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Summary

  • Fixed 104 style/structure findings across all 13 doc pages: heading
    case (Title Case), missing lead-in sentences, ambiguous "it",
    em-dashes in prose, misused numbered lists, bold text standing in
    for headings, casual wording, product-name capitalization
    (coldfront -> ColdFront), and inconsistent line wrap
  • Removed two inline "## Contents" sections that duplicated the
    theme's own sidebar TOC
  • Renamed usage.md's "Gotchas" heading to "Known Limitations" for
    consistency with the rest of the doc set
  • Split walkthrough.md: setup/intro stays there, and all four demos
    moved to a new walkthrough_demos.md page (added to mkdocs.yml
    nav). The 11 numbered "Step N" headings became gerund-style titles
    linked from the summary table, dropping the redundant step-number
    duplication between the table and the headings
  • Rewrapped architecture_vectors.md and usage_vectors.md, which
    had never been wrapped to the 79-character house style

Test plan

  • mkdocs build --strict after every batch of fixes - 0 warnings
  • Verified every touched fix against the file's own established
    conventions (table intros, cross-links, heading anchors)
  • Rewrap passes verified word-for-word identical to the pre-edit
    content (only line-break positions changed)

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📝 Walkthrough

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This documentation-focused PR revises ColdFront’s architecture, setup, usage, vector, formal-model, compaction, and release guides. It updates operating details and walkthrough instructions, and reorganizes changelog content. It does not change implementation code or runtime behavior.

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Documentation updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Architecture and operating-mode documentation
docs/architecture.md, docs/architecture_decoupled.md, docs/architecture_tiered.md
Clarifies storage modes, write routing, credentials, standby behavior, partition handling, and documented isolation and concurrency behavior.
Vector architecture and usage guidance
docs/architecture_vectors.md, docs/usage_vectors.md
Clarifies vector operators, registration and training, clustered write paths, probing, status output, and limitations.
Installation and operational guides
README.md, docs/index.md, docs/installation.md, docs/object_store.md, docs/usage.md
Updates setup, privileges, backends, CLI validation, configuration, and operating guidance.
Formal-model, compaction, and release documentation
docs/formal/README.md, docs/compaction.md, docs/changelog.md, DUCKDB_1.5_PATCHED.md
Expands formal-model and compaction descriptions, reorganizes changelog entries, and reformats verification text.
Walkthrough and demo guidance
docs/walkthrough.md, docs/walkthrough_demos.md
Updates setup instructions, demo steps and outputs, adoption guidance, and distributed-demo procedures.
Supporting editorial and license updates
.claude/agents/*, .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md, LICENSE.md, THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md, docs/LICENSE.md
Reflows existing guidance, checklist, and license text without changing its stated requirements or terms.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6f642

The mesh setup guidance still permits healthy idle peers to be excluded from commit coordination. Align the documented timing settings before merging. The demo timestamp inconsistency is fixed; a minor heading error remains.

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- Line 136: Update the phase references throughout the architecture page,
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- Around line 327-328: Update the fidelity text around “CAS commit” to describe
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- Around line 19-22: Update the setup introduction in the usage documentation to
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Rebased from main and edited. Some fixes went to main directly in 9b9863b. Changed:

  • Headings are Title Case with code names, extensions and pgEdge keeping their own case, and coldfront becomes ColdFront only where it means the product.
  • One "Known Limitations" section works better as "Caveats".
  • A list of phases must stay 0-5 to agree with the code.
  • The walkthrough steps keep their numbers as "Step N:" and the table links to them.
  • Bold labels became plain text except where they were real sub-sections.

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- Line 27: Update the “Required at runtime” row to list both S3-compatible
storage and Azure ADLS Gen2 as supported decoupled storage options, preserving
the existing runtime requirements.
- Line 95: Replace the unescaped pipe separators in the INSERT row’s Path cell
with “or” (or escape them) so the INSERT variants remain within that cell and
the table retains three columns.

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- Around line 39-41: Update the object-resource permissions in the documented S3
policy to include s3:AbortMultipartUpload alongside the existing object actions;
leave the bucket-level permissions unchanged.
- Around line 121-122: Correct the AWS S3 addressing guidance in the
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be disabled.

Review comments at @docs/usage.md:
- Around line 984-986: Update the documented coldfront.peer_alive_window_ms
value so it exceeds the idle reply_time refresh interval documented in the same
section, preventing a healthy peer from being treated as already acknowledged.
Do not use wal_receiver_status_interval to justify the window; the Spock apply
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- Around line 455-457: Update the Step 10 sample in the walkthrough so the row
with id = 1 uses the same timestamp as Step 9 and its later output, keeping the
sequential queries consistent with one loaded dataset.
- Around line 415-419: Update the hot-row estimate in the walkthrough to
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