Blog publication task for PR #1286

Source: #1286
Merged commit: de5a474f09e797c4b959ca04a301dca5981a08a3

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Use .claude/skills/blog-post/SKILL.md and docs/PR_BLOG_AUTOMATION.md. Create or update one source-linked article; keep evidence, limitations, mandatory hashtags, service offer and the complete img2img triptych. Do not publish placeholder art or duplicate an existing article about this PR. If this PR only publishes an existing article, link that article instead of creating a recursive article about publication. Close this task ONLY with the verified live canonical article URL and source PR receipt.

Our PR blog drafts now open with the result

DRAFT — Merged PR; unpublished blog draft

PR: #1286

Head SHA: 620d9340522958c6ce652c047c3dc3ca81abe852

This file is an unpublished artifact, not an instruction to an agent.

Generated PR blog drafts now lead with the result and a one-line count of reported checks, show checks as a table that keeps failures visible, and move the provenance notice to the end; the blog-post skill gains a sourced writing guide.

Merged PR. Checks reported by the author: 2 passed, 1 not run; this generator did not rerun them.

The problem

Every merged PR in this repository gets a blog draft generated from its work report, and those drafts opened with a disclaimer and a list of file paths, so the first thing a reader saw was neither the result nor the reason to care.

How it works

The generator now follows what style guides and experienced engineering bloggers agree on: put the result and its number first, one idea per paragraph, the problem before the solution, and evidence the reader can check themselves.

Checks became a table with a status column, so a failed or skipped check sits next to the passed ones instead of hiding in a bracketed bullet, and the line under the result counts them before anyone scrolls.

Two optional fields let an author attach a published terminal recording and the exact commands to reproduce the result, and the guide that explains each section lives in one place, the blog-post skill, with its sources.

What changed

• scripts/pr_blog_report.py: make_post() reorders the draft as result, problem, how it works, changes, a checks table, limits and provenance last
• scripts/pr_blog_report.py: optional blog.cast (term/<id>/session.cast) and blog.reproduce (1-8 commands, shown, never run); other blog keys still refused
• scripts/pr_blog_report.py: make_markdown() renders tables with escaped cells and reproduce commands as escaped list items, never a fence
• scripts/test_pr_blog_report.py: tests for section order, check table, check counts, optional keys and refusals
• .claude/skills/blog-post/SKILL.md: new section How a post reads, twelve rules with their sources
• docs/PR_BLOG_AUTOMATION.md: optional keys and draft layout documented, pointing at the skill instead of copying it

How we checked

What this does not show

• Existing work reports were written for the old layout, so outline items that state limits can land under How it works until authors follow the new order.
• blog.cast becomes a link and a receipt, not an embedded player: the terminal block is not on main until feat(website): recorded terminal sessions, two FPGA flow posts, #/devkit #1273 merges.
• The writing rules guide the author agent and human writers; nothing checks automatically that a finished article follows them.

How this post was made

Merged PR; unpublished blog draft. This article is generated from the author&#x27;s work report for the exact PR head commit. Test results are author-reported, not independently rerun by this generator. Merge status is not proof of deployment or runtime correctness.

Receipts

• gHashTag/trinity PR #1286
• Reported head commit 620d93405229
• Merge commit de5a474f09e7

Topic tags

#Blog #Writing #Automation