Changelog

Splash unfurls properly now — OG system, per-plugin pages, share button on every card

Until today every splash URL unfurled with the same seedling-on-paper default — homepage, ship-note, cite-wide entry, all identical. We wired the elegant-OG-system blueprint into the splash, generated nine per-plugin landing pages whose `og:image` is the plugin's own banner, and dropped a share button on every plugin card so the URL you share unfurls with that plugin's image instead of the default. Filestarter's modals got the same widening treatment we shipped for perplexed two weeks ago, closing the last gap in cross-plugin consistency.

Hex citations, day one

Cite-Wide's identity moment: the first working hex-citation transform inside an Obsidian modal. The plugin we'd later spin into its own repo announced itself in commit f394ef7 — 'added hex citations to functionality.' Logged retrospectively from 2026 because the convention didn't exist yet when this happened.

Nine plugins, one splash, one branch model

Seven plugin repos relocated from the monorepo root into content-farm as submodules. Nine submodules aligned onto a development → main → master tier model. And a brand-new Astro splash page that ships from main to GitHub Pages — the pseudomonorepo finally has a face to put with its name.

Seeding the farm: a reminder, eight retrospectives, and a roll-up convention

Every plugin in the farm now has the same canonical 'this is an Obsidian plugin — read the API docs' reminder in its context-v/. Eight of them have a retrospective changelog dated to their first commit of substance. And the convention for how a parent splash should aggregate its children's content via the GitHub Content API is now captured in two skills. The content for tomorrow's roll-up loader is ready.

Three GitHub Pages gotchas, conquered

Three failed deploys in a row before the splash actually shipped. None of them were our code; all of them were GitHub Pages onboarding friction nobody warns you about. We documented every one — what failed, what fixed it, and the canonical workflow shape that survives them — so the next Lossless repo can pay this setup tax in minutes instead of an hour.

63 pages, 9 plugins: the roll-up loader ships

The content-farm splash now aggregates every plugin submodule's `changelog/` and `context-v/` into one feed via the GitHub Content API at build time. 63 pages on the latest build, up from 9. Provenance on every card. Legacy `context-v/changelogs/` paths routed correctly. Built with no new dependencies, all frontmatter fields optional, defensive per-entry error handling — and a healthy amount of friction along the way.

Roll-up, deliberate: pnpm rollup:sync replaces sync-on-build

The roll-up loader we shipped four hours ago hit the GitHub Content API on every build — 30 seconds per `pnpm dev`, auth plumbed through CI, every iteration eating the rate limit. Replaced it with a deliberate-sync model: a human runs `pnpm rollup:sync` when content drifts, the result lands in `splash/src/rollup/` as committable markdown, and from then on builds are pure file IO. Build time fell from 30s to 1.1s. CI auth needed: zero.

Google Docs auth: a deadend, logged honestly

File-Transporter (then 'google-docs-api-plugin') was initialized to bridge Obsidian and Google Docs — and within hours hit a wall on Google's auth flow that stopped the project cold. The two-commit history reads init → deadend on the same day. Filing it retrospectively because building in public means logging the dead-ends too.

A better Obsidian starter plugin (back when starters mattered)

Filestarter — first known as obsidian-plugin-starter — was built because Obsidian's own sample plugin is so simple it's useless: a single ribbon icon and a hello-world modal. We wanted a starter that actually showed off the API surface, with current dependencies and modal/command patterns wired in. Logged retrospectively from 2026, because the world has changed since.

GrabCite, day one — a microservice and a stack we'd later abandon

What is now Grab-Reference began life on February 19, 2025 as 'GrabCite' — a microservice architecture in Docker, with React + StyleX + Vite + TypeScript + Prisma. A snapshot of choices we'd later move away from, captured retrospectively so the history isn't pretty-revisionist.

Image-Gin's first working API call

Image-Gin came online on July 21, 2025 with the first ImageKit API call that actually placed files where they belonged — followed within minutes by the first command-launched modal that took user parameters and produced a file. The plugin's identity arrived in a single overnight session.

LM Studio writes to file — Lmstud-Yo's first complete loop

Lmstud-Yo went from `init(project)` to `works(response)` in roughly three hours on the night of July 27–28, 2025. The first time a query went out to a locally-running LM Studio server, came back, and landed in an Obsidian note as actual text. Logged retrospectively from 2026.

Streaming Perplexity through a modal — Perplexed comes online

Perplexed's identity moment landed July 19, 2025: the first time an API call to Perplexity ran through the plugin's modal and streamed responses back into the note. Not perfect, but real. Logged retrospectively from 2026 — the convention came after the fact.

Plunk-It's working demo — three commands wired through Plunk

Plunk-It crossed from infrastructure to working demo on August 15, 2025: Send Email, Create Campaign, Send Campaign — three commands inside Obsidian, talking to Plunk's API, doing the thing. Logged retrospectively from 2026 to seed the changelog the convention now requires.

Publishing readiness: ESLint enforcement, eliminate any, replace innerHTML, route logging through FileLogger, replace hand-rolled YAML parser, bump to 0.1.0

Ideogram + Recraft UX parity: master size toggle, last-session persistence, frontmatter auto-init, brand-template copy rewrite

Maintenance: Update all packages, conform to Obsidian updates, support Magnific after rebrand from Freepik

Modals: Widen Magnific search to fill the viewport, beautify the result grid, fix the URL/CORS bugs that broke selection

UX pass: modal redesign + wide-modal CSS unlock

The three 'Ask <provider>' modals — Ask Perplexity, Ask Claude, and Ask Perplexica — all have beautiful, wide, and consistent Modal UIs now.

Maintenance pass: dependency refresh + streaming-citations bug fix

We are maintained. Updated all packages, solved for dependabot flags, and fixed a streaming-citations bug.

Claude provider integration: Anthropic SDK + Ask Claude modal + two-pass citation extraction

Claude is now a first-class research provider in Perplexed — wired via the Anthropic SDK with server-side web_search, adaptive thinking, streaming, an Ask Claude command, and a citations pipeline that handles both per-claim text-block citations and bare web_search_tool_result fallbacks.

Created a new Obsidian Community Plugin for LM Studio

New Obsidian Plugin: Image Gin Plugin

Bringing professional-grade content management to Obsidian with Obsidian plugins, one at a time. Introducing Image Gin for AI-based image generation with Recraft.ai

Dependency Refresh — Eight Packages Bumped to Latest Within Current Major, Build Verified Clean

First pass on package hygiene since the project's last broad upgrade. Eight dependencies advanced to the latest version within their current major (obsidian 1.8 → 1.12, esbuild 0.25 → 0.28, fastify 5.3 → 5.8, MCP SDK 1.12 → 1.29, both @typescript-eslint packages, builtin-modules, and @types/node held to the 22.x line to match the local Node 22 runtime). Four major bumps held back for review. The full build (`tsc -noEmit -skipLibCheck && esbuild production`) passes cleanly on the new lockfile.

Type-Safety Pass — Eliminated All `any` Declarations, Retired Hand-Rolled YAML Parser, Gated ESLint Into Build

Five-commit refactor that brings the project from 14 explicit `any` declarations to zero, replaces a structurally broken regex-based YAML parser with Obsidian's native frontmatter APIs (metadataCache.getFileCache + fileManager.processFrontMatter), introduces a small set of boundary coercers for narrowing untrusted values, and wires an ESLint flat-config mirroring ObsidianReviewBot's rules into `pnpm build` so the rules that gate community-store submission now fire locally pre-push. Verified working in a live Obsidian vault.

Dedupe Citations by URL — Command, Modal, and URL-Normalizing Service for Consolidating Multi-Source Research Pastes

New 'Dedupe Citations by URL' command for the workflow where the same article gets cited under multiple hex IDs because research from Perplexity / Google AI / Claude was pasted into the same file across a session. The service finds reference-section entries that share an article URL (after normalizing host case, fragment, and tracking params), groups them, and rewrites the file so each unique URL ends up with exactly one canonical hex ID. The modal lists groups in document order with per-occurrence line links, default-checked checkboxes per group so the user can opt out of any false-positive match, and a single 'Apply Dedup' button that writes through app.vault.modify.

Dependabot Cleanup + Tanuj-Intent Port — Removed 3 Unused Deps, Forced 4 Transitive CVE Patches, Ported Explicit Save Flow

Two-commit cleanup that eliminates the bulk of the 28 open Dependabot alerts on this repo and absorbs the intent of TanujKS's August 2025 work (which we force-pushed past in 2026-05-01_02 — his commits are archived on the auto-rescued `feature/save-all-citations` branch). First commit removes fastify, @modelcontextprotocol/sdk, and zod (zero imports across src/ and main.ts since they were added in 644582d) and forces patch/minor bumps on four surviving dev-tool transitive CVEs via pnpm.overrides. Second commit ports the explicit save flow — `autoSaveUrlCitations` setting (default off), 'Save All Hex Citations' command, modal-level 'Save All Hex (N)' button, per-citation 'Save to Citations' button — without any of his `any` types. Build clean throughout.

v0.1.3 — LLM Citation Parser v1: Multi-Form Tokenizer + Modal-Driven Per-Cluster Review

Ships the first version of the LLM-citation-format converter that takes Google AI's `[1, 2, 3]` and Perplexity's `[1][2]` styles plus their `[N] [Title](url)` reference lists and rewrites them into the Lossless `[^hex]` footnote format. Pure-TypeScript service with token-level parsing, a CLI test harness for non-Obsidian validation, and a modal UI that gives the user per-numeric checkbox control plus per-row Convert buttons. Preserves already-Lossless citations verbatim, partially-converts multi-comma forms when only some members have ref defs, flags orphans and collisions, and refuses to transform anything where the multi-cluster collision rule would corrupt the result. Validated end-to-end against `ChromaDB.md` (the canonical messy test case mixing one Google-AI numeric series with 53 already-Lossless hex citations).

v0.2.0 — Ship v1 of LLM Response Parser: Paste Modal + Spec-Conformant Output

Closes the LLM-citation-parser feature to a true v1 ship. Three coordinated changes: a Paste LLM Content modal that intercepts at paste-time so the colliding-numerics problem never enters the file, a fix for Perplexity's `Title https://url` reference-def format that was being silently rejected by the refdef-body heuristic, and a spec-conformance pass on transformation output that brings inline citation spacing and reference-def body shape into line with the Lossless Citation Spec. Output now matches the spec on inline whitespace and refdef body shape; the canonical `date / author / publisher / accessed-date` envelope still requires network or AI assistance and is explicitly deferred.

v0.2.0 — Assure Inline Citation Spacing for Obsidian Anchor-Link Behavior

Small but load-bearing cleanup to the standalone citation-formatting command: the old punctuation-only pass is now an anchor-link spacing pass. It still moves inline citations behind punctuation and preserves single-space separation across citation chains, but now also catches the more common real-world failure case where an already-Lossless `[^hex]` marker is attached directly to a word or bullet item with no intervening space. The command label was renamed from `Move Citations after Punctuation` to `Assure Spacing for Anchor Link behavior` to match what the transform actually guarantees: rendered citations remain clickable Obsidian footnote anchors with preview-on-hover and jump-on-click behavior.