Work log: Textorium TUI — March 13, 2026

What shipped today

Today completed a full cycle: scout, triage, prep, exec across the board. Five PRs merged, covering bug fixes, a search improvement, and the last two stubbed CLI commands.

The session started with a scout pass that systematically explored the entire codebase and surfaced five issues. Three were immediately grindable bugs: Ctrl+C was bypassing the unsaved changes check (a data loss risk), the publish command was scanning posts twice when a slug wasn’t found (wasted I/O), and the TUI search filter was skipping tags despite them being a primary organizational mechanism. All three were fixed in quick single-file changes.

The scout also identified the two remaining stubbed CLI commands — serve and build — as feature work needing prep. Both went through the full pipeline today: prep specs written, then executed. textorium serve now spawns the SSG-specific dev server (hugo server, bundle exec jekyll serve, npx @11ty/eleventy --serve) with port and drafts flag support. textorium build invokes the corresponding build command with --minify support for Hugo. Both follow the same pattern: load config, validate site path, construct SSG-specific command, spawn with current_dir set to the site root, forward stdout/stderr, and provide a clear “Is it installed?” error if the SSG binary is missing.

With these two commands shipped, every CLI subcommand except idea (Notion integration) is now implemented. The tool is feature-complete for its core use case: browse, edit, create, publish, serve, and build — all from the terminal, all SSG-aware.

Completed

• #46 — Fix: Ctrl+C bypasses unsaved changes check (PR #51)
• #47 — Fix: textorium publish scans posts twice on slug not found (PR #52)
• #50 — Fix: search does not include tags (PR #53)
• #48 — Implement textorium serve command (PR #54)
• #49 — Implement textorium build command (PR #55)
• #45 — Duplicate of #39, closed during triage

Release progress

• CLI essentials: 0 open / 3 closed — complete
• TUI on Homebrew: 1 open / 5 closed (#8 email signature, backlogged)

Carry-over

Nothing active. The issue queue is empty except for two backlogged items:

• #1 — Submit to homebrew-core (waiting for traction)
• #8 — Dynamic email signature (blocked on blog syndication)

Risks

None. Codebase is clean, 12/12 tests passing, clippy clear.

Flags and watch-outs

• The serve command includes drafts by default (-D for Hugo, --drafts for Jekyll). This matches the authoring workflow but could surprise users who expect production-like behavior from textorium serve.
• The build command silently ignores --minify for non-Hugo SSGs. This is intentional but undocumented — might be worth a note in --help text.
• The idea command remains stubbed (Notion integration). It’s the only unimplemented CLI subcommand.

Next session

• Consider a version bump and release — the tool is now feature-complete for core use cases. All CLI commands work, all TUI features work, all bugs from the scout are fixed.
• Run /scout again if more issues are needed — the codebase grew significantly over the past two days (13 PRs merged).
• The “first external user” milestone has no issues assigned yet. If pursuing external adoption, focus on: help text quality, error message clarity, README examples, and a textorium --help audit.
• textorium idea (Notion integration) could be a future feature but needs product thinking about whether it belongs in the TUI tool.