docs(newsletter): add August 2026 edition

Adds the August newsletter with async shorthand methods, bundle size,
Marko Run, diagnostics, and persisted pages headlines, plus project
velocity and community sections. Wires it into the archive, nav, and
July's forward link. Also teaches the board-reconcile script to infer
Task from unprefixed titles and maps the eslint repo to Language Tools.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: DylanPiercey

.marko-run/routes.d.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
   "version": "0.2",
   "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell/master/cspell.schema.json",
   "words": [
-    "codemod",
     "activedescendant",
     "afterbegin",
     "afterend",
@@ -22,6 +21,7 @@
     "cheatsheet",
     "cheatsheets",
     "codegen",
+    "codemod",
     "codespan",
     "contenteditable",
     "datepicker",
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
     "merr",
     "microtask",
     "mlog",
+    "navigations",
     "nbsp",
     "noindex",
     "noopener",
@@ -82,6 +83,7 @@
     "shikijs",
     "sortability",
     "srcset",
+    "svallory",
     "tabindex",
     "tablist",
     "taglib",
@@ -96,7 +98,8 @@
     "webkitdirectory",
     "webp",
     "webpro",
-    "WHATWG"
+    "WHATWG",
+    "zagjs"
   ],
   "ignoreRegExpList": [],
   "files": ["*", "docs/**/*", "src/**/*"],

cspell.json

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ The Marko newsletter is a monthly summary of shipped work, written for the devel
 ## Archive
 
 - 2026
+  - [August](newsletter/august-2026.md)
   - [July](newsletter/july-2026.md)
   - [June](newsletter/june-2026.md)
   - [May](newsletter/may-2026.md)

docs/newsletter.md

@@ -141,3 +141,4 @@ The same author wrote `@tanstack/marko-virtual`, a [Marko 6 adapter for TanStack
 ## Further Reading
 
 - [June 2026](june-2026.md)
+- [August 2026](august-2026.md)

docs/newsletter/august-2026.md

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ const EPIC_BY_REPO = {
   "language-server": "Language Tools",
   "htmljs-parser": "Language Tools",
   prettier: "Language Tools",
+  eslint: "Language Tools",
   "tree-sitter": "Language Tools",
   zed: "Language Tools",
   vite: "Integrations",
@@ -236,6 +237,22 @@ const prefixOf = (title) => {
   return m ? m[1] : null;
 };
 
+// Fallback for titles without a conventional-commit prefix. Ordered: the
+// first matching rule wins. Anything unmatched still defaults to Chore and is
+// listed by `check` for a person to read.
+const TASK_BY_TITLE = [
+  // agent-feedback backlog bookkeeping (adding or dropping items) is tooling work.
+  [/^agent-feedback:|\bagent-feedback item\b/i, "Chore"],
+  [/^(docs?|cheatsheet|documentation)\b|^(document|note|say|record|explain|clarify)\b|\bwon't-fix\b|\bcheat ?sheet\b|\bdocs\b|\breadme\b/i, "Docs"],
+  [/\b(sizes\.json|snapshots?|devDependency|fixtures?|ci)\b/i, "Chore"],
+  [/^(fix|error|report|guard|escape|decode|keep|stop|forward|resolve|diagnose|disambiguate|bound|match|only|await|detect|correct|handle|prevent|avoid|preserve|restore|reject|mint|emit|hoist|name|drop|mark|decide)\b|\bfix(es)?\b/i, "Fix"],
+  [/^(add|support|suggest|serve|persisted pages|implement|introduce|allow|enable)\b/i, "Feat"],
+];
+const taskFromTitle = (title) => {
+  for (const [re, task] of TASK_BY_TITLE) if (re.test(title ?? "")) return task;
+  return null;
+};
+
 function parseMonth(ym) {
   if (!/^\d{4}-\d{2}$/.test(ym ?? "")) {
     throw new Error("Expected a month as YYYY-MM, e.g. 2026-07");
@@ -357,8 +374,11 @@ function plan(merged, board, iterationTitle) {
       continue;
     }
     const prefix = prefixOf(pr.title);
-    const task = prefix ? TASK_BY_PREFIX[prefix] : null;
-    if (!task) unprefixed.push({ ref, title: pr.title });
+    let task = prefix ? TASK_BY_PREFIX[prefix] : null;
+    if (!task) {
+      task = taskFromTitle(pr.title);
+      unprefixed.push({ ref, title: pr.title, task: task ?? DEFAULT_TASK });
+    }
     const existing = board.byRef.get(ref);
     rows.push({
       ref,
@@ -434,12 +454,10 @@ function report(month, merged, board, planned, iterationTitle) {
   }
   if (unprefixed.length) {
     console.log(
-      `\n  ${unprefixed.length} title(s) with no conventional-commit prefix, defaulting to ${DEFAULT_TASK}:`,
+      `\n  ${unprefixed.length} title(s) with no conventional-commit prefix (Task inferred from the title, else ${DEFAULT_TASK}):`,
     );
-    for (const u of unprefixed.slice(0, 40))
-      console.log(`    ${u.ref}\t${u.title}`);
-    if (unprefixed.length > 40)
-      console.log(`    ... and ${unprefixed.length - 40} more`);
+    for (const u of unprefixed)
+      console.log(`    ${u.task.padEnd(5)} ${u.ref}\t${u.title}`);
   }
   if (stale.length) {
     console.log(

docs/newsletter/july-2026.md

@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ div#site-menu class=styles.menu
       li
         strong -- Newsletter
         ul
+          Page="/docs/newsletter/august-2026" -- August
           Page="/docs/newsletter/july-2026" -- July
           Page="/docs/newsletter/june-2026" -- June
-          Page="/docs/newsletter/may-2026" -- May
           Page="/docs/newsletter" -- ...more
       li
         strong -- Introduction