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Reworks the docs site left navigation for reader experience. The whole sidebar was one long rail mixing all 9 top-level groups + the 238 generated reference pages; this splits it into six icon-labelled tabs (fumadocs folder roots) so a reader sees one section at a time.

Changes (nav-only — no files moved, no doc URLs changed)

  • Tabs + iconsroot: true + lucide icon on each top-level section's meta.json.
  • De-emphasize ObjectQL/ObjectUI/ObjectOS — per maintainer call, the protocol layer was early-emphasis branding; root nav reordered so Protocol is the last tab, and the generated Reference gets its own tab instead of crowding hand-written docs.
  • Reference tab config is generatedreferences/meta.json is emitted by packages/spec/scripts/build-docs.ts, so the title/icon/root were set there (title Protocol ReferenceReference), not by hand-editing the generated file.
  • Guides regrouped — added a Foundations label, moved Service Contracts into Integration, surfaced Cheatsheets under their own label (was buried after a bare divider).
  • Fixed "Protocol" label collisionsProtocol OverviewProtocol, Contracts ProtocolService Contracts.
  • Bug fix — top-nav GitHub link pointed at the renamed objectstack-ai/spec; now framework.

Verification

  • pnpm --filter @objectstack/docs build → compiles all 1113 pages clean, no lucide "unknown icon" warnings.
  • Diff scoped to 8 meta.json + layout.shared.tsx + the generator. No reference content drift.

Tabs are a visible UX change — worth a quick pnpm --filter @objectstack/docs dev eyeball before merge. Fully reversible (config-only).

Deferred (needs content decisions, not in this PR): three duplicate "Architecture" pages, glossary vs terminology overlap, and semantic renames of the 14 Reference categories.

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Splits the single long docs sidebar into six icon-labelled tabs via fumadocs
folder roots (Getting Started, Concepts, Guides, Reference, Protocol, Releases),
so readers see one section at a time instead of all 366 pages competing in one
rail.

- root + icon on each top-level section meta.json; root meta.json reordered so
  Protocol (the early-emphasis ObjectQL/ObjectUI/ObjectOS layer) sits last and
  the generated Reference gets its own tab instead of crowding the hand-written
  docs.
- references/meta.json is generated, so the Reference tab's title/icon/root is
  emitted from packages/spec/scripts/build-docs.ts (title "Protocol Reference"
  → "Reference").
- Guides regrouped: added a "Foundations" label, moved Service Contracts into
  Integration, surfaced Cheatsheets under their own label instead of buried
  after a bare divider.
- Renamed colliding "Protocol" labels: "Protocol Overview" → "Protocol",
  "Contracts Protocol" → "Service Contracts".
- Fixed the top-nav GitHub link target: objectstack-ai/spec → framework.

Nav-only: no files moved, no doc URLs changed. `next build` compiles all 1113
pages clean; lucide icons resolve with no warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📓 Docs Drift Check

This PR changes 1 package(s): @objectstack/spec.

89 hand-written doc(s) reference the affected code and may need an implementation-accuracy re-verification:

  • content/docs/concepts/architecture.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/cloud-artifact-api.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/cluster-semantics.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/design-principles.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/implementation-status.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/metadata-driven.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/metadata-lifecycle.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/north-star.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/packages.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/setup-app.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/skills.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/webhook-delivery.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/getting-started/architecture.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/getting-started/cli.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/getting-started/core-concepts.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/getting-started/examples.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/getting-started/quick-start.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/adding-a-metadata-type.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/ai-capabilities.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/airtable-dashboard-analysis.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/analytics-datasets.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/api-reference.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/business-logic.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/cheatsheets/backward-compatibility.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/cheatsheets/error-catalog.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/cheatsheets/field-type-gallery.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/cheatsheets/field-validation-rules.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/cheatsheets/permissions-matrix.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/cheatsheets/protocol-diagram.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/cheatsheets/query-cheat-sheet.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/cheatsheets/quick-reference.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/client-sdk.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/common-patterns.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/contracts/auth-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/contracts/cache-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/contracts/data-engine.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/contracts/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/contracts/metadata-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/contracts/storage-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/data-modeling.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/deployment-vercel.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/driver-configuration.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/error-handling-client.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/error-handling-server.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/formula.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/hook-bodies.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/kernel-services.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/metadata/dashboard.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/metadata/field.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/metadata/flow.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/metadata/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/metadata/object.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/metadata/validation.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/metadata/workflow.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/packages.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/plugin-development.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/plugins.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/project-scoping.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/public-forms.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/runtime-services/email-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/runtime-services/index.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/runtime-services/queue-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/runtime-services/sharing-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/runtime-services/storage-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/security.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/seed-data.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/skills.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/standards.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/guides/troubleshooting.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/knowledge.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectos/config-resolution.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectos/i18n-standard.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectos/lifecycle.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectos/plugin-spec.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectos/runtime-capabilities.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectql/index.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectql/query-syntax.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectql/schema.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectql/security.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectql/state-machine.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectui/actions.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectui/concept.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectui/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectui/layout-dsl.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectui/record-alert.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectui/widget-contract.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/releases/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/releases/v9.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)

Advisory only. To re-verify, run the docs-accuracy-audit workflow scoped to these files:
node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs origin/main → pass the list as args.docs.

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