Switch the documentation build to Zensical - #172
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Not for merging yet. This makes `ENGINE=zensical bash build.sh` work alongside
the default MkDocs build so the two can be compared, which is how every real
problem in this migration has been found.
The one construct Jinja2 and MiniJinja cannot share, splitting a string in
overrides/main.html, is substituted into a throwaway copy of overrides/ for the
Zensical build only, rather than flipping it and making MkDocs unbuildable.
Deleting that block is part of finishing the migration. Zensical needs its own
virtualenv because it pulls pymdown-extensions 11.x against mkdocs-material's
~=10.2 pin, hence requirements-zensical.txt.
Zensical 0.0.59 builds the whole site: 17,326 files against MkDocs' 17,367,
through the same expand_imports, postprocess_site and Pagefind steps.
Comparing rendered text on all 9,958 common pages, parsed with html.parser
rather than a regex so the comparison matches what a browser does, 9,927 are
identical and 31 differ:
30 control-plane pages show literal `[!TIP]`/`[!NOTE]`, because
mkdocs-github-admonitions-plugin has no Zensical equivalent
1 pg-semantic-cache/v0-1-0-beta4/ resolves to README.md under Zensical and
index.md under MkDocs, which is a collision both engines see and settle
in opposite directions
Beyond rendered text: the 10 redoc pages are absent, because `<redoc src=...>`
passes through as an unknown element, so those API references render a heading
and nothing else; sitemap.xml.gz is not generated; six .gitignore files are
copied out of the source docs into the output; and objects.inv and search.json
appear that MkDocs does not produce.
Two things I reported as differences on the way here were artefacts of my own
comparison and are not real: entity escaping (`≤` against `≤`, `>`
against `>`) and syntax-highlighting token boundaries both render identically,
and a raw `<pre>` containing `< >` renders the same in both engines because the
HTML5 tokeniser treats `<` followed by a space as text. Checked in a browser
against both builds rather than inferred.
… to do Zensical does not load MkDocs plugins, so anything a plugin did to our content has to move somewhere both engines share. The staged tree that expand_imports.py writes to build/docs is that place: it is generated and gitignored, so a new scripts/preprocess_docs.py can rewrite it in place without touching anything committed, and build.sh runs it for both engines so their output stays diffable. Alerts are a straight port of mkdocs-github-admonitions-plugin's logic, which is MIT licensed; thirty imported pages write `> [!NOTE]` blockquotes and would otherwise render the marker literally. Redoc took more care. The plugin worked on rendered HTML, writing a companion page per tag into the built site; this writes the equivalent companion into the staged tree beside the Markdown, where both engines copy it through. Every URL it emits is root-relative because MkDocs does not rewrite `iframe[src]` whilst Zensical does, so any relative path comes out of the two engines pointing at two different places. The iframe keeps the plugin's `redoc-iframe` class, which several imported pages already style and script against. The Redoc bundle is downloaded by build.sh, pinned by version and digest rather than committed, since it is a megabyte of minified JavaScript; the much smaller redark dark theme is vendored under docs/assets/redoc with its licence. Verified by building both engines: the companion pages come out byte-identical, and in a browser the API references render and follow the light/dark toggle for both a local specification and control-plane's remote one.
…sical here Cloudflare Pages has one project-wide build command and no per-branch override, so build.sh is the only place a branch can say how it wants to be built. That was already true of the engine choice, but not of the environment behind it: installing the requirements was left to Pages, which installs requirements.txt and therefore MkDocs, so ENGINE=zensical only ever worked on a machine where somebody had built the virtualenv by hand, and a Pages preview of this branch silently came out as MkDocs. Zensical cannot share that environment, since it pulls pymdown-extensions 11.x against mkdocs-material's ~=10.2 pin, so build.sh now provisions .venv-zensical from requirements-zensical.txt when it needs it and puts it first on PATH. The helper scripts run from there too; PyYAML is their only third-party import and Zensical depends on it anyway. The default on this branch is now zensical, which is the point of the branch. main keeps mkdocs, and ENGINE still overrides either way. Verified from scratch with the virtualenv moved aside: build.sh provisions it, builds with Zensical 0.0.59, and produces the same 17,340 files as before.
The header logo rendered as a broken image under Zensical, in both colour schemes, because overrides/partials/logo.html reads its two paths from `config.theme.logo_dark_mode` and `config.theme.logo_light_mode`. MkDocs keeps arbitrary keys in the theme config, so those resolved; Zensical drops the ones it does not recognise, so both came out as `src=""`. `config.extra` is passed through intact by both engines, and is already where the rest of our custom template data lives, so the two keys move there. Isolated tests confirm the same construct renders under MkDocs and Zensical alike, and that it is only the theme lookup that differs: the `url` filter itself was never the problem. Verified with a full Zensical build: the src is populated and correctly relativised at depth, `../../../../img/logo-dark.png` four levels down, and both images are present in the built site.
Two unrelated faults in the same header, both from Zensical differing quietly rather than failing. The Welcome tab rendered as an empty link because overrides/partials/tabs.html iterates `nav` to pick out the first entry. MkDocs makes the navigation directly iterable, whilst under Zensical `nav` is an object whose entries live behind `.items`, so the loop walked its key names and produced no title and no href. Both engines expose `.items`, and both give the homepage an empty url that the `url` filter resolves to the site root from any depth, so the fix is portable; the `or '.'` only covers the homepage itself, where the two disagree on empty string versus dot. The dropdown menus were blue because Zensical defaults to its own `modern` theme variant, whose palette omits the `white` and `black` primary colours that Material for MkDocs ships. With `primary: white` having no rule to match, --md-primary-fg-color kept the stock indigo #4051b5, which our dropdown CSS faithfully painted the menus with. `variant: classic` is the variant that corresponds to what we build today; MkDocs keeps unrecognised theme keys, so it ignores the setting without complaint. Note that `classic` also restores Roboto and Roboto Mono. The build had silently been rendering in Inter and JetBrains Mono, which is `modern`'s default and not something we chose. Verified on a full Zensical build and in a browser: --md-primary-fg-color is white, the dropdown background is rgb(255,255,255) rather than rgb(64,81,181), dark mode still resolves to its near-black, and the Welcome tab reads "Welcome" with href "." at the root and "../../../.." four levels down.
WalkthroughThe documentation build now uses Zensical exclusively. A preprocessing script handles alert and Redoc transformations. Postprocessing generates sitemaps. Templates, CI, dependencies, navigation behavior, and Redoc assets were updated for the new pipeline. ChangesDocumentation build pipeline
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- Around line 130-132: Update the Redoc download command using curl in the build
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Three small things picked up in review of the build engine change. The Redoc download had `--retry 3` but no timeouts, and a retry does not bound a connection that has stalled part-way through a transfer, so a wedged CDN could hold the deployment job open until it timed out; it now gives up after ten seconds connecting or two minutes in total, and fails the build as it already does for any other download failure. The alert body pattern required every body line to end in a newline, so an alert that ran to the end of a file without a trailing newline was left as a literal blockquote. That is a bug in the plugin this was ported from rather than behaviour worth preserving, so the pattern now accepts end of file too, and the comment says why we have diverged. The per-page work in `main` has moved into `process_page`, which brings the cyclomatic complexity back under the limit Codacy enforces, and the functions that were missing docstrings have them. I checked the output byte for byte against the previous script over a tree exercising both conversions, code fences, missing specifications and multiple tags per page, and it is identical.
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The Zensical build matches the live site on rendered content: article text,
admonitions, redirects, splat rules, search exclusions, 404, GA, fonts,
colours, version selector and the Redoc embeds all check out. The findings
below are numbered so they can be picked off individually.
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1. Broken canonical URL on every docset root stub
/ace/, /control-plane/, /lolor/ and the other 38 root stubs render
<link rel="canonical" href="https://docs.pgedge.comcontrol-plane/">.
overrides/redirect.html concatenates config.site_url and the path. MkDocs
normalises site_url to a trailing slash and Zensical does not, and
site_url in mkdocs.yml has none. Fix: add the trailing slash to site_url,
or join with an explicit / in the template.
2. <redoc> inside a code fence is converted
convert_alerts checks CODEBLOCK_PATTERN before matching.
convert_redoc_tags does not. A page that documents the tag in a fenced
example (pgedge-skills already does) gets an iframe injected into the fence, a
companion page pointing at a nonexistent spec, and a spurious "not in the
staged tree" warning. The old plugin ran on rendered HTML, where the example
was already escaped text. Fix: apply the same code-fence guard to the Redoc
pass, and skip inline code.
3. Zero matches warns instead of failing
If either conversion in preprocess_docs.py matches nothing, the script logs
one WARNING and exits 0, and the site publishes thirty pages of literal alert
blockquotes and empty API references. Imports are pinned to tags, so zero
matches can only mean a script regression. build.sh already fails hard on a
missing redark.js, a bad Redoc digest and a low file count. Fix: return
non-zero.
4. requirements-zensical.txt pins only zensical
markdown>=3.7, pymdown-extensions>=11.0, pygments>=2.20, jinja2, pyyaml,
click, deepmerge and tomli all float, so every fresh Pages deploy resolves a
different set and the MkDocs-vs-Zensical diff is against a moving target.
Highlighting spans already differ between the two builds. Fix: pin the
resolved set with pip freeze.
5. Star count missing from the GitHub header link
docs/javascripts/org-stars.js appends the star total to .md-source__facts,
which the theme creates only after its own async GitHub API call. When the
script's own result is cached in localStorage it resolves first, finds no
element, and silently does nothing. This predates the PR and reproduces on
both engines, but the PR touches the header and it is the most visible defect
on the preview.
| State | Live (MkDocs) | Preview (Zensical) |
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| New tab, star cache warm (visited < 1 hour) | 46 only | 46 only |
| Second page in the same tab | 46 + 1.6k | 46 + 1.6k |
| Everything cold | not tested | 46 + 1.6k |
Fix: wait for .md-source__facts with a MutationObserver on the source link
instead of assuming it exists at DOMContentLoaded.
Non-blocking
6. Sitemap omits 116 URLs
Zensical excludes pages that are not in the nav: the 41 root stubs and 75
orphan content pages (ace design and releasing pages, spock per-function
pages, enterprise/fips_update/ and others). The pages still serve 200. The
new sitemap also drops lastmod. Not in the PR's known differences, and worth
a deliberate decision.
7. Dotfiles from imported sources are published
spock-v6/development/internals-doc/.gitignore is 404 on live and 200 on the
preview. Harmless today, but an imported source could ship a .env. Fix:
delete dotfiles from the staged tree in the preprocess pass.
8. The default build leaves mkdocs.gen.yml unusable by MkDocs
The Zensical branch rewrites custom_dir in place to point at
build/overrides-zensical, so the README's mkdocs serve -f mkdocs.gen.yml
fails on the split filter until expand_imports.py is re-run. Fix: make
main.html engine-neutral by passing docset and version in via front matter,
as redirect.html already does, and delete the copy-and-substitute block and
its "changed shape" sentinel.
9. CI builds only one engine
With the default flipped, nothing exercises ENGINE=mkdocs, so the fallback
rots unobserved. Fix: a two-entry engine matrix in build-docs.yml, which
also removes the now-unused requirements.txt install from the Zensical job.
10. README is stale
It describes the pre-PR flow and never mentions preprocess_docs.py,
ENGINE, requirements-zensical.txt or the Redoc download. Following it
produces a clean local build with broken alerts and empty API pages.
11. The venv guard hides pin changes
Provisioning is skipped whenever .venv-zensical/bin/zensical exists, so a
bumped pin keeps the old version locally. Fix: run pip install -r
unconditionally, it is idempotent.
12. Wrong escaping for the spec URL
html.escape builds a JavaScript string literal inside a <script> block,
where entities are not decoded. A spec URL containing & would break. None of
the current four does. Fix: json.dumps(spec_url).
13. BOM handling regressed
Pages are read as utf-8 where MkDocs used utf-8-sig, so a BOM-prefixed
file whose first line is an alert no longer converts. Fix: utf-8-sig.
14. curl timeout bound is longer than the comment says
--max-time 120 resets on every --retry, so a stalled CDN holds the build
for roughly eight minutes, not two. Fix: add --retry-max-time.
15. Redoc version bump is undocumented
The plugin bundled Redoc 2.4.0. build.sh pins 2.5.3. Fine, but worth a line
in the description.
The two-engine arrangement existed so the migration could be checked by building both ways and diffing, and it has done that job. Keeping it now would mean maintaining a fallback nothing exercises, so this removes it: build.sh loses the ENGINE switch, the mkdocs arm and the PATH juggling, and becomes linear. Three of the review's findings dissolve rather than needing a fix. The copy-and-substitute block that rewrote overrides/main.html on the way past, and its "changed shape" sentinel, are gone: main.html now spells the split the way MiniJinja does, so mkdocs.gen.yml no longer has its custom_dir rewritten in place and nothing is left half-usable afterwards. The venv guard that skipped provisioning whenever .venv-zensical existed, and so hid a changed pin, is gone with it: pip is idempotent, so the install runs unconditionally into .venv-docs. And there is no engine matrix in CI, because there is no second engine. requirements.txt is now the pinned Zensical set, transitive dependencies included, generated with pip freeze from a clean virtualenv; requirements-zensical.txt is deleted. Zensical's metadata floats markdown, pymdown-extensions and pygments among others, so an unpinned build resolves a different renderer on every deploy and the output moves without a commit. mkdocs-redirects goes too, but the `redirects` config stays: Zensical implements it natively, reading the same keys, which I confirmed against its config.py and against the meta-refresh pages the deployed preview serves. CI no longer builds its own virtualenv before calling build.sh, since that only proved a second, differently built environment also worked. The README described the pre-migration flow and mentioned none of ENGINE, preprocess_docs.py, the pinned Redoc download or the sitemap, so following it produced a clean build with broken alerts and empty API pages. It now documents the real build and a faster local preview loop, including the two things that loop does not give you.
Every one of the 41 versioned docset root stubs advertised `https://docs.pgedge.comace/`, with the separator missing, because overrides/redirect.html concatenated `config.site_url` and the path. MkDocs normalised `site_url` to a trailing slash and Zensical does not, and the configured value has none. The separator is now added by the template rather than assumed to be on one side or the other, so it is right whichever way `site_url` is written. `canonical` keeps its own trailing slash, which is significant in a canonical URL. This was the only place in the templates or scripts that used `site_url`, so there is nothing else carrying the same assumption.
Zensical's sitemap lists only the pages its nav reaches, which dropped 142 URLs: the 41 versioned docset root stubs and the orphan pages that imported sources ship without linking to. All of them still serve 200 and all of them have been in the sitemap for as long as the site has existed, so withdrawing them is a change to what crawlers are told to visit rather than a tidy-up. It also dropped `lastmod` entirely. postprocess_site.py now regenerates sitemap.xml from the tree, which does not depend on the engine's idea of which pages count: a page is an index.html, which follows from use_directory_urls and neatly excludes the Redoc companion pages and the stray overrides/partials/*.html some imported sources carry, matching what MkDocs did with them. `lastmod` is the build date for every entry, which is exactly what MkDocs emitted, via get_build_date(). The count goes from 9,972 to 10,114. robots.txt points at sitemap.xml only, so no gzipped copy is needed.
Four things from review, all in preprocess_docs.py. A `<redoc>` tag inside a fenced block or an inline code span was converted. `convert_alerts` has guarded against that since it was written, but the Redoc pass did not, so a page documenting the tag rather than using it got an iframe injected into its own example, a companion page written for a specification that does not exist, and a warning about the missing specification. The old plugin ran on rendered HTML, where the example was already escaped text, so this only became possible when the work moved earlier. No page in the current imports trips it; one documenting the syntax would. Zero matches now fail the build instead of logging a warning and exiting 0. The imports are pinned to git tags and cannot change under us, so zero can only mean this script has regressed, and failing is much cheaper than publishing thirty pages of literal `[!NOTE]` blockquotes and a set of empty API references. Dotfiles that imported sources ship are removed from the staged tree. Zensical copies them through where MkDocs skipped them as dotfiles, so six `.gitignore` files were being published, along with four `.claude/settings.json` files that nobody intended to publish at all. Nothing we ship lives under a dot-prefixed path, so whole dot-directories go too. The specification URL is escaped with `json.dumps` rather than `html.escape`. The value ends up in a JavaScript string literal inside a `<script>` block, where HTML entities are not decoded, so a URL containing `&` would have broken; none of the current twelve does. Pages are read as `utf-8-sig`, which is what MkDocs used, so a byte order mark cannot sit in front of an alert on the first line and stop it matching. They are still written as plain `utf-8`, so the mark is not reintroduced. Verified against a freshly expanded tree: the counts hold at 30 pages of alerts and 12 Redoc embeds, all 12 companion pages are byte-identical to those the previous script produced, and the only difference in the staged tree is the 10 removed dotfiles.
The org star total was missing from the header whenever our own result was already cached. `updateStarCount` looked for `.md-source__facts` once and gave up silently if it was absent, but the theme creates that list only after its own GitHub API call resolves; on a warm cache we ran first and found nothing. It appeared on a second page load in the same tab, which is what made it look intermittent rather than broken. Each source link is now watched with a MutationObserver until the list appears, then the observer disconnects. A fifteen second timeout stops an observer outliving a theme request that failed or was rate limited, and releases the element so a later navigation can retry. A WeakSet stops repeated invocations stacking observers on the same element, and the existing reuse of `.md-source__fact--stars` keeps it idempotent. Both source links are updated, header and drawer, since the theme renders and populates both. The Discord link is deliberately excluded: it borrows the `.md-source` classes but has no `data-md-component`, so it never gains a facts list and watching it would leave an observer waiting out the full timeout. This predates the migration and reproduces on both engines. Caching, formatting and error handling are untouched. Verified in a headless browser against a harness using the markup the built site actually emits, covering the list already present, created late, never created, and repeated invocations. Not yet verified end to end against the real theme: locally the theme never issues its own API call, so the facts list is never created and there is nothing to attach to.
Bandit and Opengrep both flag any import from the `xml` package as a possible XML external entity attack. Here it was `xml.sax.saxutils.escape`, which parses nothing and only escapes a string, so both were false positives, and Codacy rated them 90% likely to be so itself. Security findings are not mine to wave away, and five string replacements are cheaper than a suppression that the next reader has to evaluate from scratch, so the escaping is done locally instead. The output is unchanged: 10,114 URLs, with the ampersand replaced first so its own escape is not re-escaped.
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Correction on finding 5: it is fixed, and my reading of it above was wrong. I reported that Re-verified as an A/B on the real pages, in exactly the scenario your table describes, with our result already cached and the theme's facts list arriving afterwards:
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After build.sh creates .venv-docs, run:
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.venv-docs/bin/zensical serve -f mkdocs.gen.ymlexpand_imports.py imports PyYAML, which build.sh installs into .venv-docs. Ambient python3 can fail with ModuleNotFoundError when the system Python does not provide PyYAML.
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The prefix test misses the assets and pagefind roots.
Line 296 builds rel without a trailing slash, so for the two directories themselves rel is exactly assets or pagefind. Neither value matches startswith('assets/') or startswith('pagefind/'). The comment on line 300 states that both directories contain an index.html, so those two non-page URLs enter the sitemap. Only their nested paths are excluded today.
Proposed fix
- if rel.startswith('assets/') or rel.startswith('pagefind/'):
+ top = rel.split('/', 1)[0]
+ if top in ('assets', 'pagefind'):
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| if rel.startswith('assets/') or rel.startswith('pagefind/'): | |
| continue | |
| top = rel.split('/', 1)[0] | |
| if top in ('assets', 'pagefind'): | |
| continue |
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In `@scripts/postprocess_site.py` around lines 301 - 302, Update the rel prefix
filtering in the postprocessing flow to exclude both the assets and pagefind
root paths as well as their nested paths. Adjust the condition near the rel
construction so exact values assets and pagefind are skipped alongside paths
beginning with assets/ or pagefind/.
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Switches the documentation build from Material for MkDocs, which reaches end of
life on 5 November 2026, to Zensical. Merging this switches production, and
MkDocs is no longer supported on this branch: the two-engine arrangement did its
job of letting the migration be checked by diffing, and keeping it would mean
maintaining a fallback nothing exercises.
What changed
build.shbuilds one engine. TheENGINEswitch, the MkDocs arm, theseparate virtualenv and the
PATHjuggling are gone, and so is the block thatused to rewrite
overrides/main.htmlinto a copy on the way past;main.htmlnow spells the string split the way MiniJinja does.requirements.txtis the fully pinned Zensical set, transitivedependencies included, from
pip freeze. Zensical floatsmarkdown,pymdown-extensionsandpygmentsamong others, so an unpinned buildresolved a different renderer on every deploy.
requirements-zensical.txtis deleted, and so ismkdocs-redirects: Zensicalimplements
redirectsnatively from the same config, which the previewconfirms by still serving the meta-refresh pages.
scripts/preprocess_docs.pydoes what thegh-admonitionsandredoc-tagplugins did, since Zensical loads no MkDocs plugins: 30 pages ofalerts and 12 Redoc embeds. It now also strips dotfiles the imported sources
ship, and fails the build if either conversion matches nothing.
scripts/postprocess_site.pyregeneratessitemap.xmlfrom the builttree, because Zensical lists only what the nav reaches.
build.sh, pinned by version andsha256, rather than committed. It is Redoc 2.5.3; the version the old
plugin vendored could not be determined from its bundle, so this may be a bump
and is called out rather than asserted either way.
Review
All 15 findings from @AntTheLimey's review are addressed, and each was verified
against the code before being acted on. Findings 8, 9 and 11 dissolved with the
engine removal rather than needing fixes. Two need a reviewer's attention:
Finding 5 is fixed, and the reviewer's diagnosis was right. I initially
reported the opposite, having measured in a headless browser where the theme
never issues its own GitHub API call, so
.md-source__factsnever appears andthere is nothing to attach to; that was an artefact of the environment, not the
site. Retracted.
Proven by A/B on the real pages, in the failing scenario the review describes
(our result already cached, the theme's facts list created afterwards): live,
running the old script, ends up with
46and no star total; the preview,running the new one, ends up with
461.6kon both the header and drawerlinks, with no duplicates.
Finding 15 could not be verified. The plugin's vendored bundle carries no
extractable version string, so I cannot confirm it was 2.4.0.
Codacy flagged two new security issues on
from xml.sax.saxutils import escape,both pattern-matching the
xmlimport and warning about XXE from XML parsing.Nothing is parsed there and only a string is escaped, so both were false
positives, and Codacy itself rated them 90% likely to be. Rather than suppress a
security finding, the escaping is now five local string replacements.
Verification
Clean build from an empty tree: 17,461 files, 30 alert pages, 12 Redoc embeds,
10 dotfiles removed. CI builds green on a fresh runner, which exercises the new
provisioning, and Codacy is clean.
On the deployed preview: the canonical URL on the docset stubs is
https://docs.pgedge.com/ace/rather than the previoushttps://docs.pgedge.comace/; the sitemap carries 10,114 URLs withlastmod,up from 9,972, and includes the root stubs; the published
.gitignorefiles now404; and both Redoc cases render, including control-plane's specification
fetched from GitHub at page load.
Repeat builds are safe despite zero matches now being fatal, because
expand_imports.pyrebuilds the staged tree from scratch each run.Still not done: comparing the rendered content of all ~10,000 pages against
live, rather than only which pages exist. That is where a remaining divergence
would hide. The 69 link warnings Zensical reports are pre-existing broken links
in imported content that MkDocs did not surface; the build exits 0 on them.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Bug Fixes
Documentation