchor/    # will become @citation-evidence/anchor
  source/    # will become @citation-evidence/source
  work/      # will become @citation-evidence/work (UI)
  binder/    # will become @citation-evidence/binder
  app/       # the reference workspace shell

Each folder gets:

• A one-line README.md stating its future home
• An index.ts that re-exports its public API (empty for now)

Add path aliases in tsconfig.json: @shared/*, @engine/*, etc.

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T03 — Lint rules enforcing dependency edges

id: CE-WP-0001-T03
priority: high
status: todo
depends_on: [T02]

Install eslint-plugin-boundaries (or equivalent) and configure rules per wiki/DependencyMap.md §4:

Folder	May import from
shared/	(nothing internal)
engine/	shared/
anchor/	shared/, engine/
source/	shared/, engine/
binder/	shared/, engine/, anchor/
work/	shared/, engine/, anchor/, source/
app/	any

Add a failing test fixture that imports source/ from binder/ and confirm lint catches it; remove the fixture afterward.

npm run lint must pass on a clean tree.

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T04 — Canonical text normalization v1

id: CE-WP-0001-T04
priority: critical
status: todo
depends_on: [T02]

Implement src/shared/text/normalize.ts per wiki/SharedContracts.md §6:

1. Unicode NFC
2. Normalize line endings to \n
3. Collapse horizontal whitespace runs to a single space
4. Strip soft hyphens (U+00AD)
5. Preserve paragraph boundaries (\n\n)

Public API:

export const NORMALIZE_VERSION = 1;
export function normalize(input: string): { text: string; version: number };

Include unit tests covering: ligatures, CRLF input, soft-hyphenated German, mixed whitespace, paragraph preservation.

Stored selectors will record this version number so that future normalization changes can be detected as a migration concern.

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T05 — PDF fixtures corpus + manifest

id: CE-WP-0001-T05
priority: high
status: todo
depends_on: [T01]

Assemble fixtures/pdfs/ with at least 5 representative PDFs:

• A simple single-column text PDF
• A two-column academic PDF (e.g. ACM-style)
• A German PDF with umlauts and soft hyphens
• A form PDF (e.g. a public-sector application form)
• A PDF with a heading hierarchy

Write fixtures/pdfs/manifest.json recording for each:

• filename
• short description
• expected page count
• one short "known-good quote" with the page number it appears on (used by CE-WP-0002 selector tests)

Keep each PDF small (< 1 MB) and check sources/licenses into fixtures/pdfs/SOURCES.md. Public-domain or Bernd-authored only.

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T06 — README upgrade + dev workflow doc

id: CE-WP-0001-T06
priority: medium
status: todo
depends_on: [T01, T02]

Replace the one-line README.md with a real one:

• What citation-evidence is (one paragraph from INTENT)
• Repository layout (point at src/ partitions and what each becomes)
• Where to find docs (wiki/, docs/decisions/, history/, workplans/)
• Dev workflow: pnpm install, pnpm dev, pnpm test, pnpm lint
• Pointer to ~/ralph-workplan/ for how workplans are driven

Add a one-paragraph README.md in each of the five sister repos pointing back at this umbrella + reminding readers that code lives upstream during the MVP phase.

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T07 — Stub the six pending ADRs

id: CE-WP-0001-T07
priority: medium
status: todo
depends_on: [T01]

Create stub files in docs/decisions/ for each ADR mentioned in wiki/SharedContracts.md §10:

• ADR-0001-toolchain.md (filled in by T01)
• ADR-0002-monorepo-vs-polyrepo.md
• ADR-0003-w3c-mapping-scope.md
• ADR-0004-pdf-viewer-library.md
• ADR-0005-persistence.md
• ADR-0006-selector-ownership-split.md

Each stub: title, status (proposed for 2-6), context (one paragraph explaining what the decision is about and why it matters), options (bullet list with pros/cons), decision (blank), consequences (blank).

These are not decisions yet — they are the questions that must be answered before the relevant code lands. The MVP can proceed without 2-6 being resolved because no extraction or persistence happens until later workplans.