feat: add draft frontmatter flag to withhold guides from publishing - #1027
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Guides can set `draft: true` (or any truthy value, e.g. `draft: future`) in frontmatter to be excluded from all distribution (search index, README, megaskill) without deleting them. The value is intentionally not validated. Evals are unaffected — a draft guide with eval artifacts still runs. `isPublished` (real content + not draft) is computed once as a guide-inventory property, consumed by all three build paths. Part of #1017
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Supportive of this change so LGTMing but it'd be good to get a technical review from @paulirish
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Closes #1017
Adds:
draftfrontmatter option. Guides can setdraft: true(or any truthy value, e.g.draft: future) in frontmatter to be excluded from all distribution (search index, README, megaskill) without deleting them. Evals are unaffected — a draft guide with eval artifacts still runs.The value is intentionally not validated (per Frontmatter option to prevent guides from being published #1017 (comment) )
draftandisPublishedproperties inGuideInventory.isPublished(real content + not draft) is computed once as a guide-inventory property, consumed by all three build paths.I also did a little minor refactoring to make the logic and dependencies in
inventoryGuide()easier to follow, but I can revert it if needed.Note: I kept the logic as-is to avoid regressions, but it's a little confusing that
isStubis true even for a fully fleshed out guide…