receipt · Content parity: HTML pages and Markdown mirrors

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Content parity: HTML pages and Markdown mirrors

Textual parity receipt for canonical HTML pages and Markdown mirrors.

Trust Receipt

The public Markdown mirrors for essays, field notes, and numbered book chapters matched their canonical HTML pages under the textual comparator used in the build gate.

Verdict

passed Textual parity, not a semantic proof.

Freshness

2026-08-22 Git-derived input date.

Checks

75 75 passed, 0 failed.

Thresholds

2.5% delta max 0.98 overlap min

Boundary

This receipt is not a safety certification or a claim that every site surface has a Markdown twin. It proves point-in-time textual parity for the mirrored writing documents listed in the report.

Passed

  • Mirror parity gate passed

  • Compared 75 mirrored documents. Worst word-count delta was 1.38%. Weakest token overlap was 0.987.

  • python3 scripts/check-content-parity.py

  • Published report passed

  • The JSON report is served at /parity-report.json and the summary appears on /ai.

  • parity-report.json

Evidence

Measure Value
Documents checked 75
Total HTML words 125385
Total Markdown words 125617
Report /parity-report.json

Intentionally Excluded

Navigation, footers, scripts, styles, and buttonsThe comparator strips page chrome so it checks document text, not the surrounding website shell.

Pages without Markdown mirrorsStandalone tools, dashboards, data assets, and indexes are outside this receipt unless they gain mirrors later.

Semantic equivalenceThe check catches textual divergence. It does not prove two texts mean the same thing in every context.

Limitations

Token overlap is robust enough for dropped text, but it is not a plagiarism detector or a semantic model.

Checksums are included for drift triage only; exact equality is not required because HTML and Markdown extractors intentionally differ.

Future pages need mirrors and gate coverage before they are covered by this receipt.

Reproduce Or Inspect

Run the comparator.python3 scripts/check-content-parity.py

Refresh the public report and receipt.python3 scripts/check-content-parity.py --write

Input date: 2026-08-22