Review Markdown Comments

Review Markdown Comments

Work directly on the Markdown file named by the user.

Comment format

Hubble stores review state in the Markdown body using this portable subset:

{==anchored text==}{>>comment body<<}{#c1}
{++suggested insertion++}
{--suggested deletion--}
{~~original text~>replacement text~~}

Thread state may follow a comment anchor as an HTML comment holding raw JSON. It is not URI-encoded; Hubble parses it with JSON.parse directly, so an encoded payload fails to parse and renders as literal text in the note:

<!-- hubble-review:{"v":1,"replies":[],"resolved":false}-->

Hubble uses v, replies, and resolved; other top-level keys are allowed. Always write "v": 1. Escape any -- inside the JSON as \u002d\u002d, since a literal -- terminates the HTML comment early. A reply has this shape:

{
  "id": "r1",
  "body": "Agent response",
  "author": "agent",
  "createdAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Review markers inside inline code or fenced code are literal text, not comments.

Address a comment

1. Read the complete file. Locate the requested compact id, such as {#c7}; if the user gives only anchored text, locate the exact CriticMarkup anchor instead. Confirm the anchored text and comment body match the user's request. If the id or exact anchor is absent or ambiguous, stop and report the ambiguity.
2. Parse the JSON metadata immediately following that logical comment. If it is absent, start from an empty object. If it is malformed, stop rather than overwrite it.
3. Round-trip the metadata: mutate only the reply list and resolved, then re-serialize the complete object — every other key and every existing reply survives unchanged. Replies are append-only: add a reply with the next unused rN id, author: "agent", the response body, and the current UTC time as an ISO-8601 createdAt.
4. Set resolved: true only when the user's request has actually been addressed. For an explicit reopen request, set resolved: false. Acknowledgements, tests, questions, and partial work leave it false.
5. Write the metadata block immediately after the comment's {#cN} marker (see Fragmented anchors). Keep the anchored text byte-for-byte unchanged, along with the comment body, CriticMarkup delimiters, suggested edits, and all unrelated Markdown.

Fragmented anchors

One logical comment id may appear in multiple CriticMarkup fragments. The final fragment is authoritative: keep every marker, keep a single metadata block, and place it after the final fragment — moving it there if it currently follows an earlier fragment. Report the fragmentation if it may affect the user's formatting.

Validation

After editing:

1. Re-read the file and confirm the requested id and exact anchored text are still present.
2. Parse the metadata after the final fragment and verify it is valid JSON, the new reply is the final reply, the old replies and other keys round-tripped, and resolved has the intended value. Confirm the note renders the comment rather than showing the raw block as text.
3. Check the surrounding Markdown for accidental changes: inspect git diff -- <file> for a tracked file, or compare the before and after text for an ignored/generated file.
4. Report the reply you left and whether you resolved the comment.