Add mermaid diagrams to Xet protocol spec docs#2299
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- index.md: block diagram showing overall Xet architecture (file → chunks → xorbs → shard → CAS) - xorb.md: packet diagram for chunk header wire layout (replaces ASCII art) - shard.md: packet diagrams for all binary structures — header, FileDataSequenceHeader/Entry, FileVerificationEntry, FileMetadataExt, CASChunkSequenceHeader/Entry, footer (replaces ASCII art) - chunking.md: flowchart for the CDC boundary decision algorithm - hashing.md: flowchart showing the four hash computation paths (chunk, xorb, file, verification) - file-id.md: sequence diagram for the resolve URL → X-Xet-Hash flow Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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All packet diagrams now use 1 unit = 1 byte instead of 1 unit = 1 bit. This prevents 32-byte hash fields from spanning 8 rows with repeated labels, making the diagrams much more compact and readable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The 8-byte chunk header is too small for byte-level units (cells are unreadably tiny on the 32-unit row). Bit-level gives 2 well-proportioned rows of 32 bits each with readable labels. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The Mermaid rendering doesn't look great, adds unnecessary tags in the renderings. Let me know if you'd rather I abandon these changes because they don't look good. |
Some markdown-to-HTML converters split on blank lines within fenced code blocks and inject <p> tags before mermaid processes the content. Removing all blank lines inside mermaid blocks fixes this. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Unquoted square brackets in mermaid flowchart nodes (e.g. A[Text]) can be interpreted as markdown link references by some parsers, causing <p></p> tags to wrap each label. Using quoted strings (A["Text"]) fixes this. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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some visuals not rendering right, but it's worth fixing imo
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| ```mermaid | ||
| graph TD | ||
| A[File Input] --> B[Content-Defined Chunking] | ||
| B --> C[Hash Computation] | ||
| C --> D[Chunk Creation] | ||
| D --> E[Deduplication Query] | ||
| A["File Input"] --> B["Content-Defined Chunking"] | ||
| B --> C["Hash Computation"] | ||
| C --> D["Chunk Creation"] | ||
| D --> E["Deduplication Query"] | ||
| ``` |
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doing this change doesn't render correctly, we get a bunch of
| │(8 bytes)│ (8 bytes)│ │(8 bytes)│ | ||
| └─────────┴──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────┘ | ||
| 104 112 120 192 200 | ||
| ```mermaid |
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need to make these not scroll, stretch them vertically.
| ChunkHash --> CH | ||
| CH -->|"Merkle Tree\n+ INTERNAL_NODE_KEY"| XorbHash["Xorb Hash"] | ||
| CH -->|"Merkle Tree\n+ INTERNAL_NODE_KEY\nthen blake3(root, zeros)"| FileHash["File Hash"] | ||
| CH -->|"blake3(concat hashes,\nVERIFICATION_KEY)"| VerifHash["Term Verification Hash"] |
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bunch of
in this one too, needs to probably drop the quote
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Summary
Existing sequence diagrams in upload-protocol.md, download-protocol.md, and auth.md were already good and left unchanged.
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Low risk documentation-only change; primary risk is incorrect mermaid syntax or mislabeled offsets/bit ranges causing reader confusion.
Overview
Adds mermaid diagrams across the Xet protocol spec docs to replace/augment text-only explanations.
This introduces: a CDC decision flowchart in
chunking.md, a hashing flowchart inhashing.md, a file-id resolve sequence diagram infile-id.md, and an overall architecture block diagram inindex.md. It also replaces several ASCII-art binary layout tables with mermaidpacketdiagrams inshard.mdandxorb.md, and tweaks the deduplication flow diagram labels indeduplication.md.Written by Cursor Bugbot for commit 0f4a765. This will update automatically on new commits. Configure here.