Overview

Weekly Progress (MarkBind)

MarkBind/markbind and MarkBind/skills via GitHub contributions.

Week 1 Summary

Review: #2775 Structurally refactor Site class into Facade and separate Managers (2026-01-16)
- Related issue(s): #1756, #2774
Review: #2777 Add example of content processing flow in developer documentation (2026-01-16)
- Related issue(s): #2229

Week 2 Summary

PR: #2788 Update architecture diagram to use mermaid (MERGED, 2026-01-19)
- Replaced architecture.pptx and architecture.png with a mermaid diagram in architecture.md.
- Diagram rendered correctly when serving the MarkBind site.
Review: #2801 Use ts-graphviz/setup-graphviz (2026-01-25)
- Related issue(s): #2798
Review: #2803 Remove bluebird dependency from async functions (2026-01-25)
- Related issue(s): #2776

Week 3 Summary

PR: #2804 Add agent skills for AI coding (MERGED, 2026-01-26)
- Added agent skills for AI coding tools (OpenCode/ClaudeCode).
- Used the open-source SKILL.md standard, which is provider agnostic.
- Created skills by reading the dev guide and generating relevant skill files.
PR: #2805 Migrate vue-components package to TS (CLOSED, 2026-01-26)
- Migrated packages/vue-components JavaScript files to TypeScript.
- Part of the effort to migrate the codebase to TypeScript and ES6.
- Done primarily using OpenCode with Claude Sonnet 4.5 to experiment with AI coding.
PR: #2809 Implement custom cardstack tag colors and order (MERGED, 2026-01-29)
- Implemented feature to specify custom tag colors and order in the cardstack component.
- Tag colors and order are specified as props.
- Supports bootstrap color classes and custom hex codes.
Issue: #2818 Full Screen Diagrams (OPEN, 2026-02-01)

Week 4 Summary

Review: #2814 Add AGENTS.md files to provide guidelines for project and packages (2026-02-02)
Review: #2813 Add update-docs skill (2026-02-02)
Issue: #2822 Add AI Subagents (CLOSED, 2026-02-02)
PR: #2824 Add setup to pretest script (OPEN, 2026-02-02)
- Added a pre-test cleanup step to delete stale artifacts before running tests.
- Addresses issue where tests pass locally but fail in CI due to stale built files.
- Currently still open, pending review.
Review: #2823 Add skills setup info to docs (2026-02-04)
PR: #2828 Add Card Counts to Tag (MERGED, 2026-02-05)
- Modified the cardstack and card components to include card counts for each tag.
- Used Vue 3 reactivity to dynamically update tag counts during search.
- Related issue(s): #2808

Week 5 Summary

PR: #2834 Migrate packages/vue-components Utils files to TS (MERGED, 2026-02-11)
- Migrated packages/vue-components/src/utils files to TypeScript.
- Uses babel to compile TypeScript and tsc for type checking.
- No additional dependencies added; used babel/preset-typescript for compile support.
Review: #2807 Add create-pull-request skill for GitHub PR automation (2026-02-13)

Week 6 Summary

Issue: #2849 Misleading deploy command success despite failure output (OPEN, 2026-02-28)

Week 7 Summary

PR: #2852 Update markbind deploy success log message (MERGED, 2026-03-02)
- Deploy command previously showed success regardless of actual deployment result.
- Updated deploy output to include both the GitHub Actions URL and deployed site URL.
PR: #2853 Migrate Core Patches to TypeScript (MERGED, 2026-03-04)
- Migrated nunjucks, htmlparser2, and markdown-it patches to TypeScript and ESM.
- Used module augmentation to add types for patched packages.
- Included significant monkey patching updates.
Issue: #2854 Add open page command for markbind serve (OPEN, 2026-03-06)

Week 8 Summary

PR: #2856 Add Dark Mode Support (MERGED, 2026-03-11)
- Upgraded Bootstrap to 5.3 for dark theme support.
- Added a dark mode flag in site.json that respects system preference by default.
- Added a navbar toggle to switch between light and dark mode.
- Added runtime page theme switching.
- Refactored hardcoded color values to use bootstrap CSS variables.

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Week 12 Summary

Review: #2887 Update about page on markbind (2026-04-08)
- Related issue(s): #2881
Issue: #2888 Interactive setup for MarkBind sites (OPEN, 2026-04-09)

Week 13 Summary

PR: #2889 User facing AI Skills (CLOSED, 2026-04-13)
- Built a preview of user-facing AI skills for MarkBind users.
- Enables users to use AI coding tools to manage MarkBind sites more efficiently.
- Skills were intended to live in a separate repository.
- Created a new repo MarkBind/skills to host the user-facing AI skills.
Review: #2885 Replace error logging with silent skip when page DNE (2026-04-13)
Review: #2890 Add Pagefind incremental indexing (2026-04-16)
- Related issue(s): #2873
PR: #2893 Add commands to pull AI Skills (MERGED, 2026-04-16)
- Added new markbind skills command family to manage AI skills from MarkBind/skills.
- Implemented version control for skills using .markbind-skills.json.
- Added @inquirer/prompts for interactive prompts and future repo setup flows.
Issue: #2894 Update deployment workflow (OPEN, 2026-04-17)
Issue: #2895 Replace .md by .html when building sites for interlinks (OPEN, 2026-04-17)

Published markbind-cli@7.1.0 on npm with new workflow!