Reuse the companion's prose.ts rules engine as the single source of
deterministic detection instead of duplicating it. Applyable rules now
also emit exact-span fixes (original -> replacement) that surface as
suggestion cards; awareness-only rules (run-ons, splices, ...) stay
companion bubbles. The companion hides fix-bearing hints so a span is
never both a bubble and a card.
Spans are widened to a distinctive phrase ("a old" -> "an old",
"She have" -> "She has") so they re-anchor by string in the editor; a
lone lowercase "i" stays awareness-only since a single char can't anchor.
Backend: detection lives client-side, so the new persist-only
POST /docs/{id}/mechanics endpoint receives findings and stores them as
the 'mechanics' family with their exact offsets. It honours
actioned-suppression, leaves the LLM families untouched, and a checkpoint
no longer wipes it. fetchPending dedupes spans with mechanics winning any
collision against an LLM card (its span is exact). Migration 0008 adds the
'mechanics' suggestion type.
Client renders the mechanics fixes immediately (no LLM wait) and the cards
use a calm sage "Tidy-up" accent.
Verified end-to-end in a real browser on millenia: detect -> persist ->
render -> accept applies the fix.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Yr6jELuRc7hyzYLccQKZd
🌸 Petal
A self-hosted, privacy-first writing editor with warm bubbly design, auto-save, and
local-LLM grammar/ESL suggestions. See petal-spec.md for the full
design spec and BUILD_PLAN.md for build progress.
Stack
Go + chi backend · SQLite (modernc, pure Go) · React + Vite + Tiptap + Tailwind v4 frontend ·
local vLLM/Ollama for AI suggestions. Single-binary deployment (frontend embedded via go:embed).
Local development
Two processes during development:
# 1. Backend (serves /api on :8080)
go run ./cmd/server
# 2. Frontend dev server (HMR on :5173, proxies /api → :8080)
cd web && npm install && npm run dev
Open http://localhost:5173 while developing.
Production build (single binary)
cd web && npm run build # emits web/dist (embedded by the Go binary)
cd .. && go build -o petal ./cmd/server
./petal # serves UI + API on :8080
Configuration is via environment variables — copy .env.example to .env.
Status
Early build, multi-session. Auth (Authentik), Copyleaks plagiarism, and Docker/Traefik
deployment are deferred — see BUILD_PLAN.md.
Description
Petal is a self-hosted, privacy-first writing editor for an ESL user. It replaces Grammarly with a warm, bubbly web app that combines Tiptap rich text editing, auto-save cloud storage, and periodic AI-powered grammar/ESL suggestions backed by a local vLLM inference endpoint.
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