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Summary

  • Modernize the README introduction using Silo's existing official logo.
  • Add a polished six-card product overview and compact deployment chooser.
  • Put Installation, Documentation, Releases, Discord, Donate, and Contributing in a clear quick-link row.
  • Add a concise documentation map and centered Sponsor/Discord links.
  • Document a maintainer-controlled release-versioning policy without selecting the first version.
  • Configure GitHub-generated release-note categories using the repository's existing labels.
  • Add a guarded manual workflow that creates a reviewable draft GitHub Release from main.

Why

Silo currently has no GitHub releases or tags, so public updates are primarily communicated through commits and container SHAs. This gives users a clearer project overview and gives maintainers an intentional way to publish understandable update history while retaining control of the first version and every release.

Release safety

  • No version, tag, or release is selected or created by this PR.
  • The main maintainer chooses Silo's first release number.
  • The workflow can run only from main, validates strict SemVer, and checks prerelease consistency.
  • Generated notes remain a draft until a maintainer reviews and publishes them.
  • Docker tags, deployment, runtime behavior, and dependencies are unchanged.

Validation

  • actionlint 1.7.12 passed for all GitHub workflows.
  • Release input validation passed a 24-case SemVer, build-metadata, and prerelease-coherence matrix.
  • .github/release.yml parsed successfully with all five intended categories.
  • Every local README target exists; all newly added public links and badges returned HTTP 200. Discord's public invite API confirms the direct Silo invite is valid and non-expiring.
  • The actual GitHub-rendered branch README was inspected at 1280px: the logo, five badges, six product cards, three deployment cards, quick links, documentation map, and community links all render; the page and tables have no horizontal overflow.
  • make verify-local-paths passed after the final README pass.
  • git diff --check passed after the final README pass.
  • CodeRabbit current-head review: no actionable comments, minimal merge risk, and all inline review threads resolved.

Ownership

All work in this PR is owned and submitted by @blurbery. Product direction, scope, and acceptance decisions are theirs. The change has been tested as described above and the rendered README works as intended.

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  • Model(s): GPT-5.6 Sol
  • Involvement: AI-assisted implementation, research, validation, and PR preparation under @blurbery's direction
  • Adversarial review: Self-review removed an implied pre-1.0 version choice and an instant-publication path, limited presentation changes to verified product claims and repository-owned assets, and rejected fake screenshots or new branding. The final change leaves the first version to maintainers, creates drafts only, adds strict SemVer and prerelease-consistency checks, and was verified against GitHub's rendered output and link targets. No unresolved local-review findings remain.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a streamlined process for creating draft releases with generated release notes.
    • Added validation for release branches, semantic versions, and prerelease consistency.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded the product overview and deployment guidance, including GPU and distributed setups.
    • Added release versioning guidance covering SemVer, build metadata, container tags, and publishing.
    • Added links to key documentation and updated community resources.

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This change defines Silo release conventions, configures categorized release notes, adds a manually triggered release workflow, and expands the README with product, deployment, documentation, and community information.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Release conventions and repository guidance
docs/release-versioning.md, README.md
Documents SemVer tags, prerelease rules, GitHub Releases, build metadata, initial-version guidance, deployment options, documentation links, and community links.
Release metadata and publishing workflow
.github/release.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml
Maps labels to generated changelog sections. The manual workflow validates the branch, version format, and prerelease consistency before creating a draft release.

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This PR updates documentation and adds maintainer-controlled draft release tooling without changing runtime behavior, dependencies, deployment, or Docker tags; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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  participant ReleaseOperator
  participant ReleaseWorkflow
  participant MainBranch
  participant GitHubReleases
  ReleaseOperator->>ReleaseWorkflow: Provide version and prerelease inputs
  ReleaseWorkflow->>MainBranch: Validate current branch
  ReleaseWorkflow->>ReleaseWorkflow: Validate SemVer and prerelease consistency
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Confirm the maintainer access boundary.

Manual workflow dispatch requires write access, and this job grants contents: write. The current checks restrict the branch and version, but they do not restrict the actor or require a second reviewer. If “maintainer-controlled” is an access requirement, attach jobs.release to a protected release environment with required reviewers, or document that all write-access users are trusted. (docs.github.com)

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Please review the current head. Commit 5e89c6e3 addresses the SemVer build-metadata finding and documents the verified write-access boundary; commit b29e8810 replaces the failing Discord short-link redirect with the validated direct Silo invite.

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The documentation table linked to a SECURITY.md that does not exist on this
branch or on main, so the rendered README pointed at a 404. The row is removed
rather than backfilled with an invented policy; publishing a vulnerability
reporting process is a maintainer decision, not a documentation fix.

release-versioning.md claimed the registry publishes a nightly tag. The only
image-publishing workflow tags latest on the default branch and a short commit
SHA, and nothing in .github/workflows builds on a schedule, so anyone following
the doc got manifest-unknown. Both mentions now describe the tags that are
actually published.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pushed review fixes to this branch (bb5db807)

Two claims in this PR aren't backed by the repository. Fixed both by removal rather than by writing new content — happy to drop the commit if you'd rather take them yourself.

  1. README.md:370 linked to a SECURITY.md that doesn't exist. Verified with git cat-file -e on both this branch and main, plus a full-repo grep for the filename — the only hit was the README row itself. The rendered README pointed at a 404. I removed the row rather than inventing a policy: publishing supported versions and a private vulnerability reporting process is a maintainer decision, not a docs fix. If you'd like the row back, write the file and I'll restore it.

  2. docs/release-versioning.md:6,31 claimed a nightly container tag. The only image-publishing workflow is .github/workflows/docker.yml, and its docker/metadata-action has exactly two tag rules — type=raw,value=latest,enable={{is_default_branch}} and type=sha,prefix=,format=short. Nothing in .github/workflows/ builds on a schedule. Anyone following the doc to docker pull …:nightly got manifest-unknown. Both mentions now describe only what's actually published, which also resolves the doc's internal contradiction (the registry paragraph said nightly, the workflow paragraph didn't).

Verified correct, left alone: the Go 1.26 and React 19 badges (match go.mod 1.26.4 and web/package.json ^19.0.0), the deployment-chooser anchors, release.yml's contents: write scoping and its use of env: rather than ${{ }} interpolation in run: (no injection), the SemVer regex, the main-only guard, and .github/release.yml's label categories — all four match real labels on the repo, none are dead.

One thing I found but did not change: README.md:12 says "movies, shows, music, and books", but there's no music library kind. It's pre-existing — git show main:README.md carries the same line — so it's out of scope for this PR, but worth a separate fix.

make verify-local-paths passes; no Go or web files touched.

Review and fixes produced with AI assistance (Claude), verified against the actual workflows and manifests rather than from the doc text. See docs/ai-contributions.md.

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