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ryan-brosas (@ryan-brosas) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Isso Foundation by ryan-brosas — Agent Skill

Name: Isso Foundation
Author: ryan-brosas

Isso Foundation

Use when porting Isso's self-hosted comment-server internals: SQLite comment/thread storage, moderation modes, guard rate limits, signed edit/moderation tokens, notification fanout, sanitizer pipeline, or the multi-mixin WSGI deployment core.

ryan-brosas 5b73a0a 51 files · 140.8 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

Isso: lightweight comment server — storage, moderation, and embedding kernel

Foundation contract

This is a cold, source-specific foundation, not an operational procedure. It is historical, revision-pinned evidence rather than timeless guidance. Current project source, tests, requirements, and runtime behavior outrank this projection and decide what ships.

Provenance and revision

Source record: isso; portable upstream identity, license, coverage caveats, and retrieval history are preserved in the index.
Recorded revision: master@5ad388d9f10cc5227f6e5d901c249ca888f5ef72.
Full provenance, coverage caveats, boundaries, and preserved evidence: references/index.md.

Topic map

Representative topics: Threaded storage; Schema evolution; Visibility & ordering; Moderation & trust; Anti-abuse; Identity & crypto; Embedding surface; Boot & serve spine.
Scope and retrieval questions: references/index.md#use-this-for.
Complete capsule chooser: references/index.md#load-the-matching-source-dump.
Detailed grouped map: references/index.md#capsule-map.
Source limitations and portability boundaries: references/index.md#boundaries.

Retrieval

Open the index, choose one capsule matching the active question, and load only that capsule. Revalidate its cited source and revision before relying on it. Do not bulk-load the inventory, treat historical claims as current truth, or apply this foundation as a procedure.

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