Add documentation consistent with other KeetaNetwork repos

[sephynox]

Technical Writer Spec (2026-09-21)

Filled by Technical Writer for this trail ticket. Inventory from main @ 65925dc.

Inventory from default branch main at 65925dc (PR 45). There is no develop trunk. There is no docs/ tree yet.

Goal

Shaped in-repo documentation for KeetaNetwork/node-rs so a new engineer can orient, build, and find cross-file invariants without Notion-only knowledge.

Style matches the KeetaNetwork docs bar already used on KeetaNetwork/anchor PR 442 (layout), asset-movement-anchor-sdk PR 253 (inclusion test, page shape, register, STE prose), and testing-suite PR 21 (thin root README, GitHub line-linked examples, Mermaid keyword-safe ids, outside-contributor build notes when a private package gate applies).

The repository is a Cargo workspace of 14 members. The only markdown file is the root README.md, which is a Makefile command dump and is not a thin pointer into docs.

Tree layout (MUST)

Path	Role
Root README.md	Thin pointer (what the crate/repo is, toolchain pin, build commands, links into docs/)
docs/README.md	Overview: cultural map and navigation index
docs/STANDARD.md	Documentation Standard. Requirements Language declared once. No page TOC
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md	Cross-file invariants, crate boundaries, rejected alternatives
docs/QUICKSTART.md	Implementation: install/build/test and first use
docs/concepts/*	Only pages that pass the inclusion test

Do not add per-crate README.md barrel maps. Crate identity lives in each Cargo.toml description plus rustdoc on that crate lib.rs.

Inclusion test (MUST)

A page earns cost only if it holds at least one of: cross-file invariant, rejected alternative, consumer/operator contract, or operator procedure under pressure.

MUST NOT be barrel maps, field tables that only echo rustdoc, or ticket/phase diaries.

First-pass concept candidates (pass on current main)

Write these only if the page still holds a non-rustdoc invariant after the Architecture draft. Drop any candidate that collapses to a field list.

Path	Why it passes
docs/concepts/features-and-no-std.md	Consumer contract. Workspace crates share std / alloc / der / rasn gates. keetanetwork-asn1 compile_error! requires at least one of der or rasn. keetanetwork-client http requires a runtime (std on native, wasm on wasm32-unknown-unknown).
docs/concepts/accounts.md	Cross-file invariant. keetanetwork-account identities (Account, GenericAccount, KeyPairType, identifier accounts) are consumed by block, vote, x509, client, and bindings.
docs/concepts/blocks.md	Consumer contract. Block / BlockBuilder / Operation / AccountRef signing and opening-hash rules span keetanetwork-block and the client builder.
docs/concepts/votes.md	Cross-file invariant. Vote versus VoteQuote versus VoteStaple / PossiblyExpiredVote rules live in keetanetwork-vote and are re-exported by the client.
docs/concepts/certificates.md	Consumer contract. X.509 builders and stores in keetanetwork-x509 plus account CertSigner / CertVerifier plus vote certificate shape.
docs/concepts/client.md	Consumer contract. KeetaClient / UserClient / TransactionBuilder. HTTP transport is generated at build time from keetanetwork-client/openapi/keetanet-node.yaml via progenitor and exposed as generated.
docs/concepts/bindings.md	Consumer contract. keetanetwork-bindings is the shared projection. keetanetwork-client-wasm is the browser ABI (amounts as decimal strings, errors with error.code). keetanetwork-client-wasi selects exactly one of p1 or p2 per WASI build.

Pages that fail the inclusion test (MUST NOT add)

• One README per workspace crate that only restates Cargo.toml and pub use.
• Field tables for Account, Block, Vote, or OpenAPI types that rustdoc already carries.
• A "node" or "ledger" product page. keetanetwork-node/src/lib.rs and keetanetwork-ledger/src/lib.rs are three-line crate docs with no types. Name them as stubs on Architecture.
• Ticket or phase diaries. GitHub issues and PRs stay the history home.
• A standalone URI, ops/debug, or publish-runbook page unless a later ask adds an operator procedure that is not already Quickstart.

Page shape (MUST for every shaped docs/** page)

Title, Abstract, Purpose, Body, Falsified by — in that order.

One register per page.

Register	Voice	Typical pages
Concept	Third person	Overview, Architecture, docs/concepts/*
Implementation	You / imperative	Quickstart
Operations	Operator under pressure	None in the first pass unless a later ask adds one
Reference	Lookup	None in the first pass. rustdoc is the API reference

Root README.md is not a shaped docs page. It stays a thin pointer in plain English. It MUST NOT redeclare Requirements Language.

docs/STANDARD.md is a shaped page. It MUST NOT include a page-index TOC.

Comments (MUST when touching rustdoc)

/// rustdoc that adds signal the signature cannot carry. No narration. No historical asides. No negative happy-path comments. STE sentence rules including no semicolon-joined independent clauses.

Crate rustdoc today is uneven.

Crate	Current rustdoc signal
keetanetwork-vote	Strong crate docs plus #![deny(missing_docs)] plus a rustdoc example
keetanetwork-client	Crate docs, no_std contract, rustdoc example for KeetaClient
keetanetwork-block	Crate docs plus rustdoc example for BlockBuilder
keetanetwork-client-wasm	Browser conventions plus a JS example
keetanetwork-client-wasi	p1 / p2 feature contract
keetanetwork-asn1	Feature list. The "exactly one of der or rasn" sentence is stale against the compile_error! that requires at least one
keetanetwork-account, keetanetwork-crypto, keetanetwork-x509	One-line or short crate docs. Public types often lack signal beyond the name
keetanetwork-node, keetanetwork-ledger	Placeholder crate docs only

Public surfaces that already have rustdoc examples MUST keep a short snippet and add GitHub line links into tests where a test is the fuller cookbook.

Public surface	Example home on main
KeetaClient / UserClient	keetanetwork-client/src/lib.rs rustdoc. Tests: keetanetwork-client/tests/e2e.rs, keetanetwork-client/tests/user_signing.rs
BlockBuilder	keetanetwork-block/src/lib.rs rustdoc. Tests: keetanetwork-block/tests/e2e.rs, keetanetwork-block/tests/typescript_compat.rs
VoteBuilder / VoteStaple	keetanetwork-vote/src/lib.rs rustdoc. Tests: keetanetwork-vote/tests/e2e_node.rs, keetanetwork-vote/tests/typescript_compat.rs, keetanetwork-vote/tests/wire_corruption.rs
Account seed / identifier / sign	keetanetwork-account/tests/account_creation.rs, seed_derivation.rs, identifier_accounts.rs, signatures.rs
X.509 builders / bundles	keetanetwork-x509/tests/builders.rs, bundles.rs, validation.rs
Browser wasm client	keetanetwork-client-wasm/src/lib.rs rustdoc. Playwright: keetanetwork-client-wasm/tests/roundtrip.spec.ts, fee.spec.ts
WASI P1 / P2	keetanetwork-client-wasi/src/lib.rs. Host tests under keetanetwork-client-wasi/host-tests/tests/

There is no examples/ directory. Do not invent one in this pass.

Mermaid (MUST if used)

Never use bare node or participant ids that are Mermaid keywords (graph, end, subgraph, and the rest of the reserved set).

Architecture MAY use one crate-boundary diagram. Prefer ids such as crate_account and crate_client. Never use a bare id graph.

Scope IN

• Docs markdown under the tree above
• rustdoc on public or API surfaces touched by the docs pass
• Fix broken doc links
• Outside-contributor and private-registry build notes. This repo has the same class of gate as testing-suite (keetanet-node style). Verified on main:
  • Rust crates have path workspace deps only. .cargo/config.toml sets a wasm32-unknown-unknown getrandom cfg. It does not set a private Cargo registry.
  • keetanetwork-utils/node-harness/.npmrc sets @keetanetwork:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com.
  • keetanetwork-utils/node-harness/package.json depends on @keetanetwork/keetanet-node 0.18.2 and @keetanetwork/eslint-config-typescript 1.4.7.
  • .github/workflows/ci.yml sets registry-url: https://npm.pkg.github.com, scope: '@keetanetwork', and NODE_AUTH_TOKEN for make node-harness, make test-all, make test-wasm, make test-wasi, lint, and coverage.
  • make test depends on node-harness. A contributor without GitHub Packages read can still cargo check / cargo build and run crate tests that do not enable the node-harness feature.
• Root README rewrite to a thin pointer. Current README documents make release as a release build. Makefile on tip uses make build release=1 for a release build. make release runs scripts/release.sh and publishes to crates.io. Quickstart MUST state the Makefile truth.
• rust-toolchain pin from rust-toolchain.toml: channel 1.94.0, components rustfmt, clippy, llvm-tools-preview, targets wasm32-unknown-unknown, wasm32-wasip1, wasm32-wasip2.
• First-use snippet that builds a signed opening block or a KeetaClient against http://localhost:8080/api, citing the existing rustdoc examples.

Scope OUT

• Runtime behavior, types, signatures, tests, CI config, dependency versions (unless a docs-only path note)
• Broader historical rewrite of untouched pages without ask
• Full rustdoc every private item
• Merging or rebasing branch docs/add_pat_instructions as the delivery. That branch is 1 commit ahead and 132 behind main. It only patches root README.md with PAT notes and still documents make release as a release build. Absorb the PAT fact into Quickstart on a fresh docs-only PR from current main.
• Adding crate-level README barrels
• Changing LICENSE, Cargo.toml license, or publish scripts
• Filling keetanetwork-node or keetanetwork-ledger with product types

Acceptance criteria

• Layout paths exist as above. Standard has no TOC
• Root README is thin and points into docs/
• Every shaped docs page has page shape plus Falsified by
• Overview indexes living pages. No phase or ticket diary homes
• Quickstart matches real build and test commands from Makefile and Cargo verified on tip. Commands to cite from current Makefile / rust-toolchain.toml:
  • Toolchain: Rust 1.94.0 via rust-toolchain.toml
  • First-time: make developer
  • Debug build: make build or cargo build
  • Release build: make build release=1 (not make release)
  • Check: make check or cargo check
  • Tests with harness: make test (cargo test --all-features --workspace after make node-harness)
  • Feature matrix: make test-feat
  • Combined: make test-all
  • Wasm: make build-wasm / make test-wasm
  • WASI: make build-wasi / make test-wasi
  • rustdoc: make do-docs / make do-docs-ci
• Architecture cites real paths and symbols. Diagrams parse on GitHub
• Public surfaces that need examples use short snippets plus GitHub line links into tests or rustdoc examples where they exist
• Docs-only PR. TW self-check table in the PR body (inclusion, shape, register, one-home RFC 2119, comment hard checks)
• Quickstart states the private GitHub Packages gate and the cargo-only path for outside contributors
• Root README no longer claims make release is a release build

Delivery

Docs-only PR against main (default branch and working trunk). Technical Writer owns the pass. Engineer commits if git write is gated.

PR body MUST include the self-check table used on anchor PR 442:

Check	Result
Inclusion test	Each shaped page holds a cross-file invariant, a consumer or operator contract, or a setup procedure
Page shape	Every docs/** page has Title, Abstract, Purpose, Body, Falsified by, in that order. Root README stays a thin pointer
Register	Overview, Architecture, and concept pages are Concept. Quickstart is Implementation
Falsified by	Each page names the code changes that invalidate it
Requirements Language	Declared once in docs/STANDARD.md. No per-page repeat. Root README uses plain English
Banned words / compliance claims	No mirror / parity / bake / wire / seam / escape hatch. No STE or RFC compliance claim
Examples	Public call shape is short. Full flows are GitHub line links into tests on the branch tip
Layout	Standard is docs/STANDARD.md with no TOC. Overview is docs/README.md. Architecture is docs/ARCHITECTURE.md

OPEN questions

Repo-specific items discovered on main at 65925dc. TW or Engineer answers these during the pass. Do not block the tree on them.

• Confirm Architecture names keetanetwork-node and keetanetwork-ledger as empty stubs and does not invent node-runtime behavior.
• Confirm no per-crate README files. None exist on main.
• Root LICENSE is Keeta Token Network Community License (v1.0). Workspace Cargo.toml license is MIT. keetanetwork-utils/node-harness/package.json license is Keeta Token Network Community License. Overview MUST cite what the files say. It MUST NOT reconcile them in this docs-only pass.
• Workspace [workspace.package] version is 0.3.0. Member crate versions on tip range from 0.2.1 (error, utils, ledger, node) to 0.6.1 (keetanetwork-client-wasi). Cite per-crate Cargo.toml versions. Do not cite the unused workspace package version as the repo version.
• Does first-pass Quickstart document make release / scripts/release.sh crates.io publish as an operator note, or leave publish undocumented until a later ask?
• Branch docs/add_pat_instructions (commit 520f743, 2026-06-19) is stale. Confirm it is not the delivery branch.
• make developer invokes scripts/rustup-init.sh -y --default-toolchain stable when rustc is missing. rust-toolchain.toml then pins 1.94.0 for this repo. Quickstart MUST tell the reader the pin wins after clone.
• Only keetanetwork-vote denies missing_docs. How far does this rustdoc pass go on account, crypto, and x509 public items? Default: only items the shaped pages name.
• Browser wasm e2e (make test-wasm) and WASI host tests (make test-wasi) need the harness plus extra toolchains (wasm-pack, Playwright, JDK 17 / Maven for Java bindings). Are those first-use Quickstart steps or a later Operations note? Default: name the Make targets and the PAT gate. Do not write a Java binding tutorial unless a later ask adds it.

---

SSOT also on draft PR: #48 (do not merge).

[sephynox]

Technical Writer: confirmed via GitHub MCP — Spec body on this issue is the SSOT (2026-09-21 inventory @ 65925dc). Draft vehicle PR #48 can close; do not merge.