evidence-anchor/README.md
tegwick 08b3105454 EANCH-WP-0001 T01: codify repo boundary and package shape
Finish SCOPE.md (boundary, maturity, deps, non-goals + capability blocks),
rewrite README.md as an extraction-oriented package doc with the initial
src/ module layout (selectors/pdf/highlight) and public API surface.
Selector types stay in citation-engine; selector behavior + viewer
contract owned here (ADR-0006 / SharedContracts §8).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-08 20:34:41 +02:00

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# evidence-anchor
Selector creation, resolution, and the `DocumentViewerAdapter` contract that
every document viewer in the citation-evidence workspace implements. This repo
turns annotations from static marks into durable, reopenable source references.
- **Owns:** selector *behavior*`createSelectors`, `resolveSelectors`, PDF
selector math, the viewer-adapter contract, and highlight/scroll helpers.
- **Does not own:** selector *type interfaces* — those live in `citation-engine`
(`shared/selector`). See `ADR-0006` and `SharedContracts.md` §8.
- **May depend on:** `citation-engine` only (DependencyMap §4). Nothing from
`binder/`, `source/`, or `work/` may flow back into it.
See `SCOPE.md` for the boundary and `INTENT.md` for the long-range intent.
## Status: extracting from the umbrella
The concrete anchor slice currently lives upstream in
[`../citation-evidence/src/anchor/`](../citation-evidence/src/anchor/). Workplan
`EANCH-WP-0001` moves it here as a standalone TypeScript package, wires the
umbrella to consume this package, and verifies the round-trip. Shared-contract
changes still happen in the umbrella (`citation-evidence/wiki/`), not here.
## Install model
Sibling-checkout, linked-package model — this repo is checked out next to its
consumers and consumed via a local link (e.g. `link:../evidence-anchor`), not
published to a registry during MVP. Its only shared-type dependency is
`citation-engine`, imported through the engine's public `shared` entrypoint
(`@citation-evidence/engine/shared`) rather than umbrella-only `@shared/*`
aliases.
## Package layout (initial extracted version)
```text
src/
index.ts public entrypoint (re-exports the surfaces below)
types.ts adapter-side types: SelectionCapture,
ResolvedAnchorTarget, AnchorResolution,
HighlightRenderOptions, DocumentViewerAdapter
selectors/
index.ts createSelectors, resolveSelectors, DEFAULT_CONTEXT_CHARS
create.ts selector creation from a captured selection
resolve.ts resolution + the exact-match confidence ladder
create.test.ts
resolve.test.ts
pdf/
pdf-selector-math.ts page number + normalized page-rectangle math
pdf-selector-math.test.ts
pdf-viewer-adapter.tsx concrete PDF DocumentViewerAdapter (from the spike)
highlight/
scroll-job.ts scroll-to-target helper
scroll-job.test.ts
highlight-styles.css highlight rendering styles
debug-textlayer.css optional text-layer debugging styles
```
Boundary rules for the layout:
- viewer-library imports (`pdfjs`, `react-pdf-highlighter-plus`) are confined to
`src/pdf/` — they never appear on `types.ts` or on the public surface;
- `src/selectors/` is pure (no viewer/UI deps) and depends only on
`citation-engine` shared types;
- the public entrypoint re-exports the stable surface consumers rely on:
`createSelectors`, `resolveSelectors`, the selector/resolution types, the
`DocumentViewerAdapter` contract, and the PDF adapter.
## Public API (target surface)
```ts
import {
createSelectors,
resolveSelectors,
type DocumentViewerAdapter,
type AnchorResolution,
} from "evidence-anchor";
```
Resolution is explicit about uncertainty — `AnchorResolution.status` is one of
`resolved` / `ambiguous` / `unresolved` / `stale` with a `0..1` confidence, so a
caller can highlight, ask the user to confirm, or mark a citation stale rather
than silently highlight the wrong passage.