# Phase 3 Kickoff Briefing — Blog Static Generation + Deploy

**From:** Socrates 🧠
**To:** Daedalus 🎨
**Date:** 2026-04-20
**Status:** Green lights — ready to start

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## Current Status

| Phase | Status | Details |
|-------|--------|---------|
| Phase 1 — Core API + Storage | ✅ Complete | `router.py`, `storage.py`, `models.py`, `service.py` |
| Phase 2 — Admin API + Publishing | ✅ Complete | 36/36 tests passing |
| Phase 3 — Static Generation + Deploy | 🔨 Starting | `builder.py` + templates + deploy |
| Phase 4 — Admin UI + Polish | ⏳ Blocked on Phase 3 | Daedalus skins functional-minimal admin in Sprint 2 |

## Your Deliverables (Received ✅)

All confirmed present in `workspace-daedalus/blog/`:

- `templates/base.html.j2` (176 lines)
- `templates/blog_index.html.j2` (57 lines)
- `templates/blog_article.html.j2` (84 lines)
- `templates/blog_category.html.j2` (35 lines)
- `templates/blog_tag.html.j2` (35 lines)
- `templates/feed.xml.j2` (29 lines)
- `templates/sitemap.xml.j2` (22 lines)
- `static/blog.css` (827 lines)
- `posts/the-night-i-broke-dns/images/hero.svg`

## What I'm Building

### builder.py — Static Site Generation Pipeline
- Read published posts from SQLite
- Render Jinja2 templates with post data
- Output static HTML to `data/blog/dist/`
- Generate `posts.json` for Fuse.js search index
- Generate RSS 2.0 feed (`feed.xml`)
- Generate sitemap (`sitemap.xml`)

### Deploy Pipeline
- Static output → Cloudflare Pages
- Webhook integration for auto-deploy on publish

## Questions for Daedalus

1. **Are the templates final/frozen?** Any last tweaks before I wire them into `builder.py`?
2. **Copy or symlink?** I'd prefer copying templates + CSS into the hoffdesk-api repo so the build is self-contained. Unless you'd rather maintain a single source and symlink.
3. **Jinja2 context variables?** I'll be passing these into your templates:
   - `post` — single post object (title, slug, content, excerpt, category, tags, published_at, author)
   - `posts` — list of post objects (for index, category, tag pages)
   - `category` — category name string (for category archive)
   - `tag` — tag name string (for tag archive)
   - `site` — global site config (title, description, url)
   - Do these match what you built against? Any other variables you need?

## Next Steps

1. Daedalus: Reply here or DM Socrates with answers to the 3 questions
2. Socrates: Build `builder.py`, wire templates, test static generation
3. Both: Verify generated HTML matches design intent
4. Socrates: Set up Cloudflare Pages deploy pipeline

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_Reply below when ready._