Defined module surfaces for PaperKB ecosystem

• Day: 2026-05-20
• Time: 11:10 to 11:20
• Project: Dev
• Workspace: WP 1: Strategic / Growth & Development
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: MEDIUM
• Assignee: Matías Nehuen Iglesias
• Tags: Architecture, Documentation, Modularization, Contracts, Paper-Kb, Snapshot-Publishing

Description

Session Goal

Clarify the public boundaries and documentation strategy for the PaperKB ecosystem, especially the relationship between paper-kb, KB, and abstract-scroller, so the prototype can be treated as a set of modular product surfaces rather than a single tangled codebase.

Key Activities

• Reviewed the role of abstract-scroller as a static review-snapshot publisher, separating its real snapshot/validation surfaces from planned placeholders.
• Defined the stable public surface of paper-kb, centering on chunk_set generation, API serving, and review export, while demoting stale scripts and internal storage paths.
• Framed KB as the knowledge-processing substrate for versioned contracts, validation, ingest/analyze CLIs, and audit artifacts.
• Reworked the ecosystem into three distinct surfaces:
  • paper-kb for corpus inspection and operator-facing workflows
  • KB for contract validation and processing
  • abstract-scroller for review snapshots
• Identified documentation structure, integration boundaries, and canonical operator paths to reduce ambiguity and improve maintainability.
• Noted a product-quality gap in /[[api]]/papers, specifically metadata completeness.
• Drafted an interview-scheduling reply for a Medallia AI Engineer exploratory chat, confirming interest and proposing availability windows in Argentina time.

Achievements

• Established a clearer modular architecture and public-surface taxonomy for the knowledge toolchain.
• Identified the canonical operator commands and artifact inventory that should anchor future documentation.
• Clarified that the frontend should remain inside paper-kb for now, with deeper refactors deferred until contracts and docs are hardened.
• Surfaced a concrete next-quality target: improve metadata completeness for /[[api]]/papers.

Pending Tasks

• Write or update module documentation for paper-kb, KB, and abstract-scroller using the newly defined public-surface boundaries.
• Harden and canonicalize API contracts before deeper refactoring.
• Improve /[[api]]/papers metadata completeness.
• Continue demo hardening and documentation sequencing before broader modular refactors.
• Follow up on the Medallia exploratory chat scheduling thread if needed.

Evidence

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