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The README described what the portal was for but never said how to run it, so
the first thing a contributor needs was the one thing it left out.

  • add a Quick start, which the file had no equivalent of
  • add "Where things live", so a contributor can find the file to edit
  • rename the IDK reference documentation to the OpenINF SDK reference
    documentation
  • repoint five dead link definitions. Roadmap, Issue Tracker, Changelog,
    Credits, and "open an issue" all pointed at github.com/OpenINF/open.inf.is,
    which is not a repository; every one of them returned a 404
  • turn the license paragraph into a table
  • replace the Netlify badge with the Lint and test and Deploy workflows

It names no version, port, or count. Those are the facts that go stale, so the
file points at package.json rather than quoting it, and leaves pnpm start
to print its own address. Nothing here needs updating when a dependency moves.

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nps build && nps test passes. nps verify.md is clean across Prettier,
markdownlint, remark with the retext readability and simplify rules, link
validation, and cspell. Every URL in the file returns 200.

live was merged in rather than rebased, so no pushed commit was rewritten.

Unrelated, and left alone

  1. The 2024-11-21 news post still says "INF Development Kit (IDK)".
  2. package.json has "repository": "OpenINF/open.inf.is", the same
    non-existent repository the dead links pointed at.
  3. open.inf.is serves an older build than openinf.github.io.

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The README explained what the portal was for but never said how to run
it, so the one thing a new contributor needs first was the thing it
left out. It gains a quick start, and a table of where things live.

Two errors go with it. The SDK reference documentation was still called
IDK, a name we have retired. And five link definitions pointed at
github.com/OpenINF/open.inf.is, a repository that does not exist, so
Roadmap, Issue Tracker, Changelog, Credits, and "open an issue" were
all 404s.

It names no version, no port, and no count. Those are the facts that go
stale, and this project has been bitten by exactly that: the file now
points at package.json rather than quoting it, and lets `pnpm start`
print its own address. Nothing here needs revisiting when a dependency
moves.

The license prose became a table, and the Netlify badge became the two
GitHub Actions workflows that gate and publish this repository.

Signed-off-by: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is>
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5
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