evidence-anchor/README.md
tegwick f32b500f44 EANCH-WP-0001 T05: umbrella cutover complete + pure subpath exports
Add ./selectors and ./types subpath exports so node-env consumers get a
pdfjs-free entry (the umbrella roundtrip test uses them). Update README status
to 'extracted; umbrella consumes this package'. Mark T05 done; record the
blocker as resolved. Umbrella verified green (typecheck, 95 tests, build) at
citation-evidence@d145148.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-08 21:09:02 +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: extracted; umbrella consumes this package
The anchor slice has been extracted from the umbrella and now lives here.
`citation-evidence` consumes it as `@citation-evidence/evidence-anchor`
(`link:../evidence-anchor`); its former `src/anchor/` directory is gone and the
`@anchor` alias is retired. Shared-contract changes still happen in the umbrella
(`citation-evidence/wiki/`), not here.
Remaining anchor work beyond this MVP slice (stale/orphan semantics, fuzzy
re-anchoring, HTML/Markdown selectors, promoting the PDF spike to a production
adapter) is tracked as follow-on work — see `workplans/`.
## 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 — full barrel (core + pdf)
types.ts adapter-side types: SelectionCapture,
ResolvedAnchorTarget, AnchorResolution,
HighlightRenderOptions, DocumentViewerAdapter
css.d.ts ambient decl for side-effect .css imports
selectors/ pure core — no viewer/UI deps
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/ adapter boundary — the only place viewer libs live
index.ts subpath entry `evidence-anchor/pdf`
pdf-selector-math.ts pure page + normalized-rect math (capture↔selectors)
pdf-selector-math.test.ts
pdf-viewer-adapter-spike.tsx concrete PDF adapter (PdfSpikeViewer)
scroll-job.ts retryable scroll-to-highlight helper
scroll-job.test.ts
highlight-styles.css highlight rendering styles
debug-textlayer.css optional text-layer debugging styles
```
Boundary rules for the layout (enforced by `eslint.config.js`):
- viewer-library imports (`pdfjs-dist`, `react`, `react-pdf-highlighter-plus`)
are confined to `src/pdf/` — the pure zone (`src/selectors/**`, `src/types.ts`)
may not import them;
- `src/selectors/` is pure and depends only on `citation-engine` shared types;
- the **root** entrypoint (`evidence-anchor`) is the full barrel — selector
creation/resolution, the adapter types/contract, and the PDF adapter — so
consumers resolve every anchor symbol (and their test `vi.mock(...)` calls)
from a single specifier, matching the umbrella's prior `@anchor/index`;
- a focused, viewer-free entry is also published at **`evidence-anchor/pdf`**
for consumers that want the PDF surface explicitly. The concrete adapter is
still the explicitly-named `PdfSpikeViewer` spike; promoting it to a
production `PDFViewerAdapter` is registered follow-on work (T06).
## Public API (target surface)
```ts
import {
createSelectors,
resolveSelectors,
type DocumentViewerAdapter,
type AnchorResolution,
} from "@citation-evidence/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.