Dry Run Report — Issue #7
Executed: 2026-05-18T10:59:10.800+02:00
Scope: Manual crawl → analyze → publish dry run using data/raw/2026-W21.json
Inputs Checked
data/raw/2026-W21.jsonexists.- The crawler payload passes
scripts.crawl.validate_payload. - Top-level structure is present:
week,crawled_at,new_repos,trending_repos,signals,metadata. - Source counts: 209 new repositories, 215 trending repositories, 424 total entries.
What Worked
- Manual analysis artifact created at
data/analyzed/2026-W21-summary.md. - Weekly Hugo content updated at
content/weekly/2026/W21.mdand linked back to both the raw and analyzed artifacts. - Hugo build succeeded when run with a compatible local binary (
v0.161.1). - Homepage validation passed: the latest-week slot resolves to Week 21, 2026.
- Archive validation passed:
/archive/lists the weekly entry. - RSS validation passed:
public/index.xmlincludes the Week 21 entry. - Taxonomy validation passed: generated tags and categories pages include the weekly entry.
What Did Not Work Cleanly
- System Hugo is too old. The machine default was
hugo v0.123.7, but the PaperMod theme requiresv0.146.0+, so the first build failed before validation could proceed. - Trending is not truly trending yet. Every
trending_repositem for this week hasstars_gained = null, which means the output is effectively “popular repos active this week” until a prior snapshot exists. - Crawler noise is still high. The new-repo dataset includes a noticeable amount of exploit, bypass, cheat, and game-mod content that would weaken fully automated publication.
- Automation gap remains. The weekly page was assembled manually because the Analyze → Generate handoff is not implemented yet.
Observations From the Data
- AI/agentic tooling is the dominant theme in both new and trending datasets.
- Security appears often, but much of that signal is exploit-oriented rather than defensive tooling.
- The strongest credible new-repo cluster is around agent workflows, reusable skills, and lightweight coding infrastructure.
- The strongest trending cluster is around established AI and developer-platform repositories (
n8n,ollama,transformers,dify,firecrawl,claude-code).
Missing Pieces Before Full Automation
- Seed and maintain historical snapshots so trending can calculate real weekly star deltas.
- Tighten crawler filtering or add a post-crawl quality gate for off-mission repositories.
- Implement the generator step that converts analyzed markdown into weekly/monthly/yearly Hugo content.
- Pin Hugo version in local/CI verification so validation does not depend on a too-old system package.
- Align the long-term analyzed markdown contract with the final weekly page schema and quality gate expectations.
Dry Run Verdict
Partial pass. The publish side of the pipeline is structurally viable once given a valid analyzed markdown file, and the site surfaces the weekly entry in the expected places. Full end-to-end automation is still blocked by missing trend baselines, noisy crawl output, and the absent Analyze → Generate automation step.