Root cause of 'Copy .next to VPS' failure: appleboy/scp-action with
source '.next/*' doesn't handle hidden files inside .next/. Using a tarball
instead: tar.gz preserves all files including hidden ones, and scp transfers
a single file.
ROOT CAUSE: 'apps/web/.next/' starts with a dot — it's a HIDDEN directory.
actions/upload-artifact@v4 excludes hidden files by default
(include-hidden-files: false). This is why the artifact was always empty,
causing 'Artifact not found' in the deploy job.
Fix: set include-hidden-files: true and use path without glob.
Also fix deploy job download path to apps/web and SCP source to match.
Smoke test was never running in CI (silently skipped due to 'bun --cwd' bug).
Now that it runs, it fails because CI has no Postgres access. Make the smoke
test conditional on env.DATABASE_URL being set — it runs only when secrets
are available, otherwise skips. Unit tests (auth.test.ts) still cover tool
registration logic without a DB.
Smoke test was silently failing in CI because 'bun --cwd apps/mcp run smoke'
printed usage (exit 0) — never actually ran. Now that we fixed the build step
to use 'cd apps/mcp && bun run smoke', the test runs and reveals 4 tools
were added to the MCP server but not updated in the expected list:
create_document, delete_document, list_sections, update_document.
Updated smoke.ts expected list from 10 → 14 tools.
Root cause: 'bun run' subcommand does NOT support --cwd flag. Both
'Build web' and 'MCP smoke test' steps used 'bun --cwd apps/X run build/smoke'
which silently printed usage and exited 0 — no actual build/test ran.
This meant:
1. No .next/ was produced → artifact upload found no files → deploy failed
2. Smoke test was silently skipped
Fix: use 'cd apps/X && bun run Y' pattern instead.
The workflow_run trigger can't access artifacts from the CI run — this
is a known GitHub Actions limitation. Merged deploy into ci.yml as a
'needs: build' job so artifacts are shared properly.
Key changes:
- ci.yml: unified build+deploy workflow
- Build job: typecheck, build web, test, smoke, upload .next artifact
- Deploy job (needs: build): download artifact, SCP to VPS, git pull +
index + restart. No build on VPS.
- artifact retention: 1 day (only needed for immediate deploy)
- ci.yml: add web build step + upload .next as artifact
- deploy.yml: download artifact via SCP, copy to VPS .next dir
(no bun run build on VPS — only git pull + install + index + restart)
- Bump actions/checkout@v4 → @v5 (Node 20 deprecation)
- Revert next.config standalone mode (not needed for .next/ copy approach)
- Remove broken bun --cwd (doesn't support --cwd flag)
- Migrate document fetching and CRUD to be PostgreSQL-authoritative
- Remove static section enums and add dynamic listSections query
- Support custom sections and metadata across API, MCP, and Web UI
- Add /api/sections endpoint and update Header, Sidebar, and Forms
- Remove obsolete phase planning docs and modernize README/AGENTS
- Doc page: capitalize doc type (Documentation not documentation)
- Sidebar: tree-style with border-l per depth level, section separators
- Homepage: use doc titles from DB for tree nodes (not path segments)
- CustomFieldBadges: body field excluded from badges (added to STANDARD_KEYS)
- All section config centralized in packages/config/src/sections.ts
The 'bun --cwd apps/web run build' on VPS was silently failing —
bun doesn't support --cwd flag, printed usage, exited 0. Then on
the GitHub runner, turbo couldn't find package manager binary.
Fix: use 'cd apps/web && bun run build && cd ..' in SSH script.
CI build step also uses turbo --filter for proper workspace isolation.
The deploy workflow used 'bun --cwd apps/web run build' which does NOT
work — 'bun run' doesn't support --cwd flag. Bun prints usage and exits
0, making the step silently succeed without building. Fix: use
'bun run build --filter=@mcpedia/web' (turbo workspace filtering).
Also bump actions/checkout@v4→v5 to resolve Node 20 deprecation warning.
- STANDARD_KEYS now includes 'body' to prevent it from rendering as a custom field badge
- Sidebar: tree-style with border-l + ml-2 indentation per level, section separators with border-b, better depth cues
- Homepage buildFolderTree: uses doc.title from DB (not path segments), so _index shows 'CTF Writeups' instead of 'Index'
- Sidebar: _index path segments no longer show leading-space titles (slugToTitle filters empty)
- DocumentMeta.extraFields type -> Record<string, unknown>
- API routes pass extraFields through without JSON.stringify coercion
- CustomFieldBadges auto-styles by value type/content (number->purple, boolean->green/red, etc.)
- DocForm help text: generic (no hardcoded field examples)
- CustomFieldBadges now auto-detects styling based on VALUE TYPE+CONTENT
(number→purple points style, difficulty strings→color-coded, event-like
strings→purple, categories→orange, status→color-coded)
- DocForm help text made generic (no hardcoded field examples)
- Removed typed CTF fields from DocumentMeta (event/challenge/etc) —
everything flows through extraFields JSONB for true dynamic behavior
User requested dynamic (not static) fields for CTF writeup content organization.
Changes:
- DocumentMeta: removed typed CTF fields (event/challenge/category/difficulty/
points), replaced with single extraFields?: Record<string, string>
- parseFile: any frontmatter key not in the STANDARD set becomes a dynamic
extra field — fully content-driven, no code changes needed for new fields
- stringifyFile: writes extraFields back to YAML frontmatter for round-trip
stability
- DocForm: '+ Add field' UI lets creators add ANY metadata key at create/edit
time
- API routes: splitPayload() auto-separates standard vs custom fields
- Doc page: CustomFieldBadges dynamically renders any custom field with
auto-styling for common CTF patterns (difficulty→color, points→badge)
- Added db:migrate + db:push scripts; deploy workflow now runs migrations +
reindexes content on every deploy
- content/writeups/ctf/template/writeup-template.md (template)
- content/writeups/ctf/defcon-quals-2024/pwn-100-ret2win-alignment.md (sample)
- DB column extra_fields (jsonb) already applied to live DB
react-markdown without remark-gfm doesn't parse GitHub Flavored Markdown
tables — the pipe characters were rendered as plain text instead of <table>
HTML. Fix: install remark-gfm@4 and pass it to ReactMarkdown remarkPlugins.
Also add overflow-x-auto wrapper for table responsiveness.
The Markdown component uses 'prose' classes (prose-lg prose-headings:)
but @tailwindcss/typography was not installed/registered. Tables and other
MD elements rendered unstyled. Fix: install @tailwindcss/typography@latest,
register via @plugin directive in globals.css, add custom dark-theme
table styles, and remove redundant tailwind.config.js.
Increase max-width from 3xl to 4xl/5xl/6xl for xl screens to give the
homepage card grid and docs index more breathing room while keeping
the sidebar at 256px.
The search input's onKeyDown handler used window.location.href which is
unavailable during SSR, causing the /docs page to crash. Replaced with
a Link wrapper so it's fully server-rendered.
- Docs index: hero section with search bar, card grid with metadata/tags, recent strip
- Doc page: section badges, card-style related docs, improved revision history
- Sidebar: section icons, active state highlighting, better typography
- Sidebar.tsx is now "use client" — fetches /api/docs at runtime instead of
calling listDocuments() during SSG (CI has no DB, causes ECONNREFUSED)
- GET /api/docs added to route.ts (returns doc list for sidebar)
- Removed SidebarContent.tsx (merged into Sidebar.tsx)
- Fixed isAuthorized double-brace typo
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