docs: make README task-first and maintainer-friendly

[seonghobae]

Outcome

This is the repository's canonical documentation/baseline lane for the operator job—generating static index.html directory listings—and for durable product, architecture, release, security, provenance, and buyer-gap truth.

It owns docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md; feature PRs should not fork that document. Stable gaps discovered elsewhere are adopted here after their source evidence is re-read. Mutable PR heads, queue snapshots, and transient workflow state do not belong in the durable baseline.

Current live authority — 2026-09-07 KST

• protected branch tip: master@728f0f33323e43573d6664209891099502827d5d
• exact documentation head: b7fb8140b6bdcbe3d58defe526408d24d6b2d8d3
• fresh protected-base compare: ahead 15 / behind 0
• merge base is exactly current protected master@728f0f33323e43573d6664209891099502827d5d
• lifecycle: Draft pending new exact-head hosted gates and qualifying review
• effective protected-base files: README.md, THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md, docs/index.md, docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md

The stale-base condition has been repaired without rewriting history. The prior documentation head 357228a362e3a3e92b328b8d07cbceb6dc92ccb6 was three protected commits behind; those protected commits changed only .github/workflows/ci.yml, with no overlap in this lane's four documentation files. Normal two-parent descendant 67516eca087090d3afc6accdf1e5c5a8cd04b522 adopts protected master@728f0f... while retaining the four-file documentation tree. 068ec24b... then updates the durable baseline against that adopted generation. No force-push or destructive rebase was used.

Durable product truth owned here

• task-first build/help/recursive/bounded-depth operating guidance;
• .html4ignore behavior and its non-authorization boundary;
• read/write behavior and static-host responsibility;
• warning that broad filesystem cleanup can remove pre-existing index.html files;
• Context Map, generation-flow UML, and explicit non-applicable ERD boundary;
• inherited upstream MIT provenance and third-party notices, including the direct test dependency org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-test-junit:1.3.72 under Apache License 2.0;
• absence of a canonical immutable GitHub Release;
• durable security/toolchain/publication/release gaps without embedding transient PR/check state;
• a code-current performance-evidence boundary for representation refactors.

Performance-evidence boundary projected from live source review

PR #631 is evaluating a 128-entry lookup table for the six HTML escape mappings. Its semantic contract is characterized for empty/plain ASCII, all six escaped characters, CJK/Arabic/Hebrew pass-through, and mixed Unicode. A live repair restored that reviewed semantic tree after later descendants reintroduced a one-sided microbenchmark and removed the permanent regression.

That does not establish a production performance improvement. This baseline now requires performance-sensitive representation changes to compare protected and candidate implementations on the actual generation path with representative/right-cleared names/content under the same JVM, Kotlin/toolchain, hardware and build settings; disclose warm-up and workload cardinality; report repeated central and tail distributions; inspect allocation/GC/profile evidence; and connect the result to buyer-visible generation behavior. Semantic equivalence or a one-sided loop is not performance evidence. If extra representation complexity has no material demonstrated benefit, the simpler protected representation remains preferred.

This is durable product/technical truth only; #631's mutable head and workflow IDs are intentionally not copied into the baseline.

Licensing and provenance

GitHub metadata identifies ContextualWisdomLab/html4tree as a fork of yencarnacion/html4tree. The repository retains the upstream MIT grant and Copyright (c) 2019 Yamir Encarnacion <yencarnacion@webninjapr.com>. Dependencies remain under their own terms. Source documentation and CI are revision evidence, not an immutable release or Pages-publication claim.

Landing contract

1. Re-read protected master immediately before any promotion; if it moves, adopt the intervening delta normally and re-evaluate overlap instead of force-restacking.
2. Keep docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md code-current without embedding volatile PR/check state.
3. Require all then-applicable repository/central workflows on one unchanged exact head, zero valid unresolved findings/threads, and the live protected ruleset.
4. The current organization ruleset requires one approving review, dismisses stale approvals on push, and requires thread resolution; code-owner review itself is not required. All currently returned inline threads are resolved on this head.
5. Merge only by the normal protected path. No self-approval, administrator bypass, gate weakening, source-neutral retrigger, force push, destructive rebase, or predecessor-evidence transfer.

Fresh exact-head SAST 34066597283, CodeQL PR 34066597302, and Security Scan 34066597321 are queued. The predecessor head's successes do not transfer after the license-notice repair.

This PR remains the baseline writer; feature PRs that discover durable gaps should feed this lane rather than create competing baseline copies.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

README.md를 전체 Markdown 문서로 개편했습니다. 사용법, 제외 규칙, 운영 범위, 검증 절차와 라이선스 정보를 추가했습니다. docs 문서와 서드파티 고지 문서에 제품 경계, 의존성 라이선스, 릴리스 상태와 기술 갭을 기록했습니다.

Changes

프로젝트 문서 개편

Layer / File(s)	Summary
사용법 및 운영 범위 README.md, docs/index.md	Gradle 5.1.1과 JDK 8–11을 사용한 빌드, CLI 실행, 재귀 생성, --max-level 0, .html4ignore 규칙과 정적 파일 운영 범위를 문서화했습니다.
개발 및 프로젝트 안내 README.md, docs/index.md, THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md	./gradlew check, JaCoCo 100% 커버리지, 취약점 보고, 아키텍처, 프로젝트 문서, 기여 규칙과 MIT 라이선스 정보를 추가했습니다. Kotlin과 Clikt의 Apache-2.0 라이선스 및 JUnit의 EPL-1.0 라이선스도 기록했습니다.
제품·기술 기준선 docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md	제품 책임 범위, 처리 흐름, 데이터 경계, 검증 근거, 릴리스 상태, 우선순위별 갭과 문서 갱신 규칙을 기록했습니다.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 35722

The third-party notice should accurately identify kotlin-test-junit as Apache License 2.0 to avoid misleading maintainers about dependency terms. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up on this bounded documentation correction.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

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Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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Title check	✅ Passed	제목은 README를 작업 중심 및 유지보수자 친화적으로 개편한 핵심 변경을 정확히 설명합니다. PR이 추가한 다른 문서 변경을 모두 포함하지 않지만, 제목이 모든 세부 변경을 포함할 필요는 없습니다.

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• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch docs/readme-product-refresh-20260902

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[seonghobae]

Public-surface scope reconciliation: the current exact branch diff owns both README.md and a new docs/index.md; the PR body’s final Scope sentence still says “README only.” The source itself is coherent: README.md carries the exact-cased Ask DeepWiki badge and docs/index.md is the bounded Pages-ready product/onboarding/architecture/release landing. Keep this PR as the single writer for those two public-surface paths and treat the stale scope sentence as superseded evidence; do not open a duplicate Pages/docs writer. GitHub Pages is still a separate settings/deployment/live-HTTPS completion step and should not be inferred from docs/index.md alone.

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In `@THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md`:
- Line 17: Update the Kotlin test/JUnit support entry in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md
to explicitly state the Apache License 2.0 for kotlin-test-junit 1.3.72, while
keeping the separate JUnit 4.13.2 EPL-1.0 entry unchanged.

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