Inteligir Comments

inteligir Comments

A comment is a question, decision, or review point attached to exact evidence. Ordinary wording and structure problems are not comments — fix those in the text and move on.

A comment thread is two halves that must agree: markers in the note's body and an entry in the store. One without the other is a broken thread.

Body Markers

Wrap exactly the text the comment is about:

The %%i:c1:start%%rollback path%%i:c1:end%% is unproven.

• Ids may hold letters, digits, _, and -. Pick one that appears nowhere else in the note or its store.
• Both edges are required and must carry the same ids.
• Several threads can share one range: %%i:a,b:start%%text%%i:a,b:end%%.
• Only root ids appear in the body. Replies live in the store alone.

Put markers around a whole inline pill or link, never inside one. To comment on a block — an image, chart, canvas, HTML block, or fence — put each marker on its own line above and below the block.

Markers inside a code fence are inert, like everything else in code.

The Store

A note's comments live in .inteligir/comments/<note-id>.json, where <note-id> is the note's frontmatter id (inteligir comment add mints one into a note that has none). It is a JSON object keyed by comment id. A <note>.md.comments.json beside a note is the older spelling: the server folds it into the store the first time the note's comments are read, so never write one.

{
  "c1": {
    "text": "Is the rollback rehearsed, or only written down?",
    "createdAt": 1787788800,
    "updatedAt": 1787788800,
    "source": "user"
  },
  "c1-r1": {
    "text": "Rehearsed on staging; the note now says so.",
    "createdAt": 1787792400,
    "updatedAt": 1787792400,
    "source": "external",
    "parentId": "c1"
  }
}

Unknown fields are preserved — do not strip a key you do not recognize.

Attribution

If you are an agent, you are agent or external — never user. Missing attribution on an old entry means unknown; leave it that way rather than guessing.

Replies, Resolving, Deleting

• A root has no parentId. A reply points at the root or another reply, and every reply must chain back to a root that has markers in the body.
• Answer what you can answer. Leave genuinely open questions open.
• Resolving a thread sets resolvedAt and resolvedBy on the root and every descendant, and bumps each updatedAt. Keep the markers and the entries — resolution is history, not deletion.
• Deleting is a person's decision. It removes the root's markers and every entry in the thread together.

Before You Finish

• Every marked root has exactly one store entry, and every root entry has markers.
• Reply chains reach a marked root with no cycles.
• source matches who actually wrote it.
• Timestamps are Unix seconds; attachment paths are vault-relative.
• Resolved threads kept their markers and their text.